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Climate Scientist James #Hansen has been warning for a while that most people are under-estimating #GlobalWarming sensitivity, and it’s worth getting on his mailing list. Here’s his latest analysis of the changes in cloud cover feedback. It’s going to get worse faster... https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2025/CloudFeedback.13May2025.pdf
Born in #Berlin - lived in #Switzerland #China + #Ukraine : #HanSen
Eine chinesisch-deutsch-spanisch-ukrainische Geschichte
Der in Berlin geborene und gestorbene Chinese und Autor HAN SEN (1925-2018), der 1940 mit seinem Vater (und einer Stiefmutter) nach China gefahren war, bekam im Mai 1955 in Nordostchina einen Reisepass und die Erlaubnis, die Sowjetunion zu besuchen. Am 6. Juni reiste er aus Harbin ab; zunächst ging es zur Grenzstation Otpor, dann nach Tschita...
https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie/shan/nl-archiv/2022_NL110_9.html
I agree with Politico's ranking that the former #agriculture Commissioner #Wojciechowski from Poland ranked amongst the worst, the #environment Commissioner #Sinkevicius ranked amongst the best European Commissioners. Let's hope and see that new #agriculture boss #Hansen performs better, also as to delivering on #EUFarm2Fork, and that #Roswall keeps delivering for #EUGreenDeal! #vdL
Neue Kommissar*innen stellen sich dem Europäischen Parlament
Ein wichtiger Moment zu Beginn der neuen Legislaturperiode des Europäischen Parlaments ist die Anhörung der Kommissarsanwärter*innen. Nach der Wahl zum Europäischen Parlament hat jeder Mitgliedsstaat eine*n Kandidat*in für das Kabinett von Kommis
https://thomaswaitz.eu/language/de/neue-kommissarinnen-stellen-sich-dem-europaeischen-parlament/
#Alle #2024 #Brunner #Hansen #Hoekstra #Kommission #Kos #Roswall #Varhelyi #Wahl
A conversation.
“When experts disagree, usually the best thing to do is listen to what the majority of experts say. There’s no guarantee that they’re right, but they’re more likely right than wrong. And if the majority view is overturned, it’s almost guaranteed that this will be done by other experts in the field presenting evidence for the minority view, not by random kibitzers.”
“For the history buffs in here, while most scientific knowledge is advanced incrementally, the true breakthroughs are usually ridiculed by the reigning experts. That is why appeals to authority are the worst kind of logical fallacy for a scientist.”
“That’s the pop-history version of scientific progress. The actual #history of #science is very different. Kind of like the difference between ‘history buffs’ and historians.”
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Yes, there are examples—a few—of genuine breakthroughs that were ridiculed by the scientific establishment of the day. I bet you know what they are, because everyone does. They laughed at #Semmelweis, they laughed at #Wegner, they laughed at Luis and Walter #Alvarez, they laughed at #Marshall and #Warren. These things happened.
But they did not laugh at #Galileo: indeed, they took his work with deadly seriousness. (And there really wasn’t any such thing as a “scientific establishment” at the time.) They did not laugh at #Newton, or #Watt, or #Darwin, or #Gibbs, or #Pasteur, or #Einstein, or #Curie, or #Heisenberg, or #Fisher, or #Watson and #Crick and poor unacknowledged #Franklin, or #Tharp and #Heezen, or #Ostrom and #Bakker, or #Hansen, or the vast majority of scientists whose work has fundamentally changed our understanding of the universe.
At least if by “they” you mean scientists working in relevant fields, who understood the questions at hand … not, in most cases, scientists from other fields, or those with no scientific experience at all. Nor the religious and political ideologues who muddy the waters by creating fake “controversies” to cast doubt on results they know are true, but cannot accept.
In some cases they disagreed, quite vociferously. There were debates that descended into shouting matches, professional disagreements turned into personal feuds, once-eminent researchers become sad cranks, ruined careers and shortened lives. Yes. These things happened too, and that’s a tragedy.
But most of the time, most researchers in the same fields as the revolutionaries said, “Oh, that makes sense!” Problems that had seemed insoluble suddenly became simple, or at least it was possible to see how there might be an elegant solution. Major discoveries spawned a host of medium-sized ones, each of which in turn spawned endless minor ones—and endless minor papers, academic bread and butter for when you can’t get steak and lobster. Everyone wins.
Those ideologues I mentioned above? They really, really want you to believe the narrative of ridicule. You might want to consider why.
European natural gas prices surged to the highest this year after flows from #Norway slumped, highlighting the risk of relying too much on one major supplier.
#Equinor ASA is now investigating the source of the issue, Alfred Skar #Hansen, senior vice president system operation at Gassco AS said by email. The problem may be with a section of pipeline at the Sleipner natural gas field in the North Sea that connects to Easington and Nyhamna
Gavin Schmidt compares CMIP6 models for low-medium emission scenario to #JimHansen #Hansen et al 2023 and finds no differences.
Another benefit of Gavin's article is that his chart also shows a line for a fictitious linear trend. The usual CMIP charts we all know and dread don't come with such a line. So I learned: acceleration of temperature rise is projected in low-medium emission scenarios. Also good to see/read: CMIPs are computed with a rise in CO2 and CH4 and reduction in SO2. Parts of the Hansen hype to me sounded as if somehow SO2 reduction had been forgotten in climate models. But that is ofc not the case. And Gavin notes it especially. https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2024/04/much-ado-about-acceleration/
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Emanuel Emegha en Sontje Hansen missen maandag het uitduel van Jong Oranje met Jong Moldavië in de EK-kwalificatie. Beide aanvallers zijn onvoldoende fit om in actie te kunnen komen voor de ploeg van coach Michael Reiziger. Ze kregen donderdag ook al geen speeltijd in het verloren oefenduel met Jong...