Articles by Andrew Dessler
Andrew Dessler is an associate professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University; his research focuses on the physics of climate change, climate feedbacks in particular.
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Climate uncertainty is a reason to take action and Fred Singer makes big bucks
Links: DotEarth links to an interview with economist Gary Yohe about, among other things, uncertainty. Here’s the money quote: e360: You’ve written recently about uncertainty over the future impacts of […]
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Where does your food come from?
I wanted to recommend a story on Emmett Duffy’s Natural Patriot blog about where fast food comes from. This is not a topic I normally post on (or actually know […]
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A taxonomy of denial
As a climate scientist, I have become fascinated with climate skeptics. What makes them tick? Do they believe what they’re saying? A while back, I suggested cognitive dissonance may play […]
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Climate change and peak oil point us toward the same policies
This is, I think, one of the underappreciated aspects of the climate problem. I blog about it on Nature‘s Climate Feedback blog. While most pundits put the problems of energy […]
