Help Wanted: Storyline Developer
14 hours ago Kip Hansen 26 Comments
Opinion by Kip Hansen — 18 July 2024
In the spirit of co-operation, I’d like to help publicize the effort of Ed “Show Your Stripes” Hawkins, a climate crisis hawk at University of Reading in his search for “a motivated researcher to develop storylines of extreme weather events, including their attribution.”
You see, the first part of the job is to develop storylines of extreme weather events. You might think that his just means “make up stories” or maybe “invent Just-So stories” for extreme weather events, then blaming them on Climate Change. You might be right.
The Extreme Weather Event Storylines are important for the types of climate science done in Hawkins’ department at University of Reading – supplying quotable storylines blaming climate change for extreme weather events to The Guardian and other media gets the University and Hawkins in the news and helps bring in research funds.
This Post-doc will be guided by a technique made-up by Hawkins himself:
“This project will develop a reanalysis-based approach to translate observed historical and recent extreme weather events into different climates to quantitatively describe how those weather events and their impacts would be different in warmer or cooler ‘counter-factual’ worlds.”
Oh, yes, the “reanalysis-based approach” is to be based on Hawkins et al. 2023: “ESD Ideas: Translating historical extreme weather events into a warmer world”.
Note: “Earth System Dynamics [ESD] – An interactive open-access journal of the European Geosciences Union”.
Here’s a sample:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/19/help-wanted-storyline-developer/
