Closing the Loop
Stephen SchiffExplorations on topics pertaining mostly to the climate, energy and nuclear weapons, with occasional forays into other topics, sharing the learning experience of a physicist.
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Extreme (climate) Event Attribution July 2026
State of understanding of effects of climate change per the NRC [1]
Three recent events motivate me to update an earlier set of posts on the topic of extreme event attribution (EEA) to climate change by scientific means [2] – [4]. The moti...
Nuclear Weapons Update Update
Frame from the drowning scene in Die Liliputanerinenvernichtung [1] Copyright © Stephen Schiff. All rights reserved.
Dear readers, In the few days since the original publication of this article, the Trump administration has announced a nuc...
Nuclear Weapons Update
Frame from the drowning scene in Die Liliputanerinenvernichtung [1] Copyright © Stephen Schiff. All rights reserved.
The current issue of Arms Control Today [2] informs on a number of subjects that richly deserve widespread attention. I ha...
No First Use
Part of the Soviet Horde (United24media.com photo)
Some weapons are so terrible that no civilized nation would use them, and good people everywhere, regardless of their moral philosophy or religion, condemn them. Chemical weapons, for exam...
Science and Climate Change Denial
We often hear statements that climate change is “just a theory”, or that the science behind climate change is “not settled”. I am here to tell you why such statements are beside the point. But to do so, I have to clear up a few common misco...
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