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These are both due to the excellent discussion at the Science of Doom blog, so a hat tip to that community. Also, SoD reminded me of the insightful blog Dr Isaac Held writes, very much consistent with the “big ideas come from small models” them that Professor Ray Pierrehumbert maintains in his Principles of Planetary Climate.
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