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Fake News: Attributions
Figure 1 – Snow in the Sahara If you do a Google image search for “Snow in the Sahara,” you will get a screen full of images similar to this one. What would bring you to search for that particular … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Adaptation, alaska, Anthropocene, Arctic, Arizona, atlantic, attribution, blame, California, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, cold, culpability, desert, Donald Trump, Drought, Emissions, Environment, Extreme Weather, fake, fake news, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, IPCC, Israel, Jennifer Francis, jet stream, joshua tree, land ice, melting, Mitigation, mojave desert, new mexico, NOAA, Polar Vortex, president trump, Rein Haarsma, Sahara, Science, sea ice, snow, Sustainability, Temperature, Trump, tweet, Twitter, US
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Fake News
I am an old guy; my bucket list is modest but I am trying to check off the remaining items while I can still fully enjoy them. There’s only one that remains out of my reach: I want to travel … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Carbon, Carbon Cycle, carbon dioxide, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, climate science, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, denier, Donald Trump, Edward Teller, Elon Musk, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, fake, fake facts, fake news, fake science, false, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Google, greenhouse gas, hockey stick, James Hansen, Mars, Methane, News, pollutant, Pollution, reproducible, Science, scientist, Stephen Hawking, Trump, US, venus
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“Natural” or “Anthropogenic”? – Climate Change
Last week’s blog looked at various methods of distinguishing “natural” vs. “artificial” vanilla. I used this as a jumping off point to facilitate answering the much more important question of how we distinguish anthropogenic climate change from “natural” climate change … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability
Tagged antarctic ice, Antarctica, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, artificial, Atmosphere, biomass, Bomb, C13, C14, carbon dioxide, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Sensitivity, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, denier, Edward Teller, emission, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Equilibrium, fake news, Fossil Fuels, Future, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, hydrogen bomb, IPCC, man made, Mauna Loa, natural, Oil, outgassing, Physical Environment, Power, Power Plants, radiation, Science, Skeptical Science, spectroscopy, Sustainability, Technology, Temperature, Tom Curtis, tree, tree rings, vanilla, Volcano, WWII
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Saving the World through the Pursuit of Self Interest: Part 2
Part 1 of this segment, which I published on April 25, 2017, focused on the March for Science – an event that took place on Earth Day and addressed the Trump administration’s attitude of climate change denial. This follow-up seeks … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, politics, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Democratization, Donald Trump, Education, Emissions, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Global Population, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Mitigation, Physics, politics, Power, Power Plants, Science, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Technology, Trump, US, World Population
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Long-term Mitigation: Fusion
A month ago, I was working on a series of blogs about the long-term impacts of and solutions for climate change. I got sidetracked and decided to follow two dramatic events as they unraveled: first was the tax legislation that … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Climate Change, politics, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Adaptation, brown dwarf, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, deficit, density, deuterium, Donald Trump, Electricity, Emissions, energy transition, failed star, fission, Fossil Fuels, fusion, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, helium, hydrogen, hydrogen bomb, ignition, isotope, ITER, JET, John Holdren, Kelvin scale, laser, lithium, magnetic mirror, Mitigation, National Ignition Facility, Nuclear, nuclear fusion, nuclear power, particle density, Physics, plasma, politics, Power, Power Plants, radioactive, renewable energy, Science, Solar, solar mass, Solution, star, stellarator, sun, Sustainability, Tax, Technology, tokamak, tritium, Trump, US, white house, wind power, z-pinch
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Irrationality and the Future
Climate change is all about future impact; the aspects that we see and deal with right now are limited to those already highlighted by early warning signs in this process. The fact that the issues are global means that mitigating … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, behavioral economics, behavioral science, bonds, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, committed warming, discounting the future, Economics, Education, Emissions, End of Now, Energy, energy transition, Environment, forecasting, Fossil Fuels, Future, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Kahneman, loss averse, Mitigation, Ocean, optimism, planning fallacy, risk, Science, stocks, Sustainability, Tversky
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Dynamic Scoring: Taxes and Climate Change
Our government’s executive and legislative branches, are in the midst of discussing two important issues: tax breaks and climate change. Well, in truth, the only real discussion going on has to do with the tax legislation. Climate change is only … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, COP21, IPCC, law, Sustainability, Trump, UN, UNFCCC
Tagged Accounting, Adaptation, analysis, budget, business as usual, byrd rule, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, CO2 emissions, Congress, COP23, debt, deficit, Democrat, Donald Trump, dynamic accounting, dynamic analysis, Economics, Economy, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Fiji, fire, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Global Warming, GOP, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, Growth, heatwave, IPCC, loss, Mitigation, Obamacare, Paris accord, Paris Agreement, Reagan, Republican, risk, Science, sea ice, sea level, Tax, tax cut, tax reform, Technology, Ted Cruz, Temperature, Trump, UN, UNFCCC, US, vote, voter
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Long-term Solutions: Energy
The last two blogs focused on the Netherlands’ leading role in showing the rest of the world strategies for living on an increasingly inhospitable planet, where the terrain is becoming uninhabitable for both humans and agricultural crops and the oceans … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Adaptation, Agriculture, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, climate refugee, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Congress, Donald Trump, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Energy Storage, energy transition, Environment, Fossil Fuels, geographic smoothing, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, immigrant, immigration, India, Infrastructure, IPCC, Kenya, long term, Mitigation, national climate assessment, Netherlands, Nuclear Energy, nuclear fusion, Physical Environment, Power, power plant, Power Plants, Renewable, renewable energy, Science, Solar, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Technology, Trump, uninhabitability, uninhabitable, wind power
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Long-term Adaptations III – Following the Netherlands: Sea Level Rise
One of the most pressing problems jeopardizing our planet’s capacity to sustainably support (human and other) life is sea level rise. This comes as a direct consequence of the rise in global temperature: the accelerated melting of land-based ice combined … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Amsterdam, antarctic ice, Anthropocene, cistern, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, damage, dike, dune, dutch, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, float, floating, Flood, flood-proof, Flooding, geography, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, house, ice, IPCC, Katrina, levee, Louisiana, Mitigation, Netherlands, New Orleans, nuisance, polder, Population, property, Real Estate, river delta, Science, sea level, seawall, storm, storm surge, Sustainability, Technology, UNESCO, Water, World Population
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Doomsday: Local Timelines
The last few blogs focused on the ultimate consequences of continuing to make “progress” by relentlessly using the physical environment to serve humanity as if it were as a limitless resource. I tried to make the case that such efforts … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, immigration, IPCC, Sustainability, UN
Tagged Adaptation, AOGCM, apocalypse, Arizona, Bangladesh, business as usual, Clean Energy, climate central, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, doomsday, dry bulb, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Eun-Soon Im, Evaporation, evaporative cooling, Fossil Fuels, Ganges, GDP, Global Population, global trends, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, heat, heat dissipation, heat stress, heat wave, Himalayas, India, Indus Valley, IPCC, Local, Matthew Huber, Mitigation, MRCM, Pakistan, Phoenix, Population, projection, public health, rural, Science, sea level, simulation, South Asia, spatial resolution, Sri-Lanka, Steven Sherwood, Sustainability, Technology, Temperature, UN, urban, US, Water, Weather, wet bulb, World Population
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