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Tag Archives: Climate Change Denial
“America First” and the Green Climate Fund
Figure 1 – Cumulative Carbon Emissions In his exit speech from the Paris Agreement on Thursday, June 1st (see the previous two blogs), President Trump characterized the parts of the agreement that call for developed countries to help pay for … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, COP21, IPCC, Sustainability, Trump, UN, UNFCCC
Tagged Adaptation, America, America First, business as usual, Carbon, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Coal, developed, developing, DNNer, Donald Trump, Economics, EIA, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy source, energy transition, Environment, Fossil Fuels, gcf, GDP, Global Population, Global Warming, green climate fund, greenhouse gas, incentive, India, IPCC, jobs, Mitigation, Nauru, Obama, OECD, Paris, Paris Agreement, pollutant, Pollution, Population, Power, Power Plants, Science, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Technology, Trump, UN, US, Vatican, World Population
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Remedies for Abdication of Duties?
Figure 1 – Trends in global urbanization I am starting to write this blog on Tuesday, June 6th. I am doing this a bit earlier than usual in preparation for a trip that I will be taking in July to … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, law, Sustainability, Trump, UN, UNFCCC
Tagged Adaptation, administration, America, america's pledge, Anthropogenic, Antonio Guterres, auto industry, Bloomberg, bottom-up, British, CA, California, Canada, carbon dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, ceo, Chicago, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, company, Congress, D Day, D=Day, declare war, Democrat, democratic, Democratization, DNNer, Donald Trump, Economics, electric, electric car, Electricity, emission, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, FDR, federal, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Germany, Global, Global Population, global threat, Global Warming, governance, governing, Government, governor, greenhouse gas, imperial japan, initiative, invade, Japan, Jerry Brown, jobs, judiciary, London, Mexico, Mexico City, Mitigation, moyor, Nazi, New York, nissan, Normandy, North Korea, Nuclear, nuclear weapon, NY, Obama, Paris, Paris Agreement, Patricia Espinosa, Pearl Harbor, politics, Population, Power, Power Plants, president, renault, Republican, rural, Sadiq Kahn, safety, Science, Seoul, Solar Energy, South Korea, sovereign, Sovereign State, Sustainability, Technology, top-down, Trump, UK, UN, UNFCCC, urban, urbanization, US, Virginia, volkswagen, vw, War, we are still in, World Population, WWII
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Global Trends 2035
Last week’s blog opened with a figure from the January 2017 intelligence report titled, “Global Trends Paradox of Progress.” It showed the projected average surface temperature change based on two emission scenarios: RCP8.5 – a high emission scenario that approximately … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, IPCC, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Adaptation, Bret Stephens, calculation, Carbon, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, decarbonization, Donald Trump, Earth, earth system, Education, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, environmental, fossil fuel, Fossil Fuels, Future, global trends, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, impact, intelligence, IPCC, Mitigation, National Intelligence Council, Obama, paradox, Physical Environment, Power, progress, Report, Rising Tides, risk, scenario, Science, scientist, society, spring, Sustainability, Technology, Trump, uncertainty, US
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Bret Stephens and Uncertainty
Figure 1 – Taken from the 2017 Intelligence Report Figure 1 might look familiar – I took it from the fifth IPCC report (AR5) and showed it in my October 28, 2014 blog where I discussed the IPCC’s use of … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, COP21, IPCC, Sustainability, UN, UNFCCC
Tagged Adaptation, Andrew Revkin, Andy Revkin, Anthropocene, AR5, Argument, Atmosphere, average, Balance, Bret Stephens, Certainty, chemistry, Chinese hoax, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Congress, conspiracy, DNNer, Economics, Economy, Electricity, emission, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Equilibrium, evidence, fact, feedback, Fossil Fuels, Future, global trend, global trends, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, hoax, ice, intelligence, IPCC, journalism, journalist, mechanism, melt, Mitigation, model, NYT, op-ed, Physics, Power, president trump, progress, projection, rational, Report, reporter, scenario, Science, scientist, subscription, Sustainability, Technology, Temperature, trend, Trump, truth, uncertainty, US
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Guest Blog by Sofia Ahsanuddin: Marching for Science on Earth Day
In the span of a few months, the March for Science burgeoned into a global movement that galvanized support from hundreds of thousands of people in over 610 locations around the globe. The march’s organizers officially aim to create a … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Climate Change, Guest Blog
Tagged academia, academic, Anthropocene, antivax, apolitical, Bilingual, bottom-up, budget, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, critical thinking, denial, dialogue, Education, Einstein, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, engineering, Environment, eugenics, evil, faith, Fossil Fuels, fund, Global Warming, good, grassroots, greenhouse gas, Guest Blog, Islam, march, march for science, Math, mathematics, Mitigation, moral, nonpartisan, Organization, organize, outreach, partisan, physical world, Physics, Policy, political, politician, politics, protest, religion, Science, scientist, skeptic, Sofia Ahsanuddin, stem, sterilization, Sustainability, Technology, US, vaccine, Weill Cornell
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Saving the World Through the Pursuit of Self-Interest
I took part in the March for Science on Earth Day in New York City, where I live. The photograph above is my introduction to the next two blogs, which will both focus on the march. This week I want … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability, Trump, UN
Tagged Adaptation, administration, antarctic ice, Antarctica, Bill Nelson, business as usual, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, conflict, conflict of interest, Congress, Donald Trump, drain the swamp, Earth, Earth Day, Economics, Emissions, Environment, Flood, Florida, Fossil Fuels, Future, Glacier, Global Warming, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, Greenland, ice, Insurance, interest, IPCC, law, mar-a-lago, march for science, melt, Mitigation, model, national flood insurance, NOAA, NYC, Paris 2015, Paris Agreement, Physics, pleistocene, pliocene, Policy, Power, Power Plants, predict, Prediction, president, president trump, Real Estate, scenario, Science, sea ice, sea level, Sea-Level Rise, self interest, Sustainability, swamp, Tax, tax reform, tax returns, taxpayer, Technology, thermal ice, Trump, US, white house
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Assessment: Earth Day and the Shifting Baseline Syndrome
The April assessment is usually a busy time here. It coincides with Earth Day, my wife’s birthday, and birds singing to celebrate the arrival of spring. Today is no different. The last three months have been kind of dark. Accordingly, … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, assessment, Climate Change, Election, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Assad, assessment, Baseline, Bashar al Assad, Biology, Carbon, carbon dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, clean air, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, conservancy, conservation, Daniel Pauly, degradation, degradation continuum, Donald Trump, Earth, Earth Day, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, End of Now, Environment, Facebook, Fish, fishery, Future, Gary Johnson, generation, Global Warming, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, habitat, hery, Howard Frumkin, Ian McHarg, Jeremy Jackson, legacy, legacy thinking, libertarian, Linda Fried, marine biology, Nature, Now, oceonography, Oil, Policy, political, politics, Pollution, Population, president, Randy Olson, Rick Moody, salmon, sarin, Science, scientist, shifting baseline, spring, Sustainability, syndrome, Syria, Technology, Trump, Twitter, US, war crime, white house
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