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Blurred Lines: Balance, Bias, Kavanaugh, and Fox News on Climate Change
My original plan for this week was to focus on President Trump’s complaints that Google’s search engines are biased against him, and his demand that the Justice Department investigate. I found a fitting cartoon by Walt Handelsman. The Justice Department … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, politics, Sustainability, Trump
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John McCain’s Vision
“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.” – Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, law, politics, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Arizona, Benjamin Disraeli, best, Biden, bill, bipartisan, Cap and Trade, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Clinton, CO2, CO2 emissions, Economist, Economy, Edward Markey, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, fossil fuel, Fossil Fuels, Future, Gas, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Hemingway, Henry Waxman, Inhofe, John McCain, Koch brothers, Lieberman, lobby, marketplace, mccain, Mitigation, NRDC, Obama, Oil, politics, quantification, Science, Sustainability, US, worst
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Giving Up is Not an Option: Let’s Focus on What We Still Can Do
Bridge used to be one of my favorite social activities (when my free time was a bit more abundant). To those not familiar with the rules, the basic structure is simple: one deck of cards, two teams of two. Wikipedia … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, politics, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, administration, Al Gore, alps, Antarctica, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, assessment, attribution, Australia, Bangladesh, bridge, Britain, budget, California, causality, cause, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Congress, contract, desert, Drought, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Extreme Weather, forecast, Fossil Fuels, funding, Future, Game, GAO, Global Warming, globalization, Government, greenhouse gas, Greenland, heat, heat wave, heatwave, History, indoctrination, James Inhofe, James Lankford, Jim Hansen, John Sunumu, Mauritania, Meteorologist, Meteorology, Mitigation, penguin, political, politics, probabilistic, propaganda, Rafe Pomerance, Rand Paul, Republican, risk, Science, sea ice, senator, strategy, Sustainability, Switzerland, Teaching, Technology, Ted Cruz, Texas, TV, Weather
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Climate Change and Federal Government Funding
Last week I looked at four Republican senators’ efforts to terminate government funding for television meteorologists who mention climate change as part of the forecast. I also discussed the issue in light of the global heat wave and the havoc … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, politics, Sustainability
Tagged accountability, Adaptation, administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, assessment, attribution, Britain, budget, causality, cause, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Drought, Environment, Extreme Weather, forecast, funding, GAO, Global Warming, globalization, Government, heat, heat wave, heatwave, indoctrination, James Inhofe, James Lankford, Japan, Kelvin Droegemeier, laos, Meteorologist, Meteorology, Mitigation, National Research Council, political, politics, probabilistic, propaganda, Rand Paul, Republican, risk, Science, science adviser, senator, Sustainability, Technology, Ted Cruz, TV, UK, Weather, weather system
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Science or Indoctrination?
Earlier this month (July 3rd and 10th) I wrote two blogs about a heat wave that was affecting my home of NYC and how it impacted me. The weather here now is lovely (around 85oF, with bearable humidity and no … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, immigration, politics, refugee, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, air conditioner, air conditioning, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, attribution, Britain, California, causality, cause, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, coping, dam, Drought, Environment, Extreme Weather, Finland, fire, Flood, Global Warming, globalization, Greece, heat, heat wave, heatwave, indoctrination, intensity, James Inhofe, James Lankford, Japan, laos, Meteorologist, Meteorology, NSF, political, politics, Pool, probabilistic, propaganda, Rand Paul, Science, Sustainability, Sweden, Technology, Ted Cruz, UK, Weather, wildfire, World Population
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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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Collective Irrationality and Individual Biases: Climate Change II
Last week I discussed some issues in terms of psychology of judgement and decision making; I feel that they need some clarification and expansion. I looked at how highly educated Democrats and Republicans diverge sharply in their opinions about the … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, law, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, architecture, belief, bias, brain, business as usual, Cap and Trade, choice, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, council on foreign relations, decision, Democrat, Energy, evidence, fact, following the herd, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, immediate threat, instinct, intuition, irrational, Kahneman, leader, libertarian, libertarian paternalism, loss aversion, meteor, Mitigation, Nobel, nudge, Physics, political, politics, psychology, rational, reasoning, regulation, Republican, Science, smoking, Sunstein, Sustainability, system, Thaler, Tversky, undoing project, William James
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Doomsday: Timing?
Figure 1 – IPCC projections of future climate change impacts based on two different scenarios Figure 2 – Relationship between global mean equilibrium temperature change and stabilization concentration of greenhouse gases Trying to estimate the timing of doomsday is not … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, politics, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged 6th mass extinction, Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, apocalypse, attribution, business as usual, Carbon, Carbon Cycle, carbon dioxide, cataclysm, catastrophe, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, department of energy, Donald Trump, doomsday, EDGI, Electricity, Emissions, End of Now, energy transition, Environment, environmental health, EPA, Fossil Fuels, global extinction, Global Warming, GOP, greenhouse gas, GtC, Harvey, Hurricane, IPCC, irma, mass extinction, Mitigation, NIH, Paris accord, Paris Agreement, politics, Power Plants, renewable energy, Science, Self Inflicted Genocide, self-inflicted, Sustainability, Technology, Temperature, threshold, tropical storm, Trump, UN, US
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Doomsday: The Simple (or Simplistic) Version
I am writing this blog on Saturday, one day before hurricane Irma is scheduled to make an unwelcome visit to Florida. Other unwanted weather events are taking place all around. Human impact, especially the undesirable variety, is taking a toll. … Continue reading
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