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Tag Archives: politics
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
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Ann Coulter, Anthropocene, armageddon, blame, business as usual, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, David Wallace-Wells, Debate, disaster, disaster porn, discussion, Donald Trump, doomsday, earthquake, Emissions, End of Now, Energy, energy transition, Environment, fire, Florida, Fossil Fuels, Future, gay, Global Warming, great filter, Greg Abbott, Harvey, Hurricane, iceberg, irma, Kim Jong Un, lesbian, LGBT, Mexico, Mitigation, natural disaster, Now, Nuclear, nuclear war, ocean levels, Oregon, panic, pastor, politics, refutability, Rising Tides, Science, scientific, Scott Pruitt, shifting baseline, sin, Sustainability, Technology, Texas, Trump, US, Weather, wildfire
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Coal
Happy 4th of July, everyone! Figure 1 – The rooftop of the Coal Mining Museum in Kentucky A coal mining museum in Kentucky is switching to solar energy, hoping to save money on energy costs. The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum, owned … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, COP21, IPCC, Sustainability, Trump, UN, UNFCCC
Tagged Adaptation, administration, America First, Arizona, Carbon, China, clean, clean coal, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, DNNer, Donald Trump, Economics, Economy, electric, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, hydro, Hydroelectric, India, IPCC, job, jobs, Kentucky, mine, miner, mining, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Navajo, Nuclear, Obama, Ohio, Paris, Paris accord, Paris Agreement, Physics, politics, Power, Power Plants, Renewable, renewable energy, Science, Solar, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Technology, Trump, US, utilities, Utility, West Virginia, withdrawal
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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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Me vs. Them vs. We – Nationalism/Populism vs. Globalism
The world is a shaky place right now. The best windows into this instability are countries where citizens can express their feelings in the voting booths. I am not alone in having mentioned repeatedly that the world is now entering … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged America, America First, American, americanism, Anthropocene, city, Climate Change, conservative, country, Donald Trump, era, fascism, fascist, free trade, Global, globalism, globalization, Godwin's Law, governance, governing, Government, Hitler, Homo Deus, immigration, me vs them, me vs them vs we, mtw, nationalism, Nazi, NIMBY, party, Passover, political, politics, populism, Republican, sovereign, State, TED talk, Timeline, Trump, UN, US, Yuval Noach Harari
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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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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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Perspectives
I had lunch the other day with a classics professor friend. He made a comment that in one of his classes, a student drew a parallel between the geographic pattern of the recent voting in the US and the differences … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Election, IPCC, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Agriculture, America, America First, American Physical Society, art, Athens, backup, budget, budget cut, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, code, code for science and society, commerce, Congress, dark data, Data, data backup, defense, discretionary fund, DNNer, Donald Trump, eco, eco-friendly, Economics, Education, Election, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EPA, fact, Fossil Fuels, GDP, geography, Global Warming, Greece, greenhouse gas, Health, History, Holocaust, homeland security, humanities, Israel, justice, Kim Jong Un, Labor, Mick Mulvaney, Military, Mitigation, national endowment, Nazi, NOAA, North Korea, Nuclear, Obama, Physics, politics, Power, priority, public broadcasting, renewable energy, Rex Tillerson, save data, Science, security, software, Sparta, Sustainability, Technology, testosterone, transportation, Trump, trump tower, truth, US, veteran, vote, voter, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto
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