Category Archives: Election

Collective Irrationality and Individual Biases: Climate Change

Posted on November 21, 2017 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog looked at the connections between the latest effort to rewrite our tax code and the necessary detailed accounting of the resources we will need to compensate for the increasing damage that climate change will inflict on us … Continue reading →

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Assessment: Earth Day and the Shifting Baseline Syndrome

Posted on April 18, 2017 by climatechangefork

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 →

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Let There be Light!

Posted on March 28, 2017 by climatechangefork

*Special note: I will stress that this blog pertains to my own reading/interpretation of the book described, but after hearing feedback from my friend, the author, I have made a few minor edits and added explanations. In last week’s blog … Continue reading →

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Perspectives

Posted on March 21, 2017 by climatechangefork

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 | Leave a comment

The Paris Commitments and What to Expect

Posted on March 14, 2017 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – IEA-projected impact of the Paris Agreement on the global energy sector The Paris Agreement, negotiated at the end of 2015, is the current anchor of global efforts to mitigate anthropogenic contributions to climate change (December 14, 2015 … Continue reading →

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Back to Energy Transition: Data

Posted on March 7, 2017 by climatechangefork

February in Brooklyn (Taken on our terrace toward the end of the month) It’s high time we return to climate change and the Anthropocene. My first target is the continuous availability of relevant data. The Anthropocene and climate change are … Continue reading →

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Back to Psychology: Self-Serving Bias

Posted on February 28, 2017 by climatechangefork

Alan Greenspan has been reflecting on the meaning behind Trump’s win and the Brexit vote: The rise of “economic populism” around the world has come from years of low growth that have “seriously impaired” the global economy, former Fed Chairman … Continue reading →

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Chinese Hoax?

Posted on February 14, 2017 by climatechangefork

Top Issues – Trump America First Energy Plan America First Foreign Policy Bringing Back Jobs And Growth Making Our Military Strong Again Standing Up For Our Law Enforcement Community Trade Deals That Work For All Americans Top Issues – Obama … Continue reading →

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Searching for Limits – Stability for a Distant Future

Posted on January 24, 2017 by climatechangefork

I am finishing this blog on Friday, January 20th – Inauguration Day for our new president. I didn’t recognize the country that he described in his acceptance speech. Nevertheless, I wish him – and all of us – the best. … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year 2017

Posted on January 3, 2017 by climatechangefork

It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us … Continue reading →

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Category Archives: Election

Assessment: Earth Day and the Shifting Baseline Syndrome

Let There be Light!

Perspectives

The Paris Commitments and What to Expect

Back to Psychology: Self-Serving Bias

Chinese Hoax?

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