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Tag Archives: Agriculture
The Social Cost of Carbon
Things are changing. My courses start tomorrow. Originally, I was scheduled to teach face-to-face but for a variety of reasons, I’m back to online-only. Many of my colleagues are still scheduled for either face-to-face or “hybrid” teaching, where at least … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Economics, Sustainability, US
Tagged Agriculture, business as usual, Carbon, carbon emissions, Climate Change, CO2, Cost, damages, Demand, Economics, Emissions, Energy, equity, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, mortality, Obama, scc, Science, social cost, socioeconomic, Supply, Trump, US
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The Green Climate Fund
President Biden signed 15 executive orders and two agency directives on the day of his inauguration (January 20th). Most of this activity was targeted at trying to reverse President Trump’s previous directives. One of the new executive orders that attracted … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics, immigration, Sustainability, US
Tagged Adaptation, Agriculture, Biden, carbon dioxide, Climate Change, CO2, disaster relief, Drought, Economy, emigration, Emissions, Extreme Weather, Flood, Global Warming, green climate fund, immigration, labor force, Mitigation, Paris, Paris 2015, Paris accord, Paris Agreement, Precipitation, US, World
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Economic Impacts Report: Worse than Predicted?
Last week’s blog looked at Naomi Oreskes’ and Nicholas Stern’s October op-ed in The New York Times, “Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think,” which dealt with a report about the unexamined economic risks of climate change. … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Extreme Weather, Sustainability
Tagged acceleration, Adaptation, aggregate, Agriculture, biodiversity, Climate Change, climate change denier, climate skeptic, Columbia, compound, Cost, Drought, economic, economic impact, economic model, Economy, ecosystem, Extreme Weather, Flood, Future, glaciers, Grantham, heatwave, ice sheets, impact, Mitigation, Naomi Oreskes, Nicholas Stern, op-ed, physical science, Policy, policy maker, Potsdam, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. The Potsdam Institute, references, Report, Research, risk, Science, Sea-Level Rise, Stern report, wildfire
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The Little Ice Age
Last week, I talked about Philipp Blom’s book, “Nature’s Mutiny.” It illustrates some of the historical impacts of global climate change, especially with regards to the stress that it has inflicted on society. The book also looks into some of … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Agriculture, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, bicycle, black death, borehole, bubonic plague, Byron, Capitalism, China, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, coral, creative destruction, degradation, Economy, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Europe, Fahrenheit, famine, feudalism, fishing, France, Frankenstein, French revolution, Future, generation, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, historian, History, hockey stick, ice cores, immune system, indicator, literacy, little ice age, Manchu, Mary Shelley, migration, Ming, Mitigation, paleothermometry, Past, Philipp Blom, Physical Environment, pollen, Population, potato, proxy, Qing, riot, Science, sediments, shifting baseline, shortage, society, stress, sub-fossil pollen, Sustainability, Tax, Temperature, thermometer, thirty years' war, tree rings, US, Variability, War, Watershed, Weather, witch, witch trial
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Location Sensitivities of Other Biota
My last blog ended with a promise that I would look into location sensitivity of other foods and drinks – after all, humans can’t survive on wine alone. When I Googled “climate change impact,” these were my top results: Marine … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, immigration, refugee, Sustainability, Water
Tagged Adaptation, Agriculture, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, biodiversity, biota, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, climate refugee, Climate Skeptics, crops, ecosystem, extinction, fishing, Food, food security, Global Warming, immigration, Maine, migration, NOAA, phenological mismatch, phenology, pollinator, refugee, Science, Sustainability, World Population
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Vulnerabilities: Desertification
The ecological counterpart to water stress (May 1, 2018) is desertification. The table summarizing the IPCC’s assessments of five categories directly or indirectly connected to water use (April 24, 2018) refers to: “Decreasing water availability and increasing drought in mid-latitudes … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Change, immigration, IPCC, refugee, UN, Water
Tagged Adaptation, Aftica, Agriculture, Algeria, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Arid, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, car, Chad, China, climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, climatologist, CO2, CO2 emissions, desert, desertification, displacement, Drought, environmental refugee, Eritrea, Ethiopia, farming, Future, Gambia, GDP, Global Population, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Guinea Bissau, herding, History, immigrant, immigration, Inner Mongolia, IPCC, irrigation, Mali, Mauritania, migrant, migration, Mitigation, monsoon, Niger, Nigeria, Population, rainfall, refugee, reversibility, Sahara, Sahel, Science, Senegal, South Sudan, UN, Water, Water Stress, World Population
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Vulnerabilities: Water Stress
Figure 1 in last week’s blog listed key impacts of climate change as a function of increasing global temperature relative to the average temperature between 1980 and 1999. Based on NASA measurements (Figure 2 in the same blog), we have … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability, Water
Tagged Adaptation, Agriculture, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, California, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, Congo, dam, Desalination, divert, domestic, Drought, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Ethiopia, farm, farming, Fossil Fuels, Fresh Water, Future, GDP, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, India, Indonesia, industrial, Israel, Jerry Brown, LA, Marc Reisner, Mexico, Mitigation, NASA, Nigeria, OECD, Pakistan, Pat Brown, Russia, South Africa, Sustainability, Technology, temperature rise, US, Water, water distribution, Water Management, water productivity, Water Stress, water use, World Bank, World Population, WRI
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Vulnerabilities
My last five blogs (starting on February 20, 2018) have focused on some key indicators of the global energy transition as they relate to climate change and the IPAT identity. I examined the 12 most populous countries, which together represent … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Africa, Agriculture, altitude, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Carbon, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, climate refugee, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, Congo, Denmark, Desalination, developed, developing, Development, driving force, Drought, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, employment, Energy, Energy Consumption, energy cycle, energy distribution, energy mix, energy production, energy transition, Environment, Ethiopia, Finland, Flood, Flooding, Fossil Fuels, France, Fresh Water, fuel mix, Future, GDP, Germany, Global Population, Global Warming, Greece, greenhouse gas, hydro, India, indicator, Indonesia, IPAT, Italy, Mexico, middle east, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, non-combustible, nonrenewable, Norway, Nuclear, Oil, Pakistan, petrochemical, petroleum, Poland, political refugee, Population, Portugal, Power, Power Plants, Precipitation, refugee, regional, Renewable, Russia, Science, Sea-Level Rise, Solar, Solar Energy, Spain, standard of living, Sustainability, Sweden, Technology, UK, UN, US, vulnerability, vulnerable, Water Cycle, Water Shortage, Water Stress, water withdrawal, World Bank, World Population
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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 II – Following the Netherlands: Food and Habitability
Figure 1 – Indoor lattice growing setting from National Geographic magazine article The photograph above resembles the one I included in last week’s blog. Both show the process of growing crops in a glass enclosure – except that Matt Demon’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability
Tagged a/c, Adaptation, Agriculture, air conditioner, armageddon, Carbon Footprint, carrot, chili, China, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, cooler, cucumber, dam, doomsday, dutch, Emissions, End of Now, end of the world, Energy, energy transition, Environment, farming, fertilizer, Flood, Flooding, Food, Food Supply, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Global Warming, greenhouse, greenhouse gas, habitat, Iceland, Mitigation, Netherlands, Ocean, ocean levels, onion, pear, pepper, Pesticide, Population, Population Density, potato, Science, Sustainability, Technology, Temperature, tomato, uninhabitability, uninhabitable, US, virtual water, Water, water footprint, Water Management, Water Stress, wet bulb, yield
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