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Tag Archives: Biden
Governance in the Anthropocene
(Source: Vecteezy) In last week’s blog, I returned to the definition of the Anthropocene, the name for our proposed new epoch. The dominant proposal for Anthropocene is an “epoch that begins when human activities started to have a significant global … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Change
Tagged accretion, Anthropocene, Biden, cosmology, Davos, dispersive, Economy, Environment, epochdemographics, Genocide, Hiroshima, Holocaust, Nagasaki, Nazi, nuclear age, Nuclear Energy, nuclear war, nuclear weapons, pandemic, Population, Putin, Russia, Self Inflicted Genocide, Timothy Snyder, Ukraine
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Analyzing Global Energy Inflation
In almost every news broadcast, fuel inflation holds the top spot. This is not surprising. With an energy inflation growth of around 30% per year (see Figure 1) and the average price of gasoline at around $5/gallon (occasionally up to … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Tagged Adaptation, Biden, Brazil, carbon dioxide, Clean Energy, CO2, CO2 emissions, covid, COVID 19, CPI, decarbonization, decarbonize, economic, Economy, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, EU, Fossil Fuels, Future, Gas, GHG, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, inflation, Infrastructure, LNG, Military, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Oil, oil company, pandemic, petrostate, politicians, politics, Power, Price, renewable energy, Russia, sanctions, security, Solar, Sustainability, Sustainable, Technology, Turkey, Ukraine, US, vaccination, vaccine, Wind
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The Math of the American Commitment
A short entry appeared in the Scientific American journal in the middle of the COP26 meeting: “Doing the Math on Biden’s Climate Pledge.” The author was trying to explain how the Biden administration—only three months after assuming control from an … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, law, politics, Sustainability, US
Tagged Adaptation, Biden, carbon capture, carbon emissions, carbon zero, CCS, clean power, Climate Change, CO2, commitment, Congress, COP26, decarbonization, electric car, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, EPA, GHG, hydrogen, Infrastructure, Mitigation, Net-Zero, Obama, Paris 2015, Paris Agreement, renewables, Rhodium, zero emissions
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The American Commitment
COP26 ended with a unanimous decision on how to accelerate the global effort to mitigate climate change. This included plans to assist developing countries in their adaptation efforts and to monitor progress in these areas on an annual basis. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Electric Cars, Energy, Extreme Weather, Sustainability, UN, US
Tagged Adaptation, Biden, bill, budget, build back better, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, commitment, COP26, electric car, Electricity, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Future, Gas, Glasgow, Global, grid, IIJA, Infrastructure, legislation, Local, Manchin, Mitigation, Oil, Paris, progress, public transport, renewable energy, resilience, Science, Sinema, Transition
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Managing the Energy Transition on a Global Scale
Figure 1 Figure 2 I have been (starting on September 21st) focusing on energy companies’ transitions away from fossil fuels; many are finally realizing that such global shifts are necessary if we cannot implement an acceptable way to capture the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability, US
Tagged Adaptation, Biden, Brazil, carbon capture, Chile, China, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, commitment, COP26, COVID 19, Economy, Egypt, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, ExxonMobil, fossil fuel, Future, Gas, greenhouse gas, MAGA, Mitigation, Morocco, Nuclear, Oil, Poland, Pollution, Renewable, Rex Tillerson, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Technology, Transition, UK, US, Vietnam
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Calculating the Social Cost of Carbon: What Are We Already Spending?
Last week, I reintroduced the concept of the social cost of carbon and explored a recent University of Chicago working paper (WP). The WP delved into President Biden’s attempts to reframe the conversation about the economic impact of climate change, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Biden, Carbon, Climate Change, comparison, Cost, damages, discount rate, discounting, Economics, equity, Extreme Weather, Future, Global Warming, Policy, projection, scc, social cost of carbon, Trump, uncertainty
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Infrastructure Timing
They did it! Today, after a long slog of debate, the US Senate has finally passed a bipartisan version of the infrastructure bill that came out of the American Jobs Plan the Biden administration proposed in April. For more information … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Energy
Tagged Adaptation, Biden, bill, bipartisan, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, commercial, competiiton, consumption, Cost, electric car, Electricity, Energy, energy cost, energy services, energy transition, fossil fuel, house, industrial, Infrastructure, input, manufacturing, mining, Mitigation, output, Physics, r&d, refining, residential, senate, Solar, Sputnik, transportation, US, utilities, Wind
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Breaking With Business as Usual
My last three blogs focused on our collective attempts to limit anthropogenic global warming to an increase of 1.5oC in global temperature or, failing that, no more than 2oC. The series of blogs started with a detailed road map recently … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability, US
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Biden, business as usual, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, commitment, Emissions, EU, Europe, Future, green climate fund, IPCC, law, Mitigation, Paris Agreement, Policy, proposal, radiative forcing, SPM, Trump
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Sputnik and China: US Response to Tech Rivalry
Back in April, I outlined President Biden’s new American Job Plan. Granted, the $2.3 trillion plan was more of a wish list than a proposal; given the 50-50 split in the Senate and the narrow majority in the House, it … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics, law, politics, US
Tagged Adaptation, American jobs plan, Biden, bipartisan, China, Climate Change, Competition, Development, Economy, Education, engineering, GDP, Global Warming, Government, house, innovation, law, Math, Mitigation, NDEA, PPP, r&d, Research, rivalry, Russia, Science, senate, space race, Sputnik, stem, tech, Technology, Trump, US, USSR
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From Commitments to Penalties: Measuring Carbon Emissions
Since President Biden’s inauguration, I have looked a lot at carbon emissions and what we are doing to minimize them. As an educator and a New York City resident, I am especially invested in this change. Not only do … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, law, Sustainability
Tagged Biden, calculation, Cap and Trade, Carbon, carbon capture, carbon emissions, Carbon Footprint, carbon intensity factor, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, commitment, Education, Emissions, enforcement, forest, Global Warming, law, legislation, limit, New York, NYC, Paris Agreement, standard deviation, teacher, US
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