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Tag Archives: Carbon Cycle
Fighting Russian Aggression & Learning How to Fight Global Wars in the Nuclear Age
Figure 1 – Source: Interest.co.nz The world is busy right now with several simultaneous global transitions that will leave an impact long after they are over. I have mentioned these transitions in earlier blogs. They include climate change, demographic saturation, … Continue reading
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Tagged Antarctica, Anthropogenic, Atmosphere, atomic bomb, Carbon, Carbon Cycle, Climate Change, CO2, Coal, covid, COVID 19, Demand, economic, Economy, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Gas, human caused, inflation, Mauna Loa, Nuclear, nuclear bomb, Oil, petrostate, Putin, Russia, sanctions, Supply, tree rings, Ukraine, War, WWI
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If You Don’t Believe In Climate Change – Try It!
This blog is coming out three days after the March for Science and five days before Earth Day and my wife’s birthday. It’s a busy week. Climate change is an abstract issue. Its main impact is projected to take place … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability
Tagged a/c, absolute zero, Adaptation, air conditioner, ambient light, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Atmosphere, baby, black body spectrum, car, Carbon, Carbon Cycle, chemistry, child, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, compromise, death, Earth, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Evaporation, Fossil Fuels, Future, glass, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, heat, Heat Stroke, hyperthermia, infant, infrared, infrared radiation, kelvin, light, micrometer, Mitigation, oxygen, ozone, pet, Power, Power Plants, public, quality of life, radiation thermal radiation, Science, Solar Energy, sun, Sustainability, Technology, Temperature, ultraviolet, US, visible light, Water, wavelength, window
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Fake News
I am an old guy; my bucket list is modest but I am trying to check off the remaining items while I can still fully enjoy them. There’s only one that remains out of my reach: I want to travel … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Carbon, Carbon Cycle, carbon dioxide, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, climate science, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, denier, Donald Trump, Edward Teller, Elon Musk, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, fake, fake facts, fake news, fake science, false, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Google, greenhouse gas, hockey stick, James Hansen, Mars, Methane, News, pollutant, Pollution, reproducible, Science, scientist, Stephen Hawking, Trump, US, venus
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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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Out Of Date?
In the last few blogs (starting with the September 24 blog) I alternated between two topics – the continuing discussion of fresh water stress and my reactions to the beginning of the publication of the 5th IPCC report (AR5). Here, … Continue reading
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Tagged Atmosphere, Carbon, Carbon Cycle, Climate Change, Data, Future, Global Population, IPCC, Light Cone, Observation, Past, Present, Science, Time, World Population
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Climate Change and the Nature of Science: The Carbon “Tipping Point” is Coming
The two attached pictures are schematic diagrams of the circulation of carbon on Earth (IPAA Report (2001) – the Carbon Cycle). If I Google “Carbon Cycle Diagram” in the image mode, I get close to a million entries. Most of … Continue reading