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“Natural” or “Anthropogenic”? – Climate Change

Posted on January 9, 2018 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog looked at various methods of distinguishing “natural” vs. “artificial” vanilla. I used this as a jumping off point to facilitate answering the much more important question of how we distinguish anthropogenic climate change from “natural” climate change … Continue reading →

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Saving the World through the Pursuit of Self Interest: Students Input

Posted on December 19, 2017 by climatechangefork

I have been teaching my Climate Change course using the TBL (Team Based Learning) system. I have 6 groups in my class, each composed of roughly 7 students that have been studying together throughout the semester. I have challenged the … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, politics, Sustainability, Trump | Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Democratization, Donald Trump, Education, Emissions, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Global Population, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Mitigation, Physics, politics, Power, Power Plants, Science, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Technology, Trump, US, World Population | 17 Comments

Long-term Mitigation: Fusion

Posted on December 12, 2017 by climatechangefork

A month ago, I was working on a series of blogs about the long-term impacts of and solutions for climate change. I got sidetracked and decided to follow two dramatic events as they unraveled: first was the tax legislation that … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Climate Change, politics, Sustainability, Trump | Tagged Adaptation, brown dwarf, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, deficit, density, deuterium, Donald Trump, Electricity, Emissions, energy transition, failed star, fission, Fossil Fuels, fusion, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, helium, hydrogen, hydrogen bomb, ignition, isotope, ITER, JET, John Holdren, Kelvin scale, laser, lithium, magnetic mirror, Mitigation, National Ignition Facility, Nuclear, nuclear fusion, nuclear power, particle density, Physics, plasma, politics, Power, Power Plants, radioactive, renewable energy, Science, Solar, solar mass, Solution, star, stellarator, sun, Sustainability, Tax, Technology, tokamak, tritium, Trump, US, white house, wind power, z-pinch | Leave a comment

Irrationality and the Future

Posted on December 5, 2017 by climatechangefork

Climate change is all about future impact; the aspects that we see and deal with right now are limited to those already highlighted by early warning signs in this process. The fact that the issues are global means that mitigating … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, behavioral economics, behavioral science, bonds, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, committed warming, discounting the future, Economics, Education, Emissions, End of Now, Energy, energy transition, Environment, forecasting, Fossil Fuels, Future, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Kahneman, loss averse, Mitigation, Ocean, optimism, planning fallacy, risk, Science, stocks, Sustainability, Tversky | Leave a comment

Dynamic Scoring: Taxes and Climate Change

Posted on November 14, 2017 by climatechangefork

Our government’s executive and legislative branches, are in the midst of discussing two important issues: tax breaks and climate change. Well, in truth, the only real discussion going on has to do with the tax legislation. Climate change is only … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, COP21, IPCC, law, Sustainability, Trump, UN, UNFCCC | Tagged Accounting, Adaptation, analysis, budget, business as usual, byrd rule, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, CO2 emissions, Congress, COP23, debt, deficit, Democrat, Donald Trump, dynamic accounting, dynamic analysis, Economics, Economy, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Fiji, fire, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Global Warming, GOP, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, Growth, heatwave, IPCC, loss, Mitigation, Obamacare, Paris accord, Paris Agreement, Reagan, Republican, risk, Science, sea ice, sea level, Tax, tax cut, tax reform, Technology, Ted Cruz, Temperature, Trump, UN, UNFCCC, US, vote, voter | Leave a comment

Long-term Solutions: Energy

Posted on November 7, 2017 by climatechangefork

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 | Leave a comment

Long-term Adaptations III – Following the Netherlands: Sea Level Rise

Posted on October 31, 2017 by climatechangefork

One of the most pressing problems jeopardizing our planet’s capacity to sustainably support (human and other) life is sea level rise. This comes as a direct consequence of the rise in global temperature: the accelerated melting of land-based ice combined … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Amsterdam, antarctic ice, Anthropocene, cistern, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, damage, dike, dune, dutch, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, float, floating, Flood, flood-proof, Flooding, geography, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, house, ice, IPCC, Katrina, levee, Louisiana, Mitigation, Netherlands, New Orleans, nuisance, polder, Population, property, Real Estate, river delta, Science, sea level, seawall, storm, storm surge, Sustainability, Technology, UNESCO, Water, World Population | 1 Comment

Doomsday: Local Timelines

Posted on October 10, 2017 by climatechangefork

The last few blogs focused on the ultimate consequences of continuing to make “progress” by relentlessly using the physical environment to serve humanity as if it were as a limitless resource. I tried to make the case that such efforts … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, immigration, IPCC, Sustainability, UN | Tagged Adaptation, AOGCM, apocalypse, Arizona, Bangladesh, business as usual, Clean Energy, climate central, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, doomsday, dry bulb, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Eun-Soon Im, Evaporation, evaporative cooling, Fossil Fuels, Ganges, GDP, Global Population, global trends, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, heat, heat dissipation, heat stress, heat wave, Himalayas, India, Indus Valley, IPCC, Local, Matthew Huber, Mitigation, MRCM, Pakistan, Phoenix, Population, projection, public health, rural, Science, sea level, simulation, South Asia, spatial resolution, Sri-Lanka, Steven Sherwood, Sustainability, Technology, Temperature, UN, urban, US, Water, Weather, wet bulb, World Population | 2 Comments

Doomsday: Attributions

Posted on October 3, 2017 by climatechangefork

The high concentration of natural disasters taking place all over the world includes: Hurricanes and cyclones such as Harvey, with its flooding of Houston and the rest of Southern Texas and Louisiana, Maria and its devastating destruction of Puerto Rico … Continue reading →

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Doomsday: The Simple (or Simplistic) Version

Posted on September 12, 2017 by climatechangefork

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 →

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Tag Archives: Clean Energy

“Natural” or “Anthropogenic”? – Climate Change

Saving the World through the Pursuit of Self Interest: Students Input

Long-term Mitigation: Fusion

Irrationality and the Future

Dynamic Scoring: Taxes and Climate Change

Long-term Solutions: Energy

Long-term Adaptations III – Following the Netherlands: Sea Level Rise

Doomsday: Local Timelines

Doomsday: Attributions

Doomsday: The Simple (or Simplistic) Version

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