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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 →

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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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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 →

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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

Long-term Adaptations II – Following the Netherlands: Food and Habitability

Posted on October 24, 2017 by climatechangefork

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 →

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Long-Term Adaptations

Posted on October 17, 2017 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – Scene from “The Martian” I was considering using a more descriptive title for the coming series of blogs, inspired by a recent article in the New York Times (NYT) called, “How to Survive the Apocalypse?” The article … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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: Timing?

Posted on September 26, 2017 by climatechangefork

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 →

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Doomsday Early Signs: The Science

Posted on September 19, 2017 by climatechangefork

The New York Times last week tried to highlight the dangers of climate change. On Friday, Alexander Burns opened his contribution with the following two paragraphs: For years, climate change activists have faced a wrenching dilemma: how to persuade people … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Climate Skeptics

Irrationality and the Future

Long-term Solutions: Energy

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

Long-term Adaptations II – Following the Netherlands: Food and Habitability

Long-Term Adaptations

Doomsday: Local Timelines

Doomsday: Attributions

Doomsday: Timing?

Doomsday Early Signs: The Science

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