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Tag Archives: CO2
Climate Change Complementarity: Optimization?
Last week I looked into complementarity, including the Oxford Dictionaries’ definition: A relationship or situation in which two or more different things improve or emphasize each other’s qualities. I’d like to follow up on the question posited there: do countries … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, law, politics, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Balance, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, complement, complementarity, damage, deregulation, Donald Trump, Economics, EIS, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EPA, Fossil Fuels, Future, game theory, GDP, GHG, Global Warming, governance, Government, Nash, NEPA, Policy, policymaking, politics, prisoner's dilemma, prosperity, regulation, SC-CO2, Science, social cost, somplementary, strategy, sustailable, Sustainability, Technology
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Climate Change Complementarity: the US Government
Oxford Dictionaries define complementarity in the following way: A relationship or situation in which two or more different things improve or emphasize each other’s qualities. ‘a culture based on the complementarity of men and women’ Given how broad this definition … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, law, politics, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged administration, carbon dioxide, China, Climate Change, climate change denier, climate summit, CO2, Coal, complement, complementarity, complementary, COP24, Economics, Economy, Emissions, energy transition, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Future, governance, Government, India, IPCC, laws, NCA, Niels Bohr, Physics, Poland, Sustainability, Trump, US, WMO
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Wisdom From France: Mitigation and/or Adaptation of Global Ills Must be Inclusive
After an election, it is not unusual for the winners to declare that they were chosen to be the government of all the people. Such declarations, to be credible, require that the most important legislations include the equivalent of an … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, carbon dioxide, Carbon Tax, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, CO2, Earth Summit, economic impact, Economics, Electricity, Energy, energy cost, energy transition, Environment, Fossil Fuels, France, Gas, gas prices, GDP, gilets jaunes, Global Warming, governance, Government, inclusion, indicators, laws, Mitigation, Paris, Paris Agreement, Policy, Population, Rio de Janeiro, Science, Social Media, Sovereign State, Temperature, urbanization, World Bank, yellow jackets, yellow vests
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Governing Through Denial
The consequences of continuing the business as usual activities that result in climate change are not a mystery. We are in the middle of an avalanche of credible reports about the present state of the world and near future prognoses … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Climate Change, IPCC, law, politics, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Adaptation, administration, air quality, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Balance, bias, black friday, business as usual, Carbon, Carbon Footprint, censor, China, Clean Energy, clean power, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, conspiracy, Donald Trump, doubling time, economic damage, Economics, Economy, Emissions, energy transition, Environment, EPA, Exponential Growth, FEMA, Flood, Flooding, GHG, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Heartland, Heartland Institute, heat, heat wave, hoax, IPCC, Japan, keystone xl, Labor, mortality, NASA, NCA, Policy, Power, Power Plants, RCP, Report, security threat, Thanksgiving, Trump, tweet, US, Weather, WMO, worst, worst-case
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My Anthropocene
I went on a short vacation to southern New Mexico For Columbus Day weekend. Aside from the region’s great weather in this season, that was one of only two weekends per year when the Trinity site (see last week’s blog) … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC
Tagged Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, atomic, atomic bomb, AWG, boundary, carbon dating, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, define, definition, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, epoch, Fossil Fuels, Future, GDP, geological age, geology, Glacier, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Hiroshima, holocene, IPCC, Japan, Nagasaki, new mexico, Nuclear, nuclear bomb, nuclear testing, nuclear weapon, pleistocene, Population, radiation, radioactive, radioactive waste, Science, Sustainability, trinity, urbanization, waste, WIPP, yardstick
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Two Anthropocenes
The alarming tone of the new IPCC report caught the immediate attention of the world’s media and triggered a quick dismissal from the president of the United States. The report, which spans about 1,300 pages, covers all the indicators that … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC
Tagged 1945, Anthropocene, Anthropocene Working Group, Anthropogenic, AWG, boundary concept, Carbon, carbon dioxide, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, decarbonize, Earth, energy industry, energy supply, energy transition, Environment, environmental, epoch, extinction, Future, geological age, geology, Global Warming, green energy, greenhouse gas, holocene, human contribution, indicator, Industrial Revolution, inhabitable, IPCC, NOAA, Nuclear, nuclear waste, nuclear weapon, Paris, Paris accord, Paris Agreement, Physical Environment, pliocene, radionuclide, Report, Science, Temperature, time scale, UN, UNFCCC, uninhabitable, US, WWII
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Insanity at the Helm: Are We Steering the Wrong Way to the Future?
The last two weeks have seen a great deal of heavy breathing and crying. I summarized much of it in last week’s blog. The climax in this week’s news was probably Thursday’s testimonies of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine … Continue reading
Posted in administration, politics, Trump, UN
Tagged alliance, ally, America First, Australia, Brett Kavanaugh, Brunei, Canada, carbon dioxide, Charles Lindbergh, Chile, China, Christine Blasey Ford, climate refugee, CO2, denuclearization, Donald Trump, due process, Economics, Energy, energy use, England, environmental refugee, federalist society, France, Future, G-7, GDP, Germany, Global Population, globalization, Human Rights, ICC, immigration, international criminal court, Iran, Japan, John Bolton, justice, Kavanaugh, life expectancy, Lindbergh, MAGA, Malaysia, Mexico, migration, NAFTA, nationalist, Nazi, New Zealand, Nuclear, pandemic, Paris, Paris 2015, Paris accord, Paris Agreement, partnership, patriot, patriotism, Pearl Harbor, Peru, Policy, Population, refugee, Russia, Singapore, sovereign, sovereignty, Supreme Court, TPP, trade, treaty, Trump, UN, UN commission on human rights, unilateral, unilateralist, urbanization, US, Vietnam, War, World Population, WTO, WWII
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John McCain’s Vision
“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.” – Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, law, politics, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Arizona, Benjamin Disraeli, best, Biden, bill, bipartisan, Cap and Trade, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Clinton, CO2, CO2 emissions, Economist, Economy, Edward Markey, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, fossil fuel, Fossil Fuels, Future, Gas, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Hemingway, Henry Waxman, Inhofe, John McCain, Koch brothers, Lieberman, lobby, marketplace, mccain, Mitigation, NRDC, Obama, Oil, politics, quantification, Science, Sustainability, US, worst
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Just Hot Air?
A few days ago I got a message on Facebook from my friend who edits this blog. She sent me the cartoon above by Rex A. Jones with the caveat that it seemed reductionist and inaccurate. I was a bit … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, alternative energy, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Australia, Carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon intensity, Cars, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, comic, deregulate, driver, driving, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy intensity, energy transition, Environment, EPA, Fossil Fuels, fuel, Future, GDP, Germany, Global Warming, Government, greenhouse gas, hot air, lyft, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Nuclear Energy, OECD, Oil, Paris Agreement, Population, regulation, Rex A. Jones, ride share, Sustainability, Sustainable, uber, US
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The Domino Effect
Last week’s title was resolutely optimistic, drawing inspiration from the game of bridge and summing up the philosophy behind my teaching. After this summer, however, this attitude is a bit difficult to maintain. One thing I am constantly learning from … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability
Tagged 3 shades, Adaptation, amazon, Antarctic, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Arctic, Australia, Australian National University, business as usual, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, climate skeptic, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Collective Suicide, committed warming, copy, copyright, court, denial, denier, domino, domino effect, doomsday, Earth, EU, European Union, fatalist, feedback, Future, gaia, Genocide, Global Temperature, Global Warming, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, hothouse, Hothouse Earth, inhabitable, internet, IPCC, Jai Pei, optimism, PNAS, positive feedback, Potsdam, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. The Potsdam Institute, ruling, sea ice, Self Inflicted Genocide, self-inflicted, skeptic, Stockholm Resilience Centre, suicide, Temperature, tipping element, Tipping Point, uninhabitable, Will Steffen
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