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Tag Archives: End of Now
Irrationality and the Future
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
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Collective Irrationality and Individual Biases: Climate Change
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
Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, Election, politics, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, apocalypse, behavioral economics, bias, business as usual, Cass Sunstein, catastrophe, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, cognitive bias, college, conservation of energy, conspiracy, democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, doomsday, dynamic scoring, Economics, Education, Election, End of Now, Energy, greenhouse gas, high school, human contribution, John Zeller, junk science, just world, loss aversion, Market, physicist, Physics, political elite, psychology, rational choice theory, Republican, Richard Thaler, Science, Social Science, Trump, US, vote, voter
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Long-term Adaptations II – Following the Netherlands: Food and Habitability
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
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability
Tagged a/c, Adaptation, Agriculture, air conditioner, armageddon, Carbon Footprint, carrot, chili, China, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, cooler, cucumber, dam, doomsday, dutch, Emissions, End of Now, end of the world, Energy, energy transition, Environment, farming, fertilizer, Flood, Flooding, Food, Food Supply, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Global Warming, greenhouse, greenhouse gas, habitat, Iceland, Mitigation, Netherlands, Ocean, ocean levels, onion, pear, pepper, Pesticide, Population, Population Density, potato, Science, Sustainability, Technology, Temperature, tomato, uninhabitability, uninhabitable, US, virtual water, Water, water footprint, Water Management, Water Stress, wet bulb, yield
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Long-Term Adaptations
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
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, apocalypse, armageddon, asteroid, astronaut, Atmosphere, Australia, business as usual, California, chemistry, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, David Wallace-Wells, doomsday, Earth, earthquake, Emissions, End of Now, Environment, Equilibrium, extraterrestrial, fire, Future, global nuclear war, Global Warming, golden globe, greenhouse gas, Jessica Chastain, Mars, martian, Matt Damon, Mediterranean, Mexico, Mitigation, Physical Environment, Physics, Population, Power, prepare, Science, Sustainability, Technology, Trump, uninhabitability, uninhabitable, US, Volcano, wildfire, World Population
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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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Doomsday: The Simple (or Simplistic) Version
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
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Ann Coulter, Anthropocene, armageddon, blame, business as usual, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, David Wallace-Wells, Debate, disaster, disaster porn, discussion, Donald Trump, doomsday, earthquake, Emissions, End of Now, Energy, energy transition, Environment, fire, Florida, Fossil Fuels, Future, gay, Global Warming, great filter, Greg Abbott, Harvey, Hurricane, iceberg, irma, Kim Jong Un, lesbian, LGBT, Mexico, Mitigation, natural disaster, Now, Nuclear, nuclear war, ocean levels, Oregon, panic, pastor, politics, refutability, Rising Tides, Science, scientific, Scott Pruitt, shifting baseline, sin, Sustainability, Technology, Texas, Trump, US, Weather, wildfire
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Doomsday Predictions – Disaster Porn?
Figure 1 – Doomsday Clock Three weeks ago (before Charlottesville) I summarized the climate-change-related events that took place during my July vacation and promised to expand upon those issues. Given my necessary digression, I am reposting some of those elements … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Advocacy, Al Gore, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, attribute, Australia, biodiversity, business as usual, charlottesville, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, daniel aldana cohen, David Wallace-Wells, disaster, disaster porn, Donald Trump, doom, doomsday, doomsday clock, Economics, ecosystem, Electricity, Emissions, End of Now, Energy, energy mix, energy transition, Environment, EPA, extinct, extinction, Fossil Fuels, Future, global nuclear war, Global Population, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Holocaust, human contribution, inconvenient, IPCC, Mitigation, New Zealand, North Korea, Nuclear, nuclear weapon, Paul Ehrlich, PNAS, porn, Power, projection, Russia, Science, Sustainability, Technology, US, World Population
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Back to Climate Change: A Summary of What Happened in July
Figure 1 – Melting Siberian permafrost results in craters Figure 2 – Detachment of Antarctican Iceberg the size of Delaware Even though I was on a vacation in Asia and Australia for a month, in this day and age … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Al Gore, alarmist, Antarctica, Anthropocene, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, crater, David Wallace-Wells, Delaware, DNNer, Donald Trump, doomsday, Economics, Emissions, End of Now, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EPA, fear, Fossil Fuels, Future, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, iceberg, impact, inconvenient, IPCC, Media, Methane, Mitigation, News, Paris, Paris accord, Paris Agreement, Physics, Power, Science, Siberia, Sustainability, teach, teacher, Technology, Trump, UN, US, worst-case
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