Tag Archives: Global Warming

India – Lighthouse for the IPAT

Posted on February 24, 2015 by climatechangefork

India is “hot” now. I just got the recent issue of The Economist (February 21st), whose cover features a personification of India, riding high on a very attractive elephant that has a jet engine strapped to its side. With most … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Chen, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, DNNer, Economics, Electricity, Energy, Global Warming, India, IPAT, IPCC, Microgrids, Mitigation, Ostrovskiy, Population, Quest for Energy, Sustainability, Technology | 9 Comments

Stuttering Energy Transitions: Germany

Posted on December 9, 2014 by climatechangefork

2015 is knocking at the door. I just got The Economist’s “The World in 2015” special issue both in print and digital form. It’s full of numbers, predictions and stories. Most of its numbers and predictions are optimistic extrapolations of … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Australia, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Denmark, E.ON, Economics, Education, electrical power, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy generation, Energy Storage, energy transition, Environment, Fossil Fuels, France, Fukushima, Germany, Global Warming, India, Mitigation, Nuclear, Nuclear Energy, Pollution, Power, Power Plants, Science, Sustainability, Technology, United Nations, United States, US | 1 Comment

The Price of Wobbling

Posted on December 2, 2014 by climatechangefork

Thanksgiving is around the corner (at the time of writing – by the time this is posted it will be a few days after) and the semester is just about over. This time of the year the students are focusing … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged Adaptation, Arguementation, Argument, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Education, Environment, Global Freezing, Global Warming, global wobbling, ice age, John P. Holdren, Milutin Milankovitch, Mitigation, NASA, Piers Sellers, policy maker, politician, questions, Science, Scientists, Steve Stockman, student, wobbling | 1 Comment

Yes We Can! :(

Posted on November 11, 2014 by climatechangefork

Yesterday (November 4th) was Election Day in the US. It ended in a big victory for the Republicans, with a matching defeat for the Democrats and President Obama. It will be much more difficult for the President to push an … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, CCS, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, democracy, Democrats, Desalination, DNNer, Economics, Efficiency, Election, electrical power, Electricity, Energy, EROI, ethanol, Fatalists, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, IPCC, John Morgan, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Nuclear Energy, Obama, Physics, Power Plants, Renewable, Republicans, Science, senate, Sequestration, Sustainability, Technology, Thermodynamics, threshold | 7 Comments

Back to Sustainable Energy Transition: Scenarios and Progress

Posted on October 28, 2014 by climatechangefork

The IPCC’s original charge is as follows: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for the assessment of climate change. It was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, AR4, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Climatic Change, disaster, DNNer, Economics, Emissions, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, IPCC, Media, Mitigation, News, Policy, policy makers, RCP, RCPs, reports, Research, scenario, Science, SRES, summary, surface temperature, Sustainability, TAR, Temperature, UN, UNEP, United Nations, WMO | 2 Comments

Back to the Sustainable Energy Transition: The Physics of Sustainability and Some Tweets About it.

Posted on October 21, 2014 by climatechangefork

In the last blog I strongly advocated simplifying the conversation about climate change, focusing on how we can get from the present “business as usual” scenario to an “environmentally friendly” scenario that will not result in an environment inhospitable to … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, business as usual, Capacity, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Cost, David MacKay, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy generation, energy return on investment, Energy Sources, Energy Storage, enery density, Environment, EROI, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, IPCC, John Morgan, Mitigation, MRS, Oil, Physics, Power, Power Plants, Renewable, scenario, Science, Solar Energy, Storage, Storage Capacity, Sustainability, Technology, Twitter | 2 Comments

What a Week! – Scotland and the Climate Change March

Posted on September 23, 2014 by climatechangefork

I have written a great deal on the stuttering energy transition that we are all going through, and the difficult journey we are having in trying to replace our energy sources with more sustainable ones (just put the term “stuttering” … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Alpha Centauri, Ban-Ki Moon, Climate Change, climatechange, Economist, Global Warming, NYC, People's Climate March, peoplesclimate, peoplesclimatemarch, Scotland, UK, UN, Universe | 3 Comments

Risk

Posted on September 16, 2014 by climatechangefork

We are not very good at estimating risk. This is especially true of large, infrequent risk. Recently a judge fined BP for being “grossly negligent” in the blowout on the deep water horizon oil rig disaster that killed 11 workers … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, BP, Climate Change, corn, drilling, Environment, Global Warming, green market, Insurance, loss potential, Mitigation, Oil, risk, risk assessment, risk management, Sandy, Sea-Level Rise, spill | 1 Comment

Keeping Score = Quarterly Reports

Posted on July 8, 2014 by climatechangefork

On the evening of July 4th, I was sitting with my wife on our terrace – watching the beautiful firework display over New York City and New Jersey. As it happened, the New York Times that day came with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged 4th of July, Adaptation, America, Bastille Day, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Data, Declaration of Independence, Economics, Economist, Emissions, Energy, Environment, Fireworks, France, Global Warming, Independence, Jefferson, Mitigation, Quarterly Reports, Ranking, Revolution, Sustainability, Thomas Piketty, Transformation, UN, United States, World Bank | Leave a comment

I’m Back – Some Notes on Iceland and Sustainable Energy

Posted on July 1, 2014 by climatechangefork

Well, it’s now July 1st, and I am back home from my combined vacation, family meeting and conference in Iceland. My jet-lag is still in full swing but not enough to freeze me out of the blog schedule. The conference … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Aluminum, Australia, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Cod Wars, Conference, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy generation, Energy Saving, Environment, Erosion, Fossil Fuels, Gas, Geothermal, Glacier, Global Warming, heat, Hydroelectric, Hydropower, Iceland, Mitigation, Oil, Physics, Population, Power Plants, Reykjavík, Science, Sustainability, Technology, Topsoil, Volcano, Water, Water Cycle | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Global Warming

India – Lighthouse for the IPAT

Stuttering Energy Transitions: Germany

The Price of Wobbling

Yes We Can! :(

Back to Sustainable Energy Transition: Scenarios and Progress

Back to the Sustainable Energy Transition: The Physics of Sustainability and Some Tweets About it.

What a Week! – Scotland and the Climate Change March

Risk

Keeping Score = Quarterly Reports

I’m Back – Some Notes on Iceland and Sustainable Energy

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