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Guest Blog by Sofia Ahsanuddin: Marching for Science on Earth Day

Posted on May 9, 2017 by climatechangefork

In the span of a few months, the March for Science burgeoned into a global movement that galvanized support from hundreds of thousands of people in over 610 locations around the globe. The march’s organizers officially aim to create a … Continue reading →

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Politicizing Science or Quantifying Governance?

Posted on May 2, 2017 by climatechangefork

I opened last week with a sarcastic sign from the March for Science in New York City. I attended, along with thousands of others in NYC and hundreds of thousands all over the world, in celebration of Earth Day. This … Continue reading →

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Saving the World Through the Pursuit of Self Interest

Posted on April 25, 2017 by climatechangefork

I took part in the March for Science on Earth Day in New York City, where I live. The photograph above is my introduction to the next two blogs, which will both focus on the march. This week I want … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability, Trump, UN | Tagged Adaptation, administration, antarctic ice, Antarctica, Bill Nelson, business as usual, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, conflict, conflict of interest, Congress, Donald Trump, drain the swamp, Earth, Earth Day, Economics, Emissions, Environment, Flood, Florida, Fossil Fuels, Future, Glacier, Global Warming, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, Greenland, ice, Insurance, interest, IPCC, law, mar-a-lago, march for science, melt, Mitigation, model, national flood insurance, NOAA, NYC, Paris 2015, Paris Agreement, Physics, pleistocene, pliocene, Policy, Power, Power Plants, predict, Prediction, president, president trump, Real Estate, scenario, Science, sea ice, sea level, Sea-Level Rise, self interest, Sustainability, swamp, Tax, tax reform, tax returns, taxpayer, Technology, thermal ice, Trump, US, white house | 1 Comment

Assessment: Earth Day and the Shifting Baseline Syndrome

Posted on April 18, 2017 by climatechangefork

The April assessment is usually a busy time here. It coincides with Earth Day, my wife’s birthday, and birds singing to celebrate the arrival of spring. Today is no different. The last three months have been kind of dark. Accordingly, … Continue reading →

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Bottom-Up Is Not Enough!

Posted on April 4, 2017 by climatechangefork

During the first two months of the new Trump administration, climate change and science were hardly visible on the agenda; things have changed in a major way over the last two weeks, with the government living up to some of … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, COP21, IPCC, Sustainability, UN, UNFCCC | Tagged Adaptation, administration, bitcoin, Bloomberg, bottom-up, California, carbon dioxide, clean air, Clean Energy, clean power, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, commitment, Congress, Demand, Donald Trump, Economics, Economy, EIA, electric, electric car, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EPA, fossil fuel, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, governance, Government, grassroots, greenhouse gas, house, IPCC, LA, law, low emission, Mayor, Mitigation, Obama, Oil, Paris, Paris 2015, Paris Agreement, Pollution, Power, Power Plants, progress, regulation, Renewable, Science, senate, Solar, Solar Energy, standards, Supply, Sustainability, Technology, top-down, Trump, white house | 1 Comment

Perspectives

Posted on March 21, 2017 by climatechangefork

I had lunch the other day with a classics professor friend. He made a comment that in one of his classes, a student drew a parallel between the geographic pattern of the recent voting in the US and the differences … Continue reading →

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The Paris Commitments and What to Expect

Posted on March 14, 2017 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – IEA-projected impact of the Paris Agreement on the global energy sector The Paris Agreement, negotiated at the end of 2015, is the current anchor of global efforts to mitigate anthropogenic contributions to climate change (December 14, 2015 … Continue reading →

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Back to Energy Transition: Data

Posted on March 7, 2017 by climatechangefork

February in Brooklyn (Taken on our terrace toward the end of the month) It’s high time we return to climate change and the Anthropocene. My first target is the continuous availability of relevant data. The Anthropocene and climate change are … Continue reading →

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Back to Psychology: A Vaccine against “Fake News” on Climate Change

Posted on February 21, 2017 by climatechangefork

I ended my book on climate change (Climate Change: The Fork at the End of Now – Momentum Press, 2011) with the chapter: “The Future, the Past and the Just World Hypothesis.” My wife, an experimental psychologist and now the … Continue reading →

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Stabilization of Additional Indicators

Posted on February 7, 2017 by climatechangefork

We have spent the last two weeks examining how to stabilize our main socioeconomic indicators in order to achieve a long-term sustainable existence. Since climate change is one of the main early signs of the emerging human-dominated geological era (Anthropocene), … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog by Sofia Ahsanuddin: Marching for Science on Earth Day

Politicizing Science or Quantifying Governance?

Saving the World Through the Pursuit of Self Interest

Assessment: Earth Day and the Shifting Baseline Syndrome

Bottom-Up Is Not Enough!

Perspectives

The Paris Commitments and What to Expect

Back to Psychology: A Vaccine against “Fake News” on Climate Change

Stabilization of Additional Indicators

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