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India – Climate Change Deniers?

Posted on March 3, 2015 by climatechangefork

Last week, I looked at the IPAT identity and the conflict between striving for affluence and aiming to keep greenhouse gas emissions from energy use low. One of the graphs showed that of the 25 major countries presented, India has … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged 3 shades, action, Bangladesh, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, climate vulnerability, Coal, commitment, Democratization, DNNer, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Environment, Fatalists, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, India, IPAT, IPCC, Mitigation, Pachauri, Population, Power, Quest For, Science, Solar Energy, Sundarbans, Sustainability, Technology, US | 4 Comments

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

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

Make it Simple, Please!

Posted on October 14, 2014 by climatechangefork

Many years ago, I was invited to a small gathering of scientists that did work on solar cells. The invitation came from the Department of Energy (DOE), which coordinates funding to these projects. The conference was focused on creating a … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, business as usual, Climate Change, Climate Change Fork, DOE, Education, Energy, Environment, Fifth IPCC Report, Fork, Global Temperature, graph, IPCC, language, march, People's Clilmate March, peoplesclimate, policy makers, poster, Prediction, Report, scenario, Science, Sea-Level Rise, Skeptical Science, Temperature | 3 Comments

Europe in June: The Schedule of the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change

Posted on June 10, 2014 by climatechangefork

By the time that this blog is posted I will be in England on my way to the Netherlands and France, ending up in Reykjavik, Iceland. In Iceland I will attend the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change. This is … Continue reading →

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Climate Change: Local Initiatives But Global Priorities

Posted on May 27, 2014 by climatechangefork

Previously, I described an effort to produce a film that monitors an energy transition in the Sunderban region of India. I am the “science guy” in the team and we are now working on expanding the movie to a longer … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged Australia, Cap and Trade, carbon dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Climate Casino, Climate Change, Developing Countries, Economics, Emissions, Energy, Environment, GDP, Global Population, Global Warming, Greenland, ice, Indian, IPCC, Lesley Stahl, Science, Showtime, Sunderban, Western Countries, William Nordhaus, World Population, Years of Living Dangerously | Leave a comment

Self-Imposing Red Lines

Posted on May 20, 2014 by climatechangefork

Recently, this has become a trend among politicians and organizations: draw a line in the sand (if possible, draw the line in a red color), with an accompanying threat – if you cross this line we (or I) will do … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged 350.org, Carbon, Climate Change, Climate Change Fork, CO2 emissions, Fifth IPCC Report, Geoengineering, Global Warming, IPCC, Lesley Stahl, President Obama, red line, Showtime, Sustainability, Sustainable, Syrian War, unburnable carbon, Years of Living Dangerously | 1 Comment

Waiting for Joseph

Posted on April 8, 2014 by climatechangefork

In a few days, my family, together with Jews all around the world, will start celebrating Passover with the seder meal (seder in Hebrew means “order”). Meanwhile, I assume that following recent tradition, President Obama and many on the White … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Anthropogenic, Bergen-Belsen, Bible, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Cycle, Drought, Egypt, Extreme Weather, Flood, Global Warming, Haggadah, History, Holocaust, IPCC, Israel, Israelites, Joseph, King James Bible, Mitigation, Passover, Pattern, Pentateuch, Periodicity, Pesach, Pharaoh, Power Plants, Science, Seder, Story, Sustainability, Thank you, Theresienstadt, Water, Water Cycle, Water Stress, Weather | Leave a comment

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India – Climate Change Deniers?

India – Lighthouse for the IPAT

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.

Make it Simple, Please!

Climate Change: Local Initiatives But Global Priorities

Self-Imposing Red Lines

Waiting for Joseph

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