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Tag Archives: NASA
Paris: Measurements for the Future
Last week I evaluated the commitments that various countries have made in preparation for the COP21 meeting that is scheduled for the end of this month. Specifically, I looked at the difficulty in converting the commitments from individual countries into … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, carbon dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, commitment, COP21, countries, Data, Earth Observation Fleet, Economics, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Fossil Fuels, France, GDP, GES DISC, Global, Global Population, Global Warming, green tourist, greenhouse gas, individual, IPCC, measurement, Mitigation, NASA, OCO-2, Paris, Paris 2015, Paris attacks, Population, Power, satellite, Science, spectrometer, stuttering energy transition, Sustainability, Technology, Transition, UN, UNFCCC, US, variable, World Population
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Working for a Better Future
The 2016 presidential election campaign is heating up in the US and it seems to me that the widely accepted degree of cynicism about politicians is reaching new heights. In fact, it has already reached the point of paralyzing important … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropogenic, Brundtland report, campaign, carbon dioxide, climate, Climate Change, CO2, could, Debate, Democratization, Economics, Education, Election, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Environment, forecast, forecasting, Fossil Fuels, Future, GDP, generation, GISS, Global Population, Global Warming, Government, greenhouse gas, Hypothesis, Iran, Iran deal, James Hansen, Jew, Jewish, Karl Popper, leadership, might, Mitigation, NASA, Physics, Policy, politician, Popperian, Population, Power, precise, predict, Prediction, recycle, Recycling, Science, scientific method, Scoblick, specific, Sustainability, Technology, test, Tetlock, vague, Weather, World Population
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The Price of Wobbling
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
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Hanukkah, Thanksgiving and the Drake Equation
I recently finished celebrating Thanksgiving and Hanukkah with my family; enjoying the wonderful meal, lighting the 2nd Hanukkah candle and thanking God both in English and Hebrew. Following this, we also prepared to celebrate the end of the semester, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aliens, Alpha Centauri, Astrobiology, Avatar, Calendar, Christmas, Climate Change, Climate Change Fork, Drake Equation, Extrarerrestrial, Frank Drake, Future, Global Population, Gregorian, Hanukkah, Hebrew, Helios 2, James Cameron, Jew, Jewish, Kepler, NASA, New Year, Now, Population, Present, Thanksgiving, Thanksgivukkah, UFOs, Voyager 1, World Population
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Jim Hansen’s Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference – Little Brown – 2000) defines a Tipping Point as, “the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point.” Since Gladwell’s publication, the term has been … Continue reading
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Tagged Bifurcation, Chaos Theory, Climate Change, Fork, GISS, IPCC, Jim Hansen, Le Chatelier, Malcom Gladwell, NASA, Science, Tipping Point, UNFCCC
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