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Tag Archives: Policy
April 2022
Monument for our April 13, 1945 liberation in Farsleben, Germany The “official” start of spring this year was on March 20th. However, this month started with April Fool’s Day and it seems that if the world’s events were divided among … Continue reading
“Me” and “They” in the Climate and COVID Disasters
Figure 1 Figure 1 reflects the deadly strength of anti-vaccination sentiment. Its resistance to science, policy, and any desire to ensure continued public safety seems to be equally relevant for denial of climate change. My November 17, 2020 blog, “Teaching … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Water
Tagged antivax, autism, Climate Change, climate denier, consequence, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, denial, denier, DNNer, Global Warming, Health, infection, Italy, Kennedy, mandate, medicine, Policy, public health, restriction, safety, Science, US, vaccination, vaccine, Water
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Universal Hydrogen Economy: Part 2
This week, we’re back to our discussion about the hydrogen economy. The Economist published a great summary of the related challenges we’re facing right now: Today’s hydrogen business is, in global terms, reasonably small, very dirty and completely vital. Some 90m … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Electricity, Energy, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, chemical, Clean Energy, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, decarbonize, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EU, Gas, green, greenhouse gas, hydrochemical, hydrogen, Methane, Mitigation, Oil, petrochemical, Policy, Renewable, Solar, Technology
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Calculating the Social Cost of Carbon: What Are We Already Spending?
Last week, I reintroduced the concept of the social cost of carbon and explored a recent University of Chicago working paper (WP). The WP delved into President Biden’s attempts to reframe the conversation about the economic impact of climate change, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Biden, Carbon, Climate Change, comparison, Cost, damages, discount rate, discounting, Economics, equity, Extreme Weather, Future, Global Warming, Policy, projection, scc, social cost of carbon, Trump, uncertainty
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Breaking With Business as Usual
My last three blogs focused on our collective attempts to limit anthropogenic global warming to an increase of 1.5oC in global temperature or, failing that, no more than 2oC. The series of blogs started with a detailed road map recently … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability, US
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Biden, business as usual, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, commitment, Emissions, EU, Europe, Future, green climate fund, IPCC, law, Mitigation, Paris Agreement, Policy, proposal, radiative forcing, SPM, Trump
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Climate Change, Social Media & Politics
I teach different levels of climate change courses and do my own research on the subject. My semester started at the end of January and I had four senior students who needed to select their own research topics regarding the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, US
Tagged anti-semitic, campaign, censor, censorship, Climate Change, communication, coronavirus, covid, Election, Facebook, internet, Jew, Jewish, Nazi, pandemic, Physics, Policy, political, politics, Social Media, teacher, Teaching
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Winners and Losers: COVID and Coal
President Biden signed 17 executive orders immediately after his inauguration on January 20th (January 26th blog). Many of them nullified President Trump’s policies which had deliberately ignored climate change and thwarted mitigation efforts. Foremost of these new policies was the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy
Tagged Adaptation, Angela Merkel, Biden, Climate Change, Climate Denial, Coal, Congress, coronavirus, covid, Democrat, economic, Energy, energy transition, EU, fossil fuel, Gas, Germany, Harris, house of representatives, Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Kelly, Mitigation, Mitt Romney, Oil, pandemic, Poland, Policy, Renewable, Republican, senate, subsidy, Susan Collins, US, West Virginia, WV, yellow vest
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Two Contradictory Versions of “Too Expensive”
I’m still in lockdown but I have the resources to communicate with the world. I have the opportunity to expose myself to different kinds of information while avoiding exposure to the pandemic. The piece below came from Forbes magazine, which, … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability
Tagged California, cherry picking global energy transition, choice, Climate Change, Coal, consequence, disease, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, Environment, environmental, fire, fire storm, fossil fuel, Fossil Fuels, Future, Gas, Germany, Global Warming, goals, Hydroelectric, hydroelectricity, individual bias, Insurance, Kenya, mitigating, Mitigation, Oil, Oregon, paradigm, phase-out, Policy, probability, prospect theory, Renewable, renewables, Solar, Sustainability, Sustainable, UN, unlivable, Washington, wild fire, wildfire, Wind, World Bank
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