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Fake News: Attributions

Posted on January 23, 2018 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – Snow in the Sahara If you do a Google image search for “Snow in the Sahara,” you will get a screen full of images similar to this one. What would bring you to search for that particular … Continue reading →

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Fake News

Posted on January 16, 2018 by climatechangefork

I am an old guy; my bucket list is modest but I am trying to check off the remaining items while I can still fully enjoy them. There’s only one that remains out of my reach: I want to travel … Continue reading →

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“Natural” or “Anthropogenic”? – Climate Change

Posted on January 9, 2018 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog looked at various methods of distinguishing “natural” vs. “artificial” vanilla. I used this as a jumping off point to facilitate answering the much more important question of how we distinguish anthropogenic climate change from “natural” climate change … Continue reading →

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“Natural” or “Anthropogenic”? – Vanilla Extract and Climate Change

Posted on January 2, 2018 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – My Christmas present Happy New Year!!! I got a yummy Christmas present from a family member that doubled as a hint to try to improve my cooking: homemade vanilla extract. They got the vanilla beans from Honduras … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability | Tagged Anthropogenic, artificial, artificial flavor, Biology, chemistry, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, clove, CO2 emissions, corn, Emissions, Energy, Environment, FDA, flavor, flavorist, Fossil Fuels, Future, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, guaiacol, half life, lignin, Madagascar, natural, natural flavor, Natural Gas, petrochemical, petroleum, Power, Power Plants, radioisotope, rice bran, Science, sugar, Sustainability, synthetic, Technology, vanilla, vanilla beans, vanillin | 2 Comments

Invasive Species, Collective Suicide, and Self-Inflicted Genocide

Posted on December 26, 2017 by climatechangefork

Recently, the NYT published some answers to questions posed by readers: “Are We an Invasive Species? Plus, Other Burning Climate Questions.” One of these questions was whether or not humans count as an invasive species: Are we an invasive species? … Continue reading →

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Saving the World through the Pursuit of Self Interest: Students Input

Posted on December 19, 2017 by climatechangefork

I have been teaching my Climate Change course using the TBL (Team Based Learning) system. I have 6 groups in my class, each composed of roughly 7 students that have been studying together throughout the semester. I have challenged the … Continue reading →

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Long-term Mitigation: Fusion

Posted on December 12, 2017 by climatechangefork

A month ago, I was working on a series of blogs about the long-term impacts of and solutions for climate change. I got sidetracked and decided to follow two dramatic events as they unraveled: first was the tax legislation that … Continue reading →

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Irrationality and the Future

Posted on December 5, 2017 by climatechangefork

Climate change is all about future impact; the aspects that we see and deal with right now are limited to those already highlighted by early warning signs in this process. The fact that the issues are global means that mitigating … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, behavioral economics, behavioral science, bonds, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, committed warming, discounting the future, Economics, Education, Emissions, End of Now, Energy, energy transition, Environment, forecasting, Fossil Fuels, Future, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Kahneman, loss averse, Mitigation, Ocean, optimism, planning fallacy, risk, Science, stocks, Sustainability, Tversky | Leave a comment

Collective Irrationality and Individual Biases: Climate Change II

Posted on November 28, 2017 by climatechangefork

Last week I discussed some issues in terms of psychology of judgement and decision making; I feel that they need some clarification and expansion. I looked at how highly educated Democrats and Republicans diverge sharply in their opinions about the … Continue reading →

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Collective Irrationality and Individual Biases: Climate Change

Posted on November 21, 2017 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog looked at the connections between the latest effort to rewrite our tax code and the necessary detailed accounting of the resources we will need to compensate for the increasing damage that climate change will inflict on us … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, Election, politics, Sustainability, Trump | Tagged Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, apocalypse, behavioral economics, bias, business as usual, Cass Sunstein, catastrophe, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, cognitive bias, college, conservation of energy, conspiracy, democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, doomsday, dynamic scoring, Economics, Education, Election, End of Now, Energy, greenhouse gas, high school, human contribution, John Zeller, junk science, just world, loss aversion, Market, physicist, Physics, political elite, psychology, rational choice theory, Republican, Richard Thaler, Science, Social Science, Trump, US, vote, voter | Leave a comment

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Fake News: Attributions

Fake News

“Natural” or “Anthropogenic”? – Climate Change

“Natural” or “Anthropogenic”? – Vanilla Extract and Climate Change

Invasive Species, Collective Suicide, and Self-Inflicted Genocide

Saving the World through the Pursuit of Self Interest: Students Input

Long-term Mitigation: Fusion

Irrationality and the Future

Collective Irrationality and Individual Biases: Climate Change II

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