Category: Anthropocene

• A proposal: Challenge for the Green New Deal

  alternatives to the Green New Deal . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Chemical Society . American Meteorological Association . American Solar Energy Society . American Statistical Association . Amory Lovins . Anthropocene . basic research . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . bridge to somewhere . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . cement production . Clausius-Clapeyron equation . clear air capture of carbon dioxide . climate . climate business . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . climate economics . climate education . Climate Lab Book . ClimateAdam . consumption . David Archer . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . ecological disruption . ecomodernism . ecopragmatism . electric vehicles . electrical energy storage . electricity . energy storage . environment . flooding . floods . food . food scarcity . geoengineering . geophysics . Glen Peters . Global Carbon Project . global warming . insurance . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . investments . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . local self reliance . National Center for Atmospheric Research . Our Children’s Trust . planning . policy metrics . politics . population biology . population dynamics . radiative forcing . rationality . real estate values . rhetorical statistics . science . stream flow . sustainability . SVD . the right to know . UU Ministry for Earth . UU Needham . zero carbon . ZigZag

  Apr 29.2019
• Hypothetical toxins from plastics? Perhaps actual sources of toxins should be concerns …

  algal blooms . Anthropocene . blue-green algae . BMAA . climate . climate change . climate disruption . coastal communities . coastal investment risks . coasts . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . cyanobacteria . global warming . harmful algae . Hyper Anthropocene . living shorelines . marine biology . marine debris . ocean warming . oceans . pollution . red tide

  Apr 24.2019
• Greta: `All political movements in their present form have failed’

  Anthropocene . being carbon dioxide . bridge to nowhere . bridge to somewhere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate economics . climate grief . Cult of Carbon . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . global warming . Greta Thunberg . Humans have a lot to answer for . Hyper Anthropocene . investments . panic

  Apr 23.2019
• So, y’say you want a Green New Deal …

  American Solar Energy Society . Amory Lovins . Anthropocene . anti-intellectualism . Ørsted . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . bridge to somewhere . cement production . clean disruption . CleanTechnica . climate business . climate change . climate economics . corporate citizenship . corporate litigation on damage from fossil fuel emissions . corporate responsibility . corporate supply chains . decentralized electric power generation . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . distributed generation . ecomodernism . ecopragmatism . ecopragmatist . education . electric vehicles . electrical energy storage . electricity . electricity markets . energy utilities . engineering . environment . extended producer responsibility . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . Gaylord Nelson . George Monbiot . global warming . Green Tech Media . Hermann Scheer . Hyper Anthropocene . ILSR . investment in wind and solar energy . John Farrell . Joseph Schumpeter . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . local generation . local self reliance . Mark Jacobson . Mary C Wood . Peter del Tredici . population biology . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . rationality . rhetorical mathematics . rhetorical science . rhetorical statistics . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . Spaceship Earth . stranded assets . sustainability . sustainable landscaping . T’kun Olam . Talk Solar . Tesla . the energy of the people . the green century . the value of financial assets . wishful environmentalism

  Apr 21.2019
• Still a climate hawk, and appreciate all my climate friends: To the climate deniers, the greenwashers, the liberal environmental opportunists, and the environmental purists who will never compromise …

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Statistical Association . Anthropocene . Bayesian . climate change . climate disruption . climate economics . climate grief . coastal investment risks . ecological disruption . ecological services . ecomodernism . ecopragmatism . engineering . environment . flooding . global warming . Grant Foster . Humans have a lot to answer for . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . investments . Joseph Schumpeter . Mathematics and Climate Research Network . mathematics education . personal purity . population biology . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . regulatory capture . risk . riverine flooding . sampling without replacement . Scituate . secularism . shorelines . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . Solar Freakin’ Roadways . solar power . SolarPV.tv . Spaceship Earth . statistical dependence . SunPower . the energy of the people . the green century . the tragedy of our present civilization . the value of financial assets . tragedy of the horizon . Unitarian Universalism . unreason . utility company death spiral . UU Needham . Wally Broecker . Walt Disney Company . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution . “The tide is risin’/And so are we”

  Apr 4.2019
• Result of our own fiddling: Bob Watson and climate risk

  Anthropocene . attribution . carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . catastrophe modeling . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . climate economics . climate education . climate grief . climate justice . ecological disruption . ecology . Ecology Action . environment . global blinding . global warming . greenhouse gases . greenwashing . meteorology . National Center for Atmospheric Research . non-parametric model . Principles of Planetary Climate . radiative forcing . reasonableness . science . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . Solar Freakin’ Roadways . solar power . SolarPV.tv . Solpad . Sonnen community . Spaceship Earth . stranded assets . sustainability . the energy of the people . the green century . the tragedy of our present civilization . the value of financial assets . tragedy of the horizon . utility company death spiral . water . wind energy . wind power

  Mar 20.2019
• Temperatures, Summers, Germany, ≈ 50.5N to 57.5N latitude

  Anthropocene . climate change . data presentation . data science . data visualization . digital art . drought . Germany . global warming . loess . p-spline . penalized spline regression

  Mar 4.2019
• “Rising seas erode $15.8 billion in home value from Maine to Mississippi”

  Anthropocene . catastrophe modeling . coastal communities . coastal investment risks . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . EBC-NE . flooding . floods . Hyper Anthropocene . risk . riverine flooding

  Mar 2.2019
• One possible way to do small, modular nuclear power

  Anthropocene . climate . climate business . climate change . climate disruption . electricity . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . modular nuclear power . nuclear power . zero carbon

  Feb 22.2019
• “Renewables are set to penetrate the global energy system more quickly than any fuel in history” (BP, 2019 Energy Outlook)

  Anthropocene . being carbon dioxide . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . BNEF . BP . bridge to somewhere . Carbon Tax . clean disruption . CleanTechnica . climate change . climate disruption . corporate citizenship . corporate litigation on damage from fossil fuel emissions . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . ecomodernism . economic trade . ecopragmatist . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuel infrastructure . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . investments . local generation . local self reliance . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . the energy of the people . the green century . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the value of financial assets . Tony Seba . tragedy of the horizon . utility company death spiral . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Feb 16.2019
• “What’s new with recycling”

  Amory Lovins . Anthropocene . biofuels . Carbon Cycle . Claire Galkowski . coastal communities . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . EBC-NE . ecomodernism . ecopragmatist . education . extended producer responsibility . extended supply chains . green tech . greenhouse gases . local self reliance . Massachusetts . microplastics . paper . plastics . public health . quantitative ecology . recycling . science . solid waste . South Shore Recycling Cooperative . sustainability

  Feb 13.2019
• “Is the Green New Deal’s ambition smart policy?”

  Anthropocene . anti-intellectualism . bollocks . bridge to somewhere . cement production . clear air capture of carbon dioxide . climate business . climate change . climate disruption . climate economics . climate education . global warming . Green New Deal . greenhouse gases . negative emissions . zero carbon

  Feb 11.2019
• Alright! I’m tired of all this serious shtuff … It’s time for some CLIMATE ADAM!

  Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . climate change . glaciers . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ice sheet dynamics . oceans . sea level rise

  Feb 7.2019
• Wake up, Massachusetts! Especially, Green Massachusetts!

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . Anthropocene . Cape Wind . climate business . climate change . climate disruption . coastal communities . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . decentralized energy . electric vehicles . electrical energy storage . electricity markets . emissions . fossil fuels . global warming . Governor Charlie Baker . Hyper Anthropocene . ice sheet dynamics . investment in wind and solar energy . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . sea level rise . seawalls . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . the value of financial assets . wind energy . wind power . wishful environmentalism . zero carbon

  Feb 1.2019
• “Collective reflection” and working together on climate issues in Massachusetts

  Anthropocene . being carbon dioxide . citizenship . climate change . climate disruption . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . EBC-NE . Ecology Action . ecomodernism . ecopragmatism . environment . global warming . Governor Charlie Baker . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . ILSR . investment in wind and solar energy . lobbying . local generation . Massachusetts . Massachusetts Clean Energy Center . New England . rights of the inhabitants of the Commonwealth

  Jan 22.2019
• What if Juliana v United States fails?

  an ignorant American public . an uncaring American public . Anthropocene . being carbon dioxide . Boston Ethical Society . carbon dioxide capture . clear air capture of carbon dioxide . climate . climate business . climate change . climate disruption . climate economics . corporate litigation on damage from fossil fuel emissions . corporate supply chains . corporations . ecological disruption . ecomodernism . economics . ecopragmatism . environment . environmental law . extended producer responsibility . extended supply chains . First Parish Needham . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . Juliana v United States . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . Mary C Wood . optimization . Our Children’s Trust . pollution . population biology . population dynamics . Principles of Planetary Climate . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . radiative forcing . rationality . reasonableness . sea level rise . sustainability . the tragedy of our present civilization . tragedy of the horizon . United States Constitution . United States Government . UU . UU Needham . zero carbon

  Jan 21.2019
• “About” section of this blog has been revised, and rules of commenting made more prominent

  Anthropocene . blog . bridge to somewhere . Buckminster Fuller . CleanTechnica . climate change . ecology . Ecology Action . ecomodernism . ecopragmatism . ecopragmatist . engineering . global warming . Hermann Scheer . Hyper Anthropocene . ILSR . Joseph Schumpeter . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . local generation . local self reliance . Mark Carney . reasonableness . secularism . solar democracy . solar domination . Stewart Brand . technology . the energy of the people . the green century . Tony Seba . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Jan 21.2019
• “… [N]ew renewable energy capacity could quadruple that of fossil fuels over next three years”

  American Solar Energy Society . Anthropocene . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . BNEF . bridge to somewhere . Buckminster Fuller . clean disruption . CleanTechnica . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . electricity . FERC . green tech . ILSR . investment in wind and solar energy . John Farrell . Joseph Schumpeter . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . local generation . local self reliance . natural gas . rate of return regulation . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . Sonnen community . the energy of the people . the right to know . the value of financial assets . Tony Seba . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Jan 18.2019
• On plastic bag bans, and the failure to realize economic growth cannot be green

  adaptation . an ignorant American public . an uncaring American public . Anthropocene . development as anti-ecology . E. O. Wilson . environment . evidence . evolution . exponential growth . fragmentation of ecosystems . global warming . greenwashing . Humans have a lot to answer for . Hyper Anthropocene . local self reliance . plastics . population biology . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . supply chains . sustainability . sustainable landscaping . The Demon Haunted World . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the tragedy of our present civilization . the value of financial assets . tragedy of the horizon

  Jan 9.2019
• International climate negotiations, the performance: `Angry and upset’

  adaptation . American Association for the Advancement of Science . Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . climate change . Glen Peters . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . Kevin Anderson

  Jan 6.2019
• Gov Jerry Brown on Meet the Press, a parting comment on 2018 at Bill Gates’ Notes, and the best climate blog post of 2018

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Chemical Society . American Meteorological Association . an ignorant American public . Anthropocene . anti-science . astronomy . atmosphere . attribution . being carbon dioxide . Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project . Bill Gates . Blackbody radiation . bridge to somewhere . California . carbon dioxide . cement production . climate . climate change . climate zombies . development as anti-ecology . ecological services . economics . Eli Rabett . energy flux . environment . evidence . friends and colleagues . global warming . Grant Foster . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . Jerry Brown . Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . meteorology . nuclear power . oceanography . oceans . Principles of Planetary Climate . quantum mechanics . science . sea level rise . solar democracy . solar energy . solar power . sustainability . the energy of the people . the green century . the tragedy of our present civilization . tragedy of the horizon . University of California . University of California Berkeley . water as a resource . wind energy . wind power . wishful environmentalism . zero carbon

  Dec 30.2018
• Mark Carney is aligned with the geo-biological-physical everything

  Anthropocene . capitalism . climate change . economic trade . economics . global warming

  Dec 26.2018
• “Electric Dreams”, from BBC Radio 4’s “Costing the Earth”

  Anthropocene . bridge to somewhere . clean disruption . CleanTechnica . disruption . electric vehicles . electricity . electricity markets . EVs

  Dec 22.2018
• Earth’s energy imbalance: Rise in ocean heat content is accelerating

  Anthropocene . climate change . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . oceanography . oceans . science

  Dec 19.2018
• “You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes.”

  Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . Carbon Worshipers . climate change . climate disruption . Hyper Anthropocene

  Dec 16.2018
• Remember …

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Chemical Society . Anthropocene . climate change . ecological disruption . global warming . stranded assets . the right to be and act stupid . the tragedy of our present civilization

  Dec 11.2018
• The Climate Crunch

  adaptation . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Petroleum Institute . an ignorant American public . an uncaring American public . Anthropocene . being carbon dioxide . bridge to somewhere . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . carbon dioxide sequestration . Carbon Worshipers . cement production . clear air capture of carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate economics . Cult of Carbon . David Suzuki . emissions . geoengineering . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . James Hansen . klaus lackner . Wally Broecker

  Nov 30.2018
• Not just having bad ideas, but because of deliberate ignorance despite overwhelming evidence, necessarily bad people

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . an ignorant American public . an uncaring American public . Anthropocene . anti-science . Carl Sagan . climate . climate change . climate disruption . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene

  Nov 27.2018
• Prof Nic Lewis, Reason, and a claimed criticism of Resplandy, et al

  Anthropocene . climate . climate change . global warming . luckwarmers

  Nov 10.2018
• Our Children’s Trust

  Anthropocene . climate change . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene

  Oct 29.2018