Category: efficiency

• Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide

  carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . carbon dioxide sequestration . civilization . climate . climate education . consumption . economics . efficiency . energy . engineering . environment . ethics . geoengineering . geophysics . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk

  Dec 12.2014
• “Bank of England to examine financial risks linked to fossil fuels”

  carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . climate . consumption . demand-side solutions . education . efficiency . energy . environment . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . geophysics . investing . oceanography . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . science

  Dec 3.2014
• “A Bill — To provide for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emission fees”

  carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . citizenship . climate . climate education . consumption . demand-side solutions . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . humanism . investment in wind and solar energy . meteorology . methane . municipal solid waste . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science

  Nov 26.2014
• Japan’s US$1.5 billion + United States’ US$3 billion to help developing countries leapfrog to renewables

  carbon dioxide . citizenship . civilization . climate . demand-side solutions . efficiency . energy reduction . engineering . fossil fuel divestment . investment in wind and solar energy . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . solar power . wind power

  Nov 18.2014
• Ray Pierrehumbert on the new U.S.-China climate deal

  astronomy . astrophysics . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . Carbon Tax . chemistry . citizen science . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate education . conservation . consumption . demand-side solutions . differential equations . ecology . economics . education . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . engineering . environment . forecasting . geoengineering . geophysics . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . mathematics . maths . meteorology . methane . NCA . NOAA . oceanography . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . scientific publishing . solar power . statistics . wind power

  Nov 18.2014
• IPCC WG3 overview video, and Synthesis Report news conference

  carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . carbon dioxide sequestration . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate education . conservation . consumption . ecology . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . engineering . environment . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . geoengineering . geophysics . humanism . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . meteorology . methane . nuclear power . oceanography . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . solar power . wind power

  Nov 2.2014
• Who Does It, and How Much

  Bayesian . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . citizenship . climate . climate education . conservation . consumption . demand-side solutions . ecology . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . environment . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . geophysics . investment in wind and solar energy . meteorology . NASA . oceanography . physics . rationality . reasonableness . science . solar power . wind power

  Sep 25.2014
• Leonardo DiCaprio, concerned citizen, at the United Nations

  carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . carbon dioxide sequestration . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate education . conservation . consumption . economics . efficiency . energy . environment . fossil fuel divestment . geoengineering . geophysics . humanism . meteorology . oceanography . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . solar power . wind power

  Sep 23.2014
• energiewende

  Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . climate . conservation . consumption . demand-side solutions . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . engineering . environment . investing . rationality . reasonableness . solar power . wind power

  Sep 14.2014
• “Expectations for a new climate agreement” (Jacoby, Chen, MIT, 2014)

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  Sep 13.2014
• Sea Level Rise, after Church and White (2006)

  Bayesian . carbon dioxide . civilization . climate . climate education . conservation . consumption . ecology . economics . education . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . engineering . environment . forecasting . geoengineering . geophysics . humanism . MCMC . meteorology . oceanography . optimization . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . science . statistics

  Jul 14.2014
• The FT’s Martin Wolf: “Climate sceptics are losing their grip”

  citizenship . civilization . climate . climate education . conservation . consumption . demand-side solutions . ecology . economics . education . efficiency . energy reduction . engineering . environment . forecasting . geophysics . history . investing . meteorology . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science

  Jul 14.2014
• “Birthing a Solar Age”

  climate . climate education . conservation . demand-side solutions . economics . education . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . meteorology . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . solar power . wind power

  Jun 30.2014
• Natural gas as fuel: Thumbs down!

  carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . chemistry . climate . climate education . demand-side solutions . efficiency . energy reduction . engineering . environment . forecasting . geophysics . meteorology . methane . physics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science

  Jun 26.2014
• Risky Business: Economic Impacts of Climate Change in the United States

  citizenship . civilization . climate . climate education . conservation . consumption . demand-side solutions . economics . education . efficiency . energy . engineering . environment . forecasting . geophysics . investing . meteorology . physics . politics

  Jun 24.2014
• Don’t know how real this is, but These Guys Have IMAGINATION

  carbon dioxide . economics . efficiency . energy . engineering . geoengineering . investing . meteorology . oceanography . physics . rationality . reasonableness . risk

  Jun 22.2014
• Wind Energy for Homes in Massachusetts

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  Jun 7.2014
• Climate Disruption: “Happy talk” and “a slap in the face”

  atheism . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate education . compassion . conservation . consumption . demand-side solutions . economics . education . efficiency . energy reduction . environment . forecasting . geophysics . history . humanism . meteorology . oceanography . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . statistics

  May 7.2014
• “To stay below 2 °C of warming, the world must become carbon negative.”

  carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate education . conservation . consumption . ecology . economics . efficiency . energy reduction . engineering . environment . forecasting . geoengineering . geophysics . meteorology . nuclear power . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . solar power . wind power

  Apr 19.2014
• Who Does It and How

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  Apr 13.2014
• The Stone Giant speaks to the Hobbit …

  carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . climate . climate education . conservation . consumption . demand-side solutions . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . environment . forecasting . geoengineering . geophysics . meteorology . physics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . statistics . Unitarian Universalism . wind power

  Apr 1.2014
• Grading the U.S. Senate: Climate Crisis All-Night Session

  Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate education . economics . efficiency . energy . engineering . environment . geoengineering . geophysics . investing . meteorology . oceanography . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . wind power

  Mar 11.2014
• MIT Climate CoLab Contests: U.S. Carbon Price, and Federal Agency Climate Mitigation Options

  Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate education . ecology . economics . education . efficiency . energy . engineering . environment . politics . reasonableness . risk . science

  Mar 10.2014
• “Without even thinking very hard …”: My favorite post from RealClimate

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  Feb 17.2014
• An optimistic plan, wishfully thought

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  Feb 6.2014
• The London Array.

  civilization . climate . ecology . efficiency . energy . engineering . environment . meteorology . wind power

  Jan 22.2014