Category: Risky Business
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Future liability for fossil fuel energy producers and conveyors
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in #youthvgov, an ignorant American public, being carbon dioxide, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, bridge to somewhere, carbon dioxide, climate disruption, climate economics, climate emergency, coastal investment risks, corporate litigation on damage from fossil fuel emissions, corporate responsibility, global warming, risk, Risky BusinessWhile I don’t entirely have the optimism which Professor Pearce expresses for the ability of climate models to be as specific as he describes, I am very optimistic that real time remote sensing resources, namely satellites, will get good enough to be highly specific regarding emission sources for all kinds of species of greenhouse gases.…
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“If I were Secretary of Energy”
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in adaptation, alternatives to the Green New Deal, an ignorant American public, an uncaring American public, Bill Nye, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, bridge to somewhere, CleanTechnica, climate activism, climate business, climate change, climate disruption, climate economics, climate education, climate mitigation, climate policy, climate science, corporate responsibility, corporate supply chains, corporations, decentralized electric power generation, decentralized energy, distributed generation, ecocapitalism, ecomodernism, ecopragmatism, electricity markets, emissions, engineering, fossil fuel divestment, global warming, green tech, Green Tech Media, Hyper Anthropocene, investing, investment in wind and solar energy, investments, keep fossil fuels in ground, leaving fossil fuels in the ground, Mark Carney, Mark Jacobson, Michael Bloomberg, radiative forcing, rate of return regulation, Ray Pierrehumbert, regulatory capture, RethinkX, Risky Business, solar democracy, solar domination, solar energy, solar power, solar revolution, Stewart Brand, sustainability, technocracy, the green century, Tony Seba, tragedy of the horizon, utility company death spiral, Wally Broecker, wind energy, wind power, zero carbonSaul Griffith’s musings: Rather than secretary of energy, I’d prefer a bigger role. If efforts to curb climate change are only housed within DOE, we won’t succeed at the scale required. I’d like a job that doesn’t yet exist, analogous to the role of Henry Knudsen in the Arsenal of Democracy. Knudsen was an industrialist…
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On odds of storms, and extreme precipitation
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in American Meteorological Association, American Statistical Association, AMETSOC, catastrophe modeling, climate disruption, climate economics, climate education, ecopragmatism, evidence, extreme events, extreme value distribution, flooding, floods, games of chance, global warming, global weirding, insurance, meteorological models, meteorology, R, R statistical programming language, real estate values, risk, Risky Business, riverine flooding, science, SignificancePeople talk about “thousand year storms”. Rather than being a storm having a recurrence time of once in a thousand years, these are storms which have a 0.001 chance per year of occurring. Storms aren’t the only weather events of significance which have probabilities of occurrence like these. Consider current precipitation risks for the Town…
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“Climate Change: Information on potential economic effects could help guide Federal efforts to reduce fiscal exposure” (GAO, September 2017)
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in Bloomberg, climate business, climate change, climate disruption, climate economics, coastal investment risks, corporate litigation on damage from fossil fuel emissions, corporate responsibility, corporate supply chains, corporations, ecological disruption, ecological services, ecomodernism, economics, environmental law, fiscal solvency, fossil fuel divestment, Global Carbon Project, global warming, greenhouse gases, Hyper Anthropocene, Michael Bloomberg, politics, pollution, Risky Business, science, science denier, Sir David King, sustainabilityIn September 2017, the U.S. General Accounting Office completed a report Climate Change: Information on Potential Economic Effects Could Help Guide Federal Efforts to Reduce Fiscal Exposure. A copy is at that link. Foremost, in case anyone doubts it, there is an appreciable fiscal risk to the federal government. Quoting: Over the last decade, extreme…