Global Carbon Budget 2021 Abstract https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-386/ Full preprint: https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-386/essd-2021-386.pdf 2020, Fossil CO2 emissions (EFOS) declined by 5.4 % … [Read more...]
A Speech from Her Speeches Greta Thunberg Never Made
I recently read No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg (NY: Penguin Books, 2018, 2019 ISBN 9780143133568), a slim book of her speeches since she started her Friday School Strike, "that idea was inspired by the Parkland … [Read more...]
Notes on How People Think About Climate Change
I attended two climate change lectures recently. One lecture was titled "Clean and Cheap: How Americans Think About Energy in an Age of Global Warming" on 9/17/15 at MIT with David Konisky, Indiana University and the other was "Disruptive … [Read more...]
The Current Cost of Carbon
The Current Cost of Carbon In April of 2015 at a forum on the British Columbia carbon tax at MIT, I heard Merran Smith of Clean Energy Canada (http://cleanenergycanada.org) say if you add up the GDP of all the individual countries which … [Read more...]
It’s Earth Day, and the Globe Magazine’s fancy turns to
cars.The whole magazine is supertitled "the car issue" this week.Contents include a paean to horsepower and a Parade-magazine-style photo pictorial that is basically soft-car porn.Granted it's not all that bad--and cars are a big part of … [Read more...]