Updates from the news #7
1 October 2023 The volume of ice lost from Swiss glaciers during the summers of 2022 and 2023 is about 10% of the total volume. This is equivalent to the loss between 1960 and 1990. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/28/swiss-glaciers-lose-tenth-volume-in-two-years-climate-crisis It is high time that environmental justice issues be addressed for marginalized communities. The EPA and the Dept. of Energy are creating 16 technical assistance centers to facilitate funding … Continue reading Updates from the news #7
Updates from the news #6
Updates from the news #6 – 22 September 2023 In addition to the huge march in NYC last Sunday, Climate Week 2023 has been packed with demonstrations, acts of civil disobedience, and bird-dogging. 75,000 or more mainly young people participated in the March. You can watch video recordings of key panel discussions and presentations here. Civil disobedience actions included blocking the entrances to the Federal … Continue reading Updates from the news #6
Updates from the news #5
Updates from the news #5 – 16 September 2023 Today, 16 September, the State of California announced that it is joining a lawsuit against the largest oil and gas companies in the world ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and BP. The suit also names the American Petroleum Institute (API). The suit accuses these companies of engaging in decades of deception about climate change and associated harms. … Continue reading Updates from the news #5
Updates from the news
Updates from the news #4 – 9 September 2023 Private equity firms are using climate catastrophes to profit from companies that provide clean up. Typically, these firms shortchange their clients, pay low wages, and generally fund shoddy work. There are times when it seems that there is simply no bottom to the evil of neoliberal capitalism. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/07/private-equity-climate-crisis-disaster-cleanup Climate denial is making a strong comeback in … Continue reading Updates from the news
Updates from the news
I am teaching three courses this semester at UF. Essentially all of the content of these courses is relevant to climate change. These are: BSC2862 Global Change Ecology, BSC3307C Climate Change Biology, and IDS2935 Communities and Climate Change. As a service for my students I am posting news updates as information accumulates from my reading of climate change events. I am reposting these updates here … Continue reading Updates from the news
Economic Models and the Real-World Social Costs of Carbon
Economic theory mandates that it is worth reducing CO2 emissions up to the point where the benefits are equal to the cost. The social cost of carbon is an estimate, in dollars, of the economic damages from emitting one additional ton of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. This metric is inextricably tied to the Neoliberal Economics and used by the UN and most governments to … Continue reading Economic Models and the Real-World Social Costs of Carbon
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Climate Change Updates December 2022
Updates from the climate change literature December 2022. Continue reading Climate Change Updates December 2022
Climate change year-end review 2022
This is has been a terrific semester that has included some of the best students of my career. This is my year-end review of the lessons on climate change that have been presented in the three courses that I teach. I hope you find this useful. A correction: the CO2 concentration from NOAA just before the volcano shut down the Keeling laboratory at Mona Loa was … Continue reading Climate change year-end review 2022
Remarks on the AR6 for Flagstaff College
No slack for UF and the methane power plant
Some have objected to my concerns about the new fossil-gas power plant at UF because they feel the administration’s options are financially limited due to the extreme expense of retrofitting the campus to remove dependence on methane to produce steam and chilled water. The new plant is budgeted at $200 million. Secondly, they point out the the new plant could easily be converted to hydrogen, … Continue reading No slack for UF and the methane power plant
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