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- The Chicago Boys V. Salvatore Allende, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara
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- Thresholds and epochs in the Grand Climate System
- Using all of the heavy elements in nuclear waste to provide energy
- Are we to let people starve while the powerful grow bioenergy and restore forests for their tranquility?
- Economics, Environment and Energy
- 100% renewables by 2030 and no Adani mine – let’s save the world from climate activists
- Small modular nuclear reactor promise? SMR prospects are good!
- Tremendous energy cascading through powerful Earth sub-systems
- Stocks and flows in the Earth system
- Space and ocean climate monitoring in the 21 st century
- Environmental Bulls and Bears
- Synergistic Technologies for Energy Futures
- Voices of climate reason
- A maximum entropy climate – Earth in transient energy equilibrium
- Intrinsic and forced climate variability
- The illusion of climate cycles
- Sea level rise in my ‘hood
- What shall we do with Wally Broecker’s wild beast now that we have caught it by the tail?
- Anticipating the whims of the Dragon Kings
- Spatio/temporal chaos – “simple rules at the heart of climate’s complexity”.
- Climate chaos – the once and future dragon-king
- 21st Century Climate Data Gives New Insight
- An Earnest Discovery of Climate Causality
- Adani Lawfare
- Restoring agricultural soils for profit, biodiversity and climate resilience
- How difficult is it to build an electric car?
- Working Backwards – from ENSO Variability to Solar Causality
- A cost effective middle ground for climate action and environmental conservation
- Safe, cheap and abundant energy – back to the nuclear energy future
- Failing the test of environmental conservation
- All bubbles burst: laws of economics for the new millennium
- Climate science and the third great idea in 20th century physics
- Climate policy at the nexus of development and environment
- Rivers of gold go up in smoke
- Global environmental priorities are much broader than wind and solar power
- The Grand Climate System – the new level in planetary theory
- Re-designing institutions for better environmental management
- Restoring agricultural soils for profit, biodiversity and climate resilience
- The Shining City of Humanity
- The big picture on genetically modified organisms
- The alternative climate consensus – surprises are quite likely
- Fun with climate science – and planning to fail in Paris
- The future is cyberpunk
- Is Ecomodernism the third way on climate change?
- Climate chaos – the once and future dragon-king
- Tax Carbon Pollution or Seize the Day?
- Biological abundance and economic growth
- “It is possible that the climate of the Earth behaves this way.”
- Charting the technological future
- Some great ideas are astonishingly simple
- A classic liberal utopia
- Attrition in the climate trenches
- The only UN sustainable development goal needed is economic freedom
- Safe, cheap and abundant energy – back to the nuclear energy future
- Climate Models and Climate Precautions
- Is climate sensitivity low or high?
- Obama and the Syrian drought
- Economic growth and environmental management in a global Iriai
- Greenhouse gas solutions
- Changing our approach to the environment
- Planetary boundaries, tipping points and prophets of doom
- After the deluge
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- Black carbon – a health and environment issue
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Adani Lawfare
Adani is an Indian company with a coal project in development in the Galilee basin in Central Queensland. Serial and vexatious litigation – all actions brought over years have been lost – have delayed the project and added to costs. … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, climate change, energy, greenhouse gas emissions, power generation
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Restoring agricultural soils for profit, biodiversity and climate resilience
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and cement production – from 1750 to 2011 – was about 365 billion metric tonnes as carbon (GtC), with another 180 GtC from deforestation and agriculture. Of this 545 GtC, about 240 GtC (44%) … Continue reading
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Tagged abrupt climate change, agriculture, black carbon, climate, climate change, development, energy, environment
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Safe, cheap and abundant energy – back to the nuclear energy future
“To provide [electricity] in today’s world, an ‘advanced reactor’ must improve over existing reactors in the following 4-core objectives. It must produce significantly less costly, cost-competitive clean electricity, be safer, produce significantly less waste and reduce proliferation risk. It is … Continue reading
Failing the test of environmental conservation
I have worked as a hydrologist and environmental scientist for 30 years. Over that time hope for environmental conservation has given way to fatalism. Governments of all ilk have failed to reverse environmental and biodiversity decline. There has been some … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, development, environment, greenhouse gas emissions
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All bubbles burst: laws of economics for the new millennium
The global economy is worth about $100 trillion a year. To put aid and philanthropy into perspective – the total is 0.025% of the global economy. If spent on Copenhagen Consensus smart development goals such expenditure can generate a benefit to … Continue reading
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Global environmental priorities are much broader than wind and solar power
Mitigation of black carbon – and sulphur dioxide – emissions proceed with current technologies and improve health and environmental outcomes. Mitigation of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel use will need a range of technologies in a number of sectors – … Continue reading
Is Ecomodernism the third way on climate change?
The headline here is the title of a blog post on “The Hill” by Julie Kelly. It contains three terms that seem likely to annoy any thoughtful conservative. Ecomodernism is a term used for toasters, pants, lampshades, etc. that have … Continue reading
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