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Category Archives: Climate Change
Communicating Climate Science and Earth System Sciences
While I am in no way a climate scientist, I use the occurrence and predictions of more climate change to motivate the study of present and future clean energy sources, conservation, and efficiency improvements. I also added commentary to our … Continue reading
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Why It Is Hard to Convince the US Public of Climate Change
The primary reason that acceptance of climate change has been opposed in America, is that climate change is mainly caused by CO2 from fossil fuel burning, and is strongly opposed by those industries, which are the richest in America. They … Continue reading
Ocean Acidification Conference by the Newkirk Center, May 3, 2013
Toward a Sustainable 21st Century Ocean Acidification There was a great one day conference on Ocean Acidification (OA) at the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering next the UC Irvine. The speakers were the major researchers … Continue reading
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Communicating Climate Science to the Public, Physics Today Article by David Kramer
Physics Today is the American Physical Society members magazine with short articles on what’s new in Physics, with a few long articles on areas in physics. Since we are about to cover communicating climate change with the public in our … Continue reading
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Future Orbital Warming, Larger Black Carbon Effect, El Nino, and Pine Bark Beetle Infestation
This is a link to my talk on Radiative Forcings to climate change that I gave to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute course on Climate Change. Gary Oberts and I presented the OLLI-NOAA videos on climate change and then supplemented … Continue reading
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Climate Change Radiative Forcings Talk to OLLI UC Irvine
This is a link to my talk on Radiative Forcings to climate change that I gave to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute course on Climate Change. Gary Oberts and I presented the OLLI-NOAA videos on climate change and then supplemented … Continue reading
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Global Warming and CO2 Increases Occur at the Same Time at the End of the Last Ice Age
One dilemma has been the apparent observation that the increase in global warming may have preceded a rise in CO2 by about 800±600 years. This has now been largely explained as a snow to ice effect, in a new summary article … Continue reading
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NRC Report on Sea Level Rise Along California, Oregon, and Washington
These are the projections for sea level rise by 2100 as determined by the Relative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) calculated by climate models. For the lowest, RCP 2.6, the sea level rise from 2005 is centered around 20″, with a rate … Continue reading
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Coming to Terms with Natural Gas Hydraulic Fracturing
A path for reducing CO2 pollution from coal is production of natural gas from hydraulic fracturing by drilling deep and then sideways and using steam and chemicals to cause fractures in shale deposits, which eventually release trapped natural gas. Since … Continue reading
Points of No Return or Tipping Points in Climate Change
After thinking over the previous article on the enormous task of creating wedges of non-greenhouse gas sources of power, it seems that tipping points should be renamed “Points of no return”. Tipping things over is something we all do occasionally. … Continue reading
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