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Category Archives: Fossil Fuel Energy
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
Kenneth Feinberg’s Talk at UC Irvine, March 21, 2013
Kenneth Feinberg spoke to the UCI Law School in the Disaster Law Lecture Series sponsored by the Center for Law, Environment and Natural Resources, on March 21, 2013. He has now taken on the task of distributing charitable contributions for … Continue reading
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Comments on the Movie “Switch” and discussion at UC Irvine
I have just returned from a showing of the movie Switch about forms of energy generation, and searching for our energy future, sponsored by the Newkirk Center. Presenting was the film’s director, Harry Lynch. We are planning to show this to … Continue reading
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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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
China’s Coal, Renewable and Nuclear Power: Present and Future
China has large, public plans for an ideal world of power in China. They are moving toward most of these. Since power is partly a national project, they may well succeed in some of them. Clearly they have the motivation … Continue reading
US and World Solar Power for 2012
World Solar Power World Wide Photovoltaics The total world wide photovoltaic peak power at the end of 2012 is 102 gigaWatts at peak overhead illumination, where a gigaWatt (GW) is a billion Watts or 1,000 megaWatts. Germany has a … Continue reading
Some Climate and Energy iPhone and iPad Apps
The first set of Apps are for the Climate, Earth, and Sun. Skeptical Science consists of scientific answers to misunderstandings about and arguments against climate change. It also includes summaries of daily news about climate science. CliMate shows you all … Continue reading
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Websites for Climate Science Information for UC Irvine OLLI Classes
First is the link to the OLLI NOAA lectures that we are watching: http://www.climatewatch.noaa.gov/video/2012/climate-change-impacts-solutions-and-perceptions There is a new Draft of the National Climate Assessment to be found on: http://ncadac.globalchange.gov The National Climate Data Center has a 2011 State of the … Continue reading
Emissions and Radiative Forcing Models for IPCC 5 in 2013
The leaked IPCC drafts are hard to read because they refer to a set of projections for greenhouse gas emissions pileups, and excess average radiation stored in the earth’s systems. These are called RCPs, or Representative Concentration Pathways. While the prase … Continue reading
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