Category Archives: Climate Change

Slides from the NOAA/NASA Annual Global Analysis for 2018

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Slides from the NOAA/NASA Annual Global Analysis for 2018 The NASA author is Gavin A. Schmidt, and the NOAA author is Derek Arendt. I have put photos of the graphs from the above analysis on a Flickr album NOAA/NASA Annual … Continue reading →

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Setting of the Doomsday Clock at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for 2019

Posted on January 24, 2019 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Setting of the Doomsday Clock at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for 2019 The Doomsday Clock started measuring the time to midnight in terms of the danger of nuclear war and events.  It now includes risks from climate change … Continue reading →

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Warming by 2100 for Leading US and World Cities

Posted on January 23, 2019 by Dennis SILVERMAN

We exploit the new availability of climate warming predictions by one degree map boxes to look at the warming by year 2100 of US and World cities.  The website is Carbon Brief of the United Kingdom:    carbonbrief.org  The four … Continue reading →

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Keys to Climate Action

Posted on January 9, 2019 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Keys to Climate Action This is a talk that I gave to OLLI on National, State, Cities, and Businesses involved in Climate Action.  It also covers utilities, and individual actions.  It emphasizes California, wildfires, and sea level rise predictions and … Continue reading →

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How Large and Influential is Coal Usage?

Posted on December 16, 2018 by Dennis SILVERMAN

How Large and Influential is Coal Usage? Overall, US coal usage as a percent of electric power has declined from about 53% in 2000 to 33% in 2015.  We are using data related to electric car choices from a report … Continue reading →

Posted in 2020 Election, Affairs of State, Climate Change, Clinton, Coal, Donald Trump, Electric Power, Energy Efficiency, EPA, Equivalent Electric Car Emissions, Fossil Fuel Energy, Global Climate Action Summit, Paris Climate Accord, Paris Climate Agreement, Politics, Regulations, Transportation | Leave a comment

Introduction to the Planets Mercury, Venus, and the Earth by Dennis Silverman

Posted on December 5, 2018 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Introduction to the Planets Mercury, Venus, and the Earth by Dennis Silverman For the OLLI course “Introduction to the Solar System”. SC215, on December 6, 2018. intro slides Mercury(1) Venus(1) Planet Earth

Posted in Climate Change, Climate Education, Climate Science, Earth, Earthquakes, F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Life in the Universe, Mercury, Nuclear Weapons, Science and Engineering Education | Leave a comment

Climate Action Shorts

Posted on December 2, 2018 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Climate Action Shorts Monday at 4 PM on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter will be the Climate Town Hall on the West Coast, PST.  This will be on C-SPAN2 at 7:45 PM – 9:15 PM PST.  Monday at 6 PM starts … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Policies Led to the GM Plant Closures

Posted on November 30, 2018 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Trump’s Policies Led to the GM Plant Closures Two of the cars discontinued in the GM plant closures are the fuel economy cars the compact and high mileage Chevy Cruze, and the plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt.  GM said that they … Continue reading →

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General Motors and the Environment

Posted on November 27, 2018 by Dennis SILVERMAN

General Motors and the Environment Clearly, we are all distressed when 14,000 workers are let off, and their factories closed.  General Motors in fact said that consumers are desiring to drive SUVs and Trucks more, so they are fulfilling consumer … Continue reading →

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Comments on Trump’s Insincerity About the Climate Impact Report

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Comments on Trump’s Insincerity About the Climate Impact Report If not now, when, if not us, who? I hate to spend my time raking Trump over his polluting coal heap, but it has to be done.  Since I am not … Continue reading →

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