OUTLINE: POLICY INFLUENCERS
1. Wall Street Journal - Is climate science settled?
2. Peer-reviewed Climate Science Articles- 99% settled.
3. Forbes – Is carbon-free energy available?
4. Nashua Telegraph – What about China’s coal burning?
5. Risky Business Report - Economics of Global Warming. by Bloomberg, Paulsen, & Steyer
6. Pope Francis’ Moral Responsibility to bequeath a habitable planet to future generations
Our atmosphere is 76% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 3% trace gases, which include the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2) and water. Carbon dioxide has a large infrared absorption at 16 microns, the maximum of the blackbody radiation spectrum of our atmosphere. Carbon dioxide thus absorbs heat radiation and re-emits it back to the surface of our earth to keep it warm. Water vapor increases with temperature amplifying this greenhouse effect.
Non-condensing CO2 provides the stable temperature structure that sustains atmospheric water vapor and clouds (1). When the earth’s orbit and tilt triggered a cooling trend 110,000 years ago, CO2 decreased and water condensed and froze, plunging the earth into an ice age. About 18,000 years ago, orbital changes warmed the oceans which emitted dissolved CO2 gas. This greenhouse forcing warmed the earth and melted the ice.
Reference:
(1) Andrew A. Lacis, et. al. “Atmospheric CO2: Principal Control Knob Governing Earth’s Temperature.” Science, 330, 356-359, 15 October 2010
What are we doing to our climate? What is it doing to us? What can we do?Paul H. Carr
OVERVIEW
I will be introducing you to ECONOMIC, ECOLOGICAL, and TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES.
¥ Climate change is an unintended consequence of carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels.
¥ By pricing in the social and environmental cost of these emissions, we can expedite their reduction. Let’s harness profit greed towards green technology development.
¥ The environmental challenge is to balance the beauty and sacredness of nature with its utility.
ABSTRACT
What are we doing to our climate? The scientific consensus. Tides and temperatures are rising. Since the beginning of the industrial age, emissions from fossil fuel burning have raised carbon dioxide concentrations to 410 ppm. This is 33% higher than in the last million years. This increase is warming our planet via the Greenhouse Effect. At the present rate of carbon dioxide increase, we will reach 800 ppm by 2100. When our earth was at this concentration 40 million years ago, it was so warm that there was no ice. Sea levels were about 300 feet higher than today.
What is climate change doing to us? “The earth and its poor cry out, and we must listen” Pope Francis. Dry regions are drier and wet ones wetter. Wildfires have increased threefold since 1970, storms more violent, floods setting record heights, and glaciers melting. Natural catastrophes are occurring more than twice as frequently as in 1980. Sea levels could rise as high as 18 feet by 2060. Parts of Earth are increasingly uninhabitable, resulting in millions of climate change refugees, CLIMmigration.
What can we do? Religion and science matter. Ethics trumping economics. Let’s yoke our knowledge of climate science with the motivational power of spiritual values. We need to reduce our carbon footprints. We now have the option to purchase green electric cars getting the equivalent of 100 miles per gallon and solar PV panels to lower our electric bills. We can support the Citizen’s Climate Lobby which advocates a revenue neutral carbon production fee resulting in a dividend returned to all. This would stimulate our economy creating millions of jobs and increase the deployment of green solar, wind, and nuclear energy sources. Thorium, in addition to uranium, is a green energy source for the future. Republicans are less afraid of nuclear energy than Democrats.
How Fear of Nuclear Power is Warming our PlanetPaul H. Carr
The world is presently decommissioning nuclear reactors faster than the increase in wind and solar power (1). Solar energy is only available 26% of the time and wind 33%. Nuclear is 24/7. To make up for the net nuclear decrease, we are increasing our burning of fossil fuels. They are raising carbon dioxide emissions that are warming our planet. This is particularly true in Germany.
Bill Gates is presently funding next generation nuclear power. TerraPower's nuclear pilot plant is being built in China. This traveling wave reactor converts depleted uranium, a byproduct of the nuclear-fission process, into usable fuel.
Thorium molten salt nuclear reactors (MSR), demonstrated at Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1965-1970, consume nearly 100% of their fuel, compared with 3% for older reactors with solid uranium fuel (2). MSRs eliminate the need for Yucca Mountain storage by consuming nuclear waste. Thorium fluoride molten fuel for MSRs is of no weapons value. Thorium fuel is more abundant and cheaper than uranium. MSRs require no expensive containment since they operate close to atmospheric pressure.
REFERENCES: (1) Michael Shellenberger YouTube 2016 TED Talk.
(2) David A. Cornell. “Fracking and the Future of Fuel.” Physics Today, pgs 10 -11. February 2017
Rising Seas and Solutions, Sigma Xi LecturePaul H. Carr
Miami Beach becomes a flood zone during King High Tides. The melting of Greenland, mountain glaciers, and thermal expansion is raising sea levels four times faster than in 1900. Sea level rises of 2 to 6 feet are predicted by the end of the century. Flood highs from hurricanes Sandy and Katrina were ~ 10 feet.
The article “Treading Water” in the February 2015 National Geographic tells how Dutch Docklands LLC sees profit not loss from rising sea levels. They are building floating homes in Miami, FL. A floating classroom could assure Eckerd Colleges's long-term future. It would provide a place to meet in the event of flooding by the 10-foot ocean surges that accompany hurricanes.
Dr. Carr describes how increasing greenhouse gases, mostly carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, trap the radiation that is warming our planet. Advances in non-carbon emitting energy sources can reduce global warming. Solar PV panels are now generating electricity at $0.07/kWhr, less than the national utility average of $0.12kWhr. Rising sea levels are a better measure of global warming than atmospheric temperature, as 90% of our planet’s heat content is in our oceans.
Our atmosphere is 76% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 3% trace gases, which include the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2) and water. Carbon dioxide has a large infrared absorption at 16 microns, the maximum of the blackbody radiation spectrum of our atmosphere. Carbon dioxide thus absorbs heat radiation and re-emits it back to the surface of our earth to keep it warm. Water vapor increases with temperature amplifying this greenhouse effect.
Non-condensing CO2 provides the stable temperature structure that sustains atmospheric water vapor and clouds (1). When the earth’s orbit and tilt triggered a cooling trend 110,000 years ago, CO2 decreased and water condensed and froze, plunging the earth into an ice age. About 18,000 years ago, orbital changes warmed the oceans which emitted dissolved CO2 gas. This greenhouse forcing warmed the earth and melted the ice.
Reference:
(1) Andrew A. Lacis, et. al. “Atmospheric CO2: Principal Control Knob Governing Earth’s Temperature.” Science, 330, 356-359, 15 October 2010
What are we doing to our climate? What is it doing to us? What can we do?Paul H. Carr
OVERVIEW
I will be introducing you to ECONOMIC, ECOLOGICAL, and TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES.
¥ Climate change is an unintended consequence of carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels.
¥ By pricing in the social and environmental cost of these emissions, we can expedite their reduction. Let’s harness profit greed towards green technology development.
¥ The environmental challenge is to balance the beauty and sacredness of nature with its utility.
ABSTRACT
What are we doing to our climate? The scientific consensus. Tides and temperatures are rising. Since the beginning of the industrial age, emissions from fossil fuel burning have raised carbon dioxide concentrations to 410 ppm. This is 33% higher than in the last million years. This increase is warming our planet via the Greenhouse Effect. At the present rate of carbon dioxide increase, we will reach 800 ppm by 2100. When our earth was at this concentration 40 million years ago, it was so warm that there was no ice. Sea levels were about 300 feet higher than today.
What is climate change doing to us? “The earth and its poor cry out, and we must listen” Pope Francis. Dry regions are drier and wet ones wetter. Wildfires have increased threefold since 1970, storms more violent, floods setting record heights, and glaciers melting. Natural catastrophes are occurring more than twice as frequently as in 1980. Sea levels could rise as high as 18 feet by 2060. Parts of Earth are increasingly uninhabitable, resulting in millions of climate change refugees, CLIMmigration.
What can we do? Religion and science matter. Ethics trumping economics. Let’s yoke our knowledge of climate science with the motivational power of spiritual values. We need to reduce our carbon footprints. We now have the option to purchase green electric cars getting the equivalent of 100 miles per gallon and solar PV panels to lower our electric bills. We can support the Citizen’s Climate Lobby which advocates a revenue neutral carbon production fee resulting in a dividend returned to all. This would stimulate our economy creating millions of jobs and increase the deployment of green solar, wind, and nuclear energy sources. Thorium, in addition to uranium, is a green energy source for the future. Republicans are less afraid of nuclear energy than Democrats.
How Fear of Nuclear Power is Warming our PlanetPaul H. Carr
The world is presently decommissioning nuclear reactors faster than the increase in wind and solar power (1). Solar energy is only available 26% of the time and wind 33%. Nuclear is 24/7. To make up for the net nuclear decrease, we are increasing our burning of fossil fuels. They are raising carbon dioxide emissions that are warming our planet. This is particularly true in Germany.
Bill Gates is presently funding next generation nuclear power. TerraPower's nuclear pilot plant is being built in China. This traveling wave reactor converts depleted uranium, a byproduct of the nuclear-fission process, into usable fuel.
Thorium molten salt nuclear reactors (MSR), demonstrated at Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1965-1970, consume nearly 100% of their fuel, compared with 3% for older reactors with solid uranium fuel (2). MSRs eliminate the need for Yucca Mountain storage by consuming nuclear waste. Thorium fluoride molten fuel for MSRs is of no weapons value. Thorium fuel is more abundant and cheaper than uranium. MSRs require no expensive containment since they operate close to atmospheric pressure.
REFERENCES: (1) Michael Shellenberger YouTube 2016 TED Talk.
(2) David A. Cornell. “Fracking and the Future of Fuel.” Physics Today, pgs 10 -11. February 2017
Rising Seas and Solutions, Sigma Xi LecturePaul H. Carr
Miami Beach becomes a flood zone during King High Tides. The melting of Greenland, mountain glaciers, and thermal expansion is raising sea levels four times faster than in 1900. Sea level rises of 2 to 6 feet are predicted by the end of the century. Flood highs from hurricanes Sandy and Katrina were ~ 10 feet.
The article “Treading Water” in the February 2015 National Geographic tells how Dutch Docklands LLC sees profit not loss from rising sea levels. They are building floating homes in Miami, FL. A floating classroom could assure Eckerd Colleges's long-term future. It would provide a place to meet in the event of flooding by the 10-foot ocean surges that accompany hurricanes.
Dr. Carr describes how increasing greenhouse gases, mostly carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, trap the radiation that is warming our planet. Advances in non-carbon emitting energy sources can reduce global warming. Solar PV panels are now generating electricity at $0.07/kWhr, less than the national utility average of $0.12kWhr. Rising sea levels are a better measure of global warming than atmospheric temperature, as 90% of our planet’s heat content is in our oceans.
Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects
A Brief History of Earth’s Climate ChangeLarry Smarr
10.01.13
Invited Talk
Youth Leadership Dialogue
Australian American Leadership Dialogue
Stanford University
Title: A Brief History of Earth’s Climate Change
Palo Alto, CA
Examines the claims that climate change is very serious, and checks the available records to determine whether the main blame is increased carbon dioxide or heat emissions. Climate records show no trends to extremes, and loss of Arctic ice may be counteracted by increased growth of northern forests.
Sharing my career as an experimental physicist and electrical engineer.
Why is the energy of nuclear reactions one million times greater than chemical ones?
Our human dependence on plants to convert carbon dioxide into the the oxygen we need to live.
Climate Scientist James Hansen prediction that sea levels could rise up to 18 feet by 2058, because of the increasing carbon dioxide levels from fossil fuel burning.
Nuclear reactors generate electricity without carbon dioxide emissions and reduce global warming.
Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects
A Brief History of Earth’s Climate ChangeLarry Smarr
10.01.13
Invited Talk
Youth Leadership Dialogue
Australian American Leadership Dialogue
Stanford University
Title: A Brief History of Earth’s Climate Change
Palo Alto, CA
Examines the claims that climate change is very serious, and checks the available records to determine whether the main blame is increased carbon dioxide or heat emissions. Climate records show no trends to extremes, and loss of Arctic ice may be counteracted by increased growth of northern forests.
Sharing my career as an experimental physicist and electrical engineer.
Why is the energy of nuclear reactions one million times greater than chemical ones?
Our human dependence on plants to convert carbon dioxide into the the oxygen we need to live.
Climate Scientist James Hansen prediction that sea levels could rise up to 18 feet by 2058, because of the increasing carbon dioxide levels from fossil fuel burning.
Nuclear reactors generate electricity without carbon dioxide emissions and reduce global warming.
Confront COVID-19 and Climate Change NowPaul H. Carr
COVID-19 & CLIMATE: BOTH GLOBAL, TEMPERATURE INCREASE
If we wait for a crisis, it’s too late:
Time after drastic action: COVID, months;
CLIMATE, century.
The COVID “stay in place” reduced greenhouse emissions up to 17%. Reduced population.
Non-US-Deficit Increasing solution: Carbon fee plus dividend for all.
What we can do: more vegetarian diet, less airline travel, more nuclear reactors
Today, CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are around 50 per cent higher than they were 20 years ago, and have been rising each year. This kind of change to the chemical mixture in the air doesn’t come without consequences. Acting like a blanket, the build-up of greenhouse gases is the main reason why the average global temperature has risen by nearly 1°C in the last century. This booklet explains why a rise of only a few degrees in the average global temperature risks our prosperity, security, and health. It explains why it is so important to reverse the rise in emissions within the decade. And why it is still within our means to do so. For more information visit www.climateinstitute.org.au/dangerous-degrees.html
Climate Change: Are We Losing the Carbon-Free Energy Market to ChinaPaul H. Carr
A description of trends in clean energy market and how can U.S regain its leadership. In 1995, the US had 43% of the solar manufacturing market compared to China at 1%. Now the US market share has declined to 6%, as compared to China’s 60%. China dominates wind turbines with 40% of the market share with the US at 14%. Fear of nuclear energy is hurting our environment.
Balancing Economics with Ethics to Save God's CreationPaul H. Carr
The Golden Rule of ethics must re-balance our economy. At present, those with the gold make the rules. Pope Francis’ “Laudato Si: On Care for our Common Home” states that we have the moral imperative to stop plundering our planet for profit, the poor suffering the most.
Does Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” guide the pursuit of individual gain towards creating the Wealth of Nations? Let’s update this 1776 economics and re-balance it with Garrett Hardin’s 1968 “Tragedy of the Commons,” in which the pursuit of individual gain leads to negation of the common good.
The burning of fossil fuels is polluting our common atmosphere for free with carbon dioxide. This is warming our planet via the Greenhouse Effect. Melting ice could raise sea levels up to 18 feet by 2059 (1, 2) . External costs such as these must be priced into our economy. Former Treasury Secretary George Shultz (3) advocates a revenue neutral fee on fossil fuels with a dividend to be returned to everyone. This would give non-carbon-emitting energy sources an economic advantage, also stimulate our economy.
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COVID's Impact on Inflation and Income EqualityPaul H. Carr
Will inflation from the COVID recovery be permanent?
What does the Federal Reserve Predict?
Has the COVID recovery increased income equality?
Why do job openings now outnumber job seekers?
Wage Serfs: Principles & Politics Trumping PeoplePaul H. Carr
Presented at Thoreau Society Annual Gathering
Higher taxes in Europe result in more income equality than in the US.
Invisible hand of Adam Smith's economics versus the Tragedy of the Commons
Golden Rule of Economics: Those who have the gold make the rules.
Overcoming Limitations of "Naturalism Without Religion"Paul H. Carr
Tillich’s existential and Whitehead’s process theologies overcome the limitations of “naturalism without religion.”
Tillich, Wildman, Whitehead, and Bracken update the Bible’s promise of eternal life as well as the meaning and goal of history. Tillich’s description of religion as the Dimension of Depth resonates with Goodenough’s "Sacred Depths of Nature."
For Whitehead, the goal of the Universe is the production of beauty.
“The thirst for beauty that permeates our lives is an opening to transcendence,” according to theologian Philip Hefner.
GREEN ENERGY’S ECONOMIC PROGRESS
Reducing carbon missions by 51% in 2030
-Environmental, social, and governance funds have more than tripled to reach $2 Trillion.
-Three new “Mean Green” board members are forcing Exxon to clean up its act.
-GM is betting big on batteries for electric vehicles with a new $2.3 billion plant in Ohio.
-Advances in electric vehicles and next-generation nuclear reactors are helping the US achieve its goal of reducing carbon emissions to net zero by 2050.
ACHIEVE NET ZERO CO2 BY 2050 or an Economic Depression
ECONOMICS (GDP)
- Increasing climate extremes cost $390 billion in 2020.
- Present trends indicate a 10%-GDP-decrease depression
-Carbon Fee Plus Dividend solution
NON-CARBON EMITTING TECHNOLOGIES:
Electric Vehicles (EVs) charged by
Next generation nuclear reactors
Greener Power for More Electric VehiclesPaul H. Carr
GREENER POWER FOR THE INCREASING NUMBER OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES (EV)
by Paul H. Carr
Charge EVs at Night
- Electricity demand from 12 PM to 6 AM is very low.
Install PV charging stations for daytime charging.
More electricity by using the waste heat of present generators.
-Coal, nuclear 32% efficient
- Natural gas turbines 44% efficient
Replace carbon emitting coal and gas with nuclear.
Post-COVID Economic Challenges: Unemployment, Increasing Inflation & National...Paul H. Carr
Post-COVID Economic Challenges: Unemployment, Income inequality, Increasing Inflation, & National Debt.
Paul H Carr summarized a webinar by the following: Eric Rosengren, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Wendy Edelberg, Brookings Institution, and Philip Swagel, Director, Congressional Budget Office. Would less inflationary and debt increasing relief act have been better than President Biden’s $1.9 Trillion bill?
A Newer, Millennial Testament of the Continuing Creation since 100 CE.Paul H. Carr
A NEWER, MILLENNIAL TESTAMENT of the Continuing Creation since 100 CE."
The Old Testament was from about 1500 BCE to 0. The New Testament was added and completed in 100 CE.
Let's add a Newer (Millennial) Testament of the 1900-year-increase in knowledge, wisdom, and truth to the New Testament:
newer science, poetry (Psalms), and literature. The universe is still awakening and we are called to be co-creators in the continuing creation. A Newer Testament , which updates the Bible's flat earth cosmology, would help in correcting the misinformation in the popular Creation Museum in Kentucky.
Quantum Mechanics: Electrons, Transistors, & LASERS. Paul H. Carr
Quantum Mechanics, QM, has enabled new technologies that impact our daily lives. Yet, there have been at least 14 different QM interpretations in the last century. “If you think you understand QM, you don’t,” said Richard Feynman. Our macroscopic language is inadequate to describe the wave-particle duality of microscopic QM particles. Mathematics works better. This talk illuminated the production of the play Copenhagen, in which German physicist Werner Heisenberg, who directed the German attempt to make an atom bomb, visited Niels Bohr in Denmark during WWII.
A NEWER TESTAMENT of Continuous Creation since 100 CEPaul H. Carr
Old Testament 1500 BCE to 0.
New Testament 0 to 100 CE. A total of 1600 yr.
1900 years since the Bible was completed in 100 CE.
Let’s add a Newer Testament of the 1900-year-increase in knowledge, wisdom, & truth to the “New Testament.”
-Newer Science, Cosmology’s Century
-New Poetry (Psalms)
-Hymns
-Literature & Theology
An awakening universe with increasing globalization.
NEW HOT-to-COOL COSMOLOGY: Amazing Progress Yet Greater QuestionsPaul H. Carr
Astronomy has progressed from astrology to precision, hot-to-cool, cosmology. Georges Lemaitre, using Einstein’s General Relativity, predicted in 1930s that our universe expanded from a primeval atom in a hot big bang. In 1964, radio astronomers detected the whispering cosmic microwave background radiation from this hot cosmic explosion. Since 1993, an increasing number of satellites have measured that this Planck black-body radiation has cooled, as it expanded, to a very cool 2.725 K. It also has fluctuations of one part in 100,000.
Alan Guth’ inflationary universe theory predicted this as arising from quantum fluctuations at the “Beginning.”
Climate Change Extremes: Increasing Wildfires & HurricanesPaul H. Carr
1. CLIMATE CHANGE EXTREMES: INCREASING FOREST FIRES AND HURRICANES
2. CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE:
CO2 from fossil fuel burning is warming our Earth via the Greenhouse effect
3. WHAT WE CAN DO IMMEDIATELY:
A more vegetarian diet.
From Reductionism to Emergence: Transcending Death During COVID-19Paul H. Carr
How might we reduce the above-normal death rates from COVID-19? Our hope is for science to develop a vaccine. The reductive sequencing of the parts of the coronavirus could help. Francis Collins, who led the team that developed the science for sequencing the parts
of the human genome, entitled his book The Language of God, God being the holistic creator. Religion helps us transcend death. Science itself is moving from reductionism to emergent holism, which is closer to religion.
Scientists like Wigner, Deacon, and Dickerson are developing an emergent and non-materialist worldview. Theologians Clayton and Nurnberger are working on the emergence of spirit. Carol and John Albright envision a creative Interactive World, Interactive God. Cardiologist Van Lommel’s 20-year observations of near-death experiences give evidence for life after death.
CREATIVITY: Individual & CollaborativePaul H. Carr
The Creative Process
1. Individual
"There is no logical way to discover. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order.” Albert Einstein
- The 3-step creative process: informed, unformed, transformed
- Neuroscience: listening to music inspires creativity
2. Collaborative
- Searching for truth to expand and share our limited knowledge and worldviews.
From Theology to Fractals: Mystical to Mathematical BeautyPaul H. Carr
Mystical to Mathematical Beauty.
I traced the transition from mystical to mathematical beauty in American thought: from the theologian Jonathan Edwards in the 18th century, through natural philosopher David H. Thoreau's "Walden" in the 19th, to the mathematician, Benoit Mandelbrot's "Fractal Geometry of Nature" in the 20th century. Chapter 4 of Paul H. Carr's "Beauty in Science and Spirit,"
Paul Tillich: Climate Prophecy versus ProfitPaul H. Carr
Paul Tillich’s 1962 sermon, “Man and Earth,” was prophetic. He said, “ We have no guarantee against man-made floods….” Floods are now increasing. Global ice is melting. Sea levels are rising four times faster than in 1900 from global warming.
What are the preliminary and ultimate concerns of those who deny what 97% of climate scientists have concluded? That is, increasing carbon dioxide emissions, mostly from our profitable fossil fuel burning, are warming our planet via the Greenhouse effect.
Let’s invest in jobs with-long term payoff. Until we get a vaccine, there will be continuing unemployment in the jobs where people are close together: restaurants, theaters, sporting events, airplanes, and cruises. Grants for more energy efficient homes and industrial buildings would make jobs for local contractors. The resulting lower energy costs with lower carbon dioxide emissions would repay the cost several times over. This comes when science tells us there is no time for delay on dealing with climate change.
Joe Biden’s “build back better” will immediately invest in sustainable job creation, new industries, and re-invigorated regional economies.
To outcompete China, Americans could invent, commercialize and manufacture the new battery technology needed to store solar and wind energy and for electric vehicles. Businesses and job creators all across our country would supply the materials and parts.
Millions of construction workers are needed to build affordable housing and to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, including aging nuclear reactors. These generate 20% of our electricity with no carbon dioxide emissions. Americans are developing advanced reactors that are smaller, safer, and more efficient at half today’s construction costs.
Reform COVID19's Inequality to Avoid RevolutionsPaul H. Carr
COVID19 amplifies inequality, increasing tensions between poor Blacks, Whites, Police, and Immigrants. Economically disadvantaged Blacks joined by Whites are taking to the streets to demand reform. Economic inequality contributed to the French Revolution and to our Civil War, with the most casualties in our history.
We need reform to prevent revolutions. Karl Marx’s wrote his 1847 Communist Manifesto in response the newly rich industrialist’s exploitation of the poor workers in England. During this time, author Charles Dickens, as a boy, had to work ten-hour shifts pasting labels on bottles to support this family, because his father was confined in Debtor’s Prison.
In 1917,Trotsky led the Communist Revolution in Russia that ousted the Tsars’ monarchy. In 1924 Stalin emerged as the leader of the USSR. After WWII, the US fought the Korean and Vietnam Wars to stop the Communists from overrunning the world.
The rich, miserly Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ “Christmas Carol” underwent a conversion to a generous person who celebrated Christmas. In contrast to the Communist revolution, this can be a metaphor for the rule of law that enabled the US to overcome worker exploitation. The US passed child, labor, and anti-trust laws that constrained the power of the rich industrialists.
Since the 1980s, hourly worker pay has not increased in proportion to inflation and increased productivity. This disparity is increasing economic inequality. Most of the increased productivity pay has gone to those with education beyond a bachelor’s degree.
The minimum federal pay of $7.25 per hour has not been increased for over a decade. To keep up with inflation and productivity increases, the minimum wage should be gradually advanced to $ 20 per hour. Recently the minimum wage in Washington, DC increased to $14 per hour.
The property tax that funds public schools results in poor neighborhoods having poor schools and rich neighborhoods having good schools. State, federal, and corporate funds are needed to keep poor kids from being locked into poverty. Our high tech civilization needs an educated workforce. Let’s educate our poor rather than import educated immigrants. We must also reform our tax structure and corporate policies.
Sequel to "Transcending Death during COVID-19" Are scientific world-views con...Paul H. Carr
Religions people are more accepting of NDEs than scientists
For theologian Paul Tillich, "Our lives are limited in time but fulfilled by eternity. When we die, we return to the eternity from which we came."
What is eternity?
For Tillich, eternity is not unlimited time, but a dimension beyond time that enables us to to sense events as happening in temporal sequence.
"For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal" (Paul's Letter to II Corinthians.)
For Greeks like Pythagoras and Plato, mathematical relations are eternal, beautiful, and cosmic. Is God a mathematician?
For physicist-philosopher Paul H. Carr, beauty is a delicate dance between our subjective consciousness and the objective mathematical relationships that maintain the universe and life.
NDEs give evidence of out-of-body consciousness.
What is consciousness?
Cosmologist MIT Prof Max Tegman believes consciousness will increasingly be realized as mathematical patterns.
Consciousness for us is what information processing feels like, but this is not only material.
Anthropologist Berkley Prof Terry Deacon, believes that consciousness emerges from the firing of brain neurons but cannot be reduced to them.
Is the material world the ultimate, ontological reality? What about energy, and Spirit?
Religious Spirit is similar to scientific energy. We don't observe them directly, but infer their existence as a way of unifying complex phenomena.
Science's emergence to answer HOW is converging beautifully with religion's synthesis to answer WHY.
Characterization and the Kinetics of drying at the drying oven and with micro...Open Access Research Paper
The objective of this work is to contribute to valorization de Nephelium lappaceum by the characterization of kinetics of drying of seeds of Nephelium lappaceum. The seeds were dehydrated until a constant mass respectively in a drying oven and a microwawe oven. The temperatures and the powers of drying are respectively: 50, 60 and 70°C and 140, 280 and 420 W. The results show that the curves of drying of seeds of Nephelium lappaceum do not present a phase of constant kinetics. The coefficients of diffusion vary between 2.09.10-8 to 2.98. 10-8m-2/s in the interval of 50°C at 70°C and between 4.83×10-07 at 9.04×10-07 m-8/s for the powers going of 140 W with 420 W the relation between Arrhenius and a value of energy of activation of 16.49 kJ. mol-1 expressed the effect of the temperature on effective diffusivity.
WRI’s brand new “Food Service Playbook for Promoting Sustainable Food Choices” gives food service operators the very latest strategies for creating dining environments that empower consumers to choose sustainable, plant-rich dishes. This research builds off our first guide for food service, now with industry experience and insights from nearly 350 academic trials.
"Understanding the Carbon Cycle: Processes, Human Impacts, and Strategies for...MMariSelvam4
The carbon cycle is a critical component of Earth's environmental system, governing the movement and transformation of carbon through various reservoirs, including the atmosphere, oceans, soil, and living organisms. This complex cycle involves several key processes such as photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, and carbon sequestration, each contributing to the regulation of carbon levels on the planet.
Human activities, particularly fossil fuel combustion and deforestation, have significantly altered the natural carbon cycle, leading to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and driving climate change. Understanding the intricacies of the carbon cycle is essential for assessing the impacts of these changes and developing effective mitigation strategies.
By studying the carbon cycle, scientists can identify carbon sources and sinks, measure carbon fluxes, and predict future trends. This knowledge is crucial for crafting policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions, enhancing carbon storage, and promoting sustainable practices. The carbon cycle's interplay with climate systems, ecosystems, and human activities underscores its importance in maintaining a stable and healthy planet.
In-depth exploration of the carbon cycle reveals the delicate balance required to sustain life and the urgent need to address anthropogenic influences. Through research, education, and policy, we can work towards restoring equilibrium in the carbon cycle and ensuring a sustainable future for generations to come.
Artificial Reefs by Kuddle Life Foundation - May 2024punit537210
Situated in Pondicherry, India, Kuddle Life Foundation is a charitable, non-profit and non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to improving the living standards of coastal communities and simultaneously placing a strong emphasis on the protection of marine ecosystems.
One of the key areas we work in is Artificial Reefs. This presentation captures our journey so far and our learnings. We hope you get as excited about marine conservation and artificial reefs as we are.
Please visit our website: https://kuddlelife.org
Our Instagram channel:
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Natural farming @ Dr. Siddhartha S. Jena.pptxsidjena70
A brief about organic farming/ Natural farming/ Zero budget natural farming/ Subash Palekar Natural farming which keeps us and environment safe and healthy. Next gen Agricultural practices of chemical free farming.
Willie Nelson Net Worth: A Journey Through Music, Movies, and Business Venturesgreendigital
Willie Nelson is a name that resonates within the world of music and entertainment. Known for his unique voice, and masterful guitar skills. and an extraordinary career spanning several decades. Nelson has become a legend in the country music scene. But, his influence extends far beyond the realm of music. with ventures in acting, writing, activism, and business. This comprehensive article delves into Willie Nelson net worth. exploring the various facets of his career that have contributed to his large fortune.
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Introduction
Willie Nelson net worth is a testament to his enduring influence and success in many fields. Born on April 29, 1933, in Abbott, Texas. Nelson's journey from a humble beginning to becoming one of the most iconic figures in American music is nothing short of inspirational. His net worth, which estimated to be around $25 million as of 2024. reflects a career that is as diverse as it is prolific.
Early Life and Musical Beginnings
Humble Origins
Willie Hugh Nelson was born during the Great Depression. a time of significant economic hardship in the United States. Raised by his grandparents. Nelson found solace and inspiration in music from an early age. His grandmother taught him to play the guitar. setting the stage for what would become an illustrious career.
First Steps in Music
Nelson's initial foray into the music industry was fraught with challenges. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue his dreams, but success did not come . Working as a songwriter, Nelson penned hits for other artists. which helped him gain a foothold in the competitive music scene. His songwriting skills contributed to his early earnings. laying the foundation for his net worth.
Rise to Stardom
Breakthrough Albums
The 1970s marked a turning point in Willie Nelson's career. His albums "Shotgun Willie" (1973), "Red Headed Stranger" (1975). and "Stardust" (1978) received critical acclaim and commercial success. These albums not only solidified his position in the country music genre. but also introduced his music to a broader audience. The success of these albums played a crucial role in boosting Willie Nelson net worth.
Iconic Songs
Willie Nelson net worth is also attributed to his extensive catalog of hit songs. Tracks like "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain," "On the Road Again," and "Always on My Mind" have become timeless classics. These songs have not only earned Nelson large royalties but have also ensured his continued relevance in the music industry.
Acting and Film Career
Hollywood Ventures
In addition to his music career, Willie Nelson has also made a mark in Hollywood. His distinctive personality and on-screen presence have landed him roles in several films and television shows. Notable appearances include roles in "The Electric Horseman" (1979), "Honeysuckle Rose" (1980), and "Barbarosa" (1982). These acting gigs have added a significant amount to Willie Nelson net worth.
Television Appearances
Nelson's char
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Technology and Policies are Available to Save Our Environment.
1. Can New Technology
Save our Environment?
5. Technology and
Policies Simultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate
Change and Improving are Human available.
Health and
Food Security
Paul H. Carr, Ph. D.
www.MirrorOfNature.org
Photo, Lake Swanzey, NH
National Benefits of Methane and Black Carbon Reduction
SCIENCE VOL 335 pg. 188 13 JANUARY 2012
2. CAN NEW TECHNOLOGY SAVE OUR ENVIRONMENT?
1. Nature’s beauty versus its utility.
2.Can new technology save us in time? Limits to Growth. Food
Crash.
3. Why be concerned about Global Warming? Weather
Extremes.
4. Data supporting anthropogenic global warming.
5. Technology and policies are available to save us.
3. WILL
TECHNOLOGY
SAVE US IN
TIME ?
TECHNOLOGY
DOES NOT
DEPLOY ITSELF!
POLICY DECISION
IS UP TO US.
4. OUTLINE: POLICY INFLUENCERS
1. Wall Street Journal - Is climate science settled?
2. Peer-reviewed Climate Science Articles- 99% settled.
3. Forbes – Is carbon-free energy available?
4. Nashua Telegraph – What about China’s coal burning?
5. Risky Business Report - Economics of Global Warming.
by Bloomberg, Paulsen, &
Steyer
6. Pope Francis’ Moral Responsibility to bequeath a
habitable planet to future generations.
5. GUIDING PRINCIPLES
“There is a plethora of information but a
paucity of wisdom.”
“Conflicts arise between short-term
and long-term goals.”
MIT Prof Jay Forrester, Complex Systems.
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
Proverbs, 29:18
6. 1. Climate Science Is Not Settled
We are very far from the knowledge needed to make good
climate policy, writes leading scientist Steven E. Koonin
Wall Street Journal. Sept 19, 2014.
http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/climate-science-is-not-settled-1411143565-
lMyQjAxMTA0NjIwMzgyMjM5Wj?tesla=y
“The crucial scientific question for policy isn't whether the climate
is changing. That is a settled matter: The climate has always
changed and always will.
Nor is the crucial question whether humans are influencing the
climate. That is no hoax.”
Koonin then gave examples of the difficulty that climate models
have in predicting exact results.
He does not mention that the history of higher CO2 levels in the
past give us an indication of what will happen when we reach
them again in the near future.
7. Faux Pause
• Melting Greenland
• Melting Antarctica
• Mountain Glaciers
• Thermal expansion
3. Global temperatures have risen since 1960, but rate of sea level rise has be greater.
EARTH WILL CROSS DANGER TRESHOLD BY 2036
“Faux Pause” by M. Mann. Scientific American, vol 310, April 2014
7
Aerosol Pause
8. Probability plotted versus Temperature Increase for C02 doubling.
2.6 C most probable. (Chris Hope, U Cambridge)
Cost of mitigation= $162 trillion
Cost of most probable damage = $314 trillion
9. Dinosaur Extinction 65M Yr. BP Figure from Dr. James Hansen, NASA GISS
• Our present level of 400 ppm could reach ~ 1000 ppm by 2100.
• Arctic became ice-free 8 M years ago when CO2 = 300 to 450
ppm.
• Antarctic melted ~ 40 M years ago, CO2 ~ 700 ppm
-Earth was ice-free, sea levels 100s meters (~300 ft) higher.
9
10. CLIMATE SCIENCE IS 97% SETTLED
97% of 2,500 UN climate scientists agree, humans cause global warming
11. 61% say global warming is caused by human activity & natural patters.
12. 2. PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES: CLIMATE
SCIENCE IS GREATER THAN 99% SETTLED
To be classified as ‘rejecting,’ an article had to clearly and explicitly state that the CO2 theory
of global warming is false or, as happened in a few cases, that some other process better
explains the observed warming.” 24/13950 = 0.00172
13. Climate Science Is Not Settled
We are very far from the knowledge needed to make good
climate policy, writes leading scientist Steven E. Koonin
Wall Street Journal. Sept 19, 2014.
http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/climate-science-is-not-settled-1411143565-
lMyQjAxMTA0NjIwMzgyMjM5Wj?tesla=y
Does the ending of this article below lead
you to the same conclusion as the headline?
“Our uncertain knowledge of future climates need not
be an excuse for inaction. There is well-justified
prudence in accelerating the development of low-emissions
technologies and in cost-effective energy-efficiency
measures.”
14.
15. 3. Climate Change Has Jumped the Shark
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenhayward/2014/09/29/climate-change-has-jumped-the-
shark/
Forbes, Sept. 29, 2014 by Steven F Haywood
“The prescribed method for preventing
climate change is essentially replacing nearly
all hydrocarbon energy, in the space of less
than two generations. Climate orthodoxy
calls for an 80 percent reduction in
greenhouse gas emissions, worldwide.”
Why is it important to do this?
Is carbon-free energy
available?
16. “We have to figure out how to live without fossil
fuels someday. Why not now, before we have
destroyed the creation?”
Dr. Jim Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Space Science Institute and
Professor at Columbia University, speaking at the NH State House, 2 Apr 2009.
By eliminating coal burning, the largest source of CO2 emissions, in the next 20 years, CO2
concentrations will decrease.
17. Coal phase-out by 2030 peak CO2 ~400-425 ppm, depending on oil/gas
Faster return below 350 ppm requires additional actions
19. 19
EARTH WILL CROSS DANGER TRESHOLD BY 2036
The “blue sky” 405 ppm curve: < 2C increase by 2100. ( M. Mann. Scientific American, vol 310, April 2014 )
20. Coal Burning Pollutes our Common Atmosphere for Free
Economic benefit for electric utility companies and customers.
The negative effects of pollution are shared by all.
21.
22. Why Free Inhalers? Because COAL CARES.
http://www.coalcares.org/index.html
Coal Cares™ is a brand-new initiative from Peabody Energy, the
world's largest private-sector coal company, to reach out to
American youngsters with asthma and to help them keep their heads
high in the face of those who would treat them with less than full
dignity. For kids who have no choice but to use an inhaler, Coal
Cares™ lets them inhale with pride.
Puff-Puff™ inhalers are available free to any family living within
200 miles of a coal plant, and each inhaler comes with a $10
coupon towards the cost of the asthma medication itself.
23. Public Service of NH gets 40% of its electricity from dirty coal burning,
21% from gas , 4% oil. (65% CO2 emitting)
16% from Seabrook nuclear, 13% hydro, 0.81% wind, 0.21% solar( 30%)
25. 3. Continued. Climate Change Has Jumped the Shark
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenhayward/2014/09/29/climate-change-has-jumped-the-shark/
Steven F Haywood . Is carbon-free energy available?
“But affordable large-scale, low- or non-carbon energy
capable of replacing our current energy infrastructure
simply doesn’t exist at present, and there isn’t much on the
horizon.
The developing world needs to triple its energy supply over
the next generation if it is going to raise hundreds of millions
out of abject poverty, and that means using abundant
hydrocarbon energy, not expensive boutique energy popular
with ever-preening rich Americans and Europeans. ”
My response,
Green energy has become affordable..
“Abundant hydrocarbon energy” will be depleted in about a
century .
26. “Expensive boutique energy?”
The cost of Solar PV electricity has come down to 8 cents per kWhr
The average cost of electricity in the US is 12 cents/ kWhr, 17 cents in NH
29. • By 2100, renewable energy could generate 100% of the U.S.’s
electricity and more than 90% of its energy.
• Federal support of totaling $420 billion would be required till 2050
--- Less than the U.S. Farm Support Program
30. Innovative SOLAR UPDRAFT TOWER
Aug 2011, a contractor was selected to build two 200 MW Solar
Updraft Towers in Western Arizona. Lifetime expected to be 80 years.
--Operates at night
SOLAR ENERGY FROM OUR STAR IS FOREVER (5 B YEARS)
31. Solar, Wind, Nuclear Needed
The increase in the supply of “abundant hydrocarbon energy”
since 2008 will peak in 2018 and then decline.
Solar, Wind, and Nuclear energy needed to meet the projected consumption.
32. SOLUTIONS TO GOBAL
WARMING
Electric Cars powered by
• Windmills
• Solar Cells
• Nuclear Fission & Fusion
Power Plants
Electric cars
getting the
equivalent of 100
miles per gallon
are now available.
33. 50 YEAR COST SAVINGS FROM Doubly-Green SOLAR = $263,000
34. ------ 8
Natural gas is the cheapest energy source, but production
predicted to peak in 2018 and then decline. Solar, wind, and
nuclear are the best for centuries to come.
35. At present, the increase of carbon sources equals that of carbon-free.
The 1973 – 1990 increase was from new nuclear plants.
36. Shift Taxes From Income to Energy
http://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2014/10/02/shift-taxes-from-income-to-energy/?
mod=WSJBlog&mod=experts_energy
Wall Street Journal by ROBERT RAPIER, October 2, 2014
We should change the way we tax energy.
The U.S. is one of the highest per-capita consumers of energy in the world.
Yet there are countries with living standards as good as or better than we
enjoy but at much lower energy consumption.
One way to accomplish this would be to shift taxes from income to energy
in a way that doesn’t increase the overall tax burden.
Imagine a family whose income is $50,000 per year, pays $10,000 per year
in income taxes, and spends $2,500 on gasoline and $2,500 on electricity.
I would propose to shift their tax burden over time so that it ultimately
ends up something like this: $5,000 in income taxes, $2,500 in additional
gasoline taxes and $2,500 in additional taxes on fossil fuel-based
electricity. I would exempt renewable sources of energy from these higher
taxes.
37. Shift Taxes From Income to Energy
http://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2014/10/02/shift-taxes-from-income-to-energy/?
mod=WSJBlog&mod=experts_energy
Such a change in the tax code would have numerous
benefits.
It would lead to conservation of our remaining fossil
fuel reserves, it would encourage mass transit, it would
make alternative energy more competitive with fossil
fuels without picking specific technology winners, and it
would make the price of fossil fuels more reflective of
the negative externalities that are not currently priced in
(e.g., air pollution, military expenditures, etc.)
38. IMBALANCE:
US ENERGY CONSUMPTION IS TWICE THAT OF OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
CHINA TRYING TO CATCH UP TO INCREASE ITS GDP & STARDARD OF LIVING
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/9023#more
39. OUTLINE: POLICY INFLUENCERS
1. Wall Street Journal - Is climate science settled?
2. Peer-reviewed Climate Science Articles- 99% settled.
3. Forbes – Is carbon-free energy available? YES!
DEPLOYED FASTER WITH A TAX ON CARBON.
4. Nashua Telegraph – What about China’s coal burning?
5. Risky Business Report - Economics of Global Warming.
by Bloomberg, Paulsen, &
Steyer
6. Pope Francis’ Moral Responsibility to bequeath a
habitable planet to future generations.
40. More than 100,000 people march through midtown Manhattan as part of the People’s Climate March on Sunday in New York. John Minchillo/AP Images for AVAAZ
300,000 to 400,000 people march through midtown Manhattan as part of the People’s
Climate March on Sunday, Sept 21, 2014 in New York. John Minchillo/AP Images for AVAAZ
41. 4. Nashua Telegraph, Sept. 24, 2014
“China is responsible for 27% of carbon emissions, more than any
other country, and uses as much coal as the rest of the world.”
42. Proportional to GDP per Capita
The CO2 per capita of the US is the highest of highly populated counties & 3.4 times that of
China. France at 5.9 is the lowest of developed, high standard of living countries. Why?
France gets 80% of its electricity from nuclear reactors.
43. China Carbon Debut Defies Emission Doubters
By Bloomberg News - Oct 12, 2012 5:09 AM ET
CAP AND TRADE CARBON
China’s first steps to build what is destined to be the world’s
second-biggest emissions market are boosting the prospects for
fledgling programs from Australia to California.
Four cement makers in China, the world’s biggest emitter,
bought 1.3 million pollution permits for 60 yuan ($9.55) a metric
ton last month in Guangdong.
The province plans the largest of seven pilot programs for a
proposed national market within three years.
Exchanges will trade permits to emit an estimated 1 billion
metric tons of greenhouse gases a year by 2015, close to half the
volume in the European Union system.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-12/china-carbon-debut-defies-emission-doubters-
energy-markets.html
44. 5. CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOW A BUSINESS STORY
RISKY BUSINESS REPORT
RiskyBusiness.org is co-chaired by titans of American business and
former government officials, including Michael Bloomberg, former
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, and hedge-fund billionaire Tom
Steyer.
The Risky Business report talked relatively little about science and
more about what this whole threat is going to cost us. With its emphasis
on the economic impact of climate change, it broke down each region
and endangered economic sectors to assess the looming damage. And
with this shift in focus — from the physics of climate change to its
financial consequences — came a subtle yet perhaps significant change
in media coverage.
45. The Coming Climate Crash:
Lessons for Climate Change in the 2008 Recession
By HENRY M. PAULSON Jr. Secretary of the Treasury under Pres. George W. Bush.
Co-Author of www.RiskyBusiness.org JUNE 21, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/opinion/sunday/lessons-for-climate-change-in-the-
2008-recession.html
“We’re staring down a climate bubble that poses enormous risks to
both our environment and economy. The warning signs are clear and
growing more urgent as the risks go unchecked.
A tax on carbon emissions will unleash a wave of innovation to
develop technologies, lower the costs of clean energy and create
jobs as we and other nations develop new energy products and
infrastructure.
Climate change is the challenge of our time. We’ve seen and felt the
costs of underestimating the financial bubble. Let’s not ignore the
climate bubble.”
46. George Shultz, Co-Author Risky Business
THOMAS W. AND SUSAN B. FORD DISTINGUISHED FELLOW AT THE HOOVER
INSTITUTION; FORMER US SECRETARY OF STATE; FORMER US SECRETARY OF THE
TREASURY; FORMER US SECRETARY OF LABOR; FORMER DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF
MANAGEMENT & BUDGET; FORMER PRESIDENT, BECHTEL GROUP
“The risks we take if the climate changes need to be identified
carefully. We have done that here, in the spirit of creating an
insurance policy. I support steps in that spirit, such as sustained
support for and investments in innovation and resilience that put
us in the best position to be prepared for all possible outcomes.”
— George Shultz
47. 47
6. The Pope tackles sustainability
Marcia McNutt
Marcia McNutt Editor-in-Chief Science journals
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6203/1429.full
19 September 2014
Pope Francis
Pope Francis convened a Joint Workshop of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the
Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on sustainability in May 2014.
The Vatican has articulated some of its strongest environmental statements to date,
calling for all of us to take personal responsibility and redirect our relationship with
nature to ensure the future habitability and sustainability of this planet
The problems are:
depletion of nonrenewable fossil fuel resources,
loss of ecosystem services,
and risks from changing climate.
What the Vatican uniquely contributes is the rationale for taking
action: because it is our moral responsibility to bequeath a
habitable planet to future generations.
48. Conservation, efficiency, & a more
vegetarian diet can reduce our use
of fossil fuels. Nature is the capital
on which capitalism is based.
In the long-term, our world’s
economy will be constrained by
ecology.
There are indeed Limits to Growth.
49. CHALLENGE
Margaret Mead, Anthropologist (1901-1978)
Star Island IRAS Speaker 1969
“Never doubt that a group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
50. TECHNOLOGIES ARE AVAILABLE TO SOLVE OUR
POPULATION & EVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
CAN WE DEPLOY THEM IN TIME TO MINIMIZE HUMAN SUFFERING?
When asked if we have enough time to prevent catastrophe, Donella Meadows
always said that we have exactly enough time -- starting now.
• CONSERVE, INVEST IN SOLAR CELLS ($0.10/KWHR)
- ELECTRIC CARS, 100 MILES/GAL
• SUPPORT CUTTING INCOME TAXES AND
ADDITIONAL TAXES ON FOSSIL ENERGY.
• ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO VOTE FOR THE ABOVE.
51. SUMMARY: POLICY INFLUENCERS
1. Wall Street Journal - Is climate science settled?
2. Peer-reviewed Climate Science Articles- 99% settled.
3. Forbes – Is carbon-free energy available? YES!
DEPLOYED FASTER WITH A TAX ON CARBON.
4. Nashua Telegraph – What about China’s coal burning?
5. Risky Business Report - Economics of Global Warming.
by Bloomberg, Paulsen, &
Steyer
6. Pope Francis’ Moral Responsibility to bequeath a
habitable planet to future generations.
52. CAN NEW TECHNOLOGY SAVE OUR ENVIRONOMENT?
There is a plethora of information but a
paucity of wisdom.
“Conflicts arise between short-term
and long-term goals.”
MIT Prof Jay Forrester, Complex Systems.
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
Proverbs, 29:18
Editor's Notes
Such a low level of atmospheric CO2 is conceivable, if we phase out coal emissions linearly between 2010 and 2030, and if we prohibit use of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands and oil shale.
In that case, depending upon the magnitude of undiscovered reserves of oil and gas, CO2 would peak at something between 400 and 425 ppm and then begin to decline