My most recent CV (January, 2022) is: here. My gambling website is here. My everything else website is here. I received my Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Arizona in 1983. I was a professor of mathematics at Ohio University from 1983 to 1998, getting tenure in 1989. I was a whistleblower there (very long story) and the university […]
Well, COP-26 is ending in just a few short hours. I am waiting for the final statement to come out, but I doubt it will change my mind. Here are my journalistic opening lines, crafted in totally neutral and scientifically objective academic language. NY Times, Washington Post — feel free to use this opening paragraph for your own COP-26 final […]
Harmony and understanding, Sympathy and trust abounding No more falsehoods or derisions, Golden living dreams of visions Mystic crystal revelation, And the mind’s true liberation Aquarius, Aquarius —Hair (the musical), 1967 I’ve been paying attention to the goings on at COP-26 this week. “Paying attention” is a weird way to put it, because the conference is extraordinarily fragmented and directionless. […]
Thanks! Shame on NOAA for not making that clear.
My first article addresses this question. See "the third mistake" and it's fix.
This is confusing to me. Pre-industrial the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere was about 280ppm. But there was significant…
Complete cessation of burning fossil fuels is on the far side of Net Zero, and we're making very little progress…
Hi, Eliot. Thank you for this discussion. My big takeaway is 1.5 by 2027ish, 2.0 by 2035, and 2.5 by…
Thanks for this. The big nugget of clarity I got from this was the example of what reducing emissions 7%…
I think that must be someone else. My writing about climate issues is all on this site.
Fair question. Here are all the greenhouse gases with historical concentrations and projected out until 2500. https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/3571/2020/