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Category Archives: Focus Area 15
Attrition in the climate trenches
There are ongoing skirmishes on the climate battlefront. They involve key ideas in climate science – climate extremes, climate sensitivity and the accuracy of climate models. There is as well an ongoing quibble – recently revisited by “climate scientists” – about whether … Continue reading
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Tagged abrupt climate change, ckimate change, climate, climate model, climate prediction, climate sensitivity, environment
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The only UN sustainable development goal needed is economic freedom
The proposed 17 UN sustainable development goals (SDG) are intended to subsume the 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and extend UN ambitions to sustainable development. The MDG has 169 aspirational and largely immeasurable targets. It grows like Topsy. The SDG … Continue reading
Economic growth and environmental management in a global Iriai
The Ecomodernist Manifesto published last month delivers a new and optimistic approach to development and the environment. The bottom line is that: Intensifying many human activities — particularly farming, energy extraction, forestry, and settlement — so that they use less land and interfere … Continue reading
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Tagged abrupt climate change, agriculture, biodiversity, black carbon, development, environment, greenhouse gases, sustainable development
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Greenhouse gas solutions
Emissions of greenhouse gases comes from a variety of sources – solutions must address the diverse technologies behind emissions. To begin with – however – reducing population pressure is best addressed through better health, education and welfare outcomes best achieved … Continue reading
Changing our approach to the environment
An integrated government and community structure for delivering biological conservation is proposed utilizing interacting environmental science teams having a range of necessary skills incorporating ecological, engineering, archaeological and other skills including local knowledge. These would operate in local government jurisdictions … Continue reading
Posted in Focus Area 13, Focus Area 14, Focus Area 15, Focus Area 16
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Planetary boundaries, tipping points and prophets of doom
There is a paper that appeared in January in Science: Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. They presume that human development should be guided on a limited set of criteria that they say are approaching tipping points, … Continue reading
Posted in Focus Area 10, Focus Area 11, Focus Area 13, Focus Area 15
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Regardless of net climate forcing or other climatic effects, all black carbon mitigation options bring health benefits through reduced particulate matter exposure ‘The best estimate of industrial-era climate forcing of black carbon through all forcing mechanisms, including clouds and cryosphere … Continue reading
Food for People – Conserving and Restoring Soils
By Rob Ellison Some of the increase in atmospheric CO2 can be ascribed to a decline in soil carbon following land conversion to intensive farming methods (grazing or cropping). The decline in soil carbon content following farming is seen in … Continue reading
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