by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Mar 28, 2019 | Big Picture
As I brought up in the first article in this two-part series, the choice of putting off spending money on climate change mitigation investments is similar to the grandparents that raid their grandkid’s college fund for a trip to Club Med. While morally quite...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Mar 28, 2019 | Big Picture
Grandma and Grandpa are sitting alone in their living room in Dubuque, Iowa in February. It is -15° Fahrenheit (-26°C) and they haven’t been truly comfortable in two months. They want a Club Med vacation – get down to a warm, sunny place for a few weeks – but they are...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Mar 11, 2019 | Big Picture
Most people think of the arctic as remote – a wasteland inhabited by polar bears (true) and penguins (untrue) – with little relevance to their daily lives. Most people are wrong. While the arctic may be distant for us geographically, what happens there has an enormous...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Mar 7, 2019 | All Post-Carbon, Industrial Heat
If you ask most people how we will get to a zero-carbon world, they’re likely to talk about electric cars and wind farms. However, climate cognoscenti know that the two largest contributors to climate change are industrial processes and agriculture, whose greenhouse...
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