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Cattle ranching in Colombia
Could geoengineering really help us solve the climate crisis? | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2203085-could-geoengineering-really-help-us-solve-the-climate-crisis/ Now Cambridge is setting up a centre for climate repair? I hope they come up with a catchier name, lest someone show up with a broken bike. Human interventions in the climate system, broadly defined, have been going on throughout the Holocene, and may have made noticable changes to climate prior to 1850, aContinue reading “Could geoengineering really help us solve the climate crisis? | New Scientist”
NYTimes: Austria’s Vice Chancellor, Heinz-Christian Strache, Resigns After Video Sting
Austria’s Vice Chancellor, Heinz-Christian Strache, Resigns After Video Sting https://nyti.ms/2VB2HIZ Don’t be sad, FPÖ, Trump2020 is probably getting set to start hiring. You’d like each other.
Vote for science
While I love the Stone Age, I don’t want to live in one. So thanks, US Congress, for your intention to fund environmental sciences. When one of your members explained sea level rise by rocks falling into the ocean, I admit I got cynical.
Another possible future for Africa and the world
Africa can’t afford that this century be like its last one. No one can. These days I have Africa on the mind because we’re modelling land use systems projected to 2050, and it’s hard to keep Africans fed, healthy, and developing economically (to any reasonable standard) without wrecking the continent’s natural systems, and ultimately theContinue reading “Another possible future for Africa and the world”
Wandering San Francisco during AGU a few years ago
We used to live in the Bay Area. In Spring 2011, I spent nearly every day working in San Francisco. I know it quite well and used to miss it a lot. I took these while back for the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, in 2016, I think.
More Galileos, fewer Simplicios
I recently had a short conversation with a European colleague at IIASA, touching on the acceptance of global warming in North America. (In her northern European country, in which the lumber industry is critical, the public conversation about climate change is mature, advanced, and solutions-oriented. Obviously that’s not quite the case everywhere.) It suddenly struckContinue reading “More Galileos, fewer Simplicios”
oh the pre-humanity
These archaeologists have turned up evidence that human ancestors were established in Arabia about 300 thousand years ago. The location is no surprise, because our ancestors passed through as they radiated out of Africa. It’s the timing that’s interesting. Before moving to Oman in 2007, I became very interested in the prospect of finding moreContinue reading “oh the pre-humanity”
Neutrinos and Experimental Physics with Art McDonald, 2015 Nobel laureate in physics
Art McDonald, the former director of SNO and 2015 Nobel Prize in physics laureate, gives a really nice talk at the Perimeter Institute. I was expecting a rather dull review of his pathway to the SNO neutrino mass measurement papers in 2002-2004 (for which the Nobel was awarded) — but he has been busy! HeContinue reading “Neutrinos and Experimental Physics with Art McDonald, 2015 Nobel laureate in physics”
Marcus James Thomson, Ph.D. 