A collection of 19 posts
The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society just released the 2015 state of the climate. Download it here. NOAA gives a nice summary, which I condense to its key points below. 1. Greenhouse gases were the highest on record. 2. Global surface temperature was the highest on record. 3. Sea
Read moreGraph of energy and electricity/GDP indices taken from Hirsh and Koomey 2015 (subscription required). The graphs illustrate structural changes in the relationship between energy and economic activity that have confounded modelers in the past and will no doubt do so in the future. Today I gave a webinar for
Read moreThe reports produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change contain the sum total of scientific knowledge on climate change science, mitigation, and adaptation. The long lead times needed to produce such comprehensive documents means that they inevitably omit the latest scientific findings when the reports are finally approved and
Read moreI’ve been working for the past couple of years with Deborah Gordon of Carnegie, Adam Brandt of Stanford, and Joule Bergeson of the University of Calgary, on open source data and tools to assess the life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of different oils, summarizing them in our Oil-Climate
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