A collection of 9 posts
I worked with a stellar team of the world’s top experts on computing’s effect on energy and emissions to craft this commentary for Nature, which came out today (April 22, 2024): Luers, Amy, Jonathan Koomey, Eric Masanet, Owen Gaffney, Felix Creutzig, Juan Lavista Ferres, and Eric Horvitz. 2024.
Read moreEvery year since Chris Nelder started the Energy Transition Show, he’s interviewed me for the annual roundup episode, and this year is no exception. We discuss the proper role of government in a capitalist economy, climate change doomism, how the fossil fuel industry rigs the system, and the difficulties
Read moreOur latest article on scenario decomposition tools came out in Environmental Modeling and Software in September 2022: Koomey, Jonathan, Zachary Schmidt, Karl Hausker, and Dan Lashof. 2022. “Exploring the black box: Applying macro decomposition tools for scenario comparisons.” Environmental Modeling and Software. vol. 155, September. [https://doi.org/10.1016/
Read moreI had at some point bookmarked this 2012 article containing a story from BP about reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and saving money. I’m posting it here now because the lesson it teaches is still important and relevant. BP thought its efforts to reduce GHG emissions would cost money,
Read moreIn October 2019, many news outlets (including Phys.org) reported that watching half an hour of Netflix would emit the same amount of carbon dioxide (1.6 kg) as driving four miles. This appears to be yet another amazing “factoid” about information technology’s environmental footprint that has little relationship
Read moreAll oil is not created equal when it comes to carbon intensity of production. That’s the message from our latest article, just released in Science today. This work is part of a broader project to assess the full life-cycle emissions impacts of oil production, refining, distribution, and consumption, summarized
Read moreOn October 13, 2015 at 9am PDT, Anthesis Group and World Resources Institute are partnering to bring you an informative free webinar on the new Scope 2 emissions reporting protocol from WRI’s Greenhouse Gas Protocol Team. Here are the details: The webinar will review the details adopted in the
Read moreThe team at Carnegie just created a useful infographic for our Oil-Climate Index and the accompanying OCI web tool. I’m often skeptical of infographics, because they can be oversimplified, but this one seems to capture the essence of our work without doing violence to accuracy. Please let me know
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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