Thread: New paper in @EGU_ESD with @ProfSteveKeen and @prof_grasselli shows a 50-year fixed relationship between world economic "wealth" - not the GDP - and global primary energy consumption. Implication? Our future is tied to even our quite distant past .

RT @AltaSkiArea: We just checked and there’s still no snow in the forecast. In the 1940s, the study of snow science and avalanche mitigat….

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Not the first time I've posted this, but I always find it quite fascinating how well it continues to hold. For over *two thousand years*, atmospheric CO2 perturbations have scaled with the world GDP. Aren't the implications for climate change mitigation pretty simple. ?

This could be better framed as asking “what will the OBBB bill do for the global economy?”. The global economy is stably carbon based. So, if it hurts the economy through idiocy then it reduces CO2 emissions.

RT @fardos: @oikeios And there is this in case @RnaudBertrand is interested:.

RT @fardos: @oikeios CO2/GHG are the waste products of a combustion-driven & interconnected civilisation and must be addressed globally. U….

When will we draw a link between an accelerating rise in CO2 emissions and the surge in renewables? Renewables do not replace, they do not simply add, but by catalyzing the construction of a hungry civilization, they spur.

RT @PeterBrannen1: "A potentially more concerning explanation for the drop in cloud cover is an emerging low-cloud feedback, whereby low cl….

RT @JKSteinberger: The neoliberal dream of fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch was always the destruction of US democracy and the eliminat….

RT @ProfessorPowder: Big graupel and water totals at Alta today. Peak hourly water equivalent so far is 0.41" . The record at that site i….

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In 2017 at a small meeting in Switzerland on energy and the economy, experts scolded me that the economy would collapse from resource depletion and debt, certainly by 2025. I argued inertia would keep it growing longer (not forever). Here we are. Physics actually works! Always.

So it turns out snowflake settling is full of surprises. Not just size, not just shape, not just density, not just turbulence, but perhaps more than anything it is the mean wind horizontal winds speeds that controls how fast snowflakes fall.

RT @fardos: @RARohde Humanity's energy demands are constantly increasing, relying on a growing supply of fossil fuels and the so-called "re….

The major problem that humanity faces is the persistent failure to understand that we’re fundamentally no different than any other system in the universe.

RT @davidkorowicz: There will be intensifying constraints on growth, and deepening uncertainty. Ultimately, you cannot make an unsustainabl….

I’ve argued for some time that a kid with a ruler would do as well as complicated climate/societal models predicting rates of temperature rise. Turns out I was wrong. No wait! The models didn’t predict it either… hey kid, got a moment?.

Wrote a paper a while back about how climate change should cause inflation. Poopooed for sure. Admittedly it was very big picture without a specific mechanism, but we're certainly seeing how now with increased insurance rates driven by e.g. the LA fires.

An early academic paper.And a blog.

I developed an economic theory that underscores how energy and matter are the twin cornerstones of economic activity and growth, how mitigating climate change will require a fundamental restructuring of society. @fardos created this nice video about it.

Also, with fewer equations.