Why hasn’t a drop in CO2 emissions caused atmospheric levels to decline? A reasonable question. See Scripps’ answer and also scroll down to see Robert del Rosso’s reply. see entry …
The Rise & Foreseeable Future of Artificial Intelligence Part 2: Where is AI Heading?
This address will focus on a number of these non-technical issues per se; yet they are highly dependent on technical advances in AI and the application of those advances. This dependency also will be considered as we look into the near-term future of AI. The notion of an ‘AI race’ and its possible future scenarios […]
Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating the Climate Tragedy
Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy – IFLAS Occasional Paper 2 by Professor Jem Bendell BA (Hons) PhD Can professionals in sustainability management, policy and research – myself included – continue to work with the assumption or hope that we can slow down climate change, or respond to it sufficiently to sustain our […]
Atmospheric CO2: Looking at the data
It might seem there was very little left to say about the rise in atmospheric CO2 due to anthropogenic emissions. But the other day my colleague Martin sent me a link to two presentations at the Scripps Institute ‘Home of the Keeling Curve‘, and I found out there was plenty left to say. Scientists there presented data which […]
A Pessimist is Never Disappointed
Optimism & Pessimism – Define “Reality” ? The article below tries to be objective. Does it succeed? Is reality real? What is your reality? by Max Roser and Mohamed Nagdy[cite] Our articles and data visualizations rely on work from many different people and organizations. When citing this entry, please also cite the underlying data sources. […]