Posts tagged KenCaldeira

If you burn a lump of coal, the greenhouse effect from the carbon dioxide released from burning that coal will, over its lifetime in the atmosphere, heat the Earth about 100,000 times more than the thermal energy released from burning that coal.https://t.co/YyqbNXyew9

— Ken Caldeira (@KenCaldeira) June 20, 2019

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We will solve the climate problem principally by improving the systems in which dysfunctional people operate, and not by improving people in a dysfunctional system.

The primary lens needs to be about incentives and causal relationships, not morality. Empiricism, not religion.

— Ken Caldeira (@KenCaldeira) July 17, 2018

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