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Encountering Discontinuity on a Down Escalator
What if the transition to renewables fails?
Albert Bates
Jan 29
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Foggy Forecasts for Clean Energy Futures
Can we build out renewable energy fast enough to avoid some nasty tipping points?
Albert Bates
Jan 22
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Kobayashi Maru Aerosols
No one has solved the McPherson Paradox because it cannot be hacked. The only solution is doing something completely counterintuitive.
Albert Bates
Jan 15
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Neanderthal Tartar and the Anthropocene
Cooking with firewood and domesticating plants and animals changed Earth’s climate
Albert Bates
Jan 8
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A Science Bomb Cyclone for the New Year
The model proposed by Hansen reveals ten degrees of heating is already baked into Earth’s surface temperature, but has been masked by aerosol cooling
Albert Bates
Jan 1
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December 2022
Professor Cobblepot’s Marvelous Final Engagement in the Freeverse Theater State
When you have two competing narratives, each hermetically sealed and intractable, about all you can do is live by your own best lights
Albert Bates
Dec 25, 2022
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Who is the Sam Bankman-Fried of the Biodiversity Loss Space?
Today, 90 percent of Earth’s animal biomass is in the eight billion people on the Earth and their cows, chickens, pigs, dogs, cats and goldfish.
Albert Bates
Dec 18, 2022
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The Noisy Winter before the Silent Spring
Biodiversity COP15 runs from December 7 to 19 in Montreal.
Albert Bates
Dec 18, 2022
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The Heroic Gene
We grab the tail of the evolutionary tiger at our peril.
Albert Bates
Dec 4, 2022
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November 2022
Twitter's Opposing Narratives
Magnify the power of vox populi by 8 billion and what do you get?
Albert Bates
Nov 27, 2022
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“Check Please?” at COP27
The camel's nose is in the tent
Albert Bates
Nov 20, 2022
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Revisiting the Aunt in the Attic
As the nations of the world meet in Sharm el-Sheikh to tackle the climate conundrum, the root causes are, for the most part, off the table.
Albert Bates
Nov 13, 2022
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