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About that “Archer bonus”

January 16, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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I’ve mentioned several times what I call the “Archer bonus” that we’re granting ourselves by artificially limiting our vision to what happens up to the year 2100. Archer is, of course, David Archer, author of the excellent book The Long Thaw. The bonus is 40%, as in 40% of the warming from our emissions up to 2100 won’t happen until... [read more]

Video alert: Archer lectures

January 2, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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I just discovered a series of lectures David Archer gave in the last few months have been posted, all in MP4 format.[1] One warning: The 23 videos total about 6.5GB (that’s giga, from the Latin for “big honkin’”), so if you’re the kind of person, like me, who grabs documents and videos when you see them and then sorts them out later,... [read more]

Ice and Fire

September 2, 2009 by Michael Tobis
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Perhaps the most fraught ethical question in the whole sustainability universe is our obligation to the deep future. Specifically, the question of whether, if we could obtain substantial certainty that our present actions would have significant consequences in the deep future, whether we have any obligation to prevent such an outcome.As... [read more]

Book review: The Long Thaw

April 6, 2009 by Lou Grinzo
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David Archer’s The Long Thaw: How humans are changing the next 100,000 years of Earth’s climate [180 pages] is a must-read for anyone who cares about climate chaos and related energy use and public policy, albeit for not quite the usual reasons people recommend a book like that on a site like this. If Archer’s name sounds familiar, you... [read more]