So, you say that you are just not sure you can vote for a woman The books in the picture are more than curiosities. Two of them are pretty old. The physics textbook, from 1928, was my mother’s, and the Mathematical [...]
Image: The overlooked power of renewables 2007-2013: From Environmental Defense Fund This lecture is an introduction to energy production and use and their relation to climate change. In this lecture, "energy" is the energy we use as a society. That is, usable [...]
This lecture is part of my problem solving collection. This focuses on some aspects of Communications. For an introduction to the roles of Communications and Continuity in problem solving, please go to this link. Specifically, I introduce rhetoric, the skill of persuasion. The [...]
Adapted from blog on ClimatePolicy.org, October 31, 2010. What to Do ? (1) Knowledge and Politics: In early 2010, a Republican candidate for State Office came to my office to talk about climate change. At the end of the hour he asked [...]
Climate Change: A fundamental shift of our place in the world A version of this blog appeared originally in the Michigan Journal of Sustainability. Richard B. Rood University of Michigan Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering rbrood@umich.edu May 24, 2014 During the [...]