Stories and Scenarios for a Warming Climate 20260222: This is an evolving, working document.. One of the best ways to think about our climate future is to think of stories that describe situations we are likely to face. Stories are natural to [...]
Image: Lenticular cloud, February 13, 2022, Boulder County, Colorado Self Efficacy: Gaining Agency on Climate Change I get the occasional letter from a stranger worried about climate change. Sometimes, they say they were referred to me. Most of these letters are whether [...]
This is a collection of blogs and resources about what individuals can do about climate change. Most of my work and collection focus on adaptation. This collection is more focused on mitigation. My list This list is what I summarized in class [...]
This lecture discusses "framing" in my approach to climate change problem solving. First, I introduce what I mean by structured problem solving. I, then, motivate the need to take some control over the fact that we will be living in a strongly [...]
These lectures are part of my problem solving collection. Lecture 1: The first annotated lecture is motivated by the fact that we find it difficult to think about how to plan when we are faced with a growing threat. We struggle with [...]
This annotated lecture is part of my problem solving collection. In this, I introduce the concept of using 2-dimensional graphs to start the analysis of related parts of a problem. societal success and energy societal success and consumption consumption and population consumption [...]
This annotated lecture is part of my problem solving collection. In this, I introduce the concept of approaching a complex problem by considering the time scales, spatial scales, and wealth. short term or long term local or global rich or poor Wealth [...]
This annotated lecture introduces my approach to problem solving. It, first, motivates the need to take some control over the fact that we will be living in a strongly warming climate for upcoming decades. However, we have experience in dealing with weather [...]
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 [...]