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Energy & the Law
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Vaclav Smil in How the World Really Works , The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going explains why in seven chapters. Smil, the single most significant factor in increased anthropogenic CO2 emissions since 1980 is, by far, China.
Physics World
OCTOBER 6, 2021
This figure will increase to nearly half of the world’s population by the end of the century, the authors say, even with drastic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions. Limiting warming to 2?°C C over pre-industrial levels could avoid thousands of heat-related deaths compared with the 3?
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Environmental Progress
JULY 6, 2020
Climate Feedback authors introduce pseudoscience into their “fact check”. Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Sixth Extinction, acknowledges the failure of the species area model in her book. One author, Zeke Hausfather, suggests I was not invited by the IPCC to be an expert reviewer. We checked Smil's calculations and confirmed them.
Environmental Progress
MARCH 11, 2021
2] Over the last 25 years, increasingly decentralized electricity generation in restructured electricity markets, along with growth in the number of regulatory institutions, has resulted in “divergent interests of federal, state, regional and local authorities,” wrote the Academies in the 2021 report. Telephone Interview with the author.
Environmental Progress
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
1] I am an invited expert reviewer of the next assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” and author of the 2020 book on the environment, Apocalypse Never , published by HarperCollins. 16] Vaclav Smil, Power Density (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2016), 168. [17]
Environmental Progress
JULY 9, 2020
Also, the author — Nick O: — I haven't done enough reading to discuss. I relied on Vaclav Smil, who Bill Gates says is the person whose books he most waits for is most respected; Vaclav Smil, by the way, I don't agree with Vaclav [on everything]. I mean, it was embarrassing for them. He's a Malthusian.
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