Showing posts with label Climate Change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Climate Change. Show all posts
Friday, May 16, 2025

The Age of Reason Begins

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The Age of Reason Begins , by Will and Ariel Durant . The title of this week’s post is ironic, because with all the events of the last few m...
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Friday, February 7, 2025

The Air They Breathe

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I’m used to thinking about climate change from a physics perspective: what technologies can we use to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide a...
Friday, November 1, 2024

Why Are Oxygen and Nitrogen Not Greenhouse Gases But Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapor Are?

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In last week’s blog post about A Toy Model for Climate Change , I wrote “The main constituents of the atmosphere—oxygen and nitrogen—are tr...
Friday, October 25, 2024

A Toy Model of Climate Change

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Introduction A screenshot of the online book Math for the People . In Introductory Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I mak...
Friday, September 20, 2024

Transitioning to Environmentally Sustainable, Climate-Smart Radiation Oncology Care

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“Transitioning to Environmentally Sustainable Climate-Smart Radiation Oncology Care,” by Lichter et al., IJROBP , 113:915–924, 2022. Loyal ...
Friday, September 13, 2024

The Million Person Study: Whence It Came and Why

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A screenshot of the article “How Sound is the Model Used to Establish Safe Radiation Levels? ” on the website physicsworld.com. Last fall, p...
Friday, September 6, 2024

Black Carbon and Radon

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Drawdown In a previous post , I reviewed the book Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming . Sometimes ...
Friday, June 14, 2024

Bernard Leonard Cohen (1924–2012)

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The Nuclear Energy Option: An Alternative for the 90s . by Bernard Cohen. Today is the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of American nu...