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Does Economics Violate the Laws of Physics? SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The financial crisis and subsequent global recession have led to much soul-searching among economists, the vast majority of whom never saw it coming. But were their assumptions and models wrong only because of minor errors or because today's dominant economic thinking violates the laws of physics?A small but growing group of academics believe the latter is true, and they are out to prove it. These thinkers say that the neoclassical mantra of constant economic growth is ignoring the world's diminishing supply of energy at humanity's peril, failing to take account of the principle of net energy return on investment. They hope that a set of theories they call "biophysical economics" will improve upon neoclassical theory, or even replace it altogether. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Where on Earth will we store all that captured CO2? Try the U.S. east coast Carbon capture and storage --sucking the CO2 from power plant or industrial smokestack emissions--has been cited by everyone from the Bush administration to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a key technology in any effort to combat climate change. That's because the world--particularly China, India and the U.S.--burns a lot of coal . [More] rss.sciam.com |
Climate Change Imperils the State of the Planet--Will the World Act? NEW YORK CITY--More than 100 countries have signed on to the Copenhagen Accord --the nonbinding agreement to combat climate change hastily agreed to this past December at a summit of world leaders. As signatories, the countries agree to cut greenhouse gas emissions to keep global average temperatures from warming more than 2 degrees Celsius. The countries that have signed up to date represent more than 80 percent of the global emissions of such heat-trapping gases. [More] rss.sciam.com |
How Will Climate Change Impact Bread? Part 2 [More] Climate change - Environment - Activism - Organizations - Impacts and Indicators rss.sciam.com |