Nephologue

Exploring the interplay of thermodynamics, economics, and climate

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Economic growth: the engine of collapse

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Economists and environmental scientists are working to develop strategies that forestall our worst visions of the future,  so we can maintai...
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Monday, November 25, 2019

Frequently Asked Questions about the Nephologue theory of economic growth!

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The theory of economic growth I've tried to explain is pretty foreign to many. There's a lot of questions that get repeated. This p...
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Friday, September 27, 2019

Why use physics to describe economics?

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Do you mistrust the predictions of mainstream  macroeconomic growth models  and reject the policy prescriptions of their practitioners? Man...
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Friday, June 21, 2019

Population growth is not a driver of climate change

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It seems so easy to blame excess population for our planet’s woes. It could hardly appear more straightforward: people consume resources;...
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Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Can we use physics to forecast long run global economic growth?

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One of the more challenging problems in physics is the evolution of complex systems. Atmospheric scientists study phenomena ranging in scal...
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Thursday, September 20, 2018

Is increasing energy efficiency driving global climate change?

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Improving energy efficiency is our best hope to slow global energy consumption and limit carbon dioxide emissions.  Makes perfect sense...
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Nephologue
As a professor of atmospheric sciences, my research mostly focuses on the complex interplay between aerosols, clouds, precipitation, radiation and climate. This blog discusses another complex system, the global economy. I have developed a "physics-based" economic growth model that is based on the finding that global rates of energy consumption are tied through a constant value to the accumulation throughout history of a very general representation of global wealth. While some see it as strange that someone would try to treat human systems as a simple physical system, I think it is critical. We are never going to find solutions to the pressing global problems of the coming century by pretending we can beat the laws of thermodynamics.
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