Everything. Last week a joint NASA, NOAA study was released that finds earth's energy imbalance has doubled between 2005 and 2019. “A positive energy imbalance means the Earth system is gaining...
Race to flatten another curve — covid lessons
When the pandemic struck our response was basically divided into two phases: 1) Non Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPI’s) designed to flatten and slow the infection curve to prevent healthcare...
Future skills
Back in January of 2020, I highlighted that Carbon Literacy would become a necessary future skill all businesses will need to have. This is becoming clearer now that carbon emission reporting is...
The science is clear — we are headed for a catastrophe
The trajectory we are on, as you can see in this animation, is leading us to to an unthinkable catastrophe. https://twitter.com/rarohde/status/1359093913928298500 The science on this has been clear...
Prepare now for further mobility disruption
21 years worth of peer-reviewed scientific papers on “global warming” or “global climate change” are very clear on where we are headed. (See Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming...
Remote work and carbon emissions
The State of California has created a live dashboard to show the real-time impact of working remotely for 12 agencies across the state. This past week: 8,408 employees were working remotely...
Why are we sitting in traffic if we can work from anywhere
That just makes no sense. Here is the thing the commute of hundreds of millions of people can be ended by adopting different ways of working. 1) We have the technology2) We have the know-how3)...
Leadership post-covid
What does the above headline have to do with business you ask. As you’ve heard me say before: Everything. What was once considered the domain of science research papers has now become a serious...
Tracking post-covid global recovery
Yesterday I posted this re how there is a strong desire to return to “normal” as vaccines allow us to see an end to the pandemic. But how that desire to return to “how things were” is not taking...
Before we go back to “normal”
Are you seeing this too? As vaccines continue to change the course of the pandemic (or there are lulls between waves) I am seeing lots of these types of updates. It’s a natural reaction to the...
Is that business flight really necessary?
This is a question Farhard Manjoo asked in his NYT piece entitled Do You Really Need to Fly?Do You Really Need to Fly? The truth is no we don’t and yes videoconferencing is good enough to replace...
We are at a crossroad
The science is clear. To avert the catastrophic consequences of a world above 2°C we HAVE TO collectively reduce our 2030 CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels and then reach net zero by 2050....