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Does data science help or hinder how we respond to the incredible transformation of the earth’s social and environmental systems?
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The good news is that the Anthropocene is almost over. It may have been the shortest geological epoch in all of Earth history. The bad news is that the Catastrophocene is just beginning.
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The Earth system is marked by a complex interaction of a lot of different processes, many of which are very involved and we can only explore them indirectly. Take the water cycle as an example. Water vapor in the atmosphere provides rain, but not everywhere.
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The universal feeling of being a stranger in a strange land helped motivate this book. When I first moved to the Maryland coast to start a postdoc, I was stunned by its varied beauty and, coming from the high desert, its difference.
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is known for its comprehensive Assessment Reports about the state of scientific, technical and socio-economic knowledge on climate change, and about its impacts, future risks and the options for reducing the rate at which climate change is taking place.
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Writers from Polybius to Machiavelli to Twain to Toynbee to Tuchman have observed how events in history seem to repeat down through the centuries and millennia.
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Keith Frayn, author of Understanding Human Metabolism address some of the major misconceptions about human metabolism.
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The phrase “life, but not as we know it” is often encountered in science fiction. But what of reality? Should we expect life-forms on other planets to be like variants of life on Earth, or should we expect “something completely different”, a notion that echoes a different genre of fiction – Monty Python.
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