Reasons to Worry About the Human Environment

JH Ausubel. Journal of the Cosmos Club of Washington D.C 8 (1): 12 1998 Republished in Technology in Society 21:217-231, 1999. 

…150(4):571–577, 1993. 21 – A Hume et al., Is Antidepressant Use Changing? Prevalence and Clinical Correlates in Two New England Communities, Pharmacotherapy 15:78–84, 1995. 22 – D Pine, The Prozac Dilemma, Woman’s…

Technical Progress and Climatic Change

JH Ausubel. Energy Policy 23 (4/5): 411–416 1995 Also pp. 501-512 in Integrated Assessment of Mitigation, Impacts, and Adaptation to Climate Change, N Nakicenovic, WD Nordhaus, R Richels, and FL Toth (eds), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 1994.

…Cambridge U. Press, England. Lloyd, S., 1993, A potentially realizable quantum computer, Science 261:1569- 1571. Lotka, A.J., 1924, Elements of Physical Biology, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore MD, reprinted 1956, Dover, New York, USA….

The Census of the Fishes: An Update

…whether the diverse stakeholder communities, including marine researchers, commercial fishers, environmentalists, and government agencies, would support it. My comments below report first on value and motivations, second on technology, then…

Can Technology Spare the Earth?

JH Ausubel. Am Sci 84 (2): 166–178 1996 Republished in Current Perspectives in Geology, Fourth Edition, Michael McKinney, Robert L. Tolliver, Parri Shariff, eds., Wadsworth, Boston, MA, 1998.

…the Chinese and Indian economies resembles the Japanese, American and European at the outset of industrialization in the 19th century. Fundamentally, decarbonization tracks a technological competition between combustible elements. In the…

Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert [PDF]

JH Ausubel. Challenges of a Changing Earth 175–182 2002 (Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-13 July 2001)

…Review 6(2):143-162, 1998. [xii] P. E. Waggoner, J. H. Ausubel, I. K. Wernick, Lightening the Tread of Population on the Land: American Examples, Population and Development Review 22(3):531-545, 1996. [xiii] www.swissmetro.com [xiv] J. H. Ausubel, The Census of…

Does Climate Still Matter?

JH Ausubel. Nature 350: 649–652 1991

…Earth, watching for storms, relaying communications, and helping ships and planes navigate anywhere on the globe; and finally, although the microprocessor was only introduced in 1971 and the personal computer…

Some Ways to Lessen Worries about Climate Change [PDF]

JH Ausubel. The Electricity Journal 14 (1): 24–33 2001

…to Cesare Marchetti, Perrin Meyer, and Paul Waggoner for their help. The figures are located at the end of this document for easier online reading. Hope is a better companion…

The Census of Marine Life: Progress and Prospects

JH Ausubel. Fisheries 26 (7): 33–36 2001

…well be the tail that wags the dog. Organization, Costs, Schedule Management of the CoML centers in the International Scientific Steering Committee.  The Steering Committee has met 5 times since…

OneNOAA Science Seminar online

Mark Stoeckle presented recent eDNA work assessing marine fish diversity and abundance at OneNOAA Science Seminar Series on August 26, 2020. The recorded presentation and lively discussion is available online

Full PDR issue online

The entire issue of Population and Development Review with our article about Peak Farmland is now online: Population and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Paul Demeny https://www.popcouncil.org/publications/books/2012_PDRSuppPopPublicPolicy.asp and will…