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Some Ways to Lessen Worries about Climate Change [PDF]

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

…impossible feat for a world that built today’s worldwide fleet of some 430 nuclear power plants in about 30 years. Combined with other offset strategies, ZEPPs, together with another generation…

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Because the Brain Does Not Change, Technology Must

JH Ausubel. Production Efficiencies: The Engineers' Report, American Association of Engineering Societies, Washington, D.C. 14–18 1999 Republished in: IEEE Aerospace and Electronic SYSTEMS 14(10):3-6, October 1999. The paper is based on a talk Jesse gave at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development meetings in New York in April 1999.

…The spectrum of national achievements also shows how far most of the world economy is from best practice in decarbonization. The present carbon intensity of the Chinese and Indian economies…

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Does Climate Still Matter?

JH Ausubel. Nature 350: 649–652 1991

…1979). 21. Nakicenovic, N. & Grübler, A., Technological Progress, Structural Change and Efficient Energy Use: Trends worldwide and in Austria, International Part (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, 1989). 22. Economic…

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Energy and Environment: The Light Path

JH Ausubel. Energy Systems and Policy 15: 181–188 1991

…humanity. Experientia 42:115-120. Nakicenovic, N. and A. Grübler. 1989. Technological progress, structural change, and efficient energy use: Trends worldwide and in Austria: International part. Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. The…

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Death and the Human Environment: The United States in the 20th Century [PDF]

JH Ausubel, PS Meyer, IK Wernick. Technology in Society 23 (2): 131–146 2001

…are assigned a “basic cause” through the use of the “Rules for the Selection of Basic Cause” stated in the Ninth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases. Geneva: World…

Jesse appeared on CNN

Jesse appeared on CNN in a special entitled “Our Changing Climate: The Great Debate.” Jesse is also quoted on the CNNÂ website….

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Resources are Elastic

JH Ausubel. Earth Matters 46–47 2000 a magazine published by the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Winter 1999/2000. This issue contains many of the speeches that were presented at the "State of The Planet" conference held at Columbia in the Fall of 1999.

…stopped plowing up more nature per capita. Meanwhile, growth in calories in the world’s food supply has continued to outpace population, especially in poor countries. Per hectare, farmers lifted world…

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Malthus And Graduate Students: Checks On Burgeoning Ranks Of Ph.D.’s

JH Ausubel. The Scientist 10 (3): 11 1996

…United States, Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research, 1995), and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) complex releases two major assessments of American graduate education and research (Reshaping the Graduate…

CASE STUDY: Evaluating Environmental Equity in Allegheny County

…Neighborhoods in Texas: Who Lives There? Environment and Behavior 24(4):508-526. National Law Journal. 1992. Unequal Protection: The Racial Divide in Environmental Law. National Law Journal, Monday, September 21:S1-S11. Nieves, L.A. 1992. Not in…