Climate scientist, prof at UBC, writer, speaker, aquatic mammal, dragger of sand into the house.
Simon Donner
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Check out this new limited podcast from @nationalobserver.com that traces the five stages of grief about our rapidly changing world. In episode 2, I have some blunt things to say about the harms done by clickbait climate doom-ism.
This is a devastating loss. Dr Raúl Pacheco-Vega, a UBC alumnus and former UBC faculty member, was a warm and engaging human being who put great effort into supporting students and other early career researchers develop their scholarship. Such an authentic person. He will be greatly missed.
Hope for meaningful emissions cuts from industrial pricing now rest heavily on negotiations around tightening the emissions benchmarks and the delivery of "contracts for difference", which encourage companies to act by locking in the future carbon price (regardless of future policy changes). (1/2)
