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Ken Caldeira
Staff Scientist, Carnegie Institution for Science
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Country-to-Country Imposition of Climate Damage from Current Emissions
AGU 2024
global environmental change | 13 december 2024
Lyssa Freese, Edgar Virgüez, Steven J. Davis, Ken ...
There are country-level inequities in 1) current per capita emissions of CO2, 2) temperature change due to these CO2 emissions, and 3) damage due to t...
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Reassessing Contrail Climate Impacts.
AGU 2024
atmospheric sciences | 13 december 2024
Aaron Sonabend, Rob von Behren, Ken Caldeira, Andr...
Previous studies have shown that airplane condensation trails (contrails) are a significant source of climate forcing. These studies have either estim...
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Disparities in per capita energy consumption within and between countries
AGU 2024
global environmental change | 12 december 2024
Edgar Virgüez, Michael Dioha, Lei Duan, Alicia Won...
Addressing issues related to equity and poverty requires a better understanding of the more than 1000-fold differences in per capita energy consumptio...
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Multi-sector sustainability trade-offs of solar PV tracking technologies
AGU 2024
global environmental change | 11 december 2024
Shi Chen, Xi Lu, Jiming Hao, Edgar Virgüez, Ken Ca...
Solar photovoltaic power has been at the forefront in combating climate change challenge. However, the choice of tracking technologies varies across n...
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A simulation-based approach for energy system planning under uncertainty
AGU 2024
global environmental change | 10 december 2024
Angelo Carlino, Morgan Edwards, Sarah Fletcher, Ke...
To mitigate climate change, countries worldwide are transitioning their energy systems toward low-carbon sources. While fossil fuels are established t...
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Geophysical Constraints on Global and Regional Wind Power
AGU 2024
global environmental change | 09 december 2024
Ken Caldeira, Enrico Antonini
Over the past decade, our group has conducted a series of investigations into the availability and reliability of wind energy. These included investig...
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Economic development as a facilitator for addressing climate goals
AGU 2024
global environmental change | 09 december 2024
Edgar Virgüez, Alicia Wongel, Lyssa Freese, Angelo...
The economic development of countries in the Global South is often portrayed as conflicting with climate goals, as human well-being is positively corr...
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Detecting the Temperature Response to a Zeroing of CO2 Emissions
AGU 2024
global environmental change | 09 december 2024
Lyssa Freese, Ken Caldeira
Climate goals, pledges, and policies are focused on zeroing carbon emissions to stabilize the climate and temperature. It is, however, unclear when lo...
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