Henrik Nordborg

Climate Change Environmental Sustainability

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Henrik Nordborg is a professor of physics at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences. He has a PhD in physics from the ETH Zurich and spent 10 years working in the private sector. He gives public climate lectures and also maintains a blog with the motto “Giving Our Children a Reason Not to Hate Us".

Henrik Nordborg

Feb 26 2022

Hoping for a miracle is not a strategy

Illuminem Voices

Environmental Sustainability · Climate Change

You only need three plots to understand everything about the climate crisis. The first is the Keeling-curve, which shows the carbon concentration in the atmosphere. The data are publicly available, and the figure below can be reproduced by anyone with an internet connection and a plotting program.

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Do we have the courage to prevent climate disaster?

Henrik Nordborg

Jan 27 2022

Do we have the courage to prevent climate disaster?

Environmental Sustainability

Fortunately, there is a simple solution to the climate crisis that requires a minimum of international cooperation, is consistent with all the principles of a liberal society, and can be implemented immediately within the existing global economic system. The only catch is that the solution is based on the polluter pays principle, which is why polluters are vehemently opposed to it.

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Henrik Nordborg

Jan 27 2022