22 May 2010

Reading

We discussed a couple of ideas at the last meeting that appear in these papers.
When complex systems are being considered, this is a good place to start:

Leverage Points: places to intervene in a system

Another paper that touches on some fundamental issues:

Long-Term Global Heating From Energy Usage

What is relevant about this paper is that black body radiational cooling is the only way for heat to leave the Earth. Human activity -- even activity that avoids incremental emission of greenhouse gasses -- increases the temperature of the Earth.

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