Author: Erik Kobayashi-Solomon

One of the topics your correspondent keeps banging on about is that complex adaptive systems (like the world we live on) can sometimes experience jumps from one state to another when the they reach a tipping point....

Mankind’s oldest random number generatorWIKIPEDIA.ORG “All models are wrong but some are useful” — British statistician George E. P. Box In my climate change investing speaking engagements, doubters love to bring up what...

Artist’s representation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and North America from space.IOI CAPITAL This spring, Pulitzer Prize winning author David Cay Johnston suggested that economic damage from Covid-19 would total from three to...

Last remnant of Chile’s Nothofagus alessandrii forests surrounded by forest plantations. CRISTIAN ECHEVERRÍA In January of this year – precisely one Covid-19 lifetime ago – I wrote about the power of trees to sequester...

Bird’s eye view of Heliogen’s Lancaster, CA test facility.HELIOGEN Bill Gates calls it the 75% Problem. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from power plants only account for 25% of total, and electrical generation is one...