Mark Z. Jacobson
Mark Jacobson | |
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Born | Mark Zachary Jacobson 1965 (age 58–59) |
Alma mater | Stanford University (BA, BS, MS) University of California, Los Angeles (MS, PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles Stanford University |
Thesis | Developing, coupling, and applying a gas, aerosol, transport, and radiation model to study urban and regional air pollution (1994) |
Doctoral advisor | Richard P. Turco |
Website | Official website |
Mark Zachary Jacobson (born 1965) is a professor of civil and
Overview
Jacobson pursued "better understanding air pollution and global warming problems and developing large-scale clean, renewable energy solutions to them".
In a 2009 Scientific American paper, Jacobson and Mark Delucchi proposed that the world should move to 100% clean, renewable energy, namely wind, water, and solar power, across all energy sectors.[6] He discussed and promoted[7][8][9] the conversion of worldwide energy infrastructure to "100% wind, water, and sunlight (WWS) for all purposes"[10] in many interviews[11] Jacobson's 2015 study on transitioning the 50 states to WWS was cited as the scientific basis in House Resolution 540 (2015)[12] and in the 2015 New York Senate Bill S5527 on renewable energy[13] The Green New Deal appears compatible with Jacobson's scholarship.[14] In 2023, Jacobson was selected by Worth Magazine as one of "the 100 people who have made the most significant impact on the world this year."[15][16] Based on citations to published papers, Jacobson is ranked the #1 most impactful scientist in the world in the field of Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences among those first publishing after 1985 and #6 in the field of Energy among those first publishing after 1980. [17]
Jacobson's clean energy solutions exclude nuclear power, carbon capture, and bioenergy,[18] prompting a pushback by proponents of these technologies in the form of peer-reviewed letters and journal papers[19][20] He has published peer-reviewed responses to these critics.[21][22] A controversy developed in September 2017 when Jacobson sued the journal and one author of a critique for $10M, for defamation.[23] He withdrew his lawsuit five months later,[24][25][26] and was ordered to pay defendants more than $500,000 in legal fees.[27] In June, 2022, the California Labor Commission ordered Stanford University to pay Jacobson's own legal fees and reserved judgment on the remaining fees Jacobson paid in the defamation case because "defending his reputation" was necessary for his job.[27] Stanford has appealed.[27]
Jacobson has built his own net-zero home to run on renewable energy.[28] He was also an expert witness in Held v. Montana, the first climate trial in U.S. history.[29]
Research
Jacobson has published research on the role of black carbon and other aerosol chemical components on global and regional climates.[30][31]
Jacobson advocates a speedy transition to 100% renewable energy in order to limit climate change, air pollution damage, and energy security issues. Jacobson co-founded the non-profit Solutions Project in 2011 along with Marco Krapels, Mark Ruffalo, and Josh Fox. The Solutions Project was started to combine science, business, and culture in an effort to educate the public and policymakers about the ability U.S. states and communities to switch to a "100% renewable world".
Soot and aerosol
Jacobson, as a PhD student at UCLA under
Several of the individual computer code solvers Jacobson developed for GATOR-GCMOM include the gas and aqueous chemistry ordinary differential equations solvers SMVGEAR[33] and SMVGEAR II,[34][35] alongside a slew of other related and different modules,[36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][excessive citations] The GATOR-GCMOM model has incorporated these processes and has evolved over several decades.[44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][excessive citations]
One of the most important fields of research that Jacobson has added to, with the aid of GATOR-GCMOM, is re-defining the range of values on exactly how much diffuse tropospheric black carbon from fossil fuel, biofuel, and biomass burning affects the climate. Unlike greenhouse gases, black carbon absorbs solar radiation. It then converts the solar energy to heat, which is re-emitted to the atmosphere. Without such absorption, much of the sunlight would potentially reflect back out to space since it would have struck a more reflective surface. Therefore, as a whole, soot affects the planets albedo, a unit of reflectance. On the other hand, greenhouse gases warm the atmosphere by trapping thermal-infrared heat radiation that is emitted by the surface of the Earth.[50][52]
Jacobson found that, as soot particles in the air age, they grow larger due to condensation by gases and collision/coalescence with other particles. He further found that when a soot particle obtained such a coating, more sunlight enters the particles, bounces around, and eventually gets absorbed by the black carbon. On a global scale, this may result in twice the heating by black carbon as uncoated particles. Upon detailed calculations, he concluded that black carbon may be the second-leading cause of global warming in terms of radiative forcing.[53] Jacobson further found that soot from diesel engines, coal-fired power plants and burning wood is a "major cause of the rapid melting of the Arctic's sea ice.
Jacobson's refinement to the warming impacts of soot and his conclusion that black carbon may be the second leading cause of global warming in terms of radiative forcing was affirmed in the comprehensive review of Bond et al. (2013).[54] For this body of work, he received the Henry G. Houghton Award[30] from the American Meteorological Society in 2005 and the American Geophysical Union Ascent Award in 2013. Based on citations to his papers published in scientific journals, Jacobson is ranked the #1 most impactful scientist in the world in the field of Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences among those first publishing after 1985 and #12 among those publishing after 1788; in the field of Energy, he is ranked #6 among those first publishing after 1980 and #16 among those publishing after 1788. [17]
Jacobson has also independently modeled and corroborated the work of
Because of the short atmospheric lifetime of black carbon, in 2002 Jacobson concluded that controlling soot is the fastest way to begin to control global warming and that it will likewise improve human health.[55] However, he cautioned that controlling carbon dioxide, the leading cause of global warming, was imperative for stopping warming.
100% renewable energy
Jacobson has published papers about transitioning to 100% renewable energy systems, including the grid integration of renewable energy. He has concluded that wind, water, and solar (WWS) power can be scaled up in cost-effective ways to fulfill world energy demands in all energy sectors, In 2009 Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi published "A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables" in
Jacobson and his colleagues then published papers on transitioning three states to 100% renewable/WWS energy by 2050.[57][58][59] In 2015, Jacobson was the lead author of two peer reviewed papers, one of which examined the feasibility of transitioning each of the 50 United States to a 100% energy system, powered exclusively by wind, water and sunlight (WWS), and the other that provided one proposed method to solve the grid reliability problem with high shares of intermittent sources.[60] In 2016 the editorial board of PNAS selected the grid integration study of Jacobson and his co-workers as best paper in the category "Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences" and awarded him a Cozzarelli Prize.[61]
Jacobson has also published papers to transition 139,[62] 143,[63] and 145 countries[64][65] as well as 54 towns[66] and cities and 74 metropolitan areas[67] to 100% WWS renewable energy for all purposes. For his work on solving large-scale air pollution and climate problems, Jacobson was awarded the Judi Friedman Lifetime Achievement award in 2018.[68] In 2021, he was named the "Visionary CleanTech Influencer of the Year" for "Visionary Individuals" at the World CleanTech Awards.[69] In 2023, he was selected as one of "the 100 people who have made the most significant impact on the world this year" by Worth Magazine.[15][16]
Jacobson is co-founder of the non-profit
Opinion on energy systems
Like his PhD advisor
This analysis is controversial. Jacobson arrived at this conclusion of "25 times more carbon emissions than wind, per unit of energy generated" (68–180.1 g/kWh), by specifically expanding on some concepts that are highly contested.
The
Decarbonization assessments
Jacobson's 100% renewable world approach is supported by publications among at least 17 international research groups that find 100% renewables possible at low cost throughout the world. It is also supported by the Global 100RE Strategy Group, a coalition of 47 scientists supporting 100% renewable energy to solve the climate problem. His work is also consistent with results from a study out of the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which found that a 100% clean, renewable U.S. electricity grid with no combustion turbines might cost ~4.8 ¢/kWh to keep the grid stable. This is less than the cost of electricity from a new natural gas plant. His work is further supported by a 2016 publication by
Opinions on nuclear energy
Jacobson argues that if the United States wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, it should invest only in the best energy options, and that nuclear power is not one of them.
That analysis accounted for some emission sources not included in previous analyses, The primary emissions due to nuclear energy are called “opportunity-cost emissions.” These are the emissions from the background grid due to the long time lag between planning and operation of a nuclear plant (10 to 19 years) versus a wind or solar farm (2 to 5 years), for example. Of the total estimated emissions from nuclear in the 2009 study (68–180.1 g/kWh), 59–106 g/kWh was due to opportunity-cost emissions. Most of the rest (9-70 g/kWh) was due to lifecycle emissions, and a small amount (0-4.1 g/kWh) was due to the risk of carbon emissions associated with the burning of cities resulting from a nuclear war aided by the expansion of nuclear energy to countries previously without them, and the subsequent development of weapons in those countries. Jacobson raised this last assumption during a Ted talk Does the world need nuclear energy? in 2010, with Jacobson heading the debate in the negative.[63]
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported a range of total-life-cycle nuclear power emissions as between 4-110 g/kWh[54] Jacobson's lifecycle emission figures of 9-70 g/kWh fall within this IPCC range. The IPCC however, did not account for "opportunity cost" emissions. The IPCC did not provide any explanation for not including such emissions. Although nuclear advocates have balked at the idea of including even a small risk of emissions[citation needed], even at the high end, from a potential nuclear war arising from the spread of nuclear energy, the IPCC has stated that,
"Barriers to and risks associated with an increasing use of nuclear energy include operational risks and the associated safety concerns, uranium mining risks, financial and regulatory risks, unresolved waste management issues, nuclear weapons proliferation concerns, and adverse public opinion.”[67]
In 2012, Jacobson coauthored a paper estimating the health effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The paper projected approximately 180 "cancer-related morbidities" to eventually occur in the public.[76][77] Health physicist Kathryn Higley of Oregon State University wrote in 2012, "The methods of the study were solid, and the estimates were reasonable, although there is still uncertainty around them. But given how much cancer already exists in the world, it would be very difficult to prove that anyone’s cancer was caused by the incident at Fukushima Daiichi." Burton Richter, tenured in Stanford with Jacobson, who analyzed the use of the disputed Linear no-Threshold (LNT) model in the paper, similarly stated in his critique, "It is a first rate job and uses sources of radioactivity measurements that have not been used before to get a very good picture of the geographic distribution of radiation, a very good idea". Richter also noted that "I also think there is too much editorializing about accident potential at Diablo Canyon which makes [Jacobson's] paper sound a bit like an anti-nuclear piece instead of the very good analysis that it is," and "It seems clear that considering only the electricity generated by the Fukushima plant, nuclear is much less damaging to health than coal and somewhat better that [sic] gas even after including the accident. If nuclear power had never been deployed in Japan the effects on the public would have [been] much worse."[85][80]
Critiques of 100% renewable papers and court controversy
Jacobson's renewable energy solutions exclude nuclear power, carbon capture, and bioenergy.
Jacobson was also an expert witness on behalf of 16 youth plaintiffs in Held v. Montana, the first climate trial in U.S. history.[29] Jacobson testified that the state could transition to renewable energy.[29] The judge ruled in favor of the youth plaintiffs.[29]
Publications
Books
- Jacobson, M. Z., Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modeling. Cambridge University Press, New York, 656 pp., 1999.
- Jacobson, M. Z., Atmospheric Pollution: History, Science, and Regulation, Cambridge University Press, New York, 399 pp., 2002.
- Jacobson, M. Z., Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modeling, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, New York, 813 pp., 2005.
- Jacobson, M. Z., Air Pollution and Global Warming: History, Science, and Solutions, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2011.
- Jacobson, M.Z., 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything, Cambridge University Press, New York, 427 pp., 2020.
- Jacobson, M.Z., No Miracles Needed: How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air, Cambridge University Press, New York, 454 pp., 2023.
Selected articles
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - Jacobson, Mark Z (February 1, 2001). "Strong radiative heating due to the mixing state of black carbon in atmospheric aerosols". Wikidata Q46131808.
- Jacobson, Mark Z (January 1, 2001). "Global direct radiative forcing due to multicomponent anthropogenic and natural aerosols". Wikidata Q55981483.
- Streets, David G.; Jiang, Kejun; Hu, Xiulian; Sinton, Jonathan E.; Zhang, Xiao-Quan; Xu, Deying; Jacobson, Mark Z.; Wikidata Q30666428.
- Jacobson, Mark Z (2001). "Global direct radiative forcing due to multicomponent anthropogenic and natural aerosols". .
- Jacobson, Mark Z (2002). "Control of fossil-fuel particulate black carbon and organic matter, possibly the most effective method of slowing global warming". .
- Jacobson, Mark Z; Colella, W. G.; Golden, D. M. (2005). "(2005) Cleaning the Air and Improving Health with Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles". S2CID 1859983.
- Jacobson, Mark Z; Archer, Christina L. (2005). "Evaluation of global wind power". .
- Jacobson, Mark Z (2009). "Review of solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy security". doi:10.1039/b809990c.
- Jacobson, Mark Z; Delucchi, Mark A. (2011). "Providing all global energy with wind, water, and solar power, Part I: Technologies, energy resources, quantities and areas of infrastructure, and materials". .
- Jacobson, Mark Z; Delucchi, Mark A. (2011). "Providing all global energy with wind, water, and solar power, Part II: Reliability, system and transmission costs, and policies". .
- Jacobson, Mark Z; Archer, Christina L. (2012). "Saturation wind power potential and its implications for wind energy". PMID 23019353.
- Jacobson; et al. (2015). "100% clean and renewable wind, water, and sunlight (WWS) all-sector energy roadmaps for the 50 United States". .
- Jacobson; et al. (2015). "Low-cost solution to the grid reliability problem with 100% penetration of intermittent wind, water, and solar for all purposes". PMID 26598655.
- Jacobson, Mark Z.; Delucchi, Mark A.; Cameron, Mary A.; Frew, Bethany A. (June 27, 2017). "The United States can keep the grid stable at low cost with 100% clean, renewable energy in all sectors despite inaccurate claims". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (26): E5021–E5023. PMID 28630350.
- Jacobson, Mark Z.; Delucchi, Mark A.; Cameron, Mary A.; Mathiesen, Brian V. (August 1, 2018). "Matching demand with supply at low cost in 139 countries among 20 world regions with 100% intermittent wind, water, and sunlight (WWS) for all purposes". Renewable Energy. 123: 236–248. S2CID 46784278.
- Jacobson, Mark Z. (2019). "The health and climate impacts of carbon capture and S2CID 207925484.
- Jacobson, Mark Z. (January 21, 2009). "Review of solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy security". Energy & Environmental Science. 2 (2): 148–173. doi:10.1039/B809990C.
- Jacobson, Mark Z.; Delucchi, Mark A.; Bazouin, Guillaume; Bauer, Zack A. F.; Heavey, Christa C.; Fisher, Emma; Morris, Sean B.; Piekutowski, Diniana J. Y.; Vencill, Taylor A.; Yeskoo, Tim W. (July 3, 2015). "100% clean and renewable wind, water, and sunlight (WWS) all-sector energy roadmaps for the 50 United States". Energy & Environmental Science. 8 (7): 2093–2117. .
- Jacobson, Mark Z.; Delucchi, Mark A.; Cameron, Mary A.; Coughlin, Stephen J.; Hay, Catherine A.; Manogaran, Indu Priya; Shu, Yanbo; von Krauland, Anna-Katharina (December 20, 2019). "Impacts of Green New Deal Energy Plans on Grid Stability, Costs, Jobs, Health, and Climate in 143 Countries". One Earth. 1 (4): 449–463. S2CID 210964561.
- M.Z., Jacobson. "100% Wind, Water, and Solar (WWS) All-Sector Energy Roadmaps for Countries, States, Cities, and Towns". Web.stanford.edu.
See also
- Amory Lovins
- Benjamin K. Sovacool
- Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit
- Mark Diesendorf
- Nuclear power debate
- Renewable energy commercialization
- Renewable energy debate
- Stephen Thomas
- Vaclav Smil
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External links
- Precourt Institute for Energy
- Jacobson, Mark Z. (2009). "Review of solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy security". Energy Environ. Sci. 2 (2): 148–173. doi:10.1039/b809990c.
- Mark Z. Jacobson at TED