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Carbon Dioxide and Temperature: Who Has Led Whom?

March 4, 2013 By Daniel Botkin 1 Comment

As I wrote in my new book, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell, given the scientific complexities, one can only be rather agnostic about the role that human actions have played and are playing in climate change.  A new, important paper in the journal Science casts some fascinating light on the question of whether carbon dioxide change precedes temperature change, and therefore is a … [Read more...]

Nuclear Power: More Evidence That It Is Not Environmentally Friendly

February 23, 2013 By Daniel Botkin 2 Comments

More evidence that nuclear power is not an environmentally friendly way to go came to light today.  Six underground tanks holding radioactive waste are leaking at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in eastern Washington.  (See this New York Times article, February 23, 2013)Hanford was built in 1943 as part of the  Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb.  As a primary … [Read more...]

Radio Interview – For Your Ears Only

January 31, 2013 By Daniel Botkin Leave a Comment

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On January 26, 2013, veteran radio host David Alpern interviewed Dr. Botkin on Radio America's For Your Ears Only. They discussed President Obama’s Inaugural Address and Dr. Botkin’s action items for the president. President Obama surprised many in his Second Inaugural Address by highlighting global climate change and the need to address it, devoting eight sentences of his … [Read more...]

Jim Bohannon Show Interview

January 26, 2013 By Daniel Botkin Leave a Comment

On The Air

Dr. Botkin was interviewed on the Jim Bohannon Show, discussing President Obama's options on climate change and clean energy. It was a bit of a surprise to hear President Obama talk about climate change in his inaugural address, given that the issue didn't really come up during the Presidential campaign. Still, putting it in the speech certainly gives the issue higher … [Read more...]

EMagazine Article

January 23, 2013 By Daniel Botkin Leave a Comment

New York Solar Panels

In a recently published article in EMagazine, Dr. Botkin writes: Although Hurricane Sandy left much of lower Manhattan dark, cold and without electricity, some 5,000 residents of the Chelsea area’s Penn South Cooperative had power, lights, heating, elevators, Internet and television. That’s because Penn South has its own cogenerating electric power plant, connected to the … [Read more...]

New York Nightly News Interview

January 8, 2013 By Daniel Botkin Leave a Comment

The Moon In a Nautilus Shell

Dr. Botkin was recently interviewed at WNBC, New York, about topics in his new book The Moon In a Nautilus Shell.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FJTlsyCBjw … [Read more...]

Daniel Botkin A Guest PRX Radio Program IdeaSphere with Guy Rathbun

November 14, 2012 By richf Leave a Comment

Dan recently appeared as a guest on IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices, distributed nationally by Public Radio Exchange (PRX) and hosted and produced by Guy Rathbun. The topic of the program was Dan's latest book, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered. Specifically, Dan and Guy discussed how our Judeo-Christian belief in the balance of nature … [Read more...]

Daniel Botkin on The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC Radio

October 3, 2012 By richf Leave a Comment

Dan appeared WNYC 93.9 FM and AM 820, New York's flagship public radio stations, as a guest on The Leonard Lopate Show today, Wednesday, October 3, 2012.On the program, Dan discussed his new book, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered, and explained that in a world constantly confronted by global environmental problems, establishing effective … [Read more...]

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From Daniel B. Botkin, Ph.D

Daniel Botkin
I believe we are mostly on the wrong track in the way we try to deal with the environment. Everything I do, study, learn, and advise about the environment is different from the status quo. Throughout my career, I have tried to understand how nature works and use that understanding to figure out how we can solve our most pressing environmental problems.

My process over the past 45 years has been to look carefully at the facts, make simple calculations from them (sometimes simple computer models) and then tell people what I have learned. It’s surprising how rarely people bother to look at the facts. This has surprised me every time I’ve started a new ecology research project or work on an environmental issue.

In the course of my work and studies, I have learned many things and I want to tell you about them. That is the purpose of this website.

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Books by Dan Botkin

The Moon in the Nautilus Shell  Strange Encounters
Powering the Future  No Man's Garden
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Jabowa III Forest Model


Jabowa Forest Model
Jabowa Forest Model for Windows 7.
This forest model, used around the world, was developed first in 1970 by Daniel B. Botkin, James F. Janak and James R. Wallis

JABOWA remains the most completely detailed and well validated forest growth model available, accounting for 95% or more of the variation in real forests where it has been tested.

The book Forest Dynamics: An Ecological Model (available as an eBook) provides a complete description of the model and the rationales behind its development.

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Sea Ice Study

The Bockstoce and Botkin Historical Sea Ice Data Study has a new home at the University of Alaska website. The data include more than 52,000 daily observations in an unbroken 65 year record from 1849 – 1914.

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