Mark Z. Jacobson

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Mark Z. Jacobson at a press conference in Berlin, March 23, 2010

Mark Zachary Jacobson (* 1965 ) is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and Director of the University's Atmosphere and Energy Program .

education

Jacobson studied civil engineering and economics at Stanford University and graduated from both subjects in 1988 with a bachelor's degree . After completing a master’s degree in environmental engineering , he moved to the University of California , where he initially received another master’s degree in atmospheric sciences in 1991 , and in this subject in 1994 a Ph.D. PhD. He then moved back to Stanford University. From 1994 to 2001 he worked there as assistant professor for civil and environmental engineering, from 2001 to 2007 as associate professor. Since 2007, he has the Chair held in this field.

Act

Jacobson creates computer models of the effects of various energy technologies and their emissions on air pollution and the climate . He developed a model for calculating the climate impact of black carbon, which was used by more than 1000 researchers as of 2014 and is one of the leading climate researchers working on the impact of aerosols .

Jacobson also received strong international attention through his essay "A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet With Renewables", published in Scientific American in 2009 together with Mark A. Delucchi . It shows that renewable energies such as wind , water and solar energy can meet the world's growing energy needs at reasonable prices and thus help to accelerate the departure from the era of fossil or nuclear fuels . In 2011, this scenario was published in a significantly expanded form in two parts in the scientific journal Energy Policy and cited very widely. As of May 2015, these two parts were ranked 2nd and 3rd of the most cited articles in Energy Policy since 2010.

Jacobson said a swift transition to clean renewable energies is urgently needed to reduce the potential acceleration of global warming and its consequences globally, including the melting of the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps.

legal action

In 2017, Ken Caldeira and 20 other researchers published the largest bundled review of Jacobson's 2015 paper "A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet With Renewables," in which Jacob set up a model for a world with 100% renewables. David Victor of the University of California, San Diego, a co-author of the critical paper, was motivated to contribute when "politicians began to use [Jacobon's paper] as scientific underpinning," when it came to the "blatantly wrong" Essays belong. Jacobson's paper was published in the same scientific journal as the review, PNAS . In the same issue as the review, the journal also printed a reply from Jacobson and his co-authors.

Jacobson filed a lawsuit against the Journal and lead author Christopher Clack in 2017, demanding, among other things, $ 10 million in damages for defamation. News reports and scholars criticized the lawsuit. Jacobson withdrew his lawsuit in 2018. He says he complained that the Journal refused to print a correction to him. He filed the lawsuit with the expectation that an out-of-court settlement would be reached. During the proceedings he offered to drop the lawsuit if only a correction would be printed, but the journal refused here too. The journalist Michael Hiltzik criticizes Jacobson. Since PNAS also printed Jacobson's reply together with the criticism, the criticism of the criticism is already part of the scientific literature, anyone interested in the topic would come across it. And if Jacobson had not filed a lawsuit, PNAS or other journals would have provided print pages for further debates on the subject.

Publications

Books

  • Jacobson, MZ, Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modeling . Cambridge University Press, New York, 656 pp., 1999.
  • Jacobson, MZ, Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modeling , Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, New York, 813 pp., 2005.
  • Jacobson, MZ, Atmospheric Pollution: History, Science, and Regulation , Cambridge University Press, New York, 399 pp., 2002.
  • Jacobson, MZ, Air Pollution and Global Warming: History, Science, and Solutions , Cambridge University Press, New York, 2011.

Important technical articles (selection)

Magazine articles

  • with Mark A. Delucchi: A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet With Renewables . In: Scientific American (2009), 58-65.

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bitz, Ginoux, Jacobson, Nizkorodov, and Yang Receive 2013 Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Awards . In: Eos. Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 95, No. 29, (2014), doi : 10.1002 / 2014EO290012 .
  2. ↑ A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet With Renewables: Wind, water and solar technologies can provide 100 percent of the world's energy, eliminating all fossil fuels. Here's how , Jacobson, MZ, and Delucchi, MA, Scientific American, November 2009
  3. ^ Most Cited Energy Policy Articles . Energy Policy website . Retrieved May 23, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b A bitter scientific debate just erupted over the future of America's power grid
  5. ↑ Eduardo Porter: Fisticuffs Over the Route to a Clean Energy Future . In: The New York Times . 20th June 2017.
  6. ↑ Michael Hiltzik: A Stanford professor drops his ridiculous defamation lawsuit against his scientific critics. Retrieved January 20, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Chris Woolston: Energy researcher sues the US National Academy of Sciences for millions of dollars . In: Nature . 551, No. 7679, November 8, 2017, pp. 152–153. doi : 10.1038 / nature.2017.22944 .
  8. ↑ Rob Niko Levski: Stanford professor sues critics of his 100% renewables article . In: The San Diego Union Tribune , November 1, 2017. 
  9. ↑ Christa Marshall: $ 10 million lawsuit over disputed energy study sparks Twitter was . 3rd November 2017. 
  10. ↑ Chris Mooney: Stanford professor files $ 10 million lawsuit against scientific journal over clean energy claims . In: Washington Post , November 1, 2017. 
  11. ^ Climate Scientist Mark Jacobson Sue's Journal for $ 10M over Hurt Feelings. The American Council on Science and Health 2017
  12. ↑ a b A Stanford professor drops his ridiculous defamation lawsuit against his scientific critics. LA Times
  13. ^ Prof who just dropped $ 10M suit against PNAS: "I was expecting them to settle" . February 23, 2018.
  14. ^ Cozzarelli Prize . PNAS website. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Jacobson, Mark Z.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobson, Mark Zachary (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American civil and environmental engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 1965