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Guest Blog: Loss & Damage Funds and the Developing Indian Subcontinent
Happy New Year everyone! This week, guest blogger Muhammad Siddiqui is taking over the Climate Change Fork blog. Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Micha Tomkiewicz, Ph.D., I’m a graduate student at Brooklyn College, CUNY, class of 2022. This blog … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, COP, Guest Blog, UN
Tagged Adaptation, Bangladesh, carbon dioxide, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, COP27, debt, developed, developing, Drought, Energy, energy transition, Extreme Weather, fire, Flood, fossil fuel, fund, Gas, GDP, gini coefficient, Guest Blog, hunger, India, Indus Valley, Inequality, Kuznets curve, Lorenz, Mitigation, Pakistan, Pollution, risk, UN
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Adaptation and Affordability: Developing Countries
Last week’s blog ended with documentation of the COP27’s late unanimous agreement to generate a special fund to help developing countries to cope with adaptation to damage that climate change inflicts. Below is the exact language that the UNFCCC is … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
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K-Shaped Global Disasters
In an earlier blog (August 4, 2020), I presented anthropogenic climate change, COVID-19, population, jobs, and equity as circles in a Venn Diagram. COVID-19 gives us an opportunity to quantify those relationships. In this case, jobs represent the economic impact … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics
Tagged amazon, Apple, AstraZeneca, BioNTech, Coal, college, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, economic, Economy, Education, energy transition, Future, GDP, gini coefficient, Global, Google, graph, high school, indicator, Inequality, Investment, jobs, model, Moderna, Netflix, pandemic, Pfizer, recovery, stocks, tech, Unemployment, US, vaccine, venn diagram, yellow vests, zoom
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Income Inequality: Climate Apartheid
About three months ago (May 14, 2019) I featured a student-written guest blog on income inequality. That blog centered on transportation. It wasn’t the first time that we have addressed the issue on Climate Change Fork. Previous blogs that focused … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Sustainability
Tagged Australia, Candidates, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, carbon intensity, census, climate, climate apartheid, Climate Change, climate refugee, CO2, CO2 emissions, Economics, Emissions, equality, Future, Gas, gini coefficient, govering, Government, green job, green new deal, housing, Human Rights, Income, income distribution, Income Inequality, Inequality, money, OECD, Oil, pension, politics, Pollution, shelter, society, strategy, transportation, UN, vote
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Guest Blog: How Income Inequality Correlates with CO2 Emissions and What We Can Do About It
Hello readers! This week’s guest blog is from Benjamin K, Quinn Downes, and Michael Guerin. Combined, we carry degrees in the fields of physics, chemistry, and biology. Through this blog post, we hope to spread information on the correlation between … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Change, Education, Guest Blog, Sustainability
Tagged Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Carbon, carbon emissions, cattle, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, correlation, developed, developing, Economics, Economy, Electricity, electricity generation, Emissions, Environment, environmental degradation, equality, GDP, gini coefficient, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Guest Blog, Hypothesis, Income, income distribution, Income Inequality, industrial economics, Inequality, Kuznets, lognormal, Lorenz, Policy, Power, power plant, ratio, rural, Science, transportation, Turkey, urban, US
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Yellow Vests, Al Gore, President Trump, Conflicts Between Present and Future
I love France. I have family there and many dear friends. I always look for opportunities to visit. Some in my family are social activists who “enjoy” demonstrating. So when the Yellow Vest (Gilets Jaunes) demonstrations started to take place, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged administration, Al Gore, Andrew Wheeler, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Arc de Triomphe, belief, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, critical mass, Donald Trump, Economics, Emanuel Macron, Energy, energy affordability, energy cost, energy reliability, energy transition, Environment, EU, fissile material, France, Future, Gas, gas prices, GDP, Germany, gilets jaunes, gini coefficient, Global Warming, Gore, governance, Government, Italy, law, Macron, minimum wage, Mitigation, Paris, Paris Agreement, Population, president trump, Science, Social Media, Spain, taxes, trigger, Trump, UK, wildfire, yellow jackets, yellow vests
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China – The Price of Progress: Inequality and Transparency
While I was in China (see last week’s blog), one of the questions that I asked most often – especially of those who mentioned that they have small children – was how people imagine China 20 years from now. This … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Algebra, censorship, China, data source, Economic Growth, Economics, Economy, GDP, Gini Coefficients, Hong Kong, Kuznets curve, Mongolia, NBS, PNAS, reference, World Bank
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Income Inequality – Science Magazine
Science Magazine is addressing inequality; on May 23rd, they came out with a special issue dedicated to the science of the topic (not exclusively – there is other stuff in the issue as well). Other special issues of Science this … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged 1%, 99%, Agriculture, Income, Income Inequality, Inequality, Physics, Piketty, Science, Science Magazine, Thermodynamics, Thomas Piketty
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Publishers
My book, Climate Change: The Fork at the End of Now was published in the early summer of 2011. I wrote it as a textbook for the general public, and it was used mainly for general education – both in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bjorn Lomborg, Book, Brooklyn College, Climate Change, Climate Change Fork, Climate Sensitivity, CUNY, Demographics, Education, Gini Coefficients, Herman Kahn, IPCC, Michio Kaku, National Intelligence Council, National Science Foundation, NSF, Physics, Publishers, The Physics of Wall Street, Tipping Point, Weatherall, World Population
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