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Category Archives: coronavirus
Looking at the Future Through Coronavirus-Infected Eyes
The iconic MAGA hat exemplifies the Trump administration’s unilateralist “America First” philosophy, to the detriment of global welfare I am starting to write this blog on Thursday, August 6th. The coronavirus situation is currently: Globally: around 19 million cases, more … Continue reading
Posted in administration, coronavirus
Tagged Adaptation, administration, America First, arms control, atom bomb, atomic bomb, atomic weapon, blackboard, Brooklyn College, cases, Climate Change, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, CUNY, death, distanced learning, Donald Trump, Future, google meet, Health, Hiroshima, immigration, Japan, John Bolton, lockdown, MAGA, Mitigation, Nagasaki, New York, nuclear war, NYC, pandemic, Paris Agreement, president trump, social distancing, treaty, Trump, unilateral, unilateralist, WHO, WWII, zoom, zosia samosia
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Inequity: The Intersection of Coronavirus, Poverty & other Expected Trends
As with most of my blogs, I wrote this one over the weekend (starting Friday). Last week, I looked at the Sierra Club’s Venn diagram of the Green New Deal. I argued that in order to address the near future … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, coronavirus, Economics, Sustainability, US
Tagged Arab states, Bahrain, Climate Change, coronavirus, COVID 19, Education, equity, essential services, essential worker, Florida, foreign labor, Future, green new deal, Gulf, hot spot, Hurricane, inequity, jobs, Kuwait, minority, Oman, pandemic, pay cut, Population, Poverty, Qatar, Race, socio-economic, socioeconomic, Texas, venn diagram, work force
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The Green New Deal and Coronavirus: Intersections
Remember the Green New Deal (see the February 19, 2019 blog)? Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Senator Ed Murphy introduced the broad resolution to both houses of congress last year. To emphasize the breath of the resolution, here is a … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Climate Change, coronavirus, politics, Sustainability, US
Tagged adapt, Adaptation, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, Biden, China, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, Drought, Economics, Economy, Ed Murphy, Election, equity, Extreme Weather, Fertility, fire, Future, GDP, Global Population, GND, green new deal, hope, Hurricane, India, intersection, Italy, Japan, jobs, Joe Biden, mitigate, Mitigation, overlap, pandemic, political, politics, Population, president, Spain, Trump, US, venn diagram
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Using COVID-19 to Measure Energy Consumption at Brooklyn College
I am on the faculty at both CUNY Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan. CUNY is a huge institution: The City University of New York is the nation’s largest urban public university, a transformative engine of social … Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus, Electricity, Energy
Tagged a/c, base load, Brooklyn College, carbon neutral, Climate Change, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, CUNY, Electricity, Energy, Energy Consumption, energy transition, Global Warming, law, lockdown, New York, NYC, pandemic, peak load, Sustainability
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How to Use COVID-19 to Make your Workplace Greener
The “lonely” Brooklyn College in June This is the beautiful campus where I teach. There are almost no students; it looks lonely. Granted, I took the photograph on Sunday, June 21st, a day when the campus likely wouldn’t look much … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, coronavirus, Electricity, Energy, Sustainability
Tagged blackout, Brooklyn College, brownout, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, CO2, CO2 emissions, college, coronavirus, covid, CUNY, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Fossil Fuels, Gosaba, Hydroelectric, India, Infrastructure, legislation, lockdown, Microgrid, New Year, NYC, pandemic, Power, power grid, Renewable, social distance, Solar, Transition, virus, Wind
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Extreme Weather & the Energy Transition
All over the world, people are getting tired of the lockdowns and frozen economies, and yet the virus is still on the rise in many places. As countries and states reopen, carbon emissions are resurging. Here is what that means … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, coronavirus, Extreme Weather, Sustainability, Trump, US
Tagged Adaptation, Brazil, China, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, Donald Trump, Election, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EU, Europe, financing, Freddie Mac, Future, green new deal, greenhouse gas, India, Investment, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Oil, pandemic, Population, Recession, Renewable, renewable energy, Sustainable, US
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COVID-19-Inspired Longer-Term Changes to the Energy Transition
I started to write this blog on Thursday, June 11th. On that day, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced that, “we can’t shut down the economy again.” The Federal Reserve and others had already made grim predictions about the long-term economic … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, coronavirus
Tagged CO2, CO2 emissions, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, death, discounting the future, economic, Economy, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy intensity, energy transition, federal reserve, GDP, Health, healthcare, IEA, immunity, jobs, legal, lockdown, Mnuchin, negative emissions, pandemic, Science, scientist, shutdown, social distance, social distancing, spanish flu, stocks, Transition, US, waiver
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Negative Energy Pricing
Last week, I outlined some markers of how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the global energy transition and how that ties in with climate change in the long run. For instance, the global decrease in GDP and the resulting drop … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, coronavirus, Electricity, Energy
Tagged Battery, carbon emissions, CO2, Coal, conservation of energy, conversion, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, crude oil, Demand, Economics, Economy, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, fossil fuel, GDP, Germany, greenhouse gas, Hydroelectric, lockdown, negative energy pricing, Oil, pandemic, Physics, Power, power company, power plant, power prices, primary energy, Renewable, Solar, Supply, Sustainability, Sustainable, US, Weather, Wind
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Coronavirus Impacts on the Energy Transition
What impacts will the COVID-19 pandemic have on the longer-term climate change disaster? I’ll begin to address this topic here, starting with some observations, and expand upon it with some suggestions in future blogs. Throughout my more than 8 years … Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus, Electricity, Energy, Sustainability, US
Tagged carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, China, Climate Change, CO2, Coal, consumption, coronavirus, COVID 19, Economics, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, Fossil Fuels, Future, lockdown, pandemic, power plant, virus, Wuhan
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Global Disasters at Different Speeds: How Do We Teach and Learn Now?
Israeli beach, May 16th My university just wrapped up its 2020 spring semester. As in most schools, our classrooms all moved online shortly after the semester began. This shift has applied to most other activities as well. In the US … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, coronavirus, Extreme Weather
Tagged Australia, Bangladesh, Bolsonaro, Brazil, bushfire, chemistry, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, Climate Denial, climate denier, contagion, contagious, coronavirus, COVID 19, cyclone, dam, disaster, fire, Flood, Future, Gulf States, heat wave, India, Israel, Michigan, middle east, natural disaster, Online Education, pandemic, peak, Physical Environment, quarantine, refugee, Rohingya, Science, scientist, Scott Morrison, social distance, social distancing, socialism, time scale, Trump, US, Virginia, virus
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