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The American Jobs Plan & Power Generation by Source
Last week, when I discussed the new $2.3 trillion “American Jobs Plan,” I listed the costs of items that directly address climate change mitigation. The second most expensive item was the $174 billion program for electric vehicle incentive. A few … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Biden, coronavirus, Electric Cars, Sustainability, US
Tagged Adaptation, American jobs plan, Biden, carbon emissions, carbon zero, Climate Change, CO2, Coal, economic, Economy, electric car, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, fossil fuel, fuel, Gas, Global Warming, IEA, Infrastructure, low carbon, Methane, Mitigation, NOAA, Nuclear, Oil, Power, power plant, renewables, Solar, Sustainability, Sustainable, temperature rise, Wind
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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, coronavirus, 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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The End of the Beginning
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” – Winston Churchill Winston Churchill made this declaration in his speech after the British won the … Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus, Holocaust
Tagged 2021, Churchill, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, death, El-Alamein, Future, History, Hitler, Holocaust, hope, immunity, New Year, pandemic, spanish flu, Stalingrad, survivor, symptom, trial, vaccine, Volker Ullrich, Wonder Woman, WWI, WWII
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Guest Blog: The Effects of Climate Change on Pandemics
Hello readers! This week’s guest blog is from Alvin Huang, Paula Glab, and Yuduo Wu. Combined, we are pursuing degrees in the fields of physics and computer science. Through this blog post, we hope to spread information on the correlation … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, coronavirus
Tagged animals, Antarctic, anthrax, Arctic, Climate Change, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, dengue, disease, el nino, Environment, epidemic, exposure, Future, Global Warming, greenhouse gas mosquitoes, humidity, ice melt, insects, IPCC, la nina, LCC, malaria, migration, mosquitoes, pandemic, pathogen, Permafrost, Prediction, RCP, scenario, spread, Sri-Lanka, temperature rise, tropical disease
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Freedom and Liberty
Today is election day. We’ll be voting for state and local officials but the race the whole world is watching is the one for US president. People everywhere are calling this the most important election of our lifetime. Of course, … Continue reading
Posted in administration, coronavirus, Election, politics, Trump, US
Tagged America, collective, constitution, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, doctor, Donald Trump, Election, freedom, Future, Health, individual, law, liberty, lockdown, mask, pandemic, religion, rights, safety, Science, Trump, turnout, US, vote, voter, voter turnout
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COVID and Climate: Learning From One to Use On the Other
I have mentioned the concept of “constructive destruction” in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic before (June 16, 2020). By necessity, our status quo is being disrupted, but that also means we are beginning to grow in unexpected ways. At … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, coronavirus, politics, Trump, US
Tagged bacteria, Biden, Bill Gates, carbon dioxide, Climate Change, CO2, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, Debate, disease, Donald Trump, Economy, elections, Europe, fact, Fauci, fossil fuel, Future, ice melt, Joe Biden, lockdown, Oil, pandemic, Pennsylvania, Permafrost, permafrost melt, president trump, Science, Texas, Transition, Trump, truth, US, virus, zero carbon
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Happy Jewish New Year
Let This Year be as Short as Possible and Mark the End of the Virus I started to write a blog about opening schools—a timely topic right now. However, I got a message from my Australian family for Rosh Hashana—the … Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus
Tagged Australia, bridge, bush fire, Climate Change, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, Extreme Weather, fire, Flood, forest fire, Global Warming, holiday, Hurricane, Islam, Jew, Jewish, kugel, mental health, muslim, New Year, rosh hashana, School, social distance, social distancing, strategy, tzimmes, wild fire, wildfire
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Simultaneous Global Disasters
About a month ago (August 4th), I wrote a blog that used a Venn diagram to show the overlap of climate change, COVID-19, projected population change, job availability, and socio-economic status. My discussion was relatively abstract. Now, only one month … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, coronavirus, Extreme Weather, law, politics, US
Tagged air conditioner, air conditioning, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, apocalypse, apocalyptic, asteroid, Belarus, blackout, California, Christianity, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, Durer, Election, Electricity, Energy, Extreme Weather, fire, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Islam, Judaism, Kenosha, Laura, Louisiana, Marco, Minneapolis, police violence, Policy, religion, Science, sins, social justice, storm, Texas, wild fire
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