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Extreme Heat: Big Cities, 2050
We are entering new levels of extreme heat. June 2019 was the warmest June ever recorded. The Weather Channel summarized it: At a Glance Four separate analyses, including from NOAA and NASA, found Earth’s warmest June on record was in … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Sustainability
Tagged 1880, 2050, a/c, Adaptation, air conditioner, air conditioning, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Beijing, Britain, C40, Cairo, China, city, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Delhi, Drought, Dubai, Egypt, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Europe, extreme heat, Extreme Weather, Future, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Health, heat, heat wave, heatwave, India, Istanbul, Japan, Ljubljana, London, Madrid, Mexico, Mexico City, Mitigation, Moscow, NASA, New York City, NOAA, NYC, Renewable, renewable energy, risk, Science, Seattle, Slovenia, Solar, Spain, summer, Sustainability, Temperature, temperature change, Tokyo, urban population, US, Water, water crisis, Water Shortage, Water Stress, Wind
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Deadly Confusions: Administration Doesn’t Believe its Own EPA Reports; That Could Cost Lives, Economy
In this blog I will continue to analyze the economic damage that the US government’s insistence on carrying on business as usual practices in the face of climate change will likely inflict on the country. Last week I discussed the … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, law, politics, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Adaptation, air pollution, air quality, allergens, analyses, analysis, Andrew Wheeler, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, carbon emission, CIRA, Clean Energy, climate assessment, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Coal, Donald Trump, economic damage, Economics, Emissions, Environment, EPA, GHG, Global Warming, green energy, greenhouse gas, Health, Labor, mortality, NCA, Pollution, RCP, scenario, Science, Scott Pruitt, Solar, Temperature, Trump, US, Wind
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Ocean Health Issues – How Do We Measure Health?
Last week’s blog was an introduction to the vulnerabilities that we face with the deterioration of our oceans. It paid particular attention to the recently published study of evidence associating the 4th mass extinction with ocean deoxygenation – which effectively … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability, Water
Tagged acidification, Adaptation, anoxia, Anthropocene, anthropocentric, Anthropogenic, atlantic, biodiversity, Brundtland report, Carbon, carbon storage, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, coast, coastal, CSSR, deoxygenation, Economy, ecosystem, Emissions, Environment, Evaporation, extinct, extinction, fishing, food provision, Fresh Water, Future, Global Warming, goal, greenhouse gas, habitat, Health, heat, heat content, heat feedback, indicator, livelihood, marine, mass extinction, melting, Mitigation, NCA4, Ocean, ocean health, Ocean Health Index, Pacific, polar ice, Precipitation, rain, recreation, Salt Water, Science, sea ice, sea level, sea water, Sea-Level Rise, species, stratification, Sustainability, Temperature, Tourism, Variability
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Invasive Species, Collective Suicide, and Self-Inflicted Genocide
Recently, the NYT published some answers to questions posed by readers: “Are We an Invasive Species? Plus, Other Burning Climate Questions.” One of these questions was whether or not humans count as an invasive species: Are we an invasive species? … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, alien, Anthropocene, Astrobiology, Biology, cassini, catastrophe, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Collective Suicide, contaminate, cosmology, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, environmental, environmentalist, evolution, extraterrestrial, foreign, Fossil Fuels, Future, Genocide, Global Population, global suicide, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Health, Hiroshima, homo sapien, human, human environment, human-centric, invade, invader, invasive, IUCN, life, Mars, meteorite, microbial life, NASA, native, non-native, Nuclear Winter, saturn, Science, Self Inflicted Genocide, Smithsonian, species, Sustainability, World Population
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Let There be Light!
*Special note: I will stress that this blog pertains to my own reading/interpretation of the book described, but after hearing feedback from my friend, the author, I have made a few minor edits and added explanations. In last week’s blog … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, COP21, Election, IPCC, Sustainability, UN, UNFCCC
Tagged Adaptation, ash, Biology, bipartisan, bottom-up, budget, Clean Energy, climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, DOE, Donald Trump, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, emphasis, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EPA, Fossil Fuels, Future, Genocide, Global Warming, governance, Government, grassroots, Health, Hebrew, History, Holocaust, IPCC, Israel, Jew, Jewish, law, light, Mitigation, NIH, NSF, Obama, Palestine, Paris Agreement, Physics, Poland, Policy, president, protection, refugee, regulation, Relli Robinson, Research, Science, Scott Pruitt, Self Inflicted Genocide, Sustainability, Technology, top-down, Trump, UN, UNFCCC, US, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto
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Perspectives
I had lunch the other day with a classics professor friend. He made a comment that in one of his classes, a student drew a parallel between the geographic pattern of the recent voting in the US and the differences … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Election, IPCC, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Agriculture, America, America First, American Physical Society, art, Athens, backup, budget, budget cut, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, code, code for science and society, commerce, Congress, dark data, Data, data backup, defense, discretionary fund, DNNer, Donald Trump, eco, eco-friendly, Economics, Education, Election, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EPA, fact, Fossil Fuels, GDP, geography, Global Warming, Greece, greenhouse gas, Health, History, Holocaust, homeland security, humanities, Israel, justice, Kim Jong Un, Labor, Mick Mulvaney, Military, Mitigation, national endowment, Nazi, NOAA, North Korea, Nuclear, Obama, Physics, politics, Power, priority, public broadcasting, renewable energy, Rex Tillerson, save data, Science, security, software, Sparta, Sustainability, Technology, testosterone, transportation, Trump, trump tower, truth, US, veteran, vote, voter, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto
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China – Air Quality
My last two blogs described some of China’s largest cities’ attempts to limit their number of cars. A lot of this had to do with reducing the terrible air pollution in these cities. Pollution is one of the key reasons … Continue reading
Europe in June: The Schedule of the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change
By the time that this blog is posted I will be in England on my way to the Netherlands and France, ending up in Reykjavik, Iceland. In Iceland I will attend the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Activism, Adaptation, Agriculture, Antarctic, Anthropogenic, Arctic, Arid, Australia, Austria, Awareness, Bangladesh, Biology, Botswana, Brazil, California, Canada, Carbon, carbon dioxide, China, Class, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Colombia, Conference, Crisis, Denmark, Development, Disolved Organic Nitrogen, Ecohydrologic, Ecotourism, Education, Emissions, Energy, Energy Saving, Environment, Finland, Fish, Food, Fossil Fuels, France, Gender, Germany, Ghana, Global, Global Population, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Grizzly Bear, Health, heat, Heat Exhaustion, Heat Stroke, Heat Syncope, Hurricane, Iceland, Impacts and Responses, India, International, IPCC, Japan, Lake, Mauritius, Media, Meteorology, Mitigation, Modernization, Net-Zero, Netherlands, News, Nitrogen, Nutrition, Ocean, Permafrost, Pesticide, Physics, Plants, Polar Bears, Policy, Power Plants, Precipitation, Race, Reykjavík, Science, Sea, Sequestration, Social Science, Sustainability, Teaching, Technology, Thermal, Tibet, Tornado, TRMM, Typhoon, UK, Urban Development, Video Games, Water, Water Cycle, Water Stress, Watershed, Workshop, World, World Population
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