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Wisdom from Australia: Are You Reading This?
In my first blog that I posted more than six and a half years ago, I described my early Holocaust experiences and their connection to my interest in climate change. I was born in Warsaw, Poland three months before the … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Holocaust, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, anomaly, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Australia, blog, brumby, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, cold, comic, consequence, denial, Donald Trump, effect, Environment, Family, feral, Future, Global Warming, heat, heat death, Heat Stroke, Holocaust, horse, Israel, Meteorology, Mitigation, NASA, NOAA, Polar Vortex, politics, Present, question, regulation, Science, survivor, Trump, understand, understanding, US, visit, vote, Weather, wild horse, winter, WMO
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The Arctic: We’re Going to Lapland!
I don’t have too many things on my bucket list but my wife and I have decided to use our winter school vacation to cross off one item from both our lists: going to see the aurora borealis (northern lights). … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Sustainability
Tagged Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Arctic, arctic circle, arctic ice, arctic ocean, aurora borealis, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Change Fork, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, energy transition, Environment, Finland, Fossil Fuels, Future, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Greenland, ice, infrastructureAlaska, Lapland, microplastic, Mitigation, NOAA, northern lights, Norway, scandinavia, Science, sea ice, Sweden, Temperature, tundra, Vacation, warming
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Two Anthropocenes
The alarming tone of the new IPCC report caught the immediate attention of the world’s media and triggered a quick dismissal from the president of the United States. The report, which spans about 1,300 pages, covers all the indicators that … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC
Tagged 1945, Anthropocene, Anthropocene Working Group, Anthropogenic, AWG, boundary concept, Carbon, carbon dioxide, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, decarbonize, Earth, energy industry, energy supply, energy transition, Environment, environmental, epoch, extinction, Future, geological age, geology, Global Warming, green energy, greenhouse gas, holocene, human contribution, indicator, Industrial Revolution, inhabitable, IPCC, NOAA, Nuclear, nuclear waste, nuclear weapon, Paris, Paris accord, Paris Agreement, Physical Environment, pliocene, radionuclide, Report, Science, Temperature, time scale, UN, UNFCCC, uninhabitable, US, WWII
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Location Sensitivities of Other Biota
My last blog ended with a promise that I would look into location sensitivity of other foods and drinks – after all, humans can’t survive on wine alone. When I Googled “climate change impact,” these were my top results: Marine … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, immigration, refugee, Sustainability, Water
Tagged Adaptation, Agriculture, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, biodiversity, biota, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, climate refugee, Climate Skeptics, crops, ecosystem, extinction, fishing, Food, food security, Global Warming, immigration, Maine, migration, NOAA, phenological mismatch, phenology, pollinator, refugee, Science, Sustainability, World Population
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Heat Wave
My school’s academic year is over and the summer break has started in full swing. Usually I take this time for a vacation and some new research initiatives. It is not surprising that I have far more flexibility now than … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, advisory, Afghanistan, air conditioner, air conditioning, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, danger, dangerous, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, excessive heat, Extreme Weather, Fossil Fuels, Future, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, heat, heat advisory, Heat Exhaustion, heat index, Heat Stroke, heat wave, humid, humidity, Israel, Mitigation, Nepal, NOAA, Pakistan, Science, South Asia, summer, sunstroke, Sustainability, Temperature, thermometer, US, Warning, Weather, World Bank
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Fake News: Attributions
Figure 1 – Snow in the Sahara If you do a Google image search for “Snow in the Sahara,” you will get a screen full of images similar to this one. What would bring you to search for that particular … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Adaptation, alaska, Anthropocene, Arctic, Arizona, atlantic, attribution, blame, California, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, cold, culpability, desert, Donald Trump, Drought, Emissions, Environment, Extreme Weather, fake, fake news, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, IPCC, Israel, Jennifer Francis, jet stream, joshua tree, land ice, melting, Mitigation, mojave desert, new mexico, NOAA, Polar Vortex, president trump, Rein Haarsma, Sahara, Science, sea ice, snow, Sustainability, Temperature, Trump, tweet, Twitter, US
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Saving the World Through the Pursuit of Self Interest
I took part in the March for Science on Earth Day in New York City, where I live. The photograph above is my introduction to the next two blogs, which will both focus on the march. This week I want … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability, Trump, UN
Tagged Adaptation, administration, antarctic ice, Antarctica, Bill Nelson, business as usual, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, conflict, conflict of interest, Congress, Donald Trump, drain the swamp, Earth, Earth Day, Economics, Emissions, Environment, Flood, Florida, Fossil Fuels, Future, Glacier, Global Warming, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, Greenland, ice, Insurance, interest, IPCC, law, mar-a-lago, march for science, melt, Mitigation, model, national flood insurance, NOAA, NYC, Paris 2015, Paris Agreement, Physics, pleistocene, pliocene, Policy, Power, Power Plants, predict, Prediction, president, president trump, Real Estate, scenario, Science, sea ice, sea level, Sea-Level Rise, self interest, Sustainability, swamp, Tax, tax reform, tax returns, taxpayer, Technology, thermal ice, Trump, US, white house
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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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Voices from the Farm and Beyond
Turkana Farms is a small-scale producer of heritage breed livestock and a wide array of vegetables and berries on just over 39 acres in Germantown, New York. It is run by two friends who have sent me the following message … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Climate Change, New York Times, NOAA, Sarah Lyall, Turkana Farms
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