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Tag Archives: Policy
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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Guest Blog: How Electricity Production In America Is Changing
This week, guest bloggers Kyle O’Carroll, Daniel Kruglyak, and Vikash Tewari are taking over the Climate Change Fork blog. We are undergraduate students at Brooklyn College, class of 2020. We are all majoring in physics with minors in biochemistry, chemistry, … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Change, Guest Blog, Sustainability, US
Tagged Adaptation, alternative energy, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, biomass, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, Efficiency, EIA, Electricity, electricity generation, Emissions, Energy, energy source, energy transition, Environment, Future, generation, Geothermal, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, hydroelectric power, Idaho, kilowatt-hour, Mitigation, Natural Gas, nonrenewable, Nuclear, Oil, Paris, Paris Agreement, petroleum, Policy, Renewable, Science, Solar, stuttering transition, Sustainability, US, West Virginia, Wind
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Climate Change Complementarity: Optimization?
Last week I looked into complementarity, including the Oxford Dictionaries’ definition: A relationship or situation in which two or more different things improve or emphasize each other’s qualities. I’d like to follow up on the question posited there: do countries … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, law, politics, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Balance, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, complement, complementarity, damage, deregulation, Donald Trump, Economics, EIS, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EPA, Fossil Fuels, Future, game theory, GDP, GHG, Global Warming, governance, Government, Nash, NEPA, Policy, policymaking, politics, prisoner's dilemma, prosperity, regulation, SC-CO2, Science, social cost, somplementary, strategy, sustailable, Sustainability, Technology
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Wisdom From France: Mitigation and/or Adaptation of Global Ills Must be Inclusive
After an election, it is not unusual for the winners to declare that they were chosen to be the government of all the people. Such declarations, to be credible, require that the most important legislations include the equivalent of an … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, carbon dioxide, Carbon Tax, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, CO2, Earth Summit, economic impact, Economics, Electricity, Energy, energy cost, energy transition, Environment, Fossil Fuels, France, Gas, gas prices, GDP, gilets jaunes, Global Warming, governance, Government, inclusion, indicators, laws, Mitigation, Paris, Paris Agreement, Policy, Population, Rio de Janeiro, Science, Social Media, Sovereign State, Temperature, urbanization, World Bank, yellow jackets, yellow vests
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Governing Through Denial
The consequences of continuing the business as usual activities that result in climate change are not a mystery. We are in the middle of an avalanche of credible reports about the present state of the world and near future prognoses … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Climate Change, IPCC, law, politics, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Adaptation, administration, air quality, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Balance, bias, black friday, business as usual, Carbon, Carbon Footprint, censor, China, Clean Energy, clean power, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, conspiracy, Donald Trump, doubling time, economic damage, Economics, Economy, Emissions, energy transition, Environment, EPA, Exponential Growth, FEMA, Flood, Flooding, GHG, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Heartland, Heartland Institute, heat, heat wave, hoax, IPCC, Japan, keystone xl, Labor, mortality, NASA, NCA, Policy, Power, Power Plants, RCP, Report, security threat, Thanksgiving, Trump, tweet, US, Weather, WMO, worst, worst-case
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Climate Skepticism and Schools?
A few days ago, my wife emailed me a piece from PBS about the state of climate change education in K-12 classes: Dueling Books Compete to Educate Kids on Climate Change: The group that mailed books and DVDs arguing that … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptability, Adaptation, American Meteorological Society, AMS, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Brooklyn College, clilmate change deniers, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate science, Climate Skeptics, CUNY, Data, database, Debate, denier, DeVos, Education, eligible voter, Emissions, Environment, false debate, Future, Global Warming, Heartland, human caused, ignorance, K-12, k12, Meteorology, misinformation, Mitigation, multidisciplinary, NASA, Policy, political, politician, politics, prevention, professor, School, Science, Self Inflicted Genocide, Sustainability, teach, teacher, teacher training, Teaching, voter, Voting
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Burying our Heads in the Sand
Ostriches don’t actually bury their heads in the sand in the belief that it makes their predators unable to see them – but many of us do. Unfortunately many such human ostriches occupy high level positions of our government, putting … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, IPCC, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Adaptation, Alabama, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Arizona, build, censorship, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, climate refugee, Climate Skeptics, coral, damage, develop, developers, Donald Trump, Drought, Extreme Weather, fear, Flood, Florida, Future, Georgia, Global Warming, governance, governing, Government, Hurricane, hurricane florence, hurricane michael, IPCC, North Carolina, ostrich, Policy, policy makers, predict, Prediction, projection, reconstruction, Science, sea ice, sea level, Sea-Level Rise, storm, Trump, US
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Insanity at the Helm: Are We Steering the Wrong Way to the Future?
The last two weeks have seen a great deal of heavy breathing and crying. I summarized much of it in last week’s blog. The climax in this week’s news was probably Thursday’s testimonies of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine … Continue reading
Posted in administration, politics, Trump, UN
Tagged alliance, ally, America First, Australia, Brett Kavanaugh, Brunei, Canada, carbon dioxide, Charles Lindbergh, Chile, China, Christine Blasey Ford, climate refugee, CO2, denuclearization, Donald Trump, due process, Economics, Energy, energy use, England, environmental refugee, federalist society, France, Future, G-7, GDP, Germany, Global Population, globalization, Human Rights, ICC, immigration, international criminal court, Iran, Japan, John Bolton, justice, Kavanaugh, life expectancy, Lindbergh, MAGA, Malaysia, Mexico, migration, NAFTA, nationalist, Nazi, New Zealand, Nuclear, pandemic, Paris, Paris 2015, Paris accord, Paris Agreement, partnership, patriot, patriotism, Pearl Harbor, Peru, Policy, Population, refugee, Russia, Singapore, sovereign, sovereignty, Supreme Court, TPP, trade, treaty, Trump, UN, UN commission on human rights, unilateral, unilateralist, urbanization, US, Vietnam, War, World Population, WTO, WWII
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Vulnerabilities: Global Environmental Refugees
I am not the only one to predict (February 3, 2015 and October 3, 2017) that continuing our practices in a business as usual scenario will lead to destruction of the physical environment as we know it – as well … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Afghanistan, analysis, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, asylum, Bangladesh, business as usual, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, climate refugee, Climate Skeptics, Colombia, conflict, Congo, Dhaka, displaced, earthquake, EERC, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Ethiopia, extinction, Flood, Fossil Fuels, Fresh Water, Future, Germany, Global Population, Global Warming, goldilocks, greenhouse gas, immigrant, intelligence, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, migrant, Mitigation, Nigeria, nile, Pakistan, Policy, Power, refugee, Research, resource, Salinity, Science, Sea-Level Rise, security, Self Inflicted Genocide, sixth extinction, South Sudan, storm, stuttering transition, Sudan, Sustainability, Syria, Technology, Transition, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, US, Volcano, Water, Water Cycle, water distribution, Water Scarcity, wildfire, World Population
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Guest Blog by Sofia Ahsanuddin: Marching for Science on Earth Day
In the span of a few months, the March for Science burgeoned into a global movement that galvanized support from hundreds of thousands of people in over 610 locations around the globe. The march’s organizers officially aim to create a … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Climate Change, Guest Blog
Tagged academia, academic, Anthropocene, antivax, apolitical, Bilingual, bottom-up, budget, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, critical thinking, denial, dialogue, Education, Einstein, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, engineering, Environment, eugenics, evil, faith, Fossil Fuels, fund, Global Warming, good, grassroots, greenhouse gas, Guest Blog, Islam, march, march for science, Math, mathematics, Mitigation, moral, nonpartisan, Organization, organize, outreach, partisan, physical world, Physics, Policy, political, politician, politics, protest, religion, Science, scientist, skeptic, Sofia Ahsanuddin, stem, sterilization, Sustainability, Technology, US, vaccine, Weill Cornell
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