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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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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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Phased Reopening and Lessons to Learn
Figure 1 – Dana Summers’ cartoon on phased opening Roughly two months ago, my campus completely shifted to remote learning and teaching and I started lockdown. I have made a corresponding shift here, covering the COVID-19 viral pandemic that now … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, coronavirus, Economics
Tagged arctic melt, Atmosphere, atom bomb, Brooklyn College, carbon dioxide, carbon intensity, chain reaction, Climate Change, CO2, contagious, coronavirus, COVID 19, Economics, Economy, feedback, flammability, Germany, GHG, Global Temperature, greenhouse gas, impact, interest, lockdown, neutron, Nuclear, nuclear fission, nuclear reactor, nucleus, pandemic, permafrost melt, polar ice, Population, R0, remote learning, reopening, Science, social distance, social distancing, spread, sustailable, Sustainability, sustainable development, test, uranium, viral, virus, water vapor, wildfire
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Scaling Properties of COVID-19
Saturday was a beautiful spring day. The Brooklyn green market downstairs was open. The street and the market were relatively (in the pandemic era) crowded; well managed social distancing was enforced but many people went without masks. The talk of … Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus
Tagged Bangladesh, Bill Gates, Brazil, Brooklyn, case, China, coronavirus, COVID 19, death, Distribution, Economy, effect, epidemic, essential workers, Europe, Future, hot spot, India, Indonesia, Infrastructure, Italy, medical, Mexico, New York, Nigeria, NYC, outbreak, Pakistan, pandemic, Population, Poverty, repercussion, Russia, social distance, Spain, UK, US, virus
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Where Are We Living? Can We Stay There?
A New Year! A New Decade! By now, we have all made our wishes and resolutions. I am sure that everyone is hoping for better times. However, the news around the world has been very bleak. Globally, since the New … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics, immigration, Sustainability
Tagged anti-semitic, Arizona, atomic bomb, Australia, Brisbane, Cape Town, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Colorado, degradation, Economy, fire, Florida, Future, generation, Global Warming, Gold Coast, Growth, habitat, Idaho, immigration, Iran, Mauritius, Melbourne, New Year, North Carolina, NYC, Population, Real Estate, retreat, Science, sea level, shifting baseline, Soleimani, South Africa, South Carolina, states, suicide, Texas, tide, US, Utah, Washington, wildfire
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Is California Unlivable?
A few weeks ago, I read an eye-opening op-ed in the NYT: “It’s the end of California as we know it” – By Farhad Manjoo But lately my affinity for my home state has soured. Maybe it’s the smoke and the … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, law, Sustainability, US
Tagged atomic bomb, BlackBerry, Blockbuster, California, carbon dioxide, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, CO2, CO2 emissions, Cost, electric, electric grid, electrical, Emissions, Evacuation, fire, Flood, floods, Future, GDP, GHG, greenhouse gas, Insurance, neutron, PG&E, Pollution, Population, Power, power lines, power outage, Prediction, Price, smoking, trigger, undergrounding, unlivable, Utility, Voltage, WMO, yellow vest
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Campus Sustainability – NYC and CUNY
Sustainability in NYC In mid-April, the New York City Council passed an incredibly important piece of legislation regarding our city’s sustainability, calling for landlords to upgrade the built environment: New York City Passes Historic Climate Legislation The Climate Mobilization Act … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, AOC, Bloomberg, budget, building, built environment, C40, campus, Carbon, Carbon Footprint, carbon neutral, city council, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Mobilization Act, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, conversion, Cornell, Cost, CUNY, Ed Markey, Emissions, Energy, energy footprint, energy transition, Environment, environmental, experimentl science, funding, Future, Global Warming, goal, governance, Government, green new deal, greenhouse gas, initiative, insulation, lab, laboratory, landlord, law, legislation, Mitigation, natural science, New, New York, NYC, old, PlaNYC, PlaNYC2030, Population, projection, Renewable, renewable energy, renovation, retrofit, School, Science, Solar, study, Sustainability, Sustainable, US, Wind, zero carbon
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Guest Blog: How is Carbon Affecting Energy Intensity in the US?
Hello to everybody, we are the guest bloggers Amged Haimed, Junfeng Lu, and Haosheng Chen. We are all undergraduate students majoring in physics. Under the guidance of Micha Tomkiewicz, PhD, we have been able to use our backgrounds and experiences … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Guest Blog, Sustainability, US
Tagged alternative energy, California, Carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon intensity, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, commercial, Economics, Economy, Emissions, Energy, Energy Consumption, energy efficiency, energy intensity, Energy Sources, fossil energy, fossil fuel, Gas, GDP, graph, greenhouse effect, Guest Blog, housing, Hydroelectric, industrial, industrial production, industry, Natural Gas, New York, Nuclear, Physics, Pollution, Population, PPP, Renewable, residential, Solar, State, students, Texas, trade, transportation, US, Wind, wood
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The Little Ice Age
Last week, I talked about Philipp Blom’s book, “Nature’s Mutiny.” It illustrates some of the historical impacts of global climate change, especially with regards to the stress that it has inflicted on society. The book also looks into some of … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Agriculture, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, bicycle, black death, borehole, bubonic plague, Byron, Capitalism, China, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, coral, creative destruction, degradation, Economy, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Europe, Fahrenheit, famine, feudalism, fishing, France, Frankenstein, French revolution, Future, generation, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, historian, History, hockey stick, ice cores, immune system, indicator, literacy, little ice age, Manchu, Mary Shelley, migration, Ming, Mitigation, paleothermometry, Past, Philipp Blom, Physical Environment, pollen, Population, potato, proxy, Qing, riot, Science, sediments, shifting baseline, shortage, society, stress, sub-fossil pollen, Sustainability, Tax, Temperature, thermometer, thirty years' war, tree rings, US, Variability, War, Watershed, Weather, witch, witch trial
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