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Guest Blog: Loss & Damage Funds and the Developing Indian Subcontinent

Posted on January 3, 2023 by climatechangefork

Happy New Year everyone! This week, guest blogger Muhammad Siddiqui is taking over the Climate Change Fork blog. Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Micha Tomkiewicz, Ph.D., I’m a graduate student at Brooklyn College, CUNY, class of 2022. This blog … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, COP, Guest Blog, UN | Tagged Adaptation, Bangladesh, carbon dioxide, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, COP27, debt, developed, developing, Drought, Energy, energy transition, Extreme Weather, fire, Flood, fossil fuel, fund, Gas, GDP, gini coefficient, Guest Blog, hunger, India, Indus Valley, Inequality, Kuznets curve, Lorenz, Mitigation, Pakistan, Pollution, risk, UN | Leave a comment

Business as Usual: Part 2

Posted on July 13, 2021 by climatechangefork

The Connection Between Carbon Concentration and Temperature Last week, I used The Scripps Institute and NOAA’s recent measurements of the global carbon dioxide concentration (as measured in Mauna Loa, Hawaii) to calculate the acceleration in carbon dioxide atmospheric accumulation from … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability | Tagged acceleration, Atmosphere, Carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, coronavirus, covid, Emissions, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, IPCC, risk, Temperature, uncertainty, vaccine | Leave a comment

Economic Impacts Report: Worse than Predicted?

Posted on December 24, 2019 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog looked at Naomi Oreskes’ and Nicholas Stern’s October op-ed in The New York Times, “Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think,” which dealt with a report about the unexamined economic risks of climate change. … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Extreme Weather, Sustainability | Tagged acceleration, Adaptation, aggregate, Agriculture, biodiversity, Climate Change, climate change denier, climate skeptic, Columbia, compound, Cost, Drought, economic, economic impact, economic model, Economy, ecosystem, Extreme Weather, Flood, Future, glaciers, Grantham, heatwave, ice sheets, impact, Mitigation, Naomi Oreskes, Nicholas Stern, op-ed, physical science, Policy, policy maker, Potsdam, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. The Potsdam Institute, references, Report, Research, risk, Science, Sea-Level Rise, Stern report, wildfire | 1 Comment

Pay Now or Pay Later: The Economic Costs of Climate Change

Posted on December 17, 2019 by climatechangefork

As an old guy who still teaches students and does scientific research, I have to be up-to-date on the science that relates to what I do. To study and teach climate change, I have to be current not only with … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Sustainability | Tagged action, biodiversity, business as usual, carbon emissions, cartoon, children, climate, Climate Change, climate change denier, climate denier, CO2, CO2 emissions, Cost, damage, denial, doubt, economic impact, Economics, Economist, Economy, effect, externality, Future, generation, GHG, greenhouse gas, Greta Thunberg, kids, Merchants of Doubt, Naomi Oreskes, News, Nicholas Stern, ocean acidification, Price, quid pro quo, risk, Science, stationarity, Stern report, worst-case | 6 Comments

Extreme Heat: Big Cities, 2050

Posted on July 23, 2019 by climatechangefork

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 | 1 Comment

Balanced Arguments or False Equivalence?

Posted on September 4, 2018 by climatechangefork

In the July 31st blog and several of the ones following it, I focused on an effort by four Republican senators to investigate federal grant making as it pertains to climate change: “Research designed to sway individuals of a various … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability | Tagged a/c, Adaptation, air conditioner, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Balance, Brooklyn College, business as usual, carbon dioxide, censorship, China, Chinese hoax, Climate Change, climate change denier, consensus, coverage, Debate, denier, deniers, Economy, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, fake news, false equivalence, Future, Google, heat, heat wave, hoax, John Holdren, mccain, Media, Meteorologist, Mitigation, NCA4, Obama, Power, probability, projection, propaganda, risk, Science, science adviser, Sustainability, Sustainable, Trump, Twitter, USGCRP, worst-case | 1 Comment

Giving Up is Not an Option: Let’s Focus on What We Still Can Do

Posted on August 14, 2018 by climatechangefork

Bridge used to be one of my favorite social activities (when my free time was a bit more abundant). To those not familiar with the rules, the basic structure is simple: one deck of cards, two teams of two. Wikipedia … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, politics, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, administration, Al Gore, alps, Antarctica, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, assessment, attribution, Australia, Bangladesh, bridge, Britain, budget, California, causality, cause, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Congress, contract, desert, Drought, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Extreme Weather, forecast, Fossil Fuels, funding, Future, Game, GAO, Global Warming, globalization, Government, greenhouse gas, Greenland, heat, heat wave, heatwave, History, indoctrination, James Inhofe, James Lankford, Jim Hansen, John Sunumu, Mauritania, Meteorologist, Meteorology, Mitigation, penguin, political, politics, probabilistic, propaganda, Rafe Pomerance, Rand Paul, Republican, risk, Science, sea ice, senator, strategy, Sustainability, Switzerland, Teaching, Technology, Ted Cruz, Texas, TV, Weather | Leave a comment

Climate Change and Federal Government Funding

Posted on August 7, 2018 by climatechangefork

Last week I looked at four Republican senators’ efforts to terminate government funding for television meteorologists who mention climate change as part of the forecast. I also discussed the issue in light of the global heat wave and the havoc … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, politics, Sustainability | Tagged accountability, Adaptation, administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, assessment, attribution, Britain, budget, causality, cause, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Drought, Environment, Extreme Weather, forecast, funding, GAO, Global Warming, globalization, Government, heat, heat wave, heatwave, indoctrination, James Inhofe, James Lankford, Japan, Kelvin Droegemeier, laos, Meteorologist, Meteorology, Mitigation, National Research Council, political, politics, probabilistic, propaganda, Rand Paul, Republican, risk, Science, science adviser, senator, Sustainability, Technology, Ted Cruz, TV, UK, Weather, weather system | 16 Comments

Uncertainties Can Bring The Best Possible Outcomes, The Worst Possible Outcomes, and Everything In Between: Ocean Currents

Posted on June 19, 2018 by climatechangefork

I have addressed uncertainty on a number of previous occasions (December 10, 2012; May 16, 2017; January 9, 2018; and other blogs) but some important work came to light recently that put this idea to a test. Most of the … Continue reading →

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Irrationality and the Future

Posted on December 5, 2017 by climatechangefork

Climate change is all about future impact; the aspects that we see and deal with right now are limited to those already highlighted by early warning signs in this process. The fact that the issues are global means that mitigating … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, behavioral economics, behavioral science, bonds, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, committed warming, discounting the future, Economics, Education, Emissions, End of Now, Energy, energy transition, Environment, forecasting, Fossil Fuels, Future, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Kahneman, loss averse, Mitigation, Ocean, optimism, planning fallacy, risk, Science, stocks, Sustainability, Tversky | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: risk

Guest Blog: Loss & Damage Funds and the Developing Indian Subcontinent

Business as Usual: Part 2

Economic Impacts Report: Worse than Predicted?

Pay Now or Pay Later: The Economic Costs of Climate Change

Extreme Heat: Big Cities, 2050

Balanced Arguments or False Equivalence?

Giving Up is Not an Option: Let’s Focus on What We Still Can Do

Climate Change and Federal Government Funding

Uncertainties Can Bring The Best Possible Outcomes, The Worst Possible Outcomes, and Everything In Between: Ocean Currents

Irrationality and the Future

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