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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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Uncertainties Can Bring The Best Possible Outcomes, The Worst Possible Outcomes, and Everything In Between: Ocean Currents
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
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability, Water
Tagged Adaptation, ambiguity, Antarctica, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, AR4, atlantic, business as usual, carbon dioxide, certain, circulation, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, conveyor belt, Current, disaster, ecosystem, Emissions, energy transition, Environment, estimate, expectation, Fossil Fuels, Future, Glacier, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, humid, humidity, ice, ice age, IPCC, melt, methodology, Mitigation, MOC, Ocean, polar ice, Prediction, projection, Research, risk, risk aversion, risk management, Science, sea ice, Sustainability, Temperature, temperature rise, uncertain, uncertainty
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The Economic Impacts of Ocean Decline
Last week’s blog about the Ocean Health Index stressed the importance of including the sustainability of human impacts in any discussions about ocean health (this accounted for about 50% of the indexing). This blog will focus on the economic impacts … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability, Water
Tagged 4th extinction, acidification, Adaptation, Africa, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, aquaculture, Asia, Australia, blue economy, Canada, Carbon, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, definition, Economics, Economy, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Europe, export, FAO, farming, Fish, fish farming, fishery, fishing, Food, Fossil Fuels, Future, GDP, Global Population, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, impact, indicator, Indonesia, IPCC, Ireland, Japan, microplastic, Mitigation, New Zealand, Ocean, ocean economy, Ocean Health Index, Ociania, overfishing, plastic, Pollution, Population, Power, Power Plants, Science, South Korea, Sustainability, Technology, Tourism, UK, UN, US, value added, World Bank, World Population
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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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Vulnerabilities: Oceans
Let’s get back to vulnerabilities, focusing specifically on the oceans this time. Since they cover 70% of the planet, the health of our oceans is paramount. The connections between anthropogenic climate change and said health are complex and multifaceted, so … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability, Water
Tagged Adaptation, anoxia, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Atmosphere, biodiversity, Central America, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, conodonts, Cuba, defaunation, deglaciation, doomsday, Elizabeth Kolbert, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, eruption, euxinia, extinction, Florida, Fossil Fuels, Future, geologist, Global Warming, graptolites, greenhouse gas, Hirnantian, hydrogen sulfide, isotope, mass extinction, Mitigation, Ocean, Ordovician, Ordovician-Silurian extinction, oxygen, Phanerozoic, Prediction, projection, radiation, Science, Silurian, sixth extinction, suffocate, suffocated, Sustainability, Technology, trilobites, uranium, Volcano, vulnerability, vulnerable
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Vulnerabilities: Desertification
The ecological counterpart to water stress (May 1, 2018) is desertification. The table summarizing the IPCC’s assessments of five categories directly or indirectly connected to water use (April 24, 2018) refers to: “Decreasing water availability and increasing drought in mid-latitudes … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Change, immigration, IPCC, refugee, UN, Water
Tagged Adaptation, Aftica, Agriculture, Algeria, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Arid, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, car, Chad, China, climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, climatologist, CO2, CO2 emissions, desert, desertification, displacement, Drought, environmental refugee, Eritrea, Ethiopia, farming, Future, Gambia, GDP, Global Population, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Guinea Bissau, herding, History, immigrant, immigration, Inner Mongolia, IPCC, irrigation, Mali, Mauritania, migrant, migration, Mitigation, monsoon, Niger, Nigeria, Population, rainfall, refugee, reversibility, Sahara, Sahel, Science, Senegal, South Sudan, UN, Water, Water Stress, World Population
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Laboratory Observations of Collective Suicide
Rafik, a young, dear, French relative of mine, was born in Algeria. He still has family there that he visits often, occasionally going with some of them to tour the Sahara desert. We discussed his trips and the history of … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Holocaust, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, antibiotics, bacteria, brain, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, consciousness, delibrate, ecological suicide, Emissions, Environment, experiment, Fossil Fuels, Genocide, Global Population, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, latrine, microbe, ocean acidification, pH, Pollution, Population, resource, sanitary, sanitation, Science, Self Inflicted Genocide, suicide, Sustainability, toilet, waste, World Population
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Water Cycle Vulnerabilities
Happy belated Earth Day and Happy 6th Birthday to Climate Change Fork! I have repeatedly mentioned that global climate change is driven mainly by our interruption of the energy cycle. Specifically, we use fossil fuels as our main energy source … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, politics, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Birthday, Carbon, carbon dioxide, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, desertification, developed, developing, Drought, Earth, Earth Day, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy cycle, energy transition, Environment, Extreme Weather, Flood, Fossil Fuels, Future, GDP, Global Population, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, heat, hot, IPCC, Israel, lowess smoothing, Mitigation, NASA, Population, Power, Power Plants, Science, sea level, Solar Energy, statistics, Sustainability, Technology, Temperature, temperature change, US, Water, water distribution, Water Shortage, Water Stress, World Population
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