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Tag Archives: wildfire
The Green New Deal Resolution: Is it Viable?
The “Green New Deal” that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass, have proposed has became the talk of the town. People are alternately warning it could spell disaster and praising it as our potential saving grace. To … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, immigration, law, politics, refugee, Sustainability, Trump, UN, Water
Tagged Adaptation, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, climate refugee, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Congress, coral, Cost, damage, Democrat, democratic socialist, Donald Trump, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, fire, forest fire, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Global Warming, GOP, Government, green, green new deal, greenhouse gas, heat stress, house of representatives, Industrial Revolution, Mitigation, politics, reef, refugee, Republican, resolution, responsibility, Science, senate, socialist, Sustainability, Sustainable, Technology, UN, US, Water Stress, wildfire
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Yellow Vests, Al Gore, President Trump, Conflicts Between Present and Future
I love France. I have family there and many dear friends. I always look for opportunities to visit. Some in my family are social activists who “enjoy” demonstrating. So when the Yellow Vest (Gilets Jaunes) demonstrations started to take place, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged administration, Al Gore, Andrew Wheeler, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Arc de Triomphe, belief, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, critical mass, Donald Trump, Economics, Emanuel Macron, Energy, energy affordability, energy cost, energy reliability, energy transition, Environment, EU, fissile material, France, Future, Gas, gas prices, GDP, Germany, gilets jaunes, gini coefficient, Global Warming, Gore, governance, Government, Italy, law, Macron, minimum wage, Mitigation, Paris, Paris Agreement, Population, president trump, Science, Social Media, Spain, taxes, trigger, Trump, UK, wildfire, yellow jackets, yellow vests
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Science or Indoctrination?
Earlier this month (July 3rd and 10th) I wrote two blogs about a heat wave that was affecting my home of NYC and how it impacted me. The weather here now is lovely (around 85oF, with bearable humidity and no … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, immigration, politics, refugee, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, air conditioner, air conditioning, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, attribution, Britain, California, causality, cause, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, coping, dam, Drought, Environment, Extreme Weather, Finland, fire, Flood, Global Warming, globalization, Greece, heat, heat wave, heatwave, indoctrination, intensity, James Inhofe, James Lankford, Japan, laos, Meteorologist, Meteorology, NSF, political, politics, Pool, probabilistic, propaganda, Rand Paul, Science, Sustainability, Sweden, Technology, Ted Cruz, UK, Weather, wildfire, World Population
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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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Long-Term Adaptations
Figure 1 – Scene from “The Martian” I was considering using a more descriptive title for the coming series of blogs, inspired by a recent article in the New York Times (NYT) called, “How to Survive the Apocalypse?” The article … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, apocalypse, armageddon, asteroid, astronaut, Atmosphere, Australia, business as usual, California, chemistry, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, David Wallace-Wells, doomsday, Earth, earthquake, Emissions, End of Now, Environment, Equilibrium, extraterrestrial, fire, Future, global nuclear war, Global Warming, golden globe, greenhouse gas, Jessica Chastain, Mars, martian, Matt Damon, Mediterranean, Mexico, Mitigation, Physical Environment, Physics, Population, Power, prepare, Science, Sustainability, Technology, Trump, uninhabitability, uninhabitable, US, Volcano, wildfire, World Population
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Doomsday: The Simple (or Simplistic) Version
I am writing this blog on Saturday, one day before hurricane Irma is scheduled to make an unwelcome visit to Florida. Other unwanted weather events are taking place all around. Human impact, especially the undesirable variety, is taking a toll. … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Ann Coulter, Anthropocene, armageddon, blame, business as usual, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, David Wallace-Wells, Debate, disaster, disaster porn, discussion, Donald Trump, doomsday, earthquake, Emissions, End of Now, Energy, energy transition, Environment, fire, Florida, Fossil Fuels, Future, gay, Global Warming, great filter, Greg Abbott, Harvey, Hurricane, iceberg, irma, Kim Jong Un, lesbian, LGBT, Mexico, Mitigation, natural disaster, Now, Nuclear, nuclear war, ocean levels, Oregon, panic, pastor, politics, refutability, Rising Tides, Science, scientific, Scott Pruitt, shifting baseline, sin, Sustainability, Technology, Texas, Trump, US, Weather, wildfire
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