Monthly Archives: February 2021

Energy Resilience: Winter in Texas

Posted on February 23, 2021 by climatechangefork

I have written often about resilience and its importance in our energy transition. You can put the word into the search box and see a plethora of posts. Most of them focus on California and Australia, where climate change has … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Electricity, Energy, Extreme Weather, Sustainability, US, Water | Tagged Adaptation, arctic melt, Australia, California, Climate Change, Coal, Don Quijote, Electricity, energy transition, Extreme Weather, fossil fuel, freeze, Gas, Global Warming, nuclear power, Renewable, renewable energy, resilience, Solar, storm, Texas, Water, Wind, windmill, winter, winterize | 2 Comments

Climate Change, Social Media & Politics

Posted on February 16, 2021 by climatechangefork

I teach different levels of climate change courses and do my own research on the subject. My semester started at the end of January and I had four senior students who needed to select their own research topics regarding the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, US | Tagged anti-semitic, campaign, censor, censorship, Climate Change, communication, coronavirus, covid, Election, Facebook, internet, Jew, Jewish, Nazi, pandemic, Physics, Policy, political, politics, Social Media, teacher, Teaching | 2 Comments

Winners and Losers: COVID and Coal

Posted on February 9, 2021 by climatechangefork

President Biden signed 17 executive orders immediately after his inauguration on January 20th (January 26th blog). Many of them nullified President Trump’s policies which had deliberately ignored climate change and thwarted mitigation efforts. Foremost of these new policies was the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Energy | Tagged Adaptation, Angela Merkel, Biden, Climate Change, Climate Denial, Coal, Congress, coronavirus, covid, Democrat, economic, Energy, energy transition, EU, fossil fuel, Gas, Germany, Harris, house of representatives, Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Kelly, Mitigation, Mitt Romney, Oil, pandemic, Poland, Policy, Renewable, Republican, senate, subsidy, Susan Collins, US, West Virginia, WV, yellow vest | 4 Comments

Physics of Reality

Posted on February 2, 2021 by climatechangefork

Spring semester at my school started yesterday. I have a few senior physics students, each of whom will need to produce a research paper. I want their research to reflect some aspect of the world that we live in. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Education | Tagged Biology, Climate Change, climate change denier, coronavirus, covid, denial, denier, Education, Math, Physics, quantitative, reality, Science, scientific method, social physics, society, sociophysics, virus | Leave a comment

Monthly Archives: February 2021

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