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Micha Tomkiewicz, Ph.D., is a professor of physics in the Department of Physics, Brooklyn College, the City University of New York. He is also a professor of physics and chemistry in the School for Graduate Studies of the City University of New York. In addition, he is the founding-director of the Environmental Studies Program at Brooklyn College as well as director of the Electrochemistry Institute at that same institution.

Help: How Can We Set Up an Energy Education Park?

Posted on March 24, 2021 by climatechangefork

In 2012, I was with Vinit Parmar, filming the energy transition in the Sundarbans region in India as it moved from traditional hunter-gatherer life to an electrified society (Quest for Energy – 2012, see the April 29, 2014 blog). In … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Electricity, Energy, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Clean Energy, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, community, CUNY, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, India, learning, Mitigation, NY, Power, Renewable, Research, Solar, Sundarbans, Teaching, Technology, university | 3 Comments

Green Taxonomy

Posted on March 16, 2021 by climatechangefork

On December 27, 2016, I posted a blog, “Impact Assessment: Self-Inflicted Genocide and the Toronto Principle.” I cited an Op-Ed from Benjamin A. Franta: Last December, a committee at the University of Toronto released a report on the issue of divestment, drawing … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Electric Cars, Energy, Sustainability | Tagged bonds, Carbon, classify, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, COP21, coronavirus, covid, decarbonization, electric car, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Global Warming, green, IEA, Investment, IPCC, Paris, Paris Agreement, Pollution, Solar, taxonomy, Toronto | 3 Comments

My “Now”

Posted on March 9, 2021 by climatechangefork

We are reaching the anniversary of one full year since we moved teaching and learning online. My school is preparing for face-to-face classes for the next semester (starting in the beginning of September), with some healthy skepticism and the provision … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Climate Change, Climate Change Fork, Education, educator, Einstein, experience, Future, Now, Present, remote learning, teacher | 2 Comments

The Green Climate Fund

Posted on March 2, 2021 by climatechangefork

President Biden signed 15 executive orders and two agency directives on the day of his inauguration (January 20th). Most of this activity was targeted at trying to reverse President Trump’s previous directives. One of the new executive orders that attracted … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Economics, immigration, Sustainability, US | Tagged Adaptation, Agriculture, Biden, carbon dioxide, Climate Change, CO2, disaster relief, Drought, Economy, emigration, Emissions, Extreme Weather, Flood, Global Warming, green climate fund, immigration, labor force, Mitigation, Paris, Paris 2015, Paris accord, Paris Agreement, Precipitation, US, World | 3 Comments

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

Peaceful Presidential Transition vs. the Rise of Nazis

Posted on January 26, 2021 by climatechangefork

I started writing this one day after President Biden and Vice President Harris were inaugurated. Many of us were thoroughly relieved that the event turned out to be a dignified, uneventful transition of power. I wouldn’t quite call it peaceful, … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Holocaust, Trump, US | Tagged baton, Biden, Climate Change, coronavirus, covid, Genocide, Germany, Global Warming, Great Depression, hate, Hitler, Holocaust, Inauguration, Jew, Jewish, mob, Nazi, pandemic, Power, relay, Russian revolution, self-inflicted, spanish flu, Transition, Treaty of Versailles, Trump, US, Weimar Republic, WWI | 1 Comment

Godwin’s Law and Us

Posted on January 19, 2021 by climatechangefork

This is a follow up to my “Shame” blog about the president-triggered mob attack on the American government in Washington, DC on January 6th. The attack was one part of a series of efforts to void the November 3rd election … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Holocaust, politics | Tagged antisemitic, antisemitism, attack, Auschwitz, charlottesville, communism, concentration camp, constitution, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, demonstration, Economy, fascism, Georgia, Illinois, January 6, Jew, Jewish, liberty, lockdown, MAGA, mask, mob, Nazi, Nazi Trump Pence flag, pandemic, Pritzger, protest, QAnon, riot, rioter, social distance, swastika, Trump, tyranny, US, Washington DC, white supremacy | 1 Comment

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Help: How Can We Set Up an Energy Education Park?

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