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Shame!
My dear friends who now live in Poland sent me the image above. Both are now infected with and trying to recuperate from COVID-19 but they didn’t want my sympathy. They contacted me to say that they felt sorry for … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Election, Holocaust, law, politics, US
Tagged Arizona, Biden, capitol, Congress, coronavirus, coup, COVID 19, Democrat, Election, electoral college, fascism, Government, house of representatives, Mitt Romney, mob, Nazi, Pennsylvania, Poland, Polish, president, protest, Republican, riot, Romney, senate, shame, statue of liberty, Trump, US, vote, voter, Washington DC, WWII
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K-Shaped Global Disasters
In an earlier blog (August 4, 2020), I presented anthropogenic climate change, COVID-19, population, jobs, and equity as circles in a Venn Diagram. COVID-19 gives us an opportunity to quantify those relationships. In this case, jobs represent the economic impact … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics
Tagged amazon, Apple, AstraZeneca, BioNTech, Coal, college, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, economic, Economy, Education, energy transition, Future, GDP, gini coefficient, Global, Google, graph, high school, indicator, Inequality, Investment, jobs, model, Moderna, Netflix, pandemic, Pfizer, recovery, stocks, tech, Unemployment, US, vaccine, venn diagram, yellow vests, zoom
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The End of the Beginning
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” – Winston Churchill Winston Churchill made this declaration in his speech after the British won the … Continue reading
Posted in Holocaust
Tagged 2021, Churchill, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, death, El-Alamein, Future, History, Hitler, Holocaust, hope, immunity, New Year, pandemic, spanish flu, Stalingrad, survivor, symptom, trial, vaccine, Volker Ullrich, Wonder Woman, WWI, WWII
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Birobidzhan and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
If you search this blog for the term, “environmental immigration,” you’ll find about 16 entries, including several guest blogs that my students wrote as their concluding research projects. The post from April 3, 2018 summarizes some of the findings from … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Extreme Weather, immigration, refugee, Sustainability
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Job and the Just World Hypothesis
I asked my wife, a psychologist and college administrator, to help explain climate change denial. She suggested the “just world hypothesis.” I included her proposal in the last chapter of my book, Climate Change: The Fork at the End of … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Bible, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, climate denier, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, faith, God, Hebrew, job, just world, morality, Old Testament, pandemic, psychology, rationality, religion, Satan, sin, social behavior, social distance, test, Tim Walberg
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Guest Blog: The Effects of Climate Change on Pandemics
Hello readers! This week’s guest blog is from Alvin Huang, Paula Glab, and Yuduo Wu. Combined, we are pursuing degrees in the fields of physics and computer science. Through this blog post, we hope to spread information on the correlation … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change
Tagged animals, Antarctic, anthrax, Arctic, Climate Change, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, dengue, disease, el nino, Environment, epidemic, exposure, Future, Global Warming, greenhouse gas mosquitoes, humidity, ice melt, insects, IPCC, la nina, LCC, malaria, migration, mosquitoes, pandemic, pathogen, Permafrost, Prediction, RCP, scenario, spread, Sri-Lanka, temperature rise, tropical disease
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Guest Blog: Jacob Kinnaman and Frank Huang
Welcome readers! This week’s guest blog is from Jacob Kinnaman and Frank Huang. Together, we hope to spread awareness about the correlation between climate change-induced migrations and the national security threats that they create. Although many people may view national … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Guest Blog, immigration, US
Tagged Adaptation, Belize, burn, California, carbon dioxide, Central America, Climate Change, climate refugee, CO2, CO2 emissions, Costa Rica, damage, desert, desertification, driving force, Drought, ecosystem, El Salvador, emigration, environmental refugee, Extreme Weather, fire, fire season, fire supression, fuel, Future, Global Warming, globalization, Guatemala, Honduras, humidity, immigrant, immigration, lawmakers, Mexico, Mitigation, moisture, national security, Nicaragua, Panama, Population, predict, sea level, security, spread, Terrorism, US, vapor pressure deficit, VPD, Weather, wild fire, wildfire
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Teaching Moment 3: The Electoral College & Whose Vote Counts Most?
As of last Friday (November 20th) the election results were as follows: Total vote: Biden – 79.7 million (51%), Trump – 73.7 million (47%). The difference in the popular vote is around 4% or 6 million votes. As for the … Continue reading
Posted in Election, law, US
Tagged Arizona, Biden, city, constitution, Democrat, Donald Trump, Election, elector, electoral college, faithless elector, Georgia, Government, Joe Biden, legislature, mandate, mpopulation density, North Carolina, Obama, Pennsylvania, polarization, popular vote, Population Density, president trump, Republican, Romney, rural, suburban, Trump, urban, US, vote, voter, Wisconsin
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Teaching Moment 2: How Do we Vote?
When we vote in an election, we balance between what we perceive to be good for us personally and what we perceive to be good for society at large. If we are well-off with a good job, we may prioritize … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Climate Change, Education, Election, politics, Trump, US
Tagged America, Biden, Climate Change, climate change denier, Climate Change Deniers, Democrat, Donald Trump, Future, Global Warming, harm, hispanic, Joe Biden, latina, latino, map, me, president trump, Republican, survey, them, Trump, US, vote, voter
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The Election as a Teachable Moment
Like many others, I stayed up late on Tuesday evening to watch the election results. Like them, my wife and I went to sleep not knowing the end results of the election but sure about two things: the Democratic landslide … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Climate Change, Election, Extreme Weather, politics, Sustainability, Trump, US
Tagged alaska, America, Arizona, BC, Biden, Climate Change, Democrat, Donald Trump, Election, Future, Georgia, Global Warming, heat, heatwave, IPCC, Joe Biden, Nevada, North Carolina, Paris accord, Paris Agreement, Physics, presidency, president, Republican, scenario, teach, teacher, Temperature, temperature rise, Trump, uncertainty, US, vote, voter
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