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About climatechangefork

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.

Do We Have To Argue? Do We Even Know How To Argue?

Posted on March 25, 2014 by climatechangefork

A few years ago I was attending an academic retreat. These usually take place somewhere outside the campus and they often involve overnight stay. They are generally organized as a forum in which to discuss an institution’s important policy issues. … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged Arguement, Arguementation, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Debate, DNNer, Education, Global Warming, Heartland, IPCC, Israel, NIPCC, Science, Skeptical Science, TBL, Teaching | 7 Comments

Publishers

Posted on March 18, 2014 by climatechangefork

My book, Climate Change: The Fork at the End of Now was published in the early summer of 2011. I wrote it as a textbook for the general public, and it was used mainly for general education – both in … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged Bjorn Lomborg, Book, Brooklyn College, Climate Change, Climate Change Fork, Climate Sensitivity, CUNY, Demographics, Education, Gini Coefficients, Herman Kahn, IPCC, Michio Kaku, National Intelligence Council, National Science Foundation, NSF, Physics, Publishers, The Physics of Wall Street, Tipping Point, Weatherall, World Population | Leave a comment

Bard CEP Talk

Posted on March 11, 2014 by climatechangefork

Last Wednesday, I did a talk, Desalination as Adaptation as part of Bard College Center for Environmental Policy’s National Climate Seminar. The seminar, which is biweekly, was in the form of a conference call. Unfortunately, this format is completely new … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Algeria, Australia, Bard, Bard CEP, California, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Desalination, Distillation, Education, Energy, Fresh Water, Global Population, Israel, Power Plants, Quantitative Survivalist, Reverse Osmosis, Salt Water, Saudi Arabia, Seminar, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Thermal Desalination, Water, Water Cycle, Water Recycling, Water Stress, World Population | Leave a comment

Back to Water – Israel in the Lead

Posted on March 4, 2014 by climatechangefork

I am back to focusing on water (you can use the search engine here to find the previous related blogs) for two important reasons: On Wednesday (tomorrow) I am participating in Bard College’s Bi-Weekly National Climate Seminar and will be … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Bard College, CEP, Climate Change, Desalination, Israel, National Climate Seminar, Palestine, Sustainability, Technology, Water, Water Authority, Water Cycle, Water Management, Water Stress | 1 Comment

Top-Down Stabilization Attempts

Posted on February 25, 2014 by climatechangefork

In a previous blog (February 11, 2014) I summarized some of the current measures being taken to reverse the existing trend of fertility rates lowering to below replacement levels in countries throughout the world. These attempts include restricting abortions (although, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Abortion, Arabs, China, Contraception, Democratization, Demographics, Family Planning, Fertility, Fertility Rate, Global Population, Israel, Jews, Muslims, One-Child Policy, Populationstat, Stabilization, Thermostat, Workforce, World Population | Leave a comment

Economic Impact of Fertility Rates Below Replacement

Posted on February 18, 2014 by climatechangefork

The golden rule of free enterprise economy seems to be that everything that contributes to economic growth is good, while anything that detracts from the same is bad. The rationale behind this is that as the population grows, the economy … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Anthropogenic, Baby Boomers, Brazil, Britain, Climate Change, Demographics, Economics, Economy, Fertility, Fertility Rate, Fertility Replacement Rate, Global Population, Growth, Obamacare, Population, Secular Stagnation, Stagnation, Unemployment, Workforce, World Population | 1 Comment

Attempts to Reverse Negative Impacts of Fertility Rates That Have Crossed Below Replacement

Posted on February 11, 2014 by climatechangefork

As Jim mentioned in his guest blog (January 14, 2014): Half of the countries worldwide now have sub-replacement fertility. The downside to this trend is shrinking labor forces – a factor which has led some governments to try to reverse … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Abortion, Adaptation, Climate Change, Environment, Fertility, Fertility Replacement Rate, Global Population, Incentives, Industrial Revolution, Jim Foreit, Korea, Labor Forces, Luddites, Population, Replacement Rate, Robots, Spain, Sustainability, Women, Working Population, World Population | 1 Comment

Stabilization

Posted on February 4, 2014 by climatechangefork

My latest series of blogs has focused on long term population growth; one of the main aspects has been an attempt to understand the United Nations’ medium projection and the reasoning behind its very large margin of error (December 24, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Decline, Exponential Growth, Global Population, Growth, Jim Foreit, Logistic Growth, Math, Negative Feedback, Physics, Population, Population Decline, Population Growth, Sustainability, Thermostat, World Population | 2 Comments

Crossing the Fertility Replacement Rate – the Last 20 Years

Posted on January 28, 2014 by climatechangefork

As I have shown in previous blogs, long-term (I use 1000 years as the “magic” number – see the December 17, 2013 blog) exponential growth (or decline) cannot continue unabated without serious consequences. Lately, I have emphasized this concept mainly … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Age Dependency Ratio, China, Climate Change, Demographics, Fertility, Fertility Rate, Fertility Replacement Rate, Global Population, Italy, Japan, Jim Foreit, Population, Population Decline, Population Growth, Spain, Thailand, World Population | 2 Comments

Crossing the Fertility Replacement Rates – Background

Posted on January 21, 2014 by climatechangefork

One of the fascinating things in trying to do what I do, be that teaching, writing or lecturing, is to try to anticipate long term future trends, given the ever changing present. Sometimes the present gets my full attention, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Age Distribution, Australian Open, Climate Change, Demographics, Extreme Weather, Fertility, Fertility Rate, Fertility Replacement Rate, Global Cooling, Global Population, Global Warming, Jim Foreit, Melbourne, Polar Vortex, Population, Population Decline, Population Growth, Replacement Rate, Stabilizing, Weather, World Population | Leave a comment

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About climatechangefork

Do We Have To Argue? Do We Even Know How To Argue?

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Bard CEP Talk

Back to Water – Israel in the Lead

Top-Down Stabilization Attempts

Economic Impact of Fertility Rates Below Replacement

Attempts to Reverse Negative Impacts of Fertility Rates That Have Crossed Below Replacement

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Crossing the Fertility Replacement Rate – the Last 20 Years

Crossing the Fertility Replacement Rates – Background

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