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The Federal Reserve and Climate Change

Posted on January 14, 2020 by climatechangefork

Four days ago, the NYT featured Paul Krugman’s op-ed, “Australia Shows Us the Road to Hell,” where he described the urgent situation of the fires now engulfing the entire continent and hypothesized about strategies for confronting the political issues blocking … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Climate Change, Election, law, politics, Trump, US | Tagged Australia, bank, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, Congress, Dallas, Fed, federal reserve, fire, Government, open market committee, Real Estate, reserve banks, San Fransisco, US, wildfire | 1 Comment

Renewable Energy Use – Is Zero Carbon Achievable by 2050?

Posted on November 5, 2019 by climatechangefork

If you’ve been following my latest series detailing the indicators for the global energy transition (starting October 15th), you’ll agree that it’s time to ask the most important question: how are we doing? We can estimate the answer by examining … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability | 3 Comments

D-Day Anniversary: 75 Years Later and What I Mean by Self-Inflicted Genocide

Posted on June 11, 2019 by climatechangefork

A photo from a meeting of WWII liberators and survivors (I am in the middle of the back row) The 75th anniversary of D-Day was on Thursday. The celebration was not about me. It was about the soldiers that took … Continue reading →

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Campus Sustainability – National

Posted on May 28, 2019 by climatechangefork

About three weeks ago, shortly after spring began, The New York Times ran a short article about how local leaders in many communities are approaching adaptation to the major increase in flooding. Two short paragraphs capture the essence of the … Continue reading →

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To Make America Great Again, Please Stand Tall

Posted on February 26, 2019 by climatechangefork

I interpret standing tall as holding your head up and meeting oncoming challenges rather than burying it in a pile of sand to avoid reality (see the October 16, 2018 post on ostrich myths and the American government’s deliberate obtuseness … Continue reading →

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The Green New Deal Resolution: Is it Viable?

Posted on February 19, 2019 by climatechangefork

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 | 8 Comments

Wisdom from Australia: Are You Reading This?

Posted on February 12, 2019 by climatechangefork

In my first blog that I posted more than six and a half years ago, I described my early Holocaust experiences and their connection to my interest in climate change. I was born in Warsaw, Poland three months before the … Continue reading →

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Climate Change Complementarity: Optimization?

Posted on January 8, 2019 by climatechangefork

Last week I looked into complementarity, including the Oxford Dictionaries’ definition: A relationship or situation in which two or more different things improve or emphasize each other’s qualities. I’d like to follow up on the question posited there: do countries … Continue reading →

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Climate Change Complementarity: the US Government

Posted on January 2, 2019 by climatechangefork

Oxford Dictionaries define complementarity in the following way: A relationship or situation in which two or more different things improve or emphasize each other’s qualities. ‘a culture based on the complementarity of men and women’ Given how broad this definition … Continue reading →

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Deadly Confusions: Administration Doesn’t Believe its Own EPA Reports; That Could Cost Lives, Economy

Posted on December 11, 2018 by climatechangefork

In this blog I will continue to analyze the economic damage that the US government’s insistence on carrying on business as usual practices in the face of climate change will likely inflict on the country. Last week I discussed the … Continue reading →

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Category Archives: administration

The Federal Reserve and Climate Change

Renewable Energy Use – Is Zero Carbon Achievable by 2050?

D-Day Anniversary: 75 Years Later and What I Mean by Self-Inflicted Genocide

Campus Sustainability – National

To Make America Great Again, Please Stand Tall

The Green New Deal Resolution: Is it Viable?

Wisdom from Australia: Are You Reading This?

Climate Change Complementarity: the US Government

Deadly Confusions: Administration Doesn’t Believe its Own EPA Reports; That Could Cost Lives, Economy

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