Category Archives: Extreme Weather

Heat Dome: Business as Usual

Posted on July 6, 2021 by climatechangefork

The “heat dome” has been at the top of the news in recent days, starting almost immediately after the official start of summer on Sunday, June 20th. Sonya Landau, the editor of this blog, wrote a beautiful and timely guest … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Change, Extreme Weather | Tagged carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, CO2, CO2 emissions, dome, Emissions, heat, heat dome, Mauna Loa, NOAA, oscillation | 3 Comments

Guest Blog by Sonya Landau: Heat and COVID Disparities

Posted on June 22, 2021 by climatechangefork

Walking outside in southern Arizona right now is akin to walking into a giant oven. Waves of heat waft toward you from all sides the moment you set foot out the door. We always joke, “but it’s a dry heat,” … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Guest Blog, law, Sustainability, US | Tagged air conditioner, Arizona, Class, coronavirus, COVAX, COVID 19, Economics, Education, essential worker, ethnicity, GDP, heat, heat wave, homelessness, housing, Income, Inequality, inequity, legislation, occupation, OSHA, pandemic, Phoenix, Race, safety, socioeconomic, Tucson, vaccine, Wealth, work | 7 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

Birobidzhan and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Posted on December 22, 2020 by climatechangefork

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 | Leave a comment

The Election as a Teachable Moment

Posted on November 10, 2020 by climatechangefork

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 | 3 Comments

Simultaneous Global Disasters

Posted on September 1, 2020 by climatechangefork

About a month ago (August 4th), I wrote a blog that used a Venn diagram to show the overlap of climate change, COVID-19, projected population change, job availability, and socio-economic status. My discussion was relatively abstract. Now, only one month … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, law, politics, US | Tagged air conditioner, air conditioning, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, apocalypse, apocalyptic, asteroid, Belarus, blackout, California, Christianity, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, Durer, Election, Electricity, Energy, Extreme Weather, fire, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Islam, Judaism, Kenosha, Laura, Louisiana, Marco, Minneapolis, police violence, Policy, religion, Science, sins, social justice, storm, Texas, wild fire | 5 Comments

Do-It-Yourself Climate Monitoring: the Weather Report

Posted on August 18, 2020 by climatechangefork

My wife and I start our day with breakfast and the print edition of The New York Times (NYT). When the paper arrives, we split it between us—she gets the front section and I get the rest. One of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education, Extreme Weather | Tagged Arizona, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Climate Change, CUNY, Data, data set, Education, El Paso, Extreme Weather, heat, Heat Exhaustion, heat index, Heat Stroke, heat wave, humidity, NYC, NYT, online, Phoenix, sun stroke, Temperature, Texas, Tucson, US, Weather, weather report | 2 Comments

Extreme Weather & the Energy Transition

Posted on June 23, 2020 by climatechangefork

All over the world, people are getting tired of the lockdowns and frozen economies, and yet the virus is still on the rise in many places. As countries and states reopen, carbon emissions are resurging. Here is what that means … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Sustainability, Trump, US | Tagged Adaptation, Brazil, China, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, Donald Trump, Election, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EU, Europe, financing, Freddie Mac, Future, green new deal, greenhouse gas, India, Investment, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Oil, pandemic, Population, Recession, Renewable, renewable energy, Sustainable, US | 3 Comments

Global Disasters at Different Speeds: How Do We Teach and Learn Now?

Posted on May 26, 2020 by climatechangefork

Israeli beach, May 16th My university just wrapped up its 2020 spring semester. As in most schools, our classrooms all moved online shortly after the semester began. This shift has applied to most other activities as well. In the US … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Extreme Weather | Tagged Australia, Bangladesh, Bolsonaro, Brazil, bushfire, chemistry, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, Climate Denial, climate denier, contagion, contagious, coronavirus, COVID 19, cyclone, dam, disaster, fire, Flood, Future, Gulf States, heat wave, India, Israel, Michigan, middle east, natural disaster, Online Education, pandemic, peak, Physical Environment, quarantine, refugee, Rohingya, Science, scientist, Scott Morrison, social distance, social distancing, socialism, time scale, Trump, US, Virginia, virus | 1 Comment

Noah’s Ark and Humanity’s Survival

Posted on February 4, 2020 by climatechangefork

January 27th was both International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD) and the beginning of a new semester at my school (Brooklyn College of CUNY). To commemorate the day, my school invited me to speak about my Holocaust experiences and explain how … Continue reading →

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Category Archives: Extreme Weather

Heat Dome: Business as Usual

Guest Blog by Sonya Landau: Heat and COVID Disparities

Energy Resilience: Winter in Texas

Birobidzhan and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast

The Election as a Teachable Moment

Do-It-Yourself Climate Monitoring: the Weather Report

Extreme Weather & the Energy Transition

Noah’s Ark and Humanity’s Survival

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