Category Archives: refugee

Wet and Dry Global Divide

Posted on September 14, 2021 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog was “inspired” by hurricane Ida and the damage that it wreaked on Louisiana, the rest of the Gulf Coast, and the northeastern US. I promised that I would expand on the theme of climate change-related extreme weather, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Extreme Weather, immigration, refugee, Water | Tagged Argentina, Arid, California, Colorado River, desert, Drought, dry, environmental refugee, EPA, Flood, Food, food security, immigration, Madagascar, migration, moisture, Precipitation, rain, Water, wet | 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 →

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Climate Change Refugees: Where Will They Go?

Posted on January 28, 2020 by climatechangefork

I have seen some alarming new reports of late. Two of them describe the start of environmental, climate change-powered migrations within rich countries. In the US, the key motivator is sea level rise: The Great Climate Retreat is beginning with … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Conference, immigration, refugee, UN, US | Tagged Army, asylum, Australia, bushfire, buyout, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, climate migrant, climate refugee, Davos, Developing Countries, Donald Trump, Environment, environmental refugee, fire, Flood, Florida, global trend, home, Houston, immigrant, immigration, migrant, migration, Military, National Intelligence Council, New Orleans, New York, NIC, refugee, Russia, Sea-Level Rise, security, Staten Island, Trump, UN, US | 2 Comments

Guest Blog: US Medical Schools Must Train Medical Students for Climate Change

Posted on August 27, 2019 by climatechangefork

This week, a medical student friend of mine presents a guest blog. As always, we welcome your comments and questions. We’d love to start a discussion about this topic. SA is a second year medical student interested in global surgery. … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, Guest Blog, immigration, refugee, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Advocacy in Medicine, AMA, American Medical Association, Anthropogenic, baseline data, Brooklyn College, Climate Change, climate migrant, climate refugee, Clinical Climate Change Conference, CO2, CO2 emissions, Colorado, Conference, curricula, curriculum, Data, disease, doctor, Drought, Education, educator, environmental impact, Extreme Weather, Flood, food security, Future, global health, Health, health professional, hospital, Illinois, incentive, med student, medicaid, medical, medical school, medical student, medicare, Minnesota, mitigate, Mitigation, Mount Sinai, New York Academy of Medicine, NY, patient, physician, public health, student, Sustainability, sustainability reporting, UCSF, Urbana-Champaign, US, USMLE, Water, Yale | 6 Comments

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 →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Election, immigration, law, politics, refugee, Sustainability, Trump | Tagged Adaptation, administration, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Arizona, Balance, Chuck Todd, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, climate refugee, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Congress, coral, Cost, damage, Dan Coats, Democrat, democratic socialist, denial, Donald Trump, Economics, EIS, Election, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, environmental refugee, evidence, Extreme Weather, fire, Florida, forest fire, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Global Warming, GOP, governance, Government, green, green new deal, greenhouse gas, heat stress, house of representatives, immigration, impact, Industrial Revolution, intelligence, IPCC, law, legislation, Local, Media, Mitigation, North Carolina, North Korea, objective, opinion, ostrich, politics, reef, refugee, reporter, Republican, resolution, responsibility, Science, senate, socialist, subjective, Sustainability, Sustainable, Technology, Trump, UN, US | 6 Comments

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

Guest Blog by Sonya Landau: Unsustainable Desert: People Have Been Living in Tucson for Thousands of Years; How Much Longer Can That Continue?

Posted on October 9, 2018 by climatechangefork

I have been Micha’s editor and helped run this blog since the beginning. I’m excited to have the chance to contribute to Climate Change Fork. Tucson is a magical place. Then again, I’m biased – it is my home town … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Guest Blog, immigration, refugee, Sustainability, Water | Tagged Adaptation, aquifer, Arizona, AZ, cacti, cactus, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Deniers, climate refugee, Climate Skeptics, Colorado River, coyote, cultivation, death, desert, dry heat, Economics, ecosystem, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, farming, Florence, Fossil Fuels, Future, Global Warming, gray water, groudwater, ground water, Guest Blog, heat, heatstroke, History, hot, Hurricane, immigrant, immigration, life, Maldives, Maria, Mexico, migrant, migration, Mitigation, Phoenix, Population, Power, Power Plants, Puerto Rico, reclaimed water, refugee, Reservoir, roadrunner, Science, sea level, Solar, Solar Energy, solar panel, Sonora, Sonoran desert, Sonya Landau, Sustainability, Sustainable, Tucson, undocumented, US, Water, water level, water portfolio, Water Scarcity, Water Shortage, Water Stress, water supply | 5 Comments

Science or Indoctrination?

Posted on July 31, 2018 by climatechangefork

Earlier this month (July 3rd and 10th) I wrote two blogs about a heat wave that was affecting my home of NYC and how it impacted me. The weather here now is lovely (around 85oF, with bearable humidity and no … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, immigration, politics, refugee, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, air conditioner, air conditioning, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, attribution, Britain, California, causality, cause, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, coping, dam, Drought, Environment, Extreme Weather, Finland, fire, Flood, Global Warming, globalization, Greece, heat, heat wave, heatwave, indoctrination, intensity, James Inhofe, James Lankford, Japan, laos, Meteorologist, Meteorology, NSF, political, politics, Pool, probabilistic, propaganda, Rand Paul, Science, Sustainability, Sweden, Technology, Ted Cruz, UK, Weather, wildfire, World Population | 1 Comment

Location Sensitivities of Other Biota

Posted on July 24, 2018 by climatechangefork

My last blog ended with a promise that I would look into location sensitivity of other foods and drinks – after all, humans can’t survive on wine alone. When I Googled “climate change impact,” these were my top results: Marine … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, immigration, refugee, Sustainability, Water | Tagged Adaptation, Agriculture, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, biodiversity, biota, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, climate refugee, Climate Skeptics, crops, ecosystem, extinction, fishing, Food, food security, Global Warming, immigration, Maine, migration, NOAA, phenological mismatch, phenology, pollinator, refugee, Science, Sustainability, World Population | 7 Comments

Vulnerabilities: Desertification

Posted on May 15, 2018 by climatechangefork

The ecological counterpart to water stress (May 1, 2018) is desertification. The table summarizing the IPCC’s assessments of five categories directly or indirectly connected to water use (April 24, 2018) refers to: “Decreasing water availability and increasing drought in mid-latitudes … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Change, immigration, IPCC, refugee, UN, Water | Tagged Adaptation, Aftica, Agriculture, Algeria, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Arid, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, car, Chad, China, climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, climatologist, CO2, CO2 emissions, desert, desertification, displacement, Drought, environmental refugee, Eritrea, Ethiopia, farming, Future, Gambia, GDP, Global Population, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Guinea Bissau, herding, History, immigrant, immigration, Inner Mongolia, IPCC, irrigation, Mali, Mauritania, migrant, migration, Mitigation, monsoon, Niger, Nigeria, Population, rainfall, refugee, reversibility, Sahara, Sahel, Science, Senegal, South Sudan, UN, Water, Water Stress, World Population | 1 Comment

Category Archives: refugee

Wet and Dry Global Divide

Birobidzhan and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Climate Change Refugees: Where Will They Go?

Guest Blog: US Medical Schools Must Train Medical Students for Climate Change

To Make America Great Again, Please Stand Tall

The Green New Deal Resolution: Is it Viable?

Guest Blog by Sonya Landau: Unsustainable Desert: People Have Been Living in Tucson for Thousands of Years; How Much Longer Can That Continue?

Science or Indoctrination?

Location Sensitivities of Other Biota

Vulnerabilities: Desertification

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