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Climate Change and Federal Government Funding

Posted on August 7, 2018 by climatechangefork

Last week I looked at four Republican senators’ efforts to terminate government funding for television meteorologists who mention climate change as part of the forecast. I also discussed the issue in light of the global heat wave and the havoc … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, politics, Sustainability | Tagged accountability, Adaptation, administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, assessment, attribution, Britain, budget, causality, cause, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Drought, Environment, Extreme Weather, forecast, funding, GAO, Global Warming, globalization, Government, heat, heat wave, heatwave, indoctrination, James Inhofe, James Lankford, Japan, Kelvin Droegemeier, laos, Meteorologist, Meteorology, Mitigation, National Research Council, political, politics, probabilistic, propaganda, Rand Paul, Republican, risk, Science, science adviser, senator, Sustainability, Technology, Ted Cruz, TV, UK, Weather, weather system | 16 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 →

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Referencing vs. Plagiarism

Posted on May 22, 2018 by climatechangefork

The semester is about over (only some finals and the graduation ceremony remain). In a few days I’ll be celebrating my birthday – time for a selfie reflecting the integrity of my writing. I addressed some aspects of the ethics … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, politics, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Antarctic, antarctic ice, Antarctica, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, audience, Beatles, blog, Brooklyn College, citation, cite, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Congress, copy, CUNY, Data, Donald Trump, edit, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, ethics, Fossil Fuels, Foucault, George Harrison, Geraldine DeLuca, Global Warming, Google, governance, Government, house of representatives, ice, integrity, lawmaker, method, methodology, mitigate, Mitigation, Mo Brooks, NASA, permission, plagiarism, plagiarize, plagiarizing, Popperian, public, reference, Republican, Richard Owen, Science, scientific method, sea level, Sea-Level Rise, selfie, Social Media, source, subconscious plagiarism, subscription, Sustainability, target, Technology, Trump, US | 1 Comment

Water Cycle Vulnerabilities

Posted on April 24, 2018 by climatechangefork

Happy belated Earth Day and Happy 6th Birthday to Climate Change Fork! I have repeatedly mentioned that global climate change is driven mainly by our interruption of the energy cycle. Specifically, we use fossil fuels as our main energy source … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, politics, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Birthday, Carbon, carbon dioxide, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, desertification, developed, developing, Drought, Earth, Earth Day, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy cycle, energy transition, Environment, Extreme Weather, Flood, Fossil Fuels, Future, GDP, Global Population, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, heat, hot, IPCC, Israel, lowess smoothing, Mitigation, NASA, Population, Power, Power Plants, Science, sea level, Solar Energy, statistics, Sustainability, Technology, Temperature, temperature change, US, Water, water distribution, Water Shortage, Water Stress, World Population | 1 Comment

Saving the World through the Pursuit of Self Interest: Students Input

Posted on December 19, 2017 by climatechangefork

I have been teaching my Climate Change course using the TBL (Team Based Learning) system. I have 6 groups in my class, each composed of roughly 7 students that have been studying together throughout the semester. I have challenged the … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, politics, Sustainability, Trump | Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Democratization, Donald Trump, Education, Emissions, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Global Population, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Mitigation, Physics, politics, Power, Power Plants, Science, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Technology, Trump, US, World Population | 17 Comments

Long-term Mitigation: Fusion

Posted on December 12, 2017 by climatechangefork

A month ago, I was working on a series of blogs about the long-term impacts of and solutions for climate change. I got sidetracked and decided to follow two dramatic events as they unraveled: first was the tax legislation that … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Climate Change, politics, Sustainability, Trump | Tagged Adaptation, brown dwarf, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, deficit, density, deuterium, Donald Trump, Electricity, Emissions, energy transition, failed star, fission, Fossil Fuels, fusion, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, helium, hydrogen, hydrogen bomb, ignition, isotope, ITER, JET, John Holdren, Kelvin scale, laser, lithium, magnetic mirror, Mitigation, National Ignition Facility, Nuclear, nuclear fusion, nuclear power, particle density, Physics, plasma, politics, Power, Power Plants, radioactive, renewable energy, Science, Solar, solar mass, Solution, star, stellarator, sun, Sustainability, Tax, Technology, tokamak, tritium, Trump, US, white house, wind power, z-pinch | Leave a comment

Collective Irrationality and Individual Biases: Climate Change

Posted on November 21, 2017 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog looked at the connections between the latest effort to rewrite our tax code and the necessary detailed accounting of the resources we will need to compensate for the increasing damage that climate change will inflict on us … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, Election, politics, Sustainability, Trump | Tagged Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, apocalypse, behavioral economics, bias, business as usual, Cass Sunstein, catastrophe, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, cognitive bias, college, conservation of energy, conspiracy, democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, doomsday, dynamic scoring, Economics, Education, Election, End of Now, Energy, greenhouse gas, high school, human contribution, John Zeller, junk science, just world, loss aversion, Market, physicist, Physics, political elite, psychology, rational choice theory, Republican, Richard Thaler, Science, Social Science, Trump, US, vote, voter | Leave a comment

Doomsday: Timing?

Posted on September 26, 2017 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – IPCC projections of future climate change impacts based on two different scenarios Figure 2 – Relationship between global mean equilibrium temperature change and stabilization concentration of greenhouse gases Trying to estimate the timing of doomsday is not … Continue reading →

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Never Again?? Charlottesville, Nazis, the Holocaust, and Climate Change

Posted on August 22, 2017 by climatechangefork

My original plan was to dedicate this blog, and several following ones, to pornography. Not the kind that you have in mind – this is not that kind of a blog – but the kind that the sociologist Daniel Aldana … Continue reading →

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Climate Change and Federal Government Funding

Science or Indoctrination?

Water Cycle Vulnerabilities

Saving the World through the Pursuit of Self Interest: Students Input

Long-term Mitigation: Fusion

Doomsday: Timing?

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