Category Archives: Climate Change

The first paragraph in Wikipedia’s entry on the subject describes water conflicts in the following way: Water conflict typically refers to violence or disputes associated with access to, or control of, water resources, or the use of water or water systems as … Continue reading →

This blog will look at three issues related to the central role that data centers play in the start of phase II of global electrification, as was discussed in last week’s blog. I started last week’s blog with the following … Continue reading →

(Source: TRG Data Centers) As shown in a previous blog (April 8, 2026), global electrification is almost complete. The only regions serious lagging are the rural areas of Africa, as detailed in that blog. The next phase is only starting … Continue reading →

Figure 1 – List of the world’s top 20 polluters (Source:  Visual Capitalist) A recent entry by Visual Capitalist (VC) enabled me to try to expand my quantification of the energy transition and correlate it with the usual questions of … Continue reading →

Energy is known as the physical quantity with the largest number of equivalent units. The main reason is historical. Table 2, from last week’s blog, included two issues that I promised to address, so I have carried the data over … Continue reading →

Globally, we should be able to learn how to handle our collective humanity from other planetary species that survive longer than ours and surpass us in technological progress. But where are they?? Almost from the beginning of writing this blog, … Continue reading →

Me with other Holocaust survivors at the Capitol during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony honoring Benjamin Ferencz (Source: Times Argus) Next month, I will be 87. I just returned from a series of meetings in Washington, DC, all organized by … Continue reading →

As promised last week, in this blog I am following up on the expansion of data centers into developing countries, with a focus on India. I am starting with a broad AI description (via Google). Google AI Prompt: Data Centers … Continue reading →

In an earlier blog (“’The Day After’: Electricity”, June 25, 2024), I compared the global energy increase with the increase in electricity consumption. Figure 3 from that blog is repeated here as Figure 1. Both quantities increase linearly; however, electricity … Continue reading →

 (Source: The Green Party on Facebook) Last week’s blog promised: “In the next few blogs, I will continue to follow …how the Iran war is currently serving as a wake-up call for continuing energy supply changes.” This blog is a … Continue reading →