Category Archives: Climate Change

AI climate change predictions by Gemini I am back to AI as a quantitative predictor (June 26, 2026 blog). I interrupted my discussion of the topic to describe events connected to Independence Day in the US on July 4th. I … Continue reading →

Last week’s blog focused on my reading of Thomas Friedman’s NYT Op-Ed, in which he addressed the US slogan “Out of many, one.” I wrote it few days before Independence Day, July 4th. On that Sunday (June 28th), I did … Continue reading →

Last Sunday, June 28th, I was reading the NY Times and noticed the Opinion section dedicated to the 250th Independence Day celebrations. It included an article by my favorite reporter, Thomas Friedman, on his interpretation of the US national anthem. … Continue reading →

Past, present, and future Venn diagram (Source: AI-Gemini) Throughout our lives, all personal, collective, global, tribal and national issues consist of an interplay of past, present, and future. This is formalized in the top picture, which was constructed for me … Continue reading →

(Source: WSJ) In about two weeks, we will celebrate 250 years of American independence, which was established with the issuing of the Declaration of Independence: The Declaration of Independence, formally The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America in the original … Continue reading →

(Source: Reply.io)  I am using AI extensively. Just put AI into the search box and you will get all the blogs that explicitly mention it. Every time that I use the technology, I specify the exact text that it puts … Continue reading →

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 →