Category Archives: Climate Change

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 →

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 →