Category Archives: Climate Change

(Source:  Wikimedia Commons) Last week’s blog finished with the following paragraph: My next blog will be posted after the US elections, and we will also have the results from the elections that are taking place elsewhere in the coming two … Continue reading →

  (Source:  Shivaram’s Substack) This blog will be posted on Thursday, October 29, four days after the second round of the Brazilian election and the Serbian elections, two days after elections in Israel and five days before the US midterm … Continue reading →

              (Source:  Nate Eliason) November 3, the deadline for the present midterm election in the US, is approaching. Climate change has almost disappeared from public discussions during this election cycle. In this blog I … Continue reading →

(Extreme event attribution – Wikipedia) Recently, a college (Brown University) roommate of my wife’s, who lives in California, spent 3 days with us, taking advantage of invited talks (NYU and Cornell) that she got from schools on the East Coast. … Continue reading →

(Source:  People Magazine – Texas Floods) Two blogs ago (September 24) in a blog titled, “Learning from Missiles,” I wrote the following two paragraphs: Climate change is one of the global threats that has the same components as aerial war threats … Continue reading →

Figure 1 – The UN General Assembly September is a busy month. This blog is focused on the 2026 yearly meeting of the UN General Assembly. The top picture shows the main hall, full of representatives. A few words about the … Continue reading →

(Source: Bloomberg)  A few days before I posted this blog, many Jews throughout the world celebrated Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement: Yom Kippur fast day is the holiest day of the year—when we are closest to G‑d and to … Continue reading →

My photo of the lights memorializing September 11th I am starting to write this blog on Friday, September 11th, one day before the Jewish New Year. The top picture was taken a few days ago to mark the coming 25 … Continue reading →

(Source: Reuters) Last week’s blog focused on global resilience to vulnerabilities. This blog will focus on past and present global vulnerabilities that require resilience. As in last week’s blog, my focus will be on climate change. However, as I write, … Continue reading →

Figure 1 – New charging station near home The top picture shows my wife near a new charging station just installed near our place. We are too old now to change our car, so we just walked by it. To … Continue reading →