Category Archives: Climate Change

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 →

One month ago, on February 25th, I wrote a blog that attempted to differentiate between the long- and short-term impacts of evolving global trends. I wrote that I would try to focus on the long-term impacts. The Iran war started … Continue reading →

The acronym in the title stands for “Make the World Great Again,” as opposed to the current US government’s efforts to “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) and “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA). The basic idea is that no country can … Continue reading →

Figure 1 – Drawing of the Boston Tea Party (Source: SC Daily Gazette) The last two blogs promised that I would focus on different efforts to adapt to the demographic changes that the world is going through. Currently, there are … Continue reading →