Category Archives: Climate Change

(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 →

Figure 1 (AI through Gemini) Can you suggest a Picture that will reflect the uncertainty of the global economy? As labeled, the top picture was created by AI (the red label shows my prompt). The only writing consists of two … Continue reading →

Figure 1 – Almost three-quarters of the global population live in countries that are net importers of fossil fuels – Fossil fuel exporters – Wikipedia Last week’s blog started to discuss attempts to shift the energy transition to take sovereignty into … Continue reading →

Figure 1 – Average price of a solar panel vs. global electricity generated from solar, 1975-2025 (Source: Pew Research Center) Figure 1 was taken from the Pew Research Center site that was discussed in last week’s blog (August 6, 2026), which … Continue reading →