Category Archives: Anthropogenic

Back to Energy Transition: Data

Posted on March 7, 2017 by climatechangefork

February in Brooklyn (Taken on our terrace toward the end of the month) It’s high time we return to climate change and the Anthropocene. My first target is the continuous availability of relevant data. The Anthropocene and climate change are … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, COP21, Education, Election, IPCC, Sustainability, UN | Tagged access, Adaptation, Agriculture, Anthropocene, budget, budget cuts, chase, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Data, defense, distortion, Donald Trump, economic, Economics, Economy, Education, EIA, Election, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EPA, facts, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Global Warming, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, hack, hacked, hacker, hacking, IPCC, mediacre, Mitigation, Paris, Paris 2015, Paris Agreement, politics, Rick Perry, Science, Scott Pruitt, social security, sony, spending, statistics, Sustainability, target, Trump, Unemployment, US, war on facts, yahoo | 1 Comment

Back to Psychology: Self-Serving Bias

Posted on February 28, 2017 by climatechangefork

Alan Greenspan has been reflecting on the meaning behind Trump’s win and the Brexit vote: The rise of “economic populism” around the world has come from years of low growth that have “seriously impaired” the global economy, former Fed Chairman … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Election | Tagged #MakeAmericaGreatAgain, Adaptation, America, Anthropogenic, bias, BREXIT, Capitalism, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, communism, cry of pain, Donald Trump, economic populism, Economics, Economy, Education, esteem, fact, failure, Global Warming, governance, Government, Greenspan, Mitigation, pain, political psychology, politician, politics, populism, psychology, Science, self, self-esteem, self-serving, socialism, success, Sustainability, Trump, US | 1 Comment

Back to Psychology: A Vaccine against “Fake News” on Climate Change

Posted on February 21, 2017 by climatechangefork

I ended my book on climate change (Climate Change: The Fork at the End of Now – Momentum Press, 2011) with the chapter: “The Future, the Past and the Just World Hypothesis.” My wife, an experimental psychologist and now the … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education | Tagged Adaptation, alternate fact, Cambridge, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, consensus, debunking, DNNer, Economics, Education, Election, electoral, electoral process, Emissions, Energy, Environment, fact, fake news, false information, Fossil Fuels, George Mason, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Hypothesis, infection, information, informational vaccine, inoculate, intolerance, just, just world, Market, medicine, method, methodology, misinformation, News, Physics, politicization, politics, prebunking, psychology, rational, Science, scientific journal, scientific method, stock market, Sustainability, theory, tolerance, transmission, true, truth, US, vaccination, vaccine, Yale | 3 Comments

Chinese Hoax?

Posted on February 14, 2017 by climatechangefork

Top Issues – Trump America First Energy Plan America First Foreign Policy Bringing Back Jobs And Growth Making Our Military Strong Again Standing Up For Our Law Enforcement Community Trade Deals That Work For All Americans Top Issues – Obama … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Election, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, America, America First, build, building codes, China, Chinese hoax, civil rights, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, DNNer, Donald Trump, Economics, Economy, Education, Election, Energy, Environment, EPA, Exxon, ExxonMobil, foreign policy, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, health care, Heartland, Heartland Institute, hoax, immigration, Infrastructure, Iran, jobs, Kyoto Protocol, law enforcement, Military, Mitigation, Obama, Paris Agreement, Policy, politics, priority, resiliency, Rex Tillerson, Science, Sustainability, Technology, trade, Trump, US, white house | 2 Comments

Stabilization of Additional Indicators

Posted on February 7, 2017 by climatechangefork

We have spent the last two weeks examining how to stabilize our main socioeconomic indicators in order to achieve a long-term sustainable existence. Since climate change is one of the main early signs of the emerging human-dominated geological era (Anthropocene), … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, immigration, IPCC, Sustainability, UN, UNFCCC | Tagged Adaptation, Affluence, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Bangladesh, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Democratization, Desalination, economic, Economic Growth, Economics, Education, Election, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy source, energy transition, energy use, Environment, equality, Fossil Fuels, GDP, GDP per capita, Global Population, Global Warming, governance, Government, gravity, greenhouse gas, hunger, immigrant, immigration, India, indicator, influence, Infrastructure, IPAT, IPCC, Japan, migrant, migration, Mitigation, Physical Environment, Physics, politics, Population, Poverty, Power, refugee, rural, Science, sea level, security, socioeconomic, Solar Energy, Stabilization, Stabilizing, Sustainability, Sustainable, sustainable development, Technology, Temperature, UN, urban, US, Water, Water Scarcity, Water Stress, watercycle, Wealth, wealth distribution, World Bank, World Population | 2 Comments

Limits to Global Affluence?

Posted on January 31, 2017 by climatechangefork

[TEVYE] “Dear God, you made many, many poor people. I realize, of course, that it’s no shame to be poor. But it’s no great honor either! So, what would have been so terrible if I had a small fortune?” If … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Affluence, Amancio Ortega Gaona, Australia, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Bill Gates, billionaire, Brazil, Carlos Slim Helú, China, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Denmark, dream, Economics, Education, Electricity, Energy, Environment, fiddler on the roof, GDP, Global Population, Global Warming, impact, Income, income distribution, India, Indonesia, influence, IPAT, Japan, Jeff Bezos, Jew, Jewish, Lawrence J. Ellison, Lichtenstein, limit, Luxembourg, Macau, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael R. Bloomberg, millionaire, Mitigation, Monaco, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Population, Qatar, rabbi, Rich, richest, Rothschild, Russia, saturation, saturation point, Switzerland, Technology, Tevye, US, Warren E. Buffett, Wealth, World Population | 6 Comments

Playing for a Better Future

Posted on January 17, 2017 by climatechangefork

It’s time to stop crying over spilled milk! No more speculating; we need to prepare for the future. What kind of future will that be? My paid job is to prepare students to face their futures. I have also taken … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Conference, Donald Trump, Economics, Education, Election, Emissions, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Future, Global Warming, half life, livability, Nuclear, nuclear power, nuclear waste, nuclear weapon, Physics, Physics & Society, plutonium, Power Plants, radiation, Science, Sustainability, teach, Teaching, Technology, university, UPenn, Warning, WIPP, World Population | 2 Comments

Impact Assessment: Self-Inflicted Genocide and the Toronto Principle

Posted on December 27, 2016 by climatechangefork

In the beginning of November I got an email from a student at the University of Pennsylvania that said the following: My name is Richard Ling, a student at the University of Pennsylvania and member of the Fossil Free Penn … Continue reading →

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The Dangers of Apathy

Posted on November 15, 2016 by climatechangefork

1938 Interior of Berlin synagogue after Kristallnacht I am starting to write this blog on Thursday, November 10th. Today is a commemoration of Kristallnacht (November 9 – 10, 1938), the infamous night of violence that preceded the Nazi atrocities during … Continue reading →

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The Second Debate: Kenneth Bone Saves the Day

Posted on October 18, 2016 by climatechangefork

I am running behind. My intention this week was to cover two of the most contentious issues in this election period – not only within the US but globally: immigration and trade. I discussed immigration in a series of blogs … Continue reading →

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Category Archives: Anthropogenic

Back to Psychology: Self-Serving Bias

Back to Psychology: A Vaccine against “Fake News” on Climate Change

Chinese Hoax?

Stabilization of Additional Indicators

Limits to Global Affluence?

Playing for a Better Future

Impact Assessment: Self-Inflicted Genocide and the Toronto Principle

The Dangers of Apathy

The Second Debate: Kenneth Bone Saves the Day

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