Category Archives: Climate Change

April 2022

Posted on April 12, 2022 by climatechangefork

Monument for our April 13, 1945 liberation in Farsleben, Germany The “official” start of spring this year was on March 20th. However, this month started with April Fool’s Day and it seems that if the world’s events were divided among … Continue reading →

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Single-Use Plastic and Decarbonization

Posted on April 5, 2022 by climatechangefork

Source: Advanced Waste Solutions As I mentioned in last week’s blog, I will temporarily leave the topic of the devastating Russian aggression against Ukraine and shift back to the impending global environmental threats connected to climate change. The Russian-Ukrainian conflict … Continue reading →

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Fogs and Clear Skies

Posted on March 29, 2022 by climatechangefork

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Source: BBC) Previous blogs emphasized the fog of the Ukrainian-Russian war (March 8th) and the fog of the peace attempts (March 22nd) but even the combination doesn’t cover the reality of the Russian aggression. Many more … Continue reading →

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Power and Politics in Education

Posted on February 22, 2022 by climatechangefork

The theme of the blog may look familiar to longtime readers of this blog, even if the exact title is new. If you put the title in the search box without quotation marks, you will get many related entries. The … Continue reading →

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Back to the Energy and Population Transitions: Electrification and Brain Drain

Posted on February 1, 2022 by climatechangefork

In this blog, I will look at the ongoing global energy transition and the declining populations of rich countries around the world. I am specifically interested in attempts to redefine sustainable energy sources, as well as the ways in which … Continue reading →

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How to Explain Reality

Posted on January 26, 2022 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog focused on the name change of Facebook to Meta and on the cherry-picking phenomenon of selectively picking reality to fit our biases and trying to recruit more adherents to our views of reality. The borderlines between virtual, … Continue reading →

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Population Transition Projections For the End of the Century

Posted on January 11, 2022 by climatechangefork

In last week’s blog, I mentioned a prediction that the global population would peak before the end of the century. This prediction was based on an analysis that was conducted by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and … Continue reading →

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Population Transition

Posted on January 4, 2022 by climatechangefork

Happy New Year 2021 was not a great year. We are all hoping that 2022 will be better but I doubt that will be the case. I do think, however, that we will be up to the challenges it brings. … Continue reading →

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“Me” and “They” and “Us” in Campus Politics

Posted on December 28, 2021 by climatechangefork

This is my last blog of 2021, a year that has been—to put it mildly—not great for almost anybody. Let us hope that 2022 will unfold to be a better one. It is a challenge to write the last blog … Continue reading →

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“Me” and “They” in the Climate and COVID Disasters

Posted on December 21, 2021 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 Figure 1 reflects the deadly strength of anti-vaccination sentiment. Its resistance to science, policy, and any desire to ensure continued public safety seems to be equally relevant for denial of climate change. My November 17, 2020 blog, “Teaching … Continue reading →

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