Category Archives: Climate Change

This Might Not be the Best Answer to Our Enrollment Crisis

Posted on October 31, 2023 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – A subway ad for for CUNY highlighting different clubs The other day, on my way to work, I was staring at an ad that was posted on the wall of the train (Figure 1). I got interested … Continue reading →

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Student Impacts on College Priorities

Posted on October 25, 2023 by climatechangefork

(Source: ABC News: Andie Noonan via Greeneration Foundation) College strategic plans reflect colleges’ priorities (put “college strategic plans” into the search box to review prior blogs). Reflecting on my own school, when the budget becomes tight, and there is a … Continue reading →

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AI’s Take on Student Input into Institutional Commitments

Posted on October 17, 2023 by climatechangefork

I asked Google for an image of “climate action plans of universities and colleges.” Below is a screenshot of what I got: I went on and asked the same search engine (I am fully aware of the charge that Google … Continue reading →

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Students’ Input into Institutional Commitments: Climate Action Plans

Posted on October 10, 2023 by climatechangefork

College enrollment has become an important issue that preoccupies most schools, including mine. The reasons are complex and will not be addressed here. Most colleges also, whether directly or indirectly, live on public support. If the public, through its elected … Continue reading →

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Global Financial Institutions

Posted on October 3, 2023 by climatechangefork

Source: (Bitcoin Magazine) The last few blogs were focused on the various ways that we can compensate each other for already present climate damage, as well as how to provide resources to adapt and mitigate in order to minimize future … Continue reading →

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Nations in Debt

Posted on September 26, 2023 by climatechangefork

The last two blogs dealt with insurance against catastrophic damage that is associated with the accelerating impacts of climate change (September 12th and September 19th). Both blogs were focused on the United States. The first was focused on the increasing … Continue reading →

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Federal Assistance for Disasters

Posted on September 19, 2023 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog was focused on the observations that private insurance companies are now running away from insuring for natural disasters, mainly because they lose money in this business. It was mentioned there that Florida, having its share of these … Continue reading →

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The Future of Insurance

Posted on September 12, 2023 by climatechangefork

(Source: Accomsure) The last two blogs focused on the money that we need to spend now to try to mitigate the increasing impacts of climate change on all of us. The example that I used was the recent devastating impacts … Continue reading →

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Utility Pricing: We Will All Have to Pay More

Posted on September 5, 2023 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – Above-ground high-power lines in the Netherlands Below, I’m including two short paragraphs from an earlier blog (December 10, 2019) about the ignition of the wildfires in California: Both situations started with tinderbox conditions (whether metaphorical or more … Continue reading →

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Water Pricing: We Will All Have to Pay More

Posted on August 29, 2023 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – The price of water in some of the world’s largest cities (Source: Municipal water utilities, Oxford Analytica) Figure 1, above, shows what seems to be the random distribution of the price of water in some of the … Continue reading →

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