Category Archives: Climate Change

Will Our Children and Grandchildren be Grateful and Think Well of Us??

Posted on December 14, 2022 by climatechangefork

The title of this blog doesn’t set any time frame. My grandchildren and my students are approximately the same age. However, it strongly indicates that something good is now happening. This good thing is happening as a result of the … Continue reading →

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Adaptation and Affordability: Developing Countries

Posted on November 29, 2022 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog ended with documentation of the COP27’s late unanimous agreement to generate a special fund to help developing countries to cope with adaptation to damage that climate change inflicts. Below is the exact language that the UNFCCC is … Continue reading →

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COP27 is Over: Draft of Final Decisions to Transfer Resources to Developing Countries

Posted on November 22, 2022 by climatechangefork

The COP27 meeting concluded on November 18th; I’ve been following its progress. As I described last week, this meeting’s main topic was the difficulty developing countries are having in financing the required mitigation and adaptation to climate change. They have … Continue reading →

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Adaptation and Affordability: Global

Posted on November 15, 2022 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – Historic cumulative emissions of countries (size of the circles) as a function of their vulnerabilities to climate change (Source: The New York Times) It is now the second week of COP27 and the last month of my … Continue reading →

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Human Reactions to the Climate Shift

Posted on November 1, 2022 by climatechangefork

The last three blogs examined the state of science in assigning attributions for extreme weather events to climate change. We have found that while this science is young when it comes to local events, it’s definite in terms of global … Continue reading →

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Attributions of Fires and Floods

Posted on October 25, 2022 by climatechangefork

Table 5.1 of the 2016 National Academy’s Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change (described in my October 11th blog), grades our knowledge of attributions of extreme climate events. The table summarizes the assessment of the … Continue reading →

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Attribution Vs. Chaos

Posted on October 18, 2022 by climatechangefork

My previous blog cited a long 2016 report by the National Academy that outlines two classes of mechanisms used for climate events to assess the likelihood of attributions to climate change: Event attribution approaches can be generally divided into two … Continue reading →

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Attribution: Noah’s Ark

Posted on October 11, 2022 by climatechangefork

During the active academic year, my main focus for this blog is to provide help to my students in their research assignments. I try to address the blog’s main focus—global transitions (with an emphasis on climate change)—while also staying relevant … Continue reading →

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Campus as a Lab Part 5: Learning from Global Efforts

Posted on October 4, 2022 by climatechangefork

As I mentioned in last week’s blog, NY Governor Kathy Hochul issued Executive Order 22 regarding environmental stewardship; it reflected the thinking that the state government should form an example of such stewardship for the rest of society. The title … Continue reading →

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Campus as a Lab Part 4: In Defense of Failures; Happy New Year!

Posted on September 27, 2022 by climatechangefork

      Source: iStock Photo I know that the title makes for a strange combination! This blog is being posted on the second day of the Jewish New Year. Similar to other New Year postings (see the September 22, … Continue reading →

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