Category Archives: Climate Change

Utility Pricing: We Will All Have to Pay More

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

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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Back to Cherry-Picking and Political Feedback

In the last few blogs, I was busy summarizing our trip to Australia. It’s time to return to the real world.  The dominating features in the news are the various legal issues of ex-president Trump and his acolytes and the … Continue reading

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Bringing My Family Tree to Australia

The details of our trip to Darwin were outlined in the first blog that I wrote and posted three days after our return (July 25th). I wrote that “the main driving force that led us to take the trip was … Continue reading

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Traveling to the Weather: Darwin

The details of our trip to Darwin were outlined in the first blog that I wrote in this series, that was posted three days after our return (July 25) and I’ll focus this blog on our Darwin trip and its … Continue reading

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Traveling to the Weather

Last week’s blog outlined the reasons why my wife and I decided to take our vacation in Australia. The main reason was to see family in Melbourne and a secondary reason was to try to have a short break from … Continue reading

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The Conflicting Reasons for my Australian Vacation

Figure 1 – Map of Australia (Source: Geology.com) Figure 2 – The three national parks around Darwin My wife and I are back from a three-week vacation in Australia. In this blog, I will try to explain why we went … Continue reading

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Vacation Notice

This week I am taking a break from the blog, so there will be no post. Please do come back next Tuesday, when I promise to continue our discussions.

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Sonya Landau Guest Blog: Arizona: Water Shortage vs. Population Growth

Hi, I’m Sonya Landau. I’ve been Micha’s editor for this blog since the beginning, and have contributed a couple of guest blogs over the years regarding Tucson, water, and heat (see the October 9, 2018 and June 22, 2021 posts). … Continue reading

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Arizona: Remedies for Water Shortage

By the time that you read this blog (and the next two), I will be in Australia. I will return toward the end of the month, and I will write about some of my experiences. In this blog and with … Continue reading

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