Category Archives: Climate Change

Green Taxonomy

Posted on March 16, 2021 by climatechangefork

On December 27, 2016, I posted a blog, “Impact Assessment: Self-Inflicted Genocide and the Toronto Principle.” I cited an Op-Ed from Benjamin A. Franta: Last December, a committee at the University of Toronto released a report on the issue of divestment, drawing … Continue reading →

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My “Now”

Posted on March 9, 2021 by climatechangefork

We are reaching the anniversary of one full year since we moved teaching and learning online. My school is preparing for face-to-face classes for the next semester (starting in the beginning of September), with some healthy skepticism and the provision … Continue reading →

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The Green Climate Fund

Posted on March 2, 2021 by climatechangefork

President Biden signed 15 executive orders and two agency directives on the day of his inauguration (January 20th). Most of this activity was targeted at trying to reverse President Trump’s previous directives. One of the new executive orders that attracted … Continue reading →

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Energy Resilience: Winter in Texas

Posted on February 23, 2021 by climatechangefork

 I have written often about resilience and its importance in our energy transition. You can put the word into the search box and see a plethora of posts. Most of them focus on California and Australia, where climate change has … Continue reading →

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Climate Change, Social Media & Politics

Posted on February 16, 2021 by climatechangefork

I teach different levels of climate change courses and do my own research on the subject. My semester started at the end of January and I had four senior students who needed to select their own research topics regarding the … Continue reading →

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Winners and Losers: COVID and Coal

Posted on February 9, 2021 by climatechangefork

President Biden signed 17 executive orders immediately after his inauguration on January 20th (January 26th blog). Many of them nullified President Trump’s policies which had deliberately ignored climate change and thwarted mitigation efforts. Foremost of these new policies was the … Continue reading →

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K-Shaped Global Disasters

Posted on January 5, 2021 by climatechangefork

In an earlier blog (August 4, 2020), I presented anthropogenic climate change, COVID-19, population, jobs, and equity as circles in a Venn Diagram. COVID-19 gives us an opportunity to quantify those relationships. In this case, jobs represent the economic impact … Continue reading →

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Birobidzhan and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Posted on December 22, 2020 by climatechangefork

If you search this blog for the term, “environmental immigration,” you’ll find about 16 entries, including several guest blogs that my students wrote as their concluding research projects. The post from April 3, 2018 summarizes some of the findings from … Continue reading →

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Job and the Just World Hypothesis

Posted on December 15, 2020 by climatechangefork

I asked my wife, a psychologist and college administrator, to help explain climate change denial. She suggested the “just world hypothesis.” I included her proposal in the last chapter of my book, Climate Change: The Fork at the End of … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog: The Effects of Climate Change on Pandemics

Posted on December 8, 2020 by climatechangefork

Hello readers! This week’s guest blog is from Alvin Huang, Paula Glab, and Yuduo Wu. Combined, we are pursuing degrees in the fields of physics and computer science. Through this blog post, we hope to spread information on the correlation … Continue reading →

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