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Audience Assessment: End of Year Test
2016 is about to end. It was a very challenging year around the world. Certain factions gained ground internationally, winning significant majorities in publicly elected government. In some senses, globalization has become a curse – when it gives rise to … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthropocene, assessment, audience, Brooklyn College, Carbon, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, CUNY, Donald Trump, Earth, Earth Day, EIA, Election, elections, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Environment, exam, fake news, Fossil Fuels, Gas, Gasoline, GDP, Global Warming, globalization, goal, greenhouse gas, IEA, India, institution, nationalism, Natural Gas, News, Paris Agreement, petroleum, Population, Power, Power Plants, reader, Science, student, Sustainability, teach, teacher, Technology, test, Trump, US, vote, voter, Water, World, World Bank, xenophobia
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Prerequisites
Last week I posted a figure from the Economist that summarizes how various constituencies voted in the American presidential elections. I promised I’d focus on some of the non-racial factors that made a significant impact on the results. Let’s look … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Election, Sustainability
Tagged accessibility, America, Anthropocene, Clinton, college, CUNY, democracy, Democrat, deplorable, Donald Trump, Economy, Education, elect, Election, eligibility, eligible, Future, Gender, globalization, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, learn, learning, political party, politician, politics, prerequisite, president, Race, Republican, resource, Science, skill, SUNY, Teaching, tertiary, Trump, university, US, vote, voter, Voting
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The Dangers of Apathy
1938 Interior of Berlin synagogue after Kristallnacht I am starting to write this blog on Thursday, November 10th. Today is a commemoration of Kristallnacht (November 9 – 10, 1938), the infamous night of violence that preceded the Nazi atrocities during … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, anti-immigrant, apathy, Berlin, business as usual, campaign, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Clinton, Congress, Democrat, democratic, Democratization, DGAD, Donald Trump, Economics, Education, Election, electoral college, electoral system, electoral vote, Environment, Florida, Fossil Fuels, Genocide, Gore, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Hitler, Holocaust, individual vote, Kennedy, Kristallnacht, Mitigation, nationalist, Nazi, Netanyahu, Nixon, non-voter, nonvoter, Nuremburg, Pennsylvania, political, politics, poll, popular vote, Raphael Lemkin, Republican, Science, suicide, Supreme Court, Trump, US, Violence, vote, voter, Voting, xenophobe, xenophobia, xenophobic
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The Sun as an Example of Stability Through Balance of Forces
I am posting this on Election Day; I have no idea as to how the vote will pan out but I think all of us can agree that the results will be highly consequential. With this much at stake, any … Continue reading
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Tagged angular momentum, Balance, big bang, black hole, candidate, chemistry, dead star, Election, election day, Equilibrium, force, Government, gravity, helium, hydrogen, hydrogen bomb, hydrostatic, hydrostatic equilibrium, linear momentum, momentum, nuclear fusion, Physics, pressure, protostar, red giant, rotation, satellite, Science, solar system, stability, stable, star, star birth, star stuff, sun, vote, white dwarf
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The Second Debate: Kenneth Bone Saves the Day
I am running behind. My intention this week was to cover two of the most contentious issues in this election period – not only within the US but globally: immigration and trade. I discussed immigration in a series of blogs … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Election, immigration
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, campaign, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Clinton, Coal, Debate, Democrat, Donald Trump, Economics, Election, Electricity, emigrant, Emissions, Energy, Environment, EPA, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, globalization, greenhouse gas, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, immigrant, immigration, Ken Bone, Kenneth Bone, migrant, migration, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Oil, politician, politics, Power, Power Plants, Renewable, Republican, Science, socioeconomic, Solar, Solar Energy, steel, Sustainability, Tax, Technology, town hall, trade, Trump, US, vote, voter, Wealth, wealth distribution, Wind
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The First Presidential Debate: Trump Argues This Country is a Mess!
Sunday was the second Presidential debate but for now I’m still processing the first one. Let’s start with a comment voiced by Republican Vice Presidential candidate Governor Mike Pence, during the campaign’s only Vice Presidential debate, which took place on … Continue reading
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Assessment – Fall 2016: Global Issues, Personal Perspectives and Climate Change
Shana Tova! The Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) is here. For me, it’s a family celebration. According to tradition, we are entering into the year 5777, but nobody that I know of dwells too much on the origin of this … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Al Gore, Anthropocene, assessment, Bilingual, bilingualism, campaign, Carbon, China, Chinese, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Clinton, CO2 emissions, conspiracy, cosmology, Democrat, Democratization, DNNer, Donald, Donald Trump, Earth, Economics, Education, Election, electrical power, Electricity, emigrant, Emissions, Energy, energy mix, energy source, energy transition, energy use, Environment, extinct, extinction, Facebook, follow, follower, Fossil Fuels, Gary Johnson, GDP, Global Warming, Gore, greenhouse gas, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, hydrogen, immigrant, immigration, IPCC, metrics, migrant, migration, Mitigation, Nobel, Obama, Oscar, Physics, political, politician, politics, Power, Power Plants, president, red giant, Republican, Rosh Hashanah, Science, Social Media, star, sun, Sustainability, Technology, Trump, Twitter, UN, US, vote, voter, white dwarf
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Immigration: Quantifying Migration
The Scope of Present Global Refugee Issues: Global migration (June 21, 2016) arises from people’s quest to survive and attain better opportunities. More specifically, people leave their homes: Due to war/civil war As a result of broken states In search … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, affiliation, Afghanistan, Africa, Anthropogenic, Bangladesh, Civil War, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, climate refugee, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Congo, danger, death, Democratization, demographic, Demographics, discrimination, displacement, DNNer, DRC, Economics, Economy, emigrant, emigrate, emigration, Emissions, Energy, Environment, estimate, Europe, Fertility, figure, forced displacement, forcibly displaced, Fossil Fuels, Germany, Global Population, Global Warming, graph, greenhouse gas, HUD, immigrant, immigration, India, IPAT, IPCC, Iraq, migrant, migration, minority, Mitigation, Physics, Population, Prediction, projection, quantify, quantitative, quantity, Race, refugee crisis, religion, Saudi Arabia, Science, Sustainability, Syria, Technology, trend, UN, UNHCR, US, War, World Population
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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.