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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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Creation

Posted on July 26, 2022 by climatechangefork

My plan was to write a continuation of the previous blog about Campus as a Lab (CAL) (July 19, 2022) but as usual, reality interfered in a big way! I got a Facebook message from a friend that included the … Continue reading →

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What Am I Doing??

Posted on July 12, 2022 by climatechangefork

Over the last few blogs I cried, together with many others, about the direction in which the country and the world are going. It reached a stage where a friend told me that she didn’t celebrate the 4th of July … Continue reading →

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Conclusions From COP26

Posted on November 23, 2021 by climatechangefork

This semester, I am teaching two courses directly related to climate change. I start both with an exploration of the basic science involved. It’s a multidisciplinary topic that requires using first principles to address the overlap of the physical, natural, … Continue reading →

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The Federal Role in University Research: Part 3

Posted on March 11, 2025 by climatechangefork

Below are two cherry-picked opinions on President Trump’s attitude toward academia and academic research, one from the NYT and the other from Forbes: Michelle Goldberg in the NYT: (Opinion | Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke … Continue reading →

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The Federal Role in University Research: Part 2

Posted on March 4, 2025 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog and its figures emphasized three main issues related to university research: The US trails other countries in government funding for university research (The US ranks 28th; the top 10 are all developed countries with GDPs much smaller … Continue reading →

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Assessment of Higher Education

Posted on January 21, 2025 by climatechangefork

(Source: Reddit) Last week’s blog was focused on some of the actions that colleges are taking to counter the  recent decline in enrollment. The key entry on that blog was not the final steps that some colleges find themselves having … Continue reading →

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How Universities React

Posted on January 14, 2025 by climatechangefork

(Source: Lauren Pyke, The Daily Tar Heel) Last week’s blog returned to the issue of declining global enrollment in universities. I looked specifically at the impacts of the ongoing trend of declining global fertility, with a focus on the US. … Continue reading →

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Minimizing the Cost of the Transition

Posted on May 14, 2024 by climatechangefork

The last two blogs tried to make the case that—without the full participation of developing countries—the energy transition away from fossil fuels is bound to fail. In the first of these two blogs (April 30th) I quoted two paragraphs from … Continue reading →

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Distributed Generation, Net Metering, and VDER

Posted on April 2, 2024 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – Characteristics of 16 distributed generation utilities in the US (Source: “Quantifying net energy metering subsidies,” from the Electricity Journal; there may be a pay barrier for the full PDF article) Last week’s blog started from the broader … Continue reading →

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