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Noah’s Ark and Humanity’s Survival

Posted on February 4, 2020 by climatechangefork

January 27th was both International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD) and the beginning of a new semester at my school (Brooklyn College of CUNY). To commemorate the day, my school invited me to speak about my Holocaust experiences and explain how … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Holocaust, Sustainability | Leave a comment

Multilevel Confrontations with Climate Change: State Legislation

Posted on June 25, 2019 by climatechangefork

Wherever you live or work there is a very good chance that you are subject to multiple jurisdictions , with laws that you have to abide by. In my case, those include New York City and State, and the US … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Brooklyn College, California, carbon neutral, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, CUNY, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Future, Global Warming, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, jurisdiction, law, legislation, Mitigation, New York, NY, NYC, Policy, Renewable, renewable energy, rule, Science, socio-economic, socioeconomic, Solar, State, Sustainability, US, Wind | 2 Comments

Balanced Arguments or False Equivalence?

Posted on September 4, 2018 by climatechangefork

In the July 31st blog and several of the ones following it, I focused on an effort by four Republican senators to investigate federal grant making as it pertains to climate change: “Research designed to sway individuals of a various … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability | Tagged a/c, Adaptation, air conditioner, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Balance, Brooklyn College, business as usual, carbon dioxide, censorship, China, Chinese hoax, Climate Change, climate change denier, consensus, coverage, Debate, denier, deniers, Economy, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, fake news, false equivalence, Future, Google, heat, heat wave, hoax, John Holdren, mccain, Media, Meteorologist, Mitigation, NCA4, Obama, Power, probability, projection, propaganda, risk, Science, science adviser, Sustainability, Sustainable, Trump, Twitter, USGCRP, worst-case | 1 Comment

Global Family Vacation Part 3: Israel: Palestinian and Jewish Refugees, Resettlement, and the Right of Return

Posted on August 30, 2016 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – A map of refugee camps in the Middle East Successful resettlement is probably the most important aspect of the global refugee issue. Resettled refugees can make major positive contributions to their host societies. We have seen this … Continue reading →

Posted in immigration | Tagged annex, Arab, arab league, Arabist, attitude, Australia, bias, Brooklyn College, camp, choice, Citizen, Citizenship, Civil War, CUNY, document, Egypt, emigrant, emigration, Family, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Holocaust, home, homeland, Human Rights, identity, immigrant, immigration, Iraq, Iraqi, ISIS, Islam, Israel, Israeli, Jew, Jewish, Kuwait, land, Lebanon, middle east, migrant, migration, muslim, opinion, Palestine, Palestinian, Palestinian National Authority, partition, political, politics, privilege, property, pull factor, push factor, refugee, religion, resettlement, return, right, right of return, Saudi Arabia, security, settlement, Suez, Syria, teach, teacher, treaty, Turkey, UDHR, UN, UNRWA, US, War, west bank, Yemen | Leave a comment

Perceptions and Numbers: Obama’s Economic Legacy and Trump’s Pathway Forward

Posted on May 9, 2016 by climatechangefork

Last week I promised to delve more into the Pew Research Center’s trove of data on science and society, but a few things happened whose response took precedence. One was the narrowing of the Republican field of candidates to Donald … Continue reading →

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What a Week! – Scotland and the Climate Change March

Posted on September 23, 2014 by climatechangefork

I have written a great deal on the stuttering energy transition that we are all going through, and the difficult journey we are having in trying to replace our energy sources with more sustainable ones (just put the term “stuttering” … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Alpha Centauri, Ban-Ki Moon, Climate Change, climatechange, Economist, Global Warming, NYC, People's Climate March, peoplesclimate, peoplesclimatemarch, Scotland, UK, UN, Universe | 3 Comments

Elisa Wood Guest Post: Microgrids

Posted on May 6, 2014 by climatechangefork

This week, with her kind permission, I am reposting two articles by Elisa Wood. She is an editor at EnergyEfficiencyMarkets.com and has been writing about energy for more than two decades for top industry publications. Her work has been picked … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged Adaptation, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Democratization, Economics, Education, electrical power, Electricity, Energy, Environment, Extreme Weather, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Microgrids, Mitigation, Power, Power Plants, Superstorm Sandy, Sustainability, Technology, Tornado, Utility, Water | Leave a comment

Do We Have To Argue? Do We Even Know How To Argue?

Posted on March 25, 2014 by climatechangefork

A few years ago I was attending an academic retreat. These usually take place somewhere outside the campus and they often involve overnight stay. They are generally organized as a forum in which to discuss an institution’s important policy issues. … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged Arguement, Arguementation, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Debate, DNNer, Education, Global Warming, Heartland, IPCC, Israel, NIPCC, Science, Skeptical Science, TBL, Teaching | 7 Comments

Water as a Commodity

Posted on September 24, 2013 by climatechangefork

Recently, I have been writing a lot about water- I feel honored that one of the local papers here in Brooklyn, Our Time Press, picked up one of my posts in its entirety to republish. I am trying to get … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Climate Change, Demand, Earth, Economics, GDP, Global Warming, Human Rights, Madagascar, Pacific Institute, Price, Supply, Tariff, UN, Venezuela, Water, Water Scarcity, Water Stress, Water Tariff, World Bank | 2 Comments

Search Results for: campus as a lab

Noah’s Ark and Humanity’s Survival

Multilevel Confrontations with Climate Change: State Legislation

Balanced Arguments or False Equivalence?

Global Family Vacation Part 3: Israel: Palestinian and Jewish Refugees, Resettlement, and the Right of Return

Perceptions and Numbers: Obama’s Economic Legacy and Trump’s Pathway Forward

What a Week! – Scotland and the Climate Change March

Elisa Wood Guest Post: Microgrids

Do We Have To Argue? Do We Even Know How To Argue?

Water as a Commodity

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