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Using COVID-19 to Measure Energy Consumption at Brooklyn College
I am on the faculty at both CUNY Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan. CUNY is a huge institution: The City University of New York is the nation’s largest urban public university, a transformative engine of social … Continue reading
Posted in Electricity, Energy
Tagged a/c, base load, Brooklyn College, carbon neutral, Climate Change, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, CUNY, Electricity, Energy, Energy Consumption, energy transition, Global Warming, law, lockdown, New York, NYC, pandemic, peak load, Sustainability
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Dubai: City of Contradictions
Figure 1 – The proposed “Mall of the World” in Dubai Last week, I posted some outlines of the trip that my wife and I took over the summer. The trip anchored on three family weddings that took place in … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Sustainability
Tagged a/c, air conditioner, air conditioning, business as usual, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Development, dome, Dubai, Electricity, Energy, greenhouse, Mitigation, old, ozonater, ozone, Power, proposal, Renewable, renewable energy, Solar, solar power, sterilization, Sustainable, sustainable city, Technology, UAE, United Arab Emirates, Water
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Extreme Heat: Big Cities, 2050
We are entering new levels of extreme heat. June 2019 was the warmest June ever recorded. The Weather Channel summarized it: At a Glance Four separate analyses, including from NOAA and NASA, found Earth’s warmest June on record was in … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Sustainability
Tagged 1880, 2050, a/c, Adaptation, air conditioner, air conditioning, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Beijing, Britain, C40, Cairo, China, city, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Delhi, Drought, Dubai, Egypt, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Europe, extreme heat, Extreme Weather, Future, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Health, heat, heat wave, heatwave, India, Istanbul, Japan, Ljubljana, London, Madrid, Mexico, Mexico City, Mitigation, Moscow, NASA, New York City, NOAA, NYC, Renewable, renewable energy, risk, Science, Seattle, Slovenia, Solar, Spain, summer, Sustainability, Temperature, temperature change, Tokyo, urban population, US, Water, water crisis, Water Shortage, Water Stress, Wind
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Electricity Use: Lighting – Incandescent vs. LED
In this blog, I would like to go through some details about judicious selection of the lighting devices that we use (e.g. incandescent, compact fluorescent, halogen or LED) and when or how much we choose to use our electricity. It … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Electricity, Energy, Sustainability, US
Tagged a/c, air conditioning, appliances, carbon emissions, cfl, commercial, compact fluorescent, economic, efficient, electrical power, Electricity, electricity access, electronics, Energy, Energy Consumption, energy efficient, energy star, energy transition, Environment, environmental, EPA, fluorescent, GDP, global energy transition, halogen, heat, home, incandescent, industrial, LED, light, light bulb, lighting, lumens, rebate, residential, sector, transportation, US, use, Voltage, wasted energy, Water, wattage, watts
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Balanced Arguments or False Equivalence?
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
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If You Don’t Believe In Climate Change – Try It!
This blog is coming out three days after the March for Science and five days before Earth Day and my wife’s birthday. It’s a busy week. Climate change is an abstract issue. Its main impact is projected to take place … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability
Tagged a/c, absolute zero, Adaptation, air conditioner, ambient light, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Atmosphere, baby, black body spectrum, car, Carbon, Carbon Cycle, chemistry, child, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, compromise, death, Earth, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Evaporation, Fossil Fuels, Future, glass, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, heat, Heat Stroke, hyperthermia, infant, infrared, infrared radiation, kelvin, light, micrometer, Mitigation, oxygen, ozone, pet, Power, Power Plants, public, quality of life, radiation thermal radiation, Science, Solar Energy, sun, Sustainability, Technology, Temperature, ultraviolet, US, visible light, Water, wavelength, window
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Long-term Adaptations II – Following the Netherlands: Food and Habitability
Figure 1 – Indoor lattice growing setting from National Geographic magazine article The photograph above resembles the one I included in last week’s blog. Both show the process of growing crops in a glass enclosure – except that Matt Demon’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability
Tagged a/c, Adaptation, Agriculture, air conditioner, armageddon, Carbon Footprint, carrot, chili, China, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, cooler, cucumber, dam, doomsday, dutch, Emissions, End of Now, end of the world, Energy, energy transition, Environment, farming, fertilizer, Flood, Flooding, Food, Food Supply, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Global Warming, greenhouse, greenhouse gas, habitat, Iceland, Mitigation, Netherlands, Ocean, ocean levels, onion, pear, pepper, Pesticide, Population, Population Density, potato, Science, Sustainability, Technology, Temperature, tomato, uninhabitability, uninhabitable, US, virtual water, Water, water footprint, Water Management, Water Stress, wet bulb, yield
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