Tag Archives: Adaptation

Earth Day 2023

Posted on April 25, 2023 by climatechangefork

(Source: Houston Arboretum) This is obviously not my first blog titled Earth Day. Just put the title in the search box and start investigating. The day is unique for me on two levels: it celebrates our physical environment and commitments … Continue reading →

Posted in Electricity, Energy | Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Coal, Earth Day, EIA, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, Environment, fossil fuel, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Paris Agreement, Renewable, Science, Solar, US | 1 Comment

Guest Blog: Loss & Damage Funds and the Developing Indian Subcontinent

Posted on January 3, 2023 by climatechangefork

Happy New Year everyone! This week, guest blogger Muhammad Siddiqui is taking over the Climate Change Fork blog. Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Micha Tomkiewicz, Ph.D., I’m a graduate student at Brooklyn College, CUNY, class of 2022. This blog … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, COP, Guest Blog, UN | Tagged Adaptation, Bangladesh, carbon dioxide, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, COP27, debt, developed, developing, Drought, Energy, energy transition, Extreme Weather, fire, Flood, fossil fuel, fund, Gas, GDP, gini coefficient, Guest Blog, hunger, India, Indus Valley, Inequality, Kuznets curve, Lorenz, Mitigation, Pakistan, Pollution, risk, UN | Leave a comment

Campus as a Lab: Part 1

Posted on July 19, 2022 by climatechangefork

Source: Rutgers Living Laboratories Campus as a lab (CAL) is becoming a teaching and organizational tool across campuses. I am including a schematic diagram of the dynamics of the concept, taken from the Rutgers University site, above. If you Google … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Energy, Sustainability | Tagged academic, Adaptation, Brooklyn College, CAL, campus, carbon dioxide, Clean Energy, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, Columbia, CUNY, curriculum, decarbonization, diversity, Duke, Education, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, environmental studies, Florida State, Future, Interdisciplinary, lab, Mitigation, Net-Zero, offset, plastic, Princeton, Research, Sustainability, transportation, Water | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged Adam Tooze, Adaptation, Bergen-Belsen, Bomb, Brooklyn College, change, concentration camp, CUNY, decarbonization, Education, Future, Germany, lab, laboratory, mitigaton, Nazi, Nuclear, nuclear bomb, NY, Physics, Princeton, Research, Russia, Science, social physics, stem, Ukraine, WWII | 4 Comments

Analyzing Global Energy Inflation

Posted on June 14, 2022 by climatechangefork

In almost every news broadcast, fuel inflation holds the top spot. This is not surprising. With an energy inflation growth of around 30% per year (see Figure 1) and the average price of gasoline at around $5/gallon (occasionally up to … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy | Tagged Adaptation, Biden, Brazil, carbon dioxide, Clean Energy, CO2, CO2 emissions, covid, COVID 19, CPI, decarbonization, decarbonize, economic, Economy, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, EU, Fossil Fuels, Future, Gas, GHG, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, inflation, Infrastructure, LNG, Military, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Oil, oil company, pandemic, petrostate, politicians, politics, Power, Price, renewable energy, Russia, sanctions, security, Solar, Sustainability, Sustainable, Technology, Turkey, Ukraine, US, vaccination, vaccine, Wind | 2 Comments

Population Transition Projections For the End of the Century

Posted on January 11, 2022 by climatechangefork

In last week’s blog, I mentioned a prediction that the global population would peak before the end of the century. This prediction was based on an analysis that was conducted by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, birth rate, childbirth, death rate, demographic, Fertility Rate, Future, IHME, migration, model, natural increase, pandemic, Population, Prediction, Transition, UN, work from home | Leave a comment

“Me” and “They” and “Us” in Campus Politics

Posted on December 28, 2021 by climatechangefork

This is my last blog of 2021, a year that has been—to put it mildly—not great for almost anybody. Let us hope that 2022 will unfold to be a better one. It is a challenge to write the last blog … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged adapt, Adaptation, Brookln College, covid, COVID 19, CUNY, environmental studies, funding, humanity, Interdisciplinary, pandemic, Sayre, Science, tenure, university | Leave a comment

Integrate “Them” with “Me” and “We”: Omicron, Climate Change and Global Threats

Posted on December 14, 2021 by climatechangefork

Fall classes are over for the semester at my school (final exams are still coming, though, so it’s not over for the students). Christmas and New Year are around the corner and now’s the time to think and make wishes. … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, CO2, CO2 emissions, commitment, COP26, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, damage, developing, Economics, Emissions, finance, GHG, Glasgow, impact, Inequality, inequity, Investment, Mitigation, Paris, Piketty, pledge, socialism, Technology | 1 Comment

The Math of the American Commitment

Posted on December 7, 2021 by climatechangefork

A short entry appeared in the Scientific American journal in the middle of the COP26 meeting: “Doing the Math on Biden’s Climate Pledge.” The author was trying to explain how the Biden administration—only three months after assuming control from an … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Energy, law, politics, Sustainability, US | Tagged Adaptation, Biden, carbon capture, carbon emissions, carbon zero, CCS, clean power, Climate Change, CO2, commitment, Congress, COP26, decarbonization, electric car, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, EPA, GHG, hydrogen, Infrastructure, Mitigation, Net-Zero, Obama, Paris 2015, Paris Agreement, renewables, Rhodium, zero emissions | Leave a comment

The American Commitment

Posted on November 30, 2021 by climatechangefork

COP26 ended with a unanimous decision on how to accelerate the global effort to mitigate climate change. This included plans to assist developing countries in their adaptation efforts and to monitor progress in these areas on an annual basis. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Electric Cars, Energy, Extreme Weather, Sustainability, UN, US | Tagged Adaptation, Biden, bill, budget, build back better, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, commitment, COP26, electric car, Electricity, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Future, Gas, Glasgow, Global, grid, IIJA, Infrastructure, legislation, Local, Manchin, Mitigation, Oil, Paris, progress, public transport, renewable energy, resilience, Science, Sinema, Transition | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Adaptation

Earth Day 2023

Guest Blog: Loss & Damage Funds and the Developing Indian Subcontinent

Campus as a Lab: Part 1

Analyzing Global Energy Inflation

Population Transition Projections For the End of the Century

“Me” and “They” and “Us” in Campus Politics

Integrate “Them” with “Me” and “We”: Omicron, Climate Change and Global Threats

The Math of the American Commitment

The American Commitment

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