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Cherry-Picking Data in an Energy Transition: Renewables & Polar Bears

Posted on September 17, 2019 by climatechangefork

My original plan was to continue writing about what I learned during my summer-long trip. Last week I focused on Dubai and I thought to focus this week’s blog on the greenhouses in the Netherlands. However, as usual in this … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Al Gore, Anthropogenic, Arctic, arctic melt, biogas, cherry picking, climate, Climate Change, conservation, Economy, Electrical Grid, Electricity, energy transition, Environment, experiment, Germany, global energy transition, Greta Thunberg, ice, ice melt, inconvenient, inconvenient truth, initiative, matter, Netherlands, phase transition, photovoltaics, polar bear, profit, Renewable, renewable energy, renewables, satellite, Science, sea ice, Solar, subsidy, Sustainability, Sustainable, thermometer, turbine, Water, wildlife, Wind, wind farm, wind power | 15 Comments

Yellow Vests, Al Gore, President Trump, Conflicts Between Present and Future

Posted on December 18, 2018 by climatechangefork

I love France. I have family there and many dear friends. I always look for opportunities to visit. Some in my family are social activists who “enjoy” demonstrating. So when the Yellow Vest (Gilets Jaunes) demonstrations started to take place, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged administration, Al Gore, Andrew Wheeler, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Arc de Triomphe, belief, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, critical mass, Donald Trump, Economics, Emanuel Macron, Energy, energy affordability, energy cost, energy reliability, energy transition, Environment, EU, fissile material, France, Future, Gas, gas prices, GDP, Germany, gilets jaunes, gini coefficient, Global Warming, Gore, governance, Government, Italy, law, Macron, minimum wage, Mitigation, Paris, Paris Agreement, Population, president trump, Science, Social Media, Spain, taxes, trigger, Trump, UK, wildfire, yellow jackets, yellow vests | 12 Comments

Giving Up is Not an Option: Let’s Focus on What We Still Can Do

Posted on August 14, 2018 by climatechangefork

Bridge used to be one of my favorite social activities (when my free time was a bit more abundant). To those not familiar with the rules, the basic structure is simple: one deck of cards, two teams of two. Wikipedia … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, politics, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, administration, Al Gore, alps, Antarctica, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, assessment, attribution, Australia, Bangladesh, bridge, Britain, budget, California, causality, cause, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Congress, contract, desert, Drought, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Extreme Weather, forecast, Fossil Fuels, funding, Future, Game, GAO, Global Warming, globalization, Government, greenhouse gas, Greenland, heat, heat wave, heatwave, History, indoctrination, James Inhofe, James Lankford, Jim Hansen, John Sunumu, Mauritania, Meteorologist, Meteorology, Mitigation, penguin, political, politics, probabilistic, propaganda, Rafe Pomerance, Rand Paul, Republican, risk, Science, sea ice, senator, strategy, Sustainability, Switzerland, Teaching, Technology, Ted Cruz, Texas, TV, Weather | Leave a comment

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Posted on July 10, 2018 by climatechangefork

I wrote my last blog in the middle of a heat wave that covered the city where I live along with great swaths of the East Coast and other parts of the world. The heat wave lasted almost a week; … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, air conditioner, air conditioning, Al Gore, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, arctic melt, Atmosphere, atmospheric water vapor, carbon dioxide, carbon dioxide solubility, Clean Energy, climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Sensitivity, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, contribution, driving force, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, feedback, feedback mechanism, Fossil Fuels, Future, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, guilt, heat, hypocrisy, hypocrite, impact, Mitigation, permafrost melt, snow melt, Temperature, warming, water vapor | Leave a comment

Doomsday Predictions – Disaster Porn?

Posted on August 29, 2017 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – Doomsday Clock Three weeks ago (before Charlottesville) I summarized the climate-change-related events that took place during my July vacation and promised to expand upon those issues. Given my necessary digression, I am reposting some of those elements … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Advocacy, Al Gore, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, attribute, Australia, biodiversity, business as usual, charlottesville, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, daniel aldana cohen, David Wallace-Wells, disaster, disaster porn, Donald Trump, doom, doomsday, doomsday clock, Economics, ecosystem, Electricity, Emissions, End of Now, Energy, energy mix, energy transition, Environment, EPA, extinct, extinction, Fossil Fuels, Future, global nuclear war, Global Population, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Holocaust, human contribution, inconvenient, IPCC, Mitigation, New Zealand, North Korea, Nuclear, nuclear weapon, Paul Ehrlich, PNAS, porn, Power, projection, Russia, Science, Sustainability, Technology, US, World Population | 2 Comments

Back to Climate Change: A Summary of What Happened in July

Posted on August 8, 2017 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – Melting Siberian permafrost results in craters Figure 2 – Detachment of Antarctican Iceberg the size of Delaware Even though I was on a vacation in Asia and Australia for a month, in this day and age … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Change, Sustainability, UN | Tagged Adaptation, Al Gore, alarmist, Antarctica, Anthropocene, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, crater, David Wallace-Wells, Delaware, DNNer, Donald Trump, doomsday, Economics, Emissions, End of Now, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EPA, fear, Fossil Fuels, Future, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, iceberg, impact, inconvenient, IPCC, Media, Methane, Mitigation, News, Paris, Paris accord, Paris Agreement, Physics, Power, Science, Siberia, Sustainability, teach, teacher, Technology, Trump, UN, US, worst-case | Leave a comment

Assessment – Fall 2016: Global Issues, Personal Perspectives and Climate Change

Posted on October 4, 2016 by climatechangefork

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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Cherry-Picking Data in an Energy Transition: Renewables & Polar Bears

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