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India – the Global Lighthouse

Posted on February 17, 2015 by climatechangefork

Toward the end of last year (December 9, 2014), I started a series of blogs taking stock of where we stand, in light of this year’s anticipated Paris meeting (December 2015) that will try (again) to formulate an international agreement … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Carbon, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, China, Economics, Emissions, Energy Consumption, extrapolate, GDP, greenhouse gas, India, Mitigation, Sustainability, US | 3 Comments

The Stuttering Energy Transition and the Sharp Drop in Oil Price

Posted on January 13, 2015 by climatechangefork

Economically, the recent global event that has attracted everybody’s attention is the sharp and major decline in oil prices. Figure 1 shows the decline. I am writing this blog on Friday, January 9th, and the price of Brent Crude is … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, budget, Cape-Wind, China, Clean Energy, crude oil, Demand, Economics, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Future, Gasoline, Iran, Iran-Iraq War, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, Kuwait, Oil, Oil Companies, oil embargo, oil price, Price, price elasticity, production, Russia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Yom Kippur War | 1 Comment

Stuttering Energy Transitions: Germany – Producers

Posted on December 23, 2014 by climatechangefork

As I discussed in the in the last blog, the feed-in tariff that was introduced as a key element in the German energy transition has resulted in the Germans paying among the highest electricity rates in the world. It was … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, China, Clean Energy, client, Climate Change, Coal, Cost, Crystalline Modules, duty, E.ON, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Energy Sources, Energy Storage, energy transition, Environment, EROI, EU, feed-in tariff, Fossil Fuels, Gas, Germany, Investment, Malaysia, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Nuclear Energy, Photovoltaic, photovoltaics, Pollution, Power, Price, producers, quota, Renewable, Renewable Energy Act, Solar, Solar Cells, Solar Energy, Solyndra, Supply, Tariff, tariff degression, Technology, US, Utility, Wind, WTO | 1 Comment

Stuttering Energy Transitions: Germany

Posted on December 9, 2014 by climatechangefork

2015 is knocking at the door. I just got The Economist’s “The World in 2015” special issue both in print and digital form. It’s full of numbers, predictions and stories. Most of its numbers and predictions are optimistic extrapolations of … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Australia, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Denmark, E.ON, Economics, Education, electrical power, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy generation, Energy Storage, energy transition, Environment, Fossil Fuels, France, Fukushima, Germany, Global Warming, India, Mitigation, Nuclear, Nuclear Energy, Pollution, Power, Power Plants, Science, Sustainability, Technology, United Nations, United States, US | 1 Comment

Income Inequality – Climate Change

Posted on September 9, 2014 by climatechangefork

I just came back from a very intense week in Israel. I went there in the “middle” of a war between Hamas and Israel, which paused for a cease-fire a day after my arrival. This war has been between a … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Affluence, America, Boko Haram, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, CO2 emissions, Drought, Economics, Egypt, Emissions, End of Now, Environment, greenhouse gas, Hamas, Income, Income Inequality, Inequality, IPAT, Iraq, ISIS, Israel, laws of war, Libya, NIC, Nigeria, Obama, Physics, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Terrorism, Tom Friedman, Ukraine, War, Water, Water Cycle, Water Stress, Years of Living Dangerously, Yemen | Leave a comment

The Economics of Energy Storage

Posted on August 5, 2014 by climatechangefork

Two of the last three blogs (July 15 and July 29, 2014) discussed the role that energy storage plays in the transition to more sustainable energy sources. In my last blog, I tried to discuss the available technologies. This week, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged 2DS, Adaptation, Baseline, Breakthrough, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Economics, Electricity, Energy, Energy Storage, EU, Gigawatt, IEA, India, Kilowatt, kwh, Power, Research, Storage, Technology, Thermal, Unit, United States, US, Watt, World Bank | Leave a comment

Sustainable China?

Posted on July 22, 2014 by climatechangefork

In the last blog I started to discuss the role that energy storage plays in the transition to more sustainable energy sources. While I had originally planned to focus this blog on the various energy storage technologies, I will instead … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Biofuel, Bloomberg, Cars, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, EDGAR, Electric Cars, Electric Vehicles, Electricity, Elisa Wood, Emissions, Energy, Energy Consumption, Energy Sources, Energy Storage, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Hydroelectric, Power Plants, Renewable Energy World, Solar, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Technology, United States, Wind | Leave a comment

Energy Transition in the US??? – The World is Watching and So Are We

Posted on June 17, 2014 by climatechangefork

Unless my editors (LCG Communications) decide differently, this blog will be posted about two weeks after the EPA and President Obama announced the new proposal to limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants. My folder library is already full … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Balance, Carbon, Chamber of Commerce, China, Clean Air Act, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Economics, Electrical Grid, electrical power, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Environment, EPA, EU, Fossil Fuels, greenhouse gas, India, Natural Gas, Obama, Obamacare, Power, Power Plants, Recession, Reference Year, Regulations, Renewable, Russia, US | Leave a comment

Europe in June: The Schedule of the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change

Posted on June 10, 2014 by climatechangefork

By the time that this blog is posted I will be in England on my way to the Netherlands and France, ending up in Reykjavik, Iceland. In Iceland I will attend the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change. This is … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Activism, Adaptation, Agriculture, Antarctic, Anthropogenic, Arctic, Arid, Australia, Austria, Awareness, Bangladesh, Biology, Botswana, Brazil, California, Canada, Carbon, carbon dioxide, China, Class, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Colombia, Conference, Crisis, Denmark, Development, Disolved Organic Nitrogen, Ecohydrologic, Ecotourism, Education, Emissions, Energy, Energy Saving, Environment, Finland, Fish, Food, Fossil Fuels, France, Gender, Germany, Ghana, Global, Global Population, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Grizzly Bear, Health, heat, Heat Exhaustion, Heat Stroke, Heat Syncope, Hurricane, Iceland, Impacts and Responses, India, International, IPCC, Japan, Lake, Mauritius, Media, Meteorology, Mitigation, Modernization, Net-Zero, Netherlands, News, Nitrogen, Nutrition, Ocean, Permafrost, Pesticide, Physics, Plants, Polar Bears, Policy, Power Plants, Precipitation, Race, Reykjavík, Science, Sea, Sequestration, Social Science, Sustainability, Teaching, Technology, Thermal, Tibet, Tornado, TRMM, Typhoon, UK, Urban Development, Video Games, Water, Water Cycle, Water Stress, Watershed, Workshop, World, World Population | 1 Comment

A Game Changing Public Relations Avalanche on Climate Change – Just When I’m About to Have a Break

Posted on June 3, 2014 by climatechangefork

Yesterday (May 29, 2014) was commencement day at my school, and the day that I was able to post my grades. Officially, the school year has ended and my summer break starts now (I do not take part in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Anthropogenic, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Conference, Cosmos, Economics, Egypt, Energy, Environment, EPA, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Greenland, Heartland Institute, Iceland, Indonesia, International Climate Change Conference, Mitigation, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Obama, Sandy, Science, Sustainability, Syria, Water, Water Cycle, Water Stress, Years of Living Dangerously, Yemen | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: China

India – the Global Lighthouse

The Stuttering Energy Transition and the Sharp Drop in Oil Price

Stuttering Energy Transitions: Germany – Producers

Stuttering Energy Transitions: Germany

Income Inequality – Climate Change

The Economics of Energy Storage

Sustainable China?

Energy Transition in the US??? – The World is Watching and So Are We

A Game Changing Public Relations Avalanche on Climate Change – Just When I’m About to Have a Break

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