Tag Archives: China

Production Gap: Actual Emissions vs. Paris Promises

Posted on March 30, 2021 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – Relative country contributions to total global carbon emissions and percentages of emissions over time, 2017 The new administration and the accompanying new leadership of many federal offices have strongly signaled a renewed and strengthened dedication to confront … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Sustainability, US | Tagged China, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, commitment, Emissions, Environment, fossil fuel, Future, Gas, Global Warming, India, Paris 2015, Paris Agreement, production gap, promise, temperature rise, UN, UNEP, US | 2 Comments

Can We Reopen Schools? Who Loses Out if We Don’t?

Posted on September 29, 2020 by climatechangefork

I just read an important op-ed in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristof, “‘Remote Learning’ Is Often an Oxymoron: We need to try harder to get kids back in school.” The essence of the piece is that, while rich … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged Arizona, Barron Trump, Brooklyn College, campus, China, Class, computer, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, CUNY, Development, distanced learning, Donald Trump, dropout, Economics, Education, Food, Holocaust, Hurricane, in person, infected, infection, Katrina, learning, lunch, mandate, mask, off-line, offline, online, open, Palestine, pandemic, parents, privilege, quarantine, Race, reopen, resource, safety, School, social, social distance, social distancing, socio-economic, socioeconomic, spread, students, support system, teachers, Teaching, Trump, university, Uruguay, US, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto, Wuhan | 9 Comments

The Green New Deal and Coronavirus: Intersections

Posted on July 28, 2020 by climatechangefork

Remember the Green New Deal (see the February 19, 2019 blog)? Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Senator Ed Murphy introduced the broad resolution to both houses of congress last year. To emphasize the breath of the resolution, here is a … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Climate Change, politics, Sustainability, US | Tagged adapt, Adaptation, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, Biden, China, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, Drought, Economics, Economy, Ed Murphy, Election, equity, Extreme Weather, Fertility, fire, Future, GDP, Global Population, GND, green new deal, hope, Hurricane, India, intersection, Italy, Japan, jobs, Joe Biden, mitigate, Mitigation, overlap, pandemic, political, politics, Population, president, Spain, Trump, US, venn diagram | 1 Comment

Extreme Weather & the Energy Transition

Posted on June 23, 2020 by climatechangefork

All over the world, people are getting tired of the lockdowns and frozen economies, and yet the virus is still on the rise in many places. As countries and states reopen, carbon emissions are resurging. Here is what that means … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Sustainability, Trump, US | Tagged Adaptation, Brazil, China, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, Donald Trump, Election, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EU, Europe, financing, Freddie Mac, Future, green new deal, greenhouse gas, India, Investment, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Oil, pandemic, Population, Recession, Renewable, renewable energy, Sustainable, US | 3 Comments

Coronavirus Impacts on the Energy Transition

Posted on June 2, 2020 by climatechangefork

What impacts will the COVID-19 pandemic have on the longer-term climate change disaster? I’ll begin to address this topic here, starting with some observations, and expand upon it with some suggestions in future blogs. Throughout my more than 8 years … Continue reading →

Posted in Electricity, Energy, Sustainability, US | Tagged carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, China, Climate Change, CO2, Coal, consumption, coronavirus, COVID 19, Economics, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, Fossil Fuels, Future, lockdown, pandemic, power plant, virus, Wuhan | 1 Comment

Scaling Properties of COVID-19

Posted on May 5, 2020 by climatechangefork

Saturday was a beautiful spring day. The Brooklyn green market downstairs was open. The street and the market were relatively (in the pandemic era) crowded; well managed social distancing was enforced but many people went without masks. The talk of … Continue reading →

Tagged Bangladesh, Bill Gates, Brazil, Brooklyn, case, China, coronavirus, COVID 19, death, Distribution, Economy, effect, epidemic, essential workers, Europe, Future, hot spot, India, Indonesia, Infrastructure, Italy, medical, Mexico, New York, Nigeria, NYC, outbreak, Pakistan, pandemic, Population, Poverty, repercussion, Russia, social distance, Spain, UK, US, virus | Leave a comment

Earth Day in a Pandemic

Posted on April 21, 2020 by climatechangefork

Tomorrow is the 50th Earth Day, my wife’s birthday, and the 8th birthday of this blog. Happy Birthday to everybody. This year, however, Earth Day will not be the same festive occasion that will include community events out in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Energy | Tagged China, Climate Change, coronavirus, COVID 19, Drought, Earth Day, Economy, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, EPA, GDP, Himilaya, India, megadrought, Oil, Policy, Pope Francis, Price, renewable energy, shutdown, social distancing, Solar, Southwest, US, Wind | 1 Comment

We Stand Together (Separately)

Posted on March 24, 2020 by climatechangefork

January 27th, the first day of classes at Brooklyn College, also happened to be International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was also near the start of the COVID-19 epidemic in the United States—a few days after the first positive diagnosis outside … Continue reading →

Posted in Holocaust | Tagged 30th division, Brooklyn College, China, coronavirus, COVID 19, CUNY, epidemic, Farsleben, Gal Gadot, Germany, History, Holocaust, imagine, Jew, Jewish, John Lennon, liberation, Magdeburg, pandemic, Poland, Scranton, teen symposium, US, WHO, WWII | Leave a comment

Ranking: What’s the Best Choice?

Posted on February 25, 2020 by climatechangefork

Almost every fact-based decision-making involves some sort of ranking. In other words, once we set our criteria, we have a list of options to choose from, some of which are more desirable or compelling than others. In our digital society, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged AI, algorithm, best, China, communication, comparison, criteria, facial recognition, fake news, filler, Google, muslim, News, phone, rank, Ranking, sort, worst | 1 Comment

Solar Roads: Driving Into the Future

Posted on February 18, 2020 by climatechangefork

The last three blogs were not fun. Some of my readers have asked, “Where can we move that isn’t here?” The answer, sadly, is nowhere. We must try to fix this place. Many of us are already doing so. We … Continue reading →

Posted in Electricity, Energy, Sustainability | Tagged Bike Lane, China, Dubai, dutch, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, France, Hungary, Korea, Netherlands, New York, Normandy, NYC, polar bear, Solar, solar panel, solar road, tech, Technology, Transition, US | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: China

Production Gap: Actual Emissions vs. Paris Promises

The Green New Deal and Coronavirus: Intersections

Extreme Weather & the Energy Transition

Coronavirus Impacts on the Energy Transition

We Stand Together (Separately)

Ranking: What’s the Best Choice?

Solar Roads: Driving Into the Future

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