Tag Archives: Climate Change

Winners and Losers: COVID and Coal

Posted on February 9, 2021 by climatechangefork

President Biden signed 17 executive orders immediately after his inauguration on January 20th (January 26th blog). Many of them nullified President Trump’s policies which had deliberately ignored climate change and thwarted mitigation efforts. Foremost of these new policies was the … Continue reading →

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Physics of Reality

Posted on February 2, 2021 by climatechangefork

Spring semester at my school started yesterday. I have a few senior physics students, each of whom will need to produce a research paper. I want their research to reflect some aspect of the world that we live in. It … Continue reading →

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Peaceful Presidential Transition vs. the Rise of Nazis

Posted on January 26, 2021 by climatechangefork

I started writing this one day after President Biden and Vice President Harris were inaugurated. Many of us were thoroughly relieved that the event turned out to be a dignified, uneventful transition of power. I wouldn’t quite call it peaceful, … Continue reading →

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Job and the Just World Hypothesis

Posted on December 15, 2020 by climatechangefork

I asked my wife, a psychologist and college administrator, to help explain climate change denial. She suggested the “just world hypothesis.” I included her proposal in the last chapter of my book, Climate Change: The Fork at the End of … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog: The Effects of Climate Change on Pandemics

Posted on December 8, 2020 by climatechangefork

Hello readers! This week’s guest blog is from Alvin Huang, Paula Glab, and Yuduo Wu. Combined, we are pursuing degrees in the fields of physics and computer science. Through this blog post, we hope to spread information on the correlation … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog: Jacob Kinnaman and Frank Huang

Posted on December 1, 2020 by climatechangefork

Welcome readers! This week’s guest blog is from Jacob Kinnaman and Frank Huang. Together, we hope to spread awareness about the correlation between climate change-induced migrations and the national security threats that they create. Although many people may view national … Continue reading →

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Teaching Moment 2: How Do we Vote?

Posted on November 17, 2020 by climatechangefork

When we vote in an election, we balance between what we perceive to be good for us personally and what we perceive to be good for society at large. If we are well-off with a good job, we may prioritize … Continue reading →

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 The Election as a Teachable Moment

Posted on November 10, 2020 by climatechangefork

Like many others, I stayed up late on Tuesday evening to watch the election results. Like them, my wife and I went to sleep not knowing the end results of the election but sure about two things: the Democratic landslide … Continue reading →

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COVID and Climate: Learning From One to Use On the Other

Posted on October 27, 2020 by climatechangefork

I have mentioned the concept of “constructive destruction” in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic before (June 16, 2020). By necessity, our status quo is being disrupted, but that also means we are beginning to grow in unexpected ways. At … Continue reading →

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Presidential Debates and Science

Posted on October 20, 2020 by climatechangefork

After President Trump refused to take part in the newly virtual debate following his coronavirus diagnosis, the debate was cancelled. However, the debate didn’t stay cancelled, per se; it merely changed form. Originally meant to be one town hall, the … Continue reading →

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