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Happy Jewish New Year

Posted on September 22, 2020 by climatechangefork

Let This Year be as Short as Possible and Mark the End of the Virus I started to write a blog about opening schools—a timely topic right now. However, I got a message from my Australian family for Rosh Hashana—the … Continue reading →

Tagged Australia, bridge, bush fire, Climate Change, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, Extreme Weather, fire, Flood, forest fire, Global Warming, holiday, Hurricane, Islam, Jew, Jewish, kugel, mental health, muslim, New Year, rosh hashana, School, social distance, social distancing, strategy, tzimmes, wild fire, wildfire | 2 Comments

Two Contradictory Versions of “Too Expensive”

Posted on September 15, 2020 by climatechangefork

I’m still in lockdown but I have the resources to communicate with the world. I have the opportunity to expose myself to different kinds of information while avoiding exposure to the pandemic. The piece below came from Forbes magazine, which, … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability | Tagged California, cherry picking global energy transition, choice, Climate Change, Coal, consequence, disease, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, Environment, environmental, fire, fire storm, fossil fuel, Fossil Fuels, Future, Gas, Germany, Global Warming, goals, Hydroelectric, hydroelectricity, individual bias, Insurance, Kenya, mitigating, Mitigation, Oil, Oregon, paradigm, phase-out, Policy, probability, prospect theory, Renewable, renewables, Solar, Sustainability, Sustainable, UN, unlivable, Washington, wild fire, wildfire, Wind, World Bank | 4 Comments

Do-It-Yourself Climate Monitoring: the Weather Report

Posted on August 18, 2020 by climatechangefork

My wife and I start our day with breakfast and the print edition of The New York Times (NYT). When the paper arrives, we split it between us—she gets the front section and I get the rest. One of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education, Extreme Weather | Tagged Arizona, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Climate Change, CUNY, Data, data set, Education, El Paso, Extreme Weather, heat, Heat Exhaustion, heat index, Heat Stroke, heat wave, humidity, NYC, NYT, online, Phoenix, sun stroke, Temperature, Texas, Tucson, US, Weather, weather report | 2 Comments

Looking at the Future Through Coronavirus-Infected Eyes

Posted on August 11, 2020 by climatechangefork

The iconic MAGA hat exemplifies the Trump administration’s unilateralist “America First” philosophy, to the detriment of global welfare I am starting to write this blog on Thursday, August 6th. The coronavirus situation is currently: Globally: around 19 million cases, more … Continue reading →

Posted in administration | Tagged Adaptation, administration, America First, arms control, atom bomb, atomic bomb, atomic weapon, blackboard, Brooklyn College, cases, Climate Change, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, CUNY, death, distanced learning, Donald Trump, Future, google meet, Health, Hiroshima, immigration, Japan, John Bolton, lockdown, MAGA, Mitigation, Nagasaki, New York, nuclear war, NYC, pandemic, Paris Agreement, president trump, social distancing, treaty, Trump, unilateral, unilateralist, WHO, WWII, zoom, zosia samosia | 1 Comment

Inequity: The Intersection of Coronavirus, Poverty & Other Expected Trends

Posted on August 4, 2020 by climatechangefork

As with most of my blogs, I wrote this one over the weekend (starting Friday). Last week, I looked at the Sierra Club’s Venn diagram of the Green New Deal. I argued that in order to address the near future … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Sustainability, US | Tagged Arab states, Bahrain, Climate Change, coronavirus, COVID 19, Education, equity, essential services, essential worker, Florida, foreign labor, Future, green new deal, Gulf, hot spot, Hurricane, inequity, jobs, Kuwait, minority, Oman, pandemic, pay cut, Population, Poverty, Qatar, Race, socio-economic, socioeconomic, Texas, venn diagram, work force | 1 Comment

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

Energy Saving on Specific Campuses

Posted on July 21, 2020 by climatechangefork

There are two branches to making campuses more sustainable: reducing carbon emissions (with the objective of zero carbon by mid-century) and increasing resiliency in the energy supply. We have dealt with both objectives throughout this blog. One campus’ conversion to … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education, Electricity, Energy, Sustainability | Tagged America, carbon emissions, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, Drought, Energy, energy distribution, energy efficiency, energy production, energy transition, Extreme Weather, fossil fuel, fuel, global energy transition, Global Warming, independent grid, lab, laboratory, Microgrid, Net-Zero, New York, North America, NYC, NYU, Power, renewable energy, renewables, resiliency, smart grid, Solar, stuttering energy transition, Texas, university, US, UT Austin, Wind, zero carbon | 2 Comments

Using COVID-19 to Measure Energy Consumption at Brooklyn College

Posted on July 7, 2020 by climatechangefork

I am on the faculty at both CUNY Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan. CUNY is a huge institution: The City University of New York is the nation’s largest urban public university, a transformative engine of social … Continue reading →

Posted in Electricity, Energy | Tagged a/c, base load, Brooklyn College, carbon neutral, Climate Change, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, CUNY, Electricity, Energy, Energy Consumption, energy transition, Global Warming, law, lockdown, New York, NYC, pandemic, peak load, Sustainability | Leave a comment

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

Global Disasters at Different Speeds: How Do We Teach and Learn Now?

Posted on May 26, 2020 by climatechangefork

Israeli beach, May 16th My university just wrapped up its 2020 spring semester. As in most schools, our classrooms all moved online shortly after the semester began. This shift has applied to most other activities as well. In the US … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Extreme Weather | Tagged Australia, Bangladesh, Bolsonaro, Brazil, bushfire, chemistry, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, Climate Denial, climate denier, contagion, contagious, coronavirus, COVID 19, cyclone, dam, disaster, fire, Flood, Future, Gulf States, heat wave, India, Israel, Michigan, middle east, natural disaster, Online Education, pandemic, peak, Physical Environment, quarantine, refugee, Rohingya, Science, scientist, Scott Morrison, social distance, social distancing, socialism, time scale, Trump, US, Virginia, virus | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: Climate Change

Two Contradictory Versions of “Too Expensive”

Do-It-Yourself Climate Monitoring: the Weather Report

Inequity: The Intersection of Coronavirus, Poverty & Other Expected Trends

The Green New Deal and Coronavirus: Intersections

Energy Saving on Specific Campuses

Using COVID-19 to Measure Energy Consumption at Brooklyn College

Coronavirus Impacts on the Energy Transition

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