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Tag Archives: definition
Corona and Climate Change: Is Climate Change a Pandemic?
I started to address COVID-19 in my March 17th blog, a few days after my college and almost everything else around me closed to try to minimize infection. In the eight years that I have been writing this blog, I … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, apex, asymptomatic, attribution, CDC, Climate Change, contagion, contagious, coronavirus, COVID 19, definition, Election, exit poll, Government, indicator, infection, mask, mitigate, Mitigation, pandemic, representative, social distance, symptom, test, viral
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My Anthropocene
I went on a short vacation to southern New Mexico For Columbus Day weekend. Aside from the region’s great weather in this season, that was one of only two weekends per year when the Trinity site (see last week’s blog) … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC
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Naming Seasons and Weather Events
Thursday, September 6th in New York City was really hot and humid with temperatures well above 90oF. The next day the temperatures plunged to mid-70s and stayed there for several days, with almost constant rain. Today (Saturday, September 15th), while … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Extreme Weather
Tagged astronomy, Australia, Calendar, celtic, China, Climate Change, cosmology, damage, death, definition, Earth, Economy, ellipse, Environment, equinox, Extreme Weather, fall, Finland, Flood, Florence, Future, Global Warming, heat wave, Hurricane, Ireland, Israel, Kepler, Mangkhut, meteorological, Meteorology, name, naming, New York, New Zealand, NYC, orbit, Philippines, rain, rotation, Science, season, semester, solstice, spring, storm, summer, sun, Sweden, Temperature, Typhoon, Weather, winter
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The Economic Impacts of Ocean Decline
Last week’s blog about the Ocean Health Index stressed the importance of including the sustainability of human impacts in any discussions about ocean health (this accounted for about 50% of the indexing). This blog will focus on the economic impacts … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability, Water
Tagged 4th extinction, acidification, Adaptation, Africa, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, aquaculture, Asia, Australia, blue economy, Canada, Carbon, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, definition, Economics, Economy, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Europe, export, FAO, farming, Fish, fish farming, fishery, fishing, Food, Fossil Fuels, Future, GDP, Global Population, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, impact, indicator, Indonesia, IPCC, Ireland, Japan, microplastic, Mitigation, New Zealand, Ocean, ocean economy, Ocean Health Index, Ociania, overfishing, plastic, Pollution, Population, Power, Power Plants, Science, South Korea, Sustainability, Technology, Tourism, UK, UN, US, value added, World Bank, World Population
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A Redefinition of Sustainability: The Unilever Case
The 1987 United Nations’ Brundtland Report (World Commission on Environment and Development) was the first platform to articulate the idea of “sustainable development” to a wide audience. The Report framed it as “…development that meets the needs of the present … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Conference, Education, IPCC, Sustainability, UN, UNFCCC
Tagged Adaptation, Brundtland report, business sustainablility, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, commodities, Conference, COP21, definition, Demand, Democratization, e p&l, Economics, Education, electrical power, Electricity, Emissions, End of Now, Energy, Environment, Equilibrium, extraterrestrial, Fossil Fuels, Future, green, greenhouse gas, impact, IPCC, Lever Brothers, Life Cycle Assesment, loss, Margarine Unie, Mitigation, Now, Obama, Paul Polman, Physics, Pollution, Power, profit, Puma, Science, shoe, space, Supply, Sustainability, sustainable development, sustainable production, Technology, Time, time scale, UN, Unilever, US, Water, water use, work force
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