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Cherry-Picking Data in an Energy Transition: Renewables & Polar Bears

Posted on September 17, 2019 by climatechangefork

My original plan was to continue writing about what I learned during my summer-long trip. Last week I focused on Dubai and I thought to focus this week’s blog on the greenhouses in the Netherlands. However, as usual in this … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Al Gore, Anthropogenic, Arctic, arctic melt, biogas, cherry picking, climate, Climate Change, conservation, Economy, Electrical Grid, Electricity, energy transition, Environment, experiment, Germany, global energy transition, Greta Thunberg, ice, ice melt, inconvenient, inconvenient truth, initiative, matter, Netherlands, phase transition, photovoltaics, polar bear, profit, Renewable, renewable energy, renewables, satellite, Science, sea ice, Solar, subsidy, Sustainability, Sustainable, thermometer, turbine, Water, wildlife, Wind, wind farm, wind power | 15 Comments

Sustainable CUNY Solar + Storage Summit 2019

Posted on July 2, 2019 by climatechangefork

Over the last few years, the City University of New York has organized several Solar + Storage summits focused on local needs and opportunities to accelerate the local energy transition to a carbon neutral economy. This year, the conference was … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Conference, Education, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Carbon, carbon neutral, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, CUNY, DG Hub, diesel, Economy, Education, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Future, generator, Global Warming, Green Bank, greenhouse gas, Kathy Hochul, Microgrid, Mitigation, model, National Grid, Natural Gas, New York, NREL, NY, NYC, NYCEEC, Policy, policymakers, PV, Renewable, renewable energy, resilient, Science, Solar, Solar Energy, solar panel, Storage, Sustainability, Sustainable, US, Wind, zero net carbon | 1 Comment

Guest Blog: How Income Inequality Correlates with CO2 Emissions and What We Can Do About It

Posted on May 14, 2019 by climatechangefork

Hello readers! This week’s guest blog is from Benjamin K, Quinn Downes, and Michael Guerin. Combined, we carry degrees in the fields of physics, chemistry, and biology. Through this blog post, we hope to spread information on the correlation between … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Change, Education, Guest Blog, Sustainability | Tagged Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Carbon, carbon emissions, cattle, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, correlation, developed, developing, Economics, Economy, Electricity, electricity generation, Emissions, Environment, environmental degradation, equality, GDP, gini coefficient, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Guest Blog, Hypothesis, Income, income distribution, Income Inequality, industrial economics, Inequality, Kuznets, lognormal, Lorenz, Policy, Power, power plant, ratio, rural, Science, transportation, Turkey, urban, US | 9 Comments

Guest Blog: How is Carbon Affecting Energy Intensity in the US?

Posted on May 7, 2019 by climatechangefork

Hello to everybody, we are the guest bloggers Amged Haimed, Junfeng Lu, and Haosheng Chen. We are all undergraduate students majoring in physics. Under the guidance of Micha Tomkiewicz, PhD, we have been able to use our backgrounds and experiences … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Guest Blog, Sustainability, US | Tagged alternative energy, California, Carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon intensity, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, commercial, Economics, Economy, Emissions, Energy, Energy Consumption, energy efficiency, energy intensity, Energy Sources, fossil energy, fossil fuel, Gas, GDP, graph, greenhouse effect, Guest Blog, housing, Hydroelectric, industrial, industrial production, industry, Natural Gas, New York, Nuclear, Physics, Pollution, Population, PPP, Renewable, residential, Solar, State, students, Texas, trade, transportation, US, Wind, wood | 7 Comments

The Little Ice Age

Posted on April 16, 2019 by climatechangefork

Last week, I talked about Philipp Blom’s book, “Nature’s Mutiny.” It illustrates some of the historical impacts of global climate change, especially with regards to the stress that it has inflicted on society. The book also looks into some of … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Agriculture, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, bicycle, black death, borehole, bubonic plague, Byron, Capitalism, China, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, coral, creative destruction, degradation, Economy, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Europe, Fahrenheit, famine, feudalism, fishing, France, Frankenstein, French revolution, Future, generation, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, historian, History, hockey stick, ice cores, immune system, indicator, literacy, little ice age, Manchu, Mary Shelley, migration, Ming, Mitigation, paleothermometry, Past, Philipp Blom, Physical Environment, pollen, Population, potato, proxy, Qing, riot, Science, sediments, shifting baseline, shortage, society, stress, sub-fossil pollen, Sustainability, Tax, Temperature, thermometer, thirty years' war, tree rings, US, Variability, War, Watershed, Weather, witch, witch trial | 1 Comment

Hydrogen Economy: Japan in the Lead

Posted on April 2, 2019 by climatechangefork

While exploring the global efforts to produce and use electric cars (see March 12–26, 2019 blogs), I encountered a piece by CNBC about Toyota’s efforts to help Japan in transitioning to a hydrogen-fueled economy: Earlier this month, Toyota announced a … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Electric Cars, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, baryonic, Carbon, carbon capture, carbon pricing, CCS, chemistry, clean air, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, decarbonization, dirty energy, Economics, Economy, electric car, electric vehicle, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy efficiency, energy security, energy transition, Fossil Fuels, Future, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, hydrogen, hydrogen power, Japan, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Paris Agreement, photoelectrochemical, photosynthesis, Physics, Pollution, Power Plants, Price, Renewable, Science, Solar, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Sustainable, Technology, Toyota | 4 Comments

Climate Change Complementarity: the US Government

Posted on January 2, 2019 by climatechangefork

Oxford Dictionaries define complementarity in the following way: A relationship or situation in which two or more different things improve or emphasize each other’s qualities. ‘a culture based on the complementarity of men and women’ Given how broad this definition … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, law, politics, Sustainability, Trump | Tagged administration, carbon dioxide, China, Climate Change, climate change denier, climate summit, CO2, Coal, complement, complementarity, complementary, COP24, Economics, Economy, Emissions, energy transition, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Future, governance, Government, India, IPCC, laws, NCA, Niels Bohr, Physics, Poland, Sustainability, Trump, US, WMO | 2 Comments

Governing Through Denial

Posted on December 4, 2018 by climatechangefork

The consequences of continuing the business as usual activities that result in climate change are not a mystery. We are in the middle of an avalanche of credible reports about the present state of the world and near future prognoses … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Climate Change, IPCC, law, politics, Sustainability, Trump | Tagged Adaptation, administration, air quality, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Balance, bias, black friday, business as usual, Carbon, Carbon Footprint, censor, China, Clean Energy, clean power, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, conspiracy, Donald Trump, doubling time, economic damage, Economics, Economy, Emissions, energy transition, Environment, EPA, Exponential Growth, FEMA, Flood, Flooding, GHG, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Heartland, Heartland Institute, heat, heat wave, hoax, IPCC, Japan, keystone xl, Labor, mortality, NASA, NCA, Policy, Power, Power Plants, RCP, Report, security threat, Thanksgiving, Trump, tweet, US, Weather, WMO, worst, worst-case | Leave a comment

The Global Picture: Climate Hazards and Their Impact

Posted on November 27, 2018 by climatechangefork

More than three years ago, I posted a blog called, “What Do I Think of the World Bank Data? What Do You Think?” I showed the 41 indicators that the World Bank lists under its climate change category. I then … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Sustainability | Tagged acidification, Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, climate hazard, Climate Skeptics, Donald Trump, Drought, Economy, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Extreme Weather, extreme weather event, fires, floods, Food, Fossil Fuels, Future, Global Warming, hazard, Health, heatwaves, impact, indicator, Infrastructure, meta, meta research, Mitigation, ocean acidification, ocean chemistry, Precipitation, Research, Science, sea level, security, Storms, Sustainability, Trump, warming, Water, Weather, World Bank | 1 Comment

Naming Seasons and Weather Events

Posted on September 18, 2018 by climatechangefork

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 | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: Economy

Cherry-Picking Data in an Energy Transition: Renewables & Polar Bears

Sustainable CUNY Solar + Storage Summit 2019

Guest Blog: How Income Inequality Correlates with CO2 Emissions and What We Can Do About It

Guest Blog: How is Carbon Affecting Energy Intensity in the US?

The Little Ice Age

Hydrogen Economy: Japan in the Lead

Climate Change Complementarity: the US Government

Governing Through Denial

The Global Picture: Climate Hazards and Their Impact

Naming Seasons and Weather Events

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