Tag Archives: Education

The Price of Wobbling

Posted on December 2, 2014 by climatechangefork

Thanksgiving is around the corner (at the time of writing – by the time this is posted it will be a few days after) and the semester is just about over. This time of the year the students are focusing … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged Adaptation, Arguementation, Argument, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Education, Environment, Global Freezing, Global Warming, global wobbling, ice age, John P. Holdren, Milutin Milankovitch, Mitigation, NASA, Piers Sellers, policy maker, politician, questions, Science, Scientists, Steve Stockman, student, wobbling | 1 Comment

Make it Simple, Please!

Posted on October 14, 2014 by climatechangefork

Many years ago, I was invited to a small gathering of scientists that did work on solar cells. The invitation came from the Department of Energy (DOE), which coordinates funding to these projects. The conference was focused on creating a … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, business as usual, Climate Change, Climate Change Fork, DOE, Education, Energy, Environment, Fifth IPCC Report, Fork, Global Temperature, graph, IPCC, language, march, People's Clilmate March, peoplesclimate, policy makers, poster, Prediction, Report, scenario, Science, Sea-Level Rise, Skeptical Science, Temperature | 3 Comments

Assessment: Fall 2014

Posted on October 7, 2014 by climatechangefork

In my July 8, 2014 blog, I promised to check in with four self-assessment reports throughout the year, at the following times: The commemorations of the American and French Revolutions (first two weeks of July) The Jewish religion’s holy day, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged academia, Adaptation, assessment, Barack Obama, Bloomberg, Climate Change, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Democratization, denier, Earth Day, Education, finance, goal, Holocaust, Jewish, Katy Perry, Mitigation, Nazi, Obama, objective, quarterly report, Ramadan, Report, Self Inflicted Genocide, Social Media, Twitter, university, World Bank, Yom Kippur | 2 Comments

The World and Me

Posted on September 30, 2014 by climatechangefork

As I mentioned in my last blog, it’s been a busy month. Among other events, the semester started, and there was an enormous climate change march in Manhattan (paired with others globally) in anticipation of the United Nations special session … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Ban-Ki Moon, Climate Change, climatechange, decarbonize, deforestation, Democratization, Economics, Education, externality, Global, internality, Investment, NYC, Obama, People's Climate March, peoplesclimate, peoplesclimatemarch, personalize, Science, signs, UN, United Nations | 8 Comments

Energy Storage Selection

Posted on August 12, 2014 by climatechangefork

This will be the last blog to deal directly with storage technologies. I listed the various technologies in the July 29th post, then followed that up last week, mainly focusing on estimates of future capacity and the investments that will … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Battery, Capacity, Carbon, Cars, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Demand, Discharge Time, Economics, Education, Electric Cars, electrical power, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Energy Storage, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Gigafactory, Li-ion Battery, Panasonic, Power, Power Quality, Storage, Storage Capacity, Supply, Tesla | Leave a comment

Europe in June: The Schedule of the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change

Posted on June 10, 2014 by climatechangefork

By the time that this blog is posted I will be in England on my way to the Netherlands and France, ending up in Reykjavik, Iceland. In Iceland I will attend the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change. This is … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Activism, Adaptation, Agriculture, Antarctic, Anthropogenic, Arctic, Arid, Australia, Austria, Awareness, Bangladesh, Biology, Botswana, Brazil, California, Canada, Carbon, carbon dioxide, China, Class, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Colombia, Conference, Crisis, Denmark, Development, Disolved Organic Nitrogen, Ecohydrologic, Ecotourism, Education, Emissions, Energy, Energy Saving, Environment, Finland, Fish, Food, Fossil Fuels, France, Gender, Germany, Ghana, Global, Global Population, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Grizzly Bear, Health, heat, Heat Exhaustion, Heat Stroke, Heat Syncope, Hurricane, Iceland, Impacts and Responses, India, International, IPCC, Japan, Lake, Mauritius, Media, Meteorology, Mitigation, Modernization, Net-Zero, Netherlands, News, Nitrogen, Nutrition, Ocean, Permafrost, Pesticide, Physics, Plants, Polar Bears, Policy, Power Plants, Precipitation, Race, Reykjavík, Science, Sea, Sequestration, Social Science, Sustainability, Teaching, Technology, Thermal, Tibet, Tornado, TRMM, Typhoon, UK, Urban Development, Video Games, Water, Water Cycle, Water Stress, Watershed, Workshop, World, World Population | 1 Comment

Elisa Wood Guest Post: Microgrids

Posted on May 6, 2014 by climatechangefork

This week, with her kind permission, I am reposting two articles by Elisa Wood. She is an editor at EnergyEfficiencyMarkets.com and has been writing about energy for more than two decades for top industry publications. Her work has been picked … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged Adaptation, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Democratization, Economics, Education, electrical power, Electricity, Energy, Environment, Extreme Weather, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Microgrids, Mitigation, Power, Power Plants, Superstorm Sandy, Sustainability, Technology, Tornado, Utility, Water | Leave a comment

The Wicked Son

Posted on April 22, 2014 by climatechangefork

This will be the last Passover-inspired blog. As in the previous two blogs, I will try to close the gap between a very ancient tradition and present and future needs that are compatible with the objectives that we have set … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, California, Climate Change, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Democratization, DNNer, Don Cheadle, Drought, Earth Day, Education, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Haggadah, Harrison Ford, Indonesia, Jew, Jewish, Jews, Mitigation, NYT, Passover, Present, Preservation, Public Education, Science, Showtime, Sustainability, Syria, Texas, Tom Friedman, Years of Living Dangerously | Leave a comment

Do We Have To Argue? Do We Even Know How To Argue?

Posted on March 25, 2014 by climatechangefork

A few years ago I was attending an academic retreat. These usually take place somewhere outside the campus and they often involve overnight stay. They are generally organized as a forum in which to discuss an institution’s important policy issues. … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged Arguement, Arguementation, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Debate, DNNer, Education, Global Warming, Heartland, IPCC, Israel, NIPCC, Science, Skeptical Science, TBL, Teaching | 7 Comments

Publishers

Posted on March 18, 2014 by climatechangefork

My book, Climate Change: The Fork at the End of Now was published in the early summer of 2011. I wrote it as a textbook for the general public, and it was used mainly for general education – both in … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged Bjorn Lomborg, Book, Brooklyn College, Climate Change, Climate Change Fork, Climate Sensitivity, CUNY, Demographics, Education, Gini Coefficients, Herman Kahn, IPCC, Michio Kaku, National Intelligence Council, National Science Foundation, NSF, Physics, Publishers, The Physics of Wall Street, Tipping Point, Weatherall, World Population | Leave a comment

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