Tag Archives: Election

Extreme Weather & the Energy Transition

Posted on June 23, 2020 by climatechangefork

All over the world, people are getting tired of the lockdowns and frozen economies, and yet the virus is still on the rise in many places. As countries and states reopen, carbon emissions are resurging. Here is what that means … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Sustainability, Trump, US | Tagged Adaptation, Brazil, China, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, Donald Trump, Election, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EU, Europe, financing, Freddie Mac, Future, green new deal, greenhouse gas, India, Investment, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Oil, pandemic, Population, Recession, Renewable, renewable energy, Sustainable, US | 3 Comments

Corona and Climate Change: Is Climate Change a Pandemic?

Posted on April 7, 2020 by climatechangefork

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 | 3 Comments

Carbon Footprints and Carbon Intensity: a Summary

Posted on November 12, 2019 by climatechangefork

Last week I strayed a bit from my series about the markers of our global energy transition, in which I have examined 15 populous countries in three income groups. When possible, I have used data from the World Bank. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability, US | Tagged Adaptation, Bangladesh, Brazil, Carbon, carbon dioxide, Carbon Footprint, carbon intensity, China, CO2, CO2 emissions, commitment, Election, Electricity, electricity access, electricity intensity, energy transition, France, GDP, Germany, high income, India, indicator, Indonesia, Japan, low income, medium income, Mexico, Mitigation, Nigeria, Obama, Pakistan, Paris Agreement, primary energy, promise, Resources, Russia, Trump, Turkey, UK, US, World Bank | 2 Comments

To Make America Great Again, Please Stand Tall

Posted on February 26, 2019 by climatechangefork

I interpret standing tall as holding your head up and meeting oncoming challenges rather than burying it in a pile of sand to avoid reality (see the October 16, 2018 post on ostrich myths and the American government’s deliberate obtuseness … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Election, immigration, law, politics, refugee, Sustainability, Trump | Tagged Adaptation, administration, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Arizona, Balance, Chuck Todd, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, climate refugee, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Congress, coral, Cost, damage, Dan Coats, Democrat, democratic socialist, denial, Donald Trump, Economics, EIS, Election, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, environmental refugee, evidence, Extreme Weather, fire, Florida, forest fire, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Global Warming, GOP, governance, Government, green, green new deal, greenhouse gas, heat stress, house of representatives, immigration, impact, Industrial Revolution, intelligence, IPCC, law, legislation, Local, Media, Mitigation, North Carolina, North Korea, objective, opinion, ostrich, politics, reef, refugee, reporter, Republican, resolution, responsibility, Science, senate, socialist, subjective, Sustainability, Sustainable, Technology, Trump, UN, US | 6 Comments

Midterm Elections 2018: A Victory for the Constitution

Posted on November 13, 2018 by climatechangefork

I posted early last week so I could emphasize the importance of voting to my students before Tuesday’s election. As of today, some states are still counting votes and some are proceeding to recounts because of the narrow margins. The … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Climate Change, law, politics | Tagged Balance, blue, Brett Kavanaugh, Brooklyn College, census, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Congress, congressperson, constitution, democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, Election, electoral college, electoral vote, Florida, founding fathers, ginsburg, Government, governor, house, house of representatives, I voted, Indiana, judiciary, Kavanaugh, land, midterm, midterm election, Missouri, nonvoter, North Dakota, NYC, participation, people, politics, popular vote, Population, Race, red, representation, representative, republic, Republican, ruth bader ginsburg, Science, senate, senator, stability, State, Supreme Court, system, Trump, US, US population, vote, voter, voter registration, voter turnout | Leave a comment

Election Day – Think Big!

Posted on November 5, 2018 by climatechangefork

I usually publish this blog on Tuesdays but this time I have asked my editor to put up the week’s post today so that I can address everyone – including my Monday class of 150 students – a day before … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Election, law, politics, Sustainability, Trump | Tagged #MakeAmericaGreatAgain, America, America First, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Charles Lindbergh, climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, climate skeptic, Data, denier, Donald Trump, Drought, Election, Extreme Weather, farm, farming, Future, Genocide, Georgia, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, Hurricane, hurricane michael, Insurance, Lindbergh, millennial, nationalism, president, Science, Sea-Level Rise, Self Inflicted Genocide, skeptic, suicide, Trump, unilateralism, unilateralist, US, vote, voter, Weather, weather patterns, xenophobia | 1 Comment

Collective Irrationality and Individual Biases: Climate Change

Posted on November 21, 2017 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog looked at the connections between the latest effort to rewrite our tax code and the necessary detailed accounting of the resources we will need to compensate for the increasing damage that climate change will inflict on us … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, Election, politics, Sustainability, Trump | Tagged Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, apocalypse, behavioral economics, bias, business as usual, Cass Sunstein, catastrophe, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, cognitive bias, college, conservation of energy, conspiracy, democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, doomsday, dynamic scoring, Economics, Education, Election, End of Now, Energy, greenhouse gas, high school, human contribution, John Zeller, junk science, just world, loss aversion, Market, physicist, Physics, political elite, psychology, rational choice theory, Republican, Richard Thaler, Science, Social Science, Trump, US, vote, voter | Leave a comment

Perspectives

Posted on March 21, 2017 by climatechangefork

I had lunch the other day with a classics professor friend. He made a comment that in one of his classes, a student drew a parallel between the geographic pattern of the recent voting in the US and the differences … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Election, IPCC, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Agriculture, America, America First, American Physical Society, art, Athens, backup, budget, budget cut, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, code, code for science and society, commerce, Congress, dark data, Data, data backup, defense, discretionary fund, DNNer, Donald Trump, eco, eco-friendly, Economics, Education, Election, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EPA, fact, Fossil Fuels, GDP, geography, Global Warming, Greece, greenhouse gas, Health, History, Holocaust, homeland security, humanities, Israel, justice, Kim Jong Un, Labor, Mick Mulvaney, Military, Mitigation, national endowment, Nazi, NOAA, North Korea, Nuclear, Obama, Physics, politics, Power, priority, public broadcasting, renewable energy, Rex Tillerson, save data, Science, security, software, Sparta, Sustainability, Technology, testosterone, transportation, Trump, trump tower, truth, US, veteran, vote, voter, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto | Leave a comment

Back to Energy Transition: Data

Posted on March 7, 2017 by climatechangefork

February in Brooklyn (Taken on our terrace toward the end of the month) It’s high time we return to climate change and the Anthropocene. My first target is the continuous availability of relevant data. The Anthropocene and climate change are … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, COP21, Education, Election, IPCC, Sustainability, UN | Tagged access, Adaptation, Agriculture, Anthropocene, budget, budget cuts, chase, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Data, defense, distortion, Donald Trump, economic, Economics, Economy, Education, EIA, Election, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EPA, facts, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Global Warming, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, hack, hacked, hacker, hacking, IPCC, mediacre, Mitigation, Paris, Paris 2015, Paris Agreement, politics, Rick Perry, Science, Scott Pruitt, social security, sony, spending, statistics, Sustainability, target, Trump, Unemployment, US, war on facts, yahoo | 1 Comment

Back to Psychology: A Vaccine against “Fake News” on Climate Change

Posted on February 21, 2017 by climatechangefork

I ended my book on climate change (Climate Change: The Fork at the End of Now – Momentum Press, 2011) with the chapter: “The Future, the Past and the Just World Hypothesis.” My wife, an experimental psychologist and now the … Continue reading →

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Carbon Footprints and Carbon Intensity: a Summary

To Make America Great Again, Please Stand Tall

Midterm Elections 2018: A Victory for the Constitution

Election Day – Think Big!

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