Tag Archives: Extreme Weather

Guest Blog: Loss & Damage Funds and the Developing Indian Subcontinent

Posted on January 3, 2023 by climatechangefork

Happy New Year everyone! This week, guest blogger Muhammad Siddiqui is taking over the Climate Change Fork blog. Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Micha Tomkiewicz, Ph.D., I’m a graduate student at Brooklyn College, CUNY, class of 2022. This blog … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, COP, Guest Blog, UN | Tagged Adaptation, Bangladesh, carbon dioxide, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, COP27, debt, developed, developing, Drought, Energy, energy transition, Extreme Weather, fire, Flood, fossil fuel, fund, Gas, GDP, gini coefficient, Guest Blog, hunger, India, Indus Valley, Inequality, Kuznets curve, Lorenz, Mitigation, Pakistan, Pollution, risk, UN | Leave a comment

Guest Blog: The Correlation and Effect of Wildfires and Climate Change

Posted on December 27, 2022 by climatechangefork

Hello, this week’s guest blog is from Mohdhar Yafai, Ariel Rukhlis, and Safiyah Mumin. We are all physics majors at Brooklyn College. As a previous blog (October 25, 2022), describes, wildfires are often large and rapidly spreading fires affecting forests, … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Guest Blog | Tagged aerosol, black carbon, California, cause, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, correlation, damages, Drought, Emissions, Extreme Weather, fire, forest, Guest Blog, Guyana, Health, hospitalization, human activity, human contribution, Population, Population Density, Population Growth, Precipitation, rain, rainfall, realty, respiratory disease, Siberia, waterfront, wildfire | 2 Comments

Back from Europe

Posted on September 6, 2022 by climatechangefork

As I have mentioned in previous blogs, after three years of COVID-19 hibernation, my wife and I just came home from visiting friends and family in England, Poland, and France. I will spend a few days teaching the first week … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Energy | Tagged air conditioning, Britain, C02, Coal, cooling, covid, Drought, dutch, Emissions, Energy, energy supply, Environment, Extreme Weather, France, Gas, Germany, inflation reduction act, Italy, Netherlands, Nuclear Energy, prices, Regulations, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, transportation, Ukraine, War, Water, Water Scarcity | 5 Comments

Can we Advance the Transition to a More Sustainable Future?

Posted on August 23, 2022 by climatechangefork

Where are we now and how can we advance or accelerate the energy transition to a more sustainable future? I am now in Europe, and this is the last blog that I wrote before I left. In fact, I started … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Electricity, Energy | Tagged Australia, Canada, Carbon, carbon dioxide, climate, Climate Change, CO2, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, EU, Extreme Weather, Future, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, US, Weather | 4 Comments

Universal Hydrogen Economy

Posted on October 26, 2021 by climatechangefork

My last 5 blogs have looked at global energy companies’ apparent green shift, questioning their objectives: where are they shifting? Last week, I promised that I’d address both this and the timing needed for the transition. To address the first … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Electric Cars, Electricity, Energy, Water | Tagged Adaptation, Battery, Clean Energy, Climate Change, CO2, Daimler, Drought, Energy, energy production, Extreme Weather, fission, Flood, freshwater, fusion, green, hydrogen, hydrogen economy, Japan, Mitigation, Nuclear, nuclear fusion, Power, power plant, Solar, star, Transition, Water, Water Cycle, water energy nexus | 1 Comment

External Pressures on Oil Companies May Prompt Change. We’ll See.

Posted on September 21, 2021 by climatechangefork

I posted my first blog here on Earth Day, April 22, 2012. I’m now approaching 500 (498) blog posts. Almost all of them, directly or indirectly, have focused on climate change and the energy transition that we are necessarily going … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Extreme Weather, politics, Sustainability | Tagged BP, Chevron, Clean Energy, Climate Change, climate change denier, commitment, denier, Drought, Energy, energy transition, Extreme Weather, Exxon, fire, Flood, fossil fuel, Gas, Global Warming, green, Heartland Institute, Hurricane, IPCC, motivation, Netherlands, Norway, Oil, renewables, Shell, Solar, US | 1 Comment

Where Should We Go When Disaster Strikes?

Posted on September 7, 2021 by climatechangefork

When I started writing this blog on Wednesday morning, we were just beginning to see Hurricane Ida’s effects as it climbed through the Northeast, scheduled to pass through my home city, NYC. Two seemingly unrelated pieces in that day’s NYT … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Extreme Weather, US | Tagged California, Climate Change, climate refugee, Drought, dry, Environment, environmental refugee, Extreme Weather, fire, Flood, Florida, Global Warming, Hurricane, Ida, Katrina, Las Vegas, Louisiana, New Orleans, NYC, Phoenix, Precipitation, rain, tropical storm, wet | 2 Comments

Calculating the Social Cost of Carbon: What Are We Already Spending?

Posted on August 31, 2021 by climatechangefork

Last week, I reintroduced the concept of the social cost of carbon and explored a recent University of Chicago working paper (WP). The WP delved into President Biden’s attempts to reframe the conversation about the economic impact of climate change, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Biden, Carbon, Climate Change, comparison, Cost, damages, discount rate, discounting, Economics, equity, Extreme Weather, Future, Global Warming, Policy, projection, scc, social cost of carbon, Trump, uncertainty | Leave a comment

The Social Cost of Carbon

Posted on August 24, 2021 by climatechangefork

Things are changing. My courses start tomorrow. Originally, I was scheduled to teach face-to-face but for a variety of reasons, I’m back to online-only. Many of my colleagues are still scheduled for either face-to-face or “hybrid” teaching, where at least … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Economics, Sustainability, US | Tagged Agriculture, business as usual, Carbon, carbon emissions, Climate Change, CO2, Cost, damages, Demand, Economics, Emissions, Energy, equity, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, mortality, Obama, scc, Science, social cost, socioeconomic, Supply, Trump, US | 1 Comment

Heath Death Indicators

Posted on August 3, 2021 by climatechangefork

I have been spending most of my evenings watching the Tokyo Olympics. One of the most frequent questions directed to athletes who have performed outdoors is how they handle the heat. Right now, Tokyo is having highs of 90oF, with … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Extreme Weather | Tagged acclimatization, Adaptation, business as usual, Climate Change, danger, dehydration, extreme heat, Extreme Weather, fire, Global Warming, heat, heat death, heat index, heat stress, humidity, IPCC, Olympics, safety, Tokyo, warming, Water, wildfire | 3 Comments

Tag Archives: Extreme Weather

Guest Blog: Loss & Damage Funds and the Developing Indian Subcontinent

Guest Blog: The Correlation and Effect of Wildfires and Climate Change

Back from Europe

Can we Advance the Transition to a More Sustainable Future?

Universal Hydrogen Economy

External Pressures on Oil Companies May Prompt Change. We’ll See.

Where Should We Go When Disaster Strikes?

Heath Death Indicators

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