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Tag Archives: fire
Guest Blog: Loss & Damage Funds and the Developing Indian Subcontinent
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
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Guest Blog: The Correlation and Effect of Wildfires and Climate Change
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
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External Pressures on Oil Companies May Prompt Change. We’ll See.
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
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Where Should We Go When Disaster Strikes?
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
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Heath Death Indicators
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
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Heat Deaths and Cold Deaths
We have been seeing a slew of catastrophes throughout the world that roughly coincided with the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere (June 20th). Almost all of them have been either partially caused or worsened by climate change. These … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Extreme Weather
Tagged Arizona, Baghdad, Bjorn Lomborg, California, Climate Change, cold, Damascus, Death Valley, extreme heat, Extreme Weather, fire, Flood, heat, Heat Exhaustion, heat index, heatstroke, humidity, Hurricane, Idaho, Nevada, record, Riyadh, skeptic, sunstroke, Teheran, Temperature, Tornado, Utah, WHO
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Guest Blog: Jacob Kinnaman and Frank Huang
Welcome readers! This week’s guest blog is from Jacob Kinnaman and Frank Huang. Together, we hope to spread awareness about the correlation between climate change-induced migrations and the national security threats that they create. Although many people may view national … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Guest Blog, immigration, US
Tagged Adaptation, Belize, burn, California, carbon dioxide, Central America, Climate Change, climate refugee, CO2, CO2 emissions, Costa Rica, damage, desert, desertification, driving force, Drought, ecosystem, El Salvador, emigration, environmental refugee, Extreme Weather, fire, fire season, fire supression, fuel, Future, Global Warming, globalization, Guatemala, Honduras, humidity, immigrant, immigration, lawmakers, Mexico, Mitigation, moisture, national security, Nicaragua, Panama, Population, predict, sea level, security, spread, Terrorism, US, vapor pressure deficit, VPD, Weather, wild fire, wildfire
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Happy Jewish New Year
Let This Year be as Short as Possible and Mark the End of the Virus I started to write a blog about opening schools—a timely topic right now. However, I got a message from my Australian family for Rosh Hashana—the … Continue reading
Tagged Australia, bridge, bush fire, Climate Change, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, Extreme Weather, fire, Flood, forest fire, Global Warming, holiday, Hurricane, Islam, Jew, Jewish, kugel, mental health, muslim, New Year, rosh hashana, School, social distance, social distancing, strategy, tzimmes, wild fire, wildfire
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Two Contradictory Versions of “Too Expensive”
I’m still in lockdown but I have the resources to communicate with the world. I have the opportunity to expose myself to different kinds of information while avoiding exposure to the pandemic. The piece below came from Forbes magazine, which, … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability
Tagged California, cherry picking global energy transition, choice, Climate Change, Coal, consequence, disease, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, Environment, environmental, fire, fire storm, fossil fuel, Fossil Fuels, Future, Gas, Germany, Global Warming, goals, Hydroelectric, hydroelectricity, individual bias, Insurance, Kenya, mitigating, Mitigation, Oil, Oregon, paradigm, phase-out, Policy, probability, prospect theory, Renewable, renewables, Solar, Sustainability, Sustainable, UN, unlivable, Washington, wild fire, wildfire, Wind, World Bank
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Simultaneous Global Disasters
About a month ago (August 4th), I wrote a blog that used a Venn diagram to show the overlap of climate change, COVID-19, projected population change, job availability, and socio-economic status. My discussion was relatively abstract. Now, only one month … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, law, politics, US
Tagged air conditioner, air conditioning, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, apocalypse, apocalyptic, asteroid, Belarus, blackout, California, Christianity, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, Durer, Election, Electricity, Energy, Extreme Weather, fire, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Islam, Judaism, Kenosha, Laura, Louisiana, Marco, Minneapolis, police violence, Policy, religion, Science, sins, social justice, storm, Texas, wild fire
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