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Tag Archives: fossil fuel
Earth Day 2023
(Source: Houston Arboretum) This is obviously not my first blog titled Earth Day. Just put the title in the search box and start investigating. The day is unique for me on two levels: it celebrates our physical environment and commitments … Continue reading
Posted in Electricity, Energy
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Coal, Earth Day, EIA, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, Environment, fossil fuel, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Paris Agreement, Renewable, Science, Solar, US
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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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Electric Utilities Through the Lens of the IPAT Identity
The last two blogs focused on applying the IPAT identity to sub-country organizations. For obvious reasons, I started this analysis with a focus on oil companies and their supposed commitments to net-zero carbon emissions in the “near” (mid-century) future. One … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy
Tagged carbon capture, CCS, Clean Energy, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, coned, decarbonization, Desalination, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, fossil fuel, G7, Gas, GDP, GHG, global energy transition, greenhouse gas, IPAT, Net-Zero, Oil, Population, Russia, Ukraine, US, utilities, Water Stress
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Incorporating Carbon Capture into the IPAT Identity
Figure 1 – An artist’s depiction of carbon capture (Credit: Walter Newton) Last week, I opened the discussion about what it takes for oil companies to change their business model and fulfill the commitments that some of them are making … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Tagged carbon capture, carbon dioxide, CCS, CO2, CO2 emissions, decarbonization, Emissions, Energy, Environment, environmental, ESG, fossil fuel, Gas, index, Investment, IPAT, IPCC, Net-Zero, Oil, Renewable, stocks, Tesla
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Fogs and Clear Skies
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Source: BBC) Previous blogs emphasized the fog of the Ukrainian-Russian war (March 8th) and the fog of the peace attempts (March 22nd) but even the combination doesn’t cover the reality of the Russian aggression. Many more … Continue reading
Conclusions From COP26
This semester, I am teaching two courses directly related to climate change. I start both with an exploration of the basic science involved. It’s a multidisciplinary topic that requires using first principles to address the overlap of the physical, natural, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Energy, Sustainability, UN
Tagged Adaptation, Brazil, Brooklyn College, car, Carbon, CCS, China, Climate Change, climate finance, CO2 emissions, Coal, committment, COP26, Electricity, emission, Energy, fossil fuel, Gas, Glasgow, greenhouse gas, India, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Net-Zero, Oil, pact, Paris 2015, Paris Agreement, pledge, Power, Renewable, Research, resilience, Science, Scotland, Solar, Technology, US, Wind
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Managing the Energy Transition: Specifics
Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil, may have asked, “what good is it to save the planet if humanity suffers?” (September 21, 2021) but this week, in the context of COP26, the current CEO of Exxon expressed a different … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Electricity, Energy, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Australia, Carbon, carbon dioxide, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, COP26, Darren Woods, decarbonize, Demand, energy transition, Exxon, fossil fuel, Gas, greenhouse gas, Hydroelectric, hydrogen, lobby, meat, Oil, pig, Pollution, Power, Renewable, Rex Tillerson, Solar, Supply, Transition, UN, UNDP, Wind
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Managing the Energy Transition on a Global Scale
Figure 1 Figure 2 I have been (starting on September 21st) focusing on energy companies’ transitions away from fossil fuels; many are finally realizing that such global shifts are necessary if we cannot implement an acceptable way to capture the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability, US
Tagged Adaptation, Biden, Brazil, carbon capture, Chile, China, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, commitment, COP26, COVID 19, Economy, Egypt, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, ExxonMobil, fossil fuel, Future, Gas, greenhouse gas, MAGA, Mitigation, Morocco, Nuclear, Oil, Poland, Pollution, Renewable, Rex Tillerson, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Technology, Transition, UK, US, Vietnam
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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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Infrastructure Timing
They did it! Today, after a long slog of debate, the US Senate has finally passed a bipartisan version of the infrastructure bill that came out of the American Jobs Plan the Biden administration proposed in April. For more information … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Energy
Tagged Adaptation, Biden, bill, bipartisan, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, commercial, competiiton, consumption, Cost, electric car, Electricity, Energy, energy cost, energy services, energy transition, fossil fuel, house, industrial, Infrastructure, input, manufacturing, mining, Mitigation, output, Physics, r&d, refining, residential, senate, Solar, Sputnik, transportation, US, utilities, Wind
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