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Tag Archives: GDP
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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The Role of Oil Companies in the Energy Transition
In last week’s blog, I included a citation from Nicholas Kusnetz’s article, “What Does Net Zero Emissions Mean for Big Oil?” which pointed out: Most glaring is that none of the companies has committed to cut its oil and gas … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, IPCC, Russia/Ukraine, Sustainability
Tagged bioenergy, biomass, BP, budget, capex, capital expenditure, carbon capture, carbon dioxide, carbon intensity, CCS, Chevron, CO2, CO2 emissions, Economics, Emissions, energy intensity, energy transition, ExxonMobil, Fossil Fuels, Gas, GDP, Investment, IPAT, IPCC, Koch, Koch brothers, legislation, legislature, life cycle, Net-Zero, Nuclear, Oil, Oil Companies, Paris 2015, Paris Agreement, Plants, Population, Renewable, renewable energy, Russia, Sequestration, Shell, Solar, Technology, trees, Ukraine, warming, Wind
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“Peak” Oil: Self-Limiting or Open-Ended?
The Age of Oil started around 1800, when drilling techniques started to become available to extract oil from the ground. Figure 1 shows the oil price changes normalized to a constant US$ (2014) from the American Civil War until 2015. … Continue reading
Posted in Russia/Ukraine, Sustainability
Tagged alternative energy, availability, covid, COVID 19, Demand, drilling, economic, Economy, electric grid, Energy, energy intensity, EU, Europe, fluctuation, Gasoline, GDP, Germany, Growth, impact, invasion, Oil, OPEC, power grid, prices, renewables, Russia, Supply, Ukraine, US
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The Math Identity for Olympic Medals
One of the biggest shocks of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was Simone Biles’ historic withdrawal from several events. Her teammates expressed solidarity with her decision and she received a lot of positive feedback globally for placing her health above her … Continue reading
Guest Blog by Sonya Landau: Heat and COVID Disparities
Walking outside in southern Arizona right now is akin to walking into a giant oven. Waves of heat waft toward you from all sides the moment you set foot out the door. We always joke, “but it’s a dry heat,” … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Guest Blog, law, Sustainability, US
Tagged air conditioner, Arizona, Class, coronavirus, COVAX, COVID 19, Economics, Education, essential worker, ethnicity, GDP, heat, heat wave, homelessness, housing, Income, Inequality, inequity, legislation, occupation, OSHA, pandemic, Phoenix, Race, safety, socioeconomic, Tucson, vaccine, Wealth, work
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Sputnik and China: US Response to Tech Rivalry
Back in April, I outlined President Biden’s new American Job Plan. Granted, the $2.3 trillion plan was more of a wish list than a proposal; given the 50-50 split in the Senate and the narrow majority in the House, it … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics, law, politics, US
Tagged Adaptation, American jobs plan, Biden, bipartisan, China, Climate Change, Competition, Development, Economy, Education, engineering, GDP, Global Warming, Government, house, innovation, law, Math, Mitigation, NDEA, PPP, r&d, Research, rivalry, Russia, Science, senate, space race, Sputnik, stem, tech, Technology, Trump, US, USSR
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K-Shaped Global Disasters
In an earlier blog (August 4, 2020), I presented anthropogenic climate change, COVID-19, population, jobs, and equity as circles in a Venn Diagram. COVID-19 gives us an opportunity to quantify those relationships. In this case, jobs represent the economic impact … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics
Tagged amazon, Apple, AstraZeneca, BioNTech, Coal, college, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, economic, Economy, Education, energy transition, Future, GDP, gini coefficient, Global, Google, graph, high school, indicator, Inequality, Investment, jobs, model, Moderna, Netflix, pandemic, Pfizer, recovery, stocks, tech, Unemployment, US, vaccine, venn diagram, yellow vests, zoom
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The Green New Deal and Coronavirus: Intersections
Remember the Green New Deal (see the February 19, 2019 blog)? Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Senator Ed Murphy introduced the broad resolution to both houses of congress last year. To emphasize the breath of the resolution, here is a … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Climate Change, politics, Sustainability, US
Tagged adapt, Adaptation, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, Biden, China, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, Drought, Economics, Economy, Ed Murphy, Election, equity, Extreme Weather, Fertility, fire, Future, GDP, Global Population, GND, green new deal, hope, Hurricane, India, intersection, Italy, Japan, jobs, Joe Biden, mitigate, Mitigation, overlap, pandemic, political, politics, Population, president, Spain, Trump, US, venn diagram
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COVID-19-Inspired Longer-Term Changes to the Energy Transition
I started to write this blog on Thursday, June 11th. On that day, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced that, “we can’t shut down the economy again.” The Federal Reserve and others had already made grim predictions about the long-term economic … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged CO2, CO2 emissions, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, death, discounting the future, economic, Economy, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy intensity, energy transition, federal reserve, GDP, Health, healthcare, IEA, immunity, jobs, legal, lockdown, Mnuchin, negative emissions, pandemic, Science, scientist, shutdown, social distance, social distancing, spanish flu, stocks, Transition, US, waiver
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