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Tag Archives: Health
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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“Me” and “They” in the Climate and COVID Disasters
Figure 1 Figure 1 reflects the deadly strength of anti-vaccination sentiment. Its resistance to science, policy, and any desire to ensure continued public safety seems to be equally relevant for denial of climate change. My November 17, 2020 blog, “Teaching … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Water
Tagged antivax, autism, Climate Change, climate denier, consequence, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, denial, denier, DNNer, Global Warming, Health, infection, Italy, Kennedy, mandate, medicine, Policy, public health, restriction, safety, Science, US, vaccination, vaccine, Water
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Freedom and Liberty
Today is election day. We’ll be voting for state and local officials but the race the whole world is watching is the one for US president. People everywhere are calling this the most important election of our lifetime. Of course, … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Election, politics, Trump, US
Tagged America, collective, constitution, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, doctor, Donald Trump, Election, freedom, Future, Health, individual, law, liberty, lockdown, mask, pandemic, religion, rights, safety, Science, Trump, turnout, US, vote, voter, voter turnout
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Looking at the Future Through Coronavirus-Infected Eyes
The iconic MAGA hat exemplifies the Trump administration’s unilateralist “America First” philosophy, to the detriment of global welfare I am starting to write this blog on Thursday, August 6th. The coronavirus situation is currently: Globally: around 19 million cases, more … Continue reading
Posted in administration
Tagged Adaptation, administration, America First, arms control, atom bomb, atomic bomb, atomic weapon, blackboard, Brooklyn College, cases, Climate Change, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, CUNY, death, distanced learning, Donald Trump, Future, google meet, Health, Hiroshima, immigration, Japan, John Bolton, lockdown, MAGA, Mitigation, Nagasaki, New York, nuclear war, NYC, pandemic, Paris Agreement, president trump, social distancing, treaty, Trump, unilateral, unilateralist, WHO, WWII, zoom, zosia samosia
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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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Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst: COVID-19
Last week, I promised to shift my focus to COVID-19’s impact on developing countries. So far, most of the media attention has been limited to the coronavirus’ impact on richer countries (e.g. US, Europe, Australia, Canada, etc.). The exact definition … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change
Tagged Anthropogenic, asymptomatic, carbon intensity, chart, Chris Murray, Climate Change, coronavirus, COVID 19, Cuomo, death, Deborah Birx, Economics, Economy, epidemic, epidemiology, Europe, Future, GHG, Global Warming, Health, healthcare, hospital, ICU, IHME, infection, lockdown, methodology, metrics, model, modeling, pandemic, Prediction, social distance, social distancing, spanish flu, Stabilization, stabilize, symptom, test, US, WHO
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The 10 Plagues, Coronavirus, and Passover
The world is in a biologically-driven pandemic and trying to adjust to the coronavirus. I am obviously no exception. My university, like many others, has shifted all classes to online until the end of the semester. It’s given students and … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged blood, coronavirus, COVID 19, Egypt, frogs, Germany, Health, History, Israelite, Jew, liberation, locusts, nile, pandemic, Passover, plague, Poland, quarantine, Science, social distancing
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Guest Blog: US Medical Schools Must Train Medical Students for Climate Change
This week, a medical student friend of mine presents a guest blog. As always, we welcome your comments and questions. We’d love to start a discussion about this topic. SA is a second year medical student interested in global surgery. … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, Guest Blog, immigration, refugee, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Advocacy in Medicine, AMA, American Medical Association, Anthropogenic, baseline data, Brooklyn College, Climate Change, climate migrant, climate refugee, Clinical Climate Change Conference, CO2, CO2 emissions, Colorado, Conference, curricula, curriculum, Data, disease, doctor, Drought, Education, educator, environmental impact, Extreme Weather, Flood, food security, Future, global health, Health, health professional, hospital, Illinois, incentive, med student, medicaid, medical, medical school, medical student, medicare, Minnesota, mitigate, Mitigation, Mount Sinai, New York Academy of Medicine, NY, patient, physician, public health, student, Sustainability, sustainability reporting, UCSF, Urbana-Champaign, US, USMLE, Water, Yale
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Extreme Heat: Big Cities, 2050
We are entering new levels of extreme heat. June 2019 was the warmest June ever recorded. The Weather Channel summarized it: At a Glance Four separate analyses, including from NOAA and NASA, found Earth’s warmest June on record was in … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Sustainability
Tagged 1880, 2050, a/c, Adaptation, air conditioner, air conditioning, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Beijing, Britain, C40, Cairo, China, city, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Delhi, Drought, Dubai, Egypt, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Europe, extreme heat, Extreme Weather, Future, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Health, heat, heat wave, heatwave, India, Istanbul, Japan, Ljubljana, London, Madrid, Mexico, Mexico City, Mitigation, Moscow, NASA, New York City, NOAA, NYC, Renewable, renewable energy, risk, Science, Seattle, Slovenia, Solar, Spain, summer, Sustainability, Temperature, temperature change, Tokyo, urban population, US, Water, water crisis, Water Shortage, Water Stress, Wind
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