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Tag Archives: Holocaust
Assessment – Spring 2015 – Earth Day
Tomorrow is Earth Day and my wife’s birthday – time to celebrate. It’s also time for the spring assessment of the blog. Everything is blossoming around me and seems to be awakening from a very cold winter. Last week I … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, anthropomorphic, Bergen-Belsen, Canada, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Earth Day, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Facebook, Fossil Fuels, global energy transition, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Holocaust, Mitigation, Oil, oil prices, Quarterly Reports, Renewable, Social Media, stuttering energy transition, Sustainability, Technology, Twitter, US, Yale
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Waiting for Joseph
In a few days, my family, together with Jews all around the world, will start celebrating Passover with the seder meal (seder in Hebrew means “order”). Meanwhile, I assume that following recent tradition, President Obama and many on the White … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropogenic, Bergen-Belsen, Bible, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Cycle, Drought, Egypt, Extreme Weather, Flood, Global Warming, Haggadah, History, Holocaust, IPCC, Israel, Israelites, Joseph, King James Bible, Mitigation, Passover, Pattern, Pentateuch, Periodicity, Pesach, Pharaoh, Power Plants, Science, Seder, Story, Sustainability, Thank you, Theresienstadt, Water, Water Cycle, Water Stress, Weather
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A Return to “Self Inflicted Genocides” – this Time in the Present.
About two weeks ago, I was asked to write a blog about the ongoing climate change meeting that was taking place at the time in Poland (COP 19). I was born in Poland and speak the language, and my blog … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Conference, Desalination, Egypt, Energy, Environment, Fatah, Fossil Fuels, Gaza, Genocide, Global Warming, Holocaust, Israel, Mediterranean, Mitigation, Palestine, Poland, Pollution, Power Plants, Residence Time, Self Inflicted Genocide, Sewage, Sewer, Water, Water Pollution, Water Stress, Water Table, Water Treatment, World Population
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Syria and the Meaning of “Self”
Before the Jewish New Year, I got the following message from a friend: On Rosh Hashanah, it is written… On Yom Kippur, it is sealed. May it be written and may it be sealed that you and all your loved ones have … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Bergen-Belsen, Chemical Weapons, Civil War, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Collective Suicide, Environment, Genocide, Global Warming, Hitler, Holocaust, International Law, International Treaties, Kyoto Protocol, Nazi, Rosh Hashanah, Science, Self Inflicted Genocide, Syria, UN, United Nations, US, Warsaw Ghetto, World Population, Yom Kippur
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TV Interview
I am excited to announce that I recently gave an interview with Pleasantville Community Television, where I talked with Martin Wilbur about my book, Climate Change: The Fork at the End of Now, as well as the science and skeptics … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Africa, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Democratization, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Genocide, Global Population, Global Warming, Holocaust, India, Interview, My Book, Sandy, Science, Self Inflicted Genocide, Sundarbans, Sustainability, TV, World Population
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One Big Family
My original intention was to use today’s blog to explore water as the central issue in climate change: both with regards to projected impacts, and to adaptation efforts. My focus on water came about largely as a result of the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Egypt, Family, Family Tree, Genocide, Global, Global Population, Global Warming, Holocaust, Mauritius, Murder, NIMBY, Relations, Relationship, Rwanda, Water, World
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Climate Change, Hiroshima and Nuclear Winter.
The power of analogy can just as easily be used productively or be abused. I was accused of the latter when I compared the general populace’s inactivity in the 1930s to prevent the Nazis’ early efforts at ethnic cleansing (which … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Education
Tagged Atomic Winter, Bomb, Carl Sagan, Climate Change, Climate Denial, Climate Skeptics, Genocide, Global Warming, Hiroshima, Holocaust, James Hansen, Little Boy, Nuclear, Nuclear Winter
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Educational Transition II
The previous two blogs (Feb 25 and March 4) discussed some of the issues in our K-12 education that have attracted my attention during the special session of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) meeting in Boston. My … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged AAAS, Bergen-Belsen, China, Education, edX, Harvard, Holocaust, Illinois, Matt Rozell, Michael Sandel, MIT, MOOC, Online Education, Public Education, South Korea, Theresienstadt, Tom Friedman, Universities, Vanderbilt
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Citizen of the World?
On my way back from Mauritius (see July 3 blog) we passed through Israel to attend a family wedding and meet up with some old friends. During a pleasant dinner with some of these good friends, I was asked if … Continue reading →