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Where Should We Go When Disaster Strikes?

Posted on September 7, 2021 by climatechangefork

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 | 2 Comments

Can We Reopen Schools? Who Loses Out if We Don’t?

Posted on September 29, 2020 by climatechangefork

I just read an important op-ed in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristof, “‘Remote Learning’ Is Often an Oxymoron: We need to try harder to get kids back in school.” The essence of the piece is that, while rich … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged Arizona, Barron Trump, Brooklyn College, campus, China, Class, computer, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, CUNY, Development, distanced learning, Donald Trump, dropout, Economics, Education, Food, Holocaust, Hurricane, in person, infected, infection, Katrina, learning, lunch, mandate, mask, off-line, offline, online, open, Palestine, pandemic, parents, privilege, quarantine, Race, reopen, resource, safety, School, social, social distance, social distancing, socio-economic, socioeconomic, spread, students, support system, teachers, Teaching, Trump, university, Uruguay, US, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto, Wuhan | 9 Comments

Long-term Adaptations III – Following the Netherlands: Sea Level Rise

Posted on October 31, 2017 by climatechangefork

One of the most pressing problems jeopardizing our planet’s capacity to sustainably support (human and other) life is sea level rise. This comes as a direct consequence of the rise in global temperature: the accelerated melting of land-based ice combined … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Amsterdam, antarctic ice, Anthropocene, cistern, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, damage, dike, dune, dutch, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, float, floating, Flood, flood-proof, Flooding, geography, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, house, ice, IPCC, Katrina, levee, Louisiana, Mitigation, Netherlands, New Orleans, nuisance, polder, Population, property, Real Estate, river delta, Science, sea level, seawall, storm, storm surge, Sustainability, Technology, UNESCO, Water, World Population | 1 Comment

Climate-Related Doomsday – Early Signs: Harvey

Posted on September 5, 2017 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – Before and during Harvey Figure 2 – Mumbai monsoon, August 2017 Figure 3 – Cost of recent hurricanes in the US The three figures above demonstrate early signs of a climate-related doomsday. Figure 1 shows Market Street … Continue reading →

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Scaling up from the Hamptons to the World

Posted on April 30, 2013 by climatechangefork

Michael Schwartz’s New York Times article entitled “Dispute in the Hamptons Set Off by Effort to Hold Back Ocean” (NYT, April 18, 2013) starts with the following: Soon after Hurricane Sandy hit last fall, Joshua Harris, a billionaire hedge fund … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Climate Change, Global Warming, Hamptons, IPCC, Katrina, Mitigation, PCAST, Sea-Level Rise | 6 Comments

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