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Tag Archives: pandemic
Governance in the Anthropocene
(Source: Vecteezy) In last week’s blog, I returned to the definition of the Anthropocene, the name for our proposed new epoch. The dominant proposal for Anthropocene is an “epoch that begins when human activities started to have a significant global … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Change
Tagged accretion, Anthropocene, Biden, cosmology, Davos, dispersive, Economy, Environment, epochdemographics, Genocide, Hiroshima, Holocaust, Nagasaki, Nazi, nuclear age, Nuclear Energy, nuclear war, nuclear weapons, pandemic, Population, Putin, Russia, Self Inflicted Genocide, Timothy Snyder, Ukraine
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Analyzing Global Energy Inflation
In almost every news broadcast, fuel inflation holds the top spot. This is not surprising. With an energy inflation growth of around 30% per year (see Figure 1) and the average price of gasoline at around $5/gallon (occasionally up to … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Tagged Adaptation, Biden, Brazil, carbon dioxide, Clean Energy, CO2, CO2 emissions, covid, COVID 19, CPI, decarbonization, decarbonize, economic, Economy, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, EU, Fossil Fuels, Future, Gas, GHG, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, inflation, Infrastructure, LNG, Military, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Oil, oil company, pandemic, petrostate, politicians, politics, Power, Price, renewable energy, Russia, sanctions, security, Solar, Sustainability, Sustainable, Technology, Turkey, Ukraine, US, vaccination, vaccine, Wind
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Population Transition Projections For the End of the Century
In last week’s blog, I mentioned a prediction that the global population would peak before the end of the century. This prediction was based on an analysis that was conducted by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, birth rate, childbirth, death rate, demographic, Fertility Rate, Future, IHME, migration, model, natural increase, pandemic, Population, Prediction, Transition, UN, work from home
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“Me” and “They” and “Us” in Campus Politics
This is my last blog of 2021, a year that has been—to put it mildly—not great for almost anybody. Let us hope that 2022 will unfold to be a better one. It is a challenge to write the last blog … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged adapt, Adaptation, Brookln College, covid, COVID 19, CUNY, environmental studies, funding, humanity, Interdisciplinary, pandemic, Sayre, Science, tenure, university
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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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Climate Change, Social Media & Politics
I teach different levels of climate change courses and do my own research on the subject. My semester started at the end of January and I had four senior students who needed to select their own research topics regarding the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, US
Tagged anti-semitic, campaign, censor, censorship, Climate Change, communication, coronavirus, covid, Election, Facebook, internet, Jew, Jewish, Nazi, pandemic, Physics, Policy, political, politics, Social Media, teacher, Teaching
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Winners and Losers: COVID and Coal
President Biden signed 17 executive orders immediately after his inauguration on January 20th (January 26th blog). Many of them nullified President Trump’s policies which had deliberately ignored climate change and thwarted mitigation efforts. Foremost of these new policies was the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy
Tagged Adaptation, Angela Merkel, Biden, Climate Change, Climate Denial, Coal, Congress, coronavirus, covid, Democrat, economic, Energy, energy transition, EU, fossil fuel, Gas, Germany, Harris, house of representatives, Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Kelly, Mitigation, Mitt Romney, Oil, pandemic, Poland, Policy, Renewable, Republican, senate, subsidy, Susan Collins, US, West Virginia, WV, yellow vest
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Peaceful Presidential Transition vs. the Rise of Nazis
I started writing this one day after President Biden and Vice President Harris were inaugurated. Many of us were thoroughly relieved that the event turned out to be a dignified, uneventful transition of power. I wouldn’t quite call it peaceful, … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Holocaust, Trump, US
Tagged baton, Biden, Climate Change, coronavirus, covid, Genocide, Germany, Global Warming, Great Depression, hate, Hitler, Holocaust, Inauguration, Jew, Jewish, mob, Nazi, pandemic, Power, relay, Russian revolution, self-inflicted, spanish flu, Transition, Treaty of Versailles, Trump, US, Weimar Republic, WWI
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Godwin’s Law and Us
This is a follow up to my “Shame” blog about the president-triggered mob attack on the American government in Washington, DC on January 6th. The attack was one part of a series of efforts to void the November 3rd election … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Holocaust, politics
Tagged antisemitic, antisemitism, attack, Auschwitz, charlottesville, communism, concentration camp, constitution, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, demonstration, Economy, fascism, Georgia, Illinois, January 6, Jew, Jewish, liberty, lockdown, MAGA, mask, mob, Nazi, Nazi Trump Pence flag, pandemic, Pritzger, protest, QAnon, riot, rioter, social distance, swastika, Trump, tyranny, US, Washington DC, white supremacy
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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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