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Climate Change and Federal Government Funding

Posted on August 7, 2018 by climatechangefork

Last week I looked at four Republican senators’ efforts to terminate government funding for television meteorologists who mention climate change as part of the forecast. I also discussed the issue in light of the global heat wave and the havoc … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, politics, Sustainability | Tagged accountability, Adaptation, administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, assessment, attribution, Britain, budget, causality, cause, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Drought, Environment, Extreme Weather, forecast, funding, GAO, Global Warming, globalization, Government, heat, heat wave, heatwave, indoctrination, James Inhofe, James Lankford, Japan, Kelvin Droegemeier, laos, Meteorologist, Meteorology, Mitigation, National Research Council, political, politics, probabilistic, propaganda, Rand Paul, Republican, risk, Science, science adviser, senator, Sustainability, Technology, Ted Cruz, TV, UK, Weather, weather system | 16 Comments

Referencing vs. Plagiarism

Posted on May 22, 2018 by climatechangefork

The semester is about over (only some finals and the graduation ceremony remain). In a few days I’ll be celebrating my birthday – time for a selfie reflecting the integrity of my writing. I addressed some aspects of the ethics … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, politics, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Antarctic, antarctic ice, Antarctica, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, audience, Beatles, blog, Brooklyn College, citation, cite, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Congress, copy, CUNY, Data, Donald Trump, edit, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, ethics, Fossil Fuels, Foucault, George Harrison, Geraldine DeLuca, Global Warming, Google, governance, Government, house of representatives, ice, integrity, lawmaker, method, methodology, mitigate, Mitigation, Mo Brooks, NASA, permission, plagiarism, plagiarize, plagiarizing, Popperian, public, reference, Republican, Richard Owen, Science, scientific method, sea level, Sea-Level Rise, selfie, Social Media, source, subconscious plagiarism, subscription, Sustainability, target, Technology, Trump, US | 1 Comment

Collective Irrationality and Individual Biases: Climate Change II

Posted on November 28, 2017 by climatechangefork

Last week I discussed some issues in terms of psychology of judgement and decision making; I feel that they need some clarification and expansion. I looked at how highly educated Democrats and Republicans diverge sharply in their opinions about the … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, law, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, architecture, belief, bias, brain, business as usual, Cap and Trade, choice, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, council on foreign relations, decision, Democrat, Energy, evidence, fact, following the herd, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, immediate threat, instinct, intuition, irrational, Kahneman, leader, libertarian, libertarian paternalism, loss aversion, meteor, Mitigation, Nobel, nudge, Physics, political, politics, psychology, rational, reasoning, regulation, Republican, Science, smoking, Sunstein, Sustainability, system, Thaler, Tversky, undoing project, William James | Leave a comment

Collective Irrationality and Individual Biases: Climate Change

Posted on November 21, 2017 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog looked at the connections between the latest effort to rewrite our tax code and the necessary detailed accounting of the resources we will need to compensate for the increasing damage that climate change will inflict on us … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, Election, politics, Sustainability, Trump | Tagged Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, apocalypse, behavioral economics, bias, business as usual, Cass Sunstein, catastrophe, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, cognitive bias, college, conservation of energy, conspiracy, democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, doomsday, dynamic scoring, Economics, Education, Election, End of Now, Energy, greenhouse gas, high school, human contribution, John Zeller, junk science, just world, loss aversion, Market, physicist, Physics, political elite, psychology, rational choice theory, Republican, Richard Thaler, Science, Social Science, Trump, US, vote, voter | Leave a comment

Dynamic Scoring: Taxes and Climate Change

Posted on November 14, 2017 by climatechangefork

Our government’s executive and legislative branches, are in the midst of discussing two important issues: tax breaks and climate change. Well, in truth, the only real discussion going on has to do with the tax legislation. Climate change is only … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, COP21, IPCC, law, Sustainability, Trump, UN, UNFCCC | Tagged Accounting, Adaptation, analysis, budget, business as usual, byrd rule, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, CO2 emissions, Congress, COP23, debt, deficit, Democrat, Donald Trump, dynamic accounting, dynamic analysis, Economics, Economy, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Fiji, fire, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Global Warming, GOP, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, Growth, heatwave, IPCC, loss, Mitigation, Obamacare, Paris accord, Paris Agreement, Reagan, Republican, risk, Science, sea ice, sea level, Tax, tax cut, tax reform, Technology, Ted Cruz, Temperature, Trump, UN, UNFCCC, US, vote, voter | Leave a comment

Remedies for Abdication of Duties?

Posted on June 13, 2017 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – Trends in global urbanization I am starting to write this blog on Tuesday, June 6th. I am doing this a bit earlier than usual in preparation for a trip that I will be taking in July to … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, law, Sustainability, Trump, UN, UNFCCC | Tagged Adaptation, administration, America, america's pledge, Anthropogenic, Antonio Guterres, auto industry, Bloomberg, bottom-up, British, CA, California, Canada, carbon dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, ceo, Chicago, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, company, Congress, D Day, D=Day, declare war, Democrat, democratic, Democratization, DNNer, Donald Trump, Economics, electric, electric car, Electricity, emission, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, FDR, federal, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Germany, Global, Global Population, global threat, Global Warming, governance, governing, Government, governor, greenhouse gas, imperial japan, initiative, invade, Japan, Jerry Brown, jobs, judiciary, London, Mexico, Mexico City, Mitigation, moyor, Nazi, New York, nissan, Normandy, North Korea, Nuclear, nuclear weapon, NY, Obama, Paris, Paris Agreement, Patricia Espinosa, Pearl Harbor, politics, Population, Power, Power Plants, president, renault, Republican, rural, Sadiq Kahn, safety, Science, Seoul, Solar Energy, South Korea, sovereign, Sovereign State, Sustainability, Technology, top-down, Trump, UK, UN, UNFCCC, urban, urbanization, US, Virginia, volkswagen, vw, War, we are still in, World Population, WWII | 1 Comment

Me vs. Them vs. We – Nationalism/Populism vs. Globalism

Posted on May 30, 2017 by climatechangefork

The world is a shaky place right now. The best windows into this instability are countries where citizens can express their feelings in the voting booths. I am not alone in having mentioned repeatedly that the world is now entering … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged America, America First, American, americanism, Anthropocene, city, Climate Change, conservative, country, Donald Trump, era, fascism, fascist, free trade, Global, globalism, globalization, Godwin's Law, governance, governing, Government, Hitler, Homo Deus, immigration, me vs them, me vs them vs we, mtw, nationalism, Nazi, NIMBY, party, Passover, political, politics, populism, Republican, sovereign, State, TED talk, Timeline, Trump, UN, US, Yuval Noach Harari | 1 Comment

Collective Treason?

Posted on April 11, 2017 by climatechangefork

I’ll refer back to my definition of the concept of self-inflicted genocide, with which I started this blog 5 years ago (April 22, 2012): Predictions by the Intergovernmental Plan on Climate Change (IPCC) and most scientists, strongly suggest that we … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, law, Trump | Tagged Adaptation, amnesty, Anthropocene, anti-science, Armstrong, breitbart, business as usual, cherry picking, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Consequences, criteria, Data, descrimination, Donald Trump, Economics, EIA, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Environment, evidence, Fossil Fuels, France, Future, Genocide, George Santayana, Global Warming, Government, Holocaust, house committee on science, IPCC, J Scott Armstrong, Jeffrey Mervis, Lamar Smith, Lemkin, logic, method, methodology, Michael Mann, misinformation, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Obama, Paris, Paris Agreement, Passover, peer review, Physical Environment, Physics, president, president trump, refutability, regulation, Republican, rescue, Science, Science Magazine, scientific journal, scientific method, Scott Wagner, Self Inflicted Genocide, self-inflicted, senator, Sustainability, Toynbee, treason, Trump, US, war on science, white house | Leave a comment

The Urban/Rural Voting Split: a Global Perspective

Posted on December 13, 2016 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog looked at the separation between the rural and urban vote in the just-concluded US presidential elections. This week I will examine whether this split is a unique American phenomenon or part of the global transition as we … Continue reading →

Posted in Election | Tagged Aberdeen, african american, Anthropocene, Beijing, Birmingham, black, Brazil, BREXIT, Bristol, Britain, Buenos Aires, Calcutta, Cardiff, change, China, city, Climate Change, Congress, constituency, constituent, Delhi, democracy, Democrat, democratic, democratic index, Dhaka, Edinburgh, elect, Election, electorate, Environment, Glasgow, Great Britain, Guangzhou, house, illiterate, India, Islam, Jakarta, Japan, Karachi, Kinshasa, Kolcata, LA, Lagos, Leeds, literate, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Manila, Mexico, Mexico City, Moscow, Mumbai, muslim, NDA, NYC, Paris, parliament, political, politician, politics, representation, Republican, Rio de Janeiro, rural, Sao Paulo, Sea-Level Rise, senate, Seoul, settlement, Shanghai, suburban, Tokyo, town, UPA, urban, vote, voter, Voting | 1 Comment

Election and Urbanization

Posted on December 6, 2016 by climatechangefork

Last month (November 22), I promised I would focus on some of the non-racial factors that significantly impacted the presidential elections. Last week’s blog explored educational aspects and today’s post will look at the urban/rural divide. The four figures below … Continue reading →

Posted in Election | Tagged Anthropocene, borough, census, census bureau, city, Clinton, college, democracy, Democrat, dense, density, Donald Trump, Education, elect, Election, electoral college, eligible, globalization, Growth, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, History, immigrant, immigration, Income, IPAT, Johnson, linear, logarithm, migration, popular vote, populat, Population, Population Density, president, presidential, republic, Republican, rural, scale, Stein, suburban, town, Trump, urban, urbanization, variable, village, vote, voter | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: Republican

Climate Change and Federal Government Funding

Collective Irrationality and Individual Biases: Climate Change II

Dynamic Scoring: Taxes and Climate Change

Remedies for Abdication of Duties?

Me vs. Them vs. We – Nationalism/Populism vs. Globalism

Collective Treason?

The Urban/Rural Voting Split: a Global Perspective

Election and Urbanization

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