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Tag Archives: Sandy
Climate-Related Doomsday – Early Signs: Harvey
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
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged 1000 year flood, 500 year flood, Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, attribution, Bangladesh, Bible, Clausius-Clapeyron equation, Clean Energy, climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, climatologist, CO2 emissions, deluge, disaster, divine retribution, Donald Trump, energy transition, Environment, estimate, estimated cost, federal flood insurance, Flood, flood insurance, flood myth, genesis, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Harvey, Houston, human contribution, Hurricane, India, Katrina, manu, Mitigation, Mumbai, mythology, natural disaster, Nepal, noah's ark, Obama, probability, Sandy, Science, Sustainability, Technology, Trump, US
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Risk
We are not very good at estimating risk. This is especially true of large, infrequent risk. Recently a judge fined BP for being “grossly negligent” in the blowout on the deep water horizon oil rig disaster that killed 11 workers … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, BP, Climate Change, corn, drilling, Environment, Global Warming, green market, Insurance, loss potential, Mitigation, Oil, risk, risk assessment, risk management, Sandy, Sea-Level Rise, spill
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A Game Changing Public Relations Avalanche on Climate Change – Just When I’m About to Have a Break
Yesterday (May 29, 2014) was commencement day at my school, and the day that I was able to post my grades. Officially, the school year has ended and my summer break starts now (I do not take part in the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropogenic, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Conference, Cosmos, Economics, Egypt, Energy, Environment, EPA, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Greenland, Heartland Institute, Iceland, Indonesia, International Climate Change Conference, Mitigation, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Obama, Sandy, Science, Sustainability, Syria, Water, Water Cycle, Water Stress, Years of Living Dangerously, Yemen
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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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Back From Mauritius
I am back from the climate change conference in Mauritius (See my July 2 blog for the full program). I was away for almost a month in total – a long time on the road. I visited a few countries … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Africa, Agriculture, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Conference, Economy, Flood, Maldives, Maurice Ile Durable, Mauritius, MID, Mitigation, Sandy, Sustainable, Tourism
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The Terrain Part 3: Mayor Bloomberg’s Maginot.
My two previous blogs in this series (June 4 and June 11) focused on where and when to spend money so as to best combat climate change. Part 1 (June 4) delved into ExxonMobil CEO, Rex Tillerson’s widely publicized quote, … Continue reading
The Terrain Part 2: Spending Now or Spending Later.
Throughout this blog, my emphasis has been on possible responses to the impacts of climate change. I divided the responses into three categories: mitigation, adaptation and doing nothing. ExxonMobil CEO, Rex Tillerson, recommends doing nothing, reasoning that if something bad … Continue reading
Adaptive Rebuilding
Hurricane Sandy, which struck the East Coast of the United States more than six months ago (October 2012), was the second-costliest hurricane in the recorded history of the United States . While climate scientists said that the storm was not … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Adaptive Rebuilding, Climate Change, Cuomo, Evacuation, Flood, Global Warming, Hurricane, Insurance, Keeling Curve, NYC, Sandy, Sea-Level Rise
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Tackling Environmental Justice: a Local Perspective.
About a week ago, I went to Stony Brook University, where I am collaborating with Prof. Lori Scarlatos from the Department of Technology and Society, in constructing a simulation/game. Its aim is to allow students (and everybody else) to find … Continue reading
Man’s Power Versus Nature’s Power: the Wrong Distinction
I wrote this blog on Wednesday: immediately following the election, a full week after Sandy (I live in NYC – we’ve been trying to fix some of the damage) and in the middle of a new Northeaster that was dumping … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Bill Gates, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Election, Global Warming, Hurricane, Obama, Sandy, Science
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