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Tag Archives: Science
Earth Day 2023
(Source: Houston Arboretum) This is obviously not my first blog titled Earth Day. Just put the title in the search box and start investigating. The day is unique for me on two levels: it celebrates our physical environment and commitments … Continue reading
Posted in Electricity, Energy
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Coal, Earth Day, EIA, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, Environment, fossil fuel, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Paris Agreement, Renewable, Science, Solar, US
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What Am I Doing??
Over the last few blogs I cried, together with many others, about the direction in which the country and the world are going. It reached a stage where a friend told me that she didn’t celebrate the 4th of July … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Education
Tagged Adam Tooze, Adaptation, Bergen-Belsen, Bomb, Brooklyn College, change, concentration camp, CUNY, decarbonization, Education, Future, Germany, lab, laboratory, mitigaton, Nazi, Nuclear, nuclear bomb, NY, Physics, Princeton, Research, Russia, Science, social physics, stem, Ukraine, WWII
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Back to the Energy and Population Transitions: Electrification and Brain Drain
In this blog, I will look at the ongoing global energy transition and the declining populations of rich countries around the world. I am specifically interested in attempts to redefine sustainable energy sources, as well as the ways in which … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Electricity, Energy, Sustainability
Tagged CO2 emissions, developing, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Fossil Fuels, Future, Gas, greenhouse gas, Mitigation, Oil, Power Plants, Science, sustailable
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How to Explain Reality
Last week’s blog focused on the name change of Facebook to Meta and on the cherry-picking phenomenon of selectively picking reality to fit our biases and trying to recruit more adherents to our views of reality. The borderlines between virtual, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Education
Tagged cherry picking, fact, Michio Kaku, Penrose, Physics, reality, religion, Science, Stephen Hawking, truth, virtual reality
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Meta (Facebook) and Cherry Picking
A recent announcement from Facebook informed us all that “Connection is evolving so are we … welcome to Meta.” While I was not born there, I grew up in Israel, so Hebrew is my “native” language. In Hebrew, “meta” refers … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged bias, cherry picking, Climate Change, communication, Education, Godwin's Law, impact, NSF, objectivity, Physics, reality, Science
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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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“Me” and “They” in the Climate and COVID Disasters
Figure 1 Figure 1 reflects the deadly strength of anti-vaccination sentiment. Its resistance to science, policy, and any desire to ensure continued public safety seems to be equally relevant for denial of climate change. My November 17, 2020 blog, “Teaching … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Water
Tagged antivax, autism, Climate Change, climate denier, consequence, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, denial, denier, DNNer, Global Warming, Health, infection, Italy, Kennedy, mandate, medicine, Policy, public health, restriction, safety, Science, US, vaccination, vaccine, Water
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The American Commitment
COP26 ended with a unanimous decision on how to accelerate the global effort to mitigate climate change. This included plans to assist developing countries in their adaptation efforts and to monitor progress in these areas on an annual basis. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Electric Cars, Energy, Extreme Weather, Sustainability, UN, US
Tagged Adaptation, Biden, bill, budget, build back better, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, commitment, COP26, electric car, Electricity, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Future, Gas, Glasgow, Global, grid, IIJA, Infrastructure, legislation, Local, Manchin, Mitigation, Oil, Paris, progress, public transport, renewable energy, resilience, Science, Sinema, Transition
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