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Tag Archives: sea level
Guest Blog: Jacob Kinnaman and Frank Huang
Welcome readers! This week’s guest blog is from Jacob Kinnaman and Frank Huang. Together, we hope to spread awareness about the correlation between climate change-induced migrations and the national security threats that they create. Although many people may view national … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Guest Blog, immigration, US
Tagged Adaptation, Belize, burn, California, carbon dioxide, Central America, Climate Change, climate refugee, CO2, CO2 emissions, Costa Rica, damage, desert, desertification, driving force, Drought, ecosystem, El Salvador, emigration, environmental refugee, Extreme Weather, fire, fire season, fire supression, fuel, Future, Global Warming, globalization, Guatemala, Honduras, humidity, immigrant, immigration, lawmakers, Mexico, Mitigation, moisture, national security, Nicaragua, Panama, Population, predict, sea level, security, spread, Terrorism, US, vapor pressure deficit, VPD, Weather, wild fire, wildfire
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Climate Change Economics: Present Costs and Long-Term Threats
The Davos meeting in Switzerland is in full swing. President Trump is there, as is Greta Thunberg; climate change will be at the top of the agenda. The World Economic Forum (WEF) is organizing the meeting. In preparation, the WEF, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Extreme Weather, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, asset, Atlanta, BlackRock, Boston, Chicago, cities, Climate Change, construction, Dallas, Davos, debt, Detroit, economic, Economy, Environment, Extreme Weather, federal reserve, fire, Flood, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Greta Thunberg, gross value added, GVA, Houston, industry, Investment, LA, lending, Los Angeles, loss, losses, Miami, Minneapolis, Mitigation, mortgage, New York, Paris accord, Philadelphia, Physical Environment, Policy, politics, property, PwC, Real Estate, San Fransisco, San Jose, Science, sea level, Seattle, subprime, Sustainability, Trump, US, Washington DC, WEF
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Where Are We Living? Can We Stay There?
A New Year! A New Decade! By now, we have all made our wishes and resolutions. I am sure that everyone is hoping for better times. However, the news around the world has been very bleak. Globally, since the New … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics, immigration, Sustainability
Tagged anti-semitic, Arizona, atomic bomb, Australia, Brisbane, Cape Town, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Colorado, degradation, Economy, fire, Florida, Future, generation, Global Warming, Gold Coast, Growth, habitat, Idaho, immigration, Iran, Mauritius, Melbourne, New Year, North Carolina, NYC, Population, Real Estate, retreat, Science, sea level, shifting baseline, Soleimani, South Africa, South Carolina, states, suicide, Texas, tide, US, Utah, Washington, wildfire
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Burying our Heads in the Sand
Ostriches don’t actually bury their heads in the sand in the belief that it makes their predators unable to see them – but many of us do. Unfortunately many such human ostriches occupy high level positions of our government, putting … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, IPCC, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Adaptation, Alabama, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Arizona, build, censorship, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, climate refugee, Climate Skeptics, coral, damage, develop, developers, Donald Trump, Drought, Extreme Weather, fear, Flood, Florida, Future, Georgia, Global Warming, governance, governing, Government, Hurricane, hurricane florence, hurricane michael, IPCC, North Carolina, ostrich, Policy, policy makers, predict, Prediction, projection, reconstruction, Science, sea ice, sea level, Sea-Level Rise, storm, Trump, US
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Guest Blog by Sonya Landau: Unsustainable Desert: People Have Been Living in Tucson for Thousands of Years; How Much Longer Can That Continue?
I have been Micha’s editor and helped run this blog since the beginning. I’m excited to have the chance to contribute to Climate Change Fork. Tucson is a magical place. Then again, I’m biased – it is my home town … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Guest Blog, immigration, refugee, Sustainability, Water
Tagged Adaptation, aquifer, Arizona, AZ, cacti, cactus, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Deniers, climate refugee, Climate Skeptics, Colorado River, coyote, cultivation, death, desert, dry heat, Economics, ecosystem, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, farming, Florence, Fossil Fuels, Future, Global Warming, gray water, groudwater, ground water, Guest Blog, heat, heatstroke, History, hot, Hurricane, immigrant, immigration, life, Maldives, Maria, Mexico, migrant, migration, Mitigation, Phoenix, Population, Power, Power Plants, Puerto Rico, reclaimed water, refugee, Reservoir, roadrunner, Science, sea level, Solar, Solar Energy, solar panel, Sonora, Sonoran desert, Sonya Landau, Sustainability, Sustainable, Tucson, undocumented, US, Water, water level, water portfolio, Water Scarcity, Water Shortage, Water Stress, water supply
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Blurred Lines: Balance, Bias, Kavanaugh, and Fox News on Climate Change
My original plan for this week was to focus on President Trump’s complaints that Google’s search engines are biased against him, and his demand that the Justice Department investigate. I found a fitting cartoon by Walt Handelsman. The Justice Department … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, politics, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged Abortion, antarctic ice, Antarctica, assault, Balance, bias, Brett Kavanaugh, Christian, Christine Blasey Ford, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate denier, current events, Damon Centola, Democrat, Donald Trump, Douglas Guilbeault, England, evangelical, Facebook, first amendment, Flood, Flooding, Florence, Ford, fox news, Global Warming, Google, Greenland, ice melt, investigation, IPCC, Joshua Becker, judge, justice, justice department, Kavanaugh, land ice, Murdoch, national geographic, Ocean, partisan, PNAS, polarization, political, politics, rational, rationality, Republican, Roe v. Wade, Rupert Murdoch, sea level, Sea-Level Rise, senate, sexual assault, Social Media, sociologist, sociology, Supreme Court, teach, Teaching, Trump, trust, truth, UK, US, virtue, Water
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Ocean Health Issues – How Do We Measure Health?
Last week’s blog was an introduction to the vulnerabilities that we face with the deterioration of our oceans. It paid particular attention to the recently published study of evidence associating the 4th mass extinction with ocean deoxygenation – which effectively … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability, Water
Tagged acidification, Adaptation, anoxia, Anthropocene, anthropocentric, Anthropogenic, atlantic, biodiversity, Brundtland report, Carbon, carbon storage, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, coast, coastal, CSSR, deoxygenation, Economy, ecosystem, Emissions, Environment, Evaporation, extinct, extinction, fishing, food provision, Fresh Water, Future, Global Warming, goal, greenhouse gas, habitat, Health, heat, heat content, heat feedback, indicator, livelihood, marine, mass extinction, melting, Mitigation, NCA4, Ocean, ocean health, Ocean Health Index, Pacific, polar ice, Precipitation, rain, recreation, Salt Water, Science, sea ice, sea level, sea water, Sea-Level Rise, species, stratification, Sustainability, Temperature, Tourism, Variability
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