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Tag Archives: Sea-Level Rise
Climate Change Refugees: Where Will They Go?
I have seen some alarming new reports of late. Two of them describe the start of environmental, climate change-powered migrations within rich countries. In the US, the key motivator is sea level rise: The Great Climate Retreat is beginning with … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Conference, immigration, refugee, UN, US
Tagged Army, asylum, Australia, bushfire, buyout, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, climate migrant, climate refugee, Davos, Developing Countries, Donald Trump, Environment, environmental refugee, fire, Flood, Florida, global trend, home, Houston, immigrant, immigration, migrant, migration, Military, National Intelligence Council, New Orleans, New York, NIC, refugee, Russia, Sea-Level Rise, security, Staten Island, Trump, UN, US
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Happy Holidays!
Happy New Year! The end of the year brings Christmas (December 25th) and Hanukkah (December 22nd-30th), two traditional holidays, and Kwanzaa (December 26th – January 1st), which began in 1966. All three include giving presents. Children all over the world … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Change
Tagged 2050, carbon dioxide, Christmas, Climate Change, climate refugee, CO2, coast, dutch, Flood, Flooding, Future, GHG, greenhouse gas, Hanukkah, high tide, holidays, Kwanzaa, Netherlands, presents, refugee, Sea-Level Rise, WMO
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Economic Impacts Report: Worse than Predicted?
Last week’s blog looked at Naomi Oreskes’ and Nicholas Stern’s October op-ed in The New York Times, “Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think,” which dealt with a report about the unexamined economic risks of climate change. … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Extreme Weather, Sustainability
Tagged acceleration, Adaptation, aggregate, Agriculture, biodiversity, Climate Change, climate change denier, climate skeptic, Columbia, compound, Cost, Drought, economic, economic impact, economic model, Economy, ecosystem, Extreme Weather, Flood, Future, glaciers, Grantham, heatwave, ice sheets, impact, Mitigation, Naomi Oreskes, Nicholas Stern, op-ed, physical science, Policy, policy maker, Potsdam, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. The Potsdam Institute, references, Report, Research, risk, Science, Sea-Level Rise, Stern report, wildfire
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Extreme Weather: Fires and Floods
I have been busy analyzing global data about the ongoing energy transition to a more sustainable world. In addition to reflecting on my whirlwind (and worldwide) trip (September 4, 2019 blog), I wanted to look into global indicators with my … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Extreme Weather
Tagged amazon, Australia, California, Clausius Clapeyron, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, deforestation, Drought, electrical power, England, Extreme Weather, fire, fire season, fire-adapted, Flood, Global Warming, Indonesia, Italy, Jakarta, Java Sea, John Holdren, lightning, Oregon, PG&E, Ponderosa, power outage, rain, rainforest, Science Advisor, Sea-Level Rise, smoke, storm surge, Sumatra, Venice, water level, wildfire
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Election Day – Think Big!
I usually publish this blog on Tuesdays but this time I have asked my editor to put up the week’s post today so that I can address everyone – including my Monday class of 150 students – a day before … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Election, law, politics, Sustainability, Trump
Tagged #MakeAmericaGreatAgain, America, America First, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Charles Lindbergh, climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, climate skeptic, Data, denier, Donald Trump, Drought, Election, Extreme Weather, farm, farming, Future, Genocide, Georgia, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, Hurricane, hurricane michael, Insurance, Lindbergh, millennial, nationalism, president, Science, Sea-Level Rise, Self Inflicted Genocide, skeptic, suicide, Trump, unilateralism, unilateralist, US, vote, voter, Weather, weather patterns, xenophobia
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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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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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Vulnerabilities: Global Environmental Refugees
I am not the only one to predict (February 3, 2015 and October 3, 2017) that continuing our practices in a business as usual scenario will lead to destruction of the physical environment as we know it – as well … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Afghanistan, analysis, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, asylum, Bangladesh, business as usual, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, climate refugee, Climate Skeptics, Colombia, conflict, Congo, Dhaka, displaced, earthquake, EERC, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Ethiopia, extinction, Flood, Fossil Fuels, Fresh Water, Future, Germany, Global Population, Global Warming, goldilocks, greenhouse gas, immigrant, intelligence, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, migrant, Mitigation, Nigeria, nile, Pakistan, Policy, Power, refugee, Research, resource, Salinity, Science, Sea-Level Rise, security, Self Inflicted Genocide, sixth extinction, South Sudan, storm, stuttering transition, Sudan, Sustainability, Syria, Technology, Transition, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, US, Volcano, Water, Water Cycle, water distribution, Water Scarcity, wildfire, World Population
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