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Energy Companies Shifting Greener

Posted on September 28, 2021 by climatechangefork

What does it mean for oil companies to shift toward being “greener”? How can we measure that change? More than 8 years ago, I talked about how we can use the amount of unextracted fuels as a marker for this … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Energy | Tagged Adaptation, Anthropogenic, Cap, carbon capture, carbon emissions, CCS, Clean Energy, clean power, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, exploration, extraction, Fossil Fuels, Gas, Germany, greenhouse gases, hydrogen, Iceland, Methane, motivator, new mexico, Oil, Oil Companies, Texas, trees | 1 Comment

Energy Resilience: Winter in Texas

Posted on February 23, 2021 by climatechangefork

I have written often about resilience and its importance in our energy transition. You can put the word into the search box and see a plethora of posts. Most of them focus on California and Australia, where climate change has … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Electricity, Energy, Extreme Weather, Sustainability, US, Water | Tagged Adaptation, arctic melt, Australia, California, Climate Change, Coal, Don Quijote, Electricity, energy transition, Extreme Weather, fossil fuel, freeze, Gas, Global Warming, nuclear power, Renewable, renewable energy, resilience, Solar, storm, Texas, Water, Wind, windmill, winter, winterize | 2 Comments

COVID and Climate: Learning From One to Use On the Other

Posted on October 27, 2020 by climatechangefork

I have mentioned the concept of “constructive destruction” in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic before (June 16, 2020). By necessity, our status quo is being disrupted, but that also means we are beginning to grow in unexpected ways. At … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, politics, Trump, US | Tagged bacteria, Biden, Bill Gates, carbon dioxide, Climate Change, CO2, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, Debate, disease, Donald Trump, Economy, elections, Europe, fact, Fauci, fossil fuel, Future, ice melt, Joe Biden, lockdown, Oil, pandemic, Pennsylvania, Permafrost, permafrost melt, president trump, Science, Texas, Transition, Trump, truth, US, virus, zero carbon | 13 Comments

Simultaneous Global Disasters

Posted on September 1, 2020 by climatechangefork

About a month ago (August 4th), I wrote a blog that used a Venn diagram to show the overlap of climate change, COVID-19, projected population change, job availability, and socio-economic status. My discussion was relatively abstract. Now, only one month … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, law, politics, US | Tagged air conditioner, air conditioning, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, apocalypse, apocalyptic, asteroid, Belarus, blackout, California, Christianity, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, Durer, Election, Electricity, Energy, Extreme Weather, fire, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Islam, Judaism, Kenosha, Laura, Louisiana, Marco, Minneapolis, police violence, Policy, religion, Science, sins, social justice, storm, Texas, wild fire | 5 Comments

Do-It-Yourself Climate Monitoring: the Weather Report

Posted on August 18, 2020 by climatechangefork

My wife and I start our day with breakfast and the print edition of The New York Times (NYT). When the paper arrives, we split it between us—she gets the front section and I get the rest. One of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education, Extreme Weather | Tagged Arizona, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Climate Change, CUNY, Data, data set, Education, El Paso, Extreme Weather, heat, Heat Exhaustion, heat index, Heat Stroke, heat wave, humidity, NYC, NYT, online, Phoenix, sun stroke, Temperature, Texas, Tucson, US, Weather, weather report | 2 Comments

Inequity: The Intersection of Coronavirus, Poverty & Other Expected Trends

Posted on August 4, 2020 by climatechangefork

As with most of my blogs, I wrote this one over the weekend (starting Friday). Last week, I looked at the Sierra Club’s Venn diagram of the Green New Deal. I argued that in order to address the near future … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Sustainability, US | Tagged Arab states, Bahrain, Climate Change, coronavirus, COVID 19, Education, equity, essential services, essential worker, Florida, foreign labor, Future, green new deal, Gulf, hot spot, Hurricane, inequity, jobs, Kuwait, minority, Oman, pandemic, pay cut, Population, Poverty, Qatar, Race, socio-economic, socioeconomic, Texas, venn diagram, work force | 1 Comment

Energy Saving on Specific Campuses

Posted on July 21, 2020 by climatechangefork

There are two branches to making campuses more sustainable: reducing carbon emissions (with the objective of zero carbon by mid-century) and increasing resiliency in the energy supply. We have dealt with both objectives throughout this blog. One campus’ conversion to … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education, Electricity, Energy, Sustainability | Tagged America, carbon emissions, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, Drought, Energy, energy distribution, energy efficiency, energy production, energy transition, Extreme Weather, fossil fuel, fuel, global energy transition, Global Warming, independent grid, lab, laboratory, Microgrid, Net-Zero, New York, North America, NYC, NYU, Power, renewable energy, renewables, resiliency, smart grid, Solar, stuttering energy transition, Texas, university, US, UT Austin, Wind, zero carbon | 2 Comments

Where Are We Living? Can We Stay There?

Posted on January 7, 2020 by climatechangefork

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 | 3 Comments

Guest Blog: How is Carbon Affecting Energy Intensity in the US?

Posted on May 7, 2019 by climatechangefork

Hello to everybody, we are the guest bloggers Amged Haimed, Junfeng Lu, and Haosheng Chen. We are all undergraduate students majoring in physics. Under the guidance of Micha Tomkiewicz, PhD, we have been able to use our backgrounds and experiences … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Guest Blog, Sustainability, US | Tagged alternative energy, California, Carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon intensity, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, commercial, Economics, Economy, Emissions, Energy, Energy Consumption, energy efficiency, energy intensity, Energy Sources, fossil energy, fossil fuel, Gas, GDP, graph, greenhouse effect, Guest Blog, housing, Hydroelectric, industrial, industrial production, industry, Natural Gas, New York, Nuclear, Physics, Pollution, Population, PPP, Renewable, residential, Solar, State, students, Texas, trade, transportation, US, Wind, wood | 7 Comments

Giving Up is Not an Option: Let’s Focus on What We Still Can Do

Posted on August 14, 2018 by climatechangefork

Bridge used to be one of my favorite social activities (when my free time was a bit more abundant). To those not familiar with the rules, the basic structure is simple: one deck of cards, two teams of two. Wikipedia … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, politics, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, administration, Al Gore, alps, Antarctica, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, assessment, attribution, Australia, Bangladesh, bridge, Britain, budget, California, causality, cause, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Congress, contract, desert, Drought, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Extreme Weather, forecast, Fossil Fuels, funding, Future, Game, GAO, Global Warming, globalization, Government, greenhouse gas, Greenland, heat, heat wave, heatwave, History, indoctrination, James Inhofe, James Lankford, Jim Hansen, John Sunumu, Mauritania, Meteorologist, Meteorology, Mitigation, penguin, political, politics, probabilistic, propaganda, Rafe Pomerance, Rand Paul, Republican, risk, Science, sea ice, senator, strategy, Sustainability, Switzerland, Teaching, Technology, Ted Cruz, Texas, TV, Weather | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Texas

Energy Companies Shifting Greener

Energy Resilience: Winter in Texas

COVID and Climate: Learning From One to Use On the Other

Do-It-Yourself Climate Monitoring: the Weather Report

Inequity: The Intersection of Coronavirus, Poverty & Other Expected Trends

Energy Saving on Specific Campuses

Where Are We Living? Can We Stay There?

Guest Blog: How is Carbon Affecting Energy Intensity in the US?

Giving Up is Not an Option: Let’s Focus on What We Still Can Do

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