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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

How to Use COVID-19 to Make your Workplace Greener

Posted on June 30, 2020 by climatechangefork

The “lonely” Brooklyn College in June This is the beautiful campus where I teach. There are almost no students; it looks lonely. Granted, I took the photograph on Sunday, June 21st, a day when the campus likely wouldn’t look much … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Electricity, Energy, Sustainability | Tagged blackout, Brooklyn College, brownout, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, CO2, CO2 emissions, college, coronavirus, covid, CUNY, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Fossil Fuels, Gosaba, Hydroelectric, India, Infrastructure, legislation, lockdown, Microgrid, New Year, NYC, pandemic, Power, power grid, Renewable, social distance, Solar, Transition, virus, Wind | 1 Comment

COVID-19-Inspired Longer-Term Changes to the Energy Transition

Posted on June 16, 2020 by climatechangefork

I started to write this blog on Thursday, June 11th. On that day, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced that, “we can’t shut down the economy again.” The Federal Reserve and others had already made grim predictions about the long-term economic … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged CO2, CO2 emissions, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, death, discounting the future, economic, Economy, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy intensity, energy transition, federal reserve, GDP, Health, healthcare, IEA, immunity, jobs, legal, lockdown, Mnuchin, negative emissions, pandemic, Science, scientist, shutdown, social distance, social distancing, spanish flu, stocks, Transition, US, waiver | 16 Comments

Solar Roads: Driving Into the Future

Posted on February 18, 2020 by climatechangefork

The last three blogs were not fun. Some of my readers have asked, “Where can we move that isn’t here?” The answer, sadly, is nowhere. We must try to fix this place. Many of us are already doing so. We … Continue reading →

Posted in Electricity, Energy, Sustainability | Tagged Bike Lane, China, Dubai, dutch, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, France, Hungary, Korea, Netherlands, New York, Normandy, NYC, polar bear, Solar, solar panel, solar road, tech, Technology, Transition, US | 1 Comment

Electric Cars: What’s Driving the Transition?

Posted on March 26, 2019 by climatechangefork

In the last two blogs I tried to show that without a parallel effort to decarbonize the power sources of electricity generators, our efforts to promote electric car fleets mean little in the scheme of progress against climate change. So—why … Continue reading →

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Vulnerabilities: Global Environmental Refugees

Posted on April 3, 2018 by climatechangefork

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 →

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Who is at Fault? Do We Blame the Loser?

Posted on November 22, 2016 by climatechangefork

Samuel Kassow’s book describes the efforts of a group led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum who documented what was happening around them in the Nazi-occupied Warsaw Ghetto. The group aimed to provide an accurate account of the situation to counter the … Continue reading →

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Educating for the Anthropocene: Trying to Climb Over the Obstacles

Posted on May 31, 2016 by climatechangefork

In previous blogs I have tried to summarize the transformation of the international educational system that is needed to accommodate the coming global shift to the Anthropocene (May 3, 2016): The real point is that governing has reached a greater … Continue reading →

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Educating for the Anthropocene: the Local View

Posted on May 24, 2016 by climatechangefork

The Anthropocene (April 26, 2016 blog) is a proposed epoch beginning when human activities started to have a significant global impact on Earth’s geology and ecosystems. Regardless of what we call our time period, if we want to successfully manage … Continue reading →

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Paris: Measurements for the Future

Posted on November 24, 2015 by climatechangefork

Last week I evaluated the commitments that various countries have made in preparation for the COP21 meeting that is scheduled for the end of this month. Specifically, I looked at the difficulty in converting the commitments from individual countries into … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Transition

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

Solar Roads: Driving Into the Future

Electric Cars: What’s Driving the Transition?

Vulnerabilities: Global Environmental Refugees

Who is at Fault? Do We Blame the Loser?

Paris: Measurements for the Future

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