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Tag Archives: transportation
Back from Europe
As I have mentioned in previous blogs, after three years of COVID-19 hibernation, my wife and I just came home from visiting friends and family in England, Poland, and France. I will spend a few days teaching the first week … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy
Tagged air conditioning, Britain, C02, Coal, cooling, covid, Drought, dutch, Emissions, Energy, energy supply, Environment, Extreme Weather, France, Gas, Germany, inflation reduction act, Italy, Netherlands, Nuclear Energy, prices, Regulations, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, transportation, Ukraine, War, Water, Water Scarcity
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Campus as a Lab: Part 1
Source: Rutgers Living Laboratories Campus as a lab (CAL) is becoming a teaching and organizational tool across campuses. I am including a schematic diagram of the dynamics of the concept, taken from the Rutgers University site, above. If you Google … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Energy, Sustainability
Tagged academic, Adaptation, Brooklyn College, CAL, campus, carbon dioxide, Clean Energy, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, Columbia, CUNY, curriculum, decarbonization, diversity, Duke, Education, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, environmental studies, Florida State, Future, Interdisciplinary, lab, Mitigation, Net-Zero, offset, plastic, Princeton, Research, Sustainability, transportation, Water
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Infrastructure Timing
They did it! Today, after a long slog of debate, the US Senate has finally passed a bipartisan version of the infrastructure bill that came out of the American Jobs Plan the Biden administration proposed in April. For more information … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Energy
Tagged Adaptation, Biden, bill, bipartisan, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, commercial, competiiton, consumption, Cost, electric car, Electricity, Energy, energy cost, energy services, energy transition, fossil fuel, house, industrial, Infrastructure, input, manufacturing, mining, Mitigation, output, Physics, r&d, refining, residential, senate, Solar, Sputnik, transportation, US, utilities, Wind
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The American Jobs Plan
I started to write this blog a day after President Biden presented his infrastructure plan in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The location’s symbolism was obvious; this was the same city where President Trump announced his withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: I was … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Sustainability, US
Tagged Adaptation, American jobs plan, Biden, budget, building, Climate Change, Cost, Electricity, Energy, Future, Infrastructure, jobs, law, manufacturing, Mitigation, Paris, Paris Agreement, Pittsburgh, Research, transportation, Trump, utilities
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Income Inequality: Climate Apartheid
About three months ago (May 14, 2019) I featured a student-written guest blog on income inequality. That blog centered on transportation. It wasn’t the first time that we have addressed the issue on Climate Change Fork. Previous blogs that focused … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Sustainability
Tagged Australia, Candidates, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, carbon intensity, census, climate, climate apartheid, Climate Change, climate refugee, CO2, CO2 emissions, Economics, Emissions, equality, Future, Gas, gini coefficient, govering, Government, green job, green new deal, housing, Human Rights, Income, income distribution, Income Inequality, Inequality, money, OECD, Oil, pension, politics, Pollution, shelter, society, strategy, transportation, UN, vote
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Electricity Use: Lighting – Incandescent vs. LED
In this blog, I would like to go through some details about judicious selection of the lighting devices that we use (e.g. incandescent, compact fluorescent, halogen or LED) and when or how much we choose to use our electricity. It … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Electricity, Energy, Sustainability, US
Tagged a/c, air conditioning, appliances, carbon emissions, cfl, commercial, compact fluorescent, economic, efficient, electrical power, Electricity, electricity access, electronics, Energy, Energy Consumption, energy efficient, energy star, energy transition, Environment, environmental, EPA, fluorescent, GDP, global energy transition, halogen, heat, home, incandescent, industrial, LED, light, light bulb, lighting, lumens, rebate, residential, sector, transportation, US, use, Voltage, wasted energy, Water, wattage, watts
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Graduation: Congrats to My Students!
Classes ended this week. By the time that I post this blog, my students’ final exams will also be history. The last four guest blogs were written by students in my Physics and Society course—a research-based course that I offer … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, alternative energy, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, asphalt, Bilingual, Brooklyn College, bus, butane, car, Carbon, carbon equivalent, Carbon Footprint, chemistry, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, climate science, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, coefficient, diesel, EIA, Electricity, emission factors, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, energy use, Environment, EPA, estimate, fuel, fuel oil, Future, Gas, Gasoline, Geothermal, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, heat, home energy, kerosene, language, literacy, lubricant, Mitigation, naptha, Natural Gas, Oil, petrochemical, petroleum, propane, Public Transportation, recycle, Science, Solar, Sustainability, transportation, US, waste
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Guest Blog: How Income Inequality Correlates with CO2 Emissions and What We Can Do About It
Hello readers! This week’s guest blog is from Benjamin K, Quinn Downes, and Michael Guerin. Combined, we carry degrees in the fields of physics, chemistry, and biology. Through this blog post, we hope to spread information on the correlation between … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Change, Education, Guest Blog, Sustainability
Tagged Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Carbon, carbon emissions, cattle, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, correlation, developed, developing, Economics, Economy, Electricity, electricity generation, Emissions, Environment, environmental degradation, equality, GDP, gini coefficient, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Guest Blog, Hypothesis, Income, income distribution, Income Inequality, industrial economics, Inequality, Kuznets, lognormal, Lorenz, Policy, Power, power plant, ratio, rural, Science, transportation, Turkey, urban, US
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Guest Blog: How is Carbon Affecting Energy Intensity in the US?
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
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Electric Cars: What’s Driving the Transition?
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
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Electric Cars, Sustainability
Tagged America, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Belgium, Britain, California, car, Carbon, carbon neutral, carmaker, China, Clean Energy, clean power, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Connecticut, Copenhagen, Costa Rica, decarbonize, Denmark, Electric Cars, electrical power, Electricity, Emissions, energy transition, Environment, fossil fuel, France, Future, Geothermal, Germany, global energy transition, Government, hydro, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Maryland, Massachusetts, Morocco, New York, Nicaragua, Norway, Oregon, Paris, power plant, Quebec, regulation, Rhode Island, Rome, Science, Scotland, Solar, solar power, subsidize, subsidy, Sustainability, Sustainable, Sweden, Taiwan, Transition, transportation, UK, Uruguay, US, USA, vehicle, Wind, wind power
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