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Tag Archives: Water Scarcity
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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School Curriculum: The NYT
Why do we send our kids to school? Why did our parents send us to school? People are wondering this more than ever, now that many schools are still closed physically and have moved to an online educational experience. But … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, Water
Tagged college, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, database, democracy, Desalination, distanced learning, Fresh Water, Future, hamburger, index, learning, learning network, lesson plan, pandemic, Resources, Salt Water, Saudi Arabia, School, Science, social distance, students, Teaching, university, Water, water quality, Water Scarcity, Water Stress, weather report
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Living in Ice and Trees: Interesting, But How Can it Work Year-Round?
I am starting to write this blog at home in NYC on Thursday, January 31st. The temperature this morning was 3oF (-16oC) and by early afternoon it went all the way up to 6oF. I started to read the paper … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Sustainability, Water
Tagged air conditioner, architecture, Arctic, arctic circle, bathroom, cold, Electricity, freeze, frozen, hotel, ice, ice melt, incinerator, insulation, low cost, melt, outhouse, Polar Vortex, Renewable, sanitary, sanitation, sculpture, Solar, Sweden, Temperature, toilet, tree, Vacation, Water, Water Scarcity, Water Stress, water use, winter
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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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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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America First and American Sovereignty
I have cited President Trump’s withdrawal speech a lot in my previous two blogs so I will restrict myself to the directly relevant paragraphs. Below is the part of his speech on American sovereignty: At what point does America get … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability, Trump, UN
Tagged #MakeAmericaGreatAgain, acid rain, Adaptation, America, America First, build a wall, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, comodity, conflict, constitution, developed, developed countries, developing, Developing Countries, DNNer, Donald Trump, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Gary Cohn, GDP, Global, global community, Global Population, global trends, Global Warming, globalization, Goldman Sachs, greenhouse gas, H.R. McMaster, immigration, insecurity, IPCC, migration, Mitigation, national security, North Korea, Obama, ozone layer, Paris 2015, Paris Agreement, Power, Power Plants, scarcity, Science, sea level, Sea-Level Rise, security, shortage, Solar Energy, sovereign, Sovereign State, Sustainability, Technology, Trump, UN, US, wall, Water Scarcity, weather pattern, withdrawal, World Population
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Stabilization of Additional Indicators
We have spent the last two weeks examining how to stabilize our main socioeconomic indicators in order to achieve a long-term sustainable existence. Since climate change is one of the main early signs of the emerging human-dominated geological era (Anthropocene), … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, immigration, IPCC, Sustainability, UN, UNFCCC
Tagged Adaptation, Affluence, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Bangladesh, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Democratization, Desalination, economic, Economic Growth, Economics, Education, Election, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy source, energy transition, energy use, Environment, equality, Fossil Fuels, GDP, GDP per capita, Global Population, Global Warming, governance, Government, gravity, greenhouse gas, hunger, immigrant, immigration, India, indicator, influence, Infrastructure, IPAT, IPCC, Japan, migrant, migration, Mitigation, Physical Environment, Physics, politics, Population, Poverty, Power, refugee, rural, Science, sea level, security, socioeconomic, Solar Energy, Stabilization, Stabilizing, Sustainability, Sustainable, sustainable development, Technology, Temperature, UN, urban, US, Water, Water Scarcity, Water Stress, watercycle, Wealth, wealth distribution, World Bank, World Population
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Obstacles to Adaptation of Water Desalination
This blog will focus entirely on a report that was issued by the Pacific Institute in 2006 under the title “Desalination, with a Grain of Salt.” The report was authored by Heather Cooley, Peter H. Gleick and Garry Wolf. The … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged CCMI, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Desalination, Energy, Pacific Institute, Peter H. Gleick, Water, Water Cycle, Water Scarcity, Water Stress
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Water as a Commodity
Recently, I have been writing a lot about water- I feel honored that one of the local papers here in Brooklyn, Our Time Press, picked up one of my posts in its entirety to republish. I am trying to get … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Climate Change, Demand, Earth, Economics, GDP, Global Warming, Human Rights, Madagascar, Pacific Institute, Price, Supply, Tariff, UN, Venezuela, Water, Water Scarcity, Water Stress, Water Tariff, World Bank
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Climate Change and the Water Cycle
It seems almost ironic that people must deal with water shortage and water stress, given that 70% of Earth’s surface is comprised of oceans, some of which reach depths of more than six km (close to 4 miles), yet that … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Climate Change, Evaporation, Global Population, Global Temperature, Global Warming, Mitigation, Salinity, Salt, Water, Water Cycle, Water Scarcity, Water Stress
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