We recently highlighted a new interesting English/Korean YouTube channel, covering climate science. The channel reached out to us, asked for video permissions with the goal to narrate or add subtitles for their Korean audience. UPDATE April 22nd: Today I got notice that the channel has been disabled by the owner. However, YouTube very likely just…
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A main takeaway lesson from how our society responses to the current coronavirus (COVID19) pandemic, is that fast actions to ‘flatten the curve’ (delay infections) is perhaps the single most important action in our global afford to combat a novel virus. There are many countries which managed to halt the exponential rise of new patients,…
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Daniel Susskind from Balliol College, Oxford university, and the author of ‘A World Without Work’ writes in the Financial Times, ‘A cash payment made to everyone, with no strings attached, can support workers through the crisis.’ He goes on: The coronavirus crisis is a disaster for many workers. In the UK, for instance, we often…
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On 8 March 2020, Saudi Arabia initiated a price war with Russia, triggering a major fall in the price of oil, with US oil prices falling by 34%, crude oil falling by 26%, and brent oil falling by 24%. 11th March 2020, Russia to OPEC – deeper oil cuts won’t work – Sorokin said that…
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This is not a health advice, for health advice consult your doctor, and follow the official governmental and health organization announcements (CDC, WHO etc.). Yet, since there is as of this writing no known treatment the following steps may help healthy people, your body, to prepare for a potential infection with the coronavirus, the COVID19…
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Update 3/11/20 OilPrice: As a result, the immediate victim will be U.S. shale. “[O]il should bottom out when producers begin physically shutting in wells, which is indeed what set the floor four years ago,” the investment bank added. The carbon bubble is a hypothesized bubble in the valuation of companies dependent on fossil-fuel-based energy production, because the true costs of carbon…
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Following large scale shutdown of cities and industries, the coronavirus pandemic has temporarily reduced China’s CO2 emissions by a quarter. While international government actions to contain and slow the virus spread vary in aggressiveness it appears certain that international travel – tourism will be seriously impacted for the foreseeable future. With air travel as a…
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There was a time when everybody could use YouTube, be creative and potentially make a living from it. There was a time when people could use Google to find almost anything for a particular search term. There was a time when each entity on the Internet almost it seems operated under the same conditions. Slowly…
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The current governmental response is to quarantine suspected and identified cases of infection, the scope here is to slow down the spread of the virus, to give hospitals and institutions time to adapt. The large scale quarantine actions taken by the Chinese government, shutting down entire cities and the subsequent decline in reported cases suggest…
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People all around the world have one thing in common besides the potential exposure to the new emerging novel pathogen, best know as simply the coronavirus, or designated as SARS-CoV-2 by officials, with the clinical illness called COVID-19, finding empty shelves at their local supermarket. The image is internationally the same, markets running out of…
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Today The Washington Post’s Amy Goldstein asked, ‘Worries about medical bills and lost pay may hamper coronavirus efforts in the United States‘. She writes, The race to curb the spread of the new coronavirus could be thwarted by Americans fearful of big medical bills if they get tested, low-income workers who lose pay if they…
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If you follow the public input on the emerging coronavirus and look at how it compares to the history of the climate change learning curve, there are overlapping similarities. The similarities of a virulent Pandemic and Climate Change Global Magnitude Rate of change/emergence: Affected regions, unprecedented, when accounting for phenomena emergence, i.e. the rate of…
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