Quick conversation with a colleague in New York:
Colleague: We will move from oil to natural gas and then to solar…it will take some time! Remember…we used to burn wood and coal…
Craig: True, these transitions have never happened overnight. However, (more…)
I noted about a month ago that the attack on Net Neutrality, largely sponsored by telecomm giant Comcast, was on its last legs, and that the decisive factor in the battle was the torrent of outrage of tens of millions of people who demanded fairness and justice. Well, time to celebrate: the good guys just won this round. Thanks to all who helped. Tell your friends and never forget: your voice matters.
And U.S. President Obama vetoed the Keystone XL Pipeline? I’m sure (U.S. Senate Majority Leader) Mitch McConnell isn’t too happy now, but I sure am.
I laugh out loud when I see stuff like this: Al Roker’s bold assertion on Larry King’s show to the effect that he thinks climate change is real. From what I read about him, I’m sure Roker is a wonderful human being, but does it matter what he believes about climate change? I suppose that’s better than his claiming that the whole subject is a hoax and part of an anti-capitalist plot on the part of our scientific community, but either way, as he has no real training in the subject, I don’t find it too compelling.
I really don’t want to denigrate the weather broadcasting profession, but we have to keep all this in perspective. My father was a wonderful man before he left us a few years ago: (more…)
With all the effort the world’s top marketing minds are putting behind social media and getting something to go viral, one would think there would be something of a recipe associated with success. Yet there doesn’t seem to be one, which is fortunate, or we would all be bombarded with formulaic, derivative garbage.
As I’ve mentioned, there are plenty of ways to get this social media wrong, most of which boil down to covertly exploiting the power on the Internet for some bogus commercial purpose. I wrote about a couple of classic examples here. Again, when they go wrong, they go WAY wrong, and in such cases the only cure is letting the disease run its course.
I don’t know how well this piece for TNT will do, but I think it’s fantastic.
Of course, the ones that make us all smile, or perhaps even weep with joy, are those that provide a truly uplifting message. If you haven’t done so already, check this out, and ask yourself what you surmise the world would be like if everyone on Earth watched this every morning upon arising out of bed.
A woman from the Los Angeles area contacted me the other day about the all-new “wind car.” I had hoped to see something interesting, but no, it was as I feared: a chassis on wheels with a battery and the fan on top that supposedly charges the batteries. She directed me to the fellow who’s raising investment capital to build and sell the idea, and he told me, “It’s not good that electric vehicles have a limited range. You can drive this to New York.” (more…)
A friend sent me this piece on CO2 concentrations in the Earth’s atmosphere, and writes: FYI just in case you have not seen this.
Yes, that’s interesting. As I may have mentioned, I know a few of these people personally, e.g., Professor Ramanathan (he goes by “Ram”) at the Scripps Institute (pictured below) here in Southern California. (more…)
Solar power isn’t just an efficient way to power all the electrical or modern items your house usually requires in order for you to lead a comfortable life, but it’s also environmentally-conscious too. As homeowners, especially in the time of rapidly depleting fossil fuels, your interest in turning to solar-power might seem even more heroic.
Yet understanding renewable energy, and certainly all the terms and jargon that fit around solar energy, isn’t entirely easy. That’s why this article hopes to debunk and hopefully explain to you, in more simpler terms, what things you should know if interested in powering your home by solar means. (more…)
As environmental issues become more of a concern as every year passes, it galvanises people to pursue products that are perceived green. People are much more motivated to use products from renewable resources.
It is now fashionable to drink your favourite beverage out of a paper cup labelled as eco-friendly, but what does a label like this really mean and what are the implications once the drink has been consumed? (more…)
Since the Industrial Revolution, the pH of the oceans has declined from 8.2 to 8.1, largely due to the absorption of CO2 and the formation of carbonic acid.
What’s a lousy 0.1 in the scheme of things?
pH is logarithmic, like the Richter scale. (more…)
I doubt we’ll even know the entire truth behind money’s influence on climate change research. Here’s an article in the New York Times that discredits one of the few remaining climate deniers who had any real academic qualifications.
From the article: (more…)
