Ocean Acidification and Fossil Fuels
A friend just sent me this piece on ocean acidification and asks: “The tipping point has tipped?”
I respond:
Could be. In truth, no one knows.
I’ve been writing about this for years. In fact, when I’m on a radio show and a climate change denier calls in and wants to duke it out with me, I normally say something like, “I’ll tell you what. I know there are people who rail against the 98% of climate scientists who have spent their careers studying the subject and ultimately support the global warming theory. You should know that ‘deniers’ are far more numerous outside the scientific community than within it – a point that should mean something to you. So yes, there are people who don’t believe this theory. But are there people who don’t believe in lung cancer? Terrorism? War? Ocean acidification? I urge you to pick one of the many other independent reasons to migrate away from fossil fuels.”
My colleague Alan Tratner has asked me to play some sort of yet-to-be-determined role in the 
As I continue to learn more about the world’s energy supply, I naturally bump up against water issues, as the two subjects are closely connected across different axes – the so-called “water-energy nexus.”
In the last two days, I’ve written a couple of pieces on the presidential debates here in the U.S., and so my head’s been caught up in the subject of the psyche of the American voter. Of course, the rest of the world hasn’t stopped just because we have a couple politicians saying whatever they think they need to in order to win votes. For example, here’s an 
Here’s a conversation I’m having with the friend who suggested that I write my “
After Wednesday night’s debate, I became one of literally millions wishing to give U.S. President Barack Obama advice, and, for that reason, I certainly do not believe that what I’m about to write has any particular importance. Having said that, here’s a brief “open letter.”
Yesterday started with a drive south to visit my friend, WindStream CEO Dan Bates. WindStream is one of the very few micro-wind products that I favor, in that it appears that they have come across one of the very few strategies that has driven out costs without doing the same to quality.
