Commenter Gina Rozier writes in my response to our lack of response to climate change: It intrigues me what threats people react too and which ones they ignore. I remember reading a quote. Science says climate change is here. We …
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Thomas Edison demonstrated his first incandescent light bulb on this date in 1879, a feat noteworthy for several reasons: This success came at the end of an enormous number of experiments whose results were disappointing. When someone suggested that Edison was …
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It’s such an interesting time to be alive. The stakes are so high, and there seems to be a greater divide than ever between good and bad. Good things and people are better than they’ve been before. We have a …
It’s not every day that we come across a political/economic concept that appeals to the Tea Party, the Progressives/Environmentalists, and everyone in between. Yet, as reported in RenewableEnergyWorld, that’s exactly the phenomenon we’re seeing surrounding the Property Assessed Clean Energy, …
A Concept that Could Change the World Is Opposed By…..Nobody? Read More »
Billionaire Tom Steyer is known for spending significant pieces of his net worth on environmental issues, especially climate change mitigation. Here is a video and article that summarize his plan to defeat climate change deniers who are running for office …
I normally keep my investment strategies to myself, but I was thinking about this just now, and I thought I’d mention some things that make me salivate in terms of opportunities: First, here’s what I decline to buy: Won’t buy …
All those of us who follow the three-ring circus that is the U.S. government when it comes to the discussion on climate change and possible steps towards mitigation must be laughing at the article linked above. This guy happens to …
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It’s common for readers outside the U.S. to wonder how it’s possible that this country is making so little progress on climate change mitigation, even though 2014 was the hottest year on record, and May, June, August, September, October and …
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If the future looks even remotely like the past, there’s certainly no reason to believe that the UN meeting in New York next month will be any more successful than the dismal failures of the numerous similar sessions held over …
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My colleague Jim Boyden (PhD, physics, Cal Tech, 1960) was kind enough to brief me on the highlights of the meeting of the American Physical Society at the University of California at Berkeley last weekend. The core of the meeting, …
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