Of all the great minds whose essays I read on the world energy scene and its surrounding geopolitical implications (global hostility, climate change, world economics, etc.) Michael T. Klare just may be my favorite. Dr. Klare: … is The Five …
Tag: Hurricane Sandy
Humankind's Fate Lies in Its Energy Policy
Tagged with: Americans for Prosperity, billionaire Koch brothers, Citizens for a Sound Economy, consequences of climate change, Era of Renewable Energy, fossil fuels, How to Fry a Planet, Hurricane Sandy, Koch-Sponsored Misinformation, Michael T. Klare, migration to renewables, sustainable course for humankind
Gotta Like SmartGridNews’ Cheery Demeanor
I love these people at SmartGridNews. They keep the content positive and hopeful – even in a world that’s having some pretty obvious fits and starts adopting smart grid. And they try to get at the subject from every conceivable …
Consolidated Edison Upgrading Infrastructure — Why Not Address The Underlying Problem?
According to this article in SmartGridNews, Consolidated Edison, the power utility that serves New York City and the surrounding region, is in the process of spending $1 billion to upgrade its power delivery infrastructure so to minimize outages in the …
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Global Climate Change and Hurricane Prediction
I just spent an hour doing something I normally skip: I participated in a comprehensive webinar from Schneider Electric on the annual hurricane prediction. The bottom line is that their chief scientist is expecting an average year for 2013. But …
Planning To Avert Catastrophic Climate Change
Reader David Stout sent me this excellent article on the intelligent rebuilding of the New Jersey and New York seaboards after Hurricane Sandy. It contains a great number of terrific points about applying common sense in re-establishing housing, commercial buildings, …
Macy's Need to Dump Trump
I just signed an online petition, addressed to Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren, suggesting that he reconsider his company’s relationship with Donald Trump, arguably the single most repulsive person on the planet. The reasoning is below, for anyone who may be …
Safety and Resilience: Side Benefits of Renewable Energy
Here’s an article that makes an important but normally overlooked point: renewable energy systems are generally far less susceptible to storms, earthquakes, and other natural (or man-made) disasters than fossil fuel or nuclear plants. This is largely due to the …
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Will Climate Get Some Respect Now? Sorry, The Answer's Unclear
For those of you who might have missed it, here’s Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on climate change in yesterday’s New York Times. Referring to the take-away from Hurricane Sandy, the twice-Pulizer winning journalist calls it Will Climate Get Some Respect Now? …
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Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events
The public relations machine that works so hard to generate doubt about climate change and the extreme weather events it causes must have its hands full at this point. 2012 was a year in which the United States had no …
