A friend in Philadelphia sent me this newspaper article and blog post on the efforts of the oil and gas companies to put a pipeline through a very tranquil section of New Jersey’s forestland. Because this region has special meaning …
Tag: ocean acidification
The Wind Energy Industry Is Still Bedeviled with Danger to Birds and Bats
A friend in the wind industry sent me this interesting article on wind turbines, blades, birds, and subsidies. I know the industry is taking the situation with birds and bats very seriously, and that’s good; they certainly need to do …
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Should We Worry About “Abrupt” Climate Change?
Like my mother, a kindred spirit, I have to admit that I worry, a habit that is, to a degree, pathological. Worry doesn’t change the future; it only depresses us. And, though 99% of the subject of our worry never …
Tagged with: abrupt climate change, accelerate the melting of the arctic, climate change deniers, climate change feedback loops, desertification of arable farmlands, James White geological sciences University of Colorado Boulder, loss of biodiversity, ocean acidification, planet is warming due to human activity, release of the methane beneath the (until now) frozen tundra, rise of our sea-levels, skyrocketing rates of childhood cancer, threats to national security
Subsidies for Renewable Energy No Longer Needed by 2025
Those who think that federal subsidies for renewable energy are an unacceptable extravagance will be pleased to know that, by 2025, they will no longer be necessary, according to this report by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Of …
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Notes on Our Fossil-Fuel-Based Energy Policy
A reader asked for my comments on the following: I have just been reading about the various ways CO2 is captured from power plants and then transported and stored — underground and underwater. I don’t get it…we applaud companies for reducing their …
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Could the Price of Climate Change REALLY Be $60 Trillion?
What’s the real imperative of the migration to renewable energy and cutting back our consumption of fossil fuels via efficiency and conservation? Might you say: Climate change? We’ll, that certainly one good answer. Of course, there are half a dozen …
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Like It Or Not, Our Energy Policy Actually Affects Our Prospects for Survival
I happened to tune into U.S.-based broadcast network CBS’s weekly “Sunday Morning” just now and noticed that it featured a look at the future of humankind, a subject in which I take a keen interest. Not too surprisingly, the piece …
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Is Climate Change The World's Biggest Problem?
Frequent commenter and 2GreenEnergy supporter Tim Kingston sent me this for comment: an article that asserts that climate change isn’t one of our civilization’s most important problems, and that global poverty is, in fact, at the top. Sorry to be …
Coal Industry Will Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
In this article from SmartGridNews, we see what anyone could have predicted from the incumbent industries in response to U.S. President Obama’s speech on climate policy: instant attack, including the threat of litigation. Of course, the concept that the content of …
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Time To Rethink the Electrical Grid
Frequent commenter John Roche writes: It’s been interesting reading your blogs. I’ll say I’m for the environment and have taken some renewable energy classes to complement my technical background. Will probably even install solar on mine and a friend’s house. …
