Last week I presented you with a smorgasbord of environmental news. This week I’m going to display a variety of good and bad news that has been published in the last number of days. I’ll start with the good news that should give us some level of optimism that we have the ability to do something effective to alter our society in order to…
It is hard to comprehend that we are around half way through summer. It sure doesn’t seem like it to me. It’s going by so quickly and for some reason I feel like I’m missing out. Maybe because of the weather? Too hot, too dry, too wet, too cool, too windy (meaning being unsuitable to kayak on Lake Michigan). But…
As usual, it’s been a busy week for environmental news. This week I am going to stay focused on what’s going on in the automotive realm and on the transition to an EV future. Before I do, though, I want to start with some good news. Having been rightfully accused of being the bearer of doom and gloom in many…
It is a shame, but not surprising, that things have to be this bad to wake up people to the fact that “we ARE there” already. In case you have any doubts, the following headlines from this week should provide a sobering jolt to your consciousness. We all know people who either don’t get that there is a problem or don’t comprehend…
Back to my usual format this week. I am going to focus on a single topic and a single article. This time energy; solar to be specific. I will admit that my ego is soothed when what I have been telling you for well over a decade comes to pass. And so I will simply let the following…
You probably didn’t notice that I didn’t write an article last week. I just needed a break. But in the last two weeks, the news has not stopped. So this week, I am simply going to recap some headlines of what has occurred recently. These headlines, and maybe one brief passage from the article, cover a broad swath of the…
Almost a year ago, May 2020, I wrote the following article. How Many Fingers Do You Have? https://franklytalking.com/how-many-fingers-do-you-have/ The point I was making, and have been predicting all along for many years if you’ve been paying attention, is that our transition from a world reliant on fossil fuels to one that has essentially eliminated the emission of CO2, methane and…
You all know the story about the frog and the boiling pot of water. If you threw a frog into a pot of hot water it would immediately jump out. But if it were in a pot of water that was at a temperature that it found normal and gradually turned up the heat it would slowly boil to death.…
Above: Michael Greenstone of the University of Chicago testifies before Congress on the Social Cost of Carbon In the past I have alerted you to how seemingly little insignificant things can actually have enormous impact. I’ve written several times about NSR, New Source Review, which has a huge impact on many things but especially on whether a coal fired power…
There’s been several articles this week that describe how we are inexorably headed for a carbon free, mostly, electric future in transportation. There have been, and still are, skeptics that don’t believe that we will get to the point by 2030, or 2035 at the latest, when every mass produced car in the US will be fully electric much less light duty…