Recently, I’ve mostly been writing about what is going to happen to our society as a result of a warmer climate. Real estate, insurance, finance, fossil fuel industry, carbon taxes, transportation (especially cars and trucks), etc. I decided today to remind everyone why these consequences are all going to happen. Paraphrasing what someone once said, It’s the Climate Stupid. As CO2…
I start today by reiterating my long standing prediction that by 2030 all new cars (and increasingly it looks like light duty trucks and maybe even some heavy duty ones too) sold in the U.S. will be fully electric or drive 95% of the time on electricity. Back in 2014 when I first made a bet on this it was pretty…
Boy oh boy. A guy can’t go on vacation for a couple of weeks without the world turning up side down. Yeah, after a year and a half barely leaving my house and now that the whole family is fully vaccinated, we took a nice break on the beach for a couple of weeks. It sure felt good! Fishing, tennis,…
I am trying something a little different today. I want to see if this is an improvement from what I have done in the past. Let me know what you think after you’ve had a chance to check it out. Email me back with a thumbs up or down, yes or no, or some such indicator. I am going to go…
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…
After a couple of weeks of posting current headlines about what is happening around the country and globe relating to climate change, I was thinking that this week I’d tackle just one topic, one article, and get into it in more depth. But as I reviewed the articles that I had read and saved for this publication I was once…
This past week I gave a presentation to a group on climate change. This was a group that was not fundamentally focussed on this issue but seemed to have a general interest and awareness of it. The theme I decided to follow was to give an overview of all the ways that a changing, warming climate was already altering so…
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…
I know that I am constantly pointing out how right I have been for years and years when it comes to predicting what would (and has) happened concerning the subjects which I cover. AND, that it would be worse than the conventional media was reporting. My kids tell me that I overdo that aspect of my messages. OK, I get it. But…
I am starting today on a personal note. I have been shamelessly promoting the virtual outing presentation that I made last Thursday. It was very well attended in fact setting a new record for our group’s presentations. It went very well from my perspective and I have received very favorable feedback. In case you missed it and may be interested to see…