I imagine that many, if not most or all, of you know that the populations of pollinators have plummeted dramatically over the last couple of decades all over the world. Bees and monarch butterflies are the canaries in the coal mine so to speak. The dramatic decimation of their populations dramatize how what may appear to be minor changes in climate…
Back in June 2018 I sent out this piece: Altering NSR Can Kill You. Concerned?? (https://franklytalking.com/altering-nsr-can-kill-you-concerned/) Well, NSR (New Source Review) is back in the news. I’m really delighted to send you this article today. You probably know that I am a life member of Sierra Club having joined the Club in 1976. I have been actively engaged…
I hope you listened to my warnings over the past few years and divested yourself from any asset in any way tied to fossil fuels not just for moral reasons but for your own financial security. A great deal of the asset values supporting the prices of a fossil fuel extraction company’s financial instruments is the capitalized cost of the proven…
I am going to write about some topics other than climate change and other directly related issues for a while and spotlight different environmental issues of grave concern. You can read in the mainstream media about the temperature in Siberia above the Arctic Circle being over 100 degrees and at the bottom of the Grand Canyon over 115 degrees and melting peoples’ boots. Today I…
Let’s stay on the topic of the demise of fossil fuels to boil water to create steam to run the turbines that create electricity for the power grid. In a recent article I sent you I said “it’s clear that fossil fuels are toast.” And the hits keep rolling. You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to figure this…
I have been writing for a long time about following the money as it relates to climate change. More recently I’ve been revealing how more and more finance entities have been committing to begin redirecting their capital away from fossil fuel projects and into renewable energy assets. This started with a trickle and becoming a torrent. When this started it was tentative and…
Science matters. While there aren’t many climate change skeptics any more, unless you belong to the Republican Party, it is worthwhile to see graphically what is happening to our planet’s atmosphere so we can be confident of the rationale for demanding aggressive action to avoid the worst consequences that a quickly warming climate will cause. So short and to the point today. A quick…
As I have been writing about for years and in many of my most recent articles, follow the money. Fossil fuels are being abandon like a hot potato. As predicted, costs of renewables have dropped more than dramatically. In 10 years solar has gone from $300 a megawatt hour to $38 in China today. And wind in the last 10 years…
Before I get to the topic of this article, I want to recognize that we are still in the grip of a terrible pandemic and that, in my humble opinion, we are not “over it” as some might have you believe. Based on the chaos and lack of a coherent plan to tame this beast it appears to me that the worst is…
In case you haven’t been paying attention, it’s becoming more and more clear that the horse is out of the barn: we’ve passed a tipping point. When you can read this in Forbes, things have changed. “After all the suffering of the pandemic, let’s make investments that will preserve life as we know in this planet and strengthen our…