As I have written about on many occasions, the world is increasingly moving on from fossil fuels to renewable and distributed energy. One of the reasons is that renewable energy now is cost competitive or cheaper that fossil fuels. This is especially true if the fossil fuel energy is from a new plant. Secondly, more and more it is being…
The map below does not copy well to this posting. The title is “The World: 4 degrees C Warmer”. And it notes, “No one knows exactly what this world will look like, but models provide insights into forced human migrations and our future power generation.” Another notation is: “Amazon: desert”. How accurate this might be if we are unable to…
Over the years I have written about how climate change is a threat to world peace. In fact, the Pentagon has been saying this in its security threat reports since the ’90′s. They actually call it the highest threat to peace. The reason is what climate change is doing to natural resources. For instance, what would you do if your…
When Sierra Club began the effort to challenge the final permitting of a proposed coal fired power plant being built by Indeck in Elwood, Illinois southwest of Chicago near Joliet, we never could have imagined where we’d be some 16 years later. After 8 years Indeck threw in the towel and gave up. Now, burning coal to boil water to produce electricity is a…
There are untold numbers of articles reiterating the fact that regardless of what the Trump Administration does about reducing the current CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards it would be insane for the auto manufacturers NOT to continue pushing forward on maximum fuel economy for their ICE’s (Internal Combustion Engines) and rollout of electric vehicles. The article below is one…
Sierra Club Board of Directors Meeting Oakland, CA May 18 – 19, 2018 Our recent May face to face meeting I found to be rather routine. I do not mean in any way to diminish its importance whatsoever. I only mean that I didn’t find that there was anything that occurred that would qualify as something that would change the…
It can be hard to imagine the catastrophic impact that climate change can create. While the US has seen impacts, somehow when droughts dissipate, hurricanes die out, mud slides get cleaned up, fires are doused, flood waters recede and temperatures drop most of the public forgets about these events. Not, of course, those who’s lives are severely impacted. But most of the public puts…
I’d love to be wrong on my prognostications about the consequences of a warming climate as that would mean that the future is not so bleak as I’ve often made it out to be. And I guess it’s a bit braggadocios to be an “I told you so”. But, as has been the case over and over, the early warnings…
Since I’ve been writing about how horrible the impact of Global Climate Change is likely to be, I thought I’d pass on a more optimistic view. Besides, some of you have been responding to me siting information showing that things aren’t as dire as I make them out to be. Let’s hope that I am over inflating our grim future. I…
I know. I said that the last post would be the last about how the warming climate is impacting our society. But I just couldn’t help myself with this article since it dovetails perfectly with my previous message. “That river is drying up. This winter, snow in the Rocky Mountains, which feeds the Colorado, was 70% lower than average.” “the…