From the following article: “The United States has experienced 412 consecutive months with temperatures, at least nominally, above the 20th-century average, according to NOAA. Climate disasters have also been on the rise, with three of the four most active disaster years coming in 2016, 2017 and 2018.” It is becoming more and more obvious that extreme weather is getting worse…
In my last post the other day I wrote about how a new method of producing concrete has the potential of removing massive amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere if adopted as the only way of cement production on a world wide scale. It is becoming increasingly certain that to keep the climate from destroying our way of life we not only need…
Just as technology that will accelerate the transition to a carbon emissions free future is developing more rapidly than most experts could imagine even five years ago it turns out that we are shooting at a moving target. We need to develop and adopt solutions much more quickly than thought necessary because our planet’s climate is deteriorating materially more rapidly than we conceived. This is…
Last June after the Trump Administration announced that is was going to roll back the Obama era fuel economy standards I told you not to worry about that. Here’s the link to that posting. Don’t Fret CAFE Rollbacks 10 months later the message is still the same and what I said then is being reiterated again now… “”It’s a global…
I know. I know. I keep sending you articles about extreme weather and its consequences. It’s because it’s my perception that most people, especially those in the US, haven’t yet come to grips with how bad the circumstances are that we are already experiencing around the planet due to the increased heat in the atmosphere . And, therefore, how much worse it is…
In the last article I sent out it mentions the world’s ‘Third Pole”. That region is the Hindu Kush Himalayan mountains. And a warmer climate is melting it as well. “Glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, which spans eight countries in South Asia from Afghanistan to Myanmar, could lose more than a third of their volume by the end…
There is so much quotable news in the article below I don’t know where to start. Basically, this piece consolidates many of the warnings I’ve been writing about forever. The main points: A warming planet will melt glaciers and ice sheets around the world. This will lead to sea level rise that will put costal communities in grave danger in a multitude of ways. Changing…
Recently, I’ve been writing quite a bit about the financial risk climate change presents to the capital markets and insurance companies. And the last post was about the consequences to people who live in the path of hurricanes that cause catastrophic rain and storm surge and other weather events that create climate refugees. Now, I want to turn to the…
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…
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…