To start off today I want to share with you some information that may be of great interest to you or someone you know. Many of you know that my wife Debbie has asthma. For some time now we have been receiving from Sierra Club text messages when the air quality is dangerous for her so she can act accordingly…stay inside and…
I hope that you are enjoying a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend and for all my Jewish readers, a very happy Chanukah starting at sundown tonight. We are having our Chanukah party tonight! Reflecting on what I am most thankful for it is the same this year as always: my family and health of all of us. I and my family have all been…
The title says, Forget Glasgow. I don’t really mean that. Glasgow is important. And I know that some, or even many, will think I’m off my rocker for saying this, but it’s not the most critical factor on how quickly and how far we implement changes to our society that will mitigate climate change to allow our civilization to function with some semblance of…
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…
Today’s messaging is going to be a smorgasbord. I am going to display for you a variety of items pertaining to several of the topics I cover. Transportation, insurance, real estate (primarily housing), water shortages and biodiversity. Since the last few blogs have been about the auto industry let me start there. If there is still any doubt in your mind as…
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…
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…
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…
MANY years ago when my kids were little (the youngest is 31 now) we had a Beetlejuice doll. It was about 18 inches tall and when you pulled a string it would say “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice” and its head would spin around. It would freak out our dog and at one point he tore the thing apart leaving only the head and…