For many years I’ve been hearing about schemes to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere. I always thought they were nuts. Rube Goldberg type of stuff. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg) Since the Paris Climate Accord I’ve been hearing some prominent scientists saying that unless we find ways to suck CO2 out of the air there is no practical way that we are going to keep…
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…
In my last post I wrote about the cost of battery technology dropping dramatically and faster and faster. So now I want to address the other big barrier to EV adaptation and that is speed of charging. Due out this year is a car that will charge 60 miles in 4 minutes. That’s 360 miles in 24 minutes. OK. Yea, it’s a Porsche…
Following up on my last posting about the fuel economy standards that the Trump Administration is attempting to reduce, I want to remind you of another theme that I have harped on for years: that technology is progressing, and going to continue to do so, much more rapidly than “conventional wisdom” perpetrated by mainstream sources would have you believe. Battery capacity, size, price…
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…
It is easy to look out the window and think that climate change is just a theory that is not happening because everything seems kinda the same where I live. And hey, what about that polar vortex last winter with -23 degree temperatures. But increasingly, more and more people are looking out the window and seeing something drastically different. And…
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…
If you are still thinking that extreme weather from a warming planet is still years away and that we have time to react, you’d better start paying attention to what is already happening all over the globe. It’s time to listen carefully to the scientists and start making dramatic changes NOW before things get really out of hand or we move past…
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…