Tag: fossil fuels

It’s FINALLY Happened!!!

It’s FINALLY Happened!!!

“Georgia regulators this month halted the last proposed coal plant in the United States.” “”This represents the end of a bad idea,””   VICTORY!  FINALLY!  The seeds of the campaign to stop any new coal plants from being built and put into operation started here in Chicago back in the mid 90’s with the Sierra Club Northern Illinois Air Quality…

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Could Climate Change Modeling be Wrong?

Could Climate Change Modeling be Wrong?

Several of my recent posts have been focused mostly on renewable energy.  Today, I am going back to what we can expect from a warming climate and the implications thereof.  As readers you know that I have been preaching about how projections of the horrid outcomes of warming the atmosphere of our planet will be much worse and come faster than the “experts”…

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The Bee Gees Understood the Winds of Change

The Bee Gees Understood the Winds of Change

First of all, click on the video below and enjoy some Bee Gees music while you read this.  You’ll get the connection.   As I wrote about in my last post, renewable energy is blowing away fossil fuels.  It’s not only a prediction any more.  It’s reality.   “Renewable energy beat coal for generating electricity for the first quarter of…

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The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowing In The Wind (Credit to Bob Dylan)

The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowing In The Wind (Credit to Bob Dylan)

The winds of change are blowing.   I’ve alerted you too many times to count that the energy industry is changing rapidly and is nearing a tipping point.  Actually, given the current situation, may have been pushed permanently beyond the tipping point and into a new reality.   Here’s some more evidence of how the rapidly evolving future is currently…

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Could Soaring Flood Insurance Premiums Trigger a New Mortgage Crisis?

Could Soaring Flood Insurance Premiums Trigger a New Mortgage Crisis?

As if we don’t have enough to be stressed about, we are facing “The Perfect Storm”.  For those who read the book or saw the movie, you know that this is when three separate storm fronts crash together creating complete chaos.  And that’s what we are now facing: The Corona Virus, Climate Chaos and a completely inept government that has…

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Could Thawing Permafrost Doom the Planet?

Could Thawing Permafrost Doom the Planet?

I’ve over the years, and recently also, mentioned positive feedback loops.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_feedback)  Certainly the melting of the Arctic, Antarctic and Greenland ice is one that is very frightening.  But there is another one that has been extremely worrisome to me and which has gotten little public attention but could be the dagger in the heart to being able to stop runaway climate…

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Is the Coronavirus Pandemic Sending Us a Wake Up Call on Climate???

Is the Coronavirus Pandemic Sending Us a Wake Up Call on Climate???

The world around us is changing fast.  And as much change as we’ve seen in the last week, especially since Wednesday, it’s going to accelerate and it’s hard to imagine what life will be like a week from now much less in a month.  I hope you are taking this pandemic extremely seriously and staying home and isolated.  Even if…

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