Check out this 3 part series on Sustainability.
Part 1 talks about “What if they are right?”
Part 2 addresses “How we liver our lives?”
Part 3 takes on “A plan for the interim period?”
Basically, what are we gonna do right here, right now.
These are pretty long articles so sit back with a good late’ and let it rip.
This is a very interesting video/news from MoxNews.
The Exxon Valdez has an oil spill, has a name change, has a name change, has a shipwreck, has a name change, and is now being dismantled/retired. The wreck, by any other name, is still Valdez.
NatGas +/- . . . Not so sure about the Frac’ng story… But hang in there til the end. It is well worth the wait. If it has equal likes and dislikes, then it is probably pretty good!
Richard A. Muller, the last hold out of global warming, has now come out with a book. Once you remove the noise, the level of CO2 matches perfectly with global warming. It is important to know that humans are the cause, probably the primary cause, of global warming. This is good, kind of. “If we cause it, then there’s something we can do about it.” He didn’t think solar variations, volcanic eruptions, el nino, etc., had longer term impacts. “The carbon dioxide curve was right on.”
Muller won the MacArthur Genius Grant 30 years ago. He was the last major skeptic on Global Warming. He just completed major research on global warming funded by the Koch Foundation, a ?conservative? group by the Charles G. Koch family, the oil billionair family. Anyone knowing about the funding source, would have been surprised about the results.
He found last year that Global Warming is real.
He now has determined that human activity seems to be the predominant cause. The rise in CO2 matches perfectly with the rise in temperatures. Correlation is not causation, but the correlation is very strong.
Global economic shock to cut back on CO2 emissions? Energy efficiency. And switch away from coal. He suggests NatGas as immediate switch away from coal. NatGas produces 1/3 the level of CO2 as coal. (I’m not so sure about 1/3, I think it is 33% less CO2 than coal per energy equivolent.)
The big thing is that the controversy of Global warming is dead. It’s a fact. It appears to be perfectly correlated with human factors that generate greenhouse gases (eCO2). So the next debate (or controversy, maybe) is what are we gonna do about it.???
New version of his book:
Federal Appeals Court Ruling Puts Climate Change into Election Debate:
So there is no question. The EPA can, in fact, regulate greenhouse gasses (GHGs).
It gives additional credibility to the science of GHGs=> Global Warming => Not good things for the future.
There are a couple things that this will do. It will elevate the EPA and its regulations in the election world.
It should escalate the attacks on the EPA.
And one would hope that at least COAL would start to lose favor.
It will be interesting to see how this plays forward.
Here’s the AP take on the same court ruling in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Global Carbon “Footprint” by Nation | The Big Picture:
Just in case you had not seen this really cool chart from a year ago…
Here’s the BIG FOOT, big picture of emissions by country. Note that China has now outpaced the US based on pretty much any measure of emissions you might want to consider.
They now burn half the worlds coal, adding on a new coal power plant every few days (about 5 last I heard). India is growing emissions with a vengeance as well.
Within 10 years, there will have to be another foot, or something, simply to show the BRIC countries. Well, maybe not the “B”razil in the BRIC countries but Russia, definitely.
Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming – WSJ.com:
Interesting group who signed off on this.