The good news is that the world has begun to use analytics to quantify the damage that is occurring due to climate change. Here’s a report noted in Bloomberg News that sets the cost at $1.2 trillion annually, or about …
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Thoughts from the 2012 Renewable Energy Finance Forum
It was great to be in San Francisco for another extremely successful meeting of the Renewable Energy Finance Forum, an occasion that gave me the opportunity to chat with Dennis McGinn (holding the book in the photo to the left). Dennis …
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Global Climate Change – Debunking Myths
A reader just sent me this terrific handbook for debunking myths. Though it applies to myths of any sort, the examples it provides pertain to global climate change. What an interesting coincidence that it was just yesterday that I came …
PBS’s “The News Hour” Takes On Climate Change, Draws Fire
PBS’s nightly show “The News Hour” drew vociferous attack for their recent 10-minute segment on climate change. At issue was their “balanced” program that included roughly equal time for the 97% – 98% of climate scientists who support the theory …
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Film Project: Energy and Ethics
2GreenEnergy co-founder George Alger and I are in the process of making a five-minute video on “Ethics and Energy” to be entered in a contest later in the year. As we currently contemplate the project, the video will feature me …
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Global Climate Change — Framing the Conversation
I had a chat with a friend the other day on the likely future for humankind vis-à-vis global climate change. He asked, “What do you think it will take, Craig, for us to muster the will to do something? If …
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Sharing Our Beliefs on Global Warming, Environmentalism
I had a talk last night with a gentleman in Atlanta who claims to finance clean energy deals in a very straightforward fashion. We talked for about half an hour about the criteria he and his team use, the structure …
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Global Climate Change – Energy Policy's Science and Politics
Joe Romm’s ClimateProgress.org has done a wonderful job of presenting the evolving science and politics of global climate change, including this article published a few months ago, when one of the few remaining credible deniers jumped ship and got on …
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Sane Energy Policy Requires Compromise
Of all the byproducts of our gross extravagance in energy consumption over the last half century, the one that could be most toxic to all of us is the way it has turned brother against brother with regard to environmentalism. …
Biomass Waste-To-Energy Solutions in France
Late last night I was on a Skype call with a friend, a clean energy aficionado based in Central France. He went on at length about some of the projects he’s pursuing, several of which are various types of pyrolysis …
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