My wife and I had dinner last night with fine friends, a married couple who never disappoint us with their conversation; they’re both extremely well-rounded and intelligent people who care deeply about the plight of their fellow travelers here on …
Tag: ocean acidification
Harvard University’s Report on the True Costs of Burning Coal
Here’s a piece to which I’ve referred a few times: Harvard’s report suggesting the cost of externalities of burning coal in the U.S. is roughly half a trillion dollars annually. Of course, these are the easily quantifiable cost items, like …
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Tagged with: climate refugees, droughts, environment, externalities of burning coal, externalities of fossil fuels, food and water shortages, fossil fuels, global climate change, global warming, Harvard University, long-term environmental damage, loss of biodiversity, lung disease, ocean acidification
When Does the Future Begin for Renewable Energy?
Duke Brooks asks: Renewable/green energy without question is the future; the question is: When, exactly, does that future begin? Here are a few ways I would choose to frame this: The vast majority of our scientists tell us that climate …
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Future of Transportation Should Be "Driven" By Sustainability
At the risk of appearing immodest, I put together a terrific meeting this morning involving 2GreenEnergy’s transportation visionary Dan Sturges and some key industry players. I hung on every word, and really learned a lot. I noted after we had …
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Fiddling While Rome Burns
Have you ever had the thought that our society is deliberately distracted, confused, and sidetracked from the real issues that matter, focused instead on hot-button concepts, perhaps gay marriage? It’s fairly clear that the survival of mankind and all life …
Tagged with: desertification, farm lands becoming deserts, Fiddling While Rome Burns, gay marriage, global climate change, global warming, ocean acidification, oil companies, rain forests disappearing, sea levels rising, sustainable practices in energy, sustainable practices in food, sustainable practices in water
Energy Policy’s Difficult Choices
I recently wrote a post critical of radical environmentalists who take rigid positions and refuse to make the tough choices that confront us all in the real world. In particular, I stand in disagreement with people’s unwillingness to exile the …
PBS’s “Electric Nation”
The PBS special “Electric Nation” is a reasonably fair-minded and certainly non-hysterical treatment of the various modes of how we in the U.S. generate electricity. Personally, had I written the show, I would have been quite a bit more hysterical, …
Energy Consumption, Economics, and Environmentalism
To simplify where we are as a civilization and where we’re going with respect to energy consumption, economics, and environmentalism, it’s useful to postulate three broad “plans”: Plan A: We continue on our current course. We ignore the fact that our …
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The U.S. Has a Responsibility At This Point In History
Bill Moore, editor of EVWorld.com has written a splendid article on the failure of certain of the early electric vehicle companies, in which he points out: Breaking into the automotive business can be relatively easy; making a success of it …
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Tagged with: alternative energy, burgeoning urban/consumer populations globally, clean energy, countless dead and wounded, crippling debt, ecological disasters, global climate change, global warming, green energy, healthcare, lung disease, national security, ocean acidification, peak oil, Renewable Energy, responsibility at this time and place in history, skyrocketing debt, terrorism, – war we can't afford
Ocean Acidification
Global climate change deniers wishing to argue their position often point out the oceans, enormous as they are, act as huge “carbon dioxide sinks.” It is true, of course, that the oceans absorb about 30% of the atmospheric CO2 we …
