Solar has potential to meet C-nuetral challenge
Solar with a sprinkling of nuclear ~ What's realistic? This 2006 Sandia Labs paper focuses on world energy needs and suggests ways to become carbon neutral. Sandia scientists have worked extensively on nuclear and solar energy research. Experts within and outside of...
Hot Air News Roundup January 17, 2019
Something to keep in mind… we must think and act now ... in ways that take into account ... the possibility that we will not be able to do ... the kinds of interventions in the future ... that we will be able to do now . Rupert Read . Solar with a sprinkling of...
Hot Air News Roundup January 10, 2019
Something to keep in mind… Our current efforts for climate mitigation are proof of concept… nothing more… Sorry, but CO2 continues to climb, in fact is accelerating.… Solar and wind contribution are in the very small percentages.… We are very close to doing nothing,...
Hot Air News Roundup January 3, 2019
Something to keep in mind… the international focus on fossil fuels has overshadowed … the most powerful and cost-efficient … the world has yet seen: forests … intact forests … are capable of storing … the equivalent of the carbon dioxide emissions … of entire...
Hot Air News Roundup December 27, 2018
Something to keep in mind… Acts of sustained mass civil disobedience. … That’s all we have left. … The democratic party is not going to save us. … Especially, as they continue to take Wall Street money … and refuse to confront the social inequalities … that is the...
Hot Air News Roundup December 20, 2018
Something to keep in mind… Continued warming … of the Arctic … atmosphere and ocean … is driving broad change in the environmental system … in predicted and, also, in unexpected ways. … Arctic Report Card The Arctic Report Card has been issued annually since 2006. It...
Hot Air News Roundup December 13, 2018
Something to keep in mind… So we have not come here to beg the world leaders to care for our future. They have ignored us in the past and they will ignore us again. … We have come here to let them know that change is coming whether they like it or not Greta Thunberg...
Unhinged GDP Growth
Unhinged GDP Growth Could Actually Destroy the Economy, Economists Find The Intercept December 5, 2018 As COP24 gets underway in Poland, the Institute for New Economic Thinking has released two working papers from prominent economists backing up the increasingly dire...
Hot Air News Roundup December 6, 2018
Something to keep in mind… The rapid degradation of the Canadian boreal forest threatens to have a global impact exacerbating the effects of climate change ... In just 20 years, an area nearly the size of Ohio has been cut with a huge portion of this harvested...
Politics November 30, 2018
Bernie and Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal faces a wall of Republican climate change deniers Environmental groups dropped a record-breaking $80 million-plus in the midterms earlier this month, and that has produced a new breed of progressive Democrats itching to pass a...