Published on Jun 29, 2014: A powerful message on the “truly disruptive” nature of solar energy technologies and the profound changes they portent for energy generation and individual customers … drawn from a range of respected energy experts. Peter Sinclair, notes: Everywhere I go, I’m telling people that we are in a stage very much…
New York Times: Scientist, Candidate and Planet Earth’s Lifeguard Barry Commoner, a founder of modern ecology and one of its most provocative thinkers and mobilizers in making environmentalism a people’s political cause. Wikipedia
We all have our share dependent on our carbon emissions footprints. In the following some real problems and what can be done about it. In focus, cars. Are you driving a car which uses fossil fuel or gas? If you can answer this with yes, then you are actively contributing to climate change and with…
We must overcome short-termism, inconvenient truths and cuts to R&D and find the Brunels of low carbon technology By Tom Delay (The Carbon Trust): Here’s a thought. If necessity is the motherhood of invention how come we are so far away from the wholesale deployment of low carbon energy technologies that can redeem humanity from…
By James Hansen: As I peer through Beijing’s impenetrable smog I feel nauseous. I have long been troubled by the injustice of human – made climate change to our children and grandchildren, which may soon constitute a tragedy of epic proportions. Now I stare in the face of another tragedy. Air pollution from coal kills over…
Thirty years ago Isaac Asimov together with Frederik Pohl explained the need and benefits of taxing carbon dioxide emissions, to address climate change causing pollution. Our Angry Earth: A Ticking Ecological Bomb, (1991) is a non-fiction book and polemic against the effects humankind is having on the environment by the science fiction writers Isaac Asimov…
MSNBC: Summer weather in Sochi, a record-drought in California and a polar vortex. The evidence for climate change is all around us. Bill Nye and Jeffrey Sachs talk about the climate debate and need for energy research. Bill Nye calmly explains climate change to clueless congressperson. @TheScienceGuy (via @Upworthy) http://t.co/JgUn8Spr3r — Todd B (@addictionguy) February…
Published on Feb 19, 2014: Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University, joins Thom Hartmann.
Jan 3, 2011 by The Nation: The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world’s supply of oil runs out?…