News — climate change

The more utilities spend on large projects, the more they get. In Colorado, Xcel energy has opposed renewable energy goals, more efficient street lights, a local Boulder city municipal electric utility,  etc. over the years. Utility companies want to install centralized wind and solar that they own and that sometimes costs over twice the amount it would if they were to buy the energy from a lower priced bidder, instead of building and operating  it themselves

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Texas and the EPA refused NASA  air sampling after the  flooding of Houston's oil refineries and chemical plants. 

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Her expressions, articulation, and poetic language inspires!

at IPCC conference    

the "Our house is on fire"  speech 

the Ted talk in Sweden about human survival being a black or white issue, about species extinctions, and about social justice

The air was full of smoke from forest fires here in Boulder and across the west. This summer there were 4 fires over 100,000 acres at once in the US: the Ranch Fire (over 600 square miles in N. CA), the Carr Fire in N. CA, the South Sugarloaf Fire in N. NV, and the Spring Creek Fire in S. CO. Also, there were over 500 fires in British Columbia. Sweden had forest fires above the Arctic Circle. 90 people died in forest fires during an extreme heat wave in Greece. California state agencies said that maximum daily temperatures could rise by 8.8 degrees by 2100, and 2/3 of beaches in CA would be lost to sea level rise by 2100. And Trump is trying to relax Obama's Clean Power Plan, which limits the greenhouse gases from coal power plants. Trump's plan would let states set theirweak limits, so it would increase the emissions of greenhouse gases. Also, there would be 1400 more deaths per year from pollution from power plants. from "Fire Alarm", by Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, Sept 10,2018

It appears that melted Antartica glacier fresh water is creating a top layer of less dense cold water, preventing the usual sinking of cold dense salt water, which usually stores heat and CO2 deep into the depths of the ocean. The lack of the usual sinking of the dense cold salt water may weaken ocean currents too, as seems to be happening in the northern hemisphere off of Greenland and Iceland.

/www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/04/23/one-of-the-most-worrisome-predictions-about-climate-change-may-be-coming-true/?utm_term=.70066f4a7367

Editorial cartoonist Toles says people have to demand action, not just support action. And that the media must quit just pretending there are two sides to the issue of climate change. And politicians must quit being bought off.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/04/24/which-tips-first-runaway-climate-change-or-public-demand-for-action/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.afb137d39c3b

"Can Dirt Save the Earth?" by Velasquez-Manoff, 4-18-18

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