Category: Climate Change

What About Today?

Why are we so worried about what the world will look like in 2050? In that year, this pundit will be 102 years old and most likely dead.  While not denying that our stewardship of the planet is an obligation, perhaps our focus is misplaced.  Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change has become the mantra

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Crippling Green

“Yes, hope is a strange thing.  Peace at last.  But at what price?” — Khaled Hosseini Great Societies have been lost in the past–a number of times.  There is no reason to believe our current crop is immune! Ariel Durant, the co-author of the 11 volume tome, The Story of Civilization is credited with, “A great

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Reports of Fossil Fuels Demise Premature? – Renewables Remain Marginalized?

Who would have thought that in the summer with temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit the wind would stop blowing. According to NOAA, “The main cause of wind is a little surprising.  It’s actually temperature.  More specifically, it’s differences in temperature between different areas.”  With a major Atmospheric High Pressure parked over a large geographic area,

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Innovation: The Key to the Global Future

Henry Ford, the Founder of Ford Motor Company is famously attributed to this statement.  “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”  In other words, most of us think linearly. One wonders if this line of reasoning is the best way during the current situation.  Perhaps, non-linear mindsets are

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