Just because you win an Oscar doesn’t mean you’re right – even if you’re a true “believer”. In this last of 4 videos, myth making is revealed in Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” (his book and movie). He runs fast and loose with the Vostok CO2 vs. Temp data (doesn’t everybody?!!). He projects a fantastic 20 foot rise in sea level by the end of the century when the best guess is 3 feet. There’s more but why spoil the fun.
Continue reading about Climate Change – Parts III & IV – Evolution of Myths
If you try to sort through the clutter of fact and fiction surrounding climate change, much of what you hear and read is all too often seen through the distorted lenses of “believers” and “deniers”. Believers approach climate change with the glazed over ferver of religious zealots. Ever try to have a rational conversation with a true believer? Now there’s an oxymoron. Deniers on the other hand, while they give off an entirely different vibe, are just as vested in their own earnest beliefs that climate change is a fabricated hoax.
Continue reading about Climate Change – Part 1 – The Scientific Debate
Often derided by his lesser known contemporaries who toiled away in scientific obscurity, Carl Sagan was an all too rare breed of scientist – a marketer with the soul of a poet. We could use a few more Carl Sagans to help us see things more clearly. Help us to develop and maintain perspective about [...]
The “tragedy of the commons” articulated by Garrett Hardin in 1968 is now being played out on a planetary scale on our ultimate “commons”, the global climate in which we all live.
Continue reading about Climate Change and Tragedy Of The Commons
Now and then I will post items written by others because they are articulate, visionary and compelling and above all informative and practical. A few years back I had the pleasure of working for David Crane at NRG Energy where we pursued real clean coal development in the Northeast – IGCC with carbon capture and [...]
Continue reading about Putting the Common Sense into Sustainability
One day back in mid 2006, the CEO of the $10 billion energy firm I was working for let it be known that carbon was keeping him up at night. Carbon as in carbon dioxide – CO2 – a notorious member of the greenhouse gases gang. CEOs of other large power companies started making similar [...]
