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Editor’s note: As times, when especially valuable and appropriate, EnergySmart will feature guest blog posts.  Considering the thunderstorm over data errors on temperature data, I planned to write something.  But, fellow Energize America team member Chapter 1 wrote a tremendous piece which merits reading. This is a slightly edited version of his significant contribution to the discussion.  … “The […]

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Japan is going back to the future, with a new approach to amusement park rides that might transition into the post Peak Oil world. Thanks to Treehugger for the tipper about Japan’s pedal-powered roller coaster.

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Jim Hansen has clearly determined that the time to stay silent has long past. That urgency demands urgent voices. That he must — and other scientists — should speak out forcefully. Hansen is not just speaking forcefully, he is also speaking eloquently.  This past week, at a Re-Energize America event, Hansen gave a speech that […]

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Al Gore likes to quote Winston Churchill that we “are entering a time of consequences” as a rallying call to action.  Well, Gore probably agrees, we are not entering … we are in.  And, well, global weather patterns are providing a reminder as are lead scientists. Jim Hansen has a new article out which concludes: […]

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In Collapse Is Latest Fight for Coal’s Best Friend, the Washington Post gave front-page prominence to Robert Murray, CEO of Murray Energy which co-owns the Crandall Canyon mine where rescue workers desperately seek to rescue the trapped miners. Murray has coal in his blood and has worked his way up the ladder to be CEO […]

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Last night, writing about the Bizaare Weather … around the Globe, I emphasized a line from Mike Tidwell, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, that there is Just No Normal Weather Anymore, Anywhere. Well, perhaps I should have opened the Washington Post yesterday, which had the story Across Globe, Extremes of Heat and Rain.  This points to […]

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Grist is running a series on the 2008 Presidential candidates and the environment.  They are taking a look at their positions on environmental issues, with a special focus on climate and energy. How Green is Your Candidate?

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There is Just No Normal Weather Anymore, Anywhere. Global Warming is changing the Earth around us, almost in real time.  It is not the difference between the weather when I was a child (snow to my chest and all that), but between when I bought my home a decade ago and today. And, this is […]

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Canary in a coal mine is an oft-used metaphor when it comes to Global Warming and there are (sadly) many canaries out there.  Dying reefs are a prominent canary — not just for for GW, but also CO2 pollution causing increasing acidification of the oceans. We’ve tried many remediation techniques around the globe, from dumping concrete blocks and […]

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Global Warming is a massive challenge. It requires serious commitment for change toward a better tomorrow, change from government and from individuals.  Government action can help drive (and facilitate) individual action.  And, well, individual action — individuals acting in concert — can help drive government action. That second, individuals combining to drive a government response, is […]

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