The turn-around of U.S. fossil fuel energy fortunes has been stunning over the past fifteen years. From a general (not universal, but general) understanding that the U.S. had passed peak natural gas and that the globe was facing eminent peak oil, the general (not universal, but general) perspective is that U.S. natural gas supplies are […]
Is the U.S. Energy & Gas Boom Actually a Bust (in the making)?
January 18th, 2019 · Comments Off on Is the U.S. Energy & Gas Boom Actually a Bust (in the making)?
Tags: climate change · oil
Make Greening School Infrastructure Core to Green New Deal
January 18th, 2019 · Comments Off on Make Greening School Infrastructure Core to Green New Deal
Seeking to think through Green New Deal, the following seem to be the fundamental core principles and objectives. To create a plan (actually, an adopted actionable program) that will Reduce humanity’s risks from and impacts on climate change (in accord with climate science) and Strengthen society (improve economic performance, reduce economic and other disparities, address […]
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Visualizing temperature records [twice as many hot as cold records]
January 18th, 2019 · Comments Off on Visualizing temperature records [twice as many hot as cold records]
The video below provides a year’s worth of high and low temperature records globally. In 2018, across all these sites, there was about a two-to-one skewing of high vs cold temperature records. Writ large, over time, there should be a rough balance between these. With humanity’s thumb on the scales, with a warming climate, monitoring […]
Tags: climate change