The stories in the news are coming thick and fast. The glaciers are melting. A chunk of ice the size of Manhattan broke off this week. It could endanger shipping and even off-shore oil rigs. Russia is plagued by wild fires plunging Moscow into dense choking smoke. The same is happening in Portugal. Floods are killing thousands in Pakistan and forcing thousands more to flee their homes. Large parts of the Midwest are suffering a summer long heatwave with temperatures matched by Phoenix and the Sonora Desert. What's going on? It can't be Global Warming, can it?. Last winter was miserably cold.

Today's Article from the New York Times, written by Matthew L Wald, makes the statement that wind energy can replace coal and natural gas for 20 to 30 percent of our electric power needs in the eastern two-thirds of the United States by 2024. He throws in the caveat, however, that it will be expensive. He says we will have to build a new power grid. Guess what, Mr. Wald, we need to rebuild the decrepit old power grid anyway, regardless of what fuel we use. Yes, we will have to battle tooth and nail the deniers and NIMBYs every step of the way, but it has to be done. Mr. Wald, you are no Thomas Friedman...

Thomas Friedman, author of Hot, Flat, and Crowded has it right. His attitude toward global warming deniers makes sense to me. His position is that we should react to events of low probability but with high impact in the same way we react to the low probability of Al-Qaida obtaining an atomic bomb, which would have a very high impact should it happen...

Thomas Friedman predicted in his book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, that the answer to our quest for renewable fuels would come from a thousand inventors in a thousand garages. One such inventor has already come up with a very creative solution. Burning salt water…