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You read it a lot these days. The climate isn't warming; it's cooling. 1998 and 2005 were super hot years. It has cooled down some since then. The deniers sieze on the slightest blip in weather data and call it a trend. One has to look at a lot more data to spot a trend...
The public is becomming cool to warming...global that is. What's going on? As evidence grows and glaciers melt what's not to believe? There has always been the deniers, and as the ocean closes over their heads and the sea shore disappears, they will continue to deney global warmiing. They come up with all kinds of "scientific" appearing data to prove their point. Still the ice melts and the oceans rise...
OK, I bit on the Hoax about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce suddenly seeing the light and going green. The hoax did, however bring to light the fact that not only did they not change their stripes, but in the past quater of this year they spent $300,000 lobbying Congress to block any kind of plan to limit or reduce greenhouse emissions. What the Chamber doesn't yet get is that going grreen is actually good for business. Many companies are getting it. Maybe what we need is a parallel organization called the U.S. Green Chamber of Commerce, or maybe the Chamber of Green Business Practices.
On September 30 a startling story came from Reuters News Service. Electric power companies were bailing out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of their stance on the energy bill being debated in Congress. I looked for a star in the east. There was one shining brightly just above the mountains east of my home in the Catalina Mountains. There was finally some hope for the climate bill before Congress. I whipped out my super high-powered binoculars to take a look. My hopes were suddenly dashed. That bright star turned out to be Jupiter, not the star announcing a new era in renewable energy and clean air. It was all a hoax...
A friend sent me a video this week of the new French high speed train just put into service. It travels the rails at a breathtaking 357 mph. All it lacked was wings to fly. I rode Spain’s first high speed train back in the 1990s just after the close of Expo 92. It traveled between Madrid and Seville. If my memory serves me, I remember its top speed was in the order or 200 mph. It was smooth, comfortable, and if you were in first class you could have a nice breakfast en route. Why is the rest of the world way ahead of the U.S. in the development of high-speed rail travel?...
An $8 million study, carried out in Wisconsin by We Energies at Milwaukee’s Pleasant Prairie Power Plant, has proclaimed success in capturing carbon from the plant’s smokestacks. It is good news, never mind that the carbon was released back into the air after it was captured. Why on earth would they do that?...
If you believe the coal industries, coal can be cleaned up and the waste spewing out of the smoke stack rendered harmless. I have a bridge to nowhere I'd like to sell you if you buy that one. If you watched 60 Minutes on Sunday, October 4th you will never buy their propaganda again. In Running on Empty, in Chapter 15, I talked about the exact same environmental disaster that happened in Kingston, Tennessee. On December 22, 2008, a billion gallons of a soup made up of fly ash was dumped on the countryside and into a nearby river leaving a mess 100 times worse than the Exxon Valdez disaster. Some 45 homes were either destroyed or made uninhabital. Even those homes along the river that were not actually touched by the sludge were made unfit to live in...
The e-Book version is the same as the paperback version except the illustrations are in color in the e-book. Use as an immediately accessible electronic form of the handbook once you have purchased it. Chapters may also be downloaded separately as a handy reference, especially the energy and money saving tips in Chapter 20.
