One problem with the climate change debate is the difficulty of separating local short-term weather with global long-term climate (see: Drudge). When it’s cool in the summer, it’s awfully hard to convince people that there’s global warming.
If you live in the Eastern United States, you’ve noticed much lower temperatures than a typical summer. If you [...]
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It may not feel warmer but it is
Posted in Environment, News, Science, tagged climate, climate change, cold summer, global warming, weather on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Electric Kool-Aid
Posted in Environment, Politics, tagged clean energy, Environment, Obama, Politics, smart electric grid on May 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Most people seem convinced that the electric car is the future. The problem, however, with any non-gasoline-based car system is that our car-gasoline infrastructures have evolved together over time, becoming fully symbiotic. There are 121,446 gas stations in America [link], and any change made to the cars will have to coincide with a change in [...]