The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
David Roberts' report is about the best I have read on the issue of the existing grid and the transition to noncarbon energy. It raises most of the major relevant issues. See the SR archive for the previous piece referenced.
Why wind and solar power are such a challenge for energy grids
Lifecycle of Emergence: Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale
By Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze
Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn’t change one person at a time. It changes as networks of relationships form among people who discover they share a common cause and vision of what’s possible. This is good news for those of us intent on changing the world and creating a positive future. Rather than worry about critical mass, our work is to foster critical connections.
Continue reading “Kosmos: Lifecycle of Emergence — Happens FAST!”
Below is an informative presentation (in pdf format) entitled the State of the U.S. Climate Debate. It has been produced by Professor Judith Curry of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology and will shortly be presented to the House of Lords in the UK Parliament. The pdf file includes her slides with her presentation notes beneath each slide (the original PPT file can be downloaded from this link).
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: Judith Curry on Global Warming Debate and Politics Over Science”
Humans will be extinct in 100 years says eminent scientist
This report has good news. Glyphosate is the modern DDT — whose lingering presence now decades later it should be noted is still killing people. Like DDT it has been hugely profitable, but grotesquely destructive, not only as intended, but in other ways as well. Now a gathering resistance driven from the bottom up challenges this corporate greed, and is succeeding.
Monsanto Herbicide Faces Global Fallout After World Health Organization Labels It a Probable Carcinogen
Americans Have Lost Confidence … in Everything
It's not just Congress and the economy that have Americans concerned these days.
It seems I am not the only person talking about a real estate collapse because of drought. Although it is a bit flippant, I agree with most of this essay, and believe this is going to be a huge issue within the next five years.
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And just like that, the property values of millions of dollars worth of homes belonging to 15,000 residents nosedives toward zero.
