Climate Change Resists Narrative, Yet the Alphabet Prevails (A to Z): Now O!

January 15, 2023

OBJECTIONS or Limitations to Progress for Tech Solutions! . . >> From an Article by Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker Magazine, November 28, 2022 . . “SEEKING NETZERO” . . . “The gap between wishful thinking and reality is vast. “So observes Vaclav Smil, a professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba. The observation could apply [...]

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Climate Change Resists Narrative, Yet the Alphabet Prevails (A to Z): Now N!

January 14, 2023

“N” = Narratives as Spoken or Written Accounts of Connected Events, Now the Climate Change Emergency Article by Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker Magazine, November 28, 2022 Narratives are socially constructed ‘stories’ that make sense of events,” thereby lending “direction to human action.” So observes a paper published recently in the journal Climatic Change by a [...]

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Climate Change Resists Narrative, Yet the Alphabet Prevails (A to Z): Now M!

January 13, 2023

Math Matters to Climate Crisis ~ Why do small degrees of warming matter? From an Article by Seth Borenstein & Dana Beltaji, Associated Press, November 6, 2022 On a thermometer, a tenth of a degree seems tiny, barely noticeable. But small changes in average temperature can reverberate in a global climate to turn into big [...]

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Climate Change Resists Narrative, Yet the Alphabet Prevails (A to Z): Now L!

January 12, 2023

“L” is for Leapfrogging! India is Overdue to Leap Forward! >> From an Article on Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker Magazine, Nov. 28, 2022 In 1947, the year India gained its independence, telephones were a rarity in the nation; there were fewer than a hundred thousand in the entire country. In the decades [...]

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Climate Change Resists Narrative, Yet the Alphabet Prevails (A to Z): Now K!

January 11, 2023

The Keeling Curve on the National Geographic Society Website The Keeling Curve is a graph that represents the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth’s atmosphere since 1958. The Keeling Curve is named after its creator, Dr. Charles David Keeling (1928 to 2005). Keeling began studying atmospheric carbon dioxide in 1956 by taking air samples [...]

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Climate Change Resists Narrative, Yet the Alphabet Prevails (A to Z): Now J!

January 10, 2023

“J” is for Jobs. Get a Job and Work for Yourself, Your Family & Your Community >> From an Article on Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker Magazine, Nov. 28, 2022 Jobs, jobs, jobs ~ Six years ago, Beta and Form didn’t exist, and CarbiCrete consisted of four men holding meetings at a Starbucks. [...]

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Climate Change Resists Narrative, Yet the Alphabet Prevails (A to Z): Now I!

January 9, 2023

“I” is for Iron, I is for Imagination and Intention and Innovation! Rusty Batteries Could Greatly Improve Grid Energy Storage >>From an Article by John Fialka, E&E News, December 21, 2022 A U.S. company is designing a large battery that it says could help decarbonize the nation’s power sector more cheaply than lithium-ion storage systems [...]

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Climate Change Resists Narrative, Yet the Alphabet Prevails (A to Z): Now H!

January 8, 2023

H is for Hope! Hope for Better Batteries! Hope for the Best! From an Article by Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker Magazine, 11/28/22 “Hope is the pillar that holds up the world,” Pliny the Elder is supposed to have observed. “Hope is the dream of a waking man.” Go looking for hopeful climate stories and they [...]

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Climate Change Resists Narrative, Yet the Alphabet Prevails (A to Z): Now G!

January 7, 2023

Green Concrete ~ Gee! Cement Substitute Without Releasing Carbon Dioxide! Article by Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker Magazine, 11/28/22 “We are doing freeze-and-thaw tests here in this lab,” Mehrdad Mahoutian said. He pried the lid off a plastic container of the sort usually used to store leftovers. Inside was a gray block about the size of [...]

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Climate Change Resists Narrative, Yet the Alphabet Prevails (A to Z): Now F!

January 6, 2023

OMG! Opening Public Lands to Drilling & Fracking Without Restraint! >>> Technical Article on Fracking by Randi Pokladnik, Submitted January 1, 2023 The Republican dominated Ohio Senate and House recently passed the Amended HB 507 bill. It now awaits a signature from Gov. DeWine who can veto the bill or allow it to go into [...]

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