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Per Robert Reich (on Facebook):
Here's the scale and level of ambition we should be aiming for this election year and into the future: rescuing the environment and also providing millions of good new jobs.
Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and his team of experts show conclusively that America could generate 80 to 85 percent of its power from sun, wind, and water by 2030, and 100 percent by 2050. The Stanford team has offered similar plans for 139 nations around the world.
This would be enough to slow global warming. If we move quickly enough to meet the goal of 80 percent clean power by 2030, the world’s carbon dioxide levels would fall below the relative safety of 350 parts per million by the end of the century. The planet would stop heating up, or at least the pace of that heating would slow substantially. We’d endure lots of damage in the meantime, but not the civilization-scale destruction we currently face.
To make the plan work, we’d need to turn out thousands of acres of solar panels, wind turbines the length of football fields, and millions of electric cars and buses. The effort would create enough jobs for millions of Americans.
Here's the real way to make America great again. What's stopping us? Regressive Republicans and defeatist Democrats.
"Recorded" key word in your statement. Do you ever get tired of starting the same old sky is falling BS?
Umm...not everywhere.
I hope this is realized... seriously. I know people have the capacity to make it happen.Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and his team of experts show conclusively that America could generate 80 to 85 percent of its power from sun, wind, and water by 2030, and 100 percent by 2050. The Stanford team has offered similar plans for 139 nations around the world.
Q: Does Anyone Care that July Was the Hottest Month in Recorded History?
A: No.
Well.....then it's that extra hour of daylight caused by Daylight Savings Time.
Our own fault, really - we should have known long ago what a whole extra hour of sunshine was going to do.
That;s just July being July. Always trying to one-up the other months.
Yes.I hope this is realized... seriously. I know people have the capacity to make it happen.
Are people who are fully employed dumber or something? How does that work?No.
If they do, they're probably underemployed.
Yes July was hot but August is hotter from what I can tell. It was 90 degrees last night here (NYC) at midnight. What is seemingly getting worse and worse is the amount of humidity. Im not sure how that is occurring but I am sure that I can prove it is getting worse -
I agree with most of what you said except this part.From the climate perspective, it can literally mean leaving a broken planet to people many generations out: widespread disruption in food supplies, mass migrations on a scale we've never seen. Only it certainly won't affect any of us directly, and may be too slow acting to affect our grandkids.
I don't think any of us will be surprised if August tops July.Yes July was hot but August is hotter from what I can tell. It was 90 degrees last night here (NYC) at midnight. What is seemingly getting worse and worse is the amount of humidity. Im not sure how that is occurring but I am sure that I can prove it is getting worse -
Didn't we already pass "the tipping point of no return" a couple of years ago?
For major land-ice losses and well over 6 ft of sea level rise....most likely.
Is that a rational that we should ignore the problem? No. Because business as usual means it will only get much much worse.
And yet Iowa has had a mild summer. Yes, the sky is falling.
Good grief.And yet Iowa has had a mild summer. Yes, the sky is falling.
Oh by the way, India is adding 1 coal mine per week, and is building coal fired power plants to provide electricity for 400M people that don't have it. They are willing to not do this as long as we give them 2.5 Trillion dollars! Kind of shows me that GW is a scam. Follow the money!
We fixed air conditioning. Thanks Obama!When the majority of academics and wannabe intellects who are shitting themselves in regards to climate change finally quit posting the same old stuff on message boards and actually do something constructive to address their concerns, I'll begin to give more than zero shits.
And yet Iowa has had a mild summer.
For major land-ice losses and well over 6 ft of sea level rise....most likely.
Is that a rational that we should ignore the problem? No. Because business as usual means it will only get much much worse.