08 Feb
The O’Leary: Sanders/O’Malley 2016!
Her goal would be to reach 33 percent of clean energy in the electric grid by 2027, up from 16 percent today. “Secretary Clinton’s plan can most kindly be summed up as a voluntary solar panel plan for residences,” O’Malley told me. “Under her plan the planet would literally burn up. Her approach is much more incremental.”
Get that? A voluntary home solar plan, using free market principles to allow the invisible hand of the market to save the planet.
This is the hallmark of corporatist incremental suicide. We cannot possibly do what needs to be done because it doesn’t fit within the arena of possibilities that are allowed under the consensus of corporate interests.
meanwhile: new research published in the Journal Nature on January 18, 2016 says
The Amount of Heat Absorbed by the World’s Oceans has DOUBLED since 1997
We tend to think of global warming as an overall upward trend in air temperature — but that’s simply the most immediate way in which we experience it. From a scientific perspective, it is perhaps best understood as an energy imbalance between the Earth and space, with less heat escaping and more being retained within the planet’s system.
In this sense, the new study represents a strong confirmation of this overall energy-balance shift. If large volumes of heat are trapped on Earth because of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, then inevitably, the majority of that heat must be stored in the oceans, simply because of their greater ability to retain such energy.
“The heat capacity of the Earth’s entire atmosphere is equaled by the top 3.5 meters [11 feet] of the ocean,” explains a fact sheet released by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to accompany the new study.
“The overall global ocean heat uptake is a result, we know, of the increasing greenhouse gases,” Gleckler said.
What this shows is that the effect of global warming has doubled in the last 19 years. This rate of warming is far below what was expected only 7 years ago. We will see another doubling of the total heat content of the world’s oceans in the next 12 years.
We have already locked in over 2C of globally averaged warming at TODAY’S GREENHOUSE GAS LEVELS.
the only way that we will have a world that is survivable for our children is if we move toward a World War II style total societal mobilization, including government supplied fossil fuel free manufacturing zones in regions throughout the U.S. to build the necessary infrastructure and equipment to produce an 85% reduction of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. This has to be ACCOMPLISHED in the next 20 years.
So I have a question for all you Hillary supporters.
Do you still think that an incremental path toward progress is the best path to choose?
Like this:
Like Loading...
This entry was posted
on Monday, February 8th, 2016 at 12:01 pm and is filed under Politics, Presidential Election.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Both comments and pings are currently closed.
