Today's San Francisco Chronicle ran a front page story on global warming and geoengineering. I was startled to read on the inside page the following quote, "It's now beyond debate that the globe is getting hotter. The ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and extreme weather events like droughts, floods and hurricanes are increasing." And the article made it clear that the warming is caused by burning fossil fuels--"the hundreds of gigatons we've already pumped into the atmosphere have probably locked in a series of life-altering consequences." That's the first time I've seen such an unqualified accurate scientific statement in the Chronicle.
The article as a whole was not bad either--at least it made it clear that geoengineering is risky and not really an alternative to stopping fossil fuels. A full page sidebar to the front page article quoted UC Berkeley scientist Jane Long, "The energy sources we use can't be fossil fuels. It's just that simple and just that hard."
Solar power and electric cars can make it happen.
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