Time to de-carbonize society: Kennedy

"We have enough wind in Montana, North Dakota, and Texas to provide 100 per cent of the energy needs of all North America, even if every North American owned an electric car," he told hundreds packed into a conference room at the 2009 B.C. Land Summit last week.

"We have a government today that is intent on harnessing these new forms of energy..."
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Many have argued that "decarbonizing" society will cost money and jobs but Kennedy argued the opposite is true. He pointed to Iceland as an example. In the 1970s the government of the day decided that it had to stop its dependence on foreign energy, coal and oil, as it was beggaring the country. Within 15 years 90 per cent of its power came from thermal and it was considered one of the richest counties in the world by GDP.

(Since then Iceland's economic status has plummeted after its investments were crushed by the global economic slump).
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Kennedy challenged the audient to stop pigeon-holing environmental issues to just saving tees, or just working toward carbon neutrality. He said the attitude must be global and inclusive - a real challenge as 50 per cent of Americans don't buy into the arguments around global warming.

Telluride symposium [promotes climate fraud]

Ultimately, industrialized meat production requires vast amounts of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels, of course, have caused our nasty problem of global warming.
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For McKibben, as for most of the speakers, a return to the past ways of producing food, with an emphasis on local production, is the only way to move in the future.

When the Correction Becomes the Signal « the Air Vent

SteveM has a post up right now which should make any sane person in a bad mood. Those in charge have corrected another dataset to match models which are corrected to match the dataset.