Temperature Rise Predictions for Global Warming

Everywhere you look, it is being said that we must do this or do that to keep the predicted temperature rise within the acceptable 2.5 Degrees Fahrenheit. This frustrates me to no end.

In BBC's Documentary Global Dimming, a scientist (climatologist) in the midwest found out that right after 9/11, when the planes were grounded for 3 days, the temperature spike almost 3 degrees Fahrenheit. We're already over the limit, folks.

What he proved was that the chem trails from the airplanes are actually protecting us from the worst of global warming. What is scary is what will happen when the oil runs out. Even coal plants use oil to produce electricity.

As an advocate of solar energy, this is very frustrating to me. Watching the US Government, my government, bail out everything under the sun and then not give solar energy the subsidies needed to literally save our collective skins is like waving a red flag to a bull to any environmentalist. Or should be.

So where's the march on the government? Where's the march on the economy? Where's the Green Jobs and Renewable Energy Stimulus for each of our communities? Did it go to the "Big Businesses" again? And, yes, I classify state governments as "Big Business" as most are surely and heavily influenced by those "Big Businesses." Or shall we just wait for the epic pandemonium that will beset us once we run out of oil.

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Climate Change

I don't really get involved with the debates over this report or that. I know what I see before me when I see the fumes from the cars that are tangible in the air. I hear the noise from the high voltage transmission lines for the electrical grid. And I feel the heat from so much asphalt for roads and parking lots. I wonder if we will set our atmosphere on fire. I disagree with the way our American government supports the automobile makers yet won't subsidize solar energy - with solar parking lots at select, semi-permanent locations such as churches, schools, large malls (of which we Americans have plenty) we no longer need the high voltage lines (to me they are SO dangerous! I mean, gesh, we've already proved that living near them causes cancer, etc, yet they just seem to be getting bigger with more volts). Solar parking lots also provide an infrastructure for charging electric vehicles - at a time that is plausible and won't really affect the power supply on the grid (everyone is so worried about everybody charging up their EVs at night - brownouts, etc, well just charge them at work while the sun's shining!). Funny how the simplest solutions that provide the most positive outcomes (community-sustained and secure electricity, jobs, infrastructure for a much-needed change in our transportation system) get buried - and by whom? Profit-mongers (for lack of a kinder term). I was demonstrating at a sustainability conference at our state's capital about a year and a half ago, just showing my positive, glowing support for the cause, and one lady flat out told me, "I don't care how they do business" (talking about Duke Energy and the coal plants they were discussing) "as long as they get me my money." Whatever gives these companies the most profit is how they do business. You see it all over the planet now. At times I am so ashamed to be an American - and this new president says, "We won't apologize for our lifestyle." Over-consumption and grandiosity is not why our forefathers founded this country, and it’s not a lifestyle to which I subscribe. I am just grateful that there are many small movements that are gathering force within the communities of our nation. Community spirit is reborn and there are groups working together making lifestyle changes within the community. It is so inspirational, now, to walk about the streets, smiling at neighbors, playing board games at the coffeehouse, or just kicking back being comfortable amongst friends - much like some parts of Europe I visited when stationed in England back in the 1980s. Refreshing, it is. If I've somewhat lost hope in America as a nation, at least it is reborn within the people themselves - those of us who love life and live keeping thoughts of stewardship and sustainability in mind - and just be. Let's hope that we make that necessary climate shift within the time left to us to change the predicted outcome of this global crisis.