A great new story in PV Magazine takes an in-depth look at legislative leadership from Rep. Debbie Dingell and Sens. Ed Markey and Chris Van Hollen to create a National Climate Bank. “The arrival of a National Climate Bank would be a boon for developers, installers, contractors and panel manufacturers because it would pry open…
How you say it matters
By Reed Hundt. The quote below from a recent NYT op ed explores the language used to talk about political candidates, but it also teaches how to talk about climate change. First, the words: “Our studies found that the degree of support for Scott Miller [the hypothetical candidate] wasn’t much affected by whether his policy…
Right Goal, Wrong Start
By Reed Hundt. As this plan provides, all transportation must be electric powered. In time. But the right first step is to replace gas miles with electric miles. Not cars- miles. That means step one is to get all shared vehicles to be electric. Why? Because they are driven seven to ten times as many…
Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against
From scientists in Nature magazine: “In our view, the consideration of tipping points helps to define that we are in a climate emergency and strengthens this year’s chorus of calls for urgent climate action — from schoolchildren to scientists, cities and countries.” See the full article for more on how scientists understand tipping points, and…
Where’s the money going to come from?
By Reed Hundt The National Climate Bank Act of 2019 calls for a deposit of $35 billion into coffers of a nonprofit dedicated to all the investment categories necessary to win the war against climate catastrophe. Some say, okay fine but where is the money going to come from? The question is meant to be…
Fahrenheit
The following post is reblogged from Eschaton. When I am your benevolent dictator, I will turn everything into metric. I will make it illegal to even say the words “pint” or “miles.” Punishable by death. But… we keep Fahrenheit. Celsius is dumb and bad. Science can keep Celsius. For the rest of us, Fahrenheit is…