And what was interesting was how. Instead of just dutifully repeating the old hits, his message on warming has changed. It’s now defiant and optimistic: The old energy system is doomed, as he wrote in Rolling Stone last summer. The falling cost of solar panels will ultimately sabotage fossil fuels. “The forward journey for human civilization will be difficult and dangerous, but it is now clear that we will ultimately prevail.”
This message is poison to the Exxons of the world; it’s a clever undercutting of their argument that burning ever more coal and gas and oil is inevitable, that the world has no choice. It’s a message delivered at the highest levels (Gore is always there in places like Davos where the 1% have to listen) and at the broadest: Live Earth, set for June 18, will be more about harmony than dissonance, but it will reach wide swaths of the planet, reinforcing the message that change is coming and that it’s cool.
“This first DSCOVR image of our planet demonstrates the unique and important benefits of Earth observation from space,” said NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden.
“As a former astronaut who’s been privileged to view the Earth from orbit, I want everyone to be able to see and appreciate our planet as an integrated, interacting system. DSCOVR’s observations of Earth, as well as its measurements and early warnings of space weather events caused by the sun, will help every person to monitor the ever-changing Earth, and to understand how our planet fits into its neighborhood in the solar system.
The satellite was launched in February and recently reached its planned orbit at the first Lagrange point or L1, about one million miles from Earth toward the sun. It’s from that unique vantage point that the EPIC instrument is acquiring science quality images of the entire sunlit face of Earth. Data from EPIC will be used to measure ozone and aerosol levels in Earth’s atmosphere, cloud height, vegetation properties and the ultraviolet reflectivity of Earth. NASA will use this data for a number of Earth science applications, including dust and volcanic ash maps of the entire planet...
AdamB wrote:Plantie, you are suggesting....dare I even say it?.....RESULTS!!! ACHIEVEMENT!!! What a..novel... But I'm right with you on the demanding results rather than meaningless documents signed by lying political bobbleheads all spouting hopium.
Squilliam wrote:Why should anyone care what Al Gore thinks? He's as corrupt as the rest of them.
ROCKMAN wrote:Just forced myself to read the entire "plan" to make sure I understood what was being proposed. As I suspected no "plan" to decarbonize energy is offered. What is proposed is a PROCESS that might be utilized to decarbonize energy.
But no where in the link is there any method offered to either convince or force any country to apply any portion of the process.
dohboi wrote:Thanks to the Repubs and their equivalents in UK and elsewhere, this is no chance of this becoming widely adopted by anglophone countries, at least.
dohboi wrote:Thanks to the Repubs and their equivalents in UK and elsewhere, this is no chance of this becoming widely adopted by anglophone countries, at least.
Revi wrote:We're going to blow right by the 2 degrees mark without even slowing down. The only way to stop this juggernaut is some kind of a global financial collapse, or even maybe peak oil.
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