An Inconvenient Fact

After 16 years without temperature increase, it might be time to discount "Climate Change Models."  During those 16 years, CO2 continued to increase, but that did not result in the projected temperature increase. When observations do not support predictions, the predictions are wrong--not the inverse.

Global Warming--Much To Do About Not Much

Here is a historical temperature representation from a Greenland ice core. Note the rising squiggle on the far right, coming out of the Little Ice Age. That's Global Warming--or much to do about not much--but keep those research grants coming.

During the Medieval Warming, grapes were grown in Britain, but as the weather cooled, the grapes were frozen out and replaced by grains that go into beer and whiskey. This was still several hundred years before corn and potatoes were imported from the New World.

Also, during the Medieval Warming, the Vikings colonized and named Greenland. During the warmth, their diets consisted of 80% from land sources and 20% from ocean. As the cold infested the island, the winters lengthened and their grazing animals became so weak in winter shelter, they had to be manually carried out to be put on pasture. The Viking diet shifted to 20% land sources and 80% ocean. When the cod moved south because of cooling, the Vikings left, froze or starved. In the end, the island was left to the "ugly, little people," as the Vikings called the Inuit. 

The grapes have yet to return to Britain, and the Vikings to Greenland. When Scandinavians revisited Greenland, they found no Viking descendants, so Christianized the Inuit--then left.  The warmth has yet to return, and whether it will or not before the advent of the next ice age is at best questionable.

Geothermal Fumble

Development of California's geothermal potential began in the 1960s, and today produces 4.5% of California's power. After fifty years, might one reasonably expect more since the energy source is free for the taking and plentiful in extent?

There is no shortage of energy in the world; only a shortage of  imagination and leadership in turning it into power.