Heatwave knocks out the electrical grid of a big portion of the country, temperatures above human survivability and no ac. Major breadbasket regions of the world converted to desert. Superstorms that render major coastal cities uninhabitable. As far as I see it, there are only three scenarios that will meet this bar:ġ. Something so bad that even the climate deniers and trumpites will have no choice but to acknowledge that something is actually different. We need a real, concrete, in-your-face demonstration of the consequences of climate change. Too many people refuse to believe the science any more. This is the sort of thing that needs to happen to us, as a species, in order to propel us to move forward. Isn't it great we put tax money into brain damage for children? Oh, and CFL lights will spread mercury in your home if they break. Even though LEDs cost more I'm buying those instead of CFLs. LEDs are much better but they didn't qualify for the subsidies. I finally connected that one lamp with a CFL to my IR remote problems. It took weeks to figure that out, and made me think I was going mad. The most frustrating part is they interfered with my IR remotes. A great many of them died an early death.
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They took forever to get to full brightness. They weren't some no name lights but they were some of the early versions of CFL. I got a CFL light in a kind of "secret Santa" exchange many years ago, back when CFL was a novelty. Speaking of how bad picking favorites can get, are CFL lights still subsidized? What a steaming pile of crap that was. Stop making it more difficult for people to develop new battery technologies.
It can start with getting our of the way of people working on solutions. A market solution is bringing a lower cost and lower CO2 energy option. You raise his energy costs because the utility is burning natural gas then he might have to shutdown his research.Ī market solution does not come from raising taxes. He said that he would turn off power at the breaker box each night to avoid "vampire loads" from costing him money. If you need to validate your battery for so many kWh in and kWh out then he needs to buy those kWh. I saw a video of a guy talking about the problems of developing new batteries for cars and grid storage. You raise taxes on gasoline for what? To punish people for not buying an EV that they could not buy anyway? Not everyone can scrap their gasoline minivan for a Chevy Bolt if only because there are not enough EVs made to meet current demand for new cars. People know this but what do you expect them to do? They need to go to work, take their children to school, go shopping for food, and so on. Only the most isolated and ignorant do not know that burning gasoline produces CO2 and that CO2 causes global warming. The biggest problem is you assume that this external harm was not internalized. The third problem is that those harmed by CO2 are not going to get any of that money. The second problem is that it's only going to lower CO2 emissions by depressing the economy. The first problem with carbon taxes is getting it through the voters. Fresno, California, could also near its all-time temperature record of 115 degrees on Sunday.īut none of these quite compares to the staggering 130 in Death Valley - 13 degrees above normal.Ĭarbon taxes is not a solution. Las Vegas tied its all-time temperature record of 117 degrees on Saturday. Grand Junction, Colorado, set a new all-time temperature record of 107 on Friday. The heat alerts stretch from northern Washington state down to the Arizona/Mexico border. More than 30 million people in the West are under excessive heat alerts. But they also report that nearly a tenth of all Americans are now facing a hot weekend: "Interestingly, it could happen again Sunday, and perhaps even Monday as well," adds CNN. "Experts need to verify the 130-degree records from this year and last year, but if correct they would be the hottest temperatures reliably recorded on Earth." "Death Valley, California, recorded high temperatures of 130 degrees Fahrenheit on Friday and 129.4 degrees on Saturday, according to the National Weather Service." reports NPR.
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