Donald J. "Jerk-in-Office" Trump, Republicans generally, the fossil fool industry, the MSM, and some national Energy Ministers don't want it known that we are solving Global Warming. But there are lots of dots out there, and I am here to connect them. This is a follow-up to my 2014 Diary How to Solve Global Warming:
We know what to do about Global Warming, but we do not all know that we know what to do, much less that we are doing it.
Much has happened since then. You won't hear it from Trump or the MSM, but it is in the honest financial papers all the time. Even sometimes in the WSJ, in the sections about real money. And of course in the scientific, engineering, trade, and specialty consumer press.
The biggest contribution anybody outside the industry can make to ending Global Warming is to support the international organizations that are teaching 194 countries about the available technologies for going off coal, oil, and natural gas, and the non-Voodoo economics of giving a boost to their economies by doing so, and actually getting out there and doing installations. We got the Paris Accords in part due to the efforts of NGOs to educate Indian PM Modi, who was previously an opponent of renewable energy.
The biggest single target is China's continuing perverse incentives for building coal-fired power plants at home and abroad. Widdle Donny is only second on the list, followed by industry Oil and Gaslighting.
Divestment of tens of trillions of dollars from fossil fuels is huge.
Similarly, we can support and educate US states, counties, and cities. Many are sticking a finger in Trump's eye by continuing and even accelerating their own renewable energy, green building, and electric vehicle programs, which are giving a boost to their own local economies and the US economy as a whole. Many Red states are major producers of wind and solar power, and others buy it from them.
That means educating yourself first. Some good places to start are
- Drawdown, edited by Paul Hawken. 100 of the best ideas for cutting back on net carbon emissions, and even some for getting it out of the atmosphere
- The Solutions Project, with recommendations for renewable power mixes to get to 100% renewables by 2030 in every US state, several major cities, and nearly every country
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- The current much feebler plans submitted under the Paris Accords
Don't look here, unless you enjoy doing opposition research. Meteor Blades said last Saturday that he is planning a Diary on this.
Aldous J Pennyfarthing writes—Donald Trump says he plans to read a book on the environment (spoiler alert: it's about him)
The book appears to be Donald J. Trump: An Environmental Hero (September 13, 2016) by Edward Russo
Gizmodo: Trump Has a Book Written By a Trump Advisor About How Trump Loves the Environment, Actually
Vox: Trump’s climate change reading material is beyond parody
Good news: Trump plans to read a book about environmentalism. Bad news: the actual book.
(My comment to We are living through the looking glass. Want out? KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PRIZE: Saturday's Good News and Spotlight on green news & views: Reward for IDing wolf killers; science deniers still kicking.)
What We Are Sticking in Trump's Eye So Far
- Renewables, mostly wind and solar
- Storage for load balancing and timeshifting
- Electric vehicles of all kinds: cars, taxis, buses, mail trucks, 18-wheelers, ships, airplanes…
- Trees, maybe a trillion of them
- Agriculture, including cow burps and sequestering carbon in soils
- Steel
- Carbon-neutral, even carbon-negative cement
- Ammonia
- Hydrogen
- Real carbon capture and sequestration
- Jobs
- More than one Green New Deal proposal: AOC, Bernie, everybody
- Divestment and reinvestment
- Demonstrations
- Education and outreach (your homework)
- Research & Development of lots more
- GOTV for the November elections
Lots to do, and everybody can play an important part. Plus there is the satisfaction of each one of the old metaphorical fingers in the eye.