Previewing October 14th on PBS is a presentation called “Climate Change; Then and Now.” Watch it as it will be replayed on either WGTE or PBS Detroit again. If you want to hear what has happened since the words “global warming” first graced our ears some ten years ago, you might be surprised. The results are in and we definitely have an impact on what’s up with the weather. Read more: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/story/2008/10/heat.html.
I watched another presentation on WGTE’s Frontline last night relative to the oil industry and the environment that’s part of a larger series entitled “Heat.” I swear that it was a compilation of many of the blogs I’ve done over the course of two years from the net wealth of the oil industry down to Detroit automakers. It’s nice to know I’m not totally daft.
The program began by showing Exxon Mobil’s baby “Hibernia” the largest (by weight) oilrig platform in the world. It’s 16 stories high and 200 miles off the coast of Newfoundland in God forsaken nowhere. Every 5-6 days a tanker leaves with a load worth 500 million dollars. This rig cost Exxon 4 billion dollars!
The storyline then settled in with the statement that no one has resisted change like big oil. The reporter harped about, the ratio of net income for every major U.S. oil company compared to what they invest in alternative technologies. There were quite a few times oil company spokespeople were flustered and could not answer the interviewer. I mean how do you say “we’re greedy?” The coverage then shifted to the Rockefellers, (not so greedy stockholders) demanding in public court that Exxon invest in more alternative energy. Let’s face it, the oil companies are not going to let their bread and butter go without a fight, and do they have the money to fight.
The fight consisted of spin regarding the state of our environment. This spin has made the plight of the environment political rather than scientific, inciting even more divisiveness. The program showed that big oil had a connection to many denial machines like “The Heartland Group, Competitive Enterprises,” and I have to add “Friends of Science,” Senator Inhofe’s favorite. Inhofe was included in last night’s foray of who and what helped stifle the movement toward alternative energy.
Not to be left out, there was a segment on American auto companies. I could not believe my ears when a scientist being interviewed reiterated my words about our auto industry: “Where was the foresight?” It continued to show that Clinton funded the American auto industry to develop hybrid cars in 98. The prototypes were shown. The auto companies rolled them out and bingo, Bush got into office. That all stopped. The American car companies made bigger and bigger gas-guzzlers like SUV’s, Hummers, etc. But Japan kept up with the hybrid idea since that time. Now Japan is 10 years ahead of us. Japan’s factories are also aiming to cut emissions drastically more than they already have. If only we could work on the dolphin/whale thing…
It was quite a night for me to see the same content of some my past blogs come to life in a presentation. We live chaotic lives at times and so our news becomes disjointed and senseless. We only get bits and pieces. Heat is a long series to catch in its entirety. There are 9 chapters. But you can view them online. It’s nice to see it all strung together and for that effort we can always thank Public TV.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/6.html
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Couple of points…since when is a company obligated to put itself out of business. You want alturnative energy? Great, someone will create them. Why should oil companies expidate their demise. As to them being greedy, thats laughable. What else is a company in business for other then to make money? How many pension funds and retired people do you think are glad they are making money…..
One more group you need to add to the list of “they don’t think it’s real,” M.I.T. came out yesterday and say they find no scientific evidence to support it. I not Al Gore said “the debate is over” but it really isn’t.
Again, it’s getting colder.
You definitely haven’t read most of my posts. They are about the methane gas increase and why. It’s not natural.
http://www.blogsmonroe.com/world/2008/10/two-more-global-warming-gases-on-the-rise/.
http://www.blogsmonroe.com/world/2008/05/can-excessive-plankton-buildup-in-the-arctic-trigger-same-methane-explosions-as-those-off-of-africa/.
http://www.blogsmonroe.com/world/2008/04/mankind-contributes-to-global-warming-through-fish/.
Relative to making money, the Rockefellers, who are actually environmentalists, forced Exxon Mobil to venture into alternatives.
http://www.blogsmonroe.com/world/2008/04/rockefellers-pressure-exxon-mobil-to-invest-in-alternative-energy/.
Notice Exxon’s new environmental commercials? I guess it’s not all about money. It’s about money and responsibility.
Always check sources. MIT’s new professorship with Ronald Prinn was instituted and funded by TEPCO. He is the TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, not MIT in general. TEPCO stands for Tokyo Electric Power Co., which is a green company looking for all types of alternative energy sources.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1993/prinn-0303.html
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/challenge/energy/new-ene/power-g-e.html.
TEPCO must feel it’s important to curb emissions because they contributed $5 million for this program. TEPCO’s focus is:
Intregrated studies of the science and policy of global change, including evaluation of emission controls on the energy industry and the role of utilities in improving the global environment.
Scientific investigation of the global climate with an initial emphasis on the role of the ocean circulation. This concerns global cooling, see below.
An investigation of whether a technology can be developed to turn carbon dioxide into an alternative fuel.
Evidently, this is a fairly new program at MIT. TEPCO doesn’t appear to agree with your philosophy of continuing industry pollution for money.
This was my editorial in the Monroe news relative to questions about cooling temperatures. TEPCO, as noted, is interested in ocean circulation also.
Global Cooling is Global Warming
Global warming is still the correct terminology for the cooling and snow many are experiencing this winter. The article is right about one thing. Scientists that specialize in warming ocean waters, wind currents, gulf streams, etc., are just now coming together as a group to examine the alarming collective effects of global warming. Global cooling is taking place because the Meridional Overturning Circulation or MOC is slowing. It’s not exactly the same as the Gulf Stream but I’m calling it that, so you can understand more easily. The only reason Great Britain enjoys a moderate climate is because of the Gulf Stream, which acts like a giant conveyor carrying warm surface ocean water to Britain where salinity forces it down to cool as it returns toward us. Global warming hasn’t just melted glaciers, it has also melted snow and ice in Siberia and other places where “freshwater” glutted rivers that dump into the ocean reducing salinity, and so the Gulf Stream is slowing as salinity decreases.
In the past when the Gulf Stream stopped, there was like an instantaneous ice age in that region. If it happens again, Britain will freeze over without proper warning. Power lines will snap, snow will increase and many will perish. This will continue throughout the northern hemisphere, while the tropics suffer drought and excessive heat. This has happened before during increase in overall temperature or global warming. It’s not that global warming hasn’t happened before. It has not happened at the rate of speed it progresses now. This escalation is the reason scientists started looking at the effects of human pollution on environment in the first place and found results we don’t want to hear.
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