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An inkling of the (hot) future — Silicon Valley’s power may be switched off tomorrow
Add the normal: no rain in California in the summer; and the new-with-global-warming normal: drier grasslands and forests due to hotter temperatures; stronger, extremely dry winds; and you get extreme danger of wildfires of the type that leveled Paradise, CA, last year: 70,000 acres in 24 hours, if memory serves, and dozens of dead. So…
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Global Warming and (My) Productivity
Reporting on the results of an unexpected experiment … with unexpectedly global implications. After 20 years in the same house in Northern California, we installed whole-house air conditioning earlier this year. It seems that most of the apartments here have it, but not too many single family homes. Somehow the weather seemed to have gotten…
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An angry future has broken with the past
It can’t continue as it has. Raw materials consumption. Pollution. CO2 emissions. Healthcare costs. Debt. We have known this for years. But somehow, that different future always has been – well, in the future, only to be worried about in the abstract. And then, all of a sudden, it is crystal clear that we are…