Energy Technology Pathways to Achieving Climate Change Goals "A new report identifies end-use electricity efficiency as the most effective and most economical method to bring carbon dioxide emissions back to current levels by 2050. The analysis uses three scenarios - baseline, global stabilization to 2005 levels by 2050 (ACT), and global 50% reduction below 2005 levels by 2050 (BLUE) - to identify the costs and constraints of advancing the technologies needed for reaching a more sustainable energy future."

Ok, here is the world's plan for energy development for the foreseeable future. You can download and read the entire plan if you are so inclined. I would recommend doing this before you decide to support or (especially) invest in any new or emerging technologies.

Andrew C. Revkin

"I thought it might be worth inviting you all to read and “annotate” (as we’ve done with a couple of climate speeches and a polar bear decision recently) my cover story for Discover Magazine, reported through that hot year and published in the October 1988 edition."

My Comments:  In this story N.Y. Times author Andrew C. Revkin ponders on a story he did on Climate Change for Discover magazine way back in 1988.  Interestingly, NASA scientist James Hansen was there as a focal part of the story.  Twenty years is a long time when you think about it, many young adults today were in diapers then and this debate has been going on for their entire lifetimes and so little has really changed. Maybe that is the real point of the story; how little has changed... 

Andrew C. Revkin

"I thought it might be worth inviting you all to read and “annotate” (as we’ve done with a couple of climate speeches and a polar bear decision recently) my cover story for Discover Magazine, reported through that hot year and published in the October 1988 edition."

My Comments:  In this story N.Y. Times author Andrew C. Revkin ponders on a story he did on Climate Change for Discover magazine way back in 1988.  Interestingly, NASA scientist James Hansen was there as a focal part of the story.  Twenty years is a long time when you think about it, many young adults today were in diapers then and this debate has been going on for their entire lifetimes and so little has really changed. Maybe that is the real point of the story; how little has changed...