Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Hypercane.

 

We've had a really moderate Spring here, up until mid-June. It's only taken a few days for me to remember why I hate El Nino years.

 

It was a miserable 85 yesterday afternoon and a brisk 55 this morning.

 

The effects of Pacific events like what Spanish speakers basically call "The Kids" are more noticeable in the South in the winter than in the summer. Summers always suck here. Winters are hit or miss.

 

We're going to have one huge mess on our hands in about 10-15 years.

Opinion | ‘What the Hell Happened to the California of the ’50s and ’60s?’

The environmental movement is dealing with a bit of dog-that-caught-the-car confusion these days. Hundreds of billions of dollars are pouring into infrastructure for clean energy, and decarbonization targets that were once out of the question are being etched into law. That’s particularly true in California, which has committed to being carbon neutral, and to running its electricity grid on 100 percent clean energy, by 2045.

Hitting these goals requires California to almost quadruple the amount of electricity it can generate — and shift what it now gets from polluting fuels to clean sources. That means turning huge areas of land over to solar farms, wind turbines and geothermal systems. It means building the transmission lines to move that energy from where it’s made to where it’s needed. It means dotting the landscape with enough electric vehicle charging stations to make the state’s proposed ban on cars with internal combustion engines possible. Taken as a whole, it’s a construction task bigger than anything the state has ever attempted, and it needs to be completed at a speed that nothing in the state’s recent history suggests is possible.

 

Yeah.

What a mess.

The Urban Oil Fields of Los Angeles



Mapping LA’s long, strange history as an oil town

Why there are oil wells all over Southern California

 

While that particular photo makes me sick at my stomach, that story is interesting. I didn't know that.

 

Anyone is free to read Klein’s column. It’s a mess. The federal government has come in and mandated that we change the entire industry by a certain date and to change it will require all kinds of things that I’m not sure if the state of California can pull off.

 

Anyone is of course free to read whatever anti-historical nonsense they want.

The free market costs and cleanups of the Great Age of Internal Combustion and Fossil Fuels are still being shouldered by . . . taxpayers.*






*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_California