miss winter, and our descendants will long for its return.

we're more developed than much of the world, lots of heat island cities and roads with dark concrete absorbing the Sun's energy.

Thanks for the thread Rhiannon

*sigh*

Yep... Then let's do it!!! NOW!!!

The wingers will be screaming their bloated heads off if they experience any restrictions.

Thank you for posting, Ms. R. We must keep reminding folks how important this issue is....even if some want to ignore it.

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And I know that this has been said countless times before, but I can't help wondering where we would be now if only Al Gore had been president.

If we could only turn back time..

"No work of fiction could have plausibly captured the extraordinary twists and turns of the 2000 U.S. presidential election. After mistaken television network projections on election night leading to a concession call by Al Gore to George W. Bush that was withdrawn an hour later, and the ensuing 36-day political and legal war over how to resolve what was essentially a tie, Bush ultimately garnered the presidency when a sharply divided and transparently political Supreme Court ended the manual recount in Florida."

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/reflections-on-the-2000-u-s-presidential-election/


Yet another reminder of just how POWERFUL the Supreme Court is.

And they kept going back and forth about Florida. What a disappointment - which is certainly having long term results, not only regarding climate change, but I'm also thinking of the war in Iraq.

Sitting there in a sweater, telling folks to turn their thermostats down. He actually inspired my father who was manager of the power company in northern New York. My Dad took the clue from Carter and started wearing vests or sweaters under his suit jacket as a similar reminder for residents to turn their thermostats down and save energy.

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If you think about it, it takes time to pull something like a World’s Fair together. Although Reagan was President, the direction was set when Carter was in office.

Essentially all of the technologies we are now attempting to roll out were on exhibit there. (Solar panels, wind turbines, geothermal power, heat pumps, on-demand water heaters…) Carter of course had created national research labs to work on advancing all of these technologies. As hard as it may be to believe today, what we now know as NREL (The National Renewable Energy Laboratory) grew out of the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) established by (in my estimation) the best and most underappreciaited Republican president of my lifetime, Gerald Ford.

Jimmy Carter made it clear from the start that Energy was key to his administration. He addressed it in his first televised address to the nation.

February 2, 1977: Report to the American People on Energy

Read by the author, and I've listened to it several times, but I don't remember this being mentioned, though it's been awhile - and he does go into detail about his entire life. Too many dismiss him as a peanut farmer, but he only took over the family business when his father died. He was a graduate of Annapolis and had a brilliant career in the Navy - and is a nuclear physicist. And I certainly remember him installing solar panels in the White House - which Reagan trashed.

And I definitely remember his advocating saving energy since my Dad espoused the same thing. The president set an example which he hoped that Americans would emulate - and if only he'd been elected to a second term he could have done so much more good, and not only regarding energy savings.

As for Gerald Ford, he was a really good guy. Previously, new presidents often called on their predecessors for help and advice - regardless of party, it's pretty exclusive club. LBJ called on Eisenhower and when Carter was elected there were only Ford and Nixon. Nixon wasn't all that interested, but Ford had served in Congress while Carter had been governor, so the two former opponents worked together a lot, he advised Carter on how to deal with Congress. And they did become real friends, as did their families. And one of the last times that they spoke, Gerald Ford called Jimmy Carter and asked him to deliver his eulogy - which he did for his friend.

He’s the only US President to have led the clean up of a nuclear meltdown. (No, not Three Mile Island.) How Jimmy Carter Saved a Canadian Nuclear Reactor After a Meltdown

Following the weather changes here in northern New York, I know that we have regularly reached both record highs and record lows in recent years.

I tell people about a personal measure of cold, “So cold it hurts.” (It hurts your face, if it is bare. It hurts to breathe.) I just haven’t seen that kind of cold for years. The emerald ash borer has thrived in New York because we no longer have weeks-long stretches of “arctic cold.”

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/stdata_show_v4.cgi?id=USW00094725&dt=2&ds=14