TalkClimateChange » Blue Team - Daryl http://www.talkclimatechange.com The Blog that Talks about Climate Change Fri, 16 May 2008 14:50:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en Solar and Wind - The Challenges http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2008/04/16/solar-and-wind-the-challenges/ http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2008/04/16/solar-and-wind-the-challenges/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:29:58 +0000 Blue Team - Daryl http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2008/04/16/solar-and-wind-the-challenges/ image

Recently a reader, Nadine,  posted a comment with a question which sparked my interest. Instead of a long and badly worded comment, I thought I would elevate the answer to her question to a fully fledged blog post. I think that the question is a valid one which is worthy of investigation here and is a question that I actually wanted answers to myself.

Nadine’s question was "could someone explain to me why it is difficult to adapt solar/wind technology to the existing grid?"

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]]> http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2008/04/16/solar-and-wind-the-challenges/feed/ Red, Green and Blue - Living Together in Me http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2008/04/10/red-green-and-blue-living-together-in-me/ http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2008/04/10/red-green-and-blue-living-together-in-me/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:00:21 +0000 Blue Team - Daryl http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2008/04/10/red-green-and-blue-living-together-in-me/ Earth_Bulbs I am going to get a little introspective about my life and the contradictions I face everyday in my work, my lifestyle, and my opinions in an effort to see if there is a balance that can be reached in regards to adapting to a changing world.

I do this in the hope that by reaching some sort of balance through understanding, I can put the climate debate into context and perhaps allow all opinions (red, green and blue) to have a better appreciation of the problems that our society faces.

I hope by looking at the issues and using my basic morality I can put some things into a better frame of reference for everyone, and it is my hope that it can serve to de-polarize the debate a little. Pretty darn ambitious of me I know, but I still have some optimistic genes left, although I feel them dwindling with each new piece of information I digest.

So come with me and see if we cannot get some sense of balance that can be applied to us all.

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]]> http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2008/04/10/red-green-and-blue-living-together-in-me/feed/ What Might Happen If The Climate Gets Colder? http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2008/03/27/what-might-happen-if-the-climate-gets-colder/ http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2008/03/27/what-might-happen-if-the-climate-gets-colder/#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:51:11 +0000 Blue Team - Daryl http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2008/03/27/what-might-happen-if-the-climate-gets-colder/ Hubbard GlacierWe’ve had a long cold winter in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere, which has got me thinking: what if the world cools off and returns to the temperatures of our great grandfathers, or even worse, we start sliding even lower?

This is purely a hypothetical exercise - I am not saying there is any basis for this other than my own curiosity as to the effects. But I can’t help thinking what would happen if the temperature starts trending lower and we move into a prolonged cooling period. We are still going to have a different climate, just not the differences we expected.

So I am wondering how that would impact us and what does it would mean to our society?

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]]> http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2008/03/27/what-might-happen-if-the-climate-gets-colder/feed/ Environmental Assessments - De Facto Government from Scientists? http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2008/03/16/environmental-assessments-de-facto-government-from-scientists/ http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2008/03/16/environmental-assessments-de-facto-government-from-scientists/#comments Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:31:31 +0000 Blue Team - Daryl http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2008/03/16/environmental-assessments-de-facto-government-from-scientists/ iStock_000005348590XSmallIt seems to be environmental assessment season around the world, with two major new reports during the last two weeks - the OECD Environmental Assessment and the National Academies Transportation Research Board report.

We all know that thousands of reports are written every year, many are for policymakers and are accepted as the views of experts on the various areas they discuss. These reports end up in the hands of our Governments who in their infinite wisdom use them to craft policy decisions and legislation for our governance. This leads me to the question “Does science in reality hold more power over Government policymaking than the average person realizes?”

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]]> http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2008/03/16/environmental-assessments-de-facto-government-from-scientists/feed/ The View from the Fence - Best and Worst From Both Sides http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2008/03/12/the-view-from-the-fence-best-and-worst-from-both-sides/ http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2008/03/12/the-view-from-the-fence-best-and-worst-from-both-sides/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:00:37 +0000 Blue Team - Daryl http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2008/03/12/the-view-from-the-fence-best-and-worst-from-both-sides/ iStock_000005160813XSmall Taking up a precarious perch on the fence between the two sides of the debate, I have decided to select the best and worse from each side in regards to the science, mitigation and lifestyle ideas.

First though I want to just make a quick assessment of the landscape and the ‘climate’ of climate change discussions. I think there is much more common ground than one might take away at first blush, and these commonalities are lost in the din raised by the conflict of ideologies of how to address the problems.

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