Dr. John G. Hollins, past Chair CACOR Board of Directors, comments: If language is not used rightly, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then that which ought to be done is left undone. Confucius The term climate emergency is the political buzz phrase […]
Keeping the Lights on
Dr. John Hollins, past Chair CACOR Board of Directors, considers “Microgrids: renewables and resilience” Reduce emissions while keeping the lights on – always For millennia the renewable sources of wind and water have been used to provide intermittently useful energy in small quantities; they still are in the less developed world. For more than a […]
RED HATRED AND WHITE FEAR
Dr. Nicole Morgan, CACOR member, addresses hate and politics. The history of political violence is both titillating and reassuring. With the help of political philosophy, it puts an order in chaos by revealing repetitions, cycles, rhythms, dialectical movements, or according to Mark Twain for “history, he said, does not repeat, but rhymes “. This is […]
Models Assessment
Robert Hoffman, past chair CACOR addresses “Canadian Public Policy on Energy and Emissions” It is evident that there has been a failure of public policy in Canada with respect to energy and climate change. The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid catastrophic global warming was recognized and accepted more than four […]
Canadian Public Policy on Energy and Emissions
Robert Hoffman, past Chair CACOR Board of Directors, considers Canadian Public Policy on Energy and Emissions It is evident that there has been a failure of public policy in Canada with respect to energy and climate change. The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid catastrophic global warming was recognized and accepted […]