Going forward, I will try to stay away from predicting the climate and environmental futures. So many articles use the words such as ‘El Nino might. . .by the end of 2024’ or ‘water levels could. . .’ or ‘permafrost melt may. . .’ Factual records pertaining to what has already happened, or is currently occurring, will be the emphasis of this website whenever possible. But because the world is acting more and more on the crisis, our distant future isn’t so scary.

One other thing: whenever I allude to a dire consequence of global warming, please remember the bad outcome ONLY occurs under the assumption that leadership continues to kick the can down the road in terms of allowing climate change to manifest itself for additional decades unabated. I’ll try not to repeat this assumption, but it is the foundation of the solution to this planetary mess.

The world is not coming to an end because the answer to global warming involves nothing more than common sense: namely, science must be allowed to direct the energy transfer effort. Transitioning from fossil fuels (not 100%, mind you) in order for clean energy to dominate while carbon capture and storage continues to monitor smokestacks and direct air capture technology proceeds to maintain the proper CO2 balance within our atmosphere, will happen. The zillion dollar question is: when? 

By the time I am finished, we will have reviewed the evolution of climate change. We will understand how it came about, the problematic consequences, and how we will fix it. In order to fix it, we must address its root issue: Divisiveness. It is a tendency to cause disagreement or hostility between people. It is in our DNA and we witness it every day. Of course it is impossible to agree on everything, but when it comes to global warming, everything we depend on requires better agreement.

It’s comforting to know that a world no longer relying on oil is just decades away. A post-oil future will indeed be accomplished. The primary questions are exactly how long will it take and how destructive will greenhouse gas get in the meantime until the atmosphere is returned to its natural state in terms of the amount of CO2 that can once again be balanced by nature’s intended carbon cycle.