Maine Climate Council - Oct-21

Too much time has been spent wringing our hands over the gathering storm that is climate change. Or worse, arguing with those who don't believe that pumping gazillions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere over the last 200 years didn't have an impact.Which is why I am cheered to see the roll-up-our-sleeves-let's-dig-into-this approach the Maine Climate Council is taking. Our lead story provides some frightening predictions on what our state could face, but that fear should spur action, not more hand wringing.
—Tom Groening, editor, The Working Waterfront

To: Tom Groening, The Working Waterfront<tgroening@islandinstitute.org>;

But Tom, they haven’t dug in yet.They haven’t decided what to do nor when. And WE do not have the money for this – we aren’t going to sell “climate” bonds. States with a wealthy tax base have it over Maine in bonding megabucks over 30-50 years. Ain’t going to happen.

And they are avoiding very pragmatic solution AND they are avoiding little things like recycling of solar waste and wind waste among other steps that need to be paired with actions.
There has been no discussion of the new nuclear plants. There has been no discussion of converting our transportation system to magnetic systems which are both an alternate energy and
much cheaper that even EV’s. There has been no discussion of energy storage such as liquid air storage. Batteries are next gens Love Canal.
It is easy to tell that this whole effort is motivated by the money makers – wind and solar – and the heavily wagered EVs.
Ken Capron