Sue Tierney for deputy, names for under sec., and stuff I leaned at DOE, part 2 2

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   Delay And Deny Posted 3:58 pm
   22 Jan 2009

   Calling All Bureaucrats!
   
   The only way to stave off the fruitcakes is to inundate them with web forms.   Got a complaint about climate change in your neighborhood?   Go to http://www.myclimate.gov.   Be sure to have your Neighborhood Climate Id ready.  If you don't have a Climate ID, you can apply for one at your local Social Security office.
   By 2050 we'll have swapped out the computer systems at least three times, and by then everything will be great.   All nations including Greenland will have the climate of Big Sur.    There will be enough land for all 8 billion of us so houses will cost $5000, even for ocean front.   Arctic Ocean that is.
   
   You are now living in the Hansen Economy!

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   amazingdrx Posted 12:19 am
   23 Jan 2009

   Scared enough?"Anybody who truly understands both the scale of the problem that climate science has detailed and the scale of the energy solution should be scared."
   To dump conventional wisdom as a guide for action?  We'll see.
   The whole smart national (renewable) power grid and plugin hybrid undertone is certainly heartening though.  Now if someone would come in with a conservation base line.  Maybe a program to boost mass production/installation of ground source heating/cooling systems, for instance.
   When a ground source system costs about the same as a natural gas or electric furnace, calculating fuel savings into the long term payback, then low interest loans, subsidies, or grants could have the family financial picture looking better right from the start of the installation.
   It's all about the monthly billing cycle bottomline for struggling families, with layed off, downsized, or outsourced  bread winners.
   Please direct your attention to family energy bills Dr. Chu.  Realize the Lovins truism, it's not how you cool the beer, the important part is that the beer actually gets cold ....with the least possible input of combustion energy and the least production of GHG.  Then simply expand that to every energy related outcome we want and need.
   With a careful eye towards improving the family bottomline, where higher energy bills mean bankruptcy and loss of a home.
   When Mom is happy, the kids are happy, and universally the whole world is happy.  Bread winners can't afford happiness with the status quo energy economy we rely upon now.
   Try to think of that downsized home owner a few times per day Dr.
   
   http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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