Jerry Cope: Breathe Deep the Green Winds of Change, Just in Time

Delivering a powerful inauguration speech to a vast crowd Tuesday, President Obama specifically addressed global warming and the need for sacrifice in halting and reversing the deterioration of the the most critical life support systems on our planet. Not only sacrifice but vision, courage, innovation, and determined commitment will be critical to finally beginning to reduce the impacts of anthropogenic climate change. New investment in energy infrastructure to improve and modernize the delivery grid coupled with an expansive plan for ending our reliance on carbon based fuels, especially coal, is imperative now -- not at some point in the future. America must develop solar, wind, and nuclear power on a scale large enough to eliminate any possibility of new coal fired plants coming on line until (and if) carbon sequestration, so-called "clean coal" becomes an viable option. For all the talk of "clean coal" it does not yet exist, consequently coal remains by far the dirtiest carbon fuel and the ... (link)