Watching a documentary on Epix called “Cool It” by Bjorn Lomberg of the Copenhagen Consensus Center.
Apart from the usual debunking of Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth”, the movie goes at a bunch of other aspects of the global warming issue and pragmatically looks at fiction and FASHION of it vs. the reality. A lot of scientists from MIT, NOA, NASA, U of C Berkeley, London School of Economics, and other places chime in on the issue exposing how many good ideas get shuttered and how data gets manipulated for commercial and political reasons.
The main push of the movie is that we should look less at the politics and fashion of climate change (“feeling good”) towards new technology that reduce our carbon emissions (“doing good”). Example: let’s focus our energy on solar and wind power storage.
Artificial Photosynthesis – VERY COOL! Uses light to split hydrogen and oxygen to provide amazing amounts of energy. Plus, it doesn’t have to be clean water.
Algae Fuel – VERY COOL! Need an area 128m x 128m to meet the demands of the airline industry, scientists say.
Waves – very big energy sources. Apparently waves can meet 50% of America’s energy needs and we have devices which can capture 90% of their energy.
If anyone else has seen it, feel welcome to comment on it. If not, I highly recommend taking a look.
The people who produced the movie:
The Copenhagen Consensus Center.
