Climate Change Fix

I have no idea how many people read my blog. Other than the occasional comment, there is no counter of visitors to gauge the readership. I hope this blog can be an effective tool to plant some ideas that can help raise the awareness of important issues.
My usual M.O. is to approach softly and supply facts and figures to support an issue. Sometimes it's subtle promotion of concepts, our solar business, or myself. I read an article why people Twitter, YouTube, camgirl, and blog. If there is some sort of audience, it validates your existence. Sometimes the only audience is one's self. Same effect.
The topic covered in this post is global warming. Actually, it needs to be referred to as climate change. We watch the news and are aware of our surroundings. Things are happening to the planet in increasing frequency and intensity. Take last winter for example, I haven't seen a Winter like that since 1976-77 back in Pennsylvania. The cold and snow were caused by El Nino...the WARMING of equatorial waters in the Pacific. Then, in late Winter we went to late Spring weather just like that. Early in July NOAA reported that June was the hottest...ever. July itself is not far behind. I can't remember how many times the temp was over 90, but I cannot recall such a streak in the 32 years I've been here in the high country of WV.
Think hard, how long has it been since you thought some particular season was normal? Isn't every season some sort of a surprise? One can go for years and not realize the accumulation of evidence. I have noticed an increase of poison ivy, and for the first time, found termites. What's next Kudzu? These are signs of a warming West Virginia. They say in a hundred years WV will be a high desert, like in New Mexico.
Headlines abound; 520 Belgians die in heatwave, Argentina braces for severe cold, floods in China and the US midwest. On and on and on. Was the news always like that? Is this Al Gore's doing?
Climate change will effect our clean energy capacity. Right behind the energy crisis is a critical water crisis. As drought deepens in certain areas, the hydroelectric dams are diminishing in output. Not only drought lowers the water levels, but irrigation of the desert takes a huge amount of water. Our current thermoelectric power plants consume and evaporate a tremendous amount of water. What if there is not enough water where and when needed?
CLEAN COAL, Ha! In order to capture the CO2 emissions it will require doubling the water use. How can anyone put up a billboard near Charleston, WV that says COAL...CARBON NEUTRAL. Trees are carbon neutral, not coal. What some groups get away with.
The Earth may have something up her sleeve. If the Greenland ice cap melts off, there is enough fresh water to stop the equatorial conveyor currents from flowing. The result is irreversible, an Ice Age will begin, not over hundreds of years, but within a decade of the currents stopping. That will sure take care of the issues, huh?