Citizens Climate lobby Roscommon/Crawford Chapter

                                                                Roscommon/Crawford Chapter  Roscommon County Takes 1 st Step in Going Green   Roscommon County took a giant step forward in going green when the Houghton Lake Sewer Authority (HLSA) implemented the use of a large solar array to provide power for its pumps at the Denton Township Wastewater Treatment Irrigation Site. The solar panels began powering the pumps on July 21 at the completion of a 2-year project to study the feasibility of using the sun’s energy to   provide power for the treatment plant pumps used in converting septage into clean water. The new Denton system is the County’s only large-scale commercial solar array in operation, and it is also the first and only use of a solar array anywhere in Michigan dedicated to public septic systems. The use of the solar array will reduce air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions associated with burning fossil fuels to create power as well as reduce operating costs f

                                                                                                                       Roscommon/Crawford Chapter   If you mention climate change to most people, they immediately think of emissions from electricity generation as the chief culprit provoking adverse weather and other negative climate change effects. It was the correct assumption until data was tabulated in 2018 that showed transportation had suddenly become the largest source of carbon pollution in the United States at the end of 2017. The reason for this change is the increased use of renewable sources for generating electricity; think solar farms, wind turbines, and other innovative means of reducing reliance on the fossil fuels of coal, oil. and gas. The data now reveals that   greenhouse gas emissions in rank order in the US are transportation 28%, electricity generation 27%, industry 22%, agriculture 10%, commercial 7%, and residential 6%. Let’s take a closer look at the transpo

How We Got Here What’da We Do Next   Regular readers of this blog know that the cause of global warming and the resultant climate change is human-induced air pollution caused by burning coal, oil, and gas. Over time, we humans have demanded more and more energy to fuel the industrial revolution leading to more and more air pollution. The concentration of C02 has been carefully measured in our atmosphere by sophisticated techniques and scientists have proven that the increase is the cause for the greenhouse effect that is beginning to cripple our earth. The graph below shows in stark reality the increasing CO2 emissions from 1900 till today, by listing the number of giga tons ( giga is one billion tons) of CO2 released into the atmosphere. The graph ends with an estimation of the effect for the remainder of 2020. Although I have not included it to save space, a separate graph showing the average temperature of the earth exactly follows the graph below, just as you would expect.