Boston’s bill for climate change is coming due

Clearly the sight of a dumpster floating down the street in the Fort Point district last January made a lot of Bostonians all too aware that the realities of climate change have become part of their world.

A man walks through a flooded sidewalk off Congress
Street, where water was flowing over from Fort
 Point Channel in the Seaport District on March 2.

“The fact is climate change is already here,” Mayor Marty Walsh told the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce this week where he introduced his plan for Resilient Boston Harbor to deal with the city’s 47-mile coastline and the diverse neighborhoods that line it.

“This is about prevention,” he told reporters at an earlier briefing. “We have a lot of different pieces all over the place. This brings it all together.”

Read the Editorial from The Boston Globe - “Boston’s bill for climate change is coming due.”

Craig Kelly slams RenewEconomy: “Shameless propaganda arm of green rent seekers

Craig Kelly, the chairman of the Coalition’s backbench energy committee, clearly doesn’t think much of wind and solar, and it appears he thinks even less of this website.

Craig Kelly - chairman of the Coalition’s
backbench energy committee,

A reader this week sent Kelly a link to a story we published on Monday – or, more to the point, republished from The Conversation – which was co-authored by ANU researchers Andrew Blakers and Matthew Stocks, and which predicted a rapid switch from fossil fuels to renewables.

It was titled: Solar PV and wind on track to replace all coal, oil and gas within two decades.

Read the story by Gile Parkinson from RenewEconomy - “Craig Kelly slams RenewEconomy: “Shameless propaganda arm of green rent seekers.”