It was technology that got us into this global climate crisis, and it will be technology that gets us out of it. Specifically, technology that lets us go on living in a high-energy civilization without burning fossil fuels, and technology that keeps the heat from overwhelming us while we work toward that goal. Read More

There has been a ten-year war within the geological community over what to call the epoch in which we live right now, and an international panel of two dozen senior geologists finally has delivered its verdict. We are not living in a new geological epoch after all. The Anthropocene (the Human era) is now, in George Orwell’s terms, "oldspeak." Read More