Monday, January 28, 2013

A Long Time Coming...

Hello to any occasional readers of my blog!

I apologize for the several months' time with no updates. I have been very busy attempting to find employment and apply to graduate school, and I intend to provide a more substantial update soon.

There is a wealth of information circulating regarding the accelerating pace of climate change. Recent headlines have included climate topics more and more frequently in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. It has come to light that those members of the human race born after 1985 have not experienced a single month where the average temperature did not exceed the historical trend. This population of people includes yours truly, and I intend to draw inspiration from this to continue to motivate my studies and outreach involvement.

I recently partook in the Northeast Regional Town Hall meeting for the National Climate Assessment, which included faculty and students from SUNY ESF as well as a panel of authors involved in the NCA, as well as a few local residents. I sat in on the Energy topical discussion group, which both helped to magnify the political unpalatability of  modifying existing energy policy, as my general impression was that the NCA shied away from really engaging in the energy discussion and its implications for further climatic forcing, and also to frustrate my attempts to reconcile their addressing the impacts of changing climate on energy infrastructure without discussion of the contributions to the forcing mechanisms of said infrastructure!

It is getting late, so I will attempt to put together some more coherent thoughts, and another sourced article, soon. Until then, keep in mind that I am once again a busy student, and I plan to leverage that to improve the quality of information here, as well as provide some (hopefully) unique insights into the current state of climate science and the energy policy discourse.