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ONE thing we can all agree on: The Earth is the Lord's and everything in it. - And we are tasked with being responsible caretakers of it. Obama's speech yesterday at Georgetown on the Climate Change initiative was hailed by Al Gore, unofficial Green Czar, as being one of THE best Presidential addresses in history.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-gore/obama-climate-change-speech_b_3498596.html.  You can find it on c-span.


Record heat-waves, fires, droughts and devastating record flooding -extreme weather of all kinds- are in large part a result of our carbon dumping in the sky. The biggest culprits are those coal smokestacks spewing tons of waste into the sky which do not magically disappear but affect the atmosphere in undeniable ways. Immediately after the speech the Heritage Institute sent out emails and facebook posts urging people not to threaten the $1,000 a month that coal families earn with stricter environmental regulations on coal plants.   Special interests kick back. That missed the point of the speech as Obama urged that conversion technologies are even more economically potentially profitable. Jobs will and should be created in R&D, installation tech, growing, sourcing and applying green technological innovation, and marketing it. He is open to any and all great ideas from any and everybody. Put your thinking caps on.

Do you realize that only one generation ago we did not have personal computers or cell phones?
What if someone screamed then don't innovate into cellular technologies, the guys who make the curly phone wall cords and plastic surrounding it will lose money! We really put those abacus makers out of business didn't we. And what if we let the makers of clunky typewriters stop  R&D on laptops??

      We have to be careful about natural gas because fracking has its own hazards. No one wants to drink water on fire. But alternate fuels are just starting to get our full attention.

The speech was great and historic. Its the first time a President has put the pieces together in a public speech and challenged the next generation to step up to the plate on the climate change challenge.