Preface: while this is about Tuesday's State of the Union, the focus is what the President said about energy, climate change and energy policy. Because, well, that’s what I do at blondeee.
First, I was pleased climate change and energy production were one of the first topics the president launched in to during his SOTU- fabulous!
He was efficient in his messaging hitting points like the need to reduce benefits for fossil fuels and invest that in new technologies, renewable energy creating domestic jobs, the need to act now to mitigate the long term and potential irreversible effects of climate change and using natural gas (domestically produced!) as a birding technology to the future renewable based economy.
The debate is settled: Climate Change is a fact.
Boom. Bold. No messing around here. Direct and clear, Mr. President!
A funny result from the Presidents 'climate change' section- a colleague of mine was miffed at the President's focus on natural gas meaning domestic drilling/fracking and the problem of methane leakage. Methane a far more toxic greenhouse gas than CO2. And, I see his concern.
However, i reminded my colleague the President called it a bridging fuel meaning not the future. And, the reality is, we are not ready to go directly to a renewable based economy. Natural gas is cleaner than fossil fuel and buys us time to implement the right technologies and infrastructure for a clean future.
What do you think?
