It will be hotter. It will be drier, at times, and wetter at others. We'll get less water from the Sierra Nevada snowpack, and the Pacific Ocean will rise and creep inland. But beyond those brute certainties, scientists, futurists, technologists, and entrepreneurs offer competing visions about how climate change will affect California in the decades to come.
San Diego California's air board next week will emphasize the need to set a greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030, a potential guidepost as the state eyes an ambitious 2050 emissions goal, a top executive said here.
Clean tech investments in California over the past ten years have shifted from roughly half of more of annual investment going toward R&D to the majority of clean tech investments now going toward deployment — a shift indicating a maturing market, according to a report out today from Next 10, a nonpartisan group that focuses on California issues.
Recent warnings about the dangers of overreliance on petroleum have come from an unlikely cast of characters, including former presidential candidate Ron Paul, business magnate T. Boone Pickensand even a Saudi prince (who warned against his nation’s over dependence on oil exports).
It may cost you more to turn on the lights starting September 1. San Diego Gas and Electric is raising rates for some households and most businesses. High energy users, or about 25 percent of SDG&E customers will see some increase on their bills.
