The Danger of Runaway Antarctica

The New York Times Editorial Board article of March 31, 2016, highlighted a number of critcal points about climate change underlining our need to move to renewables at a much faster pace.

"Now comes another scary prediction: If carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels continue unabated, the vast West Antarctic ice sheet could begin to disintegrate, causing the sea to rise by five to six feet by the end of the century, destroying coastal cities and low-lying island nations and creating environmental devastation within the lifetimes of children born today."

More frightening than these scientific revelations are the US elected officials that are racing in the opposite direction. Members of the Congress that doing their best to promote the increased use of Fossil Fuels. Despite this the US Geothermal Technologies Office is working on the acceleration of adoption of clean energies.

The Geothermal Technologies Office accelerates the adoption of clean, domestic geothermal energy by investing in research and development that reduces the costs and risk of bringing geothermal power online. The U.S. leads the world in existing geothermal capacity, with more than 3,400 megawatts (MW) already installed, and this growth is creating new job opportunities in many parts of the nation.