Introduction – Renewable Energy and Commissions for
Impacting Global Warming! Part II

The most important thing for people is their health and after this is the environment which they live in, because a persons’ health is partly a product of their environment. Yet most people do not realize how serious this climate change situation really is in the long term. This crisis is the most serious crisis that the human race has ever faced in the history of civilization, one that if not solved will destroy or alter in a catastrophic way human civilization as we know it. These two books are dealing with this topic.

This first section in book I deals with the facts of climate change and global warming. These are hard cold facts, that are not disputed, they are happening now on this earth. There are some variances on the numbers and time scales for some of them, but they are facts. The second section of this book I deals with the schools of thought on these facts. They come to different conclusions on some of the data and facts, it’s the methodology and conclusions that differ. The third section in this book looks at different holistic perspectives, or schools of thought on the whole event that is taking place on Mother Earth. There are causes/solutions beyond the scientific.

The second book deals with the politics and sources of renewable energy and the commissions that can help deal with the environment, health and climate change, with the present administration in the White House. Having established the facts and some Schools of Thought in book one, this second book looks into policy decisions such as purifying coal plant smoke stacks to near zero emissions, instead of closing them down. It looks at renewable energy such as; wave, solar, hydro, geothermal, farm methane digesters, smart grids and others. It suggests 22 commissions and committees that need to be created to deal with this Trio: environment, health and climate, in a holistic fashion.

The second book deals with the Paris Climate Accord. If President Donald Trump did not reject the Paris Climate Accord and followed along with everyone else, for the next 15 to 20 years, they would have become stuck in this comfortable armchair climate change politics that the world is stuck in now. The U.S. is a world leader and needs to go the next step for our country and for leading the rest of the world out of this terrible situation Mother Earth is caught in. An issue few seriously deal with is that if the world does not turn towards a plant-based diet it will be impossible to solve climate change; this book helps to show some of the facts and schools of thought on this.

The first book on science lists out ten professional views that are used in the book primarily. This second book on politics primarily uses four experts, two in science (James Hansen, a NASA scientist and Michael Mann, a Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Penn State University) and two in ex-politicians (Vice President Al Gore a Democrat and Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich a Republican). This helps to give a balanced view. All four of these have been writing and speaking on this for over 20 years each, some for over 30 years. They give a good overall foundation for discussion.

My book first book on climate change, Jesus and Mary Kosher Vegetarians Impacting Climate Change, was written in 2015, showing the historical and biblical evidence that Jesus and Mary ate primarily a plant-based diet, as well as other early Christians. Later in 2015 Pope Francis came out with his Encyclical on Climate Change. He visited American in October giving several talks on Climate Change, one talk to the Congress. The Pope is aware how serious this global problem really is. This two-part book series (2017) goes way beyond my first book which was primarily on religion.

Most of the experts have said that wars will come from climate change and wars already have started. In the heat wave of 2010, the Russian government placed an embargo on grain exports, which caused chaos in the commodities markets, an unprecedented food price spike, and, consequently, food riots across Asia and Africa – unrest that led to the violence of what we now refer to as the “Arab Spring.” Besides all the devastating effects of climate change itself, more wars over food and land will come as climate change grows.

In a simple structure climate change can be divided into three areas; industrial pollution, transportation pollution and agricultural pollution. This book deals with all three but especially the agricultural and food section. People are choosing to eat animals (70 billion every year, other estimates are higher) and cattle give off huge amount of methane which is 86 times more potent then CO2.

This agricultural segment gives a carbon footprint which is about 30% greenhouse gases (GHG). The choice for a person to eat meat and animal products for a whole year has larger green-house gas emissions, then all their transportation uses (cars, buses, airlines) put together for that year. One thing that everyone has in common and can change is their diet. Even if all the people on earth cut out most animal products and only ate these three days a week, then eating small portions of meat as a condiment that is essentially cutting down global warming, and solving climate change is possible. This is a good place to start our personal effort in this area, and it doesn’t cost anything!

Radical behavior change, along with technology and prayer is needed in order to impact Global Warming.

Thank you for taking the time to read this book. Hopefully it is an inspiration for you to change!

Sincerely in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
James C. Tibbetts