Daniel Coffey is a 22-year attorney with a chemical engineering undergraduate degree from University of California, Davis. A former appointee to the San Diego Park and Recreation Board, Mr. Coffey follows San Diego politics closely as an active member of the community.
Dear Reader: Some of you may wish to read this just before lights out.
A recent MIT study indicates that by the year 2100, the median projected atmospheric temperature rise could be 9.4 degrees F, with a 90 percent probability range of 6.3 F to 13.3 F, not the previous 4 degrees used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
In my Aug. 27 column, "An environmental China in 2020?," I warned that China presents a real economic risk to one of America's best hopes for a financial and manufacturing renewal: wind power. That column ended: "or maybe we wait five years and buy it cheaper from the Chinese on the national credit card."
