{"id":41376,"date":"2013-06-15T21:21:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T01:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=41376"},"modified":"2013-06-15T21:21:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T01:21:31","slug":"warmist-amory-lovins-fight-global-warming-by-making-houses-with-solar-bricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2013\/06\/warmist-amory-lovins-fight-global-warming-by-making-houses-with-solar-bricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Warmist Amory Lovins: Fight global warming by making houses with solar bricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The warmist community loves Amory Lovins, lebeling him a physicist &#8212; even though <a href=\"http:\/\/nucleargreen.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/amory-lovins.html\">he has no degree in the field<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Guardian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2013\/jun\/14\/weird-weather-feeble-politicians-climate-change\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Monday, Amory Lovins, physicist, environmentalist, and unassuming colossus of the green movement, appeared in London to talk about energy use. I mention this in the context of the Guardian&#8217;s story that meteorologists are due to meet next week to discuss whether our bizarre weather is climate change-related (moreover, anthropogenic climate change-related) or just represents natural variation.<\/p>\n<p>I have got into the habit of mentally and often literally shutting my eyes when I see a story like that; ditto, when I see the phrase &#8220;400 parts per million&#8221;. What else do you do about a looming disaster that politics refuses to address? How is it possible to stay hopeful, when the G8 is meeting and climate change isn&#8217;t even on its agenda? What&#8217;s the point of international politics if not to address this?<\/p>\n<p>But then I heard Lovins talk about his negawatt revolution, and it cheered me right up.<\/p>\n<p>He said the solutions are already there; we know how to make cars out of materials that make them so much lighter they could be powered on hugely reduced fuel. We know how to build houses with solar bricks so that they don&#8217;t need heating (he grows bananas in his house, while it&#8217;s snowing outside and without heating it. This blew my mind). We also already know how to make renewable energy work: Austria gets a quarter of its inland energy consumption from renewables; Sweden a third; Latvia more than a third.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The warmist community loves Amory Lovins, lebeling him a physicist &#8212; even though he has no degree in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-aLm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}