Rethinking how energy is delivered to our homes and businesses is not what I knew outgoing American Meteorological Society  (AMS) President Dr. Alexander “Sandy” MacDonald to be working on. During my tenure as 2013 AMS President, the recently retired director of NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) in Boulder, Colorado came up to me and said (paraphrased),

I am working on something big. You are going to want this on Weather Channel Weather Geeks

He couldn’t really say much at that time, but he was right. His new study was recently published in the journal Nature Climate Change, a very high-impact scholarly journal.  The NOAA press release says the paper argues that by 2030 electricity in the United States could be provided primarily by wind and the sun. Ummmm, wait, that is 14 years away!

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