This is a newspaper article predicting climate change in 1912. Not too shocking … from a chemical engineering perspective you can grasp the concept with a simple mass balance. The economic benefit from fossil fuels was so great that as a society we didn’t do anything about its very real negative consequences until recently. And now it’s the most important problem of our time. (Here is an explanation and Snopes write-up revealing this is, in fact, a real article.)

It’s a new year and time to face reality, the world will never shift to a clean energy future. (by Michael Liebreich)