Notes

RICHARD -- Council President

Drake is the 8th largest CO2 emitter in the state

Coal fire power plant in the middle of everything

Creeks nearby could become amenities

More young people move to Colorado than any other state -- but not COS (front range is growing)

Olympic museum on the way

All this opportunity to grow. Even the business community gets it.

"The mayor, the business community, they're finally getting it -- that Drake needs to close" -- Richard

Only region in the country without a power association

Excel has wind energy with noone to sell to

Re-purpose Drake into storage with solar panels -- can still use transmission cities

You have 5-6 councilmen who are very passionate about this -- you only need 5 votes on the utility board

We have 2 years because we don't know what the next council will look like -- I might not be the council president -- but we'll do our darnedest to get it done

ISP monopolies -- we allowed ourselves to get in the internet business as government last election

"I think internet is a utility, like electricity, like water; we should get aggressive with it"

THERESA

The Climate Reality Deck for Colorado

Warmer than average days 5x increase from baseline

2016 warmest year on record

Last 20 years for Colorado have been abnormally warm

August 29, 2016 storm COS rain bomb

September 14, 2013 @ Boulder 15in rain, 9 dead, 12.5 million in damages

Earlier and earlier peak runoff

Dust storm May 22, 2013 in Lamar, CO

Earlier springs that last longer means pine beetles can now mate twice a season -- double the damage

3.4 million acres invested from 96 to 13 by the beetle

dead trees means more fires

2010 annual increase 30x more acres burnt from the 70s

For every 1C increase, there's a 10-12% increase in lightning frequency

Wind supplied 16% of Colorado energy in 2015

Colorado could generate 15x current energy capacity just with wind

.41 cents per watt for solar 2016

Pueblo 100% renewable by 2035

Renewables on a levelized is cheaper now than fossil fuels without subsidies

DR. POWELL

Chinese pollution is our pollution. We didn't cut pollution, we exported it

We're going to lose half of Florida

The carbon bathtub

Humans emit twice as much carbon as is sequestered

Phytoplankton produce 50% oxygen, ocean acidification is killing them

Doubt exists because the models are complicated, but not because global warming isn't happening

Logic does not work in the face of tribalism

Anti-intellectualism Richard Hofstadter

Ignoring this threat is terrorism

"Denial makes the Republican party the most dangerous organization in human history"