Siberian Methane Marks Climate Tipping Point

A wave power demonstration pilot project is being installed off the Oregon coast near Tillamook. It will be connected to the grid and expanded if it performs as expected.

I'm in Troutdale, right at the mouth of the Columbia River Gorge, about 7 miles from Multnomah Falls.

Astoria here. I grew up in Portland, lived in Vancouver, WA and Camas, Wa, Redmond, OR, Burns, OR and now on the coast.

It's too late, NASA has been warning us about this shit since 2005.

Article in today's Oregonian----Portland Gas & Electric will close down it's Boardman electrical generation plant, the only coal fired electrical plant left in Oregon, by 2020(or perhaps as soon as 2016) in order to avoid having to install expensive smokestack scrubbing systems. EPA found Boardman to be in flagrant violation of air quality standards over a period of many years and failed to come into compliance repeatedly. The PUC approved the shut down plan.

One small victory----Oregon will be a coal free state within 10 years.

Personally----I would rather have seen Boardman converted to use natural gas instead of coal. But appearantly that was never even offered as an alternative. I suspect that this route was not expensive enough----so that later on, we'll hear more moaning and groaning about how expensive it is to replace coal elsewhere.

I live a block from the Columbia River in Astoria, and my garage will be under water.

I've lived in Eugene for over a year now and I went to the coast for the first time this weekend. Stayed over in Florence the first night, it was amazing. Then, we drove to Astoria on Saturday and stayed at the Holdiay inn by the bridge. I loved Astoria very cool town. First time seeing the Ocean too if you can believe that!! Weather sucked on Saturday though comin back hit a bit of snow.

Lots of variety in this state. Have you been east of the mountains yet?

Nope, I don't have a car, so I'm pretty much stuck in Eugene most of the time.

When you get the chance in the summer, check out the high desert.

I LOVE the Sea Lion cave. Not only might the sea lion cave disappear----the way things are going, the sea lions might disappear as well.

CRATER LAKE NP and Smith Rock State SP!

Yes! Smith Rock is amazing, and Crater Lake is too beautiful to describe in words.