The Icelandic Volcano did not stop me! I made a poster presentation of my paper, The Effect That a US Signature on a Kyoto-II Climate Change Mitigation Treaty (or an Equivalent US Domestic Change Mitigation Policy) Will Have on the US Wind Industry, at the 2010 European Wind Energy Conference, 20-23 April, Warsaw, Poland.  

Since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) entered into force (21 March 1994), the parties to the UNFCC have been meeting annually in the Conference of the Parties (COP) to assess the progress in dealing with climate change. Beginning in the mid-1990's, the COP was used to negotiate the Kyoto Protocol. The Protocol was initially adopted on 11 Dec 1997 in Kyoto Japan (Kyoto-I), it entered into force on 16 Feb 2005 and, unless extended (Kyoto-II) at COP 17, it will end on 31 Dec 2012. COP 17 was held 28 Nov-9 Dec 2011 in Durban, South Africa.

Because of COP 17, I am giving the public open access to my 2010 EWEC paper and poster.  My poster will look good on your office wall and on the office wall of your US Congressional Representative, your US Senator or your US President.  You can put my poster on your children's bedroom wall and can tell them that this is their future (hopefully).   

I am also giving open access to my 2008 Latin American Wind Conference presentation, The Use of the Kyoto Protocol and its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to Help Finance Wind Plants in Latin American Countries, and to my 2009 Michigan Wind Energy Conference presentation, A Mandatory US Federal Carbon Emissions Program (Kyoto-II) Will Reduce the Cost Advantage that Michigan Fossil Electricity has over Michigan Wind Electricity. 

GO TO: PRESENTATION at the EWEC 2010, Warsaw, Poland, 20-23 April     ALSO GO TO: http://twitthis.com/r44ec4

There is open access to thess documents.    

I was a member of a Fact-Finding Delegation that went to Germany, 17-21 Sept 2012, to study the topic:  Innovations in Energy Efficient City Transit. The delegation was sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and by the German/American Chambers of (AHK).  The trip was very interesting. Increasing the energy efficiency of US City Transit is an important climate change mitigation strategy that will also improve the US Balance of Trade.  Go to http://tinyurl.com/8bneefk