Thanks entirely to the efforts of local climate-related organizations in Seattle, I've now spoken at a handful of book stores, breweries, universities, and even Town Hall on climate and energy. Last week, I was honored to be on one such panel at a brewery in Ballard alongside Univ. of Washington oceanographer LuAnne Thompson and Governor Inslee's senior climate policy advisor, Reed Schuler. My role was to provide background information on the human relationship with energy: what we...