By GARRY RAYNO, Distant Dome
Winter is fading and summer is waiting.
Winter was mild with little snow this year until April, and last summer was the hottest on record.
The ocean temperatures in the Gulf of Maine last summer were the warmest they have ever been, which is great for swimming at usually cold Hampton Beach, but not so great for the climate.
New England, like most of the developed world, is in the midst of developing strategies for reducing the fossil fuel emissions driving climate change.
The push for electric vehicles and for heating buildings with electricity instead of fossil fuels also spikes the demand for power.
Today in New England the vast majority of electricity is generated by burning natural gas, while far less harmful than coal or oil, it is a fossil fuel and a global hot commodity, especially…


