It’s sometimes sobering to look at the data on climate change. This September was the warmest on record, but more importantly September was the 331^st straight month with above average temperatures. For the past 36 years the month of September has had a global temperature above the 20^th century average. 4.57 million square miles of sea ice melted in 2012, about the size of the U.S. and Mexico. Droughts also hit the U.S. and Eastern Europe.

Bad news, I know. But as cleantech gets politicized this election season, it’s always grounding to look at exactly what’s going on in the atmosphere. Now about those solar powered boats.