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Science: For nearly a year, climate specialists have been speculating that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from China—the world’s largest emitter—may have peaked in 2023, well before a government goal to halt emissions growth by 2030. Supporting evidence emerged earlier this month … | Continue reading
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Don’t assume that any change in government can boost hydrocarbon production beyond what technology and economics allow. Yahoo Finance: President-elect Donald Trump routinely led supporters in chants of ‘drill, baby, drill’ on the campaign trail, promising to free U.S. energy from … | Continue reading
“Unprecedented”, “outside our historical database.”Tornado warning in Coastal Washington. In November.DW interview with Meteorologist Mathew Cappucci, who is emerging as a most valuable player among weather explainers. | Continue reading
Big kerfuffle recently about purported incidents of FEMA workers neglecting or avoiding Florida homes with MAGA or Trump signs. One FEMA worker has been fired in connection with the alleged incident.That worker, Marn’i Washington, is now speaking out, and her story is that worker … | Continue reading
The guy being interviewed here at 1:10 made me think of the “I didn’t think leopards would eat MY face” meme. | Continue reading
Associated Press: The Weather Prediction Center issued excessive rainfall risks beginning Tuesday and lasting through Friday as the strongest atmospheric river — long plumes of moisture stretching far over the Pacific Ocean — that California and the Pacific Northwest has seen thi … | Continue reading
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A little late, but ok, what was it you had to say? My question is, what do you think History will remember about the Republican Party of 2024? TheCooldown: Editor’s note: This is an op-ed by Benji Backer, author of The Conservative Environmentalist and founder and chairman of the … | Continue reading
Art McClintic is a farmer, and long time school board member in Alma, Michigan. He hopes to site solar on a major portion of his Gratiot County, Michigan farm. Farmers, landowners and local officials are the most trusted messengers on clean energy, and I’m going to continue to ta … | Continue reading
RenewEconomy: US president-elect Donald Trump has selected a campaign donor and fossil fuel executive to serve as energy secretary in his second administration. Chris Wright, the chief executive of oilfield services company Liberty Energy, is a vocal advocate of oil and gas devel … | Continue reading
If you read my last post, on whether Trump can stop the energy transition, do so now, then come back to this. Don’t bet against an energy transition that will continue, and even accelerate. The speaker mentions projections from the European think tank Rystad, which I think are st … | Continue reading
Just came back from a meeting with farmers and landowners in Central Michigan, many if not most of them Trump voters. All of them working to expand clean energy development in their area.Every month they learn more about the importance of the energy transition, most specifically … | Continue reading
New York choking on smoke again. No matter where you live, don’t tell yourself that climate change can’t reach you. | Continue reading
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Drought continues in the Northeast, fires burning in several areas. | Continue reading
Peter Sinclair in the Midland Daily News (Michigan): Bill Chilman is a big fan of big fans. The recently retired superintendent of Beal City Schools, in Michigan’s Isabella County, saw his district through an important transition, as 86 wind turbines were installed in his distric … | Continue reading
Andy Lee Robinson is back with a new visualization of Arctic Ice Volume losses. | Continue reading
Farmers see clean energy, solar and wind, and now battery storage, as a way to diversify their income, and keep farmland in the family, and away from greedy developers. | Continue reading
Washington Post: Seasonal forecasting has come a long way since the days when people tried to foretell the severity of the coming winter by examining the color of caterpillars or the abundance of acorns. The forecast shown above is a blend of seasonal climate models from the Unit … | Continue reading
I’ll be talking to students at a nearby University, some of whom, I’m told, are despondent about the results of the election.I have some early thoughts:Keywords: Local, Vocal, Do not back down.I’ll have some action plans to offer them if they’re up for it. I will continue communi … | Continue reading
Somewhere in Northwest Arkansas, there is an organic farm slowly taking shape, with some profound knowledge of natural systems and soil being applied, along with one bloody fucking hell of a lot of hard work.The exposed beds actually survived a recent 12 inch rainstorm, while the … | Continue reading
Season’s not over yet. Above, model run for coming week. Accuweather discussion below. | Continue reading
Tucker Carlson, who recently reasoned that scratches that showed up on his body after sleeping in a bed with 4 dogs, must logically have come from an attack by a demon – has taken further steps. My response to the demon attack thing was, OK, grifters gotta grift, and demons sell … | Continue reading
“Why don’t we just put solar on rooftops and parking lots?”You hear this question a lot – the presumption is usually that if we just covered all available urban space with solar panels, we’d solve our energy problem – and that’s simply wrong, for a lot of reasons. One flavor of t … | Continue reading
Elon Musk is in a vulnerable position, as he told Tucker Carlson in a pre-election interview, “If Trump loses, I’m fucked”. He might be fucked anyway, if in fact he did anything illegal, having a top security clearance while having conversations with Vladimir Putin.If that’s the … | Continue reading
They’re really making it explicit, aren’t they? Independent: Elon Musk has used his large platform on X to promote a theory that a free-thinking “Republic” could only exist under the decision-making of “high status males” – and women or “low T men” would not be welcome in it. On … | Continue reading
For decades, TV weather reporters have not done a good job linking the effects of climate change to the specific weather disasters that they are describing for their audience.That’s starting to change – and the ramifications are not just on the news. Bloomberg: The World Weather … | Continue reading
Rains in Valencia, Spain last week were catastrophic for a number of reasons. More moisture in the air, a hotter Mediterranean, greater development in the affected areas with more impermeable concrete roads, parking lots and structures shedding water.The pictures are similar to w … | Continue reading
So much blame to go around, but I keep coming back to then-CBS CEO Les Moonves famous remark of 2016, when US media was milking the Trump circus for clicks, and thereby elevating and normalizing a dangerous criminal.Future historians, if there are any, will marvel. New York Times … | Continue reading
Techxplore: Researchers at the University of Tennessee recently carried out a study exploring the vulnerability of renewable energy systems to adverse weather and the extent to which these systems could be responsible for severe blackouts. Their findings, published in Nature Ener … | Continue reading
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It was always about the fossil fuel industry’s need to maintain power.It was always about the fossil fuel industry’s need to maintain power.It was always about the fossil fuel industry’s need to maintain power. If you still needed a reason to vote for Kamala Harris. Michael Mann … | Continue reading
Perspective Matters, Dallas based Public Broadcasting station. Description: Joining host Jim Falk to talk about European concerns, from France, is Dr. Paul Dorfman, an Associate Fellow, with the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex. Dr. Dorfman is Chair of the … | Continue reading
Melvin and Carol Christofferson of Mason County, MI, have been fruit farmers on this land for more than 50 years. In his mid 80s, Melvin still gets up at 5 every morning to manage their U-Pick fruit operation near the shore of Lake Michigan.They’ve been living with wind turbines … | Continue reading
White Supremacist. Bryan Allen on X: BREAKING: Federal agents just took down Skyler Philippi, a Tennessee man caught plotting to dismantle Nashville’s energy infrastructure using a weapon of mass destruction. This isn’t some one-off; Philippi’s motivations are rooted in a white s … | Continue reading
Climate Denier profiteer Tucker Carlson recently announced he had been attacked by a Demon. An actual demon, that scratched him. He’s been pantomiming for Christian Nationalists for some time, but clearly his media grift by itself hasn’t been lighting the world up, he’s figured o … | Continue reading
Above, Jeff Berardelli, Chief Meteorologist of WFLA Tampa. NBC News: A disturbance in the Caribbean strengthened into Tropical Storm Rafael on Monday afternoon. The storm is forecast to become a hurricane on Tuesday. Rafael, previously known as Potential Tropical Cyclone 18, form … | Continue reading
Above, US fire potential in November. National Interagency Fire Center, Boise. You know those wildfires that you thought only happened in California or Siberia? Ahem. North Carolina Forest Service: The potential for increased wildfire activity, especially in WNC, is above normal … | Continue reading
Associated Press: The recurrent storms in eastern Spain that led to massive flooding last week and killed at least 217 people, mostly near Valencia, dumped rain on Barcelona on Monday, prompting authorities to suspend commuter rail service. Spanish Transport Minister Óscar Puente … | Continue reading
We are at 1.2° C , headed for 3° C. | Continue reading
Guardian: Faced with worsening climate-driven disasters and an electricity grid increasingly supplied by intermittent renewables, the US is rapidly installing huge batteries that are already starting to help prevent power blackouts. From barely anything just a few years ago, the … | Continue reading
Historians picking thru the wreckage to find out just who played the biggest part in crashing democracy, and ultimately, civilization, will, of course, assign blame to Petro-Dictators like Vladimir Putin and Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud.But a chapter will have to be written about … | Continue reading
Before and after. Financial Times (paywall): The extraordinary downpours were driven in part by higher temperatures in the Mediterranean, a largely enclosed sea whose warmth is a store of energy that can only be released via evaporation, creating the conditions for intense storms … | Continue reading
No Food. No Water. Many homeless. More than 200 dead with many missing. Many remote areas still isolated. Military deployed.More flood warnings still being issued. Climate change is like fighting a war that never ends. New York Times: Late Thursday and Friday, rains spread to oth … | Continue reading
Spirit had it right in 1970. So far the message hasn’t quite taken hold. Katharine Hayhoe on LinkedIn: I’ve mentioned before how Coldplay was the first band to set a goal of cutting their tour’s carbon footprint by 50%. According to their latest update, they’ve cut their emission … | Continue reading