What are you complaining about?Get out there and drill baby, drill! From the article:One of the companies hit hardest amid the fallout in crude prices is Liberty Energy Inc., the fracking firm formerly run by US Energy Secretary Chris Wright. It’s down 37% since the tariff announ … | Continue reading
The self inflicted wound on what was once one of the world’s greatest brands could have lasting effects on American competitiveness and global response to climate change. Description: Tesla’s stock price dropped 9.2% to $217.41 amid a global equity market selloff, contradicting C … | Continue reading
In an interview with Katie Couric, Historian Heather Cox Richardson gives an example of how the right wing disinformation machine deals with disaster response. | Continue reading
Wait. What? You mean the important and powerful players is doing something completely predictable. Lotta gas execs might be going “I didn’t vote for this.”Including Fracking baron Chris Wright, the new Secretary of Energy – whose former company, Liberty Energy, has lost a third o … | Continue reading
Someone at the New York Times is obviously following this blog. The New Energy Secretary’s former company, Liberty Energy, has been liberated of a third of its value this week. New York Times: If U.S. oil prices fall much lower than $60 a barrel, around where they were trading on … | Continue reading
Improbably, one of my newest favorite follows on YouTube is an Oil/Gas executive from Oklahoma, Matt Randolph, aka “Mr Global”.He’s a little abrasive and combative, as an apparent democrat might have to be to survive in his environment, but his insights about the oil/gas industry … | Continue reading
New AI written climate denial paper making the rounds. Hallucinating and plagiarizing garbage from Willie Soon of all people.“Large language models do not have the ability to reason” – one expert said. In that regard, they have much in common with science deniers. France24: Clima … | Continue reading
“Stalled front”. Almost like there was something going on with the jet stream. I’m no meteorologist, but that looks a little disorganized. | Continue reading
It’s about greed. It’s about resources. It’s about the Oligarch’s thirst for control of water. New York Times: Mr. Trump and Mr. Trudeau spoke twice on Feb. 3, once in the morning and again in the afternoon, as part of discussions to stave off tariffs on Canadian exports. But tho … | Continue reading
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Amazing that it’s taken this long, but here we are. CleanTechnica: It is widely repeated that Winston Churchill once said, “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing — after they’ve tried everything else.” Although it’s not clear if Churchill ever did actually say t … | Continue reading
In Northern Michigan, an historic ice storm closed the Mackinac Bridge, as massive ice build up fell from towers, above, and exploded like bombs on the roadway below. I’ve seen a lot of ice storms but nothing ever like this. Michigan has mostly escaped the worst of the worst impa … | Continue reading
I posted the other day about the negative reviews oil executives have been giving the Trump administration.Here is more confirmation from Matt Randolph, aka Mr Global, a VP at the Oil/Gas company Sentinel Energy in Oklahoma. Welcome to the Resistance, guys. | Continue reading
Above, I keep reposting this interview with Harold Hamm, a fracking billionaire and one of Trump’s biggest donors. What I’ve been telling anyone who will listen for weeks. Oil executives are as confused and whipsawed by tariff policy as everyone else.But let’s invade Greenland.Ke … | Continue reading
We are losing so much here. What is so sad is the sheer depth of the stupidity of the administration and the Republican Party. | Continue reading
Daily Beast: The vibes just got a little bit frostier, ahead of second lady Usha Vance’s upcoming trip to Greenland. (And that’s saying something for a country whose warmest region averages temperatures of around -4°C in March.) A Greenlandic tourism business announced on Wednesd … | Continue reading
WDAY – Fargo, North Dakota: WASHINGTON – Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s willingness to eliminate FEMA may be a backfire move for her. South Dakota received at least $36 million in FEMA money for the historic flooding last June. Noem also applied for FEMA money five tim … | Continue reading
Takes more than an Executive Order to lower the price of oil – and even if you could, that would not get you the additional production you want – in fact, the opposite.And don’t get me started on Natural gas. ICYMI – below, fracking Billionaire Harold Hamm explains the same thing … | Continue reading
Residents evacuating. Again. Union of Concerned Scientists: Emerging dry and drought conditions are one of the classic precursors to an increase in wildfire risk, as we are seeing in parts of the southeast and southern plains now. Another set of more complex factors is also highl … | Continue reading
Senator Angus King presses Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on some points related to this week’s spectacular intelligence snafu, that you’ve probably read about, but then moves on to ask about changes in the Intelligence Community’s assessment of Climate Change.Ki … | Continue reading
These bastards.CNN above spins this as “purchase” of Greenland – when we all saw Trump say the US would acquire it “one way or another”. New York Times: Relations between Greenland and the United States sank further on Sunday as the Greenlandic prime minister erupted over what he … | Continue reading
Countertop distillation device aimed at water anxiety in the Developed world. | Continue reading
For most people those before/after pictures of melting glaciers might evoke some kind of “oh, that’s sad, glaciers are pretty” reaction.But for the glacier experts I’ve spoken to over the years, there is a much more urgent message. Glaciers perform a critical function of storing … | Continue reading
At least in Europe he’s not running the damn governments. But Elon’s pretty toxic over there, as well.Today, the oligarch who could not pass a security clearance, will reportedly get a briefing on top secret Pentagon war plans. New York Times: The Pentagon was scheduled on Friday … | Continue reading
There’s been a lot of smoke and little light since a large battery fire in California at the Moss Landing facility, which was, when built, state of the art, but now represents long obsolete technologies. You may remember that once, long ago, Apple had a problem with MacBooks catc … | Continue reading
Above, Matt Randolph, aka Mr Global, VP of Sentinel Energy, an oil/gas firm in Oklahoma. Below, the interview with Energy Secretary Chris Wright that Randolph was commenting on.Wright came into this job with all kinds of talk about how smart he is, but the more I see him, the mor … | Continue reading
Perfect firestorm for hurricane damaged areas. Florida, Carolinas home insurance risk keeps rising. Wildfire Today: A spike in wildfire activity throughout the United States has kicked off an early fire season, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. An estimated 9,520 … | Continue reading
My column is starting to get good coverage across Michigan. A lot of people who don’t read The New York Times still look to their local paper as a credible source. My column is starting to break into local papers in Michigan, where clean energy siting is gaining momentum. Peter S … | Continue reading
More from my conversation with Dr. Jeff Masters. A number of the places that have been thought of as “climate havens” – areas thought to be minimally exposed to climate risks going forward, have turned out to be, in fact, uniquely and precariously vulnerable. Case in point, Ashev … | Continue reading
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It might seem unlikely that an annual meeting of the Oil and Gas industry would produce so many headlines favorable for solar, wind, and battery technology – but here we are. Canary Media: In just the first week of March, the ERCOT power grid that supplies nearly all of Texas set … | Continue reading
There are strange things done in the midnight sun – Robert Service Guardian: A member of a South African research team on a remote Antarctic base has accused a colleague of physical assault and making a death threat, pleading for “immediate action” to be taken. The accusations we … | Continue reading
Tesla had one of the greatest brands in history just a few years ago.Elon Musk seems to be doing to Tesla what Trump is trying to do to the United States of America. Inside EVs: Electric-vehicle maker Polestar wants to capitalize on growing discontent around Tesla. Apparently, it … | Continue reading
Above, discussion of impacts that DOGE chainsaw is having on government agencies and services that have a lot of impacts in the Reddest states – one example being the severe storms that swept across mostly MAGA America last week.NOAA, which is critical to predicting and preparing … | Continue reading
Above, Chris Wright, the Grifter in Chief now at Department of Energy, from a 2019 video where he demonstrated that fracking fluid, the stuff that gets pumped down into frack wells, is so safe you can drink it.As I’ve pointed out before, the lie here is that people aren’t worried … | Continue reading
Yahoo: BYD on Monday unveiled a new platform for electric vehicles (EVs) that it said could charge EVs as quickly as it takes to pump gas and announced for the first time that it would build a charging network across China. The so-called “super e-platform” will be capable of peak … | Continue reading
Worthwhile context for recent temperature data. | Continue reading
Yahoo: The Trump administration recently denied a funding request from the city of Asheville, North Carolina, to help its recovery from Hurricane Helene, telling the city it must cut a program meant to aid female and minority contractors. The mayor said the city has cut the refer … | Continue reading
I am so deeply humiliated, so deeply ashamed, and so deeply, deeply, deeply angry with those who have made this absurd atrocity a reality. | Continue reading
More from my conversation with Dr Jeff Masters. This time, Jeff took a look at the new Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright. Wright is of course, a fracking millionaire as CEO of Liberty Energy, a shale operation, and I’ve shown you his misleading video drinking fracking fluids. Wri … | Continue reading
This is phenomenal.I showed you a brief clip of from NextEra CEO John Ketchum a few weeks ago, where he described how renewables could meet new demand much more quickly than gas or nuclear.Here he goes deeper and describes the impact from a shortage of gas turbine hardware,(see b … | Continue reading
In recent months I’ve spoken to hurricane experts Jim Kossin, and Jeff Masters, both of whom were formerly, in younger days, Hurricane Hunters with NOAA.(the kind of experts the administration is now firing) | Continue reading
Canary Media: The U.S. is set to plug over 18 gigawatts of new utility-scale energy storage capacity into the grid in 2025, up from 2024’s record-setting total of almost 11 GW, per Energy Information Administration data analyzed by Cleanview. Should that expectation bear out, the … | Continue reading
Bloomberg: Harold Hamm, the billionaire wildcatter and a major donor to President Donald Trump, has challenged a claim from the new US energy secretary that domestic oil companies could increase production even at prices as low as $50 a barrel. Hamm’s words represent one the firs … | Continue reading
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In a 2019 video for his company Liberty Energy, newly minted Secretary of Energy Chris Wright made a show of how harmless fracking fluid was by mixing some up and drinking it with his staff. Problem with the demonstration is, Fracking fluid that goes down into the hole is not the … | Continue reading
He’s not kidding.He’s crazy.He’s done so much damage already it’s terrifying. He’s following Putin’s playbook in the way he’s treating Canada, much like Putin acted towards Ukraine pre-invasion.He is putting Europe in the position of deciding whether to defend the front door agai … | Continue reading
Mark Carney sworn in this morning as Canada’s new, at least for the moment, Prime Minister. I posted the interview above the other day, but it’s worth a listen if you haven’t, if for no reason other than appreciating how smart this guy is, and how comprehensive his knowledge base … | Continue reading