Science Moms is a new group spearheaded by a core of climate scientist/communicators who are also Moms, including friend of the blog Katharine Hayhoe. They’ve got some pretty devastating ads that bring home in very emotional terms what we are losing, right now. Things that make l … | Continue reading
Amy Westervelt in Drilled: One thing I think is important to note is that once again we see that those pushing against climate action are not just aligned with those attacking trans rights, racial justice, labor rights and reproductive rights, but are in the same organizations, b … | Continue reading
Most feared accident at a nuclear plant is the LOCA (Loss of Coolant Accident) – it’s what happened at Three Mile Island, and at Fukushima. New Chinese design tested in real life demonstration and passed – cooling down completely on its own, so we’re told, after shut down of cool … | Continue reading
“We carry the economy on our backs”. Truckers have suffered years of abuse and increasing take-aways from the Oil Barons in Texas’ Permian Basin.Some of them are now trying to organize for a better deal. It’s not a climate story – but it is a story about the injustice that fossil … | Continue reading
This morning, a large nuclear unit tripped instantly offline in Texas.The graph above shows what that looks like on the ERCOT grid.The grid held up, but it shows how every energy source presents its own challenges to grid operators. This is not to beat up on nuclear plants, which … | 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
These effin’ guys. Just jonesing for that race war they are sure is just one small catastrophe away.In what universe does “The lights went out. I think I’ll go kill whitey” make sense?Trump’s base, man. One more reason we need a distributed energy grid and massive battery storage … | Continue reading
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A Senior Hurricane specialist writes: An alternative metric to storm count is the Power Dissipation Index (PDI), just the sum of the maximum surface winds cubed over the lifetime of each storm. This is a measure of the kinetic energy dissipated by each storm over its life. The (a … | Continue reading
US News: LONDON (Reuters) – Sunday, July 21 was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to preliminary data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The global average surface air temperature on Sunday reached 17.09 degrees Celsius (62.76 degrees Fah … | Continue reading
Offered without comment. USAToday: Tesla CEO Elon Musk said his estranged transgender daughter was “killed” by the “woke mind virus” after he was tricked into agreeing to gender-affirming care procedures. In an interview with psychologist and conservative commentator Dr. Jordan P … | Continue reading
Another Houston update. Even before the weather disasters of the last 2 months, a poll of Houstonians found that 57 percent were thinking of relocating, and in large part due to the extreme weather events, and poor community response. | Continue reading
William S Becker in The Hill: With less than four months to go until the presidential election, the economy is delivering some good news. At this point two years ago, inflation was above 9 percent. Last month, it dipped to 3 percent, while wages continued to grow. The bad news is … | Continue reading
So, what’s up with the Tesla board, that they allow this to keep killing their brand? Quartz: The electric vehicle maker’s favorability among Democrats has dropped to 16% as of July 16, down 20 percentage points from January, Yahoo Finance reports, citing new data from analytics … | Continue reading
Joe Biden has been the best President, all in all, of my lifetime. Last night, he confirmed my estimations of him, by dropping out of the race, an act of Patriotism as is seldom seen the political arena. He threw his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris. Major Democratic i … | Continue reading
Leiria Economica: According to a new study of the Greenland ice sheet, the climate model E3SM v.2 may do just that.overestimation of whitenessa basic property of ice. Which affects the speed of its dissolution. and thus rising ocean levels Scientists need to make predictions abou … | Continue reading
PBS interviews with storm chasers as well as NOAA researchers on this season’s historic spate of tornadoes. A reminder that Project 2025 seeks to break up and disperse NOAA and the National Weather Service, selling off America’s scientific Crown Jewels for parts – because in thei … | Continue reading
Increased turbulence, passengers boiling on the tarmac, cancelled and diverted flights, windows blowing out – now this. NPR: Summer temperatures across the U.S. are so high that they’ve created problems at cruising altitude, causing some overheated beverages to burst midair on a … | Continue reading
Taking hold everywhere, the oldest, most proven energy storage technology, pumped hydro, is ramping up once again in the energy transition. Compressed Air Storage is a newer tech, but equally easy to understand. Abandoned mines offer opportunities for both.Stories here from all o … | Continue reading
Project 2025 is your one-way ticket to the 19th century, the wondrous age of Robber Barons, Polio, massive child mortality, and women who knew their place. PBS News Hour: On the campaign trail, Donald Trump again vowed to shut down the Education Department and endorsed a Louisian … | Continue reading
Waffle House a leader in deployment as fast charging soars. Waffle House. Bloomberg: At the current pace, public fast-charging sites will outnumber gas stations in the US in about eight years — but charger momentum is only expected to accelerate. North American operators will spe … | Continue reading