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Having just spent a few days doing heavy physical farm work in northern Arkansas – can confirm. Even the corn is sweating. Washington Post: The United States and the entire planet are poised to clinch their most humid summer on record, scientists say. The sweltering conditions, w … | Continue reading
Yale Environment 360: Scientists have unearthed the remnants of more than 1,700 viruses from deep inside a glacier in western China. Most of these viruses are new to science. With this discovery, the number of ancient viruses recovered from glaciers has grown fiftyfold.The viruse … | Continue reading
HT to Michael Mann for flagging, and explaining this.New research helps answer the white knuckle panic that some climate-watchers have expressed about a recent dramatic acceleration in global temperatures.That said, some pretty good scientists have expressed concerns about the la … | Continue reading
Mathew Cappucci in The Washington Post: After a long stretch of silence, it’s looking like Atlantic hurricane season may awaken once again. Two areas to watch have been outlined on National Hurricane Center outlooks, including one that could become a problem for the Caribbean or … | Continue reading
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Rather odd interviewer. Did she say “billion” when she meant “millions?Anyway, heat energy storage technology is coming on faster than most people realize, and that’s worth knowing. | Continue reading
Associated Press: Many people are now installing arrays of batteries at their homes. As of April, more than half of rooftop solar buyers in California chose to install batteries with their solar systems so that when the grid goes down, the house doesn’t. Nationally, sales of thes … | Continue reading
Above, very well done European video on the state of the Mediterranean Sea. As you might expect, marine heat waves taking a toll. | Continue reading
Wall Street Journal: The federal government and the state of Michigan are spending nearly $2 billion to restart the reactor on the shores of Lake Michigan. When it reopens, Palisades will become the first decommissioned nuclear plant anywhere to be put back to work. Driving the r … | Continue reading
New York Times: Two jaguar cubs burned to death, their small bodies carbonized. Tapirs with raw, bloodied paws had been scalded by smoldering cinders. Nests of unhatched eggs from rare parrots were consumed by flames as tall as trees. Wildfires are laying waste to Brazil’s Pantan … | Continue reading
Reuters: MOSCOW, Aug 28 (Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday it wanted the International Atomic Energy Agency to take a “more objective and clearer” stance on nuclear safety, a day after the head of the agency visited a Russian nuclear plant close to where Ukraine has mounted an … | Continue reading
Just as I was sinking into despair about the lack of Journalistic integrity in climate reporting, I stumbled on a TV Meteorologist in a major market unabashedly explaining climate change impacts. Marina Jurica is Meteorologist at KCAL CBS Los Angeles. Marina Jurica joined CBS New … | Continue reading
Broadening the base. Washington Post: “We are going to stop this crime,” Kennedy pledged to user “Concerned Citizen.” The crime? “Chemtrails,” the conspiracy theory that the lines planes trace in the sky are not water vapor (which they are) but at least occasionally dangerous che … | Continue reading
The public cannot make the connection between these continuing extremes and climate change if journalists continue to totally ignore it.Malpractice, malfeasance, and malicious betrayal of professional ethics. Too frequent and commonplace to be anything but deliberate. “You can’t … | Continue reading
“They’re more interested in water than money right now.”.Mexican farmers in rebellion over 80 year old treaty to share water across the border.Texas State Climatologist John Nielsen-Gamman interviewed above. NPR: Eighty years ago, the United States and Mexico worked out an arrang … | Continue reading
Financial Times (paywall): Turns out ecologists and entomologists around the world have been warning about declining insect numbers for years. The culprits are climate change, habitat loss, light pollution, intensive farming, pesticide and fertiliser use. But it’s a struggle to g … | Continue reading
It’s been a year. Emergency Alerts are no longer a rarity, and for some regions, are becoming a way of life. Welcome to the rest of your life. Bloomberg: Last Sunday, my cousin told me her church service was rudely interrupted — not by an unruly parishioner, but by a choir of pho … | Continue reading
In 2024 a major party Presidential Candidate repeats pretty much verbatim climate denial talking points that were stale a dozen years ago, as video below demonstrates. | Continue reading
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National Institute of Health: Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV) is a mosquito-borne virus that is primarily found in North America and the Caribbean. Over the past decade there has been an increase in virus activity, including large outbreaks in human and horse populations … | Continue reading
San Antonio Report: CPS Energy and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas both experienced new all-time high energy demand records this week as temperatures soared across the state, with San Antonio reaching a searing 108 degrees on Wednesday. Demand on brutally hot days acros … | Continue reading
Description: FULL DISCLOSURE w/ Roben Farzad – Pete Buttigieg – University of Richmond US Secretary of Transportation – Pete Buttigieg speaks to Roben Farzad about the differences of the experience of charging EV’s vs. the gas pump. | Continue reading
Adopting the correct attitude – For God’s Sake just Win. Politico: Kamala Harris’ decision to dedicate a mere half-sentence to climate change in her 40-minute speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination is perhaps unsurprising. Despite casting the tie-breaking vote in … | Continue reading
RFK Jr floats leaving race, endorsing Trump, possibly angling for a role in the Trump Administration on Public Health.Bear burgers for everyone? Right, this should certainly help beat down those “Weird” memes. NBC News: Neither Kennedy nor his campaign responded to requests for c … | Continue reading
Denton Record Chronicle (Texas): With temperatures climbing over 100 in much of the state, the Texas electric grid set an all-time record for energy demand Tuesday. Despite the heat wave, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas has yet to ask people to conserve electricity. Tha … | Continue reading
Wall Street Journal: An evaluation of more than 1,500 climate policies in 41 countries found that only 63 actually worked to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Subsidies and regulations—policy types often favored by governments—rarely worked to reduce emissions, the study found, un … | Continue reading
The Extreme Weather Report, August 22, 2024 “If it feels like we are seeing more of these extreme rainfall events, we are. It’s not your imagination.” Yellow Dot Studios has been putting these out for a while. The studio was founded by those responsible for “Don’t Look Up”. | Continue reading
Inside Climate News: The country’s farmers took in a record $19 billion in insurance payments in 2022, many because of weather-related disasters, according to a new analysis that suggests climate change could stoke the cost of insuring the nation’s farmers and ranchers to unsusta … | Continue reading
Why, when I was your age… Seriously folks, there are certain people who get their jollies and raise their profiles on the “they’re all the same” narrative. In fact, I’m so old I remember when Ralph Nader mislead a lot of mostly young, mostly naive, mostly lefties, into the notion … | Continue reading
As Joe Biden mentioned the other night, Red States have been big beneficiaries of the boost that clean energy is bringing to the economy. Bloomberg: In Georgia, the heart of the US green manufacturing boom, a new electric vehicle gigafactory is nearing completion. Spanning 3,000 … | Continue reading
Tough nut for fossil fuel barons right now, with European demand for natural gas dropping.One big reason is the war in Ukraine – which spiked prices and provided a bracing splash of reality to leaders who may have actually believed Vladimir Putin to be a reliable economic partner … | Continue reading
Worth noting that no farmer will ever have solar panels or wind turbines on his land that he or she does not want, and negotiate good compensation for. The complaints we hear are not from farmers, who generally support property rights and understand the benefits that come from cl … | Continue reading
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Above, local weather man – “I’m a bit beside myself – I’ve never, ever, EVER, experienced or seen anything like this..”.But completely unable to use the the phrase “climate change”.Is that a station policy? or just stupidity? When you look at the number of catastrophic floods we’ … | Continue reading
Christopher Mims in Wall Street Journal: A week of relying on a new class of family-size electric vehicle taught me a revealing lesson: A lot of us are all wrong in how we think about electric vehicles and charging. The narrative for many of us has gone something like this: EV ad … | Continue reading
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, currently campaigning as Vice Presidential candidate with Kamala Harris, has developed a good record in his state on clean energy. A new project in Northwest Minnesota is an example. New York Times: The past and the future of electricity in America are … | Continue reading
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I’m so done with this fascist piece of shit. Associated Press: Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov invited Tesla CEO Elon Musk to Russia on Saturday after being filmed behind the wheel of one of the company’s Cybertrucks mounted with a machine gun. In a clip posted on Kadyrov’s Tel … | Continue reading
First Florida, then the world. Nature Climate Change – Unpriced climate risk and the potential consequences of overvaluation in US housing markets – 16 February 2023: We find that residential properties exposed to flood risk are overvalued by US$121–US$237 billion, depending on t … | Continue reading
WFLA Tampa: If you remember the movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal in 2004, weather patterns became so out of whack that New York City got flooded by a huge tsunami and gigantic tornadoes that ravaged the land. The plot is outlandish – but like so many scien … | Continue reading
Description: Hurricane Ernesto was more than 1,000 miles away from the Tar Heel State when the collapse happened. The National Weather Service office in Morehead City, North Carolina, issued a Coastal Flood Advisory and a High Surf Advisory for many coastal areas because the comb … | Continue reading
Above, Sarasota still feeling long term effects of Hurricane Debby’s torrential rains. Mary Anna Mancuso is a political strategist and a spokesperson for RepublicEn.org, a growing group of conservatives who care about climate change. Mary Anna Mancuso in The Invading Sea: Tropica … | Continue reading
Johann Rockstrom of Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany has a harrowing assessment of recently observed acceleration in climate impacts. | Continue reading
Hidden camera reporting on Project 2025 – secret video of P2025 author, who is also author of GOP platform – this cut is even more shocking: -“Getting ready for a year 5 of the Trump administration”-favors Nationwide abortion ban with no exceptions “I want to get to abolition (of … | Continue reading