Musk has taken that chain saw to what was once one of the world’s most enviable brands. Is there no Board of Directors at Tesla? Who is letting this continue? Markets Insider: GLJ Research reports deliveries of Tesla (TSLA) vehicles in five countries in Europe are down about 56% … | Continue reading
Svalbard. I was ready to buy my ticket there in 2020, when the whole thing shut down for Covid. Norway has a key glacier science institute there. | Continue reading
Farmers all over the country who signed up for grants to improve resiliency, save energy and soil, getting crushed as DOGE cost cutting hammer illegally holds up funds already appropriated and contracted. | Continue reading
Farmers costs keep skyrocketing, while commodity prices don’t keep pace. Clean energy helps farmers diversify their income with drought proof, recession proof, flood proof revenue. Above, a rural County Commissioner, and Township Supervisor weigh in on what they’ve seen first han … | Continue reading
This coup is squarely on behalf of the fossil fuel industry, US manufacturing be damned. Detroit Free Press: But Ford’s restructuring of its EV investments and strategy has become a repetitive mantra for (Ford CEO Jim) Farley in recent weeks, as he tells Wall Street analysts the … | Continue reading
New Scientist (paywall): The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) presents a briefing summarising the global climate each month – and in the first of these calls under the Trump administration, NOAA researchers avoided making any link between January’s record … | Continue reading
MAGA make you gag? Musk’s Naziism too much? Can’t stomach buying a Tesla product?You’re not alone. Here are more choices ranked for non Tesla home battery systems. | Continue reading
Might as well come out on Fox News.Totally wack take on the economics of producing more oil and gas, that he can’t possibly believe. Emily Atkin in Heated: During his Senate confirmation hearing last month, Chris Wright put on a moderate face. To support his bid to lead the Depar … | Continue reading
Bloomberg: As electric car sales pick up pace far from the US coasts, a wave of new fast-charging stations are coming online from the Rust Belt down to the Deep South. Roughly 600 quick-turn stations switched on in the third quarter across the US, a 7% increase from the end of Ju … | Continue reading
Hoodline: An ambitious project by Salt River Project (SRP) suggests a future where the Arizona desert blooms with more than cacti—an immense new lake designed for pumped storage hydropower could be on the horizon. A report from 12Newsreveals that this additional lake, currently w … | Continue reading
NOAA: In recent decades, the Northern Hemisphere has featured a “Warm Arctic, Cold Continents” (WACC) pattern, combining the warming and rapid sea ice loss of the Arctic with the frequent occurrence of cold, harsh winters over Eurasia and central North America. A new study, funde … | Continue reading
Half empty:Giant builder of electricity generation caves to Trump/Putin “Energy dominance” agenda. Half Full: Energy Giant CEO admits “renewables can be delivered right now, they can accommodate that (surging data center/AI) demand today…Gas fired generation announced today, …won … | Continue reading
Who is going to rake the forests? | Continue reading
By chance, it was California, a blue state that had the ongoing climate enhanced disaster as Trump was taking office, but inevitably, disasters now hitting Red States, as the administration, following the Project 2025 blueprint, is dismantling FEMA and disaster responses. New Yor … | Continue reading
FAFO Georgia. Trump’s Project 2025 clearly intends to offload FEMA disaster relief on to states.Good luck come hurricane season. | Continue reading
Donald Trump’s career is littered with the wreckage of small contractors he has stiffed after they did legitimate, good faith work for him. Donald Trump wants the US government to violate contracts as freely as he has always done over his career. In particular so far, the renegin … | Continue reading
The Bonneville Power Administration is the Northwest’s version of TVA.They’ve been hit by Trump administration personnel cuts, which some knowledgeable observers claim could lead to blackouts. | Continue reading
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testified on the state of the economy before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, February 11, 2025. He might have added that some of those places include the most populace states in the country – California, Florida, and Te … | Continue reading
Good thoughtful piece here, and to my eyes, factually accurate. As I’ve posted here, China’s oil demand may be peaking right now, some years earlier than predictions of not long ago. Additionally, China’s exports of affordable, very capable EVs are destroying demand in the develo … | Continue reading
CNBC: West Africa — predominantly Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana — account for about 80% of world cocoa production, according to a recent JPMorgan research note. Disease pressures, climate change and bad weather “ravaged” crops in West Africa, fueling a global cocoa shortage that has pe … | Continue reading
Energy Secretary Chris Wright: America is blessed with abundant energy resources – we are the world’s top oil and gas producer and a net energy exporter for the first time in decades. Our energy abundance is an asset, not a liability. On January 20, the Department resumed conside … | Continue reading
Farmers in Huron County, Michigan wanted wind turbines on their land, but they didn’t want developers to pit one against the other. So they came up with a formula for “Community Payments” – that would compensate farmers who might not get a turbine, or as may turbines, due to engi … | Continue reading
No coincidence that the new Secretary of Energy is a Fracking executive.No coincidence that his climate non-denial denial is state of the art.No coincidence that Mr Wright, (who I have already taken to task in a video) has a twisted and self serving take on the energy transition. … | Continue reading
If someone had designed an AI program to dismantle US Industry and the US economy, they could hardly do as well as what the Trump administration has planned. New York Times: Ford Motor could be forced to lay off employees if the Trump administration ends subsidies and other finan … | Continue reading
Bloomberg: DOGE’s threats to cut staff and slash the budget suggests the Musk-led team may be following “Project 2025,” a proposed plan for reshaping the US government authored by a conservative think tank that calls for dismantling NOAA and distributing its responsibilities amon … | Continue reading
Cleanview: Clean energy in the U.S. had a record-breaking year in 2024 • The U.S. added 47% more clean energy capacity in 2024 than in 2023 • 95% of capacity added in 2024 was carbon-free; solar and batteries made up 83% of new capacity • Annual solar capacity additions rose by 6 … | Continue reading
Good PBS overview of the ways climate is pressuring water supplies, aquifers, and Agriculture in diverse regions of North America. | Continue reading
I’ve written recently about the heavy security presence at a recent County Planning meeting in Otsego County, Michigan – due to credible threats of violence from Anti-clean energy fanatics, possibly connected with the Michigan militia. It’s not a one-off – it’s considered standar … | Continue reading
We’ve been hearing for several years now that big Data Centers and AI are going to need so much power that we MUST embark on a massive program to build fossil gas power plants, or the economy will collapse. It’s not the first time there’s been a panic about generation capacity, a … | Continue reading
Good episode of “Just Have a Think”, focusing on prospects for Energy grids. | Continue reading
Many Californians lost their insurance before they lost their homes. | Continue reading
FAFO. It’s real. New York Times: In less than three weeks, President Trump has thrown the U.S. clean energy industry into chaos, with much of the economic damage hitting Republican states and districts. In a quest to eliminate any funding linked to climate change, the Trump admin … | Continue reading
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Above, PBS report on increasing acceptance of EVs in conservative Utah. On the negative side, they allow an EV skeptic to repeat the “they can’t be recycled” canard. The reporter seems well intentioned but not well-briefed. On balance, we’ll take it. Meanwhile, Trump administrati … | Continue reading
The New York Times ranked this ad from the group Science Moms as one of the best among this year’s Super Bowl spots. Adweek: If you’re watching the Super Bowl from Los Angeles this year, you might see an ad from Science Moms, a nonpartisan group of climate scientists, who are als … | Continue reading
It’s cold where I am. But the earth as a whole continues to be gobsmackingly warm. Associated Press: The world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly United States, a cooling La Nina and predictions of a slightly less hot 2025, accordin … | Continue reading
Stuart Stevens was Mitt Romney’s Chief Strategist, and a lifelong Republican operative. I interviewed him in 2021. He says all the Republican purported values that he believed, have been abdicated in the age of Trump. His book is titled “It Was All A Lie”. | Continue reading
Science Direct – No blackouts or cost increases due to 100 % clean, renewable electricity powering California for parts of 98 days: Critics of a global transition to clean, renewable electricity argue no wind- or solar-dominated grids exist and solar and wind’s variabilities caus … | Continue reading
Autocrats hate science because science has its own laws that are immutable and don’t bend to the will of tyrants. The tobacco industry pioneered many of the persuasion techniques we now see deployed by the climate denial establishment.Similarly, in Stalinist Russia, a particular … | Continue reading
I’ve covered the completely bogus non-story about “evil solar developers want to cut down virgin Michigan forest for solar” that blew up on fossil fueled social media and Fox News a few weeks ago. We saw the workings of a well oiled global misinformation machine, as click bait st … | Continue reading
You don’t need to know Down-under politics to get the gist, and a laugh. | Continue reading
Ridiculously abundant solar energy is coming, if we want it. Could we use it to pull CO2 from air and create limitless carbon-neutral fuels? | Continue reading
Weird that Hitler salutes don’t raise your popularity. Markets matter. Consumers have choices.The question is not what Elon Musk will do with his power, but what are we going to do with our power? Bloomberg: While Elon Musk has been generating headline after headline for his effo … | Continue reading
Financial Times(paywall): Sales of Tesla’s electric vehicles have fallen sharply across many of its key European markets amid a consumer backlash against Elon Musk’s interventions in the region’s politics. The world’s largest EV maker in January registered only 1,277 new cars in … | Continue reading
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Los Angeles Times: Allstate said this week that it expects to lose $1.1 billion due to the Los Angeles fires, making it the second major insurer to announce the financial impact of the country’s single most costly blaze. The Northbrook, Ill., company said the figure represents it … | Continue reading
As I’ve been reporting, more evidence that there is some magical spigot of oil that can be opened to lower the price of gasoline is a fantasy.Oil Giants have told the administration there is no way they will drill more, crash the price of oil, and their own stock.Some talk here b … | Continue reading