I would caveat with the admonistions of people like Michael Mann and Katharine Hayhoe that every tenth of a degree of climate warming matters, and we still have many opportunities to transition the energy production economy. But yeah, worth listening to Canadian Science presenter … | Continue reading
Shared on Facebook by Wind expert Paul Gipe: Here’s film of a wind turbine operating near Yalta in the Crimea Peninsula in 1932! Amazing footage showing remarkable detail. This is a real wind turbine that worked until 1943. | Continue reading
Above, Matt “Mr Global” Randolph on the rapid rise in electricity bills.That’s even before the coming explosion in Natural Gas prices. Buckle up. Energy Information Administration: North America’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity is on track to more than double between … | Continue reading
Description: Taylor Ogan, CEO of Snow Bull Capital, explains why he believes Trump rolling back clean energy subsidies could have a ‘staggering effect’ not just on US, but China. He says America’s current policies are actually bolstering China, and Beijing sees itself as a ‘hero’ … | Continue reading
When the fossil fuel industry started its war on science 40 some years ago, they set out to destroy American’s faith in the institutions and media that had informed our civic lives for many decades. They succeeded, spectacularly. The collateral damage is that, on the fringes, we … | Continue reading
By far the biggest number of Climate change’s victims are not human.Foster homes needed. Above, WFAA Dallas report. Below, Houston TV report. | Continue reading
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If you go around as I have and talk to farmers, landowners and local officials about the purported effects of wind turbines on birds, you come away more and more convinced that the problem, such as it is, is way overblown. Renew Economy (Australia): Technology being used at two T … | Continue reading
A lot here. Mann starts at 7:22 if you’re rushed. No surprise – warmer air holds more water.Mann underlines how storms can entrain more moisture, and are more likely to stall in a climate changed world. | Continue reading
Lloyd Doggett is the Democrat representing the Austin, Texas area in the US House.He has raised a number of questions about the Kerrville disaster in a letter to the National Weather Service, and in this interview on CNN. | Continue reading
And Greed. Greed kills, too. Yahoo: Per a Thursday CNN report citing four FEMA officials, Noem recently enacted a requirement that DHS expenditures exceeding $100,000 be signed off by her office. As a result, the agency was unable to deploy proactive Urban Search and Rescue squad … | Continue reading
But don’t worry. This is not happening. Politico: At least 2,145 senior-ranking NASA employees are set to leave under a push to shed staff, according to documents obtained by POLITICO — potentially spelling trouble for White House space policy and depriving the agency of decades … | Continue reading
Venture Capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya above, appearing on the All In podcast, on why solar beats gas and nuclear right now. Same argument applies to wind. Wiki: Chamath Palihapitiya is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian-American venture capitalist, engineer, and politician. He’s the fo … | Continue reading
2004 called – they want their climate deniers back. The Trump administration has hired three notable climate deniers to shadowy roles. Among them, Steven Koonin, known among other things, for pushing a “Red Team vs Blue Team” debate to re-litigate the long settled science of clim … | Continue reading
Guardian: The unprecedented blackout that brought the Iberian peninsula to a standstill at the end of April was caused by surging voltages triggering “a chain reaction of disconnections” that shut down the power network, an expert report commissioned by the Spanish government has … | Continue reading
Conversation here with meteorologist Mathew Cappucci. | Continue reading
WFAA Dallas tracking down the receipts to piece together what happened.. | Continue reading
This is the problem we’re going to run into, as obvious climate change impacts continue to pile up, a whole lot of people who have been herded like sheep in the Fox News and right wing news bubble are going to have to come to grips with the fact they’ve been swindled.For a lot of … | Continue reading
“Perhaps what we’re seeing is the worst case scenario playing out before our eyes.” As Media Director of the Dark Snow Project, I documented and participated in fieldwork with international science teams on and around the Greenland Ice Sheet over 10 years.I ate and drank with, sp … | Continue reading
“There are no Windmills in China.”A US congressman with power to make policy actually said this. Even “X” gagged on this one. Ember: China achieved a new milestone in its energy transition, with wind and solar power together generating a quarter (26%) of the country’s electricity … | Continue reading
Atlantic: Of all the elements of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, perhaps none is as obviously self-defeating as getting rid of tax credits for clean energy. That decision will not simply set back the fight against climate change. Congressional Republicans could also be setting Am … | Continue reading
“..additional lives will be lost, and probably more property damaged.” Interview from the Austin American-Statesman. Description: Following wide-scale flooding in Texas that saw at least 43 people die, former NOAA administrator Dr. Rick Spinard says NWS layoffs has “compromised” … | Continue reading
Pretty amazing video of a phenomenon identified by a Meteorologist as ball lightning. Explains a lot of UFO/UAP sightings. Little is known about the rare process, but it is associated with severe thunderstorms, and the scientist here hypothesizes that it may increase along with s … | Continue reading
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Above, senior Meteorologist John Morales discusses the dangers of dismantling the National Weather Service and NOAA. Below – MAGA response to this week’s flooding tragedy – It’s Chemtrails.Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green says she has been “researching weather” (never a good sign) and … | Continue reading
So don’t worry. Raw Story: A Georgia woman seeking a Republican nomination to represent her state in the U.S. House of Representatives is receiving an avalanche of criticism for responding to the tragic loss of life in Texas due to a flash flood as “fake.” Kandiss Taylor, a MAGA … | Continue reading
New York has a set of explanatory charts no the No Good, Horrible, Very Bad Bill. You Tuber above walks thru them, I’ll post the ones relevant to this page, but go to the link if you want more. New York Times: Much like President Trump’s 2017 tax bill, it will add substantially t … | Continue reading
YouTubers weigh in on impacts of cuts to the US Weather Service following last night’s catastrophic and deadly flooding in Texas. | Continue reading
When plants that have weathered desert heat for thousands of years start dying, you might have a problem. | Continue reading
Above, NBC report. Below, KHOU Houston weather casters discuss the storm’s radar signature.“It just came down so fast…”“We were expecting it to move, a little bit faster, and it has just remained stationary.” | Continue reading
We’ve been pretty lucky here in Michigan, it’s been warm the last week, about t 6 to 10 degrees F above average, I think – but we’ve not had the same heat wave as other parts of the country. PBS Newshour – you’ll miss it if it goes away – has a new piece on … Continue reading "PB … | Continue reading
Josh Rhodes at University of Texas shared this graph of the changing energy mix in Texas over 20 years.Reading from bottom to top, you can watch coal (orange) and nuclear (green) shrink, and to a lesser degree, natural gas (blue).Wind and solar show dramatic growth, with solar no … | Continue reading
Took a few months for the YouTube algorithm to serve this up to me, but it’s very good. A local station based in Bangor and Portland, Maine, put together this debunk of the top 5 climate change myths with their meteorologists as trusted messengers for the science – good communica … | Continue reading
Above, Republican congressperson Bob Inglis, right after he lost his South Carolina primary in 2010, in large part because he woke up to the science of climate change and said so.He made some statements about the direction that climate denial and clean energy denial would lead us … | Continue reading
Businesses and investors like predictability. This administration is bringing anything but. Axios: What to watch: Critics and clean-energy analysts warn the policies in the GOP bill could ripple across industries, supply chains and geopolitical fault lines. Reuters: U.S. power se … | Continue reading
Words for warriors.Bad news. Good news. Worth a watch as always. | Continue reading
Exactly as intended. Fossil fuel industry has grown weary of democracy and rule of law, and aims to remake the US as an theocratic, authoritarian resource colony. Arnaud Bertrand on X: This absolutely stunning chart comparison by the NYT might prove to be the most important geopo … | Continue reading
CNN: The Trump administration’s proposed budget seeks to shut down the laboratory atop a peak in Hawaii where scientists have gathered the most conclusive evidence of human-caused climate change since the 1950s. The Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii has measured atmospheric carbon d … | Continue reading
Best case: Someone, no one will say who, slipped a “kill shot” for clean energy into the Senate’s version of the No Good, Horrible, Very Bad Bill over the weekend. It was stripped out in the version that was passed last night.Anyone’s guess what happens in the House, but with any … | Continue reading
Alex Epstein is a pseudo intellectual phony that the fossil fuel denial complex has elevated to pundit status on the strength of his formulating the so-called “moral case for fossil fuels.”You can think of “Philosopher” Epstein as “the smartest guy at the Frat House Kegger”.Epste … | Continue reading
Above, Joe Rogan raises a point of contention about climate change, pretending to have read about a study in The Washington Post that, he says, raises questions about human caused climate change.In the video, Dr Michael Mann follows up and gently points out that if Rogan had inde … | Continue reading
Penn Today: Presidential Distinguished Professor in Penn’s Department of Earth and Environmental Science Michael E. Mann, postdoctoral researcher Xueke Li, and other researchers offer fresh insight into the atmospheric mechanics behind these extremes—and troubling evidence that t … | Continue reading
Ryan Charney of the IBEW union spoke up in support of Little Trout Solar farm near Rogers City, Michigan, a few years ago. Union support was critical in getting this project permitted at that meeting. Major unions are now pushing back against Trump’s No Good, Horrible, Very Bad B … | Continue reading
Senator Elissa Slotkin is a rising star in the Democratic Party, and was selected to deliver the response to this year’s State of the Union address from the President.Slotkin held a blue seat in a state that went red last year, after winning consecutive terms as a congressperson … | Continue reading
Who snuck that in? Politico: Senate Republicans stepped up their attacks on U.S. solar and wind energy projects by quietly adding a provision to their megabill that would penalize future developments with a new tax. That new tax measure was tucked into the more than 900-page docu … | Continue reading
Doug Lewin on X: China installed 400 GW of new power last year, over 350 gigawatts of solar and wind. The U.S.? Just 63. We talk a big game about leading on AI, chips, and reshoring manufacturing. But where’s the electricity going to come from? Some say natural gas can replace re … | Continue reading
I continue talking to farmers about their experience with clean energy.Don Clark, a dairy farmer in Rosebush, Michigan, is one of a select few who have experience with both wind, and solar energy. A few years ago, after Don had spent a LOT of money upgrading his dairy operation, … | Continue reading
Note: Since Doug Lewin wrote the post below, the No Good, Horrible, Very Bad Bill has gotten even worse. Texas Energy and Power Newsletter: If the federal budget reconciliation bill passes in its current form, we will still build renewable power in the United States and in Texas … | Continue reading