Our institutional understanding of climate science is feeling a little like a snowball in Hell right now. Oligarchs readying massive environmental rug-pull that will reverberate for ages. Wall Street Journal: The Trump administration is planning this week to repeal the Obama-era … | Continue reading
Disclaimer: Not all climate deniers are pedophiles, but I bet most pedophiles are climate deniers. — Sara Peach is Editor at Yale Climate Connections (via email): As I’ve written, Epstein expressed doubt about mainstream climate change science.In a typo-laden email that appears t … | Continue reading
AI unlikely to replace the cooks, carpenters, and other support workers at two Antarctic facilities run by the British Antarctic Survey. | Continue reading
The fossil fuel industry got what it wanted – a Presidency entirely pliable to their agenda, if only because he was only interested in pursuing his own robbery and selloff of America.But the cost has been staggering. None of us would have believed it could happen so fast. Trump h … | Continue reading
It was something a lot of folks might not have gotten, but Meteorologist Ryann Jones of KXAS Dallas Ft Worth made the right connection immediately during the Bad Bunny Super Bowl performance (below), when the set featured workers on power poles.Bad Bunny’s home in Puerto Rico has … | Continue reading
As I’ve been saying for many years, there is some kind of organic, hard-wired, brain structure connection between hostility to climate science, and racism.Clear evidence, again, this week, that there is no bottom, and no limit to what Republicans, and supposed “Christians”, will … | Continue reading
As experts warn of a possible “widespread collapse” in US Agriculture due to the erratic and incompetent policies of the current administration, Farmers across the midwest are desperate to diversify their incomes, and clean energy is one way to do it. In Mansfield Ohio, 2 former … | Continue reading
As the Trump administration, working in concert with fossil fuel organized disinformation campaigns at the local level, slows the construction of clean energy projects, farmers who desperately want those solar, wind and battery projects on their land, to diversify their income, a … | Continue reading
See elsewhere on this page for explainers about the soaring cost of energy.One big piece is that the lowest hanging fruit, solar and wind projects that are quick to build, and produce the lowest price power, have been “blockaded” by an administration that has much more interest l … | Continue reading
Affordability is the buzzword for the coming elections, and the price of power is one big indicator that is flashing red for a lot of Americans. Good explainers, starting with this CNN piece above. Pretty much all the components are there.While increasing demand is a factor, stud … | Continue reading
Farm Progress: For five generations, Keith Peters’ family farmed around Rickenbacker International Airport in Lockbourne, Ohio. Then bulldozers arrived. “The property around that farm was sold for warehousing. There aren’t any farmers living there anymore,” said Peters, now 65. O … | Continue reading
Doing an interview with one of the few talk format radio stations left in the state this morning, interviewer observed that although everyone is saying that this winter in the upper midwest has been cold, hard and snowy – if you remember more that 40 years ago, this would just ha … | Continue reading
Description: The world’s first electric hydrofoil service is officially in operation! Passengers are now welcome onboard the Candela P-12 ‘Nova’, traveling from Ekerö center to Stockholm City Hall.Cutting travel times in half and eliminating emissions, we’re unlocking the potenti … | Continue reading
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Kind of stunning.Arbitrary “emergency” power grab by grifting Secretary of Energy Chris Wright opposed by owners of a slated-to-close coal plant in Colorado – who have now sued, calling the action a “taking” of their property rights, to make the right economic decision.Wright’s a … | Continue reading
Reagan appointee Judge hands climate denier and pedophile Donald Trump, as well as climate denier and pedophile protector Chris Wright, their asses, on another offshore wind case.This makes for a complete 0-5 shutout of the “war on wind”. New York Times: A federal judge on Monday … | Continue reading
I want very much to electrify my home, but am still finding it difficult to budget for a heat pump. In addition there is a problem with installers, in that most of them are the same plumbing and heating guys (bless ’em) that installed your (most likely) gas unit and AC if you hav … | Continue reading
Time magazine has a rundown of what is driving higher electric rates. Turns out it’s not clean energy. Huh. Time: If you’ve found yourself drained by your electricity bill this winter, you’re not alone. Electricity costs have been steadily rising for years now, outpacing inflatio … | Continue reading
Reuters: Sales of fully electric cars surpassed those of petrol-only vehicles in the European Union for the first time in December, data from the auto industry group ACEA showed on Tuesday, even as hybrids held onto the largest overall share of the market. The data underscores … | Continue reading
Not all climate deniers are pedophiles, but I bet most pedophiles are climate deniers. just sayin’. Yale Climate Connections: The newly released documents show that in late 2016 and early 2017, after Donald Trump was elected to his first term, Epstein exchanged emails with celebr … | Continue reading
Last week’s cold air blob challenged the Texas grid, it was not as severe as 2021’s Winter Storm Uri, nor as long lasting, but offered a reasonable test of improvements and updates since that deadly debacle. Weatherization, what a concept.Wind over performed, Batteries and solar … | Continue reading
CBS Detroit interview with very plugged-in, long time Auto Industry and Michigan journalist Paul Eisenstein. The Trump administration’s insult and threats to Canadians motivated Canada’s turn to China, and deal for EVs imports to Canada – which had formerly been tariffed out of d … | Continue reading
Besides providing more evidence of the President’s bottomless insecurity and neediness, the obnoxious “Energy Dominance” messaging from this administration, coupled with military attacks on Venezuela, and Iran, as well as threats against NATO allies and Canada, are only accelerat … | Continue reading
Turns out having secret meetings coordinated by shadowy fossil fuel funded groups with a pre-determined outcome aimed at overturning critical policies based on mainstream science is wrong. In the video above, the grifter DOE Sec-to-be took time out from his busy schedule as a Fra … | Continue reading
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Detroit automakers just assumed they’d always be protected behind tariff barriers, and it looked like that would be the case for a while, at least, as Canada, understanding that it had a stake in US automaker’s success, followed the US in applying 100 percent tariff barriers on C … | Continue reading
Ever wonder how it was that Elon Musk did that sudden switch to backing right wing politics? Maybe it was the Ketamine. Maybe it was going crazy when one of his (how many does he have again?) children came out as trans.Or maybe, maybe, it was something else. | Continue reading
India has been behind China in economic and technological development, and as they are coming up the curve, they are now looking at a different set of options than China had 2 decades ago. Ember: India is generating more solar electricity, burning far fewer fossil fuels and elec … | Continue reading
This story, man. Definitely worth your time, I’ve only excerpted here. Wired: By now, major headlines have begun to catch on to the reality that China’s renewable energy revolution is one of the biggest stories in the world, while Donald Trump’s anti-renewable vision of American … | Continue reading
Sydney Morning Herald: Electricity prices in eastern Australia fell sharply in the final three months of last year as record-breaking contributions from renewable energy and large-scale batteries reduced the need to call on fossil fuels to plug supply gaps. Figures from the energ … | Continue reading
I’m sure the professionals at CDC are on it…oh, wait.. Reuters: Two cases of the deadly Nipah virus in India have prompted authorities in Thailand and Malaysia to step up airport screening to prevent the spread of the infection. But what is Nipah virus, and how worried should peo … | Continue reading
Trump hates wind, because some turbines were built near his golf course in Scotland, and he has the mind of a toddler. They tried the whale thing, when that didn’t fly, they tried “national Security”. Utility Dive: Vineyard Wind’s developer says the project is 95% complete and pa … | Continue reading
“Energy Dominance” is the obnoxious authoritarian language that the administration has adopted for how the US will conduct business. The recent threats and blustering in regard to Greenland have done more than compromise NATO – they have forced Europeans, who have been moving awa … | Continue reading
All they think about is money, money, money. Why can’t they be public spirited like Donald Trump? Barrons: The top federal official in charge of giving loans to nuclear plants had some harsh words this week for nuclear industry officials who want the government to invest more tax … | Continue reading
Above, Jeff Berardelli shows us the setup that will bring another cold blast across the Eastern US. Below, Fox Weather report on the resultant storm conditions expected in the Southeast, including beach erosion and power outages. Prep now. | Continue reading
Will Westmoreland is a (God help him) Progressive farmer, consultant, and organizer in Missouri. His website, The Back Forty, is a resource for rural community organizers, and he is active across just about every media platform. Will is well informed on issues, and is the kind of … | Continue reading
Above, Texas Governor Abbott neglects to mention what the biggest additions to the Texas grid have been since the Valentine’s Day Blackout of ’21.Solar, and batteries. Lots of batteries. Also, ERCOT knocked a few heads and got some power plants winterized. Catherine Boudreau for … | Continue reading
Restoring “Truth and Sanity”. Washington Post: Trump officials have ordered national parks to remove dozens of signs and displays related to climate change, environmental protection and settlers’ mistreatment of Native Americans in a renewed push to implement President Donald Tru … | Continue reading
A number of lawsuits are currently in process aimed at holding the fossil fuel industry responsible for climate change.The main approaches so far fall into two buckets – either that the fossil industry spread climate disinformation and created uncertainty about the issue, or thos … | Continue reading
We can accelerate the energy transition not just by building more clean energy, but by making grids work more efficiently.Jigar Shah knows more about this ongoing process than anybody, and had a good thread discussing. Jigar Shah on X: The U.S. grid isn’t “full.”It’s underutilize … | Continue reading
Neil Young Archives: I’m honored to give a free year’s access to neilyoungarchives.com to all of our friends in Greenland. I hope my Music and Music Films will ease some of the unwarranted stress and threats you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary governme … | Continue reading
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Growing list of lawsuits against fossil fuel companies now includes a suit by the Attorney General of Michigan.Particularly relevant in that, due in part to the propaganda from fossil fuel interests, the Detroit Auto industry is now at existential risk due to the postponement and … | Continue reading
Nashville also badly hit.Storm still ongoing. | Continue reading
Video posted by Alex Pretti’s family, shows him at his job as a VA nurse, giving final farewell to a veteran who had passed. His words “Today we remember that freedom is not free, we have to work for it, protect it, and even sacrifice for it” now have special meaning. This looks … | Continue reading
Washington Post: The massive winter storm bearing down this weekend on a large swath of the nation, from the Southwest to the Mid-Atlantic, promises to cripple travel, cancel schools and civic gatherings, and impose frigid temperatures on tens of millions of Americans. But anothe … | Continue reading
We’re going to fire you soon. But get out there and bust your ass one more time.Motivational gold. Washington Post: The Department of Homeland Security has paused terminations of employees working on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster response as it ramps up prepa … | Continue reading
Add this to the list of forbidden words, along with “Climate Change”. Fox Weather not following the directive. Hell, they even said “crippling ice.” | Continue reading