New York Times: Oil prices are falling. Economists are cutting forecasts for global economic growth. Oil giants are reporting lower profits. But on Saturday, eight countries that belong to the oil cartel known as OPEC Plus said they would add about 411,000 barrels of oil a day in … | Continue reading
Above, Kelly Trice, President of Holtec International, is directing the restart of the Palisades Nuclear Plant in South Haven, Michigan, as well as the hoped for construction of 2 small modular reactors on the site.Above, Trice discusses the progress of the restart, including som … | Continue reading
All of the programs that the current administration claims to love are being knee-capped by contradictory and confused trade policy. Nuclear no exception.The always well informed Joe Romm, now at the University of Pennsylvania, gave an excellent zoom session a few weeks ago, the … | Continue reading
Ready, Fire, Aim.Above, remembering the Texas Valentine’s Day Blackout of 2021. Immediately blamed on wind turbines. Turns out it was a gas disaster. E&E News: Spain and Portugal were still in the dark Monday when U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright went on television to blame a w … | Continue reading
Climate.gov: The National Snow and Ice Data Center reports that Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its seasonal maximum extent on March 22, 2025, 10 days later than the 1981-2010 average. Despite the late peak, it was the lowest maximum extent of the 47-year satellite era, wh … | Continue reading
Ember: Since coal’s nationwide peak in 2007, wind and solar have surpassed it in 24 states– and the pace is accelerating. Half made the switch in just the last six years, with Illinois the latest to cross over in 2024, following Arizona, Colorado, Florida and Maryland in 2023. In … | Continue reading
I’m old enough to remember when about 15 years ago, the conventional wisdom was that fossil gas (what some folks still call “natural gas”) would be the “bridge fuel” to clean technologies like solar, wind and storage.At the time gas had become cheap enough to build widely, was ou … | Continue reading
5000 locations, 650 billion in revenue, plenty of free space, a huge profit opportunity, and a big FU to Trump Administration. Above, long form video has details. InsideEVs: Happel explained that the retailer intends to install Walmart EV charging stations at “thousands of its lo … | Continue reading
New research showing that “climate attribution” science, which can forensically connect particular polluters to a specific climate disaster, is now reaching a critical threshold.A reckoning is coming. Bloomberg: Over the last decade, scientists have rapidly developed the field of … | Continue reading
The sanity we are missing so desperately, like water in the desert. Transcript here via Robert Reich (excerpt here): In the immediate aftermath of World War II, a small group of philosophers who had escaped Hitler’s murderous regime returned to Germany and performed a kind of mor … | Continue reading
Because if you don’t know what’s happening, it can’t hurt you, right? Reuters: President Donald Trump’s administration has dismissed all contributors to the U.S. government’s signature study that informs federal and local governments on how to prepare for climate change impacts, … | Continue reading
This gang absolutely can not shoot straight. American Nuclear Society: Nearly 60 percent of staff at the U.S. Department of Energy’s nuclear-friendly Loan Programs Office may be lost through President Trump’s deferred resignation program, the Washington Examiner reported. Accordi … | Continue reading
If the Chinese had wanted to build an AI designed to kill the US auto industry, they could hardly have created anything more lethal than the current administration. Brian Deese in the New York Times: For over a century, the auto industry has been a cornerstone of America’s indust … | Continue reading
Smart people are a limited resource, and they have choices. They don’t need to come here, or stay here, if our Government makes them feel unwelcome. | Continue reading
Peter Sinclair in the Midland Daily News: Weather changes and extremes have always been with us, and spring is a time when storms can be intense. But in a changed climate, the atmosphere holds more heat and moisture, the fuel that powers storms.For the last several years, residen … | Continue reading
More Keystone Kops flip flops from the gang that can’t drill straight. Energy Sec and Climate bullshitter Chris Wright, along with Interior Sec Doug Burgum called on the luxuriously plush carpet by Billionaire donor and Fracking Tycoon Harold Hamm, to explain themselves, and how … | Continue reading
Space.com: BOSTON — NASA is canceling the lease for the offices of a branch of the Goddard Space Flight Center in New York that does Earth science research. In an April 24 email to Goddard employees, Makenzie Lystrup, director of Goddard Space Flight Center, said that the lease t … | Continue reading
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Comedian Josh Johnson on the recent high profile women’s flight on Jeff Bezo’s Blue Origin spacecraft.The “Overview Effect” is the psychological change that comes about from seeing the Earth from orbit.I recently got as close as I’ll ever get in an immersive virtual reality exhib … | Continue reading
RMI: The latest research indicates that emissions from uneconomically dispatched coal plants — coal plants that run when cheaper resources are available — cost communities $13–$26 billion in health costs each year. These costs are 13 times greater than what consumers are paying f … | Continue reading
“This is politicization of grant funds and disaster assistance like we’ve never seen before,” a second FEMA official told CNN. ABC News: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the state’s entire GOP congressional delegation are urging President Donald Trump to reconsider after … | Continue reading
Warming waters bringing an invasive crab to New England waters.One solution – eat the bastards. | Continue reading
Tesla owners getting post-it notes on their car is an example of the unsettling reaction to “lunatic” Musk. ABC News: Tesla’s profits fell 71% over the first three months of this year, a company earnings release on Tuesday showed. The company’s performance fell short of analysts’ … | Continue reading
CNN: The Trump administration quietly released key climate change data last week that has historically been accompanied by expert analysis from government scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, CNN has learned. The lack of context minimized the governm … | Continue reading
Bastard got out and took a cushy Deep State job just in time to escape Trump’s “Golden Era”. E&E News: The oil company founded by Energy Secretary Chris Wright reported falling profits Thursday, warning investors that the oil industry faces “storm clouds on the horizon” amid Pres … | Continue reading
They’ve been telling us for quite a while. Below, my video from years ago reviewing a straight-to-vinyl audio episode of General Electric’s “Excursions in Science”, precursor to modern podcasts. That episode reviewed Gilbert Plass’s research on “The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Clima … | Continue reading
Serious doubt about the future of the US auto industry if nothing changes in Washington, soon. Inside EVs: The battery world wasn’t bullish about sodium-ion EV batteries until top Chinese battery companies went all in on the tech. Why bother with a new chemistry when lithium iron … | Continue reading
Two stories in The New York Times today that are related.The details vary, but the main elements are the same wherever you go. Clean energy brings economic stability to rural communities, along with some intangibles. New York Times: Mr. Chamberlain, 70, grew up in Atchison, one o … | Continue reading
Yahoo Finance: American Resources Corporation AREC has announced the development of a cutting-edge leaching solution that is modular, mobile and scalable. This novel solution allows for the extraction of rare earth concentrates from coal waste and other mining waste — materials t … | Continue reading
As repetitive storms keep hammering the middle of North America, at least some of them, earlier in the month, were associated with a “stalled” system, and a split jet stream, which, while not unique, was rather large and seems implicated in the drawn out nature of the precipitati … | Continue reading
International Energy Agency: The global battery market is advancing rapidly as demand rises sharply and prices continue to decline. In 2024, as electric car sales rose by 25% to 17 million, annual battery demand surpassed 1 terawatt-hour (TWh) – a historic milestone. At the same … | Continue reading
Utility Dive: According to Wood Mackenzie and the American Clean Power Association, the U.S. deployed more than 3 GW/10.5 GWh of energy storage in Q2 2024 – a dramatic 74% and 86% increase in power and energy capacity compared to Q2 2023. When strategically deployed, these soluti … | Continue reading
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Meteorologist for the Houston Chronicle has been sounding the alarm on cuts to NOAA and climate science data collection.A plus communication work here, leveraging the credibility of local TV meteorologists to inform audiences of what could be lost. Props the the local ABC station … | Continue reading
RMI:1. Get the most out of mined minerals. It will take some time to build the infrastructure to support a robust circular battery economy, so in the short term we will need to continue mining to meet growing demand for batteries. But by focusing on how to get the most out of the … | Continue reading
Zeke Hausfather and Devin Rand in the Climate Brink: Last September the Washington Post published an article about a new paper in Science by Emily Judd and colleagues. The WaPo article was detailed and nuanced, but led with the figure above, adapted from the paper. The internet, … | Continue reading
85 percent of investors think Musk’s political activities will have a negative impact on Tesla’s market fundamentals. Ya Think? Below, the report above points out that for all the damage done to the company, the purported benefits, in terms of lowered government spending, have no … | Continue reading
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Oil guy Matt Randolph is back with a very worthwhile explainer on how oil companies are responding to the downturn caused by their favored President kneecapping their business model. Rystad Energy via OilPrice.com: West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude prices dipped into the low $6 … | Continue reading
Hard to have much respect for Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who portrays himself as a hard headed, data driven guy (just not so much on climate data). He took the job knowing that the “Drill Baby Drill” mantra was bullshit, that oil companies could not and would not follow that … | Continue reading
Pretty good, factual reporting above. Naturally, our Neo Nero didn’t like it. The Hill: President Trump railed against CBS on Sunday night, saying the network should lose its broadcast license after “60 Minutes” aired segments on Ukraine and Greenland that the president said cast … | Continue reading
“One of the most important unanswered questions in climate science” that I knew basically nothing about. So probably worth your while. | Continue reading
Takes some real genius to make our best friends hate us this much. | Continue reading
For most of a century, the United States has been the haven for investors in troubled times, and US bonds have been considered a repository of value globally precisely because the country’s commitment to rule of law, to great science and data, to non-politicized scientific, regul … | Continue reading
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Canary Media: For the first time, fossil fuels accounted for less than half of U.S. electricity production across an entire month as clean power generation surged in March. Last month, fossil gas and coal made up just over 49% of power generation, while solar, wind, hydropower, b … | Continue reading
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I’m not a forester but I suspect damage like that shown above will have implications for insects, wildlife and fire risk going forward. I’ll be speaking to Michigan Rural Democrats this weekend, and one of the topics will be last week’s ice storm, the most severe in living memory … | Continue reading