Planet3.0 Blogs

Twitcher Glacier in Landsat images from 1989 and 2019.  The red arrow is the 1989 terminus and yellow arrow is the 2019 terminus.  1, 2 and 3 are tributaries. Twitcher Glacier is the next glacier south of Herz Glacier on…

Is there a bunny so sheltered that he or she has not seen myriad repetitions of denial starting with CO2 is plant food?Eli is a patient bunny, but has decided to take up arms against this nonsense.CO2 is garbage.  It…

The people, part 3 Last but not least, this rounds out the cast. Twenty-eight residents and 11 crew members set sail for two weeks on the waters of the North Atlantic. Tight […]…

[The following is the second part of my chat with Jonathan. First part is here.] nowhmm, i need to find back eric‘s questionwhat is a reasonable number for how much of the american electrical grid could become renewable in the…

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jan Ellen Spiegel Some Americans appear increasingly ready to give up their gas cars for electric vehicles. But are the country’s electric grids prepared for them? The question is a critical one…

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Sara Nelson is the International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO. Sara Nelson in Vox: “Pretty much everyone on the plane threw up” is not a sentence most travelers want to hear.But that’s a direct quote from the…

Applied Energy: Highlights – Nuclear power plants are subject to different operational constraints than other power plants. – We provide a mathematical representation of these distinct constraints on nuclear flexibility. – Benefits of nuclear flexibility are significant in a power system…

by Myles Allen, University of Oxford I was invited to speak to a group of teenagers on climate strike in Oxford recently. Like many scientists, I support the strikes, but also find them disturbing. Which I’m sure is the idea.…

The living room of the house that my parents built in 1965. An American style suburban home, a true mansion in the hills. I lived there for more than 50 years but now I have to give up: I can't…

Story of the Week... Editorial of the Week... El Niño/La Niña Update... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... Graphic of the Week... SkS in the News... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review... …

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A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Apr 14 through Sat, Apr 20, 2019 Editor's Pick How We Roll: Study Shows We're More Lone Wolves Than Team Players…

April 1 winter accumulation at the longer term North Cascade SNOTEL stations (Fish Lake, Lyman Lake, Park Creek, Rainy Pass, Stampede Pass and Stevens Pass). For North Cascade glaciers the accumulation season provides that layer of snow, that must then…

Sticky social question for the transition to green energy is the displacement, not only of workers like coal miners, but of existing generators, which are often major employers, and perhaps as importantly, big sources for local tax revenues in hard…

Although Climate Denial is dying along with the old white guys who are it’s principle purveyors, we still get gems like this. I treated this one Lo so many years ago in the perfect video for 4/20. and if you…

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Nuclear weapons capacity for the Saudis. What could go wrong? House Oversight Committee: Washington, D.C. (Feb. 19, 2019)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued an interim staff report after multiple whistleblowers came…

In advocating for your preferred energy future, bear in mind that we are all being targeted by a sophisticated campaign aimed at enflaming divisions among all sectors of Americans.That is all. Grist: The U.S. is divided over coal: Coal plants…

Wired: ON JUNE 1, the Pilgrim nuclear plant in Massachusetts will shut down, a victim of rising costs and a technology that is struggling to remain economically viable in the United States. But the electricity generated by the aging nuclear…

David Attenborough has graced us with an outstanding documentary about climate change, and about the modern political struggle around it. Start with James Hansen … end with Greta Thunberg. Thank you, David, and thank you, BBC. This video may not…

I watched BBC One’s Climate Change – The Facts, narrated by David Attenborough. A pity about the title, as it’s the same as a book with authors that include Anthony Watts, Nigel Lawson and James Delingpole, but I thought it…

The kind of discussion we ought to be having sounds more like this. A “market driven” Green New Deal, at least in Amory Lovins telling below, need not include the progressive wish list like job guarantees and medicare for all.…

Yes, Eli has been on sabbatical, but he really has been thinking of the bunnies, especially with Easter coming up.  Well, sometimes it just gets hard to think of something new and interesting and life, or at least Twitter, has…

A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. This post has separate sections for: Climate Change, Climate Change Impacts, Climate Change Mitigation, and Other Papers. Climate change mitigation Climate change communication Perception of public opinion on global…

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Problems  Australia is the worlds’ largest exporter of coal, selling thermal coal for electricity generation and coking coal for smelting world-wide.  In 2017 its export of this commodity was valued at over $40 billion, most of it produced in Queensland and New…

Northern Patagonia Icefield Landsat view on 4/6/2019. Transient snowline indicated on individual glaciers with purple dots. Clockwise, L=Leones, So=Soler, N=Nef, Ca=Cachet, Co=Colonia,  PN=Pared Nord, PS=Pared Sur, H4=HPN4, St=Steffen, A=Acodado, B=Benito, H1=HPN1, Sq=San Quintin. The Northern Patagonia Icefield from 1987-2015 decreased…

And this essay essay in the U.K. Guardian is a slam dunk. Advertisements…