Planet3.0 Blogs

Eli notes there is still time to drop $28,824 per person to cruise the Northwest Passage in August on the Roald Amundsen, the new flagship of the Hurtigruten.  Since the ship has a hybrid propulsion system even the CO2 emissions…

Are we scared enough? I don’t think society is nearly frightened enough as a whole. But at the same time I don’t think that frightening messages need to be grounded in science – and some aren’t – the topic of…

Price of Oil: So is this how it ends? As our climate emergency deepens, as the once great Arctic icescapes melt before our eyes, and once majestic glaciers break up and melt and disappear, we are left to put plaques…

Relevant because the suffering of animals under climate change is and will be intense. Perhaps there are people unmoved by human suffering who will respond to the pain of animals. Advertisements…

Moon landing denial might be the quintessential science denial meme. Maybe Buzz Aldrin shows us the most effective, and eloquent, response to it. Esquire: The fifty years since we sent three men there—and put two on its surface!—have seen giant…

The Drive: Analysts believe that 2018 will go down as the best year for internal combustion vehicle sales ever, predicting a downturn in demand for the mode of propulsion starting in 2019. “At the beginning of the year we had…

From left to right in the photo, Ishmael, Captain Ahab, and Captain Peleg. Actually, the top-hatted, harpoon-bearing person in the center is me (Ugo Bardi) giving a talk on sustainability in Bagnaia, Italy, on July 17, 2019. Near me, Albert…

via The Onion…

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The fact that there is a website called “Climate Liability News” suggests that polluters are at increasing risk from a rising number of climate-based lawsuits. Some 20 years ago I actually called and got thru to Rush Limbaugh, who was…

I had not heard this song done by the writer. Worth it for the simple, clean direct finger style guitar.…

Scientific American: The federal government is ill-prepared to shoulder what could be a trillion-dollar fiscal crisis associated with extreme weather, floods, wildfires and other climate disasters through 2100, federal investigators have found. In the latest of a series of reports,…

Wikipedia: The dew point is the temperature to which air must be cooled to become saturated with water vapor. When further cooled, the airborne water vapor will condense to form liquid water (dew) Woke up last night to check out the thunderstorm rolling thru.Normally, one feels a rush of…

Stepped outside yet today? Today in the midwest is what a normal summer day will be like in a few decades. National Geographic: In less than 20 years, millions of people in the United States could be exposed to dangerous “off-the-charts”…

Voters are more concerned than ever about climate and environment – and for them, the Democrats are the only game in town. Republicans are finding that conscience, like a muscle, can atrophy from disuse.The course for the climate-concerned is clear.…

Years ago, I was the only one talking about the all-too-obvious relationship between racism, misogyny, and climate denial. So, do we get it now? Above, 2013 interview with General Colin Powell, who was once a mainstream Republican, focuses on the…

In Georgia, the Public Service Commission chair is named Bubba. Bear that in mind when you read about them selecting solar, vs coal power. Atlanta Journal Constitution: Georgia will rely more on the sun to generate electricity as it retreats…

Great stuff. Bonus track below with John Legend. Advertisements…

Tiny changes in the orientation of wind turbines pay big efficiency dividends. Renews.biz: Researchers at Stanford University, in California, have shown that angling turbines slightly away from the wind can boost energy produced overall. Pointing turbines slightly away from oncoming…

Jeff Berardelli for Yale Climate Connections: Consider a graph of temperatures plotted on a bell curve. Most temperatures fall near the middle of the curve, and those temperatures would be considered typical. Any temperature that falls on the edges of…

Washington Post: Boosted by a historic heat wave in Europe and unusually warm conditions across the Arctic and Eurasia, the average temperature of the planet soared to its highest level ever recorded in June. According to data released Monday by…

Reporting on algae blooms around the world often does not cover the climate connection. Cleveland.com: The bad news about this year’s Lake Erie algal toxins is that the harmful blooms are likely to be “significant” and could range up to 9…

Proceedings of the National Academy – Discussing global warming leads to greater acceptance of Climate Science: …discussing global warming with friends and family leads people to learn influential facts, such as the scientific consensus that human-caused global warming is happening.…

Mendenhall Glacier in Landsat images from 1984 and 2018.  Yellow arrows indicates 1984 terminus location, read arrow the Suicide Basin tributary and the purple dots the snowline. Mendenhall Glacier is the most visited and photographed terminus in the Juneau Icefield…

Last impressions of the first day…

Image Credit: Eviation As I've mentioned in quite a few previous posts, I'm a pilot by avocation and a dedicated follower of all things aviation. My YouTube feed recently decided that I'd be interested in the Eviation Alice, an all-electric…

I’m inaugurating a new genre of YouTube memes. While I caution my catastrophist friends (get it?) that we are not looking at imminent human extinction, there are enough climate disasters in the pipeline to supply us with many decades of…

Last week, I opened a special thread over on the Arctic Sea Ice Forum to compare 2012 and 2019, because basically, that's what it comes down to at this point. In the thread, people post data, maps, graphs and satellite…

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"A lot of these laws and regulations were designed back when the US had a finite amount of energy. Before the new technology was put into place."  Gordon Sondland, US ambassador to the European Union, at the meeting titled "The…