Planet3.0 Blogs

Landsat and Sentinel 2 image from 8/24/2017 indicating the lack of retained snowcover on Aneto Glacier.  The bare glacier ice ablates faster than snow.  Aneto Glacier in the Pyrenees of Spain is listed as its largest glacier in a 1984 inventory.…

A recent paper about [e]mission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C essentially argues that it is still possible to follow an emission pathway that will give us a good chance of keeping warming below 1.5oC. More…

Peter Brown of McGill University speaking at the Summer School of the Club of Rome in Florence, september 2017. We might summarize our present human situation by the simple statement: In the 20th century, the glory of the human has…

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Europe working on giant wind energy hub in North Sea. Something similar overdue for US. Morning Consult: The long-anticipated Department of Energy electricity grid reliability study finally came out and addressed how to best ensure a reliable power source for…

Tim Pandajis tracking again,   Heartbreaking statement from Roosevelt Skerrit, Prime Minister of Dominica:"We will need help, my friend, we will need help of all kinds." pic.twitter.com/7MVdedNbpL — Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) September 19, 2017 Hurricane #Maria is believed to have…

Meteorologist Tim Pandajis of Channel 13 in Richmond is a viral weather super-Geek for this hurricane season.   A horrific forecast:NHC now expects #Maria to approach Dominica tonight as a Cat 4, and strengthen to near Cat 5 before landfall…

Quartz: It’s often said that of all the published scientific research on climate change, 97% of the papers conclude that global warming is real, problematic for the planet, and has been exacerbated by human activity. But what about those 3%…

Kate Pickett spoke at the Summer Academy of the Club of Rome, in Florence, on Sep 9, 2017. (the picture above is from another meeting)Inequality is a subject rarely touched in the mainstream debate. Is probably safe to assume that…

It’s called resilience. And it’s just one of the benefits of a distributed, renewable grid with storage. Coming to a state near you, sooner than you think. Guardian: n a paved expanse next to an electrical substation in Escondido, 30…

Journalist Keith Schneider explains Michigan’s Line 5, and the economics of US pipelines. Detroit Free Press: Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and other top state officials on Wednesday called for Canadian oil transport giant Enbridge to immediately repair areas of lost…

State’s rights, cities rights – maybe the founding Fathers had this in mind. EcoWatch: More than one dozen U.S. cities have banded together to post deleted climate change information and research from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) website that…

A cartoon by Will McPhail. pic.twitter.com/8OnVLVNsy9 — The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 15, 2017 British Psychology Society: Unrelenting faith in the face of insurmountable contradictory evidence is a trait of believers in conspiracy theories that has long confounded researchers. For…

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News report, item on China starts at 1:00, runs about 2 minutes. Have not seen a US television report on this, other than this local spot. If you have not seen my video on where this is taking us, you…

Tim Jackson speaks at the 1st Summer School of the Club of Rome in Florence, Sep, 2017 (image courtesy of Daniel Reinhardt)There have been several interesting talks at the Summer School on Sustainability in Florence, but the one by Tim…

From Think Progress (originally from paywalled Moodys):Sadly the graph isn't global, it's for the 15 US states with the best wind resources. But for those states it's saying that the cost of just operating and fueling coal plants exceeds the…

Over last week, Hillary Clinton be all up like this. Advertisements Filed under: Crock of the Week…

This will be the best hour you’ll spend in front of a screen this week, I promise. Tony Seba explains how the plunging costs of battery storage and solar power generation, coupled with the rise of electric vehicles and autonomous…

Kate Raworth speaks at the 1st Summer Academy of the Club of Rome in Florence, Sep 2017Kate Raworth is best known, nowadays, for her book titled "Doughnut Economics, Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist." In Florence, she gave…

I haven’t really had much to say, hence the lack of posts. I still don’t, but I thought I would quickly highlight a recent paper by Xu and Ramanathan called Well below 2 °C: Mitigation strategies for avoiding dangerous to…

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.  Editor's Pick Asia's glaciers to shrink by a third by 2100, threatening water supply of millions High mountains of Asia hold biggest store…

Get coffee and get comfortable. Prepare to have mind blown. The above is an hour. If you’re in a hurry, or just want a taste – see 8 minute piece below on solar energy.    Filed under: Crock of the…

Ugo Bardi at the Summer Academy of the Club of Rome in Florence, September 2017. My talk at the Summer Academy of the Club of Rome was mainly a presentation of my latest book, "The Seneca Effect" (Springer 2017). In practice, of…

Katharine Hayhoe restates the case for no “natural cycle” behind warming. Below, example of how Deniers craft their lies. Filed under: Crock of the Week…

If you have not seen, watch. If you have not shared, share. New video shows why renewables are unstoppable. By Trump, by Putin, by Tillerson, by anyone. And wait, there’s more. Cleantechnica: GE has just launched a new wind turbine…

Take me to your Fearless Leader – I Dare to be Dumb. For obvious reasons, The Penguin did not make this list. EENews (registration required): Climate skeptics may soon join a key science advisory panel at U.S. EPA. A number…

A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change 1. State of the Climate in 2016 See also: A Look at 2016: Takeaway Points from the State of the Climate Supplement 2. The rise in global atmospheric CO2, surface temperature, and sea…

Daily Oklahoman: Budweiser, this wind is for you. Anheuser-Busch and Enel Green Power said Wednesday they have signed a power agreement for electricity from an under-construction wind farm in northern Oklahoma. The deal will give Anheuser-Busch 152.5 megawatts of capacity…