Planet3.0 Blogs

New York Times: Ford Motor’s latest offering seems like an oxymoron twice over: It’s a sport utility vehicle that’s electric … that’s a Mustang. It’s also Detroit’s biggest bet yet on a mass-market future for battery-powered cars. The big automakers…

Flat Earth movement apparently has some “influential minds”. What does that even mean? We live in the age of science denial, and we’d better figure out how to cure that disease. CNN: (CNN)”I don’t want to be a flat Earther,”…

Above – Anthrax from melting permafrost. Below, exotic viruses spreading in newly opened waterways. Science Daily: Scientists have linked the decline in Arctic sea ice to the emergence of a deadly virus that could threaten marine mammals in the North…

CNBC: McDonald’s has inked two power purchase agreements which will see the fast food giant buy renewable energy generated by wind and solar projects in Texas. In an announcement Thursday McDonald’s described the agreements as “long term” and “large scale.” Construction…

Description: Scientists in Minnesota and Kansas are developing a grain called Kernza, which, unlike most of our food crops, is a perennial plant with a whole host of environmental benefits. While it’s still far from hitting the market widely, food…

Arctic infrastructure depends on the solid surface provided by permafrost. But what happens when that formerly reliable foundation begins to melt due to climate warming? Potential to lose not only an airport, but important staging area for scientists working on…

Robbie Andrew at CICERO: We have a big challenge ahead of us if we are to hold global warming to under 2°C. This is largely because we have already used up most of our collective ‘carbon budget’. The amount that…

Ten years ago, on November 20th, 2009, the "Climategate" story broke into the news, worldwide. At the beginning, it seemed to be just part of the heated debate on climate. Then, its true character appeared more clearly: it was a…

Steffen Glacier in 1987 and 2019 Landsat images.  Red arrow is 1987 terminus location, green arrow 2015 terminus location, yellow arrow 2019 terminus location, orange arrow an area of expanding debris cover and the pink arrow locations indicating water level…

I spent a few days in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for a talk on Solar Energy, then ran down to Northern Central Michigan College in Petoskey for a Climate presentation. All just in time to get hammered by the latest polar…

Today: It turns out the massive storm surge from Hurricane Dorian didn’t entirely wipe out the wild horses and cows that lived on North Carolina’s Cedar Island when it made landfall in September. Three of the wild cows simply changed…

Climategate is a topic I’ve rarely discussed on this blog. Mostly because it’s clear that it’s not possible to have a constructive discussion with those who have different views about its significance. However, since I watched the BBC show about…

Thomas K. Bjorklund has a post at WUWT which tells us a lot about the level of “science” at that blog. He reveals his theme early: The discussion below of the first derivative of a temperature anomaly trendline shows the…

WKRC Cincinnati: COLUMBUS, Ohio (WKRC) – Ohio lawmakers are weighing in on how public schools can teach things like evolution. The Ohio House on Wednesday passed the “Student Religious Liberties Act.” Under the law, students can’t be penalized if their…

I was invited to speak at a Contemporary Climate meeting in Edinburgh’s School of Geosciences. It was really nice to talk face-to-face with people about some of the topics I find interesting. We covered aspects of blogging and social media,…

Motherboard: According to a new U.S. Army report, Americans could face a horrifically grim future from climate change involving blackouts, disease, thirst, starvation and war. The study found that the US military itself might also collapse. This could all happen…

Anthropocene Magazine: Want to buy a house by the sea? If your neighbors are climate deniers, you’ll pay a premium, according to a new study. The analysis focuses on houses that are likely to be inundated by sea level rise…

So said Australian Member of Parliament David Shoebridge after bureaucrats attending a climate planning and adaptation conference had been advised not to discuss the relationship between climate change and Australia’s bushfire crisis, the Guardian reports. Yes, there’s more news of…

Heated: On Monday night, with more than 2.8 million people watching, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said he really, truly cares about the environment. (Amazing!) And because he really, truly cares about the environment, Carlson added, he doesn’t want a bunch…

Another month has passed and so here is the updated Arctic sea ice volume graph as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the Polar Science Center: During October there was a slowdown in ice growth,…

We need better ClimateBall contrarians. Perhaps they need better contrarian role models. Let’s find them, if only for our own sake. Here are five of mine. Fred Rogers was a TV show producer, a comedian, an author, a puppeteer, a…

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My new book on collapse is out, published by Springer. You can find it at the Springer site at this link (priced in Euro) and at this link (priced in dollars). You can find it also on most Web sites…

Hurricanes are relatively rare events, in that you only get about 90 of them globally each year, and only a dozen or so of those will be in the Atlantic. Thus there has been some fuzziness about whether we have…

10 Years ago, emails hacked from a climate research center, were selectively edited and released strategically to a credulous, ignorant and click-seeking media. Sound familiar?  I think it was the opening shot in the global fossil oligarchy’s war on democracy.…

CBS News: Climate change could punch a hole through the financial system by making 30-year home mortgages — the lifeblood of the American housing market — effectively unobtainable in entire regions across parts of the U.S. That’s what the future…

I attended this a few weeks ago (below is the opening, click here for the whole thing):My impressions:Mary Nichols, Cal. Air Resources Board – Seemed to somewhat deemphasize regulatory approach as opposed to cap and tradeCARB future efforts:             *Technology to facilitate…

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Like a number of other mainstream companies, Volvo wants to tap into Americans overwhelming desire to move beyond fossil fuels. Some of my favorites: As long as we’re at it, here’s the full Donovan piece.…

Shie Glacier Bhutan-China in Landsat images from 1996 and 2019.  Red arrow is the southern terminus location in 1996, yellow arrow the 2019 terminus location and red dots the margin of the eastern terminus in contact with the lake in…