Yale Climate Connections: People worried about global warming often want their leaders to enact ambitious climate policies. A recent study suggests that electing female politicians can help make that happen.Astghik Mavisakalyan is an economics professor at Australia’s Curtin University. She…
Bill McKibben in the Guardian: We are sadly accustomed by now to the idea that our reliance on oil and gas causes random but predictable outbreaks of flood, firestorm and drought. The weekend’s news from the Gulf is a grim…
New York Times: Of all the conservative efforts to persuade the Trump administration to weaken the nation’s environmental rules, the dishwasher lobby might be the most peculiar.“Dishwashers used to clean a full load of filthy dishes in under an hour.…
“I’ve studied global warming”. huh. Full disclosure – a relative of mine was taken in and swindled by Jim Bakker’s real estate scams back in the 80s. He went to jail for that one, finally. Now he’s back. “Global warming…
Guardian: Evan Mills, a senior scientist at the University of California, was one of the first researchers to quantify how energy hungry the nascent industry is, estimating in 2011 that indoor cannabis cultivation represents 1% of total electricity use across…
Above per NBC news. Popular Mechanics: At least for now, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates is pulling back on nuclear power. He hasn’t changed his mind on the science—he puts his blame on the Trump Administration’s bitter relationship with…
As long as we remain committed to fossil fuels, that are by nature scarce and under the control of venal corporations and corrupt governments, we will be vulnerable to price manipulation, terror, and war. Washington Post: ISTANBUL — Iran on…
Patti Poppe is CEO of Consumer’s Energy, Michigan’s largest utility, which has been a quintessential, conservative, coal based, rust belt generator for decades, up until just a few years ago. Now things are changing. See if you can detect it.Talk…
Reuters: TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power (9501.T) will have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean as it runs out of room to store it, the environment minister said on…
Forbes: Saudi Arabia new energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman has announced the kingdom plans to enrich uranium for its future civilian nuclear power program. The move could mark the start of a race for nuclear weapons in the Gulf…
It’s official, 2+2 really is 5. After the President changed an official weather map with a sharpie pen, bureaucrats scurried to avoid embarrassing him. Summary above and below. Washington Post: Nearly a week before the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…
With large parts of the Bahamas wrecked by the stalling behavior of Dorian, survivors are doing what they can to survive. Some are trying to come to the US – @BrianEntin – a Miami investigative reporter has been tweeting on…
Electrek: But the CEO admitted that the battery packs are not built to last 1 million miles.Earlier this year, Musk said that they built Model 3 to last as long as a commercial truck, a million miles, and the battery…
Most folks have heard Garth Brook’s cover, and may think that he wrote the classic song, but no – it was Tim O’Brien. Saw Tim and many others this weekend at the improbably sublime Wheatland Music Festival, – one of…
If you haven’t seen the 2016 vid above, worth your 8 minutes. At least, the right wing net-rag Breitbart thought it was worth their time to publish a panicked non-responsive response immediately after I posted it. Senator Cruz remains the…
Utility Dive: New data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration illustrates the rapid decline of coal-fired electricity, showing a more-than 13% decline in generation from the fuel in the first half of 2019. According to EIA’s Electric Power Monthly, utility-scale…
First of all, we had one. Axios: Why it matters: The network was past asking if candidates believe in human-induced warming. The first question to Joe Biden was about whether his plan for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 is too…
Just a reminder what we’re up against. The Friendly Atheist: Right-wing commentator and conspiracy theorist Chris McDonald, who just last week said on his “The MC Files” show that Christians who oppose Donald Trump were betraying God, is showing just…
What’s frightening me about this storm is it’s another example of something we have been seeing more of in recent years – powerful storms that make landfall and then stop, grinding away with wind and dumping incredible amounts of rain.…
