Wall Street Journal: AINSWORTH, Iowa—What if there was a way to combat climate change that didn’t require technological breakthroughs, carbon taxes or eliminating all fossil fuels? Such a solution might lie here in an Iowa cornfield beneath the feet of…
John Cook in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: How can the average person on the street—who is not a climate scientist, and more than likely has never met a climate scientist—readily discern the facts of science from the seemingly reasonable…
Reuters: MADRID (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi took her duel with Donald Trump to a climate summit on Monday, pledging that Congress would urgently tackle global warming despite the president’s opposition to an international pact. “By…
Early warning of climate caused food pinch. America’s favorite vegetable dish endangered.We appear to be still very much under the influence of the weather patterns as we saw in winter/spring of the year – described by scientists above.I have concerns…
Videos sent to me by a scientist friend describe field investigations into a period that might be a model for our own.The PETM, Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Thinking in geologic time is a skill humans may have to learn to survive…
Above, a moulin recorded in Southwest Greenland, summer 2014. Washington Post: A cerulean lake consisting of glacial meltwater on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, located about 18 miles from where the Store Glacier meets the sea in west…
Washington Post: TOMBWA, Angola — His ancestors were Portuguese colonialists who settled on this otherworldly stretch of coast, wedged between a vast desert and the southern Atlantic. They came looking for the one thing this barren region had in abundance:…
The Chemical Engineer: HIGHVIEW Power, the designer and developer of the CRYOBattery, is to build what it claims will be Europe’s largest battery storage system, in the North of England. The project will also be the UK’s first commercial cryogenic…
Popular Mechanics: The United Nations released an exceptionally bleak report today, which warns that, at the current pace of greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures will rise by as much as 3.9 degrees Celsius (almost 7 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100. The…
Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis: This week Moody’s changed ExxonMobil’s Triple-A rating from stable to negative, raising the prospect of the oil company being downgraded in 2020. Moody’s has red-flagged ExxonMobil’s rising capital expenditures and weak revenues. The…
The Hill: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up an appeal involving a prominent climate scientist who sued an iconic conservative magazine and libertarian think tank for defamation. In a closely watched request to the Supreme Court, the…
New York Times: Climate change activists stormed the field at the Yale-Harvard football game on Saturday afternoon, disrupting the game at halftime in a protest to call attention to the universities to divest their investments in fossil fuels. A group…
Climate deniers cheering, I’m sure. If you wondered about what happened to the burned Koala I posted on a few days ago, there’s a follow up above. Forbes: As Australia experiences record-breaking drought and bushfires, koala populations have dwindled along…
Woman who came from the Heavens. Has a ring. Bismark Tribune: When she and Iron Eyes finished speaking, Sioux spiritual leader Arvol Looking Horse bestowed a Lakota name upon Thunberg, “maphiyata echiyatan hin win,” which means “woman who came from…
Inkl: MELBOURNE, Australia—The world’s largest battery is about to get even bigger, with Tesla Inc. (TSLA) set to boost the capacity of its southern Australia lithium-ion operation by 50% to provide additional stability to the power grid. Neoen SA (NEOEN.SA),…
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…
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…