Big Fossil Trying to Hold Back Renewable Tide
If you saw my cat-scan of an anti-wind fake news release, here – you get it that the fossil industry will go to any lengths to hang on to it’s business for a few more fleeting years, even if it…
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Dark Snow Project 2018 Field Season
Earth Day has come and gone, and it’s time to kick off the 2018 Dark Snow Project Field season fund raiser. The video highlights the ways researchers and communicators have used the Dark Snow effort as a platform to publish…
Willie Nelson on Greenhouse Gases
Had never heard this. Good climate comms. Advertisements…
This Bud Really is for You. 100 Percent Renewable Beer
FastCompany: Last March, AB InBev announced every single bottle of beer it brews will be done with renewable energy by 2025. The company is making progress on that pledge and by this spring, every bottle of Budweiser brewed in the…
The Case of the Misleading Massive Wind Turbines
An Anti Wind group sent out an expensive glossy mailer to thousands of households in my Mid-Michigan area. The Mailer depicts massive wind turbines menacing a local farm. So massive, it made me curious to find out if the picture…
A Hopeful Earth Day Fable
Earth Family Alpha: The Texas Chronicle April 22, 2038 by Max Stamp Few took notice of a story back in 2016 when a team of Japanese scientists sifting through plastic waste found bacteria capable of breaking down and “eating” one…
Earth Day: Mike Mann’s Warning from 1998
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Hockey Stick: Unbroken at 20
Scientific American: Two decades ago this week a pair of colleagues and I published the original “hockey stick” graph in Nature, which happened to coincide with the Earth Day 1998 observances. The graph showed Earth’s temperature, relatively stable for 500…
Music Break: Steppenwolf – Don’t Step on the Grass Man
It’s 4/20. Description: From Steppenwolf’s LP, simply entitled The Second, “Don’t Step On The Grass, Sam” is the best of the deep tracks on the album and one of the major underground radio songs of 1968 and 1969. Advertisements…
In Case you Wondered – Yes, the Internet Selects for Bullshit
You won't believe what Obama says in this video 😉 pic.twitter.com/n2KloCdF2G — BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) April 17, 2018 And it could get worse if we don’t wise up fast. MIT News: A new study by three MIT scholars has found that…
Billions (with a B): Disasters Rising Sharply with Climate Change
This season of severe storms is consistent with predictions and observations of the past 3 decades. Welcome to the rest of our lives. Deke Arndt of NOAA: Speaking of shockers, the first quarter of 2018 saw three billion-dollar weather or…
Mighty Mississippi Defies Human Control. Climate Change Makes it Even Mightier.
Conquering nature. How’s that working out for you? Nature: The Mississippi River was once thought to be uncontrollable: no feat of engineering could prevent the river from bursting its banks and sending floodwaters across its natural domain. But since the…
In China – Solar Roads
People get really indignant about the possibility of solar roads, but I think, frankly, if China decides there will be solar roads, there will be solar roads. Bloomberg: The road to China’s autonomous-driving future is paved with solar panels, mapping…
Among Young People: Climate Change Understanding is Real, and Growing
In Florida, Kids are ignoring the ban on the words “climate change”. Inside Climate News: Eight young Floridians, ages 10 to 19, sued their state and its climate-policy-averse governor on Monday for failing to protect residents from the impacts of…
How Conservatives Explain Climate to Conservatives
MIT Technology Review: erry Taylor believes he can change the minds of conservative climate skeptics. After all, he helped plant the doubts for many in the first place. Taylor spent years as a professional climate denier at the Cato Institute,…
From 1958: Coriolis Effect Explainer
Above, creative explanation of the Coriolis effect from the Bell Telephone Science hour, 1958. Co·ri·o·lis ef·fect ˌkôrēˈōləs iˌfekt an effect whereby a mass moving in a rotating system experiences a force (the Coriolis force ) acting perpendicular to the direction…
Time Lapse: Mendenhall Glacier over 7 Years
Melting time lapse of the Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau. Over just 7 years. credit to James Balog @EarthVisionInst pic.twitter.com/qdAqzSaMPW — Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) April 14, 2018…
The Weekend Wonk: Climate and Christians
Description: The battle between evangelical Christians in the US over whether climate change is a call to protect the Earth, the work of God to be welcomed, or doesn’t exist at all. Evangelicals in the US have traditionally been the…
Music Break: Hope Waits – I’ll Be Satisfied
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You May be Watching a Sinclair Station if…
Terrible news for a good name. I hate these bastards.…
Earth Day 1970: “An Awesome Earth Day Warning”
From NBC news on the first Earth Day. Advertisements…
Music Break: Hugh Masekala – Bring Back Nelson Mandela
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Can Grazing Be Carbon Neutral? New Evidence.
I’ve posted Alan Savory’s talk before – he advocates grazing practices that he claims can save soils and sequester carbon. He has many critics. Recent research, while not going as far as Savory – does support the idea at least…
Near Miss at Line 5. Great Lakes Crown Jewel at Risk
Eclectablog: Last week, 550 gallons of coolant containing the carcinogenic solvent benzene were released into Lake Michigan from an electrical transmission cable running under the Straits of Mackinac. It happened because a ship went through the Straits dragging its anchor.…
Greens Launching Their Own Damn Satellite
At the 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, 20+ thousand earth scientists were in a pretty bleak mood following the election of the most science-hostile administration in history. California Governor Jerry Brown brought them to their feet…
More Evidence, Implications – North Atlantic Circulation Slows
Washington Post: The Atlantic Ocean circulation that carries warmth into the Northern Hemisphere’s high latitudes is slowing down because of climate change, a team of scientists asserted Wednesday, suggesting one of the most feared consequences is already coming to pass.…
100: Apple, Google, All Renewable, All the Time
Can we get back to “Don’t be Evil”? Fast Company: You have to see Apple’s Reno, Nevada, data center from the inside to truly understand how huge it is. It’s made up of five long white buildings sitting side by…
Reckoning: Fossil Fuel Lawsuits Popping Up All Over
So many now it’s hard to keep track. Inside Climate News helps. Inside Climate News: The storm of litigation could have a broad impact if it succeeds in holding fossil fuel companies accountable for the kinds of damages they foresaw…
For Drawing Carbon Down, Perennial Grains
Move over, Quinoa. Ellen Abrams, University of Michigan: Agriculture is responsible for 70 percent of global freshwater consumption, in large part due to our prevailing agricultural model based on monoculture of annual crops. This strategy requires annual tilling, which damages…
Can We All Just Take a Breath?
Before there was the Apple II, there was Teapot Apple 2. Things that current events have me pondering. Wiki: The Civil Defense Apple-2 shot on 5 May 1955 was intended to test various building construction types in a nuclear blast.…