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Are Oil Stocks Permanently Down?
Remember typewriters? Film in cameras? Xerox? AOL? Exxon? Market Watch via Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis: Even Wall Street firms are urging clients to dump energy stocks While the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the…
Wind Achieving High Capacity in UK
Renewables Now: February 25 (Renewables Now) – The average offshore wind load factors during the month of January were at their highest since 2015, with older parks, built before 2016, reaching 52% and newer ones going even higher to 55%.…
Hug an Animal Today. Climate Change Could Make Them Go Away
CNN: Take a moment to cherish your plants and appreciate the animals you see around you.In 50 years, a third of them may no longer exist.Using data from surveys that studied 538 animals, insects and plants from 581 sites across…
CoronaVirus and the Kooch
Science denying kiddie tormentor Ken Cuccinelli to head Trumpian Corona virus response.…
Michigan Utility Commits to Carbon Neutrality by 2040
Consumers Energy and its CEO Patti Poppe were the subject of a recent “This is Not Cool” video (above). I’ve told people that what we see happening is technology and economics pushing major power generators in an ever more urgent…
Oregon GOP Lawmakers Flee To Hold Off Climate Action
Oregon Public Broadcasting: Cap and trade is on its way to the Senate floor in Oregon again — and Republicans are heading for the exits. In a tense hearing Monday morning, the Oregon Legislature’s budget committee passed out Senate Bill…
PBS Newshour on Thwaites Glacier
Fascinating science stuff. Newbies may want a primer on Thwaites and West Antarctica, below.…
Donald Trump’s War on Nukes
Wind Turbines, he tells us, cause cancer.He loves “beautiful coal”. And while historically climate denying Republicans polish their pro-nuke credentials as part of edging toward reality, Trump suddenly grows concern about nuclear waste…. New York Times: Before the 2018 midterm…
Ignorance Kills: Flat Earther now Flatter
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Can Forests, Soils, Buy Time for Solutions to Climate Change?
Time: $300 billion. That’s the money needed to stop the rise in greenhouse gases and buy up to 20 years of time to fix global warming, according to United Nations climate scientists. It’s the gross domestic product of Chile, or…
Insanity: Trump Whining about Greta Thunberg at Rally
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Electrifying Amazon’s Fleet
Amazon will be fielding 100,000 Electric delivery trucks in the next few years.…
Methane Explained
I suspect most readers here will have seen reports on new research showing that atmospheric methane concentrations are increasing, and that oil and gas extraction, not burps from the arctic, are a much larger driver than previously thought. New York…
New Research Mitigates Methane Fears
Good news. It’s mostly us that is killing ourselves. And we can stop that. Can’t we? (also backs up my recent videos on the “methane bomb” scare) Scripps Institute – UC San Diego: A long-feared scenario in which global warming…
Missing the Forest for the Trillion Trees?
ThinkProgress: A new scientific report finds human behaviors are driving the extinction of non-human species at a rate so severe that the subsequent disappearance of life will soon be a threat to human health and prosperity. Habitat destruction on land,…
Oil Stocks Slumping. Can They Recover?
As planet warms, polluters feel the market’s heat. BP: Our ambition is to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner. And to help the world get to net zero. This will mean tackling around 415 million tonnes of…
Antarctica by Whale Cam
American Geophysical Union: SAN DIEGO—Cameras attached to a rare species of Antarctic whale are giving scientists an unprecedented view of how the whales survive in their sea ice habitat, according to new research presented here at the Ocean Sciences Meeting…
Bloomberg Disses Trump, Buys Greenland
Andy Borowitz in the New Yorker: NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—In an apparently successful attempt to get under the skin of Donald Trump, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has purchased Greenland from Denmark. In an official statement released…
Music Break: Billy Strings – Don’t Think Twice
Master class in simple, clean, finger style guitar.…
Big News From Black Rock: Investment Giants Moving to Renewable Energy
The new year’s most important story so far –after a decade of creep, a landslide of institutional funding for climate mitigation and renewables.…
Can Bezo’s Billions Move the Needle on Climate?
Verge: Today, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced that he would be committing $10 billion to fight climate change through a new fund called the Bezos Earth Fund. He announced new fund in a post on Instagram. Bezos said that the…
Wooden Skyscrapers are, Well,..On Fire
CNN: “To get attention, you have to build tall,” said Øystein Elgsaas, a partner at the architecture practice behind the record-breaking tower, Voll Arkitekter, in a video call. “And when you have the world’s tallest building made of timber, everybody…
Climate Anxiety Overwhelming Young People
Two pieces in the Washington Post reference impacts of climate anxiety on young people, and how we are dealing, or not dealing with it. Long but worthwhile reads – I’m excerpting here. Washington Post: The nexus between climate change and…
Can Rockets be Green?
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The Weekend Wonk: Oil Industry Near Meltdown? No, Really This Time..
New video coming that has bearing on this – but there are increasing questions about the solvency of the global oil industry. The paranoid “peak oil” story of the early 2000s turned out to be overblown, but the new dynamic…
More Sea Level Warnings from the Past
University of New South Wales: Mass melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet was a major cause of high sea levels during a period known as the Last Interglacial (129,000-116,000 years ago), an international team of scientists led by UNSW’s…
CBS This Morning: Will the New Year be a New Record?
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Could Climate Crash the Economy?
A look at climate change’s threat to one of the pillars of the banking system – home mortgages and insurance.…
Oil Giant Vows Zero Emissions by 2050.
Say What? New York Times: The British oil giant BP set the most ambitious climate change goal of any major oil company on Wednesday, saying that it aimed to eliminate or offset by 2050 all of the planet-warming emissions from…