Above, a meme from an anti-wind forum inexplicably draws a connection between wind turbines and Obamacare. It’s an example of the confused, misinformed, aimless anger and hostility that the fossil fuel industry seeks to harness to slow the unstoppable…
Open Mind: At a town hall meeting near Philadelphia, 18-year-old Rose Strauss had a question for Scott Wagner, the Republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania: You’ve said that climate change is a result of people’s body heat, and are refusing…
They’re counting on you burning out. Don’t – we need you. Here’s help. Daily Kos: Today seems like the right time to do a thread I’ve been thinking about for a while on how to handle the seemingly never-ending deluge…
I really enjoyed interviewing Wind Developer Marty Lagina. Marty came from an Oil and Gas background, he’s an engineer – but he has seen the opportunity in wind, and lately, solar development, around Michigan. I asked him to address a…
Independent: Feeding seaweed to cows could slash the amount of climate change-inducing methane emissions from their burps. Preliminary research has indicated a small amount of marine algae added to cattle food can reduce methane emissions from cattle gut microbes by…
I’ll be giving some presentations in coming weeks devoted entirely to newest developments in renewable energy. While a lot of readers of this blog may be well briefed on where renewables are, it’s astounding how little this story has percolated…
I excerpted the video above from Facebook in this month’s Yale vid, in the post above. It’s an example of a very large movement of tech companies into the renewable space – they need high quality electricity for expanding data…
Last night’s post got me thinking I should review just where we are with “Next generation Nuclear power”. About where I thought. Lots of ideas. 2030 time frame for working prototypes, which will need a decade or so to prove…
Suggestion to US trading partners still in the Paris Agreement – If you’re going to have a trade war, well, could it be targeted on carbon emitters? Inside Climate News: As the Trump administration’s trade war heats up, a group…
Two most obvious existential threats to civilization – climate change and nuclear war. You could probably add in the odd asteroid strike, but that’s more hypothetical. The other two are demonstrably happening. ChannelNewsAsia: TOKYO: Japan has amassed enough plutonium to…
This post was inspired by a long twitter discussion by Mike Mann on the subject of agricultural impacts on climate. This is a myth that was promoted by “Cowspiracy” and is based on erroneous math/accounting. See @UCSUSA: https://t.co/uXEOkI29bd https://t.co/fF69a9V8QH —…
If you are a climate denier, polling shows you are likely to be old, poorly educated, and male. That checks out. ThinkProgress: A record number of Americans — nearly three quarters — understand there is “solid evidence” that global warming…
A sea of waste. One in three caught fish are never eaten.#WednesdayWisdompic.twitter.com/DHNyVsn6bo https://t.co/DHNyVsn6bo — Precision Homes (@PrecisionHomes_) July 12, 2018 Christian Science Monitor: When Kimbal Musk and some fellow business associates hosted a conference on global food waste in 2011,…
I’m creating a series of short videos on renewable energy’s inroads in the American Heartland. These are based on my interview with University of Michigan researcher Sara Mills – who has studied impacts of wind energy in Michigan’s rural counties…
CBC: All was quiet on June 22 as Canadian husband-and-wife scientists David and Denise Holland settled in for the night off Greenland’s Helheim Glacier. The glacier researchers from New York University had spent four nights on the south side of…
USAToday: JACKSON, Miss. – The FBI is once again investigating the grisly murder of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy whose abduction lit a fire under the civil rights movement in 1955. And even after 63 years, the news couldn’t come…
Baltimore Sun: Research connects flooding and sea level rises to a warming climate. What we need now is action — policies to strengthen climate adaptation plans, making communities more resilient in the face of natural disasters; and policies that enhance…
Above, after a months of running NASA, former climate denier Jim Bridenstine, to his credit, “got it” about climate science. Says he did some reading and study. Huh. Me too. Earther: Most of us (understandably) associate NASA with rockets and…
More from the remarkable series of interviews I conducted in Traverse City, MI a few weeks ago, at a the Michigan Clean Energy Conference & Expo. Remarkable because of the things I was hearing from Michigan’s major utilities, about a…
Well, only if they can solve the problem of methane loss at every stage of the production process. But those problems are solvable, essentially with monitoring, commitment, and some chewing gum and duct tape. Next problem is, you’ve got a…
A Brit with an abiding love for America might have written an anthem for the #Resistance. There’s 1:13 worth of intro, but worth it. “Make America Great Again” Well I know I’m just an ignorant Englishman But I’d like to…
Instructing the ignorant is not uncivil. I was taught in parochial school that it is a fundamental act of mercy. Kristin Mink in Vox: When I saw Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt in a tea house last week, I…
Good Catholic though, so I’ve heard. Bloomberg News: Judge Brett Kavanaugh is President Donald Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. During his time on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of…
Above, Retired General Richard Zilmer recently spoke nearby about the critical need for grid infrastructure improvements in the United States, calling the current grid “fragile, antiquated, and subject to single points of failure”. And it was not designed with modern, …
Climate deniers have a myopic view of global cyclone activity, and often will refer to the count of hurricanes impacting the US coast as some kind of global indicator. Above, Chinese Researcher Lijing Cheng and NCAR’s Kevin Trenberth remind us…
