Music Break: Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows
Revolver, released this week 55 years ago. Some say it’s their best album. If you haven’t heard this one in a while, give it a listen. H/T to John Fugelsang.…
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Another Turbine Getting Topped
After waiting around for 3 hours yesterday, I decided this turbine wasn’t going up before dark, so decided to come back. Made it in a nick of time to jump out of the car and set up camera at this…
On Beyond Zebra! Hurricanes May Run out of Alphabet this Year
As described below, we have now set a record for the number of named storms in The Atlantic at this time of year.Continued storm formation at this pace means Meteorologists will run out of alphabetized names for the storms, and…
Middle East Nuclear Race is On. What Could Go Wrong?
Aljazeera: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with help from China, has built a facility for the extraction of uranium yellowcake, a potential precursor to fuel for a nuclear reactor, in a remote desert location near the small city of Al…
Capping Wells to Employ Oil Workers
Casper Star-Tribune (Wyoming): Workers laid down Wyoming’s last operating gas rig this week in Sweetwater County, dropping the state’s total rig count to zero, a jolting reminder of the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This marks only the…
Heading for New Record? Arctic Ice Record Low for July
National Snow and Ice Data Center: The fast pace of ice loss observed in the beginning of July continued through the third week of July, after which the ice loss rates slowed dramatically. Above-average air temperatures and extensive melt pond…
BP Makes Big Moves Away from Oil
Still frame of an avalanche.…
Pandemic Pushes Prodigious Pivot Past Petroleum
Subject of two pending videos, but things are happening so fast I hope they get posted while they’re still fresh.. Bloomberg New Energy Finance: The global pandemic of 2020 has slowed down demand for oil and gas but provided a…
As Isaias Pounds Coast, Shelters are Empty
Extreme weather is a compounding factor in a pandemic. Climate Wire: People in the path of Hurricane Isaias are shunning emergency shelters as officials from Florida to North Carolina have urged evacuating residents to stay with friends or relatives instead…
The War on Science is Over. Looks Like We Lost.
Jonathan Swan’s interview with the President revealed a hapless, helplessly ignorant boob, desperately trying to lie to himself, and obviously surrounded by cowardly enablers. This is what you get after a 30 year Republican War on Science.…
Don’t “Do Your Own Research”
Ethan Siegel in Forbes: “Research both sides and make up your own mind.” It’s simple, straightforward, common sense advice. And when it comes to issues like vaccinations, climate change, and the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, it can be dangerous, destructive, and…
Recasting Oil’s Expertise
Two new videos will be coming out shortly, examining the blow that Covid-19 has delivered to the fossil fuel industry, and the possibilities for post-Corona recovery. Finding new job paths for idled petroleum workers is going to be an important…
An Odd Storm
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Isaias Weakened, Now Rebuilding
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Dan Kammen on Batteries
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Hurricane will Ride East Coast Marine Heat Wave
Washington Post: Vacationing on Nantucket in early July, Terrence Boylan cast his line in to the strangely warm surf. The creature he reeled in left the veteran angler baffled. It was a skinny, 4-foot-long fish with a needlelike mouth and…
Panasonic: Driving Toward the No-Cobalt Battery
TechCrunch: Panasonic has developed new battery technology for the “2170” lithium-ion cells it produces and supplies to Tesla, a change that improves energy density by 5% and reduces costly cobalt content. The new, higher energy dense 2170 cells will be…
Hurricane Isaias Update
This season is already setting records.…
Evacuating in a Pandemic: How To Stay Safe
Yale Climate Connections: Disasters aren’t waiting for the pandemic to end. Already this spring, COVID-19 complicated efforts to recover from tornadoes across the Southeast. And it’s likely to remain squarely on the radar as hurricanes, floods, fires, and other extreme…
British Medical Journal on Infodemiology
The Lancet: The tidal wave of information on the internet concerning the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in difficulties in discerning truth from fiction. This so-called infodemic, defined by WHO as an “overabundance of information—some accurate and some not—that makes it…
Ad: Republicans Hate Science
Sex with astral demons will do that to you.…
Oil’s Creeping Crash
New videos will focus on the catastrophic effect of the Corona Crisis on the fossil fuel industry. I’ve posted recently about recent write-downs of oil and gas assets by BP and Shell. The Wall Street Journal reported that the moves…
Saul Griffin on World War Zero
As I posted this week, Saul Griffin and his team produced a study this week showing the creation of 25 million new jobs with a transition to renewable energy. Here he is in a November 2019 presentation which manages to…
Tropical Storm Update
Developments are rapid in the Caribbean.…
Death by Denial: RIP Herman Cain
The one-time pizza magnate and Presidential candidate did not believe in the science of climate, or Corona virus. He was 74.…
China Threatens Lone Climate Striker
The Guardian: Takes initiative. An independent thinker. Engages in study outside of the curriculum. Cares deeply about her community and the world around her. Stands up for her convictions and beliefs. These are all qualities that would appear to make…
Trump: “What Have they Done to the Cows?”
Trump warns Texans that a Biden administration would mean “No Fracking, no nothing.” Which is kind of where Texas is now, but never mind. More on that in an upcoming vid. Prez also warns of chaos like “in Mini-Anapolis”.…
For Investors: Covid Adds Urgency to Climate
Financial Times: (paywall) As 2020 kicked off, Dan Gocher at the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility, a shareholder advocacy organisation, was feeling “pretty optimistic” about its plans to force big Australian energy companies to tackle climate change. BlackRock, the $6.8tn…
Leading Congressional Climate/COVID Denier Tests Positive
Thinks it might be the mask. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Here’s the genius himself on climate change. UPDATE: Below, yesterday, former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale mocked Committee Chair Jerry Nadler for excoriating members unwilling to wear masks.…
Decarbonize to Jumpstart the Covid Economy
Working on new vids with exactly this topic. Fast Company: As of early July, more than 30 million Americans were collecting unemployment. At some point, when the virus is defeated, they’ll need to return to work—but their old employer might…