Climate change is fueling longer wildfire seasons. Here's an update on this year's crazy fires pic.twitter.com/KsZTlm1rmP — Climate Central (@ClimateCentral) October 20, 2017 Clean out your desk. Advertisements Filed under: Crock of the Week…
Fun day christening Amazon’s latest wind farm. #RenewableEnergy pic.twitter.com/cTxeXdsFop — Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) October 19, 2017 Ignoring Trump and the fossil fuel troglodytes, major companies are all moving in the direction of renewable energy – especially the most dynamic and…
DTE Energy: In the spring of 2016, DTE Energy broke ground on its Lapeer Solar Park, which was at the time the largest solar array east of the Mississippi River. Now that the 200,000-panel solar park is operation, solar energy…
When you don’t like the facts, ignore them, or introduce your own “alternative facts”. This is not new to the Trump administration – we’ve seen it before, and we know how it plays out. Prior to and during the Reagan…
Rains from ex-typhoon #Khanun is expected to worsen floods in #VietNam. Video from VietNam TV via @CLIMATEwBORDERS shows extent of disaster pic.twitter.com/8tMU3ofx1i — WMO | OMM (@WMO) October 17, 2017 Advertisements Filed under: Crock of the Week…
Friend-of-Putin Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) is not just a climate denier (above), he’s (below) bestest buds with holocaust deniers. As Rocky said, “hang around with yoyo people you get yoyo friends. It’s mathematics.” Forward: Rep. Dana Rohrabacher brought a Holocaust…
Yale Climate Connections: Wait. Stop reading right here. Don’t dare think of an elephant. Didn’t work, did it. Just mentioning it implanted it in your mind, in your consciousness. It’s an argument made by Berkeley linguist George Lakoff, among others,…
Click above for larger. Severe Weather EU: Numerous wildfires are currently raging in Portugal and NW Spain. There are approximately 440 ongoing fires in Portugal, 26 of them major, being fought by over 3700 firefighters. There are over 130 ongoing…
Health tip to live by: Don’t have a cardiac arrest. Despite the tales of heroic paramedics and Doctors resuscitations, once you go down, if no one is standing there with defibrillator paddles, your chances of survival are slender to nil.…
Caution: Not too long ago we were talking about oil at $100/barrrel and up. Times have changed. Listen for the phrase “Moore’s law for Solar energy”. Something investors can understand. CNBC: Why the oil price will plummet to $10, according…
Starbucks is sponsoring a nice series of short docs online, each addressing particular areas of American society that need attention. Above, Former Congressman Bob Inglis investigates an island greatly at risk from climate change and sea level rise. Below, managing…
Debbie Dooley, above, is a Tea Party activist -specifically, she is a special kind of “Green Tea Party” activist, who gets climate change, and works for renewable solutions with a free market perspective. And she makes some good points. I…
Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) — After hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria blitzed the nation, most Americans think weather disasters are getting more severe and see global warming’s fingerprints. A new poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research…
New Trump Enviro official calls CO2 “the gas of life”. Inside Climate News: President Donald Trump has picked Kathleen Hartnett White, a former Texas regulator and unapologetic advocate of expanding U.S. fossil fuel production regardless of carbon dioxide emissions, for…
At :34 in my recent vid, Shell Oil CEO Ben Van Buerden asserts his next car will be an electric. Now more: The Drive: Oil companies may be realizing that it’s only a matter of time until electric vehicles are…
Slate: Climate change is a global problem with extremely local impacts. A major new study illuminates how the effects of climate change will reverberate economically across the United States. Its findings are both a warning of challenges to come and…
Joe Romm in Climate Progress: Three weeks after hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, FEMA reported Wednesday that only a little more than 10 percent of the island’s 3.5 million U.S. citizens have power. That is down from 16 percent on…
War Zone. California’s fires are now the worst in state history.-21 dead-670 missing-3,500 structures-170,000 acres burnedhttps://t.co/X9xPZxozNM pic.twitter.com/MG7KMQPEvB — Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) October 11, 2017 Advertisements Filed under: Crock of the Week…
In other words, as real as Santa Claus. Nevertheless, Republicans have, apparently, declared war on Ronald Reagan’s War on Coal. Don’t be misled. Washington Post: “Tomorrow, in Washington, D.C., I’ll be signing a proposed rule to withdraw the so-called Clean…
Rohi Muthyala is a graduate Hydrology student at Rutgers University, and was part of the team I embedded with in Greenland this past summer. I’ve created profiles for each member of the team. This is Rohi’s. (see the first installment…
Above, Michael Bloomberg points out that, regardless of the current, and I predict, short lived, neglect of renewable energy by the federal government, technological change and recognition of climate challenges by major corporations and municipalities continues to drive a paradigm…
It’s insensitive to talk about climate change right now. Relax, let’s go to a movie. oh. Wiki: The Yarnell Hill Fire was a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona, ignited by lightning on June 28, 2013. On June 30, it overran and…
This is truly incredible.#nature #SundayMorning #October1st pic.twitter.com/j21OkF5dGL — Fredon Moniteau (@FMoniteau) October 1, 2017 Today is Indigenous People’s Day. Raw Story: The environmental group Deep Green Resistance recently filed a first-of-its-kind legal suit against the state of Colorado asking for…
Allegedly. Vanity Fair: A day after Facebook disclosed that ads purchased by Russia before and after the 2016 election may have reached as many as 10 million people in the United States, a clearer picture of the Kremlin’s micro-targeting operation…
