Above, Ben Van Beurden, CEO of Shell, volunteers that his next car will be an EV. Below, Wall Street Journal auto critic says the same thing, and gives some eye popping reasons. The wave is peaking and beginning to curl……
Science: The spreading effects of the partial U.S. government shutdown have reached Earth’s melting poles. IceBridge, a decadelong NASA aerial campaign meant to secure a seamless record of ice loss, has had to sacrifice at least half of what was…
If you’ve been paying attention to the government shutdown, we’re learning a lot about just how close to the edge a lot of “middle class” Americans are, financially. It’s hard to get people to think of the next hundred years…
Two long vids from the legendary Aussie debunker. Financial Times (paywalled): The tragedy is that while the scientists and technologists have won the argument, the climate sceptics and deniers have effectively won the policy debate: we are doing far too…
As evidence, uhm, floods in that Florida real estate is being impacted by sea level rise, even the climate deniers like newly elected Florida Guv Ron DeSantis have to respond. First Street Foundation: Scientists from the non-profit First Street Foundation…
Paul Barach in Medium: The day I learned that Exxon-Mobile knew about climate change in the 1970swas the first time in decades I’d thought of Captain Planet. Well, excluding this Robot Chicken sketch. (above) – For those of you not…
Pew Social Trends: Gen Zers’ views about climate change are virtually identical to those of Millennials and not markedly different from Gen Xers. About half in all three generations say the earth is getting warmer due to human activity. Boomers…
You don’t need education if you’re planning for a nation of serfs. Andrew Dessler on Twitter: As the shutdown continues to harm U.S. science in myriad ways, I worry a lot that we’re on the cusp of a long-term decline…
Huffington Post: Amid mounting calls to phase out fossil fuels in the face of rapidly worsening climate change, the United States is ramping up oil and gas drilling faster than any other country, threatening to add 1,000 coal plants’ worth…
Maxine Waters had it nailed early on. There is a fossil fuel, climate denial connection with the greatest incidence of treason in the history of the United States. Below, I stand behind everything I said on an NPR call-in 2…
I went to Miami in. 2016 with Jeff Goodell of Rolling Stone, and saw for myself the rise of sea level enhanced flooding in a poor neighborhood – where scientists have sampled all manner of pathogen and toxic pollutants being…
Above, General Richard Zilmer was formerly Commander of US Forces in Anbar Province, Iraq. Now retired, he warns that the US is abdicating leadership in global energy technology. Dominic Dudley in Forbes: The continuing growth in renewable energy around the…
Docu-Dramas have a mixed history – sometimes feeling good-for-you, like eating your spinach. This is a super smart movie that grabs. Worth your time. Advertisements…
Quartz: For years, proponents of natural gas referred to it as a “bridge fuel,”an interim power source on the way to a distant future dominated by renewable energy. That far-off day seemed to pose little immediate threat. Not anymore. Last…
Wall Street Journal (Paywall): Just last summer, Northern Indiana Public Service Co. planned to retire two of its five remaining coal-fired power plants by 2023. Now, it plans to do away with all of them over the next decade, and…
The most important priority for Trump’s base is to make sure brown people, somewhere, are suffering. NBC: President Donald Trump has been briefed on a plan that would use the Army Corps of Engineers and a portion of $13.9 billion…
Inside Climate News: In Pennsylvania, a coal state where the fracking boom has also pushed natural gas production to the second highest levels in the nation, Gov. Tom Wolf is launching into his second term with a conspicuous move on…
East Antarctica is supposed to be the most extremely stable ice on the planet. Turns out it’s changing with unsettling speed. NASA: East Antarctica has the potential to reshape coastlines around the world through sea level rise, but scientists have…
Young engineers want to go where the action is – and that means renewable energy, and dealing with climate change. MIT News: For renewable energy technologies like concentrated solar power (CSP) to make sense economically, storage is crucial. Since the…
Above, Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell on the economics and politics of real estate in South Florida – up till recently oblivious to climate change and sea level rise. Population Research and Policy Review: ABSTRACT: Sea-Level Rise (SLR) Projections from the…
CNN: Monongahela, Pennsylvania (CNN)It sits on the banks of the Monongahela River like a monstrous monument to extinction. With no fire in its belly and no smoke in its stacks, the rusting power plant provides only one sign of its…
