Movie got it wrong. It’s not women going infertile, it’s males that could be sterilized. Washington Post: Heat doesn’t just kill. It is also diminishes the vitality of sperm, curtailing the capacity to reproduce, as scientists have documented. “Heatwaves reduce…
Quartz: “We need more environmental hardliners in Congress,” she told In These Times magazine earlier this week. “We need a Marshall Plan for renewable energy in the United States. The idea that the Democratic Party needs to be moderate is…
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NASA: An international team of researchers, including a NASA glaciologist, has discovered a large meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice in northwest Greenland. The crater — the first of any size found under the Greenland…
“Christian” camp for budding science deniers. “Lord” Monckton gets my vote for Creepiest Counselor ever. This is child abuse. One corrective is the twitter hash tag #exvangelicals, which documents the horrific memories of those who have escaped the spiritual gulag…
Researching a new piece on energy storage, and came across this 10 year old video from Vermont Public Broadcasting. Very much on the money describing the roll out of EVs that we see today, and the potential for grid storage…
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Description: As three major fires blaze in California, we consider some of their causes, both human and meteorological. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien has been filming a NOVA documentary on megafires and witnessed the Camp Fire not long after it began.…
In which @AxlRose trolls @realDonaldTrump over his assault on our environment and our psyches#IThoughtIdSeenItAll https://t.co/WgJyW7l0w7— Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) November 12, 2018 White House confirms Trump will not visit Arlington cemetery on Veteran’s Day as rain is expected.What is your…
Above, former chair of the House “Science” Committee, Lamar Smith, in a classic House floor speech, declares that President Trump is the “only source of unvarnished truth.” Smith retired, giving up his seat this year, and was replaced by a…
Mediaite: On Sunday, CNN meteorologist Tom Sater offered a lengthy and brutal fact check of President Donald Trump‘s claim that forest mismanagement was to blame for the deadly, destructive fires in California. While in Paris over the weekend, with reports…
PBS Newshour from August has perspective from Michael Mann and others. San Francisco Chronicle: Much of the heat that’s gripped California and hastened the spread of deadly wildfires recently is due to a strange but familiar shift in the jet…
When Jennifer Francis and others advanced the idea that arctic ice losses could be impacting extreme weather patterns in the temperate zone, it was considered cutting edge, or even fringe science. 7 years later, a steady drumbeat of observations and…
Pretty impressive breakdown of environmental impacts from EV vs ICE vehicles. Advertisements…
Huge impact of increasing coastal flooding will be the societal costs as thousands, then millions of residents are eventually forced to move as their homes and businesses become untenable due to repeated inundation. Taxpayers will be on the hook for…
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First snow in Michigan this winter, and I was lucky enough to be driving from Traverse City south to home. Then I found the video above in my mailbox. Protectourwinters.org Advertisements…
Aljazeera: Saudi Arabia’s crown prince has launched a project to build the first nuclear research reactor in the kingdom, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MBS, launched seven strategic projects in renewable energy,…
Rehabbing Fukushima?…
In a country so closely divided as the US is right now, the emergence of climate as an issue that a significant number of voters care about can be a game changer in close races. We have seen in this…
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Washington state has a carbon tax on the ballot. It’s been a bumpy, aggravating, but maybe illuminating ride to get here. Washington Governor Jay Inslee is a dark horse Presidential candidate, who might get a lot more visible if this…
Noam Chomsky interview in Scientific American. Excerpts here. Scientific American: Why did you recently call the Republican Party “the most dangerous organization in world history”? Take its leader, who recently applied to the government of Ireland for a permit to…
Prediction: GOP will break and run on climate the way they’ve had to on health care and pre-existing conditions. South Florida is an early indicator – but look for other climate slammed areas to follow along. Mother Jones: In one…
Money guru has some ecologically sound reasons for penny pinching his way to freedom.…
We’re all getting an education in communication across boundaries, see yesterday’s post. Journalists are now starting to learn, as a matter of survival, those things that climate scientists and communicators have been figuring out for the last decade. RawStory: It’s…
