June 23, 1988. Easy to remember, because it’s my birthday. And the day I thought that, at last, humans were serious about the 800 pound gorilla of environmental issues. Senior NASA scientist James Hansen, whose work I had been following…
Sea level is rising. Malls are going bust everywhere. What’s the answer? Build the biggest mall ever, at sea level. Wall Street Journal: At a time when store closures are accelerating and struggling malls pockmark the country, county commissioners in…
Increasing pressure on water supplies in crowded, historically hostile, nuclear armed region. What could go wrong? Reuters: Droughts are becoming more frequent, creating problems for India’s rain-dependent farmers. At the same time, disputes between states are on the rise. Interstate…
Good news, right now, have enough raised to get me to Greenland in August – have some very interesting activities mapped out – more on that as things gel. Bad news, budget is still very lean and bare bones. Will…
Is that bad? That sounds bad. But I thought “CO2 is plant food”. Video above is 8 years old, one of my “Climate Denial Crock” series – but more current than ever. DeutscheWelle: A new study has further revealed how…
Updated 5 day rainfall forecast from @NWSWPC looks similar to what you'd find with a landfalling tropical storm. However, this disturbance is unlikely to get a name but impacts will be the same.That's 10-13" bullseye over SE Texas coast! pic.twitter.com/UNRtSyBIdd…
Bloomberg: The world’s biggest companies are increasingly worried about climate change. The terms “climate” and “weather” combined were among the most frequently discussed topics among executives of Standard & Poor’s 500 companies, beating “Trump,” “the dollar,” “oil” and “recession” according…
Solar, in Northern Europe, at 4 cents/Kwh. Wind same. Offshore wind with no subsidy. Sounds like something we can learn from. I’ve listened to the first third of this so far, and it’s worthwhile. Forbes: Baseload power is not the…
Above, Michigan’s largest utility, Consumer’s Energy, lays out a plan to retire coal and replace with efficiency and solar. Bloomberg: Despite tariffs that President Trump imposed on imported panels, the U.S. installed more solar energy than any other source of…
Guardian: Tubs of Strawberry Breeze-cake, Cherry Gale-cia and other wind-themed ice-creams will feature in a campaign by Ben & Jerry’s to persuade the government to rethink its opposition to onshore windfarms. The renamed flavours will be sold at half price…
New research out of Antarctica shows the continent’s ice mass loss has tripled in the last 5 years or so. That’s not good, so might be time to review some of the key Antarctica videos from the last few years.…
A lot of news and talk about carbon capture and negative emissions this week. James Hansen talks us down. James Hansen’s Blog: I am minimizing Communications, so that I can (really!) finish Sophie’s Planet, while also providing expert testimony for…
Above, I interviewed Glaciologist Jonathan Bamber of the University of Bristol in December at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans. I wanted to ask him to comment on a point I had heard in regard to Antarctica,…
Above, Science all-star team breaks down Hurricane Harvey’s relationship to a record-warm ocean. Below, Houston Chronicle editors break down Commander in Chief’s ignorance and arrogance in the face of natural disaster. Vocab advisory: I had to look up exegete. —…
Description: Sonam Wangchuk is an engineer who has come up with an innovative way to provide fresh water to villages in Ladakh, one of the high-altitude deserts in the world located in the Himalayas. Wangchuk sources water from streams and…
Above, properties of graphene, a form of carbon that may make huge improvements possible in key renewable tech like batteries and Solar cells. Below, a friend sends news of yet more amazing possibilities for energy storage – as battery tech…
We sometimes hear that the need for expensive or toxic materials in lithium Ion batteries is a drawback or limitation on electric vehicle adoption. Important to understand that the battery chemistry we have today is not the chemistry of tomorrow,…
Earther: Weather watchers may be more preoccupied of late with storms popping off in the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern Pacific, but a very unusual cyclone also spun up over the Arctic this week—and it could spell more bad…
Rob Meyer in The Atlantic: A team of scientists from Harvard University and the company Carbon Engineering announced on Thursday that they have found a method to cheaply and directly pull carbon-dioxide pollution out of the atmosphere. If their technique…
Dark Snow Project Chief Scientist Jason Box in Montenegro, May 2018. Many worthwhile slides, some background noise, but valuable, arctic-focused overview, includes good discussion of sea level rise. Advertisements…
Most of the info is in the first 2 or 3 minutes of the video above. Tesla, for now, seems stable and moving forward on goals. Bloomberg: Tesla has consistently missed its production targets since deliveries of the Model 3…
No Colbert in this clip, just the apex of dumbness. Look upon this and marvel. At a gas station, a guy comes up after seeing my "FUCK TRUMP" sign: Him: You know why we love Trump so much? Me: …no……
Description: Steve Harris comes from many generations of farmers. There is no question that being a farmer is hard work, and the certainty provided by the wind being generated on his farm in rural North Carolina is making it a…
Description: Bryan Wilson lost his business during the 2008 recession but he, and the island he calls home, found a new future in offshore wind. After relying for decades on diesel generators for power, Block Island played a critical role…
From the Infinity Wars soundtrack. The movie is so dark from the get-go that when this pops on the soundtrack it’s a much needed blessed, bouncing relief. Advertisements…
EPA spokesman: ‘Have a great day. You’re a piece of trash.” Really. Shock and disappointment even among long-time aids whose careers have been damaged by association. And who really wants a used Trump mattress? That’s some really disgusting crazy. Advertisements…
This is a thing that is possible. https://t.co/fiFAG0FhDx — Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) June 6, 2018 The Hill: NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine says he changed his mind on the existence of man-made climate change because he “read a lot.” “I heard…
Jeff Goodell in Rolling Stone: Hurricane Harvey, which hit Texas and Louisiana last August, causing $125 billion in damage, dumped more water out of the sky than any storm in U.S. history. By one calculation, roughly a million gallons fell…
Guardian: Plunging prices for renewable energy and rapidly increasing investment in low-carbon technologies could leave fossil fuel companies with trillions in stranded assets and spark a global financial crisis, a new study has found. A sudden drop in demand for…
