Music Break: Night Shift by The Commodores
Musically, this tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson holds up.It came to me as an ear worm in the middle of the night, so I pulled it up on the phone. By the time is was over, I was…
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Temperature Graphs: Why Baselines Matter
Climate geeks will find this elementary – but not everybody is a climate geek. Deke Arndt on Twitter: The pretty graphic upthread is the annual global temperature anomaly (or departure) from the 20th century average. Each red dot is an…
How Wind Turbines Bolster Services and Lower Taxes
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Animation: Earth’s Carbon Cycle
Worth spending a little time with. Blow this up to full screen and take it in. Visualizations have been a huge boon to scientists, and have opened up scientific concepts to a wider audience, allowing us to perceive things in…
Local Officials: Do Wind Turbines Affect Wildlife? Livestock?
I know it’s fashionable to get your alternative facts from Facebook and internet rumors, but I still prefer the old fashioned way – asking people who know stuff. I asked a number of local officials in communities with wind farms,…
Local Officials: Wind Turbines Enhance Communities, Home Values
Or at very least, have no effect. Big boogeyman for the wind-bagger set. More on this topic in the vid below, start at 2:33 if pressed. Advertisements…
New Video: Creative Climate Communication
We’ve spent the last dozen years trying to figure out best practice for climate communication.No one has a magic bullet, but young scientists and engineers are finding creative pathways to tell the story in fresh fashion. New York Times: Climate…
Local Leaders are Best Advocates for Wind and Renewables
If you’ve followed the way I learned about climate change, you’ll notice that I point a camera at experts and let them talk. I’ve been collecting interviews from the best experts on wind energy, and how renewables are changing the…
Justin Amash on Climate: Playbook Science Denial
Now that he's read the Mueller report, @justinamash might want to read the IPCC report as well.…
Crop Catastrophe Shaping Up in Midwest?
Video report above is several weeks old, but conditions have not improved in the soggy midwest, and this week’s forecast is for much, much more rain in already waterlogged areas CNN – May 18: More than 70 million Americans are…
Former Nuclear Regulator: Ban Nuclear Power
Worth a read. The underlying assumption one might come away with is that some kind of “ban” has been, or could, limit nuclear development.Fact: the nuclear industry has been all but completely hobbled since the mid-seventies by it’s own ineptitude…
Music Break: Kristin Bell – Chasing Coral – Tell Me How Long
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Young People Strike for Climate May 24
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April Showers Make New Record
Here in the midwest, spring planting is weeks behind schedule as water logged fields keep farmers from getting to work – and forecast is for yet another period of heavy rains in the offing. You’re not wrong. Heavy rains are…
The Soil Solution to Climate Change
The Nation: Ninety people are gathered along a trench—maybe 20 feet long, five feet deep, and three feet wide—in the Montana prairie. It’s an overcast spring day, with a cool breeze stirring the grass. Children clamber around the edges of…
Ignorance is Bliss for GOPer on Climate
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I’m a Conservative, and I was Lied to on Climate Change
Jerry Taylor is a former climate denier for hire at the Cato Institute.Then he woke up. His short message is above. His story was the subject of one of my videos a year ago.…
AOC: What’s Too Much for Me..
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From “I Heart Coal” to Solar Leader
For those that have been paying attention, the metamorphosis of big, coal- heavy midwest utilities over the last half decade has been head-spinning and jaw-dropping.Example, Michigan’s largest utility has moved from a knuckle and foot-dragging troglodyte among utilities, to a…
Welcome to the Future
Still no jetpack or flying car, but all that dystopian shit, yeah, we got that. The graph below is the one that specifically caught my eye. Tom Randall via Twitter: This @exxonmobile chart from 1982 predicted that in 2019 our…
Antarctica from the Ob Tube
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The Bill Nye We Need Now
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John Oliver on Green New Deal
20 minutes – if you’re on lunch, or you might want to save for later. Advertisements…
Elizabeth Warren on Climate
5 minutes.…
Bill Maher: Dem Candidate Tim Ryan on the Aspirational Economy
Harness the free market to combat climate change and create jobs. Tim Ryan is a congressman from hard-hit and electorally important Ohio. Gotta say, Bill is getting more annoying in his interruptions of guests who have something important to say.…
Music Break: Bring a Little Water, Silvy – arr. Moira Smiley
Attributed to Huddy Ledbetter (Leadbelly) – but who knows…? Advertisements…
AOC: Trump Voter Switches on Climate
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez via ThreadreaderApp: About an hour ago, I was walking out of my office for the day. There was a man what I believe was his teenage son hanging a small sign they made outside my office (we…
Biden Leads Pack, but How is He on Climate?
I haven’t settled on a favorite candidate for 2020 yet, and history suggests it’s way too early to get strung out about it.At this point in the 1992 campaign, Bill Clinton was at about 2 percent in the polls, and…
The Weekend Wonk: Fleeing Climate Change
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Why the US Has no High Speed Rail
Money. Well, greed, and money. Advertisements…