Geoengineering still not ready for prime time. NBC: Now, designers in Indonesia have offered up what may be the most audacious plan yet: they propose building ice-making submarines that would ply polar waters and pop out icebergs to replace melting…
15 Years ago, Naomi Oreskes was inspired to shed new light on the “debate” over climate change by going to the researchers themselves, the foot soldiers of global science, to find out what their bottom line take was. She found…
One thread that lit up Twitter following the shootings of the past weekend was from a Republican Nebraska State Senator, John McCollister, who expressed shock and dismay at the increasingly dysfunctional state his party, and the inability of his peers…
New York Times: When election time comes next year, Will Galloway, a student and Republican youth leader at Clemson University, will look for candidates who are strong on the mainstream conservative causes he cares about most, including gun rights and…
I know I don’t have to say this for regulars, but if anyone is here by mistake – chemtrails are, to put it mildly, *not* a thing. I’m going to have to read “The Demon Haunted World”. Right Wing Watch:…
Houston Chronicle: The heat wave that smashed high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is now over Greenland, accelerating the melting of the island’s ice sheet and causing massive ice loss in the Arctic. Greenland, the world’s…
Washington Post: The same heat dome that roasted Europe and broke national temperature records in five countries last week has shifted to Greenland, where it is causing one of the biggest melt events ever observed on the fragile ice sheet.…
Bloomberg: Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens’ eponymous fund is swapping out one of its crude investment vehicles for renewables, seeing an opportunity in clean energy as fossil fuels get pummeled in the capital markets. BP Capital Fund Advisors LLC plans…
Wall Street Journal: Unchecked climate change could mean that the weather conditions hurting farmers this year will become increasingly common and result in higher costs for the federal government, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report. The report, issued…
Above, Resource planner Jessica Woycehoski of Consumer’s Energy – Michigan’s biggest utility – on the future for Gas vs Renewables. “The model really loved” efficiency and renewables. Bridge fuel to nowhere. OilPrice.com: The outlook for natural gas producers is not…
Kate Marvel in Scientific American: Not far from my grandmother’s house is a ghost city. At Angel Mounds on the Ohio river about eight miles west of Evansville, there are a few visible earthworks and a reconstructed wattle-and-daub barrier. There…
Description: An exceptionally wet season caused a large migration of grasshoppers in July 2019. The masses were so large, they appeared on a weather radar. The Post description of the unusual infestation omits the contribution of climate change to the…
It’s not about America. They have a plan for you and your future as a serf in a resource colony. New York Times: As Donald J. Trump was preparing to deliver an address on energy policy in May 2016, Paul…
Someone went to this summer’s Heartland Climate Denial conference so we wouldn’t have to. I post above my report from a 2012 meeting in Chicago.I understand Catheter sales were brisk this year. In These Times: There’s no need to worry…
Pay attention. Republicans are. That’s why the President chose, bizarrely, to make a speech devoted to his environmental record recently – not something any Republican, much less this one, is known for. (he spoke for most of an hour and…
New Scientist:(paywall) Huge wildfires are continuing to burn across the Arctic, and have now released more carbon dioxide in 2019 than in any year since satellite records began nearly two decades ago. Temperatures have been well above average in the…
There is certainly an argument for keeping existing nuclear plants open, if the needed subsidies don’t crowd out funding for renewable energy, as the video above explains. But subsidizing a pair of nuclear plants, AND old coal plants, like Ohio…
Somewhat of a Weekend Wonk bonus I just ran across.Major news organization looking into the impact of climate fueled extreme weather events across the US heartland. My most recent Yale Climate Connections video showed how scientists have traced the climate…
Nice description of the “snowball earth” epoch some hundreds of millions of years ago. Sometimes cited as “evidence” that co2 is not an important greenhouse gas, as I showed in this video, part of the Crock of the Week series…
One of the Dark Side’s most dangerous and amoral hitmen says he’s had a change of heart, wants to do something about climate.Author of the famous “Luntz memo”, pollster Frank Luntz helped shape devious language and tactics for a generation…
Calling Captain Obvious. Smithsonian: A group of climate scientists has reached a surprising conclusion about Earth’s past eras of naturally-driven, global warming and cooling—they weren’t global after all. The authors of new studies in Nature and Nature Geoscience used evidence…
Not even the Republican’s most reliable clients are going along with the rape of clean air and climate regulation. Washington Post: Four automakers from three continents have struck a deal with California to produce more fuel-efficient cars for their U.S.…
