It’s Happening: PBS Covers National Climate Assessment
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New US Climate Assessment Summarized
Administration has tried to bury the new National Climate Assessment – perhaps an even more significant scientific document, for Americans, than the recent IPCC report – in that it is the work product of the American government’s own science agencies.…
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Go Elon Musk
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CBS on New Climate Report
They tried to bury this new report from government sources, by releasing it on Black Friday. Let’s prove that calculation wrong. Advertisements…
Talking and Teaching about Climate
In case it comes up. Yale Climate Connections: A confession. That cartoon where someone is hunched over the computer, unable to tear away from furious typing, because someone is wrong on the internet? That was me. Or at least it…
Your Thanksgiving Climate Survival Guide
It’s Thanksgiving, and the Northeastern US has colder than normal conditions, and of course the idiot Troll-in-Chief is all over it. Your sanity guide to navigate Trump tweets and Holiday dinner at Uncle Dittohead’s is here. You’re welcome. Above, from…
Media Literacy Might be Key to Planetary Survival
Seriously, people, if you have not read the piece below in the Washington Post, drop everything and do so now – I’ll wait. Washington Post: A new message popped onto Blair’s screen from a friend who helped with his website.…
Humanitarian Crisis in California. Coming to Your Town.
Not Yemen, not Burma. California. Climate Terror in the land of Hot Tubs. Advertisements…
What’s the Deal with the Green New Deal?
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Cannabis and Climate Change: Growers Becoming More Efficient
“Legal and illicit production is thought to have used 4.1 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2017, almost equal to the output of the Hoover Dam.” Greentechmedia: Indoor growers are looking to cut spiraling electricity consumption with custom-built microgrids in U.S. states…
Gravity Storage Keeps Inspiring New Tech
On viewing the above, one reaction is, could this be the core of a downtown skyscraper with offices, condos and shops surrounding? Greentechmedia: The energy storage industry is all about incremental improvements, so it’s rare to see a product come…
“How Pointless is my Life?” – Journalist has Rare Moment of Self Awareness on Climate
Above, Katy Tur makes a surprising expression of shock. (at about 1:55) It seems she suddenly recognized the long-skewed priorities of the mainstream media, herself included, in treating climate change as one issue among many, – a priority only for,…
Morocco’s Move to be the Saudis of Solar
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“Complete and Total Devastation” in Paradise
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Solar Means Business in the Midwest
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Pleasure in Paradise: For Trump, It’s Tough Keeping all the Disasters Straight
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Forests Need more than Raking
Trump: "You gotta take care of the floors. You know the floors of the forest, very important… I was with the President of Finland… he called it a forest nation and they spent a lot of time on raking and…
Trump Mixes Pleasure with Paradise
He’s not really good at this. Calls “Paradise” California “Pleasure”. Twice. Jerry Brown’s face, above, speaks for all of us. Advertisements…
Trump: “We’re Going to have a Great Climate.”
The best climate. A Huge climate. Believe me.…
Insurance Industry vs Nature
In a year of disasters, TV commercials reflect awareness that climate impacts are moving into uncharted territory. Tagline above – “Human Nature > Nature”…uhmm…sounds like a recipe for a rude shock… Andy Hoffman in the Conversation: Unfortunately, convincing politicians, business…
Stuff you Didn’t Know about Tesla
For instance, Elon Musk was not the founder. Advertisements…
Florida Town is a Green Experiment
Private company is pushing some interesting community design ideas. Solar panels are great, but actually the water management here could be the most significant piece. Yeah, I get it, – expensive luxury homes for rich white people. But well-to-do early…
Music Break: Los Lobos – Kiko and the Lavender Moon
Suggest full screen for this one. Celebrating the passage of Michigan’s Proposal one.…
How Climate Worsens Fires
Yale Climate Connections: The data tell the story: Six of California’s ten most destructive wildfires on record have now struck in just the past three years. President Trump’s tweets suggesting forest mismanagement is to blame for California’s wildfire woes, and…
Jet Stream Ridge Sows Havoc in West, East
I showed the video above to a group last night, and serendipitously could talk about the actual current weather conditions as a good example of what we expect to see more and more often in a changing world. Current jet-stream…
Children of Men: Will Climate Change Sterilize Males?
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…
A Green New Deal: Is This the Only Climate Plan that Makes Sense?
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…
Music Break: Tony Bennett, Diana Krall – Fascinatin’ Rhythm
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Katharine Hayhoe on Fossil Fuels
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NASA: Massive Impact Crater under Greenland Ice
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…