“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” – U. Utah Phillips If you, and me, and 100,000 of our closest friends all stop eating meat, driving, flying, using…
New York Times: Many of the world’s biggest companies, from Silicon Valley tech firms to large European banks, are bracing for the prospect that climate change could substantially affect their bottom lines within the next five years, according to a …
Leading Democratic candidate answers critics with ambitious climate proposal. New York Times: Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who has faced criticism from Democratic presidential rivals about his commitment to combating climate change, on Tuesday unveiled a plan centered…
One more demonstration that companies, states, or countries, that take steps down the path to renewable energy, meet with greater success, faster, and more cheaply, than they ever imagined. Fast Company: When a new solar farm is completed on a…
I love seeing an artist build something with so much love and perseverance over a long haul. Writer/Composer Anaïs Mitchell, in a video interview below, says, “At the time that I wrote it, I was thinking about climate change, and…
Already a campaign issue. How big will it be? USAToday: Every large community along the Arkansas River will see major or record flooding within the next week to 10 days as swift-moving water from weeks of heavy rain challenges Arkansas’…
The Fossil fuel industry and its mouthpieces often embarrassing in their attempt to tie the power and wealth of the fossil oligarchs to the ideals of democracy. This sometimes leads us to do stupid things. You know what they say,…
There’s a case to be made for keeping nuclear plants running during this energy transition. There is not a case for subsidizing coal plants with the same legislation – while cutting incentives to competition from wind and energy efficiency. Ohio…
E&E News: The Cato Institute quietly shut down a program that for years sought to raise uncertainty about climate science, leaving the libertarian think tank co-founded by Charles Koch without an office dedicated to global warming.The move came after Pat…
Above – Oklahoma TV Met – “I’ve never seen that before…” Difficulty quantifying changes in twisters over decades, in part because technology has changed so drastically for detecting storms in last 30 years. More research needed, but this year’s season…
The idea of a “Team B” to produce intelligence more politically palatable to a Republican administration is not new. In the 80s, hard-liners not satisfied with intelligence community expert estimates of Soviet capabilities, formed a “Team B” group to provide…
Those that remember the Soviet era, at least. Slava Malamud on Twitter: I have just finished watching Episode 1 of Chernobyl on @HBO. My perspective is that of someone born and raised in the Soviet Union who has vivid memories…
New poll showing increased support for climate action, especially an increase among young Republicans. It’s from Frank Luntz, famous for many a Fox News focus group, as well as the infamous “Luntz Memo”, which instructed GOP candidates on how to…
Denial is a helluva drug. My friend Marc Morano spends, I am sure, more time attempting to fog the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, than any other issue. That’s because he knows that when people find out how overwhelming…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
