But there is hope. Conflict between hydropower and wildlife. As more dams are removed, populations can rebound. This is why the credible plans for decarbonizing do not include more new hydro. AFP via Courthouse News: PARIS (AFP) — Populations of…
Buckle up. Early predictions of an active storm season are bearing out in the Atlantic. Tropical wave has now become Tropical Storm 9, and is expected to become Named storm Isaias later today or tomorrow.Pronunciation guide here. Common Dreams: “Hate…
In just 17 states, there is a theoretical 1000 Gigawatts potential, enough to power the entire US solely from wind, available with minimal wildlife impacts, according to new Nature Conservancy study. The study focuses on Prairie and Great Plains areas,…
Andrew Dessler PhD and Zeke Hausfather in The Hill: Climate change is real, caused by human activity and a serious problem that needs to be addressed. In a new study published last week, which one of us helped author, we’ve…
In Florida, it was forbidden for years for state employees to use the words “climate change”.That ridiculous charade has come to an end, – you can say the words now, even if the science continues to be ignored. More recently,…
This Ohio story is really something, and significant to everyone. Leah Stokes in Vox: On Tuesday, the news broke that the FBI had arrested Ohio Speaker of the House of Representatives Larry Householder, the architect of HB 6, a law that…
Fast developing story, I’ll know more tomorrow when I have a chance to catch up.Takeaway: The worst energy bill in the country turns out to be tainted with bribery. Fossil and nuclear industry involved. Allegedly. NPR: FBI agents arrested Ohio…
Asia Times: What’s green and carbon friendly to operate … is “whisper quiet” … can carry 70 passengers through the sky … and hardly use any fuel? According to a British firm that unveiled the concept, it will be the…
“Deformed Slightly” is not what you want to hear about the plane you are flying on, or the world’s largest dam project. Asia Times: In a rare revelation, Beijing has admitted that its 2.4-kilometer Three Gorges Dam spanning the Yangtze…
As I’ve mentioned before, Dan Kammen is an important person to listen to in the renewable energy world.While discriminating readers of this blog totally get it, it’s always good to hear a new summary of the comparison between fossil fuel…
Bailout Watch: Fossil fuel companies participated in the government’s Paycheck Protection Program to bail out small businesses at far higher rates than companies in other key sectors, a new BailoutWatch analysis has found. It’s another sign that coal, oil, and…
I hate Facebook. It’s a sewer of lies and delusions – but it is where the people are, 7 times as large as Twitter, last time I checked. So to push back on nonsense, I unfortunately, have to be there.…
Dan Kammen of the University of California, Berkeley, is on anybody’s short list for Secretary of Energy should Joe Biden win the White House. I interviewed him this week on the state of energy in Covid-time, and beyond. Working now…
Blackrock is the world’s largest investment firm, with 7 trillion in assets. He was interviewed today (July 17, 2020) on CNBC. In January, CEO Larry Fink famously wrote a letter to stakeholders outlining a broad move away from fossil fuels…
Following on the heels of Michael Moore’s disastrous film attack on science and renewable energy, we have 2 new books banging more or less the same drum. First, Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz has weighed in on Bjorn Lomborg’s new…
Washington Post: In a stark new finding, a study shows that six straight months of anomalously mild conditions in large parts of northern Siberia so far this year, along with an Arctic temperature record of 100.4 degrees (38 Celsius) that…
2 million views of the above video. On the plus side, reinforcing awareness of greenhouse gases, particularly methane, and animal agriculture’s role. The video is getting mixed reviews from all sides, including deniers who just don’t want to hear it.…
Biden outlines climate plan, meat starts about 6:20 above. New York Times: Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced on Tuesday a new plan to spend $2 trillion over four years to significantly escalate the use of clean energy in the transportation, electricity…
Fortune: When Royal Dutch Shell warned it will write down up to $22 billion in assets in the second quarter on Tuesday, it became the largest of an expanding group of companies to face a reckoning over the brutal economics…
