Bloomberg: Donald Trump is preparing a novel campaign strategy for a president who’s pulling the U.S. from the international Paris accord on climate change, cheer-leading for coal, one of the dirtiest source of power, and suggesting that wind turbines cause cancer. He’s…
Mike Mann in Newsweek: Unlike President Trump’s inability to pronounce the word “origins,” his recurring anti-windbloviating isn’t a sign of mental decline. Sure, it is stupid and wrong to say the sound of wind causes cancer (just who is the “alarmist” by the way?) or reduces real…
Long monologue, – get some coffee, or skip to 8:40 if you’re pressed. Comedians having a good time with this.Clearly the coal industry is terrified of wind power, now the cheapest form of new electricity in the US. As far…
Very nice overview of Arctic changes in past several decades, graphs worth bookmarking. Description: Key Indicators of Arctic Climate Change: 1971-2017 – video abstract Box, J.E., W.T. Colgan, R Brown, M Wang, J Overland, J Walsh, U Bhatt, T Christensen,…
Description: Green For All, in collaboration with Big Picture Anthems, is thrilled to announce the release of our #FuelChange Anthem – a song and music video seeking to inspire and help mobilize a movement of people and resources for zero-emission…
What the past teaches about the future. More evidence. Guardian: Trees growing near the South Pole, sea levels 20 metres higher than now, and global temperatures 3C-4C warmer. That is the world scientists are uncovering as they look back in…
Renewable Energy World: Florida Power & Light is vowing to go global-scale on a new solar and energy storage combination. The unit of NextEra Energy announced plans to build a 409-MW energy storage facility in Manatee County. FPL says the…
What it’s like when your boss is barking bonkers. Antifaxxers are working together.Fox News spreading doubts about Vaccines, Climate change, renewable energy, science and verifiable fact in general. Trump joins in with claims that wind turbines cause cancer. Wind Turbines…
Outside Online: Early in the first episode of Hostile Planet, an ambitious six-part nature series that will premiere tonight on National Geographic, viewers are introduced to a pair of barnacle geese and their trio of fuzzy chicks. The chicks happened to have…
n rural Honduras, farming has been many residents’ livelihood for generations. But now, rising temperatures and declining rainfall are killing crops and jeopardizing the farmers’ very survival. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs and videographer Julia Galiano-Rios explore how climate change affects…
Above, Dr. Jeffrey Ellenbogen is arguably one of, if not the, best informed expert on wind turbine “health effects” on the planet. Dr. Ellenbogen was a professor at Harvard Medical School, and concurrently director of the Harvard Sleep Lab at…
New news on energy storage. Science Alert: We just got some massive news in the ongoing drive to switch to renewable energy: scientists have identified 530,000 sites worldwide suitable for pumped-hydro energy storage, capable of storing more than enough energy to power the…
Washington Post: Burger King, whose quarter-pound Whopper pushed its competitors a half-century ago to create their own two-fisted hamburgers, now plans to roll out a vegetarian version of its signature sandwich, relying on plant-based patties developed by San Francisco Bay…
Which, depending on how you look at it, is sort of inevitable, or a really frightening development. Just finished a piece on “new” nuclear and its prospects. MIT Technology Review (registration required): Most beautiful wedding photos taken at a nuclear…
Media has given scant coverage to the scope and violence of the current disaster in the US breadbasket. Climate fueled extremes like this are only a small preview of what is coming – and already enough to shake midwestern agriculture…
And if you like that, you’ll love the climate denier below. Fox guest says man-made climate change is a hoax and calls Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "shrill" for talking about it pic.twitter.com/uYjWQvg3Eu — Media Matters (@mmfa) March 31, 2019…
Climate change is the ultimate security risk. So, can we say it now? Republicans, the party of climate denial, care as much about National Security, and our Service people, as they do about, say, the deficit. NBC News: More than…
Per the brilliant Robert Rohde, animation showing how temperature averages, and extremes, have shifted upward as global temperatures have risen over last century and a half. Often imagery like this is more effective than words in conveying the reality we…
And Mexico will pay for “the wall”…I know a lot about walls. RenewEconomy.com.au: The stunning fall in the costs of wind, solar and storage – estimated on a global scale – has already put the fossil fuel industry on notice,…
Above, found footage of GOP Senator Mike Lee’s bizarre rant from the other day. This is what passes as “readiness to deal with climate change” among Republicans. NPR: AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Senate votes today on the Green New Deal…
We present to you: Senator Mike Lee's masterful takedown of @AOC and @SenMarkey's Green New Deal. pic.twitter.com/S7B31xByM1 — Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) March 26, 2019 “The solution to climate change is not this unserious resolution…the solution to so many of our…
Bloomberg New Energy Finance: London and New York, March 26, 2019 – Two technologies that were immature and expensive only a few years ago but are now at the center of the unfolding low-carbon energy transition have seen spectacular gains…
Chris Mooney in Washington Post: Global energy experts released grim findings Monday, saying that not only are planet-warming carbon-dioxide emissions still increasing, but the world’s growing thirst for energy has led to higher emissions from coal-fired power plants than ever…
I’ve never been accused (yet) of being a pro-nuclear shill, but we’re going to have to take a clear-eyed view of our nuclear waste problem, whether or not we go forward with the Nuclear industry. Working on a vid around…
