Streetsblog: Contrary to the story Uber, Lyft, and their peers like to tell, ride-hailing services are not reducing traffic in American cities. Nor will they, even if they meet their goals for converting solo passenger trips to shared rides, according…
NBC News: WASHINGTON — A bipartisan duo of U.S. senators is urging President Donald Trump to pay more attention to the threat posed by Russia against critical infrastructure like the nation’s electric grid, and to provide an analysis of the…
Bloomberg: Commodity producers are having a summer to remember, for all the wrong reasons. A heatwave across swathes of North America, Europe and Asia, coupled with a worsening drought in some areas, is causing spikes in the prices of anything…
Facebook apparently still OK with a whole lot of right wing wackjob hate speech, but climate science sets off their buzzers. Somebody should maybe let them know? Facebook says this episode of our @PBSDS show, Global Weirding, which tackles clean…
A brave Republican breaks the carbon barrier with a carbon tax proposal. Not everyone loves it. RepublicEN: On Monday, for the first time in nearly ten years, GOP members introduced a climate solutions bill. Amid a rising sense of climate…
WRAL Raleigh North Carolina: We asked whether voters would be more or less likely to support a legislator or candidate who favored renewable energy options like wind, solar, and biomass technologies. Results showed that 90 percent of registered Democrats supported…
Interview/description of New Ionic Materials battery at about 30:00 in video above. IEEE Spectrum: According to Silicon Valley visionary and Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy, much about the future of energy and climate change hinges on a simple question: How…
Clean Economy Weekly (newsletter): The electricity grid that serves most of Texas hit an all-time record for demand last Thursday, topping out at 73,259 megawatts between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. The record may not stand for long, as hot…
Warming in the Arctic could be behind the heatwave that's sweeping the northern hemisphere https://t.co/4f6kgbfROt pic.twitter.com/arnZxf1teE — New Scientist (@newscientist) July 24, 2018 New Scientist: This heatwave across much of the northern hemisphere could continue for weeks, and possibly even…
Snip from a 2nd Quarter 2018 NextEra Energy Earnings call Transcript: Stephen C. Byrd – Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC Wanted to just follow up on storage. You had provided some good commentary in your prepared remarks around storage. But…
Leo Hickman tweets a comparison between BBC climate coverage in 2018, and 2008. A number of Brits, including skeptics, have made the connection between this summer’s extreme heat, and the severe heatwave of 1976. The Guardian published a comparative global…
Heroic piece in Medium by Wendy Siegelman pulls together the story of Russia’s huge investment in Arctic fossil resources, and how to make sense of the current global crisis in terms of oil, gas, ice, and climate. …
University of Wisconsin: Thousands of miles of buried fiber optic cable in densely populated coastal regions of the United States may soon be inundated by rising seas, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and…
Keith Schneider, who I interviewed last year, has just returned from another swing thru Southeast Asia. I’ll be talking to him next week. His observations above are on the mark for today’s news. BBC: Hundreds of people are missing and…
Nightmare scenario. November 2018, Election night thrown into chaos as blackouts descend across blue states on the eastern seaboard, and throughout much of the Midwest. Wired: The Cyber-Cassandras said this would happen. For decades they warned that hackers would soon…
Fraunhofer Institute: Until now, acreage was designated for either photovoltaics or photosynthesis, that is, to generate electricity or grow crops. An agrophotovoltaics (APV) pilot project near Lake Constance, however, has now demonstrated that both uses are compatible. Dual use of…
“Glacial” used to mean changes that took place imperceptibly over long periods of time. That no longer applies to the natural world, but it does describe Republican’s ability to catch up with science. Axios: Climate change is starting to become…
Above, a meme from an anti-wind forum inexplicably draws a connection between wind turbines and Obamacare. It’s an example of the confused, misinformed, aimless anger and hostility that the fossil fuel industry seeks to harness to slow the unstoppable…
Open Mind: At a town hall meeting near Philadelphia, 18-year-old Rose Strauss had a question for Scott Wagner, the Republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania: You’ve said that climate change is a result of people’s body heat, and are refusing…
They’re counting on you burning out. Don’t – we need you. Here’s help. Daily Kos: Today seems like the right time to do a thread I’ve been thinking about for a while on how to handle the seemingly never-ending deluge…
I really enjoyed interviewing Wind Developer Marty Lagina. Marty came from an Oil and Gas background, he’s an engineer – but he has seen the opportunity in wind, and lately, solar development, around Michigan. I asked him to address a…
Independent: Feeding seaweed to cows could slash the amount of climate change-inducing methane emissions from their burps. Preliminary research has indicated a small amount of marine algae added to cattle food can reduce methane emissions from cattle gut microbes by…
I’ll be giving some presentations in coming weeks devoted entirely to newest developments in renewable energy. While a lot of readers of this blog may be well briefed on where renewables are, it’s astounding how little this story has percolated…
I excerpted the video above from Facebook in this month’s Yale vid, in the post above. It’s an example of a very large movement of tech companies into the renewable space – they need high quality electricity for expanding data…
Last night’s post got me thinking I should review just where we are with “Next generation Nuclear power”. About where I thought. Lots of ideas. 2030 time frame for working prototypes, which will need a decade or so to prove…
Suggestion to US trading partners still in the Paris Agreement – If you’re going to have a trade war, well, could it be targeted on carbon emitters? Inside Climate News: As the Trump administration’s trade war heats up, a group…
Two most obvious existential threats to civilization – climate change and nuclear war. You could probably add in the odd asteroid strike, but that’s more hypothetical. The other two are demonstrably happening. ChannelNewsAsia: TOKYO: Japan has amassed enough plutonium to…
This post was inspired by a long twitter discussion by Mike Mann on the subject of agricultural impacts on climate. This is a myth that was promoted by “Cowspiracy” and is based on erroneous math/accounting. See @UCSUSA: https://t.co/uXEOkI29bd https://t.co/fF69a9V8QH —…
