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Australian PM Morrison: A Lump of Coal to Parliament
In 2017 now-Prime Minister Scott Morrison brought a lump of coal to Parliament, to complain about “coal-phobia”. Mr Morrison took a Hawaiian vacation just as the current wildfire catastrophe broke out, and has been stingy to firefighters. Below, firefighter refuses…
CBS: Human Climate Change Fingerprint in Daily Weather Detected
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Katharine Hayhoe: The Most Important thing to Combat Climate Change is to Talk about it.
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Australian PM Jeered visiting Fire Area
Putting Australia’s wildfires in context: 2019 in the Amazon: 900,000 hectares2018 in California: 1,800,000 hectares Since July in New South Wales: 4,000,000 hectares…
Worst Sequel Ever? “Iraq 2: The Reckoning”
We’ve got a planet to save and these idiots want to start a diversionary war. Only positive note today is that even Trump supporters are sharply divided on this one.…
On Climate Crisis, Putin Straddles Science, Denial
The leader of the Republican Party weighs in on climate change.…
Will Tesla’s New Battery Fix the Climate Crisis?
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Going to Bat for Bats
If we’re going to deploy renewable energy systems, we need to learn from the mistakes of the past and be pro-active about emerging issues. One such issue is the impact of wind energy on bats. It’s not the Armageddon anti-winders…
Reuters: Denmark Rapidly Ramping Renewables
Reaches new record. Reuters: COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark sourced almost half its electricity consumption from wind power last year, a new record boosted by steep cost reductions and improved offshore technology. Wind accounted for 47% of Denmark’s power usage in…
Kevin Trenberth on Why Climate Change Makes Things Catch Fire
Just before Australia started to burn, I talked to Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Turns out hot, dry things catch fire more easily.…
Nuclear as a Climate Solution – Trying the Soft Sell
Jigar Shah and Katherine Hamilton are experts usually associated with renewable energy. Shah is founder of Sun Edison, Hamilton is Chair at 38 North Solutions, LLC, which is focused on clean energy and innovation public policy.Shah and Hamilton co-host a…
Dealing with the Firehose of Falsehoods
As Trump’s Neo-Nazi hireling Steve Bannon said, “…the press is easy to deal with, you just flood the zone with shit.” NBC’s Meet the Press has too often been a vector for that shit, and it might be that Chuck…
Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan on the Greenhouse Effect
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2015: Remembering the Papal Encyclical on Climate Change
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2010: The Gulf Oil Spill Remembered
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Smoky Joe Barton on Climate Change and Noah’s Flood
Readers will remember Smoky Joe Barton, the Texas Congressman who apologized to the CEO of British Petroleum for the Federal penalties imposed after the Gulf Oil spill. Mr Barton was well known for public displays of piety, as above. Mr…
The CAES for Energy Storage
Compressed Air Energy Storage. Engineers have some new ideas to make it work.…
Killer Vegans: Women Soldiers defend Wildlife Against Poachers
Enviro News: The International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF) has recruited women to protect the world’s natural heritage along Africa’s Zambezi River. The Akashinga, or “Brave Ones,” is a privately-funded, highly-trained, vegan group of local women from extremely disadvantaged backgrounds assigned to protect the…
Australia Continues to Burn
Video from New South Wales Rural Fire Service.…
Jim Cramer: “I’m a True Believer” now on Tesla
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Climate Catastrophe Animal Vid of the Week
The suffering of animals due to climate change is, and will be, immense.Of course, for climate deniers, that calls for high fives all around. Evening Standard UK: Around 480 million animals are feared to have died in the bushfires sweeping Australia,…
Tesla Growing like no Other Company
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Reposting: Mars Attacks!
From 2009.…
Oil’s “Sale of the Century” Flops
Investors hate uncertainty, but the number of moving parts in the energy picture make fossil fuel’s future cloudier than ever. Sydney Morning Herald: The sale of the century has ended in farce. The modest sums raised from the “privatisation” of…
Reposting: Jason Box on Bill Maher
Glaciologist Jason Box is founder of Dark Snow Project, and has been my guide and mentor, now, in a half dozen crowd-funded expeditions on and around the Greenland ice sheet. Bill Maher interviewed Dr. Box in summer 2014, and discussed…
Reposting: Climate Change and National Security
From 2010.…
Reposting: They Knew. Hell Yes, They Knew. Climate Opportunities Lost.
Can’t be emphasized enough how long climate science has been established consensus. That’s why media clips like these have to be shared and reshared. Deniers understand Goebbel’s dictum about repeating a lie. Too often good people forget it is even…
Reposting: Brain vs Blowhard
House GOP leader McCarthy – “There’s two people Putin pays, Trump and Rohrabacher”. Coincidentally both climate deniers. See how Richard Alley handled one of them at a hearing. From 2010.…
Why Abrupt Climate Change is Like my Baby Brother
Good story from Jim White, told at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in 2014.…