Science: China has rightfully taken criticism for squelching attempts by scientists to report information during the outbreak. Now, the United States government is doing similar things. Informing Fauci and other government scientists that they must clear all public comments with…
Recently discovered this CNBC series with Diana Olick reporting on the interface of climate, economics and real estate. Will post from time to time. I used clips from an Olick report in my most recent Yale Climate Connections vid.…
The parallels between Republican response to Covid19 vs Climate Change are striking, and only growing more so. The virus is – in effect, Climate Change response in a test-tube. Above, the Daily Show has a take. Below, key indicators.…
Bloomberg: Oil’s fall to some $35 a barrel from $55 just last week has major implications for addressing climate change. Low prices incentivize more use of oil; it squeezes the budgets of oil companies, putting clean-energy projects in doubt; and…
Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis: The unthinkable occurred in the U.S. last month: In the dead of winter, renewable energy (utility-scale solar, wind and hydropower) generated more electricity than did coal plants. This has never happened before. Specifically,…
More and more talk about Hydrogen as an energy storage medium. Mark Jacobson has long identified H2 as potential answer for aircraft and shipping. The downside is loss of efficiency in electrolyzing H2O – then having to convert again to…
Twitter Thread from Gregory Brew – Brew is a PhD historian of oil, the Middle East, US foreign relations and Iran. — For all my non-oil peeps, an update: A few days ago, the big OPEC/Russia meeting ended without a…
Last ditch attempt to promote Nazi Youth is not enough. The Heartland Institute, which has been a conduit for anti-science information for decades, is failing financially, even as it’s efforts reach full flower in the current corona-virus denial we see…
Exxon CEO dancing around a fusillade of questions about climate change from traditionally friendly financial press, in first few minutes of this vid.Climate questions up front, then corona virus discussion, revealing quote on climate attitudes toward the end. Note the…
Here’s a good test case for what I call the “People’s Carbon Tax”. Stopping the gas industry from moving Liquified Fossil Gas on trains is something that is understandable, and do-able with local actions around geographic, legal, and legislative pinch…
CNBC: General Motors wants to make it a two-horse race between itself and Tesla with its next generation of all-electric vehicles starting next year. The Detroit automaker during an “EV Day” on Wednesday provided unprecedented details about its plans, including…
Fascinated by the parallels between Corona virus and climate communication. The planetary response to the virus is like “climate change response” in a test-tube. We’re seeing the whole range of familiar responses – denial, distortion, silencing/intimidating scientists.What can we learn…
Technology Review: The Super Tuesday primaries all but narrowed the Democratic presidential field to a two-person race, inflaming a heated battle between the party’s moderate and progressive wings. The differences are particularly stark on the issue of climate change, where…
I have a hunch, that the stream of ignorance and misinformation from the highest office in the land is not reassuring citizens, voters, or markets. Bill McKibben in the New Yorker: There’s nothing good about the novel coronavirus—it’s killing many…
From where I’m sitting in central Michigan, the flooded fields and soggy ground that set in a year ago are still with us. The rain swollen pond behind my house that used to only fill in spring, has remained thru…
Even as the Republican Party tries to pretend they care about climate change, they can’t help themselves. Intellectualist: Mandy Gunasekara handed Sen. James Inhoffe his snowball on the Senate floor in 2015 as he mocked climate change. President Donald Trump’s…
Guardian: Almost half of the world’s sandy beaches will have retreated significantly by the end of the century as a result of climate-driven coastal flooding and human interference, according to new research. The sand erosion will endanger wildlife and could…
Jonathan Friedland in the Guardian: The coronavirus crisis is a war against a disease, but it’s also the most serious battle yet in the war on truth. That much was clear from the start, as China moved to hush up …
The Corona virus pandemic shows how critical our trust in scientific institutions must be in times of crisis.The current administration continues to do all it can to erode that trust, in favor of blind obedience to the Great Leader. New…
Teslarati: Tesla’s “big battery” utility-scale Powerpack system at the Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia has yielded more than doubled the savings to consumers in 2019 than the year prior as it dominates fossil fuel generators on quicker demand response…
Remember typewriters? Film in cameras? Xerox? AOL? Exxon? Market Watch via Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis: Even Wall Street firms are urging clients to dump energy stocks While the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the…
