Planet3.0 Blogs

A week or so ago, Eli noticed that for a mere  $28,824 per person the Hurtigruten were organizing a cruise through the Northwest Passage (details at the link) the question being whether they would be able to make it, and in…

Senator Ted Cruz has given us perhaps the most perfect example of the tight connection between the erotization of death dealing killing machines, and a history of science and climate denial.Above, the Senator’s own description suggests equates the machines that…

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There’s been a rather contentious Twitter thread about RCP8.5, a concentration/forcing pathway I’ve discussed before. It started with a claim that it was “bollox” followed by a suggestion that it was mainly used for generating headlines, scaring gullible folk and…

Image credit: 4Patriots, LLC As is pretty clear from previous posts (and despite my current vehicle, airplane, and travel itinerary), I'm a very big fan of renewable energy. And thus, also a fan of solar power. But sometimes solar isn't…

In 2017, Molly Tuttle was the first woman to win the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Guitar Player of the Year award.She went on to win the award a second time in 2018. You may know Glen Campbell’s version better, but…

As glaciers disappear, and floods of climate refugees move north, White supremacists are on the rise. Not separate phenomena. Advertisements…

I used to wonder how, when countries go crazy, like Cambodia in the 70s, those that suffer first are often the best and brightest – scientists, teachers, writers, artists – you would think a popular movement would want to hold…

But sure, tell me about the dangers of Wind Turbines and solar panels… Desmogblog: On August 1, for the third time in as many years, Enbridge’s Texas Eastern Transmission gas pipeline exploded. This tragic incident in central Kentucky killed a 58-year-old woman,…

Fossil fuel industry finding Karma is real. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: There have been plenty of high-profile landslides dislodging and destroying oil and gas pipelines over the past few years, just as rains have wreaked havoc outside the oilfield — collapsing Route…

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New York Times: The world’s land and water resources are being exploited at “unprecedented rates,” a new United Nations report warns, which combined with climate change is putting dire pressure on the ability of humanity to feed itself.The report, prepared…

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Another month has passed and so here is the updated Arctic sea ice volume graph as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the Polar Science Center: 2019 had a real opportunity during July to further…

On first read, I was triggered by memories of the ill fated Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor (LMFBR) program, that lasted from the 1970s to the 1990s – a proposed “new generation” of reactors that would “breed” plutonium fuel for…

Geoengineering still not ready for prime time. NBC: Now, designers in Indonesia have offered up what may be the most audacious plan yet: they propose building ice-making submarines that would ply polar waters and pop out icebergs to replace melting…

There is apparently a paper from a couple of years ago that is currently doing the rounds and that argues that the Molar Mass Version of the Ideal Gas Law Points to a Very Low Climate Sensitivity. The suggestion is…

Image credit: Energy Vault Two posts back I discussed Energy Vault, a "Swiss-U.S." company whose concept for energy storage is based on the use of tower cranes to  stack concrete blocks. The blocks would be raised with electric motors to…

15 Years ago, Naomi Oreskes was inspired to shed new light on the “debate” over climate change by going to the researchers themselves, the foot soldiers of global science, to find out what their bottom line take was. She found…

One thread that lit up Twitter following the shootings of the past weekend was from a Republican Nebraska State Senator, John McCollister, who expressed shock and dismay at the increasingly dysfunctional state his party, and the inability of his peers…

New York Times: When election time comes next year, Will Galloway, a student and Republican youth leader at Clemson University, will look for candidates who are strong on the mainstream conservative causes he cares about most, including gun rights and…

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I know I don’t have to say this for regulars, but if anyone is here by mistake – chemtrails are, to put it mildly, *not* a thing. I’m going to have to read “The Demon Haunted World”. Right Wing Watch:…

Gaia is neither benevolent nor merciful. She is harsh and ruthless. Environmentalists are sometimes defined as "Gaia worshippers," a term supposed to be an insult. That's a little strange because most people on this planet openly worship non-existing entities and that…

Timely as ever, I thought I'd immediately jump on to the news that a month ago the first big American insurance company, Chubb, announced it's no longer insuring coal company operations. The big European insurers have already dropped out, and…

I hereby propose the Popper Ratio – (n.) Unit obtained by calculating the number of “popper” in a long-form text compared to the number of times Sir Karl is really cited. By “really cited” I mean (a) a quote and…

“This is terrifying.. but it’s important that we talk about it..”If only other major media were taking this approach. Advertisements…

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Houston Chronicle:  The heat wave that smashed high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is now over Greenland, accelerating the melting of the island’s ice sheet and causing massive ice loss in the Arctic. Greenland, the world’s…

Washington Post: The same heat dome that roasted Europe and broke national temperature records in five countries last week has shifted to Greenland, where it is causing one of the biggest melt events ever observed on the fragile ice sheet.…