Planet3.0 Blogs

Above, for me, 2012 felt like a watershed for climate – in that the impacts were becoming so clear, and to an increasing number of people. I remember finishing the edit on this and wiping away tears.I didn’t imagine then…

About Amelia the Amoeba, she is a pedigreed Naegleria Fowleri, a species known for her habit of eating human brains - an interesting case of a Seneca Collapse for the owner of the brain. But Amelia is a good girl…

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A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Jun 2 through Sat, June 8, 2019 Editor's Pick  White House Tried to Stop Climate Science Testimony, Documents Show   Rod…

Very important interview above. Dave Harwood directs Renewable Energy for DTE, a very large, rust belt utility, that until very recently was up to 70 percent coal reliant.Now, along with just about every other similar utility, the company is pivoting,…

Sort of like El Nino for Oz. (although they get El Nino, too..) Matter of fact, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology has an explainer for that, too, below. Advertisements…

Electric Hybrid Vehicle Technology: Following the record set at Pikes Peak, Volkswagen is breaking more speed records for electric mobility as it set the fastest lap of all-time at the famous Nürburgring in an all-electric vehicle. The VW ID.R, which…

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As I mentioned the other day, Republicans still on the climate denial crazy train, but creeping toward the emergency exits.Perhaps they are hoping to save their souls, but it’s too late to save their place in history. UtahPolicy.com Sen. Mitt…

More on India’s rolling crisis in climate and water. Essentially invisible in the west. This is a country with more than a billion people, a proud 5 thousand year old culture, a long history of religious violence, and nuclear weapons.…

An abstract stakeholder’s dialog. [V] You have cancer.[E] OK.[V] …[E] Is it curable.[V] Yes, I guess.[E] …[V] …[E] How[V] There’s A or B.[E] What would you suggest.[V] If you do A [inaudible], if you do B [inaudible].[E] Sure, but what…

A stunning heat event in Asia that most Americans know nothing about. I interviewed veteran Journalist Keith Schneider last summer after he had just returned from an extended visit to Asia, and India. Washington Post: NEW DELHI — When the temperature…

NBC 2 Fort Myers, Fla: COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. – Representative Francis Rooney and 35 of his constituents took a boat ride last month to see the effects of climate change and sea level rise firsthand. “I think it’s really important that…

There is a fair amount of discussion about a blog post by Prof. Mike Hulme in which he starts by poisoning the well, askingA denier is a person who denies something, “… who refuses to admit the truth of a concept…

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Conspiracy theories are as American as Cherry pie. People have always believed bullshit. I remember back in the pre-internet Stone Age, standing behind two older, midwestern women at a rally for a Republican candidate. They were staring at the peace…

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: As you can see, 2019 has moved into…

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: As you can see, 2019 has moved into…

“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” – U. Utah Phillips If you, and me, and 100,000 of our closest friends all stop eating meat, driving, flying, using…

New York Times: Many of the world’s biggest companies, from Silicon Valley tech firms to large European banks, are bracing for the prospect that climate change could substantially affect their bottom lines within the next five years, according to a …

Leading Democratic candidate answers critics with ambitious climate proposal. New York Times: Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who has faced criticism from Democratic presidential rivals about his commitment to combating climate change, on Tuesday unveiled a plan centered…

One more demonstration that companies, states, or countries, that take steps down the path to renewable energy, meet with greater success, faster, and more cheaply, than they ever imagined. Fast Company: When a new solar farm is completed on a…

Daishapu Glacier (D) and Ruorangqubu Glacier (R) in 1993 and 2018 Landsat images.  The yellow arrows indicate the 2018 terminus location of both glaciers and the purple dots the snowline. Notice the lake expansion at the terminus of both glaciers.…

Mike Hulme has a new essay that some are promoting on Twitter. He suggests that he is a human extinction denier and objects to the climate emergency narrative. Although I have my own concerns about some of the extreme rhetoric,…

This is EuropeThis is not Europe This is a reflection on how the breakdown of the Medieval cultural unity in Europe resulted in many different effects, from witch hunts to classical music. It came to me from putting together various…

Why are young – and not so young – people becoming more vociferous in their protests about global warming?  Why has climate change become a political and partisan issue at democratic elections?  Why do ‘greenies’ try to stop the development of new…

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So here's the post in a single paragraph: dispatchable hydropower is a massive and mostly unused power storage solution available today to solve the problem of power variability from wind and solar. The claim that power storage is technically infeasible…

A few people were sharing, on Twitter, a Science article called Promises and Perils of the Paris Agreement. It mostly seemed unobjectionable. It discusses the linear relationship between warming and emissions, and how this allows one to define carbon budgets…

I love seeing an artist build something with so much love and perseverance over a long haul. Writer/Composer Anaïs Mitchell, in a video interview below, says, “At the time that I wrote it, I was thinking about climate change, and…