#LoosFromTheHip Feb 20, 2019 I am really starting to enjoy the discussion about sources of GHG's and now 170 million pets equivalent to 70 million people #WorkingAnimals pic.twitter.com/NB1GGaXdcs
— Trent Loos (@trentloos) February 20, 2019
Y2Kyoto: Planetary Fever Update
I've always liked Roman numerals
XL+
No. of vehicles I counted off the road this afternoon from Omaha to Des Moines on I-80. They've been there day or 2. Still can't make it back to Minnesota, I-35 and I-90 closed. Folks will remember this old fashioned blizzard for years pic.twitter.com/wLLxRn6uMn— Greg Peterson (@MachineryPete) February 25, 2019
Y2Kyoto: The Planet Has A Fever
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
If You Like Your Eggs, You Can Keep Your Eggs.
h/t B A Deplorable Rupertslander
Y2Kyoto: Ocasio-Butts
How Much Will the Green New Deal Cost?
As it happens, a team of Stanford engineers led by Mark Jacobson outlined just such a plan back in 2015. Jacobson’s repowering plan would involve installing 335,000 onshore wind turbines; 154,000 offshore wind turbines; 75 million residential photovoltaic systems; 2.75 million commercial photovoltaic systems; 46,000 utility-scale photovoltaic facilities; 3,600 concentrated solar power facilities with onsite heat storage; and an extensive array of underground thermal storage facilities.
They’re laughing at her. They shouldn’t.
Y2Kyoto: Apocalypse Postponed
Well well, @NASA now confirms both global cooling in upper atmosphere due to solar minimum:https://t.co/uSZvff5cHk
and global greening of entire planet from elevated CO2:https://t.co/loPmPbkiCp
I wonder what Gavin Schmidt, who blocks me, has to say about that?? ❄️❄️— Patrick Moore (@EcoSenseNow) February 7, 2019
In Conversation With Tom Friedman’s House, A Continuing Series…
Y2Kyoto: Evergreen
Some things just never grow old.
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
And it works precisely as planned; “For five days I stuck to the Eat Foundation diet to see if, at the end of it, I would be healthier, leaner and living on a happier planet…
What could Possibly Go Wrong?
South Australia’s green politicians recently demolished their last coal plant.
Y2Kyoto: Going, Going… Back
Y2Kyoto: Snowfalls Are Now Just A Thing Of The Past
Those whom the Gods choose to bury in irony, they first make ridiculous.
h/t johnlee
Y2Kyoto: The Greenest Generation
If radical environmentalism is refighting WWII: Fair enough. Nuking Hiroshima it is, then.
The primary difference is that 85 million dead aren’t enough to produce the results they seek.
Y2Kyoto: They Were Promised There Would Be No Math
Puzzled by this reporting, I did a rough calculation in my initial reporting on the NCA4. Today’s $20 trillion GDP, growing at a 3 percent rate, would rise to $226 trillion by 2100. With climate change, it would instead rise to only $203 trillion. Americans living at the end of this century would be about 10 times richer on average than we are now, albeit in a much warmer world.
Blowout 256
An eclectic mix of energy and climate news stories from around the world compiled by Roger Andrews.
This week’s lead story features the growing number of cracks in Scotland’s Hunterston reactor, which according to some requires an immediate shutdown to avoid a second Chernobyl. Then on to our usual mix of energy and energy-related stories: Low oil prices to mandate an OPEC production cut; the Turk Stream gas pipeline: coal in Germany, Hungary, Japan and China; nuclear in Poland, France, Spain and the EU; renewables in Australia and Puerto Rico; batteries in California; tidal power in France; Solheim quits; hydrogen; foldable capacitors for energy storage and how Houston’s high-rises halted Hurricane Harvey.
Note that there is some informed commentary on the gravity of the Huntertson situation. If you don’t hear from me again it will be because I’ve been vaporised 🙁
Y2Kyoto: Our Fevered Planet
Thanksgiving Day 2018 may be among coldest on record in northeastern US.
The Sound Of Settled Science
There are too many polar bears in parts of Nunavut and climate change hasn’t yet affected any of them, says a draft management plan from the territorial government that contradicts much of conventional scientific thinking.
The proposed plan — which is to go to public hearings in Iqaluit on Tuesday — says that growing bear numbers are increasingly jeopardizing public safety and it’s time Inuit knowledge drove management policy.
“Inuit believe there are now so many bears that public safety has become a major concern,” says the document, the result of four years of study and public consultation.
Y2Kyoto: “It was my understanding that there would be no math.”
Princeton scientist Laure Resplandy and researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography concluded in October that the Earth’s oceans have retained 60% more heat than previously thought over the last 25 years, suggesting global warming was much worse than previously believed.
Blowout 253
An eclectic mix of energy and climate news stories from around the world compiled by Roger Andrews.
This week’s lead story features Cuadrilla’s attempts to frack the Bowland Shale in UK, where its operations are routinely halted by barely detectable microseisms – “a major threat to UK fracking”, as the Guardian puts it. We follow with our usual mix of stories: OPEC either to boost or cut production; record profits for BP; natural gas in the US, Argentina and Chile; coal in the US, Australia, Germany and Spain; nuclear in Japan and China; the IPCC’s anti-nuclear bias; Germany plans more wind & solar tenders; EVs as energy storage batteries; renewables and the UK budget: Scottish Power goes 100% wind; an energy-saving cooling system, solid fuel from sewage and what climate change will do to Glasgow.
Blowout 251
An eclectic mix of energy and climate news stories from around the world compiled by Roger Andrews.
We are told that the cost of Li-ion storage batteries is decreasing. Not so with Tesla, which has just increased the price of its 13.5 kWh Powerwall unit plus supporting hardware from $US6,600 ($489/kWh) to $7,800 ($578/kWh). The $100/kWh “holy grail” price considered necessary to support mass deployment of battery storage is obviously still some way off. To follow we have our usual mix – the latest doings of OPEC; natural gas in California; coal in the US, Germany and Finland; nuclear in Japan, Ontario, India, Belgium and Germany; hydro and pot in Canada; 100% renewables in Puerto Rico and Scotland; the Ireland-Wales Greenlink; the UK backs off EVs; car bodies made from carbon fiber batteries and what climate change is going to do to beer.