LOL a "heat warning" for a high of 29 degrees and an overnight low of 14.
Yeah, that's a real scorcher. 🙄
Pretty obvious what you are trying to do here @environmentca. https://t.co/vCrsitmv4I
— John Groves (@jfgroves) May 21, 2018
Y2Kyoto: Bees Freeze
The United Nation’s food agency and the European Union on Saturday called for global action to protect pollinators, and bees in particular, which are crucial for ensuring food security.
Oh yeah? Maybe they should lighten up on the Climate Cool-Aid.
Beekeepers in Alberta are reporting losses of between 30 and 50 percent of their hives mostly due to the cold, harsh winter…. Winter hits Sask. bees much harder than usual…. Winter bee deaths ‘excessively high,’ say Ontario beekeepers
Y2Kyoto: Climate Dumbo
Shake, shake, shake that money tree…
Woolly mammoths have been extinct for more than 4,000 years, but with new gene-editing techniques, they could help mitigate the effects of a modern problem: climate change. […]
When mammoths roamed in a northern area known as the “mammoth steppe,” that ecosystem was rich in grasses. But after the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) went extinct and other grazers left the area, grasses gave way to shrubs and a tundra ecosystem, an environment that the Harvard Woolly Mammoth Revival team says is “contributing to human-driven climate change.” […]
The elephants on our planet right now can’t tolerate the cold climate of the steppe. So the idea is to use gene-editing techniques such as CRISPR to insert the ancient robust genes from mammoths into Asian elephant cells and create embryos that may grow up to be elephant-mammoth hybrids that can.
Just what I need coming through the windshield of my truck.
Wynneing!
If Ontario’s carbon pricing scheme is such a great idea, why aren’t Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne, and the NDP’s Andrea Horwath, who supports it, praising it to the skies on the campaign trail?
Thanks to a new Ipsos-Global TV poll, now we know why.
Y2Kyoto: Location, Location, Location
Blowout 228
An eclectic mix of energy and climate news stories from around the world compiled by Roger Andrews.
The big news this week is Trump’s re-imposition of sanctions on Iran, which will cut Iran’s oil production to the point where, combined with cratering oil production from Venezuela, it could cause another oil price spike. We follow with our usual mix – more on Iran, Venezuela and OPEC; oil in Norway; gas pipeline constraints in Europe; Japan moves to coal; British Columbia misses its renewables target; stalemate at the Bonn Climate Conference; California to mandate rooftop solar on new houses; Tesla’s 1GW battery; hydrogen storage in UK; the Swansea Bay tidal standoff; more cracks at Hunterston and how the ravages of climate change threaten historical records.
Blowout 227
An eclectic mix of energy and climate news stories from around the world compiled by Roger Andrews.
This week’s lead story features media hysteria over the alleged dangers of nuclear power. Russia’s first floating nuclear plant has begun its journey from St. Petersburg to Murmansk and is already being described as a “floating Chernobyl” even though it doesn’t have any fuel loaded. We follow up with a mix of hopefully more educational stories on OPEC and Angola; oil company profits rise; Nord Stream; US nuclear plant closures; Allianz to stop insuring coal miners; coal miners making money because of the “war on coal”; Denmark’s EV debacle; Mercedes exits the US home battery market; the enormous pumped hydro potential of Indonesia; frustration at the Bonn Climate Conference; Ireland faces EU emissions fines; energy efficiency rollouts in the UK and how you can now earn UN carbon credits by riding your bicycle:
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Mountain Pika
Previously, when researchers visited pika habitat sites warmer or drier than usual in the Great Basin, where they had historically lived, they found that many of these sites no longer were occupied. It was thought that pikas had been forced to higher ground to escape the warming temperatures or had died, and it was concluded that pikas were in threat of extinction in the Great Basin due to climate change.
Or, in the words of a wise elder – “Pikas move.”
It’s Probably Nothing
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Maldives
Thirty years ago, experts predicted the Maldives would drown by 2018.https://t.co/GrtK3z6IVC pic.twitter.com/nF4Ey5hmog
— Tony Heller (@Tony__Heller) April 28, 2018
Actually, that’s not true.
Blowout 226
An eclectic mix of energy and climate news stories from around the world compiled by Roger Andrews.
This week we feature the impact of renewable energy on electricity prices. The question is, if renewables are so cheap why are electricity rates increasing? To follow: OPEC achieves 150% production cut compliance; 2018 oil price to average $65; US gas pipelines under threat; Gazprom pumps record gas to Europe; more US nuclear plant shutdowns; more gas plants for sale in UK; US EPA agrees biomass is carbon neutral; Taiwan’s energy shortage, hydro and geothermal in Kenya; Australia’s NEG to kill renewables; South Africa explores energy storage; Brexit won’t change UK’s “climate ambition”; cracks in Hunterston reactor; the UK’s first blockchain energy transfer (all of 1kWh), and how climate change shrinks birds.
Dismantling the New England Grid and Prosperity
Roger Andrews has got a hold of high resolution grid data for New England, 2017 and lays out the plans for greening electricity supplies in these 6 tiny states. You probably already guessed – coal, nuclear and gas are on the way out to be replaced by wind and solar. Targets and optimism abound while blackouts are just around the corner.
A brief review of the New England electricity sector
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
“A left-wing lobby group in San Francisco wired $55,000 to the bank account of an Indian chief in Northern Alberta, paying him to oppose the oilsands.”
h/t raid
Y2Kyoto: Fly The Trendy Skies
Ah, the irony of reading an in-flight magazine, worrying about the CO2 emissions – of a sandwich. pic.twitter.com/HWrPxPZGld
— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) April 25, 2018
Blowout 225
An eclectic mix of energy and climate news stories from around the world compiled by Roger Andrews:
For our lead story this week we return to the UK, which is reviewing the question of whether its 80%-by-2050 emissions reduction target will be enough to meet its Paris commitments and whether it shouldn’t target 100% instead. We follow with our usual mix of stories from the energy and climate patch: Trump slams OPEC; fracking in China; Canada’s oil pipeline crisis; rising world demand for Russian nuclear power stations; Germany confirms LNG plans; Australia’s clean coal plan collapses; EU denounces the “Belt & Road” initiative; hydro in Indonesia; biomass at Drax; electricity price hikes in Scotland; gravity-based energy storage and California Governor Jerry Brown says global warming will kill 3 billion people.
January 108th, 2018: Reader Tips
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Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
This aged well. @macleans
h/t @manny_ottawa pic.twitter.com/I9JoAi6GNE
— Katewerk (@katewerk) April 15, 2018
Blowout 224
An eclectic mix of energy and climate news stories from around The World compiled by Roger Andrews.
This week’s lead story features the UK, where nuclear power plants are now apparently being considered as balancing facilities for wind and solar. Hard to follow up on that, but we do our best with OPEC near to accomplishing its goal; New Zealand bans oil & gas exploration; the Russia-Ukraine gas spat continues; Wylfa nuclear plant delayed by seabirds; Lithuania to cut transmission ties to Belarus nuclear plant; brown coal-to-hydrogen in Australia; German coal phase-out to take “several decades”; Ontario’s electricity costs; the Basslink cable down again; Los Angeles paints its streets white; sunscreen saves the Great Barrier Reef and how global warming will cause baby fish to get lost.
Galt Pipelines, Inc.
“Wink wink nudge nudge” — Trudeau rewards BC with a $4.1b cheque
Aren’t the folks in the B.C. NDP government the bad boys and girls of Confederation in this painful pipeline drama. Aren’t they the ones getting in the way of Alberta crude?
Aren’t Trudeau and his pals telling us they’re real committed to a pipeline and are looking for ways to get the B.C. NDP government to stop playing silly buggers, using every trick in the book to delay Kinder Morgan’s pipeline expansion to the west coast?
If that’s all true, what the hell is this?
The Trudeau Liberals sign on to handing over $4-billion-plus over 10 years to the B.C. NDP government for construction projects.
Related: Saskatchewan also considering cutting off the gas over pipeline delay