From the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC):
Just weeks from now, NRDC and its allies will be fighting in the D.C. Circuit Court to defend the Clean Power Plan in one of the most important courtroom battles ever for our climate. (more…)
Here’s a post intended for physicists like Glenn Doty to comment upon. A reader asks: Say we make a circumnavigating coil of conductor material, wouldn’t you generate a current? I am not into big money investments in risky ventures, but this might turn into something. (more…)
Here’s a wonderful graphic that helps us visualize what’s happening with global warming. Yes, I know there are people who say, “But there is still snow,” etc. Perhaps this will communicate to them. Perhaps not. 🙂
Victoria Marugg writes: Hello, Craig. I have a burning question for you that flared up again with today’s NY Times article which is off-handedly praising a new bio-diesel plant in Hawaii. Please clarify for me and others… Doesn’t the burning of biodiesel create “greenhouse gases?” Why is it approved as sustainable if it adds to the insulating layer of Earth’s gases? Or am I wrong? Is burning biodiesel pure? (more…)
Growing consumer demand and the pressure of legislation have a huge influence on businesses across many industry sectors. They are changing the perception of sustainability, which has moved past being just a hip trend. Today, it is the embodiment of new business thinking, a model that makes companies future-ready and more competitive. After all, production patterns, warehouse operations and goods transportation, these things have a profound impact on the carbon footprint the business world leaves on the nature. (more…)
It’s a shame when total BS is represented as some sort of technology breakthrough. Here’s a development in wind power that couldn’t possibly work as advertised. (more…)
Let me reiterate what I just wrote in a comment: The notion that incremental solar and wind plants require significant amounts of additional backup from fossil fuel plants is a myth. This is explained very nicely in the article linked above.
2GreenEnergy mega-supporter Gary Tulie writes: Hi Craig, The lower house of the Dutch parliament recently voted to end the sale of fossil fuel vehicles from 2025! How much longer before the rest of the EU follows? (more…)
In response to my piece on the ongoing deterioration of the world’s coral reefs, frequent commenter MarcoPolo suggests that the principal authors of the study are motivated by a political agenda. I respond: (more…)
Here’s an article that explains the impact of super-charged El Niño conditions caused by global warming on the world’s coral reefs. Hint: it’s not good. To quote: Subsequent flyover surveys have confirmed an unfolding disaster: “Only four reefs out of 520 [observed] had no bleaching,” says Terry Hughes, director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence. It was the saddest reef trip of my career.”
The conclusion: “The only way out of this bind is to rapidly contain further increases in global warming by implementing the carbon dioxide emission cuts pledged at last year’s Paris Conference of Parties.” Now that’s uplifting, in that there is a way out. We just need to take it.
