Grid-Mix in Europe
The set of charts below is really cool, IMO. If nothing else, it shows what a good job the developed world is doing in phasing out coal, and bringing in renewables.
Germany is making this happen even after decommissioning their nuclear plants after Fukushima.
Croatia has hydro coming out its ears.
The UK has completely declared war on coal.
Poland is sitting on enough coal to last until the sun burns out (not really), and their hardly progressive, but even they are making some progress.
OK, the main prediction I made about the political theater surrounding Donald Trump, i.e., that he would be expelled from office before finishing his term, didn’t come to fruition.
Though he has left the White House, Donald Trump will be all over the news for the foreseeable future, probably right up to the point that he either goes to prison or he flees the country to avoid prosecution.
The Trump presidency has been a farce in dozens of different ways, though I applaud the author here; this may have taken the cake.
We all need to admit that the great rift that has been created in American society–and then wedged wide open–is not going away anytime soon. There was a time when there was, at worst, an uneasy but acceptable level of tension between the people who read the New Yorker (see illustration) and the white working class.
The photo here depicts an abandoned fishing village near Shanghai.
Clean-tech venture capital fund, Bill Gates-backed Breakthrough Energy Ventures, has raised $1 billion for a second round of investments after backing 45 startups with its first billion. This has prompted the discussion below, in 
Yesterday I noted that 
Sunny day flooding, aka tidal or nuisance flooding, i.e., floods that occur with no new precipitation, are increasingly frequent in low-lying areas. The phenomenon is caused by sea-level rise (driven by higher ocean temperatures that cause ocean volumes to rise, and by the melting of glaciers in the polar regions), and increasing wind velocities (driven in part by higher atmospheric temperatures), and normally take place during exceptionally high tide events, such as full and new moons.
Here’s an article on 
