The United Kingdom just hit 74 grams of CO2 per kilowatt-hour.
For comparison, here in the U.S., we run around 450, according to our Energy Information Administration.
Most countries around the globe are making sincere and committed efforts in the right direction.
The United States is poised to rejoin civilized society soon.
Doctors worked hard to get where they are, and they tend not to suffer fools gladly. Their thinking is fact-based, and they have little time for assertions on medical manners that are anti-scientific, politically motivated, and just plain incorrect–particularly when the health and safety of 330 million Americans is at stake. (more…)
Regarding the meme here, a reader notes: Dud ticket. Two conservatives running on the Dem ticket = no enthusiasm. BIG. BIG. MISTAKE!!!!
I’m not a political advisor, but I’m not sure this is a big deal. Would there be more excitement about Elizabeth Warren or Stacey Abrams? I suppose so; the left would have something to like.
But think of where the left is now, with an authoritarian sociopath in the White House. Think there’s no enthusiasm for getting him the hell out of there? Think again.
Here’s a conversation on Georgia governor Brian Kemp’s reopening the state in the midst of the pandemic, based on reports that Georgia officials bungled the data in a way that’s hard to believe wasn’t deliberate.
Glenn Doty: I knew that Kemp was evil – to the core of whatever he has that passes for a soul… But this is still shocking. (more…)
We really do live in a polarized world.
No one could have imagined anything like a “MAGA rally” before 2017.
From Desmog: In January, a trio of climate science deniers with ties to fossil fuel funding published a flawed paper claiming that models of the social cost of carbon pollution are underestimating CO2’s impact on plants and that carbon pollution may actually be beneficial. This is just one way deniers are trying to undermine federal climate rules, reports Dana Drugmand. (more…)
Here are 28 of the 101 laws on our books aimed at environmental protection that the Trump administration has either gutted or is in the process of gutting.
Those wishing to profit from befouling our skies and waterways have walked into the perfect storm: (more…)
I think longingly about the days before I retired from my career as a marketing consultant, which were punctuated by numerous trips to great business centers abroad: Berlin, Frankfurt, Warsaw, Geneva, Zurich, Paris, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and the spot featured here, London. (more…)
As a result of the pandemic quarantine, alcohol consumption is going through the roof, as people are bored and lonely, and yes, there will be repercussions to our physical and mental health accordingly.
Of course, the photo here could also be Trump’s sentencing hearing. Speaking for myself, if I had to, I would ride my bicycle from my home in California to Washington DC, or New York, or wherever the action is when Trump goes down.
The epicenter of the global party will be the U.S., but people around the world will be dancing in the streets; it will be unlike anything humankind has ever seen.
The cost-benefit analyses of offshore wind projects differ from those of their on-shore cousins, in that the installation of each turbine is a far bigger component of the total cost. For that reason, bigger is always better, and this is what is propelling these things to grow in size as quickly as possible. (more…)
