Renewable Friday: We're Baaaaack!
I have neglecting reporting on the Death of Carbon and the resistance against it during election season. Trump promises to make everything vastly worse, but he can’t actually stop reality. So let’s...
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The Koan of Storming Heaven
The allegory of the Tower of Babel describes a society that sets out to penetrate the sky and enter Heaven, that suddenly finds that everyone is unable to understand each other. And so it is in...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Delivery Vans and Another Terawatt
We bring you good climate news on many fronts every week, but sometimes we need to focus on one in particular, administering big slices of the Death of Carbon by a Billion Cuts. Today it is delivery...
View ArticleTrump Appointments and Infighting
Donald Trump has been making news every day since the election with appointments to his administration and other noise. I have been posting about these events in the Good News Roundups daily since the...
View ArticleTrump Appointments and Infighting, Nov. 13
The big news of the day was the election for incoming Senate Majority Leader, among Scott, Thune, and Cornyn, each of whom is more despicable than the others, according to their various partisans.MAGA...
View ArticleRenewable Friday, Back to Our Normal
I took off for a while to focus on the elections, but we’re back now with all of the usual kinds of good news about the Death of Carbon by Ten Billion Cuts, plus a bit of denialism to point and laugh...
View ArticleTrump Nominations and Infighting, Nov. 14
RFKjr→HHS, ending much rumor.Moderna, Novavax, BioNTech and other vaccine makers' stocks fell after Trump asked RFK Jr. to serve as secretary of health and human services....
View ArticleTrump Nominations and Infighting from Nov. 15
AppointmentsTrump has named his picks for 11 of the 24 Cabinet positions that should go through Senate confirmation.Trump names former Rep. Lee Zeldin to lead EPA, adviser Stephen Miller to be deputy...
View ArticleTrump Nominations and Infighting from Nov. 16
What do you do when the entire barrel of apples is rotten? If you are Donald Trump, you continue to claim that they are the best ever and set out to collect more like them.AppointmentsTrump has named...
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Trump Appointments and Infighting from Yesterday, Nov. 17
Who could think that Trump’s picks for heads of major agencies are qualified to run them?My answer: Nobody. Certainly not Trump. No, they have been picked only for their potential to wreck the...
View ArticleTrump Appointments and Infighting from Yesterday, Nov. 18
What I have been saying.“It’s not that Donald Trump has picked these folks despite their...lack of qualifications for the job and their odd views. It’s because of that.”@JohnPrideaux weighs in on some...
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Renewable Tuesday: COP29
COP29 opened in Baku, Azerbaijan on Nov. 11 to global yawns from most, and hair-on-fire concern from some. It will run until the 22nd. So I am devoting this entire post to it, and to the Trump and...
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Trump Appointment: MAGAquack Dr. Oz, plus More Meshugas from Yesterday, Nov. 19
Dr. Oz was once a real doctor, on the faculty of a real university. Now he is infamous for carpetbagging into Pennsylvania against John Fetterman, and telling schoolteachers and students to die of...
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Trump Nominations and R Infighting from Yesterday, Nov. 20
What many of us are saying: The lack of qualifications among Trump’s nominees, and the deliberate failure to vet them, is intentional, because Republicans’ only purpose is to comprehensively wreck...
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Trump Appointments and Disasters from Yesterday, Nov. 21
A new theory of the Republican case is that Trump’s Access Hollywood tape has given Republicans the idea that they have permission to behave as badly as he boasted of, forcibly kissing and groping any...
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Renewable Friday: COP30 in Brazil Could Be the Real Deal
The UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties have a checkered history of two-steps sideways, one step back much of the time, but they have produced the Kyoto Protocol (Negotiated at COP3 in 1997, in...
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Trump Appointments and Infighting from Yesterday, Nov. 22
The Big Lie of 2020 was that Trump won (which means that he is in an unConstitutional third term).The Big Lie right now is that he had a blowout win and earned a huge mandate. In fact he had a...
View ArticleTrump Appointments Jump the Kraken
Enough already. We saw yesterday that Trump appointed MTG to head a non-existent commitee within the non-existent Musk/Ramaswamy Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). That’s it. I’m out. Anyone...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: No Peak Carbon This Year
There were hopeful analyses last year and the year before suggesting that we would be at Peak Carbon by now. You can see hints of a downturn over several years in the graphs below, but carbon emissions...
View ArticleDO NOT allow them to control the language.
There is tremendous power in words. Words alter perceptions, perception is reality, and for this reason the Resistance must control the language: Misinformation → “Disinformation”: Deliberate...
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