Energy

All the Nordics have found that their focus on climate coinciding with growth in the common good

Emirates aiming for 30% Renewables by 2030; Good for an Oil State, but not Nearly Enough for Paris

Dubai will build the largest Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project on a single site in the world

Florida PL’s Huge Solar Battery will make as much Electricity as half a Nuclear Plant

The batteries are now so cheap that it would actually save utilities money if they used them with solar farms compared to just going on on running old coal plants

Climate Change

Our Oil, Gas and Chemicals are Threatening a Catastrophic Failure of Earth’s Global Systems: That is What Killed off the Dinosaurs

The Conversation

If pushed far enough, global systems can evidently collapse into a death-spiral

Climate Change

We Don’t have a Global Emissions Problem, we Have a Rich Peoples’ CO2 Problem

The Conversation

American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently shook up environmental politics by releasing a broad outline of a Green New Deal

Featured

75% of Scotland’s Electricity Now Green; & All Cars Electric by 2032

Juan Cole

Scotland is also doing groundbreaking research and development on wave and tidal energy

Nuclear Energy

As Trump OKs Saudi Nuclear Projects, Rep. Sherman replies: “If you can’t trust a regime with a bone-saw . . .”

AFP

Saudi Arabia has not sought a so-called Section 123 assuring peaceful use of technology.

Climate Change

Back to the Sweltering Pliocene: World’s Production of CO2 Spiked again in 2018

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The world– you and I included– actually greatly increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, by 2.87 parts per million, raising the total to just about 410 ppm. So reports the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This was a significant increase, the fourth largest during the past 60 […]

Donald Trump

Leaked Audio Exposes Oil & Gas Execs Laughing With Joy Over Cozy Access to Trump Officials

Juan Cole

By Jon Queally, staff writer |- (Commondreams.org) – “It’s really a new world for us and very, very helpful,” said powerful fossil fuel lobby group’s CEO during closed-door meeting A newly-leaked audio recording reveals that oil and gas executives in a private meeting were “giddy” with laughter in the summer of 2017 as they rejoiced […]