In CAISO Emergency Break Glass
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Here in the United California Socialist Republic, we have an insane bunch of laws about electricity. Number one among them requires the local utility, Pacific Gas and Electric (PGE) to purchase a huge amount of expensive, unreliable solar energy. So of course, our electricity price increases have far outstripped those……
Hurricane trend detection
Hurricane and major hurricane landfall counts exhibited no significant overall trend over 167 years of available data, nor did accumulated cyclone energy over the continental USA over 119 years of available data, although shorter-term trends were evident in all three datasets.…
Rolling Blackouts in California? Who could have guessed?
The blistering heat wave is expected to tax the state’s power grid. A Flex Alert has been issued for Friday that asks Californians to reduce power usage from 3 to 10 p.m. KTVU’s Jana Katsuyama with tips on how to cut back…
The next invasion of insect pests will be discovered via social media
New scientifically unnamed species — from fungi to flowers to insects — are now regularly found via Twitter, Facebook and Flickr.…
Uncovering the Mystery of Auroral Beads
A special type of aurora, draped east-west across the night sky like a glowing pearl necklace, is helping scientists better understand the science of auroras and their powerful drivers out in space.…
CSIRO: An Entire Covid-19 Lockdown Worth Of Cumulative CO2 Emission Cuts Required Each Year
If you thought the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on your financial circumstances or the national or global economy was bad, imagine if a similar amount of money was cumulatively sliced permanently off the global economy every year for the next 10 years. This is what the UN and national science bodies like the CSIRO want the world to accept, to hit their 1.5C Paris Agreement target.…
Trump EPA Rescinds Burdensome Obama Climate Change Methane Leak Regulations
Much wailing from greens and big business, as President Trump’s EPA prioritises the economy, cutting red tape for small businesses and boosting US jobs over Obama era methane climate scares.…