Solar Development: Super Bloom or Super Bust for Desert Species?
“The desert — and many other biomes — don’t respond on our timescales,” said Hernandez, co-director of the Wild Energy Initiative through the UC Davis John Muir Institute. “If we want to understand them, we need to study them on the timescales they operate. Otherwise, it is like taking a photo of a moving train and calling it a shipping container. Racing to build renewable energy in places that have already been skinned of their biology makes sense — let’s not wait to put solar on existing rooftops. But in natural environments, we need to listen and observe first.”…
Surface Response to Increased Forcing
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Thanks to the excellent comments by folks here on my post “A Request for Peer Preview“, I thought I’d go down the rabbit hole of……
Turning Opinion into Science Fact
“The 1.5 degrees C limit wasn’t plucked from thin air—it was informed by the best available science. Between 2013 and 2015, an extensive United Nations review process determined that limiting warming to 2 degrees C this century cannot avoid dangerous climate change.“…
Victoria Announces the End of Affordable Home Heating, Because Climate Change
The cold Aussie state of Victoria has announced that in the future, people will have to rely on their increasingly unstable and unaffordable electricity grid, to hold back the winter chill.…
Guardian: Airlines Using Dubious Carbon Credits to Claim Carbon Neutral Operations
Surprise – According to The Guardian, airline carbon credit “projects had routinely overstated their emissions reductions”.…
Bloomberg: More Government Will Save Us from Climate Change and Covid
According to Bloomberg, the reason India is suffering their current Covid outbreak is they didn’t have enough government intervention.…