- A vivid reminder: The Earth is getting greener . . . thanks to rising CO2.
- Here’s why lithium prices have fallen.
- The new advanced nuclear reactors are “not on track.”
- And yet . . . China, India, and Russia are building nuclear power plants.
- Everything you need to know to navigate the COP meeting starting in Dubai Nov. 30. (And more!)
Is Renewable Energy in Better Shape Than We Thought?
Offshore wind power is faltering, local resistance to “Big Wind and Big Solar” is mounting, and electric vehicles are clearly struggling. But Ed Ballard of the Wall Street Journal says that policy-makers, including the International Energy Agency, are missing the enormity of the investment in alternative energy. “Last year, more than four-fifths of the world’s…
WSJ Reporter Faces ‘Power Struggle’ as She Tries to Charge Her EV
Reporter Joanna Stern visited 126 non-Tesla EV charging stations (in 30 different locations) in the Los Angeles area. Her story is behind a pay wall but here’s the essence: Problem 1: Out of Order “Of the 126 stalls I inspected, 27% were out of order. They either had a sign, a dead screen or an…
An Appalling Dismissal of a Nobel Scientist
The Washington Post disparages a Nobel Prize winner, John Clauser, for saying “there is no climate crisis.” The article by Maxine Joselow reveals two serious examples of inappropriate innuendo in covering a conference on climate change that featured John Clauser. She chides him for taking advantage of his Nobel prize-winning status: “His recent denial of…
Twenty-year Decline in West Antarctica Temperatures
A recent study in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society reported that the temperature in West Antartica has been falling over the past 20 years. Chris Morrison of the Daily Sceptic points out that this cooling challenges widespread assumptions. But he predicts that this version of climate change will not get a lot of…
New Delhi: “As Temperatures Go Down, Pollution Goes Up.”
Did you know that in parts of India the air pollution is so bad in winter that schools close? An amazing story by Vibhuti Agarwal in the Wall Street Journal explains: In New Delhi, as temperatures cool around November trapping filthy air over the Indian capital, parents say their children eagerly await ‘pollution holidays.’ ….