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The Nation has picked up a hit piece that I originally read on DKos. This is the latest in a long campaign of misinformation and court filings designed to stop people from switching away from fossil fuel vehicles to electric vehicles. First, understand...
by CorpFlunky
on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 10:19 AM PDT
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Some good news for reducing GHG emissions in the USA. Due to the big drop in natural gas prices much of the coal burning fleet has been idled in favor of gas burners. We have dialed back coal consumption to the level during 1964. The previous low point...
by RustyRobot
on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 10:24 AM PDT
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Ha!
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at, to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wildfires,
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 10:01 PM PST
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Polls have shown her to be the only candidate who has a ghost of a chance of edging out Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, but Nikki Haley has a tough row to hoe to achieve that unless the courts take him out of the running before...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
with 240 Recommends
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Dec 10, 2023 at 08:00 AM PST
with 36 Recommends
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Global carbon emissions set record high, but US coal use drops to levels last seen in 1903 Coal plant closures, fuel-switching and renewables in the US led to an 18.3% decline in coal use, bringing it down to its 1903 level. The EU saw a drop of...
by Angmar
on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 02:10 PM PST
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Choices: unless we can live sustainably outside of the market, we all interact with the global marketplace when purchasing goods and services. For the most part, our clothes, food and furniture are common items that we must purchase. We try to choose...
by Alex Morales
on Wed Nov 29, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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Guests: Matthew Lee and Rev. Dr. Jessica Moerman of the Evangelical Environmental Network Also: U.S. climate report details nationwide threats U.S., China deal to displace fossil fuels with renewables... A whole lot of climate related political news...
by TheBradBlog
on Wed Nov 15, 2023 at 07:27 PM PST
with 5 Recommends
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Nov 05, 2023 at 07:54 AM PST
with 41 Recommends
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The spotlight is a weekly categorized compilation of links and excerpts from Daily Kos environmentally related posts. Any posts that are included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Sep 24, 2023 at 08:06 AM PDT
with 49 Recommends
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Welcome to another fuzzy cup of coffee. Ah, brings me back to my college days, fuzzy coffee … This week I'm kicking off my weekly open thread with another slideshow from my summer vacation.
by Marko the Werelynx
on Fri Sep 15, 2023 at 01:07 PM PDT
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Two new studies about the fossil fuel industry were published this past week. The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) found that the G20 nations pumped $1.4 trillion into explicit subsidies for the industry in 2022. In its study...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Aug 27, 2023 at 11:00 AM PDT
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Eighteen months ago I built a brick pizza oven. I love pizza but my crummy Westinghouse oven, which only reaches 195C maximum, makes lousy pizza. 200 and some bricks later, I was ready. If you want to build a pizza oven, it’s easier than you might...
by Adventurist
on Sun Aug 06, 2023 at 02:23 PM PDT
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Energy is found in many, many forms, many of which we make the rhetorical mistake of naming after substances, or thinking of them as substances. We often call things like oil, coal, natural gas, etc. energy. We call the companies that extract these...
by joelado
on Fri Aug 04, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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So the electricity data for May came out recently and a bit of spreadsheet work shows a nice drop in coal consumption to a record low percentage. Total coal tonnage burned is at 74% of the same period in 2021 and 2022. For me the number one priority is...
by RustyRobot
on Mon Jul 31, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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By now, I’m guessing everyone reading this has had their own life impacted somehow by global warming. Whether it be from this summer’s sizzling heat dome, or mega-droughts, wildfires and smoke, and monster storms, or even seeing fewer backyard birds or...
by Magnifico
on Sun Jul 30, 2023 at 03:30 PM PDT
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China in talks with John Kerry our Global Warming Guru agreed to nothing. Said they’d go their own route. All the meanwhile their use of coal is only increasing as is their carbon footprint. China emits a third of greenhouse gasses in the world. If you...
by Somchai
on Thu Jul 20, 2023 at 07:57 AM PDT
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Guest: Thomas Frank of E&E News Also: Globe continues to swelter GOP's climate change 'solution' Trump loses again in federal court... Just last week, amid record temperatures, massive flooding and the choking smoke across a dozen states from hundreds...
by TheBradBlog
on Wed Jul 19, 2023 at 06:53 PM PDT
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A new peer-reviewed paper to be published in Environmental Research Letters next week adds to the accumulation of studies demonstrating why our love affair with natural gas needs to be ended posthaste. (The study’s abstract can be read below.) For...
by Meteor Blades
on Fri Jul 14, 2023 at 07:43 AM PDT
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Guest: Climate and energy reporter Andrew Freedman of Axios Plus callers!... We're back live on today's BradCast after a much-needed holiday stand down last week, even as the world registered its hottest day on record...four different times on four...
by TheBradBlog
on Mon Jul 10, 2023 at 06:22 PM PDT
with 5 Recommends
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