Climate

The Trump administration is dismantling a wide array of federal energy-efficiency programs at the same time that war in Iran is raising oil prices, climate change is fueling record heat that is driving up demand for air conditioning and new data centers are straining America’s electricity supply.

Funny what a bribe will do

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/40526401

More than 3,000 solar panels power Jack’s Solar Garden, cool the land and help it turn a profit

nice!

The president joined Republican officials who slammed the National Academies of Sciences for a chapter about climate science in an educational guide for judges.

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The basic problem is that the precipitation models being used are historical averages, not forward-looking estimates. So they're always going to lag when constructed that way.

The areas burned by forest fires have nearly quadrupled since the 1970s, Mr. Flannigan said.

“It’s largely, not solely, due to human-caused climate change,” he said. “Warmer weather means longer fire seasons. In Canada, our fire seasons used to be fairly short, but they’re getting much longer. The warmer we get, the more lightning we see.”

The Bank’s new policy suggests that bonds linked to thermal coal are now too risky to sit on its balance sheet, as an international shift away from dirty fossil fuels towards greener energy could end up wiping out their value.

From the biggest cities to smaller towns, local officials wrote serious climate plans. One law at a time, state policy has narrowed the tools to carry them out.

Fairly technical video of how energy markets work. Focused on the UK, but most markets work in similar ways.

Screenshot taken from PurpleAir. 150 and above is considered unhealthy, 300 and above is considered hazardous.

https://map.purpleair.com/air-quality-standards-us-epa-aqi