UN says ozone layer slowly healing, hole to mend by 2066
Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says.
Streamlining permits for renewable energy
Editor’s Note: Executive Actions announced last month streamline the federal permitting processese. These changes will improve speed but are limited in scope and easily reversed by a future President. (That’s why CCL advocates for bipartisan permitting-reform legislation.)
The Right Words Are Crucial to Solving Climate Change
from scientificamerican.com Climate change is already disrupting the lives of billions of people. What was once considered a problem for the future is raging all around us right now. This reality has helped convince a…
Exxon Scientists Predicted Global Warming, Even as Company Cast Doubts, Study Finds
Starting in the 1970s, scientists working for the oil giant made remarkably accurate projections of just how much burning fossil fuels would warm the planet.
How heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future
This is an excellent survey and intermediate explanation of the technology and economics (and trends) affecting heat pumps. Well worth reading if you are interested in Building Electrification & Efficiency.
Burning Man touts sustainability. Now it’s suing to block clean energy.
Is this NIMBYism? “The organizers of the week-long festival worry a geothermal energy project could damage Nevada desert’s hot springs.”
In Nevada, a tribe and a toad halt a renewable power plant
Nevada’s Great Basin region found itself at the epicenter of the nation’s most pressing priorities: renewable energy, wildlife conservation and Indigenous rights. … This geothermal power plant could help meet Biden’s ambitious plan to run the U.S. power grid entirely on clean energy by 2035.
Oceans surged to another record-high temperature in 2022
‘The fact that we’re seeing such clear increases in ocean heat content, extending over decades now, shows that there is a significant change underway,’ one longtime researcher says.
This Startup Is Producing the World’s First Carbon-Negative Concrete
from Singularity Hub, By Vanessa Bates Ramirez | December 27, 2022 As the sense of urgency around climate change intensifies, most of the focus is on shifting energy production away from fossil fuels and electrifying…
Even high battery prices can’t chill the hot energy storage sector
from Bloomberg Lithium-ion battery storage has expanded by orders of magnitude since the 1990s, with new devices creating ever-larger demand. Camcorders came first, followed by personal computers and then smartphones and other personal electronics. In the 2010s,…
Social Cost of Carbon Quadruples!
Just last month, the Biden Administration recommended that the government nearly quadruple its social cost of carbon — a monetary estimate of the costs to the economy, environment and human welfare for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere.
Global Carbon Budget Now at 380 Gigatons CO2E. Nine years until 1.5ºC!
When I joined CCL in 2017, I went to the DC conference and learned about the carbon budget — the amount of GHGs that the IPCC said we could add to the atmosphere and still…