Five weeks. Five instances of 1,000-year rain events. If it seems like the weather across the Lower 48 as of late has been bonkers, you’re not imagining things. It’s been a maelstrom of weather extremes, a seesaw fluctuating wildly from significantly dry to record wet conditions.
Perhaps more exciting [than this startup explosion] is the expected impact on Fortune 500s. Thousands of big companies are moving slower owing to the downturn. The climate policy will reverse that trend, spurring activity from the very companies that might buy from or acquire startups.
Air-conditioning contributes a lot of CO2 and other GHGs, and as the earth heats, there will be more AC used. Tom Steyer, founder of NexGen America, endowed a $1m price for 5x more efficient AC, won by 3 companies this year. “These technology breakthroughs exemplify incredible progress made when innovators and the right incentives are mobilized.”
The early verdicts have arrived: Investors are confident the Democrats’ climate deal will translate into expanded real-world deployment of low-carbon energy.
Dr. Hansen reviews the political history of climate policy that urges the Biden Administration to press for carbon fee and dividend and reform the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
from Canary Media A poll of likely voters finds overwhelming support for the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes big investments in clean energy and good jobs. 5 August 2022 Maria Virginia Olano< Canary Media’s chart of…
The analysis of hundreds of scientific studies – the most comprehensive to date – shows beyond doubt how humanity’s carbon emissions are forcing the climate to disastrous new extremes. Most worryingly, all this is happening with a rise of just 1C in the planet’s average temperature.
from RMI: In country after country, sector after sector, fossil fuel demand has peaked and now faces a future of decline. This report develops a new framework, The Peak, Plateau, and Decline, to chart the shape of change.
Hertz, one of the biggest car rental companies globally, recently reported that it’s making significant savings on maintenance costs with its recently acquired Tesla fleet compared to its average Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles.
Posted on August 5, 2022 at 4:35 PM Peter Joseph Dana’s presentation last night said it all, but here’s a compilation of articles and taking points (quotes) from a wide variety of sources, including…
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 may be the single most important piece of climate legislation in American history. It represents our best chance to build an energy future … . Although it appears the legislation will pass, success is not guaranteed, so it’s critical to keep pushing for it. Let me explain why.
Collectively we three authors of this article must have spent more than 80 years thinking about climate change. Why has it taken us so long to speak out about the obvious dangers of the concept of net zero? In our defence, the premise of net zero is deceptively simple – and we admit that it deceived us.
