Mercedes announces new EV with a 621 mile range
Concept car uses minimal drag, solar roof to break the 1,000 km range barrier.
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Future hurricanes will roam over more of the Earth, study predicts
The 21st century will see more hurricanes in mid-latitude regions, which includes, e.g., New York, Boston, Beijing, and Tokyo
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3 Reasons Nuclear Power Has Returned to the Energy Debate
The path to net-zero will be faster, easier, and cheaper if nuclear energy is part of the mix.
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Wind & Solar = 86% Of New US Power Capacity Added, Jan–Oct 2021
Wind and solar power have dominated new power capacity additions in 2021, continuing the trend of the past three years.
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Death Rates Depend On Energy Source
Interest data on deaths from various energy sources from Scott Galloway’s column predicting that nuclear technology will take off in 2022.
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The rare spots of good news on climate change
From MIT Review: It looks increasingly clear that we’ll at least sidestep the worst-case scenarios.
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James Hansen on “Don’t Look Up” and the American Dream
Editor’s Note: Jim Hansen contemplates the new Netflix “comedy” Don’t Look Up as a not-far-exaggerated allegory of US political and media reaction to climate change. His letter is strongly supportive of CCL. Definitely worth reading.
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Settlement Allows Wind Energy To Be Transported, WY to Las Vegas
Remember our earlier report – how a federal agency blocked construction of a 730-mile transmission line from a 3,000-megawatt Wyoming wind farm to the West Coast? Well, some good news:
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Coronavirus Response Barely Slows Rising Carbon Dioxide
Monthly Peak for 2021 nears 420 parts per million at Mauna Loa Observatory. Nature doesn’t care about US political will.
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The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing
Since the 1980s, fossil fuel firms have run ads touting climate denial messages – many of which they’d now like us to forget. Here’s our visual guide
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Sea level in the IPCC 6th assessment report (AR6)
The sea level projections for the year 2100 have been adjusted upwards again. A global rise “approaching 2 m by 2100 and 5 m by 2150 under a very high greenhouse gas emissions scenario cannot be ruled out.”
