Never underestimate the ability of humans to overestimate their own intelligence. - moi

2024.07.31 A non-brain-dead UK government reverses course and hopes to attract clean energy production

(UK) Labour tries to attract clean energy contracts with record 1.5bn pounds for auction (The Guardian)

2024.07.31 Seems when their bluff was called, MEG folded on their climate target claims.

MEG Energy yanks climate targets, blaming greenwashing law. Will other oilsands companies follow? (Yahoo Finance)
Pathways Alliance also folded when told to back up their climate change fantasy claims.

2024.07.31 Reminds me of EVs: when someone drives an EV, everyone gets lower elecricity rates, lower gasoline prices and cleaner air and water. Weird, right?

New study makes unexpected find about households with rooftop solar panels - here's what experts are saying (TCD)
"It lowers the cost for everybody."

2024.07.30 Please take 4 minutes and read this article

Wildfires, Grief and Paralysis (The Tyee)

2024.07.30 Electricity from renewables bring cleaner air, lower health impacts, lower GHG emissions, and lower costs.

Wind and solar energy overtake fossil fuels to provide 30% of EU electricity (The Guardian)

2024.07.30 "With the stroke of Gov. J.B. Pritzker's pen, carbon capture and sequestration projects in Illinois are under a potential two-year moratorium."

What Is Carbon Capture? A New State Law Puts Much-Anticipated and Controversial Plans on Hold — For Now (WTTW News)

2024.07.30 "Carmakers are seeking to slow the pace of the Biden administration's drive for cleaner vehicles. Oil companies are seeking to bring it to a halt."

Electric vehicles strain the automaker-big oil alliance (National OBserver)

2024.07.29 As permafrost thaws in Siberia, pockets of methane form below the surface, and erupt as pressure increases, leaving craters. Near operating gas production fields.

Methane 'kitchens' in Siberia's permafrost form mounds that can erupt, creating giant craters (LiveScience)

2024.07.29 "It's worth noting that not one single CCS project has ever reached its target CO2 capture rate."

Oil companies sold the public on a fake climate solution — and swindled taxpayers out of billions (Vox)

2024.07.26 Blue hydrogent con job - Australia edition

Blue hydrogen from CCS is a con with a big carbon footprint (Renew Economy)

2024.07.10 To me, killing off your paying clients and destroying their property that they insure seems like a questionable growth strategy.

Insurers called out for 'contradiction': Supporting oil and gas industry but raising premiums (CTV News)

2024.07.09 If you can't produce enough power because it's hot, shouldn't you be looking at cooling the planet down?

While AESO says they have sufficient generation capacity, in fact they are importing power to meet demand, notably from BC.
Alberta summer electricity use record set as sweltering conditions continue (Calgary Herald)

2024.07.09 This is climate change in your face: making your property worthless and unaffordable or impossible to insure.

Florida Insurance Warning Issued as Fears Grow of Collapse (Newweek)

2024.07.09 How to get to lower GHG emissions: make good options available, let people decide instead of fossil fuel sector.

Ireland's greenhouse emissions lowest in 30 years (BBC)

2024.07.09 Another first in category data point. It won't be the last.

First local extinction due to sea level rise identified in the US (Phys.org)

2024.07.09 Hunh, hotter weather is real, and is probably linked to global warming. Who knew?

Canada draws link between June heat wave and climate change with new attribution analysis (CBC)

2024.07.08 Imagine if you could provide electricity when needed without burning stuff.

Nova Scotia's 1st Grid-Scale Battery Energy Storage Facilities (CleanTechnica)

2024.07.08 When it's too hot for a thermal power plant to run, it's just too hot. Why are we determined to keep making the planet hotter?

High temperatures, unplanned outage caused Alberta's grid alert Monday night (Calgary Herald)

2024.07.08 A real net-negative shipping fuel solution - definitely not hydrogen hype

Newly trialed biofuel from bio-based wastes promises to revolutionize shipping: 'We're excited to be part of this journey' (TCD)
For a better sense of the drop-in biofuel solution than in the TCD article, hop over to the Mash Makes Biofuel (for marine use) page.

2024.07.08 We are now at 1.5C warmer than pre-industrial temperatures - for a year. Given the trajectory, the Paris Accord target is toast.

Temperatures 1.5C above pre-industrial era average for 12 months, data shows (The Guardian)

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