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Tuesday, April 8, 2025 10:26 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Arctic sea ice sets a record low maximum in 2025

THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2025

https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/analyses/arctic-sea-ice-sets-record-lo
w-maximum-2025

Arctic sea ice extent appears to have reached its annual maximum on March 22, 2025. This is the lowest maximum in the 47-year satellite record, with previous low maximums occurring in 2017, 2018, 2016, and 2015.
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I am frankly surprised this page has not been taken down, which is one reason I wanted to make a record of the data here. Angry Bear is fortunate to have it also.
https://angrybearblog.com/2025/03/arctic-sea-ice-makes-new-record-low-
annual-max
https://bonddad.blogspot.com/2025/03/arctic-sea-ice-make-lowest-ever.h
tml

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When Flordia starts sinking, wake me up.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2025 11:37 PM

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When Flordia starts sinking, wake me up.

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Rush Limbaugh smoked for 50 years. All those years he said smoking does not cause cancer. Then he was dead from lung cancer. Keep burning fossil fuels, especially coal, for another 50 years and about as many people will be dead from climate change as will die over the next 50 years from cancer.

P.S. Trump gave Rush the Presidential Medal of Freedom for meritoriously lying during his entire radio career about all things all the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Health_problems_and_death

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Friday, April 18, 2025 7:50 AM

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Trump admin halts $5 billion NY offshore wind project mid-build

By Michelle Lewis | Apr 17 2025 - 12:01 pm PT

https://electrek.co/2025/04/17/trump-admin-ny-offshore-wind-mid-build/

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum gave no indication of what insufficiencies there were in the approval process for the fully permitted offshore wind project, despite Trump’s recent declaration of a national energy emergency that speeds up permitting processes.

The commercial lease for the 810-megawatt (MW) Empire Wind 1’s federal offshore wind area was signed in March 2017 during the first Trump administration.

Why? Trump: ‘We’re going to try to have a policy where no windmills are being built’
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5071767-trump-were-going
-to-try-to-have-a-policy-where-no-windmills-are-being-built/

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Thursday, May 1, 2025 8:56 AM

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The European Space Agency has launched the Biomass satellite to study the world's forests using the first space-based P-band synthetic aperture radar, aiming to accurately measure carbon storage and improve understanding of the global carbon cycle. CBS News reports:

Forests on Earth collectively absorb and store about 8 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually, the ESA said. That regulates the planet's temperature. Deforestation and degradation, especially in tropical regions, means that stored carbon is being released back into the atmosphere, the ESA said, which can contribute to climate change. There's a lack of accurate data on how much carbon the planet's estimated 1.5 trillion trees store and how much human activity can impact that storage, the ESA said.

To "weigh" the planet's trees and determine their carbon dioxide capacity, Biomass will use a P-band synthetic aperture radar. It's the first such piece of technology in space. The radar can penetrate forest canopies and measure woody biomass, including trunks, branches and stems, the ESA said. Most forest carbon is stored in these parts of the trees. Those measurements will act as a proxy for carbon storage, the ESA said. [...] Once the radar takes the measurements, the data will be received by the large mesh reflector. It will then be sent to the ESA's mission control center.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biomass-satellite-launches-weigh-worlds-t
rees/

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Monday, May 12, 2025 4:04 PM

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Top-Earning 10 Percent Responsible for the Majority of Global Warming, Study Finds

May 12, 2025

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/study-top-earning-wealthi
est-10-percent-responsible-two-thirds-global-warming-research-paper/

In 2020, the global mean temperature was 0.61C higher than 1990. The researchers found that about 65 percent of that increase could be attributed to emissions from the global richest 10 percent, a group they defined as including all those earning more than $48,600 a year. That includes all those on the UK median salary for full-time employees, which is $49,760.

Wealthier groups bore more disproportionate responsibility still, with the richest 1 percent globally—those with annual incomes of about $166,450—responsible for 20 percent of global heating, and the richest 0.1 percent—the 800,000 or so people in the world raking in more than $608,090—responsible for 8 percent.

“We found that the wealthiest 10 percent contributed 6.5 times more to global warming than the average, with the top 1 percent and 0.1 percent contributing 20 and 76 times more, respectively,” the write in their paper, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature Climate Change. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02325-x

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Tuesday, May 13, 2025 3:54 AM

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Top-Earning 10 Percent Responsible for the Majority of Global Warming, Study Finds

May 12, 2025

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/study-top-earning-wealthi
est-10-percent-responsible-two-thirds-global-warming-research-paper/

In 2020, the global mean temperature was 0.61C higher than 1990. The researchers found that about 65 percent of that increase could be attributed to emissions from the global richest 10 percent, a group they defined as including all those earning more than $48,600 a year. That includes all those on the UK median salary for full-time employees, which is $49,760.

Wealthier groups bore more disproportionate responsibility still, with the richest 1 percent globally—those with annual incomes of about $166,450—responsible for 20 percent of global heating, and the richest 0.1 percent—the 800,000 or so people in the world raking in more than $608,090—responsible for 8 percent.

“We found that the wealthiest 10 percent contributed 6.5 times more to global warming than the average, with the top 1 percent and 0.1 percent contributing 20 and 76 times more, respectively,” the write in their paper, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature Climate Change. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02325-x

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Of course.

This is news??

When ppl think of global warming, they thinnk of overpopulation... Africa, Bangladesh, Pakistan.

In reality, those people aren't the problem.

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Thursday, May 15, 2025 7:23 AM

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China makes thorium-based nuclear energy breakthrough using past US work
https://www.mining.com/china-makes-thorium-based-nuclear-energy-breakt
hrough-using-past-us-work/

A Thorium Reactor in the Middle of the Desert Has Rewritten the Rules of Nuclear Power
https://www.yahoo.com/news/thorium-reactor-middle-desert-rewritten-180
000024.html

China Fires Up World's First Thorium-Powered Nuclear Reactor
https://futurism.com/china-thorium-nuclear-power

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Friday, May 16, 2025 7:16 AM

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This is news??

When ppl think of global warming, they thinnk of overpopulation... Africa, Bangladesh, Pakistan.

In reality, those people aren't the problem.
When the little people refuse to stop polluting the world because they feel poor, the big, rich guys can justify their actions as doing what everyone is doing. Either everybody stops or nobody will stop polluting.

Then Came A Miracle

By Paul Krugman | May 14, 2025

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/is-this-the-year-we-doom-civilizati
on

. . . Then came a miracle: Dramatic technological progress in renewable energy, making it drastically cheaper, especially but not only as a way of generating electricity. The International Renewable Energy Agency has a striking chart showing how the cost of electricity generation from various renewable sources has plunged compared with the cost of generation from fossil fuels:

Source: IRENA

This technological miracle suddenly made an alternative climate strategy possible, one that was all carrots, no sticks. Instead of using carbon prices or regulations to force people to stop burning fossil fuels, policymakers could subsidize and promote renewable energy, nudging us toward an electrified economy with wind and solar — plus, probably, nuclear, which has its place — providing the electricity. Instead of telling people to eat their spinach, we could be advertising job-creating investments.

Given how cheap renewables have become, the subsidies probably wouldn’t have to be that large. Wind and solar have been taking off on their own:

Source: Energy Information Agency

More at https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/is-this-the-year-we-doom-civilizati
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Monday, June 16, 2025 7:49 AM

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Why we’re barely keeping track of this growing climate problem

Fossil fuel sites can emit a powerful greenhouse gas long after they shut down.

By Umair Irfan | Jun 16, 2025, 6:15 AM CDT

https://www.vox.com/climate/416470/methane-emissions-climate-natural-g
as-pollution-leak-coal

Odorless and colorless, methane is a gas that is easy to miss — but it’s one of the most important contributors to global warming. It can trap up to 84 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, though it breaks down much faster. Measured over 100 years, its warming effect is about 30 times that of an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide.

That means that over the course of decades, it takes smaller amounts of methane than carbon dioxide to heat up the planet to the same level. Nearly a third of the increase in global average temperatures since the Industrial Revolution is due to methane, and about two-thirds of those methane emissions comes from human activity like energy production and cattle farming. It’s one of the biggest and fastest ways that human beings are warming the Earth.

But the flip side of that math is that cutting methane emissions is one of the most effective ways to limit climate change.

In 2021, more than 100 countries including the United States committed to reducing their methane pollution by at least 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030. But some of the largest methane emitters like Russia and China still haven’t signed on, and according to a new report from the International Energy Agency, global methane emissions from energy production are still rising.

Yet the tracking of exactly how much methane is reaching the atmosphere isn’t as precise as it is for carbon dioxide. “Little or no measurement-based data is used to report methane emissions in most parts of the world,” according to the IEA. “This is a major issue because measured emissions tend to be higher than reported emissions.” It’s also hard to trace methane to specific sources — whether from natural sources like swamps, or from human activities like fossil fuel extraction, farming, or deforestation.

Researchers are gaining a better understanding of where methane is coming from, surveilling potential sources from the ground, from the sky, and from space. It turns out a lot of methane is coming from underappreciated sources, including coal mines and small oil and gas production facilities.

The report also notes that while there are plenty of low-cost tools available to halt much of this methane from reaching the atmosphere, they’re largely going unused.

The United States, the world’s third largest methane-emitting country, has seen its methane emissions slowly decline over the past 30 years. However, the Trump administration is pushing for more fossil fuel development while rolling back some of the best bang-for-buck programs for mitigating climate change, which will likely lead to even more methane reaching the atmosphere if left unchecked.

Where is all this methane coming from?

Methane is the dominant component of natural gas, which provides more than a third of US energy. It’s also found in oil formations. During the drilling process, it can escape wells and pipelines, but it can also leak as it’s transported and at the power plants and furnaces where it’s consumed.

The oil and gas industry says that methane is a salable product, so they have a built-in incentive to track it, capture it, and limit its leaks. But oil developers often flare methane, meaning burn it off, because it’s not cost-effective to contain it. That burned methane forms carbon dioxide, so the overall climate impact is lower than just letting the methane go free.

And because methane is invisible and odorless, it can be difficult and expensive to monitor it and prevent it from getting out. As a result, researchers and environmental activists say the industry is likely releasing far more than official government estimates show.

Methane also seeps out from coal mines — more methane, actually, than is released during the production of natural gas, which after all is mostly methane. Ember, a clean energy think tank, put together this great visual interactive showing how this happens.

The short version is that methane is embedded in coal deposits and as miners dig to expose coal seams, the gas escapes, and continues to do so long after a coal mine reaches the end of its operating life. Since coal miners are focused on extracting coal, they don’t often keep track of how much methane they’re letting out, nor do regulators pay much attention.

According to Ember, methane emissions from coal mines could be 60 percent higher than official tallies. Abandoned coal mines are especially noxious, emitting more than abandoned oil and gas wells. Added up, methane emitted from coal mines around the world each year has the same warming effect on the climate as the total annual carbon dioxide emissions of India.

Alarmed by the gaps in the data, some nonprofits have taken it upon themselves to try to get a better picture of methane emissions at a global scale using ground-based sensors, aerial monitors, and even satellites. In 2024, the Environmental Defense Fund launched MethaneSAT, which carries instruments that can measure methane output from small, discrete sources over a wide area.

Ritesh Gautam, the lead scientist for MethaneSAT, explained that the project revealed some major overlooked methane emitters. Since launching, MethaneSAT has found that in the US, the bulk of methane emissions doesn’t just come from a few big oil and gas drilling sites, but from many small wells that emit less than 100 kilograms per hour.

“Marginal wells only produce 6-7 percent of [oil and gas] in the US but they disproportionately account for almost 50 percent of the US oil and gas production-related emissions,” Gautam said. “These facilities only produce less than 15 barrels of oil equivalent per day, but then there are more than half a million of these just scattered around the US.”

There are ways to stop methane emissions, but we’re not using them

The good news is that many of the tools for containing methane from the energy industry are already available. “Around 70 percent of methane emissions from the fossil fuel sector could be avoided with existing technologies, often at a low cost,” according to the IEA methane report.

For the oil and gas industry, that could mean something as simple as using better fittings in pipelines to limit leaks and installing methane capture systems. And since methane is a fuel, the sales of the saved methane can offset the cost of upgrading hardware. Letting it go into the atmosphere is a waste of money and a contributor to warming.

Capturing or destroying methane from coal mines isn’t so straightforward. Common techniques to separate methane from other gases require heating air, which is not exactly the safest thing to do around a coal mine — it can increase the risk of fire or explosion. But safer alternatives have been developed. “There are catalytic and other approaches available today that don’t require such high temperatures,” said Robert Jackson, a professor of earth system science at Stanford University, in an email.

However, these methods to limit methane from fossil fuels are vastly underused. Only about 5 percent of active oil and gas production facilities around the world deploy systems to zero out their methane pollution. In the US, there are also millions of oil and gas wells and hundreds of thousands of abandoned coal mines whose operators have long since vanished, leaving no one accountable for their continued methane emissions.

“If there isn’t a regulatory mandate to treat the methane, or a price on it, many companies continue to do nothing,” Jackson said. And while recovering methane is ultimately profitable over time, the margins aren’t often big enough to make the upfront investment of better pipes, monitoring equipment, or scrubbers worthwhile for them. “They want to make 10–15 percent on their money (at least), not save a few percent,” he added.

And rather than getting stronger, regulations on methane are poised to get weaker. The Trump administration has approved more than $119 million to help communities reclaim abandoned coal mines. However, the White House has also halted funding for plugging abandoned oil and gas wells and is limiting environmental reviews for new fossil fuel projects. Congressional Republicans are also working to undo a fee on methane emissions that was part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. With weaker incentives to track and limit methane, it’s likely emissions will continue to rise in the United States. That will push the world further off course from climate goals and contribute to a hotter planet.

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Monday, June 16, 2025 11:25 AM

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Good.

You lose again.

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Monday, June 16, 2025 12:56 PM

SIGNYM

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Methane capture makes sense, and it's not one of those get-rich-quick schemes that the wealthy are always promoting. I've already pencil-whipped a 30% reduction in CO2 emissions using current technology. Actions that benefit America now and in the future, like regenerative farming, coal to gas conversion, forest management, etc. Add methane capture and that's already a big step in the right direction. If done properly, it will help American production.

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Saturday, June 21, 2025 6:53 AM

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False claims are obstructing climate action, say researchers

By Damian Carrington | Thu 19 Jun 2025 07.00 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/19/climate-misinforma
tion-turning-crisis-into-catastrophe-ipie-report

Rampant climate misinformation is turning the crisis into a catastrophe, according to the authors of a new report.

It found climate action was being obstructed and delayed by false and misleading information stemming from fossil fuel companies, rightwing politicians and some nation states. The report, from the International Panel on the Information Environment (Ipie), systematically reviewed 300 studies. https://www.ipie.info/research/sr2025-1

The researchers found climate denialism has evolved into campaigns focused on discrediting solutions, such as the false claims that renewable energy caused the recent massive blackout in Spain.

Online bots and trolls hugely amplify false narratives, the researchers say, playing a key role in promoting climate lies. The experts also report that political leaders, civil servants and regulatory agencies are increasingly being targeted in order to delay climate action.

Climate misinformation – the term used by the report for both deliberate and inadvertent falsehoods – is of increasing concern. Last Thursday, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change, Elisa Morgera, called for misinformation and greenwashing by the fossil fuel industry to be criminalised.

Donald Trump, who has called climate science “a giant hoax” and “bullshit”, is identified as a key influencer, “whose logical fallacies, unfounded claims and cherrypicking of findings were heavily” reposted by other social media users, including many bot accounts.

Much more at https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/19/climate-misinforma
tion-turning-crisis-into-catastrophe-ipie-report

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Saturday, June 21, 2025 6:56 AM

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This is quickly becoming the only topic you have left to talk about.

How strong you feeling about this mattering to anyone if we start drilling and opening up the coal mines and letting that natural gas flow and prices for everything start dropping on top of all the other wins that have come our way?

I think that would make this just another 80/20 issue that you're on the wrong side of, buddy.


The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.



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Saturday, June 21, 2025 7:03 AM

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Thorium seemed good, you cant really make a bomb from it and more clean and 'Green' for the environment

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Saturday, June 28, 2025 5:23 PM

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Thorium seemed good, you cant really make a bomb from it and more clean and 'Green' for the environment
. Good in theory, but too many obstacles for material science so far. Thorium reactors would run as a molten salt, and would need a material that withstands molten salt but also passes neutrons.

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Eco-Hypocrites Take Hundreds Of Private Jets To Bezos Wedding

Saturday, Jun 28, 2025 - 08:40 AM

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

Around a hundred private jets carrying celebrities have descended on Italy to deliver eco-hypocrites including Leonardo DiCaprio, Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates to the wedding of tech billionaire Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez.


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Sunday, June 29, 2025 7:06 PM

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Stalled Global Circulation Signals "Stout Heat Dome In July"

Sunday, Jun 29, 2025 - 06:55 AM

For readers waking up across the Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City metro areas, conditions remain gloomy with overcast skies and mild temperatures hovering in the mid-70s°F—quite a change from triple-digit heat that gripped the region earlier last week, straining power grids and sending electricity prices soaring.

However, a new outlook from private weather forecaster BAMWX warns that the heat dome may return in force next month.

"I would recommend none of us sleep on this trend ahead into next week, esp heading into Holiday markets," said BAMWX meteorologist Kirk Hinz.

Hinz noted, "Simply put - the global circulation/momentum has HALTED ... Translation - there will be a stout Heat Dome in July, question is just "where"...stay tuned."



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Heat Domes Are Hotter and Lingering Longer—Because of the Arctic

A rapidly warming Arctic is driving long-lasting summer extremes, such as this month’s sweltering temperatures, new research suggests

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heat-domes-are-hotter-and-l
ingering-longer-because-of-the-arctic/

Not so new. The northern jet stream is driven by the temperature difference between the Arctic and the equator. Since the Arctic is undeniably warming, and warming much faster than the equator, the jet stream slows down, makes big loops, and stop precessing. This isn't a model, it's observation.

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Electric vehicle manufacturers need to revisit the days of the Model T

Jun 24, 2025

https://www.wired.com/story/this-is-why-high-end-electric-cars-are-fai
ling/

Legacy automakers are losing out to China, at least in those countries where Chinese EVs are sold. Which is most places except the US.

According to a new report from the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), global EV sales will surpass 20 million in 2025, accounting for more than a quarter of cars sold worldwide. In the first three months of 2025, electric car sales worldwide were up 35 percent over the previous year. And, adds the IEA, market share is on course to exceed 40 percent by 2030 as EVs—smaller, cheaper ones, mainly—become increasingly affordable in more markets.

Almost half of all car sales in China last year were electric. Emerging markets in Asia and Latin America have also become new centers of growth, with total EV sales across these regions surging by more than 60 percent in 2024, according to the IEA. Meanwhile, EV sales grew by about 10 percent year-on-year in the US.

“Our data shows that, despite significant uncertainties, electric cars remain on a strong growth trajectory globally,” says IEA executive director Fatih Birol. “Sales continue to set new records, with major implications for the international auto industry. This year, we expect more than one in four cars sold worldwide to be electric, with growth accelerating in many emerging economies. By the end of this decade, it is set to be more than two in five.”

China accounts for more than 70 percent of global EV production.

Volkswagen’s luxury marques, including Porsche, Bentley, and Lamborghini, are reassessing their EV strategies. Porsche has scaled back plans for an all-electric lineup following a 49 percent decline in Taycan sales. Bentley has pushed back the launch of its first EV from this year to next, and extended its gas-engine phase-out deadline to 2035. Lamborghini has delayed its Lanzador EV until 2029 at the earliest.

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Trump admin tries to kill the most indisputable evidence of human-caused climate change by shuttering observatory

By Andrew Freedman | Jul 1, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/climate/trump-cuts-mauna-loa-keeling

The president’s budget proposal would also defund many other climate labs, including instrument sites comprising the US government’s greenhouse gas monitoring network, which stretches from northern Alaska to the South Pole.

But it’s the Mauna Loa laboratory that is the most prominent target of the President Donald Trump’s climate ire, as measurements that began there in 1958 have steadily shown CO2’s upward march as human activities have emitted more and more of the planet-warming gas each year.

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Warming depletes Arctic soil's nitrogen stores, irreversibly increasing CO2 emissions

July 2, 2025

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-depletes-arctic-soil-nitrogen-irreversib
ly.html

Half of the world's carbon is stored in the frozen soils of the Arctic and subarctic regions, covering territories such as Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Scandinavia, Siberia and Iceland. Scientists were already aware that the microorganisms living in these ecosystems have become more active because of rising temperatures, consuming more carbon and releasing it into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide (CO2).

However, the study published recently in the journal Global Change Biology, led by CREAF and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) researcher Sara Marañón, has revealed that warming also depletes nitrogen in soils.

Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for plants: Without enough of it, they grow less, absorb less CO2, and are unable to offset carbon emissions from the soil, leading to an unforeseen, irreversible increase in the overall balance. Specifically, for every degree Celsius of warming, between 1.7% and 2.6% of the nitrogen in soil is lost, resulting, according to the study's data, in a proportional loss of carbon (in the form of CO2) into the atmosphere.

The team behind the study made this discovery through a decade-long experiment conducted in Iceland, a natural laboratory where geothermal activity produces soil temperatures ranging from 0.5°C to 40°C above ambient temperature, allowing direct observation of how heat affects high-latitude soils.

"We already knew that climate change was causing Arctic soils to release more CO2, but we thought at least some of the emissions would be offset by plant growth, which increases slightly with warming," says Marañón. "But our study shows that this isn't the case. Nitrogen is lost and soil fertility decreases, preventing Arctic ecosystems from offsetting microbial CO2 emissions."

Under normal circumstances, Marañón explains, microorganisms are more active in spring and summer. They consume nitrogen and transform it into ammonium and nitrates, compounds that plants take up for nourishment. But warming affects the synchrony of the process: the microorganisms become active in winter, when plants are still inactive due to a lack of light and do not yet need the nutrients the microorganisms provide, resulting in supply outpacing demand.

The upshot is that the transformed nitrogen goes unused and is lost. Some of it may filter into groundwater as nitrates, and can contaminate aquatic systems; another part of it may be released as nitrous oxide (N2O), a greenhouse gas nearly 300 times more potent than CO2. This, warns Marañón, is "a dangerous cocktail."

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The ‘Great Dying’ wiped out 90% of life, then came 5 million years of lethal heat. New fossils explain why

By Laura Paddison | July 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM CDT

https://www.yahoo.com/news/great-dying-wiped-90-life-090025845.html

There is a sliver of hope: The rainforests that currently carpet the tropics may be more resilient to high temperatures than those that existed before the Great Dying. This is the question the scientists are tackling next.

This study is still a warning, Mills said. “There is a tipping point there. If you warm tropical forests too much, then we have a very good record of what happens. And it’s extremely bad.”

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Another story about the Arctic releasing billions of tons per year of CO2:

We Are Living in the Age of Fire. And It’s Only Going To Get Worse

By Stephen Maher | Jul 2, 2025

https://time.com/7299284/age-of-mega-wildfires-climate-change/

Mike Flannigan, who has been studying wildfires as long as Joe Gilchrist has been fighting them, is scared.

In 1985, Flannigan gave his first talk predicting that climate change would lead to bigger fires. Audiences were skeptical, but he was confident that he was right. In 1991, he published a paper in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research predicting a 46% increase in annual area burned when the amount of carbon in the atmosphere doubled from pre-industrial levels, which measured 280 parts per million (ppm).

In 1991, when the atmospheric carbon levels measured 355 ppm , 2.5 million acres burned in Canada. This year, the level of C02 is 427 ppm ten million acres burnt by July 1.

Flannigan’s models were far too conservative.

“We—the modelers—have done pretty well with getting the temperature increases, but the impacts from those temperature increases has been grossly underestimated,” he says

He finds that disquieting. “It's happening faster than I would have thought, and there may be surprises coming—not just for fire—but for climate change, surprises that catch us all off guard.”

“Fire is always where people are,” Flannigan continues. “It goes with us wherever we go. But the genie is out of the bottle. Fire is now uncontrollable, and we're going to see more and more fire and more and more catastrophic fire.”

Flannigan thinks we are living in the pyrocene, the age of fire, an idea from Arizona environmental historian Stephen J. Pyne. By burning so much coal and oil, we have changed the climate and can no longer control the processes.

Canada’s forests—which make up 8.5%of all global forest area—were once a crucial storehouse of carbon, but because of the fires they have been a net carbon emitter since 2001. The fires of 2023 released 647 million metric tons of carbon, more than the total annual emissions of South Korea that year.

The fires are so hot that they are burning off the top soil in some places, which means some land that was treed will come back as savannah—grasslands which do not store as much carbon.

And the news may get much worse. Many of the trees in northern Canada spring from permanently frozen peat bogs, which contain enormous quantities of carbon. As the climate warms, and that permafrost melts, it becomes susceptible to fire, posing a horrifying climate risk: massive, unfightable northern fires spewing huge quantities of carbon into the atmosphere, which could push Earth past a climate tipping point that once crossed will cause a spiral-effect of endless warming.

“It's not a steady state,” says Flannigan. “It's not normal. We're on a downward trajectory. Sometimes I say we’re in Dante's circle of hell. I don't know which circle we're on, but I know which way we're going.”

Only one thing might stop the terrifying processes that humans have set in motion.

“The bottom line, until we deal with greenhouse gasses, fossil-fuel burning, we're going to continue to warm and we're going to continue to see more fire.”

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Trump’s plan to replace clean energy with fossil fuels has some major problems

The budget bill sabotages one of the biggest growth sectors of the US economy.

July 3, 2025

https://www.vox.com/climate/418563/trump-big-beautiful-bill-clean-ener
gy-fossil-climate

The first solar cell ever made was built in the United States. Tesla, based in the US, was once the largest EV manufacturer in the world. The lithium-ion battery was codeveloped in the US.

But today, China — not the US — is the largest manufacturer of solar cells and batteries. China’s BYD — not Tesla — is the largest EV manufacturer in the world. And China is starting to outrun the US on research and development investment.

The US has a long history of taking the lead in clean energy, and a long history of losing it. And President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which passed the House on Thursday and is heading for his desk, would again leave the US on the margins of a global clean energy revolution that it could have dominated.

For years now, clean power has been the largest source of new electricity in the US. Solar, batteries, and wind are on track to make up more than 90 percent of new electricity capacity on the US power grid this year. Wind and solar now produce more electricity on the US power grid than coal. Almost twice as many Americans work in clean energy compared to fossil fuels, and the sector is still growing.

But thanks to the bill, that may not be the case for much longer.

Some of the more extreme provisions in earlier drafts of the bill have been removed, like an excise tax targeting renewable energy. But the final version of the bill rolls back many of the investments from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, the single-largest US investment to address climate change by giving the energy transition a boost. It calls for more rapid phaseouts of tax credits for wind and solar power, only allowing projects that break ground in the next 12 months or those that connect to the grid by 2027 to take advantage of these incentives. It also eliminates a $7,500 tax credit for the purchase of a new electric vehicle. The spending bill doesn’t just undo incentives for clean energy — it also creates a new tax credit for coal and encourages more drilling on public lands.

These provisions are in line with Trump’s longstanding antipathy toward renewable energy and disbelief in climate change. But they stand to hobble the US economy more broadly.

The US is facing significant load growth on the power grid for the first time in decades as the tech industry scrounges for electrons to power their electricity-devouring data centers. Energy demand is rising and the cheapest, most readily deployable supplies of energy are being throttled.

The alternatives, however, are not likely to make up the gap in time. Fossil fuels take longer to ramp up. The US is currently the largest oil and gas producer in the world, but it can take years to site, permit, and acquire the materials to build power plants that burn these fuels. Since these are internationally traded commodities, their prices can fluctuate based on factors beyond the US’s control.

Right now, oil prices are at four-year lows and natural gas prices are falling, and when prices are low, it’s much harder to make the business case for more mining, drilling, and power plants, even with incentives. Trump may have some levers to pull — he can, for example, open up more federally managed lands for energy production — but many of those leases sit unused because energy companies don’t want to create a supply glut. Meanwhile, employment in the oil and gas industry remains volatile, while coal jobs are continuing their decades-long decline.

Energy Information Administration

“We’re in this moment of surging demand and you can’t build another gas turbine for at least five years beyond what’s already been booked,” said Robbie Orvis, senior director for modeling and analysis at the think tank Energy Innovation. “We have this demand growth that’s going to have to be met. The only thing you can build to meet it on the timeline needed over the next five to 10 years is solar, wind, or battery storage.”

The bill does extend tax credits and loan programs for nuclear energy and geothermal power. However, the cuts in the bill would also slow efforts to build up the domestic energy supply chain needed to bolster other zero-emissions technologies, from raw materials like lithium and rare earth minerals to battery factories. It would do little to relax the bottlenecks for connecting new power plants to the grid, which are adding years to project timelines. The US is also dismantling research and development that could yield the next energy breakthrough. On top of all this, Trump’s tariffs are raising operating costs not just for renewables, but also for the fossil fuels he loves so much.

The net result is a policy suite that will not only hamper clean electricity, but energy overall, making it more expensive for everyone across the country. According to Energy Innovation, the bill would reduce how much energy the US adds to the grid in the years to come compared to the current trajectory, thereby increasing household electricity prices on average by $130 per year, eroding almost a trillion dollars in economic productivity, and costing 760,000 jobs by 2030.
https://energyinnovation.org/report/updated-economic-impacts-of-u-s-se
nate-passed-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-energy-provisions/

While the US is putting clean energy in reverse, other countries are racing ahead. Clean energy technology investment is poised to increase to $2.2 trillion this year around the world. Renewables are on track to overtake coal as the biggest power source in the world this year. Wind, solar, and batteries are still getting cheaper. Effectively, the US is ceding one of the biggest growth industries in the world to China, particularly as developing countries industrialize and other wealthy countries look to decarbonize their economies.

The case for more clean energy — lower costs, faster deployment, fewer greenhouse gas emissions — remains robust. Even with all the deliberate obstacles the Trump administration is placing ahead, there are some wind, solar, and battery projects still poised to come online in the US as they work their way through the pipeline, albeit at a much slower pace than before.

But without continued investment, the US will lose ground to the rest of the world and condemn itself to dirtier, more expensive energy while worsening a problem that will extract a dear toll from the economy.

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Sunday, July 6, 2025 10:28 AM

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The push for electric vehicles is a big boondoggle. EVs don't generate new energy, and - ultimately- they're just a real long tailpipe that extends to the power plant smokestack. Not to mention the pollution they, and windmills and solar cells, create in their lifecycle.

The limiting flaw of "green energy" is ... still... energy storage. Carrying the grid through the hours ... days ... weeks ... even seasons, sometimes ... when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow enough (or blows too hard).

Until you solve THAT problem, you will still need fossil fuel generating capacity to meet 100% of need. You can reduce fossil fuel use by quite a bit, and beef up grid regional interchanges, but you will STILL need that fossil fueled capacity in reserve.

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I don't know how this would pencil out, but I see an oppty for capturing methane and boosting the power grid at the same time. One possibility is to compress the gas for sale elsewhere. Another possibility is to use some or all of the gas that would normally be flared off to run microturbines (distributed energy production) and either feed that directly into the grid or use it to power compressors, or both.

Is that more efficient than the big power generating plants? No. But it's more efficient than just flaring it off.

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Real Men Burn Stuff

The manosphere and the war on renewable energy

By Paul Krugman / Jul 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/real-men-burn-stuff

“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” That famous 2011 quip from the venture capitalist Peter Thiel still resonates, even though Thiel himself has become a deeply malignant force in American politics. I’ll write soon about the madness of the Trumpist tech bros, but for today let me focus on Thiel’s original insight — that everyone, venture capitalists included, had come to focus far too much on digital technology, neglecting the possibilities of breakthroughs in technologies that deal with the physical world.

Yet here’s the irony: In the years since Thiel’s lament we have, in fact, seen revolutionary progress in one fundamental physical-world technology, energy production. Yet the people Thiel and his buddies helped put in power are doing all they can to reverse that progress and send America back into the energy Dark Ages.

Most critiques of the One Big Beautiful Bill have focused on the way it explodes the budget deficit while imposing immense hardship on lower-income Americans. Yet energy policy is also an important component of the OBBB, which basically tries to roll back the rise of solar and wind power — sources that have accounted for more than half the worldwide increase in electricity generation since 2015.

To understand how self-destructive that effort is, you need to know three things about the economics of renewable energy.

First, there are powerful environmental reasons to favor renewables over fossil fuels where possible. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is the most important, because climate change is an existential threat. But even aside from climate concerns, the air pollution created by burning fossil fuels takes a major toll on health and productivity, which solar and wind don’t.

Second, a transition to renewables, which might have seemed like pie-in-the-sky, hippy-dippy stuff a generation ago, is now not just feasible but the only sensible energy strategy. Here’s a chart showing estimates of the levelized cost of electricity generation (LCOE), adjusted for inflation, for a variety of renewable energy technologies, compared with the costs of power from fossil fuels. I’m aware that LCOE is an imperfect measure, but the results are still astonishing:

Source: IRENA
https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2024/Sep/
IRENA_Renewable_power_generation_costs_in_2023.pdf#page=21

We’re talking in particular about a 90 percent decline in the real cost of power from solar panels and a 70 percent decline in the cost of wind power. This isn’t just progress, it’s a revolution.

And — my third point — the revolution isn’t over. Some technological leaps involve one big idea, which takes time to implement but is basically a once-and-done deal — which seems to be the case, to take an example I’ve studied, for freight containerization. Progress in renewable energy, however, has involved a continual process of “learning by doing,” in which efficiency keeps rising and costs falling as the industry expands. This is exactly the kind of situation in which government subsidies — like the clean-energy tax credits instituted by the Biden administration — can accelerate progress and boost overall economic growth.

But the OBBB killed those tax credits. And the Trump administration has been taking executive action to stall renewable development, for example, by halting federal approvals for wind farms. In general, MAGA clearly wants to move us back to burning gas, oil and above all coal. Why?

Campaign contributions no doubt play a role. Fossil fuel industries donate almost exclusively to Republicans. But renewables are also big business these days, and especially in red states. Texas, in particular, is by far the nation’s largest producer of wind power and gets a larger share of its electricity from renewables than any other state. Why would the G.O.P. want to demolish a key pillar of economic success in its biggest source of electoral votes?

Honestly, I think this is a case where the usual logic of money-driven policy is trumped (Trumped?) by irrational, psychological — you might even say psychosexual — issues.

We know that Trump himself has a weird thing against wind power, insisting that wind turbines massacre birds and kill whales. This appears to stem from the refusal of the Scottish government to cancel an offshore wind farm he thought ruined the view from one of his golf courses.

But it’s not just Trump. There is, it turns out, a strong link between the manosphere — the online movement promoting “masculinity,” misogyny and opposition to feminism — and anti-environmentalism. For example, in 2023 Jordan Peterson convened a high-profile conference to declare that concerns about climate change are a “conspiracy run by narcissistic poseurs.”

If you think about it, this makes sense — not intellectually but emotionally. Don’t concern about the environment and advocacy of “clean energy” sound kind of, well, feminine? Real men burn stuff and don’t worry if the process is dirty.

And manosphere-type attitudes are clearly widespread in MAGA. One of the main arguments Trump officials and supporters have made for tariffs is that they will bring back “manly” jobs in manufacturing. (They won’t, but that’s another story.) The same notion underlies the doomed attempt to revive the coal industry.

But here’s the thing: MAGA and the manosphere may hate clean energy, but they won’t be able to stop the rise of renewables. All they can do, possibly, is stop the rise of renewables in the United States. Other nations, China in particular, are making huge investments in wind and solar power, because they understand what Trump and his allies refuse to acknowledge — that this is the only way forward.

So while MAGA’s attempt to strangle clean energy will increase the risks of global climate catastrophe, it will also increase the risks of U.S. economic stagnation, forcing our nation to remain wedded to obsolete energy technologies while other countries march into the future.

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Is anyone who does not know that the Republican Party denies that there is climate change?

Climate change is making severe storms both more common and more intense.

U.S. rocked by four 1-in-1,000-year storms in less than a week

By Denise Chow | July 10, 2025, 4:09 PM CDT

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/flood-storms-climate-ch
ange-1-in-1000-year-rainfall-rcna217863

First the river rose in Texas. Then, the rains fell hard over North Carolina, New Mexico and Illinois.

In less than a week, there were at least four 1-in-1,000-year rainfall events across the United States — intense deluges that are thought to have roughly a 0.1% chance of happening in any given year.

These events come and go in the news, and before you know it, we’re on to the next one.

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Scientists discover what wiped out global ocean life 200 million years ago

By Mac Oliveau | Jul 19, 2025 9:07 AM PDT

https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/scientists-discover-what-wiped-o
ut-global-ocean-life-200-million-years-ago/

What makes the Triassic–Jurassic extinction so important is the clear link between volcanic CO2 release, ocean acidification, and mass extinction. It’s a case where scientists can trace each step of the crisis in the geologic record — from carbon release to acidification to biodiversity collapse. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61344-6

What’s even more alarming is how today’s carbon emissions compare. The size of the pH drop 201 million years ago matches the worst-case expectations for future oceans. But the difference lies in the pace. Back then, it took tens of thousands of years. Today, human activities are pumping carbon into the atmosphere much faster—on a scale of just a few hundred years. This compressed timeline leaves ocean life with far less time to adapt.

Climate change today isn’t just a future problem — it’s unfolding now. And the fossil record is telling us that we’ve been here before. The difference? This time, we know it’s coming. And we have the tools to act.

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I know SIX will deny this, just like he denied Covid deaths .... but this is domething we really need to do something about. And I don't mean get-rich-quick schemes like EVs for everyone, or technologically impossible ideas like flue gas carbon capture, but real, practical plans that we can implement today:

Solar for everyone south of 60°N; building nat gas power plants to replace coal fired ones; carbon tax; forest, farm, and ranch management to capture carbon; banning private jets; reducing our military budget by at least 50% and ending our endless carbon-wasting wars; upgrading grids whose efficiency is less than 97%; not only requiring better fleet averages but also capping mpg on all vehicles to eliminate gas guzzlers; urban forests; "cool cities"; methane capture at the wellhead powering microturbines; improving home efficiency thru repair and upgrade...

A kind of "all of the above where practical and effective" approach.

A lot of this would be an impossible sell to politicians and the MIC and the wealthy, but it would actually improve people's lives (Carbon tax can be returned to people. The point of a carbon tax isn't to raise revenues for the government.) and create jobs requiring skilled labor.

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A kind of "all of the above where practical and effective" approach.
Trump's insane war on renewable energy
America needs energy abundance, not polarization and culture war

By Matthew Yglesias | Jul 23, 2025

https://www.slowboring.com/p/trumps-insane-war-on-renewable-energy

I’ve often had occasion to write that environmentalists are overrating the prospects of 100 percent renewable energy as a strategy for addressing climate change.

Essentially, they are relying on a badly flawed “levelized cost of energy” metric, which says the marginal cost of adding one megawatt of wind or solar to a fossil-dominated grid is cheap, to conclude that an all-renewable grid would be cheap. This is wrong. Developing an all-renewable grid that could reliably power a temperate country through the winter would be much more expensive than a simple LCOE metric suggests. This is one of the reasons why new technology — affordable nuclear, advanced geothermal, or scalable carbon capture — is so important.

But Donald Trump is running the show now, and he’s making the opposite error.

He’s not trying to create a zero-emission grid or reduce fossil fuel use in any way. But he’s not only rolling back tax credits for wind and solar production, he’s doing everything he can think of to raise new regulatory barriers to renewable deployment. He also keeps asserting that China doesn’t use renewable technologies, suggesting that the mere existence of wind and solar power is harmful.

TRUMP: And we are putting up wind. It does not work, aside from ruining our fields and valleys and killing all the birds. Being very weak and expensive, all made in China. I have never seen a wind farm in China. Why is that?
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1941251628386148485

This is totally false. Not only does China have many wind farms, they generate more wind electricity than the United States does despite a much less favorable geography. And they generate a lot more solar electricity than the United States.

The reason China generates so much renewable electricity is that while constructing an all-renewables grid is a lot more expensive than environmentalists want to concede, it’s absolutely true that incrementally adding renewable energy to the grid is cheap. That’s why China has dramatically increased the amount of renewables it deployed in the context of a dramatic increase in the overall amount of electricity the country generates.

This is what a pure “energy dominance” policy looks like: massive buildout of wind and solar and batteries, because wind turbines and solar panels and batteries are all getting cheaper, with the shortcomings of an all-renewables grid addressed by simply not building an all-renewables grid.

It looks like China’s carbon dioxide emissions are finally leveling off. But while China was building out these renewables, they were also burning more fossil fuels. This is obviously not a strategy for achieving the environmental movement’s goals. But if you’re Donald Trump and you don’t want to achieve rapid decarbonization, there is still genuinely no problem with opening the floodgates to renewable deployment.

All Trump will accomplish by throttling renewables is making costs higher and the air dirtier than if he just let Americans use technologies that really are quite cheap at the current margin. He’s letting culture war prejudice, special interest politics, and polarization get in the way of his stated goals of lower costs and energy dominance.

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Transitioning the entire U.S. power grid to 100% renewable energy sources is estimated to cost approximately $4.5 trillion, according to a 2019 analysis by Wood Mackenzie and reported by Greentech Media and Yale E360.

This estimate is for a transition over a decade and assumes the replacement of all fossil fuels and nuclear power with renewables like hydroelectricity, biomass, geothermal, wind, and solar.

Key Cost Components and Considerations:

Massive Buildout of Wind and Solar: The analysis estimated a significant investment of $1.5 trillion for the construction of new wind and solar capacity.

Energy Storage: A crucial element is the addition of substantial battery storage capacity, estimated to add $4 trillion to the total cost.

Transmission Infrastructure: Doubling the existing transmission lines, from 200,000 miles to 400,000 miles, is projected to cost an additional $700 billion to accommodate the new distributed power system.

Impact of Nuclear Power: If nuclear power were allowed to remain in the energy mix, the estimated cost would drop to $4 trillion.

Recent Data and Context: While the $4.5 trillion figure is a key benchmark, more recent data suggests that grid upgrade costs for a clean energy transition could be even higher, with one source from 2023 estimating $21 trillion over 30 years for a grid overhaul. Other studies focusing on a clean electricity grid by 2035 suggest potentially lower additional costs for power systems (up to $740 billion) but also highlight significant societal benefits from avoided mortality and climate change damages.

Subsidies and Inflation: Decarbonization Channel analysis notes that subsidies from the Inflation Reduction Act make onshore wind and solar very cost-effective, though recent inflation has impacted costs compared to earlier years.

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+cost+for+all-renewables+gr
id+in+US

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French nuclear energy splits Germany's ruling coalition
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/07/22/french-nucl
ear-energy-splits-germany-s-ruling-coalition_6743591_4.html


also the German electric grid had no link to Fukushima but the 'Greens' shut down Germany's power


not the perfect solution Nuclear does have dangers but it seems to be a lot less toxic and dangerous than coal a very dirty industry



New Mexico’s forgotten 1979 uranium catastrophe that poisoned 80 miles of the Puerco River with radioactive sludge
https://southarkansassun.com/us-news/115017/new-mexicos-forgotten-1979
-uranium-catastrophe-that-poisoned-80-miles-of-the-puerco-river-with-radioactive-sludge/

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Quote:
Japan Bets On Super Thin, Film-Like Panels to Reclaim Solar Leadership At Expo 2025
Friday, Jul 25, 2025 - 03:50 PM

At Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan is using an unexpected location—a bus terminal—to highlight its latest innovation: ultrathin “perovskite” solar panels, according to Nikkei.

More than 250 of these flexible, lightweight panels line the curved roof of the Yumeshima Transportation Terminal 1. Japan hopes this film-like solar tech will not only boost domestic renewable energy and reduce reliance on China, but also help it lead the next generation of solar innovation.



"It's like killing three birds with one stone," said Takayuki Taenaka of Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).

Perovskite solar cells, discovered in 2009, are made from layers of chemicals just millimeters thick. Though still in early development, they rival traditional silicon-based panels in efficiency while being 20 times thinner and 10 times lighter, allowing installation on walls, rooftops, and even windows—places unsuitable for heavy panels.

"We believe this technology has the potential to beat the conventional silicon-based solar panels in terms of power generation efficiency," said Futoshi Kamiwaki, president of Sekisui Solarfilm, which developed the panels showcased at the Expo.

Japan, with limited flat land, leads major nations in solar capacity per km² but is running out of space. Installing perovskite cells on buildings could turn cities into vertical solar farms, helping Tokyo meet its 2040 goal: 29% of power from solar, up from under 10% today.


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Saturday, July 26, 2025 6:05 PM

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The Drying Planet

By Abrahm Lustgarten, Graphics by Lucas Waldron, Illustrations by Olivier Kugler for ProPublica

July 25, 2025, 2 p.m. EDT

https://www.propublica.org/article/water-aquifers-groundwater-rising-o
cean-levels

The researchers were surprised to find that the loss of water on the continents has grown so dramatically that it has become one of the largest causes of global sea level rise. Moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans.

Water From Land Has Become a Leading Driver of Sea Level Rise

Most of the water lost from drying regions is from groundwater pumping, which ultimately shifts fresh water from aquifers into the oceans.

The study examines 22 years of observational data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, or GRACE, satellites, which measure changes in the mass of the earth and have been applied to estimate its water content. The technique was groundbreaking two decades ago when the study’s co-author, Jay Famiglietti, who was then a professor at the University of California, at Irvine, used it to pinpoint where aquifers were in decline. Since then, he and others have published dozens of papers using GRACE data, but the question has always lingered: What does the groundwater loss mean in the context of all of the water available on the continents? So Famiglietti, now a professor at Arizona State University, set out to inventory all the land-based water contained in glaciers, rivers and aquifers and see what was changing. The answer: everything, and quickly.

Since 2002, the GRACE sensors have detected a rapid shift in water loss patterns around the planet. Around 2014, though, the pace of drying appears to have accelerated, the authors found, and is now growing by an area twice the size of California each year. “It’s like this sort of creeping disaster that has taken over the continents in ways that no one was really anticipating,” Famiglietti said. (Six other researchers also contributed to the study.) The parts of the world drying most acutely are becoming interconnected, forming what the study’s authors describe as “mega” regions spreading across the earth’s mid-latitudes. One of those regions covers almost the whole of Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and parts of Asia.

The Drying of the Earth Accelerated in Recent Years

The dramatic depletion of groundwater and surface water plus the melting of glaciers between 2014-24 has connected once-separate arid places, forming “mega-drying” regions that stretch across whole continents.

In the American Southwest and California, groundwater loss is a familiar story, but over the past two decades that hot spot has also spread dramatically. It now extends through Texas and up through the southern High Plains, where the Ogallala aquifer is depended on for agriculture, and it spreads south, stretching throughout Mexico and into Central America. These regions are connected not because they rely on the same water sources — in most cases they don’t — but because their populations will face the same perils of water stress: the most likely, a food crisis that could ultimately displace millions of people.

“This has to serve as a wake-up call,” said Aaron Salzberg, a former fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and the former director of the Water Institute at the University of North Carolina, who was not involved with the study.

Research has long established that people take more water from underground when climate-driven heat and drought are at their worst. For example, during droughts when California has enforced restrictions on delivery of surface water to its farmers — which the state regulates — the enormous agriculture enterprises that dominate the Central Valley have drilled deeper and pumped harder, depleting the aquifer — which the state regulates less precisely — even more.

For the most part, such withdrawals have remained invisible. Even with the GRACE data, scientists cannot measure the exact levels or know when an aquifer will be exhausted. But there is one foolproof sign that groundwater is disappearing: The earth above it collapses as the ground compresses like a drying sponge. The visible signs of such subsidence around the world appear to match what the GRACE data says. Mexico City is sinking as its groundwater aquifers are drained, as are large parts China, Indonesia, Spain and Iran, to name a few. A recent study by researchers at Virginia Tech in the journal Nature Cities found that 28 cities across the United States are sinking — New York, Houston and Denver, among them — threatening havoc for everything from building safety to transit. In the Central Valley, the ground surface is nearly 30 vertical feet lower than it was in the first part of the 20th century.

When so much water is pumped, it has to drain somewhere. Just like rivers and streams fed by rainfall, much of the used groundwater makes its way into the ocean. The study pinpoints a remarkable shift: Groundwater drilled by people, used for agriculture or urban supplies and then discarded into drainages now contributes more water to the oceans than melting from each of the world’s largest ice caps.

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Sunday, July 27, 2025 3:34 AM

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We're wasting precious freshwater just like we waste everything else.

But I take exception to the title. It's not the PLANET that's drying, just the parts thst stick up above the ocean,

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EARTH OVERSHOOT DAY

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We're wasting precious freshwater just like we waste everything else.

But I take exception to the title. It's not the PLANET that's drying, just the parts thst stick up above the ocean,

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Trumptards are NOT wasting water. They don't drill water wells, buy pumps and electricity just to waste money. They get paid for the water. The problem is that pumping is destroying the world but the destruction is not in the calculations of how much money will be made for every million gallons pumped.

The same as with water, there is money in pumping oil and gas. And the destruction caused by the pumping does NOT reduce the amount of money made per barrel of oil and per billions of cubic meters of LNG. Which brings me to new rules that guarantee pumping won't stop, no matter how much of the world is destroyed because the new rules claim that nothing is being destroyed:

The EPA gives up on climate change

The agency plans to reverse its own legal justification for regulating greenhouse gas emissions.

By Cameron Peters | Jul 29, 2025, 6:00 PM CDT

https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/421548/epa-lee-zeldin-
endangerment-finding-climate-change-emissions

President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency said today that it plans to reverse its own legal justification for regulating emissions, potentially a major blow to efforts to combat climate change.

Why does the EPA want to do this? EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has described the change, which follows a January executive order by Trump to reexamine the policy, as “the largest deregulatory action in the history of America”; more generally, it’s consistent with the Trump administration’s focus on promoting fossil fuels.

What is the agency actually proposing? In 2009, the EPA reached what is known as the “endangerment finding” — a determination that greenhouse gases are dangerous to human health because of their role in climate change, on which the agency’s efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions rests. Now, the EPA proposes rolling back that finding.

What will the impact be? If the EPA proposal takes effect, it would spell the end of nearly all US climate regulations, including those governing emissions by vehicles, factories, power plants, and more. That change would come even as the US is beginning to face more severe effects of climate change and as the world struggles to fend off warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions. https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-threshold-15-degrees-sea-lev
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Is this a done deal? No. The EPA announced its proposal on Tuesday, but before it can reverse the finding, the plan will go through a review process, including a public comment period. It’s also all but certain to be challenged in court by environmental groups.

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The Trumptards have an explanation for climate change, but it is not fossil fuel burning:

Republicans across the country are pushing bills to stop government 'weather modification'

“If it doesn't exist,” said Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., a co-sponsor of federal legislation targeting geoengineering, “then you don't have anything to worry about.”

By Allan Smith and Matt Dixon | July 29, 2025

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-push-bills-
stop-government-weather-modification-chemtrails-rcna220045

For years, outlandish theories about the U.S. government using airplanes to spray harmful chemicals over U.S. homes or powerful elites controlling the weather were relegated to the fringes of society.

Not anymore.

As the internet has provided rocket fuel for such claims, Republican lawmakers across the country are introducing, passing and enacting laws to ban “weather modification” and environmental geoengineering and allude to the use of “chemtrails,” a longtime theory that planes are spreading chemical agents on an unsuspecting public. As more people are exposed to dangerous flooding, the GOP lawmakers have pointed to the fringe theories as potential explanations for extreme weather, pushing them further into the political mainstream. (Scientists have found evidence tying the increasing frequency of extreme weather to climate change.)

Republican lawmakers in nearly 20 state legislatures have proposed such legislation, with governors in Tennessee and Florida having signed bills into law. On the federal level, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., recently introduced the “Clear Skies Act,” which would outlaw forms of geoengineering and hit alleged weather modifiers with penalties of up to $100,000 for each violation and potential prison sentences of up to five years.

“It’s not a conspiracy theory,” Pennsylvania state Sen. Camera Bartolotta, a Republican who co-sponsored legislation in her state, said in an interview. “All you have to do is look up.”

At its core, the legislative push seeks to outlaw human-made alterations to the climate — notable, given how the party has fought to stop efforts to combat climate change tied to fossil fuel consumption and as the Trump administration has cut funding for climate change research and removed the website that hosted the government’s climate assessments.

“One political party in this country seems especially concerned about the idea of theoretical changes in the weather,” Matthew Cappucci, a meteorologist for The Washington Post and other outlets, told NBC News. “Whereas that same political party will largely turn a blind eye to actual weather modification that is happening in slow motion, i.e., human-induced climate change.”

Greene, who is leading the charge to pass federal legislation to ban weather modification, said she saw “kind of a funny hypocrisy” among climate change activists who are “yelling, ‘We’ve got to stop climate change.’”

“But yet they’re like, ‘No, don’t stop manmade climate change,’” she continued. “So I find that to be a laughable hypocrisy. And so it just doesn’t add up to me.”

Greene has for years been subject to heavy criticism over her 2018 claim that lasers from space may have triggered a 2018 wildfire in California. She now feels a sense of vindication as Republicans across the country feel compelled to produce legislation similar to hers.

“This is something I’ve talked about for quite some time,” Greene said in an interview. “Got attacked for talking about it, for saying that, yes, they’re controlling the weather. I said they’re controlling the weather, and people tore me up all over social media.”

Asked who "they" referred to, Greene's office pointed to her post on X last year noting that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration collects the names of companies that engage in weather modification. She pointed to decades-old government experiments involving cloud seeding, including Operation Popeye, a military effort during the Vietnam War that sought to extend the monsoon season to disrupt supply lines. Other efforts included Project Stormfury and Project Cirrus, decades-old government or military efforts aimed at studying whether hurricanes could be weakened with human intervention. That research proved unsuccessful.

Greene also highlighted small-scale cloud seeding efforts that are now used. The practice, which usually involves spraying silver iodide into clouds to draw water out of the atmosphere and produce extra snow or rain, has been around since the 1950s and is primarily used in more arid Western states to boost water supplies. Experts said those efforts, which are conducted by private companies and require notices beforehand, are not being conducted at a scale large enough to trigger floods like those that recently took place in Texas and New Mexico.

Solar radiation modification, another target of Greene and Burchett’s legislation, involves reflecting sunlight into space by releasing particles into the upper atmosphere or increasing the sizes and brightness of clouds over the ocean, though the Environmental Protection Agency says the government is not engaged in such testing.

“The idea of geoengineering is a real, theoretical thing. In theory, one could go up and dim the sun and change the climate. That’s never been done at scale,” Cappucci said. “Cloud seeding exists on a very, very, very small scale, but what politicians are trying to do is lump those two concepts together with wild, outlandish conspiracy theories.”

Greene, Burchett and Bartolotta all said in interviews that their legislative efforts were the result of getting outsized constituent feedback on the theories.

“I get a lot of calls on it,” Burchett said, adding: “It’s a hot button issue. … And it’s an issue that was in the real realm of the conspiracy theorists. But if you look [online], you’ll notice that it has taken on a little bit more mainstream. You have one group that says it’s real, and the other group says ‘you’re a lunatic,’ that it doesn’t exist.”

Asked what he would say to someone who believes he is a lunatic for proposing his legislation, Burchett said the bill is a no-lose proposition.

“If it doesn’t exist,” Burchett said, “then you don’t have anything to worry about.”

Experts said some are conflating outright falsehoods with legitimate, small-scale research into geoengineering — which have been blown up into claims that scientists or governments are controlling weather patterns or creating severe weather events. That is not happening, but the backlash to the research is intensifying.

Last year, a project in Alameda, California, to test marine cloud brightening by scientists was shut down in light of significant pushback from local residents, even though researchers showed that the effort was harmless. The leader of an anti-government militia in Oklahoma this month welcomed an attack on a local weather station radar, insisting that meteorological equipment can manipulate the weather.

“To outlaw something that, for the most part, doesn’t really exist in an effort to appease voters is so incredibly easy,” Cappucci said. “It would be like if voters hated unicorns and I passed an anti-unicorn bill. I’d suddenly be popular.”

Theories around weather manipulation spread rapidly last year after Hurricane Helene triggered massive flooding around Asheville, North Carolina. Such claims resurfaced after flooding killed at least 120 people in Texas this month. Lawmakers also pointed to unprecedented flooding last year in the United Arab Emirates — which uses cloud seeding to increase rainfall, though officials and researchers have said cloud seeding did not trigger the floods.

“They’re upset over what they call chemtrails they see in the sky,” Greene said of constituents who have contacted her about the issue. “They’re continually upset about it, and they’re engaged on it. But it hadn’t gotten there on a wide scale. Remember the flooding in Dubai? That was one of the first times I saw, like, ‘Oh, this went mainstream, and people are paying attention.’”

A Democrat who works on environmental policy said the episode has them feeling as bleak as ever about the future of their field.

“I saw someone tweet the other day a picture of the sky, and it was blue,” this person said. “And then 20 minutes later, there were clouds. And they said, ‘How is this possible?’ And I’m like, have people just never looked up?”

This person said the focus on geoengineering has crystallized in their mind as the next stage of the Republican response to the impact of climate change.

“It went from ‘we don’t believe in climate change’ to ‘we actually believe in this other thing,’” this person said. “It absolutely is their response to climate change.”

Greene and Burchett’s legislation still has a long road ahead of it before it could become law, which Greene acknowledged in the interview. But in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed such legislation into law last month.

That bill was a high-level priority for Republican state Attorney General James Uthmeier, DeSantis’ former chief of staff. At Uthmeier’s urging, the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature passed a bill this year that makes weather modification and geoengineering a third-degree felony punishable by a fine of up to $100,000. The bill passed with only Republican votes.

“Florida does appear to have seen evidence of weather modification activities in the state,” a spokesman for the attorney general’s office said. “We don’t yet know what impacts cloud-seeding or aerosol releases have on environmental or human health, which is all the more reason why Florida wants to raise public awareness and stop weather modification experiments in the state.”

In Florida, a decades-old law requires permission from the state for anyone to alter the weather. State officials told the Tampa Bay Times that no one has ever applied under the law.

In a letter this month, Uthmeier warned publicly owned airports across the state that they must be in compliance with the new law, which requires public airports to report planes with weather modification devices to the state, and suggested that weather modification may have triggered the flooding in Texas.

“Because airports are most likely to catch those who seek to weaponize science in order to push their agenda, your compliance with these reporting obligations is essential to keeping our state safe from these harmful chemicals and experiments,” Uthmeier wrote this month.

The Trump administration is also trying to address the concerns. This month, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin directed readers to his agency’s new resources on geoengineering and contrails. (Contrails are naturally forming condensation trails from rockets and other aircraft.)

Those new websites shut down claims of government weather control, saying the government was not engaged in solar geoengineering testing and that the “federal government is not aware of there ever being a contrail intentionally formed over the United States for the purpose of geoengineering or weather modification.”

Bartolotta highlighted the new information now available on the EPA’s website, saying its mention of the issue is more evidence that her concerns are valid and adding that she is worried about potential adverse health impacts.

“I know so many people today, they’re finally noticing, and it gets worse and worse and worse,” she said. “Every single day, you can’t look at the sky and not see huge stripes sprayed by all these planes every single day and every night.”

Allan Smith reported from New York and Washington and Matt Dixon from Florida.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Fossil Fool
How Europe took Trump for a ride

By Paul Krugman | Jul 30, 2025

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/fossil-fool

Like many U.S. institutions, the European Union has abysmally failed the Trump test. The EU is an economic superpower and could have retaliated effectively against Trump’s illegal tariffs — illegal under both U.S. and international law. Instead, Europe did nothing and even made some apparent concessions.

But notice my wording: apparent concessions. The optics of the Trump-EU deal were humiliating, and optics matter. If you examine the substance, however, it starts to look as if Europe played Trump for a fool. Specifically, a fossil fool.

The EU made two sort-of pledges to Trump. First, that it would invest $600 billion in the United States. Second, that it would buy $750 billion worth of U.S. energy, mainly oil and gas, over the next three years. The first promise was empty, while the second was nonsense.

About those investments: European governments aren’t like China, which can tell companies where to put their money. And the European Commission, which made the trade deal, isn’t even a government — it can negotiate tariffs but otherwise has little power. On Sunday Politico spoke with Commission officials, who effectively confirmed that the investment pledge was meaningless:

Speaking Monday, two senior European Commission officials clarified that money would come exclusively from private European companies, with public investment contributing nothing.

“It is not something that the EU as a public authority can guarantee. It is something which is based on the intentions of the private companies,” said one of the senior Commission officials. The Commission has not said it will introduce any incentives to ensure the private sector meets that $600 billion target, nor given a precise timeframe for the investment.

So what the EU actually promised on investment was nothing, Nichts, rien.

The pledge to increase U.S. energy exports was a lot more specific and gave a timeframe. But it’s not going to happen. In fact, it’s going to not happen on three levels.

First, the European Commission, which can’t tell the private sector where to invest, is equally unable to tell the private sector where to buy oil and gas. How would that even work?

Second, the promised level of EU imports is probably physically impossible. Shipping liquefied natural gas (LNG), in particular, requires specialized infrastructure at both ends. On the US side, LNG terminals are already operating at capacity, while Europe’s LNG facilities are “stretched to their limits.” The EU just promised to vastly increase energy imports from America over the next three years, but it’s doubtful whether Europe could build any of the infrastructure needed before the end of that period, even with a crash investment program.

And why would anyone undertake such an investment program in a continent that is rapidly shifting toward renewable energy? As one energy analyst told the Financial Times,

European gas demand is soft and energy prices are falling. In any case, it is private companies not states that contract for energy imports. Like it or not, in Europe the windmills are winning.

Emphasis added because as everyone knows, Trump has a blind, irrational hatred for wind power.

Finally, even if Europe somehow managed to overcome the legal and physical obstacles to buying a lot more fossil fuels from America, both oil and LNG are fungible commodities traded on global markets. This means that any increase in purchases from Europe would reroute U.S. exports rather than increasing them: We’d sell more to Europe but less to, say, Japan and China.

So a big increase in U.S. energy exports driven by demand from Europe is not going to happen. But how will Europe explain its failure to follow through?

It might not have to. Back during Trump’s first term, China promised to buy a lot of U.S. agricultural goods but never did. As far as I know, Trump never made an issue of it. He got to announce a big deal, then lost interest.

And if the issue does come up, if there’s one thing officials at the European Commission are really good at — maybe better than anyone else on earth — it’s bureaucratic delay and obfuscation. Maybe at some point big, strong European men with tears in their eyes will meet with Trump and say, “Sir, we have a temporary hangup over clause #14159 of the 1986 Single European Act. But we’ll get it cleared up any day now.”

Bottom line: Whatever Trump may think, Europe is not going to provide a big boost to U.S. fossil fuel production. He won’t like that, if anyone tells him. But the rest of us should be glad. As I’ve written before, renewables are clearly the energy technology of the future. Trump and his allies are Luddites, trying to stand in the way of progress and keep us burning fossil fuels. Their “burn, baby, burn” obsession is very bad for America and the world. But at least we can be reasonably sure that Europe won’t help, um, fuel that obsession.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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UK breakthrough could slash emissions from cement – May 22, 2024

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxee01m5yero

Scientists say they've found a way to recycle cement from demolished concrete buildings.

Cement is the modern world's most common construction material, but it is also a huge source of planet-warming gas emissions.

That is because of the chemical reactions when you heat limestone to high temperatures by burning fossil fuels.

Recycling cement would massively reduce its carbon footprint. Researchers say that if they switched to electric-powered furnaces, and used renewable energy like wind and solar rather than fossil fuels, that could mean no greenhouse gases would be released at all.

And that would be a big deal. Cement forms the foundation of the modern economy, both literally and metaphorically.

It is what binds the sand and aggregate in concrete together, and concrete is the most widely used material on the planet after water.

It is also a major driver of climate change. If cement was a country, it would be the third biggest source of emissions after China and the US, responsible for 7.5% of human-made CO2.

The problem is the material’s uniquely polluting chemistry.

It is made by heating limestone to up 1600 Celsius in giant kilns powered by fossil fuels.

Those emissions are just the start. The heat is used to drive carbon dioxide from the limestone, leaving a residue of cement.

Add both these sources of pollution together and it is estimated that about a tonne of carbon dioxide is produced for every tonne of cement.

The team of scientists, from Cambridge University, has found a neat way to sidestep those emissions.

It exploits the fact that you can reactivate used cement by exposing it to high temperatures again.

The chemistry is well-established, and it has been done at scale in cement kilns.

The breakthrough is to prove it can be done by piggybacking on the heat generated by another heavy industry – steel recycling.

When you recycle steel, you add chemicals that float on the surface of the molten metal to prevent it reacting with the air and creating impurities. This is known as slag.

The Cambridge team spotted the composition of used cement is almost exactly the same as the slag used in electric arc furnaces.

They have been trialling the process at a small-scale electric arc furnace at the Materials Processing Institute in Middlesbrough.

The BBC was present when the first high grade, or “Portland”, cement was produced.

They are calling it “electric cement” and described the event as a world first.

The lead scientist, Cyrille Dunant, told the BBC it could enable the production of zero-carbon cement.

“We have shown the high temperatures in the furnace reactivate the old cement and because electric arc furnaces use electricity they can be powered by renewable power, so the entire cement making process is decarbonised.,” he said.

He said it also makes steel recycling less polluting because making the chemicals currently used as slag has a high carbon cost too.

Mark Miodownik, Professor of Materials and Society at University College London, described the way the Cambridge team have combined cement and steel recycling as “genius” and believes, if it can be made to work profitably at scale, it could lead to huge reductions in emissions.

“Can it compete against the existing infrastructure that is very unsustainably going to keep pumping cement into our lives”, he asks.

“Cement is already a billion-dollar industry. It’s David and Goliath we are talking about here.”

The hope is electric cement will be cheaper to manufacture because it uses what is essentially waste heat from the steel recycling process.

Spanish company Celsa will attempt to replicate the process in its full-scale electric arc furnace in Cardiff this week.

The Cambridge team estimate, given current rates of steel recycling, their low carbon cement could produce as much as a quarter of UK demand.

But the use of electric arc furnaces is expected to increase in the future, potentially allowing more “electric cement” to be produced.

And, of course, the process could be duplicated all over the world, potentially cutting the emissions from cement dramatically.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


From May16 to May 22,2024, SECOND was offline because of a strong derecho that tore thru Houston with winds up to 100mph. Eight people were killed and extensive damage was done.

And nobody noticed.
Wwah-wah.


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Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis

The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."

By Matt Simon | Jul 29, 2025

https://grist.org/climate/troubling-scenes-from-an-arctic-in-full-tilt
-crisis/

The Arctic island of Svalbard is so reliably frigid that humanity bet its future on the place. Since 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault — set deep in frozen soil known as permafrost — has accepted nearly 1.4 million samples of more than 6,000 species of critical crops. But, the island is warming six to seven times faster than the rest of the planet, making even winters freakishly hot, at least by Arctic standards. Indeed, in 2017, an access tunnel to the vault flooded as permafrost melted, though the seeds weren’t impacted.

This February, a team of scientists was working on Svalbard when irony took hold. Drilling into the soil, they gathered samples of bacteria that proliferate when the ground thaws. These microbes munch on organic matter and burp methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas and significant driver of global warming. Those emissions are potentially fueling a feedback loop in the Arctic: As more soil thaws, more methane is released, leading to more thawing and more methane, and on and on.

In some parts of Svalbard, though, the scientists didn’t need to drill. Air temperatures climbed above freezing for 14 of the 28 days of February, reaching 40 degrees Fahrenheit, when the average temperature at this time of year is 5 degrees. Snow vanished in places, leaving huge pools of water. “I brought my equipment to drill into frozen soil and then ended up sampling a lot of soil just with a spoon, like it was soft ice cream,” said Donato Giovannelli, a geomicrobiologist at the University of Naples Federico II and co-lead author of a paper describing the experience, published last week in the journal Nature Communications. “That was really pretty shocking.”

Scientists can now dig with silverware in the Svalbard winter because the Arctic has descended into a crisis of reflectivity. Until recently, the far north had a healthy amount of sea ice, which bounced much of the sun’s energy back into space, keeping the region cool. But as the planet has warmed, that ice has been disappearing, exposing darker water, which absorbs sunlight and raises temperatures. This is yet another Arctic feedback loop, in which more warming melts more sea ice, leading to more local warming, and on and on.

Making matters worse, as temperatures rise in the far north, more moisture enters the atmosphere. For one, warmer seawater evaporates more readily, adding water vapor to the air. And two, a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture. This leads to the formation of more low-level clouds, which trap heat like blankets — especially in the dark Arctic winter — amplifying the warming. That, combined with the loss of sea ice, is why the Arctic is warming up to four times as fast as the rest of the planet, with Svalbard warming even faster than that.

During the winter, Svalbard’s soils have historically frozen solid, and scientists assumed this made microbial activity grind to a halt. Reindeer could push through the snow to graze on vegetation. But February’s heat and rain melted the snow, forming vast pools of water that froze once temperatures dropped again. That created a layer of ice that reindeer couldn’t break through. “What we encountered was just so powerful, to be in the middle of this event,” said James Bradley, a geomicrobiologist at the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography and Queen Mary University of London, co-lead author of the paper. “It really almost all melted over large, large, large areas of the ground. That ground remained frozen, so the water didn’t have too many places to drain away to, so what we also saw was huge pooling of liquid water over the tundra.”

This new climate regime could be profoundly altering the soil microbiome. Scientists assumed that methane-producing bacteria, known as methanogens, stopped proliferating when Svalbard’s soils froze in the winter, just like food in your freezer keeps for months because it’s in a hostile environment for microbes. But with warm spells like this, thawing could awaken methanogens, which could still produce that greenhouse gas even if it then rains and a layer of ice forms at the surface. In addition, that solid cap on the soil will stop the exchange of atmospheric gases into the ground, creating anaerobic, or oxygen-poor, conditions that methanogens love. “In some areas, deeper layers might never freeze completely, which means the methanogens and microbes at depth remain active,” Giovannelli said. “There’s no real winter period.”

Vegetation, too, is changing up there, a phenomenon known as Arctic greening. As temperatures rise, trees and shrubs are creeping north to conquer new territory. The good news is that those plants capture carbon as they grow, mitigating global warming to a certain extent. But the bad news is that dark-colored vegetation absorbs more of the sun’s energy and raises temperatures, just like the exposed ocean does. And shrubs trap a layer of snow against the landscape, preventing the chill of winter from penetrating the soil and keeping it frozen.

The speed of transformation in the Arctic is shocking, even for stoic scientists. And as nations keep spewing greenhouse gases, the feedback loops of the far north are threatening to load the atmosphere with still more methane. “We call this the new Arctic — this is not something that is a one-off,” Giovannelli said. “And on the other side, we’ve probably been a bit too cautious with our warnings regarding the climate. It’s not something for the next generation. It’s something for our generation.”

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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From May16 to May 22, 2024, SECOND was offline because of a strong derecho that tore thru Houston with winds up to 100mph. Eight people were killed and extensive damage was done.

And nobody noticed.
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That is weird because I didn't even notice. Let me check what I posted because Signym didn't bother to: http://fireflyfans.net/mthreaduser.aspx?u=20832

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Not surprising that Signym was wrong.

Around that same period, my wife and daughters had a thousand pictures of me with a chainsaw, my gang, and my heavy equipment cleaning up the neighborhood because the Baytown city government was overwhelmed by the wreckage. I always have the most fun when there is either a war or a natural disaster justifying bringing out my Super Large Toys to play with, or I can shoot to kill with heavy weapons. The grandchildren disapprove of PaPa going Terminator. They say it's not dignified, so "No Guns", at least until a Civil War, and then I can kill as many Trumptards as possible, like it is a reenactment of the 28 Days Later movies with Trumptards as the zombies moaning "Climate change is a Chinese Hoax."

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Behind the real reason Americans voted for Trump

By D. Earl Stephens | July 31, 2025 | 05:49AM ET

https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/why-trump-voters/

I am going to start today by actually giving the America-attacking Trump credit for something: He understands far better than any politician in America that the majority of the American public is comprised of complete morons.

The sooner Democrats figure this out, the better. And by sooner … I mean RIGHT NOW.

It’s a national emergency.

We’ve all been tortured by these dreaded political operatives, experts, analysts and partisans endlessly ranting at us about Democrats’ inability to craft a message that resonates with the American public. The party is viewed by roughly 80 percent of America as out of touch and irrelevant. I’m sure I have punished you by writing about this 15 times myself.

And while this is no doubt true, it’s actually far worse than that, because even if Democrats could communicate like Abraham Lincoln, they’d have absolutely no idea how or where to reach the people who need to hear what they have to say.

The Democrats have become experts at going high and talking to each other in the clouds, instead of going low and reaching the tens of millions of morons out there who could stand to hear what they are saying, despite themselves.

Since bursting on the scene like a racist hand grenade in 2015, Trump has proven beyond all doubt he understands the American electorate better than anybody. The man is so sure of himself that he went right out there and said he could shoot one of his supporters in the middle of the street and not lose their vote.

Now, there’s confidence, folks.

When you reckon with the fact that most Americans are morons, as Trump has, and start expecting less instead of more, the way forward will seem less daunting.

We don’t have an over-thinking problem in America; we have an under-thinking one.

I’m not wrong about this.

Look, the most important issue facing America, and the entire world for that matter, is climate change. In addition to costing us trillions of dollars, our overheating planet will eventually end all of us if it is not addressed with the urgency it demands.

Spoiler: It won’t be.

It’s hard to get a moron worried about something that they either don’t believe is happening, or if it is, most likely won’t affect them in any meaningful way during what’s left of their moronic lifetime.

When the world ends, they’ll be long gone anyway, so why bother?

I was standing on a beach in North Carolina quietly taking in the breathtaking Atlantic Ocean last summer — true story — when a friendly chap my age approached. We made some small talk before he said quite unprompted that all this talk about climate change was “a bunch of bull----.”

According to him, none of it was happening. It was nothing but political hooey designed to get us all worked up.

I’m certain he thought the old, white guy he was talking to would be a sympathetic ear for his moronic denial-ism, so when I told him that the ocean we were staring at was going to swallow us all whole someday, he said again: “No. That’s just bull----.”

And then just like that, he tipped his cap, told me to genuinely have a nice day, and skipped away to assault the next unsuspecting beach-goer with his pail-full of ignorance.

In the year since I was mentally assaulted on that beach, the pyromaniacs in the new administration are doubling down and literally throwing gasoline on our heating planet.

What the hell are we supposed to do with that, Democrats?

I mean, we can’t ignore climate change, and must do what we can to mitigate it, but continuing to make it a central campaign issue is worthless because of all the damn morons out there.

I was sure democracy was a pressing issue, too, especially after the violent attack on January 6, 2021. Well, not only don’t most people much care about it, the morons who perpetrated the attack have been hailed as heroes by millions of other morons, and are back out on the street and free to try it again if and when necessary.

So I ask again: What are we supposed to do with that?

And don’t even get me started about vaccines, a woman’s right to choose, or myriad other issues that are killing all of us …

I began typing this on Monday afternoon and was scratching my head after watching a press gathering in Scotland, where the Prime Minister of UK had just surrendered himself at Trump’s golf course.

You read that right: the leader of Great Britain was a visitor in his own country.

Can you imagine if Sir Keir Starmer roared into the United States and promptly summoned Trump to meet him at his beach house?

That place would be flattened by a tomahawk missile, with Starmer in it, five seconds later.

I actually felt embarrassed for my British family and friends over there, until I remembered that as bad their leader just looked, we are getting the moron who emasculated him back in our White House in a couple of days to water his racist house plant, Stephen Miller.

Anyway, Trump said more stupid things in 30 minutes than Joe Biden has said in 30 years. Words just came out of the guy’s mouth that meant absolutely nothing. We’ve all seen him do this. On Gaza, for instance, he breathlessly said this:

“We’ll be helping with the food. We have a lot of access to food. We have a lot of food ourselves. So we’re going to get them some good strong food.”

Strong food …

Go ahead and watch if you're brave enough. https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/7/28/trump-some-of-those
-kids-thats-real#flips-6376241921112:0

And it’s always the steadfast confidence and determined stupidity in which he addresses the world’s most pressing and obvious issues as he discovers them all for the very first time. He’s the 2-year-old who bashes his head with a rock, and earnestly brags to his mother how hard it really and truly-ooly is.

His head, I mean.

And let’s not forget the fact that he was double-dipping by doing business (playing golf) on one of his properties on our dime. But it’s the public servant studying climate change that needs to be run out of her job …

And, hey, I am the guy who wrote the book on this stuff back when I thought it was all just some terrible anomaly and America would get back on track in 2020 after four years of word salads, and 250,000 needless deaths. https://www.amazon.com/Toxic-Tales-Caustic-Collection-Important/dp/164
1842180

I simply underestimated how big our moron problem in America was at the time.

It’s staggering, it really is.

Now, seven years later, Trump’s complete idiocy and lack of command about anything resembling policy have been completely normalized, and I have grudgingly come to understand that most average Americans are just fine with it.

Taking somebody’s healthcare away might be serious, but eating their dogs and cats?! Well now … we need to have a serious talk about that one, buster.

So Democrats need to start meeting the majority of Americans where they are: most likely staring at their phones and communicating with each other in Emoji.

Healthcare for all: smiley face

Billionaires are bad: grumpy face

Stop worrying about people like me, Democrats. As a haughty independent who pays attention, you most likely have my vote for the foreseeable future, just as long as voting is still a thing in this country, or you decide to eat my cat.

It’s the disaffected out there you need to start reaching with alacrity by hitting them where they’re at, and preferably with a dumbed-down message any moron can understand.
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D. Earl Stephens, the author of “Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trump’s Very Important Letters,” finished up a 30-year career in journalism as the Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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