Category: Climate & Energy

“Mesoscale atmospheric modeling looking at the mass effects of kinetic energy absorption by wind turbines suggests that the power capacity of large-scale wind farms may have been significantly overestimated.” Continue reading Study: Scientists have overestimated capacity of wind farms to generate power

“This has to be bad news for environmental activists everywhere: a massive international study, conducted in 33 countries over 17 years, shows that people just don’t care a lot about the environment.” Continue reading Study uncovers massive global yawn over global warming

Why is this a hot — but diversionary — news item? Continue reading Cats are the #1 bird killer?

You might be surprised at the answer. Continue reading How much gasoline is saved annually by public transportation?

Will the “smart grid” be used to facilitate power line repairs/maintenance — or electricity rationing? Continue reading Holdren: Global warming requires ‘smart’ grid

These sales are less profitable than domestic sales, which the Obama administration is working to end entirely. Continue reading W.Va. coal exports up 40 percent over last year

Tesla’s $465 million loan from taxpayers is not working out for anyone. Continue reading Tesla CEO Elon Musk Fights Perceptions as Stock Drops

Big Brother tried to sneak it past me. It’s a good thing I was home. Continue reading Smart Meter: Rejected

“New York landowners will never recover the revenue that’s been lost.” Continue reading Dreams of fracking riches fades for NY landowners

“Anomalies in oxygen found in sulfate particles coincide with several episodes of the world-wide disruption of weather known as El Niño and can be distinguished from similar signals left by the eruption of huge volcanoes, the team reports in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published the week of February 25.” Continue reading Clues to climate cycles dug from south pole snow pit

Possibly the military and its mouthpieces should focus on the task in Afghanistan or perhaps the useless $130 million F-35 fighters with engine cracks or any of the host of real problems it faces… just sayin’…

“A bipartisan group of former U.S. foreign policy officials, military leaders and lawmakers pushed on Monday for action on addressing climate change in poor nations, arguing it represents a major national security threat.”

Read more at Politico.

But there’s been no sea-level rise in SF Bay for 70 years. Continue reading Gov. Brown says rising sea level threatens San Francisco