Big Lie: Wind turbines freezes Texas during massive winter storm
Frozen electricity infrastructure in Texas was due to cold weather, and bad maintenance, not wind turbines
Tag: Climate Change
We must pressure Biden over climate despite choosing Kerry as climate representative
Environmental and climate change issues must be kept on the front burner in Washington DC
CALFire seizes PG&E equipment investigating cause of Zogg Fire in 2020 wildfire season
Yesterday, CALFire, California’s primary fire agency, announced it had seized some of PG&E’s equipment stating that just before the Zogg Fire ignited there were alarms emitted on PG&E’s network. The Zogg Fire is one of many many wildfires that have plagued California in the 2020 season. The 2020 wildfire season…
5+ million acres burned, choking smoke, Climate Change accelerated
The primary feature of this phase of the 2020 West Coast Fire Season is the smoke. There are unprecedentedly huge wildfires burning, and a new front on the horrors opened a few days ago with several large wildfires in Oregon and Washington State. While the fires are threatening immediate destruction…
La Nina develops, promising long 2020 fire and hurricane season
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced today that the La Nina pattern has developed. This phenomena involves a cooling of the surface of the Pacific Ocean near the equator. This pattern is known to cause a series of chain reactions resulting in a longer hurricane season in the…
California wildfires 2020, over 2 million acres burned
The 2020 wildfire season in the Western USA (California, Oregon, etc) started early. Dozens of fires ignited one weekend in August leading to wildfires all around the state, and today four of the largest wildfires in California’s history are burning simultaneously. More recently a heatwave sparked other wildfires in not…
Conservative values failing USA as EPA guts fuel efficiency standards, fails with COVID-19 response
The Republican party that’s in control of the Federal Government is stuck in Grover Norquist’s paradigm – that he famously wanted to shrink Government to be small enough to drag into the bathroom and drown in a baththub. What a violent fantasy that is! Yesterday the US Environmental Protection Agency…
NYC, LA, DC and 23 states sue EPA over rescinding emissions standards waiver
As we’ve been covering for awhile, the US Environmental Protection Agency has been threatening to yank California’s ability to set its own emissions standards. California and many other states have a long-standing precedent to set emissions standards and other environmental regulations. Under the Trump Administration everything that threatens the fossil…
Microgrids could prevent power outages but some experts disagree
A few weeks ago Northern California was rocked by huge power outages which PG&E hoped would prevent wildfires ignited by tree limbs falling on power lines. At the time weather conditions included heavy wind storms, drying out an already extremely dry landscape, raising the fire danger high enough to make…
Climate Change threatens existence of PG&E and other companies
Many people in California are irate about PG&E. In 2017, downed PG&E power lines contributed to a wildfire that destroyed parts of Santa Rosa California. In 2018, downed PG&E power lines ignited a wildfire that destroyed the city of Paradise. In 2019, PG&E developed a plan to avoid wildfires that…
Sen. Schumer proposes US completely switch to ZEV’s by 2040
Today NY Senator Schumer proposed a bold plan to switch completely to clean vehicles, zero emission vehicles, like electric cars. As Schumer notes, “Scientists tell us that to avoid the most devastating effects of climate change, the world needs to be carbon neutral — to have net-zero carbon dioxide emissions…
California’s fire season due to PG&E’s failings and to Climate Change
California’s 2019 fire season is all set to surpass 2018’s massive wildfire that destroyed Paradise CA. Almost every year for the last 10 years there’s been a new biggest wildfire of California’s history, only to be beaten by the one a year later. Last year the Camp Fire was ignited…
A destroyed Paradise, PG&E shuts down power, Tesla catches up with Zombie Apocalypse
Eleven months ago a fire ignited outside Pulga California, it raced across the mountains, and by the end of the day the city of Paradise California (and neighboring cities) had been largely destroyed, with several deaths (85 confirmed deaths and one still listed as missing as of September 2019) of…
A practical reason behind Trump’s insane quest to buy Greenland?
During August 2019, President Trump floated another of his insane-seeming ideas – namely that the USA wants to buy Greenland. It’s the 2000’s and the World Powers don’t go buying territories from each other any longer, do they? We started to dismiss this as another of the crazy ideas that…
GOP State Senators in Oregon flee vote on Cap & Trade bill
Oregon was on track to become the second US State to pass a Cap and Trade program that would create a market for carbon credits. However, once the bill passed the Oregon House it went to the Oregon Senate, and Republican Senators fled the Capital rather than vote on the…
We must pressure Biden over climate despite choosing Kerry as climate representative
Environmental and climate change issues must be kept on the front burner in Washington DC
CALFire seizes PG&E equipment investigating cause of Zogg Fire in 2020 wildfire season
Yesterday, CALFire, California’s primary fire agency, announced it had seized some of PG&E’s equipment stating that just before the Zogg Fire ignited there were alarms emitted on PG&E’s network. The Zogg Fire is one of many many wildfires that have plagued California in the 2020 season. The 2020 wildfire season…
5+ million acres burned, choking smoke, Climate Change accelerated
The primary feature of this phase of the 2020 West Coast Fire Season is the smoke. There are unprecedentedly huge wildfires burning, and a new front on the horrors opened a few days ago with several large wildfires in Oregon and Washington State. While the fires are threatening immediate destruction…
La Nina develops, promising long 2020 fire and hurricane season
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced today that the La Nina pattern has developed. This phenomena involves a cooling of the surface of the Pacific Ocean near the equator. This pattern is known to cause a series of chain reactions resulting in a longer hurricane season in the…
California wildfires 2020, over 2 million acres burned
The 2020 wildfire season in the Western USA (California, Oregon, etc) started early. Dozens of fires ignited one weekend in August leading to wildfires all around the state, and today four of the largest wildfires in California’s history are burning simultaneously. More recently a heatwave sparked other wildfires in not…
Conservative values failing USA as EPA guts fuel efficiency standards, fails with COVID-19 response
The Republican party that’s in control of the Federal Government is stuck in Grover Norquist’s paradigm – that he famously wanted to shrink Government to be small enough to drag into the bathroom and drown in a baththub. What a violent fantasy that is! Yesterday the US Environmental Protection Agency…
NYC, LA, DC and 23 states sue EPA over rescinding emissions standards waiver
As we’ve been covering for awhile, the US Environmental Protection Agency has been threatening to yank California’s ability to set its own emissions standards. California and many other states have a long-standing precedent to set emissions standards and other environmental regulations. Under the Trump Administration everything that threatens the fossil…
Microgrids could prevent power outages but some experts disagree
A few weeks ago Northern California was rocked by huge power outages which PG&E hoped would prevent wildfires ignited by tree limbs falling on power lines. At the time weather conditions included heavy wind storms, drying out an already extremely dry landscape, raising the fire danger high enough to make…
Climate Change threatens existence of PG&E and other companies
Many people in California are irate about PG&E. In 2017, downed PG&E power lines contributed to a wildfire that destroyed parts of Santa Rosa California. In 2018, downed PG&E power lines ignited a wildfire that destroyed the city of Paradise. In 2019, PG&E developed a plan to avoid wildfires that…
Sen. Schumer proposes US completely switch to ZEV’s by 2040
Today NY Senator Schumer proposed a bold plan to switch completely to clean vehicles, zero emission vehicles, like electric cars. As Schumer notes, “Scientists tell us that to avoid the most devastating effects of climate change, the world needs to be carbon neutral — to have net-zero carbon dioxide emissions…
California’s fire season due to PG&E’s failings and to Climate Change
California’s 2019 fire season is all set to surpass 2018’s massive wildfire that destroyed Paradise CA. Almost every year for the last 10 years there’s been a new biggest wildfire of California’s history, only to be beaten by the one a year later. Last year the Camp Fire was ignited…
A destroyed Paradise, PG&E shuts down power, Tesla catches up with Zombie Apocalypse
Eleven months ago a fire ignited outside Pulga California, it raced across the mountains, and by the end of the day the city of Paradise California (and neighboring cities) had been largely destroyed, with several deaths (85 confirmed deaths and one still listed as missing as of September 2019) of…
A practical reason behind Trump’s insane quest to buy Greenland?
During August 2019, President Trump floated another of his insane-seeming ideas – namely that the USA wants to buy Greenland. It’s the 2000’s and the World Powers don’t go buying territories from each other any longer, do they? We started to dismiss this as another of the crazy ideas that…
GOP State Senators in Oregon flee vote on Cap & Trade bill
Oregon was on track to become the second US State to pass a Cap and Trade program that would create a market for carbon credits. However, once the bill passed the Oregon House it went to the Oregon Senate, and Republican Senators fled the Capital rather than vote on the…
