There is no Plan B because there is no Planet B. - Emmanuel Macron (President of France)

2025.07.23 Sometimes a rational response does surface above the global fossil fuel deception campaign.

Landmark court ruling a stark rebuke of Canadian position on climate change (National Observer)
"The ICJ finding is a watershed moment in the fight against climate change that should send shivers down the spine of the fossil fuel industry, while threatening to upend the legality of Prime Minister Mark Carney's major projects agenda."

2025.07.23 Per the Howarth study, you can't make fossil LNG green. It's worse than coal for GHG emissions.

As Trump's Trade Deadline Looms, U.S. Gas Exporters Are Sweating Over Meeting Europe's Pollution Standards (DeSmog)

2025.07.23 Canada doesn't need more oil to tidewater capacity; the oil industry can't fill TMX.

Coastal First Nations call on Carney to uphold oil tanker ban (National Observer)

2025.07.22 Two problems. Trading carbon dioxide for methane isn't a climate win. Setting the drying peatlands on fire makes 2 losses.

Want a Carbon Fix? It's Closer than You Think (The Tyee)
The real win is stop burning stuff that makes GHGs, pollution and waste heat: oil, natural gas, woodlands, peatlands ...

2025.07.22 Oil industry hoists it's true colours in quitting SBTi en masse.

Energy Giants Abandon Global Net Zero Group Over Oil and Gas Clampdown (Oilprice.com)

2025.07.22 Alberta Advantage - the oil industry never pays to clean up its messes; that falls on landowners like farmers

Alberta landowner files conflict-of-interest complaint against Danielle Smith appointee (National Observer)

2025.07.21 Australia: smart consumers could save the dumb utilities - or sink them via defection

How EVs and electric water heaters are turning cities into giant batteries (The Conversation)
While Canadian electric utilities suck at planning loads and supply, their customers are great at planning their loads based on price signals. Look for more house batteries as those prices fall and grid electricity becomes more expensive and less reliable. Think of it as grid defection pilot testing. Once this part works, just add solar panels or wind turbines, and then cut the cord.

2025.07.21 Batteries - not just for flashlights anymore

Big batteries push through 2 GW mark for first time, wind sets new milestone in South Australia (Renew Economy)

2025.07.21 The author of the opinion piece is right about progress to date, but wrong about nuclear as part of the solution.

Dire predictions about renewable energy were all wrong (WaPo)
Nuclear is a significant GHG source during construction, and produces prodigious amounts of waste heat during its productive life, and more heat while the spent fuel cools over a period of decades. It also carries the energy debt yet to be paid in a real solution for permanent sequestering of material containing long-lived radionuclides. But most important as climate change is accelerating is that new nuclear capacity won't be online in time to make a positive difference.
Instead, we need to leverage the fast implemenation times for solar and wind generation, which can be operational within months of construction starts, vs. a decade and more for typical nuclear new-builds (based on decades of real-life results). Further, wind and solar generation are compatible with productive farmland; (agrivoltaics) and open fields between wind turbines, providing farmers with year-round revenue streams as owners or leasing the land while still working it.

2025.07.21 Emm, about those reduced returns from renewable investments

Big Oil Rethinks Renewable Investments (Oilprice.com)
Those 'lower returns' from renewables are a direct result of the oil industry's successful efforts to increase oil extraction, taxpayer subsidies and record profits, while hobbling renewables with unique regulations (courtesy rented politicians seeking re-election funds) and reduced (or eliminated) incentives for GHG emissions reductions. So those are crocodile tears intended to continue starving renewables of new investment money.

2025.07.20 Not 27!! Methane is over 100 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the 10-year timeframe methane takes to break down in the atmosphere.

Ship traffic releases large amounts of methane from the ocean into the atmosphere (Brighter Side News)

2025.07.20 Climate change isn't about gentle warming, "deadly flash floods across the United States, underscoring the escalating volatility of our warming world"

This is the summer of flooding across the US, and scientists know why (CNN)

2025.07.20 In my opinion, our species doesn't have time for this fiasco. The 'crisis' is threat to fossil fuel profits.

Trump fossil-fuel push setting back green progress decades, critics warn (The Guardian)

2025.07.20 What could possibly be worse than an affordable small vehicle that doesn't generate exhaust and GHG emissions?

If you think electric bikes are bad, there’s a much bigger menace hitting our roads (electrek)
And if the car collision doesn't kill you, the exhaust is harming your health, the engine noise is injuring your hearing, the GHG emissions are accelerating climate change.

2025.07.19 For the climate change denial dinosaurs who still think more carbon dioxide will be good for life on Earth.

Scientists discover what wiped out global ocean life 200 million years ago
Ancient oyster fossils reveal massive ocean acidification 201 million years ago, tying volcanic CO2 to a major extinction event - and warning us today. (Brighter Side)

2025.07.18 If fossil methane ('natural gas') was an economic resource, extractivists wouldn't simply destroy it instead of selling it.

So, it's a 'good' with a negative value, like trash. Except, in many countries, taxpayers pay for the gas to be extracted and destroyed, adding to fossil fuel industry profits (because the oil is the product with real value - so far).
Gas flaring created 389 million tonnes of carbon pollution last year, report finds (National Observer)

2025.07.16 It's called climate change because it's about weather volatility and unpredictability, not gentle, even warming.

Scientists issue warning about concerning phenomenon ahead of upcoming winter season: 'Keeps the surface cooler' (Yahoo)

2025.07.15 It's only about massive social and financial upheaval, creating millions of refugees, mass injury and death - possibly yours.

Big Oil has been lying to us for decades: Don't let it off the hook. (The Hill)

2025.07.09 The human body CANNOT adapt to very high temperatures; it evolved to function in a cooler, stable climate.

1,500 deaths in recent European heat wave were due to climate change, study estimates (CBC / Associated Press)

2025.07.09 Industry CAN'T extract fossil methane without fugitive emissions - more than 100 times a potent as CO2 at climate warming

The plain truth is that the Houston government doesn't care about climate change (Halifax Examiner)

2025.07.09 The revenge of the long tailpipe: as smart nations green their grids, EVs get cleaner.

EVs widen life-cycle emissions gap over combustion cars, new study finds (Auto News)

2025.07.08 Siila (Sheila) Watt-Cloutier shifts from books to podcasts to voice the Inuk perspective on climate change

Inuit podcast takes us inside the Arctic meltdown (National Observer)

2025.07.08 When we see the same communities hit by flooding years in a row, shouldn't we be asking if rebuilding in place is an intelligent response?

Why Canada is unprepared for 'new reality' of flash flooding and severe storms (National Observer)

2025.07.08 Rich, powerful players benefit from the drivers of climate change - they don't want the rules to change

Can you trust climate information? How and why powerful players are misleading the public (The Conversation)

2025.07.08 Climate change is accelerating at a pace that administration - like updating flood maps - can't match; more houses will be destroyed

Why Canada is unprepared for 'new reality' of flash flooding and severe storms (National Observer)

2025.07.06 A lot of the world consider this a nice problem to have.

(Germany) Grid operators complain of “too many batteries” and zombie projects (Renew Economy)
A couple of thoughts. Perhaps the grid operators could develop some simple metrics to ask on the applications which would help sort the value proposition order. E.g., lifetime MWh provided when of value to the grid per unit-of-currency (Euros); maximum surge capacity when requested; probability of providing surge supply at peak demand times, and gross GHG emissions including directly related upstream and downstream impacts.
If the number of connection points is the issue, perhaps the grid operator could encourage proponents to partner with multiple units at a single grid connection, e.g. a renewable energy producer, an energy storage facility, and an energy consumer such as a data-centre or hydrogen production plant or electrified transit system, which could reduce overall grid load by taking it off the grid behind the connection. 2-way connections are expected anyway in the case of energy storage installations.

2025.07.06 Also applies to Canada, which is irrationally pushing a construction boom for LNG which will be ruins before most projects are complete.

Natural Gas Harms U.S. Economy And Won’t Solve Rising Electricity Demand (Forbes)

2025.07.05 Also applies to Canada, which is irrationally pushing a construction boom for LNG which will be ruins before most projects are complete.

Inter-American Court of Human Rights affirms legal right to a healthy climate (JURISTnews)
Text of the Court's opinion (219 pages)
(Canada is a member of the Organization of American States (OAS), but not subject to the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.)

2025.07.03 Climate change is taking the 'perma' out of permafrost

Arctic region was permafrost-free when global temperatures were 4.5°C higher than today, study reveals (Phys.org)

2025.06.29 Oh NO! Another EV mythinformation meme turns out to be nothing. The EV battery repair, refurbishing, repurposing and recycling functions shows up now it is needed.

100,000 EVs Will Retire This Year. What Will Happen To Their Batteries? (Inside EVs)
How's that recycling of used gasoline stuff going? Still nothing, hunh. Ah, it's only been 140 years.

Now, when will internal combustion engine exhaust capture and recycling become available. It's been over 130 years; still waiting. At least municipalities developed technologies to pick up horse exhaust.

2025.07.01 Note webinar on July 10th, 2025

From Data to Action: WasteMAP’s New Features Empower Localized Methane Mitigation (RMI)

2025.06.27 The climate change deny, delay and distort campaign is well funded and effective, and wins a lot of time. This one was close.

Misinformation-laden website almost convinces Alberta town to abandon climate program (National Observer)
Note: the deciding factor for Cochrane was that taking the disinformation bait could have meant losing funding from environmental programs, which would then increase taxes for residents, and Albertans hate tax increases, so that would have been bad news for the incomes of town councillors if they got voted out this coming October.
The source used is a known U.S.-based, AI-driven disinformation source (or as others call it, "not a reliable source of climate information".
As I have been known to repeat, you are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own set of 'facts'.

2025.06.26 Indigenous Land Back as climate change mitigation

What it looks like when Indigenous people take control of climate stewardship on their land (CBC)

2025.06.25 Climate change is real and accelerating. Glaciers are a phase change material which moderate temperature change.

Western Canadian glaciers melting twice as fast as they did a decade ago, research shows (CBC)

2025.06.24 It doesn't matter if the mechanism is the 'boiling frog' or 'tipping points', not working on climate change is a suicide pact

'This is a fight for life': climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield (The Guardian)

2025.06.18 Wildfires and building damage from lightning in the Arctic? It's coming, and we're not prepared.

Lightning Strikes the Arctic: What Will It Mean for the Far North? (Yale Environment 360)

2025.06.17 Not mentioned is that the Ontario government provided no funding for this project, as they are shoveling taxpayer cash into the latest nuclear folly.

Why Canada's largest battery project is an energy gamechanger (Globe and Mail)
This project is in the heart of southern Ontario's big generators, so it does not help where transmission is fragile (e.g. eastern and northern Ontario).
Also note, this is a battery - it stores energy, but does not produce energy. For that, we need more renewable production (wind, solar, run-of-river hydro ...)

2025.06.12 Energy storage is key to adopting more renewable energy production; it just needs to be safe and inexpensive

Researchers use once-forgotten tech to completely transform energy grid: 'We're building on something that has a long track record' (TCD)

2025.06.12 Pledges and credit schemes aren't getting the job done.

"Global CO2 Emissions Surge Out of Control": This Alarming Spike Signals a Dangerous New Phase in the Climate Crisis (Sustainability Times)

2025.06.11 Burying the evidence and data won't solve the problem, but it will make it harder to fix.

Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired (The Guardian)

2025.06.11 Burying the evidence and data won't solve the problem, but it will make it harder to fix.

How your air conditioner can help the power grid, rather than overloading it (The Conversation)
A smart local grid could enable this, but are local utilities smart enough to make the investment? I doubt it, so look for the consumer response to be smarter: install solar PV to shade sun-facing windows (reduces solar gain and unwanted household heating during the cooling season) and install a small house battery to power small appliance loads (low risk toe dipping, avoiding expensive net metering utility connections, UPS benefit for fridges, freezers, computers, Internet connectivity), and shifting to efficient heat pumps vs. A/C to reduce heating and cooling bills.

2025.06.11 Battery technology keeps improving: cost, efficiency, lifespan, safety

Sodium Batteries Are Coming For Your Fossil Fuels (CleanTechnica)

2025.06.11 Some people think we need food to eat, Alberta government says frack farmers

Central Alberta farmers concerned by fracking operation"s use of water (Global News)

2025.06.11 Hunh, seems if you make something expensive enough (rare earth minerals), suddenly recycling becomes attractive

Cyclic Materials Announces USD $25M Investment to Establish Centre of Excellence for Rare Earth Recycling in Kingston, Ontario (businesswire)

2025.06.05 As I keep saying, it's the methane that's accelerating our GHG emissions and faster descent into climate chaos.

Hidden Super-Emitters: The Climate Imperative Of Addressing Abandoned Fossil Fuel Infrastructure (CleanTechnica)
As per the fossil foolers deny, distort, delay playbook, first they denied the problem existed, but ground surveys and now satellites are showing the problem is real and massive (as investigators had indicated). Then, industry said the problem is miniscule, not worth any bother, but now we know there are super-emitters as well as tens of thousands of smaller emitters. Now, industry is going to argue the problem is too expensive to fix (because survival of people isn't profitable) and the 'other guys' aren't cleaning u, so we should not have to either. Captured governments are not acting, or not acting fast enough or effectively. This article indicates the problem is solvable and will be less expensive the sooner we act.
Paper: A global inventory of methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells and possible mitigation pathways.
And once again, my GHG hobby horse: methane emissions are 104 times as potent as carbon dioxide emissions over a 10-year time span from release, so governments need to stop pretenting the historical value used for 100 years (25 times) is relevant to any current discussion. Further, there is a real market for captured methane, and not so much for carbon dioxide - other than producing more oil and gas from old, tired wells (aka Enhance Oil Recover or EOR), which brings much of the carbon dioxide back to the atmosphere again with the produced fuel and water.

2025.06.03 Just do SOMETHING positive. However small. Like, grow a plant to support pollinators.

Schwarzenegger tells environmentalists dismayed by Trump: "Stop whining" and get to work (CTV)

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