Never underestimate the ability of humans to overestimate their own intelligence. - moi
For supporting evidence, research the Darwin Awards.

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)

2025.07.03 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.

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)

2025.05.30 Step 1, massively reduce CO2 and methane emissions (stop digging). Step 2, bolster CO2 removal and SEQUESTRATION (not storage for later release).

At this rate, carbon dioxide removal will never matter for the climate (NewScientist)

2025.05.01 This has worked for me since 1979. Today, 8 hours overnight charging means 60 km range, almost for free, and usually a 'full tank' each morning.

Faster isn't always better. Slow-charging EVs could have big benefits (CBC)

2025.05.01 As fossil fuel 'assets' values drop, this is going to look like a prescient move

University of Guelph fully divests from fossil fuels (Guelph Today)

2025.05.01 Britain is key financial hub for destructive fossil fuel mega-projects, according to research (but don't forget Canada)

UK banks put 75bn pounds into firms building climate-wrecking 'carbon bombs', study finds (The Guardian)

2025.05.01 The tundra is "greening”" at an incredible rate

Arctic plant study reveals an 'early warning sign' of climate change upheaval (The Guardian)

2025.04.30 If restoration companies are busy, it's because damage was done - in this case by climate-related events

COLUMN: Climate change leads to booming business for Service Master (Orillia Matters)

2025.04.30 Climate commitment lies were fun until the law brought real consequences to the game

RBC abandons climate goals a day after Carney's election amid 'greenwashing' law fallout (Western Standard)
"The Competition Act provisions do not stop companies from making claims that can be substantiated," said Tanya Jemec, a finance lawyer with Ecojustice. "RBC"s refusal to disclose its energy financing ratio suggests a lack of confidence in its own methodology."

2025.04.26 Solar power is winning because it is inexpensive, reliable, clean, can go on rooftops and the fuel is FREE.

Just add storage (thermal, batteries, low-priority loads ...) to bridge when the sun isn't shining for cleaner air, water, soil ...
It works when the grid doesn't. Even in the Arctic.
Solar Power Surges Around The World (CleanTechnica)

2025.04.26 The toxic crap industry puts into the air is what we breathe, and its damaging our health

Scientists issue warning after uncovering escalating threat to brain health - here's what they found (TCD)

2025.04.25 Remember when the U.S. power industry shifted from coal to 'natural gas' because it was cleaner?

Yeah, it wasn't that. It's about burning whatever is cheapest, and no concerns about environmental damage. Don't pretend you're surprised.
Data shows surprising shift at power plants across the US - here's what's happening (Yahoo)

2025.04.25 Biofuels can be a drop-in replacement for fossil fuels. This one claims to be carbon-negative and powered a large ship.

Norden claims world-first voyage using drop-in biofuel from a carbon-negative process (Splash)

2025.04.24 It looks like climate regulation mechanisms are starting to break down.

Atlantic ocean currents are weakening - and it could make the climate in some regions unrecognizable (LiveScience)

2025.04.23 CAPP thinks it can use the current Trump tariff agenda to suck more money out of taxpayers to pad profits. Let's not.

Canada's new pipeline push will turn out to be a costly blunder (Globe & Mail)
Canadian taxpayers have paid, or are on the hook for over $50 BILLION for the TMX pipeline construction, and continues to cost us more every day (it loses money on every barrel pumped through). Oil demand is dropping world wide. It will take at least 10 years to build even sections of a new national pipeline for oil or gas. By 2035, international treaties will be really cutting into use of fossil fuels. If the private sector wants to build these pipelines with ZERO public funds of any kind, they don't need a PR and political pressure campaign; they just need to put up the money and time to work through the process and build it. If they want that, it's a great time to be buying made-in-Canada steel pipe. So CAPP, over to you, and bring your chequebook.

2025.04.04 If the polar air caps won't stay at the poles, we're heading for a new level of climate volatility.

'Major disruption' has caused Arctic polar vortex to slide off North Pole, scientists say (LiveScience)

2025.04.04 Sometime in the past month, the AESO dropped their 2024 annual report onto their website without any announcement.

I wonder what it was they didn't want Albertans or the world to know.
I mean, if I managed to drop the average price of electricity for my customers by 53% in a year, I would be announcing that with a flourish of trumpets and fireworks, not hiding the numbers. Right?
The biggest part of the savings came from the crash in natural gas prices, but the 27% increase in wind generation capacity and 10% increase in solar generation capacity aren't to be sneezed at either.
Maybe they just don't want to talk about the outages back in January and April 2024 when their much-vaunted natural gas generation didn't show up for work because it was cold outside. Cold, in Alberata, in the winter. Who knew?
I see they're still trying to hide that the grid stayed up because of renewables (including imports from Manitoba (via Saskatchewan), BC and Montana) and battery storage when natural gas plants failed. The hero in this story is renewables: low-cost electricity that is more reliable than their natural gas fleet.
AESO 2024 Annual Market Statistics - March 2025 (AESO)

2025.04.03 Rules don't apply to oil and gas sector in Canada. How about no new pipelijes until fossil foolers clean up the abandoned pipes?

[BC] Provincial agency exempted oil and gas giant from rules for timely pipeline deactivation (Times Colonist)

2025.04.03 The 2024 tally is about $11 billion higher than 2023. Industry profits were also up. Think there's a connection?

This isn't a fledgling sector that needs an incubator.
Feds supported fossil fuel sector to the tune of nearly $30 billion last year (National Observer)

2025.04.02 Actually, it's the U.S.-owned Postmedia group, posing as being Canadian, which is wrong on this one.

EDITORIAL: Carney's wrong on pipeline law (Postmedia)
IF the oil industry thinks there is a market for western oil and gas in eastern Canada, then they should stop whining and with the program to build it. Themselves. Not another TMX paid for by taxpayers exclusively for export markets and fattening oil industry profits and no benefits to Canadian consumers. And they can't even keep the TMX running at capacity. So they don't need more oil pipeline capacity now. West coast LNG is just coming online now, so they don't need more gas pipeline capacity either, and they certainly won't have enough to justify a big pipe eastward. Trump may be saying drill, baby, drill, but the Permian field is depleting hard now, so where will the U.S. be drilling? Alaska? That's not going to get to eastern Canada.
Nope, it's not time for another taxpayer-funded pipeline from Alberta to anywhere. For energy security in eastern Canada, it's time to shift to homegrown energy. Biofuel (wood waste, canola, algae ...) and electricity from renewable sources, including energy storage in hydro reservoirs, like wind, solar and geothermal. Shift to electrical energy for building heating (heat pumps are amazing), transportation (road, rail, inland waterways), steel-making and other big energy makers, just like most aluminum smelting is done with electricity today.
However, if the fossil foolers want to keep their pipeline fever dreams alive in Canada, it's time for them to act like private sector investors the pretend to be and put the money up themselves with no taxpayer bailouts or loan guarantees or carriage subsidies or other subsidies.

2025.04.01 Fossil fuels sector pranks Canadians, who celebrate the end of climate change action by its federal government (end of 'carbon tax') like it's a win.

Calgarians celebrate end of consumer carbon tax: "It's a nice change"
The world is experiencing record heat - this is why it's about to get worse (Canadian Press)
What they actually 'won' is higher costs for housing, insurance, environmental damage ... and lower future incomes.
Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows
Congratulations, you just gave up the one way you could have been paid to make the planet survivable through your own actions. Instead, you just signed up for the oil industry / Conservative Party of Canada plan of life-long indentureship to oil profiteers, and you're not going to keep lower prices for long - the oil industry will gouge you harder now.

2025.04.01 No joke, despite the publication date. Why are taxpayers filling fossil fuel industry coffers?

Subsidizing fossil fuels: The problem with fossil fuel subsidies (Castanet) (column 1 of 3)
(In case you care about your personal budget, $52 billion in subsidies in 2023 was $1300 each, or over $5,000 for a family of four - after taxes - in just one year. Good thing the government gave that to the oil industry, and not you - right?

2025.03.30 It's only about food, and having enough to feed North Americans, so what Britney Spears is wearing is certainly more newsworthy.

'Sobering statistic:' One-fifth of pollinators in North America at extinction risk (Canadian Press)

2025.03.28 Even after we melt all the glaciers, sea level rise will continue as water expands as it warms.

Weatherwatch: warmer water drives higher-than-expected rise in sea level (The Guardian)

2025.03.28 Kingston ON making progress: City GHG emissions have dropped 19% from 2018 to 2023, while population grew.

Climate change actions the key to Kingston's future (Whig Standard)

2025.03.27 Imagine what a story Canada could tell if our largest emitter - fossil fuels production - could take emissions seriously.

Canada's greenhouse gas emissions edge down in 2023, among lowest totals since 1990s (Canadian Press)
The government information release
Spoiler: of the total 694 MT reported, 208 MT came from oil and gas production, and 157 MT came from transportation (which is primarily burning fossil fuels), and 85 MT came from buildings, which would include space and water heating using fossil fuels.
Fossil fuels production and transportation (mostly fossil fuels) accounted for 365 MT, or 53% of the total.
Really looks like the wrong time to remove the price from GHG emissions. We should be accelerating the transition off fossil fuel dependency. More renewable energy, more storage, more EVs (there are brands other than Tesla).

2025.03.27 Another Trump (47) / Project 2025 legacy our children and grandchildren will suffer. It won't respect borders.

US could see return of acid rain due to Trump's rollbacks, says scientist who discovered it (The Guardian)

2025.03.25 If we just install enough low-cost renewable energy - with storage - we can dispense with a lot of fossil fuel use

Geothermal & Heat Pumps Are Quietly Undermining Fossil Industrial Heat (CleanTechnica)

2025.03.25 Same old methane emissions playbook: they're too small to be worth measuring, until we actually measure them.

Methane emissions from Queensland mine may be gross underestimates, UN research finds (The Guardian)

2025.03.24 Recharged using solar panels, and cutting previous transit time in half, with renewable electricity in the parking lots for EV charging.

Germany's first fully electric ferry offers carbon neutral service (seaWORK.com)

2025.03.20 Energy East and GNL Quebec were never about supplying the eastern Canadian markets; they were about exports.

Energy East, GNL Quebec could have diverted billions in Canadian energy to other markets: report (CTV News)

In the current CAPP-induced pipeline fever, it's worth remembering the point was never to supply 'the eastern bastards' with low cost Canadian oil or natural gas. It was about getting oil to the Irving refinery to supply the established U.S. market for refined oil products.

However, if the fossil fuel industry wants to pay for a pipeline itself, there are Canadian markets worth exploring, such as going north of Lake Superior for security purposes and supplying natural gas to the Ontario Ring of Fire, and displacing fracked U.S. gas in southern Ontario. Perhaps even an LNG terminal on the St.Lawrence in Eastern Ontario (assuming Quebec sticks to its no pipelines stance).Canadian taxpayers should not pay for another unacknowledged gift to Alberta like the TMX pipeline (swelling the profits of foreign oil companies) now well over $50,000,000,000.00. If the majority of Canadians are going to pay for another inter-provincial energy project that won't be functional before 2040, in needs to be forward looking. That means affordable renewable energy, storage and a secure, inter-provincial transmission network designed for the consequences of climate change like extreme temperatures, floods, wildfires, avalanches, tornadoes and hurricanes and other infrastructure like roads, rail lines and airports being damaged beyond immediate use.

This approach actually makes a lot of economic sense, and especially for Canadian taxpayers.
There is an alternative to trying to pipeline our way out of Trump's crisis - Canada should invest in green infrastructure, energy and transportation to help people today and to build a better future. (Policy Options 2025.03.24)
And if Trump's plan is to drive renewables investment out of the U.S., Canada should welcome those investors here to build a stronger, sustainable economy based on lower-cost, domestically produced, local energy creating jobs across the country.
Clean Energy Investors Can Take Their Money Anywhere (CleanTechnica 2025.03.24)
Locally produced renewable energy is the right call. (Winnipeg Free Press 2025.03.25)
Eastern Canada needs electricity to run industry and households. Heat energy can be from heat pumps as easily as it is from fracked natural gas imported from the U.S. into Ontario. Vehicles can run on electricity instead of gasoline and diesel, at much lower cost of operation. We have the technology available now. The transition makes simple economic and financial sense, even before we get the end-fossil-subsidies dividend as taxpayers. And, as an added bonus, we will reduce air, water, soil and noise pollution, and maybe beat climate change back enough that our grandkids might get to live on a survivable planet (that's this one; any other proposition is fantasy).

2025.03.20 Speaking of EV battery second life and recycling ...

Dead EV batteries get 15-year life boost with Nissan-Stena recycling breakthrough (Interesting Engineering)

2025.03.20 Even including the resources consumed in battery production, on average, Canadian EVs have up to 77% lower emissions than fossil fuel models

EVs have lower lifetime emissions than gas cars: study
And there is no recycling or second life for GHG emissions from vehicle tailpipes

2025.03.20 As I started saying decades ago, EVs are the Killer App for Smart Grids. Now, if only we had smart managers running utilities ...

Dutch EV charging trial shows peak congestion shift potential (Smart Energy International)

2025.03.19 50 MWh battery will allow all-electric ship to save 3,000 kg of fuel per 100 nautical miles

10 basketball court-sized? World's largest electric cargo ship sets sail (Interesting Engineering)

2025.03.19 Chinese researchers found a way to extract all the lithium from a dead battery for reuse.

Nearly 100% Of Lithium Recycled In Latest EV Battery Breakthrough (Inside EVs)

2025.03.18 For those of you who can't wait 10 minutes for an EV to recharge, BYD has now hit the 5-minute mark. Now, what's your next "an EV won't work for me issue"?

If it's about "all those batteries going to landfill" or "there's not enough lithium", see the item above.
BYD's New 'Megawatt' EV Charging Is So Fast It Makes Gas Irrelevant (Inside EVs)

2025.03.14 Serving up beef with a side of disinformation since 1989 - the U.S. beef industry

The American beef Industry understood its climate impact decades ago (Inside Climate news)

2025.03.14 Another view of what climate change looks like in the early stages

U.S. insurance giant seeks 22% premium hike for homeowners after LA fires (National Observer)

2025.03.14 Implementing BIPV on new builds would reduce costs by making the PV part of the roof structure, and provide revenue.

Covering every roof with solar could supply 2/3 of global electricity - study (electrek)

2025.03.14 Will NASA be disbanded before it can provide its next annual report?

NASA Reports Sea Levels Rose by 'Unexpected' Amount in Earth's Hottest Year (sciencealert)

2025.03.12 Grid defection. A for-profit utility will never get this account now.

Business owner refuses power company's $200,000 demand: 'I can figure that out' (TCD)

2025.03.12 The UK closes its last coal-fired power station.

Analysis: UK emissions fall 3.6% in 2024 as coal use drops to lowest since 1666 (CarbonBrief)

2025.03.12 Electricity which happens to be cheap, fast to deploy (months), zero-emissions, massively scalable, and avoids U.S. tariff tantrums.

So, why does Doug Ford hate it? Is it because he has a side deal with purveyors of non-existent nuclear reactors and U.S. based fossil natural gas? It's the best explanation I have, because his approach to the electricity file is screwing Ontario taxpayers and ratepayers.
Ontario doesn't need much additional storage for this, as we have massive hydro reservoirs for storage. The exception is Ottawa and eastern Ontario which OPG has ignored for decades, and needs more generation or transmission capacity or both. But adding renewables like wind and solar and battery storage could overcome all that at a lower cost than more nukes with no waste disposal plan or GHG-emitting, imported natural gas.
Ontario, please purchase the lowest-cost electricity (National Observer)

2025.03.11 Now, if provincial premiers, Canada could accelerate zero-GHG, zero-fuel-cost, non-tariffed electricity generation.

The world regulated sulfur in ship fuels - and the lightning stopped (The Conversation)

2025.03.10 Now, if provincial premiers, Canada could accelerate zero-GHG, zero-fuel-cost, non-tariffed electricity generation.

Canada deploys 314 MW of solar in 2024 (PV magazine)

2025.03.10 Climate change could make the upper atmosphere less stable, affecting the orbits of satellites, more space debris

Climate change could even make Earth's orbit a mess: study (Global News)

2025.03.10 Yes, that Texas. Oil and gas country. But they know a good deal when they see one. No tariffs on wind and sunlight.

Renewables Set New Records In Texas (CleanTechnica)
But if the fossils in the Texas state legislature get their way, taxpayers will once again subsidize the oil and gas industry to increase pollution.

2025.03.07 While Canada appears wedded to making the same hydrogen mistakes, again and again, Europe embraces the winning solution - electric buses

The End of Diesel: Europe's Buses Are Going Fully Electric - Fast (CleanTechnica)

2025.03.07 It would appear the U.S. economy is so bad, that the U.S. government now has to renege on past international financial commitments.

US exits fund that compensates poorer countries for global heating (The Guardian)

2025.03.07 Assuming you trust any voluntary carbon credits model, this initiative should also improved indoor air quality.

Global Carbon Standards Body ICVCM Approves Three Clean Cookstove Methods

2025.03.06 If we work together, we can accomplish big things.

Top scientists confirm Antarctica's ozone hole is actually recovering and could completely disappear (UNILAD)

2025.03.06 Sure, keep talking about climate change to piss off Trump, but do we really care about keeping a livable planet?

World must stick to climate goals despite US, UK envoy says (Reuters)

2025.03.03 Parts of EU flirt with free electricity due to renewables,

U.S. consumers will see record prices due to dependence on nuclear, coal, natural gas and tariffed imports from Canada.
Northwest Europe Power Prices Plunge Below Zero on Strong Solar Output (Oilprice.com)

2025.03.02 This is also climate change.

Wildfire season is changing in Canada - posing even greater risks to the nation’s communities and ecosystems (The Conversation)

2025.03.02 Wind turbines don't have to be big, they just have to be installed where wind blows, and storage can be implemented.

North America's largest wind turbines head for construction in Nova Scotia (National Observer)
If NS installs enough wind power WITH STORAGE to make it dispatchable power, it could end its reliance on imported coal and reduce its GHG emissions by kilotonnes CO2e annually.

2025.03.02 Let me help. No, nuclear fission SMRs won't be ready before 2040, but they will produce nuclear waste.

NB Power CEO now 'unsure' if first SMR will be ready by 'late 2030s' (Telegraph-Journal)
What you need to know is that SMRs ("Small Modular Reactors") are not small (typically around 300 MW or about half the size of a Pickering reactor, not 'modular' as they have to be assembled on-site, and none of the candidates are even close to prototype stage yet (the first design in Canada is strictly just on 'paper' so far, and has just begun review by the CNSC). Canada has never built a fission power reactor in under a decade, let alone commissioned one and licensed it for operation, even starting from a previously built model. By comparison, a photovoltaic array could be in operation in months, and big wind turbines within a year of approvals. Oh right, I missed the years it will take to get provincial and community approvals for a new, unproven nuclear fission reactor. 2040? Try 2050.

2025.03.01 Not new tech. MEC (in Canada) has been using this since 2016 (https://takeactionburlington.ca/2016/07/05/mec-burlington-wins-the-mayors-green-business-award/)

These buildings use batteries made of ice to stay cool and save money (MSN)

2025.03.01 Another, lower cost source for lithium. EV batteries keep getting better and less expensive.

Scientists discover innovative method to extract critical material from salt water - and it could make electric cars more affordable (Yahoo)

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