West Virginians Could Get Stuck Cleaning Up the Coal Industry’s Messes The state’s program for reclaiming abandoned coal mines has long been plagued with problems, but state and federal officials have done little to prepare for this reckoning.
The state’s program for reclaiming abandoned coal mines has long been plagued with problems, but state and federal officials have done little to prepare for this reckoning.
With climate deniers running the entire state government, this seems fitting. But Texas voters won't connect the dots, and Republicans will continue to keep an iron grip on the state.
Texas rates have increased 22% on average so far in 2023, twice the national rate. More billion-dollar disasters have occurred in Texas this year than any other year on record.
The exceptional heat of 2023 really stands out when we look at absolute temperature rather than anomalies:
It is now official: November was the warmest November on record by a wide margin in the JRA-55 dataset, beating the prior record set in 2020 by 0.3C. November 2023 was 1.6C above preindustrial levels, and the year-to-date temperatures are 1.4C above preindustrial.
"We’re now approaching the tipping point, where renewables overtake demand growth and start displacing coal, oil, and gas. This would mark the beginning of the end for the fossil economy." #climate#cop28leahy.substack.com/p/good-news-...
COP28 🧵 /9 Dr @jvipondmd.bsky.socialbsky.app/profile/jvip...
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I mean. From a climate perspective, what's the difference? NOCs and IOCS both use similar greenwashing tactics, both have precisely the same mode of delay and demand preservation schemes. Exxon and Saudi Arabia got revealed as attacking EVs and promoting combustion cars in nearly identical stings!
Christiana Figueres: “‘[Al Jaber’s] peers are not Exxon Mobil, Total, Shell, BP. His peers are state-owned oil companies,’ she says. … ‘I do think it's very interesting that we keep on focusing on the publicly traded companies that are only 25% of the production.’” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
“Implementation doesn't happen as the result of negotiation in negotiation halls,” says former COP organizer Christiana Figueres on the latest Zero.
Fantastic podcast: David @drvolts.bsky.social@solarchase.bsky.socialpodcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM...
Jenny Chase has led a team analyzing the business of solar power for almost 20 years now; she's also the author of a fantastic introductory book on the subject. I called her to check in on the state o...
