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Hurricane Damage In The Blue Ridge Mountains Shows Us Why We Fight

November 1, 2024 admin Appalachia, climate change, hurricanes

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:14:33 +0000

When it comes to sheer altitude, the western mountains of the United States are hard to beat. In North America, they’re the tallest, and even in the Americas, the larger American Cordillera that runs from Alaska to Antarctica has the tallest mountains on both continents. Depending on how you measure … [continued]

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7 Huge Reasons Donald Trump Should Not Be President Again

October 31, 2024 admin air quality, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, climate change, Democrats, Donald Trump, Electric vehicles, ev charging, kamala harris, policy & politics, Republicans, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 21:47:06 +0000

It’s shocking that 70 people would vote for Donald Trump for president of the United States a second time around, let alone 70 million. Unfortunately, we are completely awash with misinformation and information echo chambers these days. We are not living in a shared reality in the United States — … [continued]

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New Flyer Bus OEM Has Its Strategy Wrong & Will Lose Market Share

October 30, 2024 admin byd, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric buses, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, ev sales, fuel cell, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, new flyer

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:45:58 +0000

New Flyer is the leading provider of transit buses in North America. It’s also the leading provider of hydrogen buses in North America, which is a problem for it, although it feels like an opportunity. That’s where the bad strategy comes in. As always when I talk about strategy — … [continued]

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What Does A One-In-A-1000 Year Storm Look Like — And Will We Be Seeing Them More Frequently?

October 29, 2024 admin climate change, events, Fossil Fuels, hurricanes

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 03:15:16 +0000

Hurricanes have always been taken seriously by residents who live on coastlines. After all, there are historical precedents that make clear how much damage can accrue from a hurricane’s wrath. What’s not so well understood is how what used to be referred to as a one-in-1000 year storm generates wind … [continued]

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UN Report Predicts 3.1°C Average Global Temperature Increase By 2100

October 29, 2024 admin climate change, global heating, green economy, policy & politics, research, SCIENCE, un environment programme

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:02:27 +0000

The 1.5°C target set in Paris in 2015 was only possible if the nations of the world all worked together to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But, of course, they didn’t. They focused instead on building military weapons and extracting more oil and gas from more places. In other words, … [continued]

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Many Of The Planet’s Vital Signs Have Reached Record Levels Due To Climate Change

October 29, 2024 admin climate change, Fossil Fuels, global weirding, SCIENCE, UN

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 00:41:02 +0000

Global leaders have promised to reduce their country’s fossil fuel consumption since the 2105 Paris Agreement. Yet, according to a United Nations report issued on Thursday, countries have essentially made no progress in cutting emissions and tackling global warming. The planet’s vital signs are weakening, to the point that countries … [continued]

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Global Warming Is Real, So What Can We Do About It?

October 28, 2024 admin climate change

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:42:02 +0000

Is Global Warming Happening? When people ask if global warming is real, I cite my NASA experience and the images from space that we used to illustrate global warming. The prime suspects were the satellite images which showed a half ice-free Arctic Ocean in the late summer of 2007, 2011, … [continued]

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Bill Gates’ Energy Group, Former Google CEO Investing in Pacific Fusion Startup

October 28, 2024 admin Bill Gates, Business, California, climate change, engineering, eric schmidt, google, Management, news, Nuclear, pacific fusion, power, Research and Development, Silicon Valley, startup, Technology

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 13:52:08 +0000

A fusion energy company that counts executives such as Eric Schmidt and Bill Gates among its backers has emerged from stealth, announcing $900 million in pledged funding. Pacific Fusion, whose […]

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Advancing Carbon Capture: Supreme Court Ruling and Innovative Solutions for Reducing Emissions

October 28, 2024 admin Carbon Capture, climate change, Coal, Commentary, emissions, Gas, power, Research and Development, Supreme Court, Technology

Credit to Author: Samir Adams| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:50:10 +0000

As global efforts intensify to mitigate climate change, carbon capture has emerged as a vital technology to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Power generation, a major source of global carbon dioxide […]

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The Real Danger Of Politicizing Everything

October 28, 2024 admin climate change, global weirding, meteorologists, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:50:08 +0000

Recently, a fellow writer here told us about the death threats that meteorologists are facing. In a time when politics has wormed its way into everything, enlightened discussions about public policy in the face of a global threat get swept out of the way in favor of hatred, disinformation, and … [continued]

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