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Cleantech Needs A Defense From Burial In Bullshit

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Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 15:13:30 +0000

The last couple of weeks has been a whirlwind. Fortunately, at least for my own mental health, I was taking some time off to prep an older truck for transportation duty while I started the long process of building an electric Suburban. But, that doesn’t mean I wasn’t checking in … [continued]

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A Key Reason Why Our Society Is Polluted With Misinformation Today

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Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2025 03:13:45 +0000

I was working on some homework today with my daughter who’s in 2nd grade. It came after a couple of days of trying to figure out how smart people are so effectively fooled by misinformation, and don’t see the threat of massive misinformation networks (i.e., X, Facebook, etc.). The homework … [continued]

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How AI Feeds The Clean Energy Misinformation Machine

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Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:26:19 +0000

Social media has become an increasingly powerful tool for disseminating misinformation about clean energy. A growing number of Facebook groups, influencers, and various online forums make a living by spreading mis- and disinformation about renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and hydroelectric power. Safiya Umoja Noble, an AI expert at … [continued]

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The Contrarian: Journalism Is An Antidote To Cowardly Media Outlets

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Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:13:47 +0000

Journalism is under attack like never before in America. Several journalists have responded by creating new media channels.

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Wildfire Climate Misinformation Is Rampant, And Social Media Platforms Are Promoting It

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Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 04:47:44 +0000

Devastating consequences of the climate crisis are being submerged by climate misinformation messengers, who are persuaded by a self-serving but very powerful minority to mistrust scientific evidence. In many cases such disbelief emerges from social media affordances, which could actually be tapped as a source for rapid public information dissemination … [continued]

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Redefining Energy 2025 Predictions: Transportation, Energy, Electricity, & Investments

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Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:41:33 +0000

For years, Laurent Segalen and Gerard Reid have had an annual predictions episode, where they rank the previous year’s predictions and make new ones. Last year I joined them and made a couple of predictions of my own, and now the annual episode is out. Here it is with a … [continued]

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Bill McKibben Celebrates 2024: Climate Successes Can Motivate Us In 2025

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Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 14:18:30 +0000

Many climate activists are turtling right now with the pressing reminder that the US executive office is about to be filled by a climate denier, supported by a Congress that has shown little spark to advance new, serious clean energy legislation. Yet climate activist and Gandhi Peace Award winner Bill … [continued]

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What Happens Now with Clean Energy, EVs, & the US Economy? (VIDEO)

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Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 02:43:55 +0000

In this video episode of CleanTech Talk, Scott Cooney and I discuss the current state of climate action, reflecting on US policies of the past 16 years, the achievements of the Biden administration, the challenges ahead, leadership from other major economies, and more. We explore the importance of local politics … [continued]

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Canadian Transit Think Tank CUTRIC Chooses Inaccuracy, Irrelevancy, & Attack

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Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 13:06:13 +0000

Over the past three weeks, I’ve been assessing various aspects of the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium’s (CUTRIC) positions, research, and publications on transit bus decarbonization. I’ve published ten articles directly about CUTRIC’s material and reports, or closely related and with serious implications for their claims that both … [continued]

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