Grid asks factories to use less energy next winter under blackout prevention plan

This move is, to all intents and purposes, rationing. And the reason is quite clear – the closure of nearly all of our coal power capacity.

Electric Vehicles: Arthur Berman, Pedro Prieto, & Simon Michaux | Reality Roundtable #1

Are current EV initiatives taking a science-based systems approach towards this massive economic, environmental, and cultural shift or are they rooted in energy blindness?

Epic Fail in America’s Heartland: Climate Models Greatly Overestimate Corn Belt Warming

My continuing theme has been, “don’t believe gloom and doom forecasts for the future of the U.S. Corn Belt”.

The Real Story About a “Melting” Mount Rainier

Most of the loss has been natural and occurred before human-forced global warming could have been significant.

Watch: UN Chief claims fossil fuels are ‘incompatible with human survival’

“The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions. It’s fossil fuels – period.”

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