Wash Post: ‘How Elon Musk backed away from his climate crusade’ – ‘Once one of America’s outspoken voices on the threat of climate change, Musk now argues these existential risks have been overstated’

But the paragraph about global warming is no longer required in Tesla’s power point decks and climate change has plummeted on Musk’s list of priorities: In an August live stream…

Got Climate Questions?  Try “Ask NYT Climate”

As we all know, climate questions can be tricky and the answers are often controversial.  Luckily, we have access to the New York Times’ feature titled Ask NYT Climate.

Applying Scale and Context to the Texas Smokehouse Creek Fire

The purpose of scale is to provide context. A 1 million acre wildfire is big. In the Texas panhandle, it killed two people, destroyed dozens of homes and caused nearly…

Comment on Cobb, 2024

By Andy May The featured image for this post is from Angela Wheeler at the CO2 Coalition, used with permission. This post is a comment on Cobb, 2024, the paper…

Rate Inflation in New England (perils of political electricity)

The Orr, Rolling, and Lewis study documents the staggering costs for New England residents’ decarbonization plans. This joins a two-year study by ISO-NE estimating the need for 97 GW of…

ESG ‘vibe’ check: ‘Stock market investors are pulling a record amount of cash out of climate funds’ – ‘The main driver of the exodus is bad vibes’

Stock market investors are pulling a record amount of cash out of climate funds, even though many have not underperformed.