Keith Johnson in The Wall Street Journal reports that the governor of Kansas has struck a deal with utility Sunflower (can you believe the name?) that enables them to put up a new 895 MWe (not exactly small, huge actually!) coal plant. Why on earth: And just how does the new coal plant promote renewable [...]
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I didn’t spot it in the local paper but via a Climate Progress post: Australian scientists get desperate and blunt. As announced on Crikey.com, six scientists, including three who are part of IPCC, have written to all the owners of coal-fired plants in this country, in essence challenging them to declare there will be no [...]
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How curious that a book about climate change – Forecast by Stephan Faris – should prove to be uplifting. Partly that is because Faris, a journalist who writes for two of the magazines/websites I read, The Atlantic and Salon, is a stylish, commanding chronicler. But the main reason this intrinsically bleak book encourages one is [...]
Of course Joe Romm at Climate Progress spotted this before I did (thanks!) but just take a look at the 12½-minute 60 Minutes segment (which aired in the United States last night but not here) titled ‘The Dilemma Over Coal Generated Power.’ This is 60 Minutes at its rare best. Reporter Scott Pelley does a superb job [...]
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Calling this site a ‘pilgrimage,’ based mostly on books but also on film, music and, hopefully, art, raises the question: how do I find my way? Best to tackle the matter signpost by signpost. My naive but well-founded belief that the world will turn away from coal out of moral repugnance (see my earlier post) [...]
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Grist pointed me to news from Charlotte, North Carolina. Forty anti-coal protestors were arrested after 300 rallied and marched to Duke Energy’s headquarters. Duke, one of the giants among US utilities, has completed 30% of a new 800-megawatt coal-fired plant. We don’t see many such protests. Here in Australia they’re still small affairs organized by organizations [...]
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In thinking about climate change, one needs to zoom in from the horror beckoning from the endpoints of the scientists’ forecasting models. Like many people, I find the overall subject to be profoundly depressing. The thought that I’m okay but my children and grandchildren will see major planetary change in their lifetimes . . . [...]
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