Wind and solar + batteries are eating the lunch of gas-fired power plants in the US new data shows.

Out of 2.6 TW of energy projects seeking grid connections in the US gas accounts for just 2.6% of potential additions.

HT Nick Hedley

theprogressplaybook.com/2024/04/17/in-…

How in the ever-loving fuck do we live in a country where David McBride goes to jail for years yet this violent, nasty, misogynist prick … doesn’t?

Texas has been inundated w/ weeks of rain - (30”+) in a month N of Houston. Tonight tornadoes and a derecho. The storms are riding the edge of the huge heat dome across Central America, helping power the severe weather. Same dome that brought big early season heat to S FL.

Congratulations to the Walkley Foundation for taking a stand against fossil fuel sponsors!“Businesses across the news, entertainment & music industry should follow suit & clean up their act. Dirty money should not fund the future of Australia’s arts industry” - Amanda McKenzie.

Good morning with good news: Renewables could generate 40% of global electricity as soon as 2028 (up from 30% in 2023)!

China's Q1 2024 wind & solar additions jumped 40%, after China installed ~300 GW of W&S in 2023.

The chart below of global RE additions is likely low!

Little penguins at risk of vanishing from WA island as once-thriving colony reduced to 120 birds dlvr.it/T70MNJ

Vehicle efficiency standards have been in the too hard basket for twenty years.

Australia and Russia have been the only major economies without them.

That changed yesterday. The Albanese Government got it done.

More choices, cheaper to run cars and lower emissions will be

Can you imagine the line to see it now? People will be queued up to laugh at #MonaGina .

How humiliating for her.

“World leaders” South Australia and California agree to collaborate on final stretch to 100% renewables.

#renewables #climate
reneweconomy.com.au/world-leaders-…

Nearly 63% of the world's coral is suffering from 'crazy' hot ocean water in a global bleaching event that is nearing record levels. World oceans have now set heat records 13 months in a row. One scientist: We're watching an ecosystem die in our lifetime apnews.com/article/coral-…

Don't look away. No one will be able to say they did not know what is happening in Ukraine. Few will be able to say they did all they could. It must change.

Number of articles Maggie Haberman wrote or contributed to involving Hillary Clinton’s emails, between 1/1/2015 and 12/31/2016:

265

Number of articles she wrote or contributed to about Biden’s age:

141

Now we know why

Haberman was shilling for Trump & Michael Cohen all along

This is so heartbreaking. We are part of nature. It’s not meant to be this way. There should be mass global protests decades ago.

⚡🚘Not sure if you realised but electric cars have bagged nearly half the new car market in China🇨🇳

'New-energy vehicles', including EVs and PHEVs, reached a record-high 44% of sales in April, up from 34% a year earlier and just 4% in 2020

carbonbrief.org/china-briefing…

One of the world’s biggest zinc mines says gas power is too expensive and too volatile, and is adding wind power to its solar farm to cut costs and stabilise prices reneweconomy.com.au/giant-queensla…

Oh look, the latest BoM climate outlook is out. Cool and normal. Nothing to get alarmed about I'm sure. ....Lets just keep approving new fossil fuel projects.
bom.gov.au/climate/outloo…

Acropora aspera is an abundant staghorn coral on the Great Barrier Reef Dr John Turnbull

I00% of colonies bleached on Heron Is. in Feb-March.

Then they began to die.

By the end of April (3 close-up photos) more than half died, and <10% had regained their colour, so far

In 1982 Exxon's model predicted future CO2 and temp incredibly well. In fact most models have done very well at predicting avg global temp. But there's a very myth that our climate models can't be trusted. I address this + more in today's Climate Classroom wfla.com/weather/climat…

Furniture giant #IKEA to build electric truck charging network at its 10 Australian retail locations to support its growing electric truck fleet thedriven.io/2024/05/17/ike…