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Transcript: Children like to teach adults all kinds of things. Spiro: “We all know the kid who can name all the dinosaurs or list all the presidents, or will talk endlessly with you about football, dance or gymnastics or their passion.” Ruth Spiro is a children's writer. Her new book, “How to Explain Climate Science to Adults,” encourages children to add climate change to this list. In this book, a child teaches a man how to burn fossil fuels to generate carbon pollution to energy and make the climate warm. Children also point out the effects of warming – for…

The Trump administration is suing state plans to Michigan and Hawaii for oil companies to raise their alleged role in causing global warming and environmental damage. [emphasis, links added] Federal prosecutors said in a complaint filed late Wednesday that the two states’ planned actions against the oil and gas industry will directly resist the Trump administration’s efforts to promote domestic energy production, enforce federal emissions laws and conduct diplomatic affairs. The state’s lawsuit refers to blaming oil companies for weather-related damages that could weaken and bankrupt the companies, posing an existential threat to the industry. The unexpected complaints clearly show…

A massive power outage has caused Western Europe to have a multi-million dollar range in the dark, raising concerns among energy experts that the incident originated or worsened by excessive dependence on renewable energy sources. [emphasis, links added] The power outage on Monday ruined communications, causing some water services to fail, shut down trains, stopping electronic payments and ATM transactions, interfering traffic, and stranded passengers around Spain, Portugal and France. According to energy policy experts spoke to by the Daily News Foundation, Europe’s dependence on renewable energy makes grids more vulnerable to such disturbances. The grid failure that began in…

Its prime minister said renewable energy had nothing to do with the catastrophic blackout in Spain, but insisted that the real culprit was a rare technological failure that had nothing to do with the country's green energy transition. [emphasis, links added] Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez went further, reiterating the government's opposition to nuclear energy, which he said was not a solution. But, as I pointed out on Monday The root cause of the power outage is the lack of “inertia,” a physical buffer provided by traditional power plants that use heavy rotating machinery to stabilize the grid during sudden fluctuations.…

Transcript: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has a wide variety of coral arrays that create homes for animals like fish and sea turtles. As a popular tourist destination, the reef also provides billions of dollars to the Australian economy. But last year, a month-long ocean heat wave destroyed many corals in the Great Barrier Reef. Maria Byrne is a marine biologist at the University of Sydney. Bourne: “It's been warming all the time. … The heating is very intense.” Corals contain special algae that provide them with color and food. But when the ocean is too hot, corals lose those algae…

The Trump administration has withdrawn from a group of scientists and researchers to engage in federal assessments of the impact of climate change, citing the need to reassess its approach to the project. [emphasis, links added] Climate scientists and environmental groups said Tuesday that the move to dismiss participants in the report called the National Climate Assessment has raised doubts about the review of the future, which Congress has called for for the past three decades. Researchers involved in the sixth national climate assessment received an email on Monday stating: “Currently, the scope of NCA6 is currently being re-evaluated under…

Planning a vacation in Hawaii? It may be earlier than later, as local lawmakers are ready to impose taxes on travelers staying in hotels, vacation rentals and other short-term accommodations. [emphasis, links added] The Associated Press reported that the first impostor would designate the driver of funding for plans to combat “climate change,” while politicians are responsible for pointing out that wildfires destroyed Hawaii's wildfires in 2023 to prove that something must be done. National leaders highlighted projects such as replenishing sand on eroding beaches, helping homeowners install hurricane clips on their roofs, and using invasive grass as a starting…

In recent editorial Mountain The author claims that “climate change may give American corn growers, insurance companies: Researching a huge blow”, claiming that climate change will lead to a sharp increase in crop insurance claims: 22% growth by 2030 and 29% growth by the middle of the century. [emphasis, links added] The existing evidence refutes this claim. There are no data that corn crop losses are or will increase due to changes in climatic conditions. These terrible predictions are based on flawed models, untested assumptions, and over-reliance on speculative climate scenarios, rather than actually observed corn production data, which have…

Despite the promise of stopping and focusing on transitional technologies in 2021, China is still building new coal power generation capacity abroad. According to a new report from the climate think tank global energy monitor China participates in 88% of the new coal capacity projects in the new BRICS countries member. [emphasis, links added] “While President Xi Jinping promised to end support for overseas coal projects, Chinese companies are supporting 7.7 GW of new coal, almost all found in Indonesia,” said the global energy custody company. However, China also supports a large number of transitional capacity, accounting for about half…

Energy Minister Chris Wright implored European countries to reject the “climate shock” and instead rebirth of natural gas and nuclear power as parts of the continent continue to face widespread grid blackouts. [emphasis, links added] Speaking at the Global Energy Conference in Poland on Monday night, Wright said Europe's net zero policy will shift from oil and gas to wind sources, such as wind and solar, to fight global warming, posing a threat to economic prosperity and national security. According to Wright, European leaders should choose a path that ensures energy rich, safe, affordable and reliable. “The other side of…