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And told to pay. The high prices are worth seeing the lib tear drops fall!
He always does.
And told to pay. The high prices are worth seeing the lib tear drops fall!
eventually, he'll be crying too
batteries have been a game changer for renewables
low cost wins
ttps://www.reuters.com/business/energy/global-wind-solar-power-outpace-gas-first-time-april-report-shows-2026-05-20/Wind and solar combined generated more electricity than gas globally in April for the first month ever, data analysed by #UK-based think tank Ember showed on Thursday.
Together, wind and solar generated 22% of global electricity in April, compared with 20% from gas.
https://www.newscientist.com/article...vious-decades/Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades
Global warming has accelerated and is now happening twice as fast as in previous decades, meaning major climate catastrophes could happen sooner than expected.
Earth was warming by about 0.18°C per decade prior to 2013-14. Since then, it has been heating up by about 0.36°C per decade, according to an analysis by Stefan Rahmstorf at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and US statistician Grant Foster.
If warming continues at this rate, humanity could breach the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C in 2028, even sooner than other research has projected.
“Every tenth of a degree matters and makes the impact of global warming worse in terms of extreme weather events, in terms of ecosystem impacts, also the risk of crossing tipping points,” says Rahmstorf. “The world, apart from the US, is trying to halt global warming, reduce it, and that’s why the fact that it’s now actually doing the opposite, accelerating, is of great concern.”
After a string of record-hot years, climate scientists began widely debating in 2023 whether global warming is speeding up. But natural fluctuations, such as the El Niño climate phase, which caused additional warming in 2023 and 2024, made it difficult to tell if the faster rise in temperatures was due to climate change or just random weather.
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a cheaper and cleaner technical base is coming regardless of Trumplandia's nostalgia for king coal
https://www.motherjones.com/politics...id-resilience/For the first time ever, solar is set to generate more electricity than coal in the power market managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Nobody is building new coal power plants in the state, but developers are adding more solar there than anywhere else in the country. As a result of those diverging trajectories, the federal government expects ERCOT will receive 78 billion kilowatt-hours from solar in 2026, and just 60 from coal.
This trend does have seasonal variations. Last year, solar output beat coal on a monthly basis from March through August, and this year it is expected to do so from March through December, per the US Energy Information Administration at the Department of Energy.
thanks, Trump
for kick-starting the green new deal
https://bsky.app/profile/akshatrathi.../3mnheb5s2i22pHistory shows that successive severe shocks tend to drive profound changes to the global energy mix. The scale of the disruption to oil and gas supplies caused by the war in the Middle East is unprecedented, and comes just four years after another crisis precipitated by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This time the shift is likely to be away from fossil fuels and internal combustion engines, and toward renewables and electric devices, as governments and consumers reckon with their vulnerability to volatile prices in an insecure world.
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