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Forget the fog and the nose-so-bright. Santa’s going to need a grounded lightning rod! Thanks to global warming the arctic is experiencing thunderstorms. Lightning is striking within 32 miles of the North Pole. e360.yale.edu/features/arc...
November 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Forget the fog and the nose-so-bright. Santa’s going to need a grounded lightning rod! Thanks to global warming the arctic is experiencing thunderstorms. Lightning is striking within 32 miles of the North Pole. e360.yale.edu/features/arc...
As my 10 year old grandson would say, “we’re cooked!”. We have exceeded the limit of 1.5 degrees on average daily temperature since the pre-industrial age for 12 months. That means most climate models predict irreversible changes which will have dangerous health and financial impacts for humanity.
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
As my 10 year old grandson would say, “we’re cooked!”. We have exceeded the limit of 1.5 degrees on average daily temperature since the pre-industrial age for 12 months. That means most climate models predict irreversible changes which will have dangerous health and financial impacts for humanity.
US emissions from coal are expected to edge up in 2025. But, Trump’s push to revive another dead part of history is not the cause. Economists say the record US exports of LNG is driving up the cost of gas here at home making coal, the most expensive form of energy, look better by comparison.
November 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
US emissions from coal are expected to edge up in 2025. But, Trump’s push to revive another dead part of history is not the cause. Economists say the record US exports of LNG is driving up the cost of gas here at home making coal, the most expensive form of energy, look better by comparison.
At the Thanksgiving dinner table, your uncle is going to say we shouldn’t control our CO2 emissions because China isn’t controlling theirs. Well…they are, for 18 months now. And BTW Uncle, do you leave 🐕 💩 in your lawn cause your neighbor does?
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
At the Thanksgiving dinner table, your uncle is going to say we shouldn’t control our CO2 emissions because China isn’t controlling theirs. Well…they are, for 18 months now. And BTW Uncle, do you leave 🐕 💩 in your lawn cause your neighbor does?
I’m a volunteer with the Sierra Club. We’re trying to figure out how to stop climate change AND environmental racism because they are the same thing. The New York Times thinks I’m “woke”, that I’ve lost my way. Whatever! I’m going to have fun trying! #sierraclub #sierraclubmi
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I’m a volunteer with the Sierra Club. We’re trying to figure out how to stop climate change AND environmental racism because they are the same thing. The New York Times thinks I’m “woke”, that I’ve lost my way. Whatever! I’m going to have fun trying! #sierraclub #sierraclubmi
Thanks to global warming, in 10 years Ann Arbor will feel like Columbus with their spiders and snakes and poisonous nuts. www.wkar.org/wkar-news/20...
November 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Thanks to global warming, in 10 years Ann Arbor will feel like Columbus with their spiders and snakes and poisonous nuts. www.wkar.org/wkar-news/20...
“Under my administration we will be slashing energy and electricity prices by half within 12 months, at a maximum 18 months” - Donald Trump, August 2024. Average electric prices are up 11% from $15.93/kwh to $17.62/kwh since he took office. We’ve got some work to do. #globalwarming
November 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
“Under my administration we will be slashing energy and electricity prices by half within 12 months, at a maximum 18 months” - Donald Trump, August 2024. Average electric prices are up 11% from $15.93/kwh to $17.62/kwh since he took office. We’ve got some work to do. #globalwarming
Your tax dollars at work 🥺😔😞
November 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Your tax dollars at work 🥺😔😞
Pritzker and Illinois are adding 213 MW of community solar. Whitmer and Michigan are adding zero, zilch, nada, nothing. Why? pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/04/i.... #communitysolar
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Pritzker and Illinois are adding 213 MW of community solar. Whitmer and Michigan are adding zero, zilch, nada, nothing. Why? pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/04/i.... #communitysolar
Fossil fuels cause global warming. Global warming causes droughts. Droughts cause dust storms. Dust storms force changes in agriculture, shut down airports and highways, cause the spread of hepatitis and fungus infections and fertilize our surface water causing algae. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Fossil fuels cause global warming. Global warming causes droughts. Droughts cause dust storms. Dust storms force changes in agriculture, shut down airports and highways, cause the spread of hepatitis and fungus infections and fertilize our surface water causing algae. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Since Trump was elected the % of US voters who think we should join the Paris Climate Accord has increased by 6 point, mostly because of support from Republicans.
November 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Since Trump was elected the % of US voters who think we should join the Paris Climate Accord has increased by 6 point, mostly because of support from Republicans.
Trump is forcing Consumers Energy to keep the Campbell coal plant open. It is costing them the equivalent of $120/yr for each of Consumers’ 1.9 million residential customers. That’s a tax to support an energy system that neither the utility nor its customers want. www.cmsenergy.com/investor-rel...
November 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Trump is forcing Consumers Energy to keep the Campbell coal plant open. It is costing them the equivalent of $120/yr for each of Consumers’ 1.9 million residential customers. That’s a tax to support an energy system that neither the utility nor its customers want. www.cmsenergy.com/investor-rel...
AI is thirsty. The simple AI query drinks 2 cups. Some of that is used to cool servers. Most (~80%) is used to generate the electricity to run those servers. Coal, gas and nuclear power plants turn water into steam to move turbines. Solar and wind do not need water. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-water-usage
November 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
AI is thirsty. The simple AI query drinks 2 cups. Some of that is used to cool servers. Most (~80%) is used to generate the electricity to run those servers. Coal, gas and nuclear power plants turn water into steam to move turbines. Solar and wind do not need water. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-water-usage
Dan Scripps, chair of the Michigan PSC, taking notes and hanging on my every word as I warn about the threat that data centers present to our clean energy laws. 😉🤭 Maybe not…the next day we got the announcement about a 1.4 gigawatt data center in Saline that will increase DTE’s load by 25%. 😠😡😤
November 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Dan Scripps, chair of the Michigan PSC, taking notes and hanging on my every word as I warn about the threat that data centers present to our clean energy laws. 😉🤭 Maybe not…the next day we got the announcement about a 1.4 gigawatt data center in Saline that will increase DTE’s load by 25%. 😠😡😤
The Michigan House, with help from @mihousedems, passed a bill package to invest at least $10 million in this speculative technology. $10 million in capital will get you 1 to 2 gigawatts in 10 years. That same investment will get you 3 to 5 gigawatts of solar in 2 years. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
November 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The Michigan House, with help from @mihousedems, passed a bill package to invest at least $10 million in this speculative technology. $10 million in capital will get you 1 to 2 gigawatts in 10 years. That same investment will get you 3 to 5 gigawatts of solar in 2 years. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
Remember when some folks had a seizure about using 400 acres of DNR land near Gaylord for solar? Now some developer wants 1500 acres of DNR land in Kalkaska for a data center. What’s different this time? The monopoly utilities support it. And they drive our politics. upnorthlive.com/news/local/i...
October 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Remember when some folks had a seizure about using 400 acres of DNR land near Gaylord for solar? Now some developer wants 1500 acres of DNR land in Kalkaska for a data center. What’s different this time? The monopoly utilities support it. And they drive our politics. upnorthlive.com/news/local/i...
With the new Corning ingot and wafer manufacturing plant in Hemlock, Michigan, we can now make all the components of solar panels right here in the US of A! It’s time to compete with 🇨🇳!! pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/29/e...
October 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
With the new Corning ingot and wafer manufacturing plant in Hemlock, Michigan, we can now make all the components of solar panels right here in the US of A! It’s time to compete with 🇨🇳!! pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/29/e...
Thanks to global warming, the Winter Olympics are like birdwatching at a zoo. apnews.com/article/clim...
October 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Thanks to global warming, the Winter Olympics are like birdwatching at a zoo. apnews.com/article/clim...
When the 🐱 is away… During the last government shutdown, coal plants increased the release of small particle pollution because they knew the EPA cats had been furloughed. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
October 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
When the 🐱 is away… During the last government shutdown, coal plants increased the release of small particle pollution because they knew the EPA cats had been furloughed. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Governor Whitmer’s Public Service Commission says electricity demand from data centers is “lumpy”. That’s bureaucratic speak for “I can’t protect you from unreasonable increases in your utility bills”. planetdetroit.org/2025/10/data... #michiganpublicservicecommission #governorwhitmer #dte
October 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Governor Whitmer’s Public Service Commission says electricity demand from data centers is “lumpy”. That’s bureaucratic speak for “I can’t protect you from unreasonable increases in your utility bills”. planetdetroit.org/2025/10/data... #michiganpublicservicecommission #governorwhitmer #dte
Ohio has decided it’s too hard to live up to their measly 25% renewable energy standards. They’re going to settle for 5%. Don’t be Ohio. www.wosu.org/2025-10-24/2...
October 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Ohio has decided it’s too hard to live up to their measly 25% renewable energy standards. They’re going to settle for 5%. Don’t be Ohio. www.wosu.org/2025-10-24/2...
@statesencherry thinks Michigan is the perfect place for carbon sequestration. Is he volunteering Flint to have that stuff pumped into their aquifers? Hasn’t Flint had enough trouble with water poisoning? www.thecentersquare.com/michigan/ #flint #flintwatercrisis
October 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
@statesencherry thinks Michigan is the perfect place for carbon sequestration. Is he volunteering Flint to have that stuff pumped into their aquifers? Hasn’t Flint had enough trouble with water poisoning? www.thecentersquare.com/michigan/ #flint #flintwatercrisis
Do you think regulated monopoly utilities should be involved in our politics? In Virginia, Dominion Energy formed an astroturf group, funded them, recruited former employees to be “regular citizens” at public hearings and hired a lobbying firm to train them. insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...
October 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Do you think regulated monopoly utilities should be involved in our politics? In Virginia, Dominion Energy formed an astroturf group, funded them, recruited former employees to be “regular citizens” at public hearings and hired a lobbying firm to train them. insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...
The same utility is raising prices in West Virginia and lowering prices in Virginia. West Virginia requires them to burn coal. Virginia has a renewables standard. 🤔🧐🤨 wvpublic.org/story/energy...
October 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The same utility is raising prices in West Virginia and lowering prices in Virginia. West Virginia requires them to burn coal. Virginia has a renewables standard. 🤔🧐🤨 wvpublic.org/story/energy...
Utility bills are expected to increase by an average of 13% this year. Most people blame profits for utilities. Only 5% blame increased use of solar and wind energy. dataforclimateprogress.substack.com/p/rising-ele...
October 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Utility bills are expected to increase by an average of 13% this year. Most people blame profits for utilities. Only 5% blame increased use of solar and wind energy. dataforclimateprogress.substack.com/p/rising-ele...