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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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What makes Al Gore hopeful: Tech innovation, science-based targets and the racial 'awakening'

GreenBiz

A global coalition fronted by former Vice President Al Gore promises granular insights and data into those sources — down to individual power plants, ships or factories. The consequences of that imbalance are felt in water cycle disruptions, sea-level rises, far stronger storms and the spread of tropical diseases northward, he noted.

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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about rising levels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sea level rise by the end of the century. He helped develop the fusion bomb, which is immensely more powerful than even the atomic bomb.

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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

Despite the region’s shrinking wetlands, the government continues to permit new LNG export facilities on the Gulf Coast , and is encouraging hydrogen and carbon capture sequestration developments , though they too will lead to further land loss.

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How Big Oil Rigs the System to Keep Winning

DeSmogBlog

In 19 articles that became a widely read book, History of the Standard Oil Company , published in 1904, she exposed its unsavory practices. That didn’t come until the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring. Ida Tarbell is one of the most celebrated investigative journalists in American history.