2020

California needs batteries. When California is on fire, it needs batteries that can keep a home, a hospital, a fire station, a senior center running longer than the four-hour standard of lithium-ion.
“What's happened that's brought this to bear has…

Unsustainable Energy Production Will Stop, BP Projects

The longer society waits to address climate change, the more likely climate will change society, according to BP’s chief economist Spencer Dale. The human tendency toward procrastination is just one of the scenarios Dale attempts to model when…

How To Read BP’s Projection Of Energy Rationing

BP’s “Delayed and Disorderly” scenario for the energy sector suggests that energy rationing may be necessary to prevent climate catastrophe, but that doesn’t mean BP expects energy rationing to take place.
“If you can't reduce reductions by energy…

Scientists Dissect The Tactics Of Climate Delayers

With climate change increasingly difficult to deny, those who would do nothing about it have turned to delay.
European scientists last month catalogued what they call the “Four Discourses of Climate Delay”—arguments that facilitate continued…

If the United States elects a new president in November, he or she will encounter a world more united and adamant in support of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
That unity and ardour stems from U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to withdraw…

A spate of recent shark attacks off Australia may have the government on the warpath against sharks again, but a famous Australian shark-attack survivor says conserving sharks is tantamount to saving humanity.
Three fatal shark attacks have occurred…