Oct 17, 2024 Climate change indicators now climate catastrophe indicators. All still getting worse faster. Now carbon sinks decline. All being ignored. No action and no demand for action, so […]
It’s time to switch off generators and turn on resilient, safe renewables
The destructive storms of the recent past are hard to forget: 2005: Katrina. 2012: Sandy. 2017: Harvey, Irma, and Maria. 2022: Fiona, Ian, Nicole — and possibly more to come. […]
Solar Community in Ft. Myers, FL Never Lost Power During Hurricane Ian
Babcock Ranch calls itself “America’s first solar-powered town.” Its nearby solar array — made up of 700,000 individual panels — generates more electricity than the 2,000-home neighborhood uses, in a state where […]
Stormy Weather
Scientists say global warming is likely to fuel more intense storms. But earlier projections of an overall drop in the number of storms are not holding up. BY BOB BERWYN, […]
Get Ready for More, Longer Blackouts
By mid-Monday morning, storms sweeping north from the Gulf Coast had left more than 1.3 million out of power in the U.S. Under normal circumstances, this would have called for […]