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Well, it is over 100 degs outside and the Western US is enduring a heat wave.  It is expected that 300 local heat records will be broken today west of the Mississippi.  Lake Mead, which supplies Las Vegas with water is at 34% of capacity and Nevada and Arizona are now on strict water rationing.  … Read more

Been awhile since my last post and not because there has not been almost daily articles about accelerating melting of permafrost, Greenland and Antarctica’s ice.  No, I have been busy working on my Washington project and getting ready to spend more time up there. I decided that since the project’s timing is such that we … Read more

The Good News: (Biden pledges to reduce US emissions by 52% by 2030) President Biden’s new pledge to slash America’s greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decade is long on ambition and short on specifics, but experts say that success would require rapid and sweeping changes to virtually every corner of the nation’s economy, transforming the way … Read more

Last November, I mentioned that it looked like we were in trouble in regards to a high pressure area that was sitting off the coast of California, pushing all the moisture up to Washington State.  Well, it looks like this continued to be the case and as we end the traditional ‘wet’ season, the west/southwest … Read more

Not to age myself, but there was a movie called Dirty Harry, where Clint Eastwood is a cop who just took down a bunch of bad guys and there is one left who might be desperate enough to see if Clint has one bullet left in his gun and he asks if the guy wants … Read more

I am sure you have all read about how when the sun doesn’t shine or wind stops blowing, that the biggest challenge for a clean renewables based energy grid is storage.  This is, as the title of this blog indicates, the achilles heel of clean energy.  Well, I recently came across a technology that meets … Read more

Just bought and am reading this book by David Pogue – a funny but serious science guy who does a lot of Nova and PBS science specials. One of the reasons we see burst of new technology and things is that those of us in Tech tend to read the same scientific papers.  So, often, … Read more

Europe Leads the Way as Electric Vehicle Revolution Is Underway Around the World Manuel Moerbach  2 hrs ago   Plans for a new electric vehicle revolution over the coming decade are already in full force across many of the major economies in the world. New data shows how Europe is currently leading the transition in replacing … Read more

Urban myth has it that if you put a frog in a pot of boiling water it will instantly leap out. But if you put it in a pot filled with pleasantly tepid water and gradually heat it, the frog will remain in the water until it boils to death. Allegedly, the frog is not … Read more

For those of you who have read my earlier blogs, you know I have mentioned tipping points (permafrost melting) and cumulative vulnerability (sometimes referred to as the sh*t hitting the fan).  Well, another new study has come out (https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/a-major-ocean-current-may-be-hurtling-towards-collapse/ar-BB1dWPCc?li=BBnb7Kz) that talks about the cold water circulation conveyer belt (AMOC) that regulates temperatures in the northern … Read more