This is Not Cool

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Report from WBTV – Charlotte NC.Two years post Hurricane Helene, Bat Cave, North Carolina is still crippled from the climate fueled storm’s impacts.

Gavin Newsom: “We are in the Great implementation.”

New channel I did not know existed – MSFox.

No squishy snowflake wishful thinking here.Unabashed Oil guy with long industry experience explains in short form how it is that the current crisis will push global oil prices to a new, higher baseline, from which it will never retreat.

What happens when the world’s biggest exporter of one of the most important substances for modern civilisation decides to stop exporting it?

AgroLatam: Heavy rainfall is delaying corn and soybean harvest activity across parts of the U.S.

Problem:A gas commonly used in electric transformers is also one of the most potent greenhouse gases.Solution:See below.

In this morning’s monthly Global Temperature Briefing from Berkeley Earth, Zeke Hausfather and Robert Rohde predicted that, after a slow start, 2026 may end up as a record warm year, to be followed in all likelihood, by another record in 2027, pumped by t…

Report above from WHAM Rochester New York.

Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist, and a pioneer of artificial neural networks and deep learning.

NASA: Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent on Sept. 12, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Detroit News station reporting on Ann Arbor’s (Go Blue) new initiative to provide solar panels and battery backup to residents, as a step toward creating a city owned utility, and cutting the cord to Utility DTE, which has been criticized for not maintain…

Above, Baton Rouge, Louisiana TV report say without exports, refineries will have to stop production on multiple streams of product, including jet fuel, heating oil, and gasoline.Energy Secretary Wright, perhaps seeing this as his chance to bail, agrees.D…

Tax Policy Center: States rethink data center tax breaks.

Zeke Hausfather in The Climate Brink: We hear a lot about central outcomes of climate change.

For a good explainer on why El Niño causes sea level rise along the West Coast, see this post.Another illustration of how climate change will continue to provide eye-popping YouTube content.Small comfort, but I take what I can get.

Jim Stewartson on X: One of the most disturbing things he’s ever said—and an example of how allowing this to go on is a conscious decision to destroy America.

Garret Golding and Lutz Killian in Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas: Proponents of a U.S. crude oil export ban argue that prohibiting crude oil exports would increase the supply of crude in the United States, allowing refiners to increase their production of

Ben Noll on X: You are looking at the strongest El Niño event on record.

Global Energy analyst Jeff Currie tells Bloomberg the Energy Transition is “TurboCharged” – but it’s not about climate, and maybe never was.By far the biggest growth in energy consumption is going to come from the developing world in Asia and Africa, and…

Above, former Chair of Exxon Rex Tillerson in 2011, responding to a question from activist David Fenton.

7 minute PBS clip follows a glaciologist in New Zealand, describing the effects of black carbon as it darkens glaciers.What is really worthwhile about this piece is the incredible photography – they had a budget and it shows.

Great find by Zeke Hausfather.The current Hurricane drought in the North Atlantic is hardly any refutation of climate change.The Pacific, where a large El Niño event is playing out, has been extremely active, at one point in recent weeks 3 large storms we…

Truckers planning a strike, allegedly.They have the power to make things pretty difficult.

AJ Signal on X: 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗫 𝗦𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗦𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗮’𝘀 𝗣𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗕𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 “𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀”.

Massive demerits to Bernie Sanders for lending credibility to the fascist Steve Bannon.

Above, local California station has coverage of one way in which El Niño will exert strong effects on the state, including Coastal Flooding, which is already underway.It’s called a Coastaly Trapped Kelvin Wave, and the physics behind it are fascinating.

I don’t steal nearly enough material from Thom Hartmann.

David Bellamy is an Infrastructure Engineer for agentic training and a Harvard PhD Statistician, that I follow on X.I hope he doesn’t mind that I quote him verbatim here.

The Three Laws of Robots, presented to be from the fictional “Handbook of Robotics, 56th Edition, 2058 A.D.” by Isaac Asimov, are: —Recent events have made the 2004 Will Smith sci-fi thriller “I, Robot” a stealth hit on streaming.

The New Normal is Nothing is Normal anymore.

BBC: US President Donald Trump has said fears about the safety of artificial intelligence (AI) are a “hoax”, as he criticised calls to have more guardrails in place for the fast-moving technology.

Fucking great.This’ll get your election mojo pumping.

That’s gotta hurt.

The Crisis, long warned, is here.Be patient, we’re killing as fast as we can.

Ill considered Iran War continues to reveal how vulnerable global economies are in their dependence on fossil fuels.A generation of business and political leaders are internalizing this message, and making plans accordingly.

Watch this space.

The Trump administration’s arbitrary and corrupt “emergency” orders to keep obsolete, polluting coal plants burning is, like the hideous “Ball Room” monstrosity, yet another example of the rampant corruption siphoning money directly from ratepayer and tax…

As the Arctic thaws, a new shipping passage offers an alternative to the war torn Bab al Mandab strait and Red Sea.

Above, clip from Oil analyst Jeff Currie on Bloomberg News, discussing the fulminating situation with supply chains in the Middle East and globally – thanks to the Trump administration’s war for oil, a warming climate, and a monster El Niño.

Feel free to weigh in with your favorite nightmare, here’s my incomplete list.

More sobering reports about the small nuclear reactor industry, now from the Financial Times.

Whenever I say “geothermal” in discussion, I always have to make clear which version of that technology I’m referencing.One is the “Advanced” Geothermal, which uses cutting edge drilling techniques from the fracking industry to access heat buried deep in…

Above, trailer for a new Documentary about Elon Musk that premiered on September 8 at the Venice Film Festival.

Data Center paranoia has reached fever pitch, but anxieties about AI are not misplaced.My concern is that people think that by blocking this or that data center, they are stopping AI.

Nepal’s disaster not a fluke, not an outlier.Across the world’s mountains, the ice that has held slopes together like super glue for millennia is disappearing.

But you knew that.A creeping sense of dread suggests that even at the current level of warming, the actual effects are more severe than we hoped they would be, and prospects for serious impacts are becoming more real to humanity at large.

Like everything else, Trump’s trade policy is affecting the price of solar.

Jesse Welles vibe with Clawhammer banjo, traditional song with surprising updated lyrics.