Just like the existing 800-mile-long Trans-Alaska oil pipeline, the proposed 800-mile-long Alaskan fossil gas pipeline will require the gas to be warmed in order to keep the hydrates from freezing. And just like the Trans-Alaska pipeline, the new pipeline’s physical integrity will be adversely affected by the ever-worsening permafrost melt problem. Morons Are Governing American.
Yes they are and it is time they were removed. My sign for the October 18th No Kings protest will be… ENOUGH! The president needs to be removed from office!
When you use Initials for a group please write it out when you 1st refer to them. I.e. CVF-V20, etc. A lot of us are not as totally steeped in everything climate related. But, keep up the good work- your Substack is totally awesome and vitally informative. I always share it on Facebook.
The Ukraine story is an encouraging illustration of the Law of Unexpected consequences, and their often beneficial results. I loved, and needed, this illustration of the 'invisible forces' which impact our lives.
Thanks, Bill, for maintaining a steady flow of blogs as you criss cross the globe. I know jet lag and the impact on personal productivity, having flown from both San Francisco and Newark to major Pacific Rim ports ranging from Tokyo to Singapore and on to Mumbai and Dubai 19 times in 1976-1994. You probably do that in a year—and your time away from your home office surely exceeds the 29 weeks I was absent from home.
You are the “Super Hero” of bloggers, authors and journalists!
Today thanks you this post, I learned that CVFV20 (from the website CVFV20.org) means Climate Vulnerable Forum – Vulnerable Twenty Group, which is comprised of “74 nations on the frontlines of the climate crisis”—one more piece of the evolving jigsaw puzzle that I am exploring in my current project that is focused on the Sámi and their network of indigenous peoples who are vulnerable to much more than simply losing their sacred lands and cultures.
In that context, this lead sentence in “other energy and climate news” section is astonishing, mostly by what follows it:
<< +Also in the lead up to global climate talks next month in Belem, Brazil, the “climate-vulnerable” nations renewed a call for more financing for adaptation >>
Apparently “CVF-V20 ministers and heads of government, meeting on the sidelines of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 80) in New York” last week issued the quoted statement, which to me seems to reveal ignorance of the vast swaths of the tropics and mid latitudes that will lose an estimated 2 billion emigrants in the next two decades escaping imminent deadly heat, drought, famine, conflict, etc. that will result from 2.7°C + (Australia to India to Africa to parts of South America and U.S., and the Caribbean including CVFV20 home island Barbados).
This next statement is simply shortsighted:
<<“With the world having passed 1.5 degrees and the imminent threat this poses to our countries, we must now mobilise the adaptation finance needed to tackle the hurricane of climate damages that will follow. We must reshape a global financial system that is too slow, delivers too little, and burdens the next generation with the cost of today’s delays. It is not enough to pledge more finance or declare new commitments. What matters is scale, acceleration and delivery,” H.E. Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados and Chair of the Barbados CVF-V20 Presidency, emphasised during the meeting.>>
“Adaptation finance” for an unlivable—yea unsurvivable—niche in the tropics that will surely be abandoned *is just ludicrous.*
Thanks for this! So refreshing to read intelligent, knowledgeable and engaged-with-reality comments instead of the regressive drivel that emanates from our current "leaders". I swear, if they appeared dressed in animal skins and dragging clubs it would be no surprise.
Love this one! Get jet-lagged more often! (Not). I avoid those flying cigars like the plague. But your words give me hope for Ukraine, for Alaska, for ki. Our mother the Earth.
Thanks to the deranged DJT/MAGA disease that has infected our country, the USA has become a rogue nation that must be shunned and ignored by the rest of the world. The sooner, the better for humanity and all of nature. And--Thank You, Pope Leo!!!
I said when Russia started hitting Ukraine's power distribution that solar and widely distributed energy sources (panels on every roof) makes military sense
Bill, your point is well-taken. Twenty years ago, the Department of Defense recognized the strategic and logistical value of decentralized energy systems. The military made great strides in implementing them (and providing workable examples for their surrounding communities), but alas, those efforts are now stymied in the Trump era.
Brilliant story, so pleased to hear the clever Ukrainians are outwitting the Russians at every turn through green energy solutions despite unreliable allies. I just wonder when the auto industry is going to start producing solar vehicles rather than EVs, or why they're not?
It's interesting to note an uptick in solar adoption as a result of the war. However, electricity is about 20% of Ukraine's total energy consumption, mostly generated by coal, gas, nuclear & hydro plants, all of which have been (& are) the energy infrastructure targets for Russian drones & missiles – resulting in major power interruptions and lost capacity.
That capacity cannot be restored with solar & wind (which accounted for only about 11% of Ukraine's power generation in 2024).So of course it makes sense that residential & business adoption of local solar is rising. But if, as you suggest, the Russians are taking out kindergartens, hospitals, and old folks homes with drones ...it won't matter how many panels are on those roofs.
Just like the existing 800-mile-long Trans-Alaska oil pipeline, the proposed 800-mile-long Alaskan fossil gas pipeline will require the gas to be warmed in order to keep the hydrates from freezing. And just like the Trans-Alaska pipeline, the new pipeline’s physical integrity will be adversely affected by the ever-worsening permafrost melt problem. Morons Are Governing American.
Rich morons. People mistake their wealth for their intelligence. (John Cobb is my guru. His thoughts are deep in my soul.)
Yes they are and it is time they were removed. My sign for the October 18th No Kings protest will be… ENOUGH! The president needs to be removed from office!
When you use Initials for a group please write it out when you 1st refer to them. I.e. CVF-V20, etc. A lot of us are not as totally steeped in everything climate related. But, keep up the good work- your Substack is totally awesome and vitally informative. I always share it on Facebook.
thanks for the reminder, in this case it refers to the Climate Vulnerable nations
The Ukraine story is an encouraging illustration of the Law of Unexpected consequences, and their often beneficial results. I loved, and needed, this illustration of the 'invisible forces' which impact our lives.
Thanks, Bill, for maintaining a steady flow of blogs as you criss cross the globe. I know jet lag and the impact on personal productivity, having flown from both San Francisco and Newark to major Pacific Rim ports ranging from Tokyo to Singapore and on to Mumbai and Dubai 19 times in 1976-1994. You probably do that in a year—and your time away from your home office surely exceeds the 29 weeks I was absent from home.
You are the “Super Hero” of bloggers, authors and journalists!
Today thanks you this post, I learned that CVFV20 (from the website CVFV20.org) means Climate Vulnerable Forum – Vulnerable Twenty Group, which is comprised of “74 nations on the frontlines of the climate crisis”—one more piece of the evolving jigsaw puzzle that I am exploring in my current project that is focused on the Sámi and their network of indigenous peoples who are vulnerable to much more than simply losing their sacred lands and cultures.
In that context, this lead sentence in “other energy and climate news” section is astonishing, mostly by what follows it:
<< +Also in the lead up to global climate talks next month in Belem, Brazil, the “climate-vulnerable” nations renewed a call for more financing for adaptation >>
Apparently “CVF-V20 ministers and heads of government, meeting on the sidelines of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 80) in New York” last week issued the quoted statement, which to me seems to reveal ignorance of the vast swaths of the tropics and mid latitudes that will lose an estimated 2 billion emigrants in the next two decades escaping imminent deadly heat, drought, famine, conflict, etc. that will result from 2.7°C + (Australia to India to Africa to parts of South America and U.S., and the Caribbean including CVFV20 home island Barbados).
This next statement is simply shortsighted:
<<“With the world having passed 1.5 degrees and the imminent threat this poses to our countries, we must now mobilise the adaptation finance needed to tackle the hurricane of climate damages that will follow. We must reshape a global financial system that is too slow, delivers too little, and burdens the next generation with the cost of today’s delays. It is not enough to pledge more finance or declare new commitments. What matters is scale, acceleration and delivery,” H.E. Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados and Chair of the Barbados CVF-V20 Presidency, emphasised during the meeting.>>
“Adaptation finance” for an unlivable—yea unsurvivable—niche in the tropics that will surely be abandoned *is just ludicrous.*
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Thanks for this! So refreshing to read intelligent, knowledgeable and engaged-with-reality comments instead of the regressive drivel that emanates from our current "leaders". I swear, if they appeared dressed in animal skins and dragging clubs it would be no surprise.
Love this one! Get jet-lagged more often! (Not). I avoid those flying cigars like the plague. But your words give me hope for Ukraine, for Alaska, for ki. Our mother the Earth.
Thanks to the deranged DJT/MAGA disease that has infected our country, the USA has become a rogue nation that must be shunned and ignored by the rest of the world. The sooner, the better for humanity and all of nature. And--Thank You, Pope Leo!!!
I said when Russia started hitting Ukraine's power distribution that solar and widely distributed energy sources (panels on every roof) makes military sense
Excellent, informative, and encouraging, as ever.
Much needed. Thank you.
The Chinese airship is the perfect "punchline" for this article. Thank you.
Becoming human is to transcend our animal aggressiveness.
But if the sky 💥 is filled with smoke, it gets in the sun's 👀👁️ eyes, casts shade ‼️❓❓👋🤔
Here comes the SUN ☀️😎. It's all right 👍‼️👍😎
Thanks, as always, Bill, for your excellent reporting! Keep up the great work 👍
Bill, your point is well-taken. Twenty years ago, the Department of Defense recognized the strategic and logistical value of decentralized energy systems. The military made great strides in implementing them (and providing workable examples for their surrounding communities), but alas, those efforts are now stymied in the Trump era.
Brilliant story, so pleased to hear the clever Ukrainians are outwitting the Russians at every turn through green energy solutions despite unreliable allies. I just wonder when the auto industry is going to start producing solar vehicles rather than EVs, or why they're not?
Thank you for this fascinating connection between drones and solar, Bill.
Plus that Chinese wind machine is pretty amazing.
It's interesting to note an uptick in solar adoption as a result of the war. However, electricity is about 20% of Ukraine's total energy consumption, mostly generated by coal, gas, nuclear & hydro plants, all of which have been (& are) the energy infrastructure targets for Russian drones & missiles – resulting in major power interruptions and lost capacity.
That capacity cannot be restored with solar & wind (which accounted for only about 11% of Ukraine's power generation in 2024).So of course it makes sense that residential & business adoption of local solar is rising. But if, as you suggest, the Russians are taking out kindergartens, hospitals, and old folks homes with drones ...it won't matter how many panels are on those roofs.