Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
In the summer of 2003 , a culmination of seemingly small failures by the power grid, its monitoring software, and human operators quickly cascaded into the largest blackout to ever occur in North America. That starts with understanding who the major players are in electric grid reliability. Tree trimming is now included in a standard.
A Greener Life
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Norway is a leader in renewable energy and on the adoption of electric cars. It’s an energy giant with an economy that depends entirely on fossil fuels. Back in 2003, Vladimir Putin said spoke for many when he said “maybe climate change is not so bad in such a cold country as ours.”
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Environmental Progress
JULY 6, 2020
Two authors, Daniel Swain and Hausfather, admit my claim, “Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003,” is accurate, but somehow misleading. But during the last 100 years, the United States Forest Service (USFS) and other agencies extinguished most fires, resulting in the accumulation of wood fuel. more land and wind 5.8x
Environmental Progress
AUGUST 3, 2020
We should want to move up the energy ladder — from wood and dung to hydro-electric dams, liquified petroleum gas (to replace wood and dung), natural gas (to replace coal), and then, yes, nuclear energy — and not down the energy ladder, which is what Malthusian environmentalists advocate. The Malthusians significantly modified Malthus.
Environmental Progress
AUGUST 8, 2020
The central drama of Apocalypse Never is how climate activists and renewables advocates have diverted World Bank funding from cheap and reliable sources of power like hydro-electric dams, which would benefit the book’s main heroine, Bernadette, a small farmer in the Congo. Nuclear energy is that solution, Shellenberger has long advocated.”
Corp Watch
JUNE 12, 2023
And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 References: Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen Here’s Exactly Who’s Profiting from the War on Yemen Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems Amazon Contractor Raytheon has CIA Ties General Electric’s RCA Unit Fined $2.5 million to settle U.S.
Corp Watch
JUNE 12, 2023
And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 References: Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen Here’s Exactly Who’s Profiting from the War on Yemen Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems Amazon Contractor Raytheon has CIA Ties General Electric’s RCA Unit Fined $2.5 million to settle U.S.
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