Main Topic: Could Mexico City Be the Next Major City to Have a Climate Calamity After Port Alegre?
On the Extreme Temperature Diary- SUN 5/26/2024 At guyonclimate.com
+new #climate +record temps from Extreme Temperatures Around The World
+ #weather links
Prof Michael E. Mann Prof. Katharine Hayhoe Prof. Peter Strachan

The renewables revolution is breaking records and driving ever-cleaner electricity production ⚡

The world is now at a turning point where solar and wind not only slow emissions growth, but actually start pushing fossil generation into decline 📉

ember-climate.org/insights/resea…

Lamppost EV chargers are the answer to how you charge your vehicle in cities.

This is possible because when energy intensive street lamps were replaced by LEDs, there’s excess power for charging EVs.

All cities should do this. ⚡️

h/t Robert Llewllyn

Some analysis on how the detail in CSIRO’s electricity generation report makes the Coalition’s brave nuke world a much harder sell. theguardian.com/australia-news…

A remarkable thing happened in March this year.

For the first time, the fossil fuel rich state of Texas generated more electricity from solar power than from coal.

The Atlantic hurricane season kicks off June 1 and NOAA predicts a busier-than-usual season.

Climate change isn't increasing hurricane formation: but once storms form, they're intensifying faster, slower + much stronger, and dumping a lot more rain.
x.com/khayhoe/status…

Clean energy investments are now outpacing fossil fuels significantly.

Global investment in clean energy grew to over $1.7 trillion in 2023, the highest ever.

The whole world has warmed? Not!
One region has cooled since the late 19th Century.
Watch the mysterious North Atlantic 'cold blob' explained in 7 minutes.
I presented this last month when being awarded the Alfred Wegener medal of the European Geosciences Union. 1/2

There's a detailed history of Midgley in this book

Air pollution and global warming: History, science, and solutions
web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jac… CNN Jacopo Prisco Cambridge University Press

Oil-rich Texas is adding more solar per capita than any US state and any country anywhere, generating more power from solar than coal for the 1st time in March

Texas is now America’s clean energy giant because fossil fuels can’t compete

ft.com/content/ef2f6f…

Brutal heatwaves ongoing simultaneously.

Mexico City (Tacubaya Observatory) yet again breaks its heat record (34.7°C). Data since 1877 and sits 2,309m above sea level.

India is breaking records in the north-east while the north-west is reaching 50°C.

More records will fall.

California is entering phase 2 of something we will see worldwide:

Phase 1)
Solar+wind replace up to ~70% of fossil electricity

Phase 2)
Solar+wind+batteries replace up to ~90% of fossil electricity

Phase 3)
Solar+wind+batteries+eFuels replace 100% of fossil electricity

🧵

Fascinating analysis of the increasingly pivotal role that batteries are playing on the California grid. They are steadily eating away at fossil gas. blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-batterie…

Switching the world to 100% Renewable Energy by 2050, according to Professor Mark Z. Jacobson

• $62 trillion to implement

• Payback in just 6 years

• 52 million jobs worldwide created

• 24 million jobs lost

• The average electric bill will fall 63%

medium.com/greener-togeth…

Plans unveiled for massive $3.5 billion wind and solar powered green iron project for #Queensland .

#Australia #wind #solar #renewables #climate
reneweconomy.com.au/plans-unveiled…

Nuclear proponents should realize by now that Germany as an example of an energy system 'going back to coal because they closed nuclear power plants' looks increasingly pathetic.

This Human Progress article by Zion Lights from a year ago that they just reposted didn't age well.

California renewables met 100% of electricity demand for parts of 69 days, which is a BFD

dailykos.com/stories/2024/5… Daily Kos

🗣️ Mark Z. Jacobson: “California es un lugar importante porque en los últimos 46 días la red ha estado dando más del 100% de su demanda con energía eólica y solar”.

#ForoSella24

Big news, America

Huge offshore wind farm (2.587 GW = 176 x 14.7-MW Siemens Gamesa turbines) begins construction 46 km off Virginia Beach.

yahoo.com/news/virginia-…
Dominion Energy Willett Kempton Prof. Peter Strachan Brian Vad Mathiesen 🇩🇰🇺🇦 Christian Breyer 🦣 Robert Howarth American Clean Power (ACP)

One of the lessons from Midgley is that the impact of technologies should be investigated BEFORE their use

Applies today to CCS/DAC/bioenergy/blue H2

100 years since first of 2 inventions that led to biggest environmental disasters of 20th century
cnn.com/2024/05/24/wor…