Month: August 2023

U.S. power producers increased output of electricity from natural gas by more than from clean power sources in the opening eight months of 2023, as electricity firms grappled with low wind speeds and heavy demand from power-hungry air conditioners.

Total power generation across the lower 48 states through Aug. 20, 2023 declined by 2.1% from the same period in 2022, data compiled by Refinitiv shows.

But generation from natural gas climbed by over 10%, widening gas’ lead as the country’s main source of electricity.

The share of power generated from gas averaged 40.4% through mid-August, up from under 36% in the same period in 2022.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-power-system-gets-gasier-not-much-cleaner-2023-2023-08-23/

Take always:

1) Global Warming should be more aptly renamed Global Climate Disruption

2) This year’s heat is a 4 standard deviation event; “a giant non-linear outcome generator with wicked convexities”

3) “A ‘shock of the old’ is that we still live in the machine age of Victorians.”

4) “We need enough mitigation to avoid the unmanageable and enough adaptation to manage the unavoidable.”

Global Boiling

Marine scientists say record ocean temperatures have sparked widespread coral bleaching in the Florida Keys. The extreme heat and bleaching have been deadly — killing all coral on one popular reef.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/28/1190824456/scientists-fight-to-help-protect-the-florida-coral-thats-dying-from-heat#:~:text=Abnormally%20hot%20ocean%20temperatures%20in,%2C%20they%27re%20gone%20forever.