5 things we learned at day 1 of TED2025

NEO, a humanoid home helper, opens Session 1 of TED2025: Humanity Reimagined on April 7, 2025, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Photo: Gilberto Tadday / TED) Buckle up: It’s time for TED! In a classically eclectic opening session, seven speakers and a performer explore the big issues of the day — from the rise of techno-authoritarianism and the existential threat of superhuman AI to the rebirth of Notre-Dame de Paris and signs of progress from around the world. Also, the humanoid helper NEO opens the show … because what would TED be without a s . . . [More]

5 things we learned at day 1 of TED2025

NEO, a humanoid home helper, opens Session 1 of TED2025: Humanity Reimagined on April 7, 2025, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Photo: Gilberto Tadday / TED) Buckle up: It’s time for TED! In a classically eclectic opening session, seven speakers and a performer explore the big issues of the day — from the rise of techno-authoritarianism and the existential threat of superhuman AI to the rebirth of Notre-Dame de Paris and signs of progress from around the world. Also, the humanoid helper NEO opens the show … because what would TED be without a s . . . [More]

We need a grid battery public safety standard

The existing battery safety standards are grossly incomplete for the huge grid grid scale battery complexes being recklessly built in large numbers.Re Posted From: We need a grid battery public safety standardWatts Up With That . . . [More]

We need a grid battery public safety standard

The existing battery safety standards are grossly incomplete for the huge grid grid scale battery complexes being recklessly built in large numbers.Re Posted From: We need a grid battery public safety standardWatts Up With That . . . [More]

The Looming Electricity Crunch Facing The US

“Six major U.S. grid operators have raised a unified alarm about an impending capacity crunch, warning that the pace and scale of explosive demand—including from data centers, manufacturing, and electrification—poses a precarious misalignment with accelerating generator retirements and transmission constraints.Re Posted From: The Looming Electricity Crunch Facing The USWatts Up With That . . . [More]

The Looming Electricity Crunch Facing The US

“Six major U.S. grid operators have raised a unified alarm about an impending capacity crunch, warning that the pace and scale of explosive demand—including from data centers, manufacturing, and electrification—poses a precarious misalignment with accelerating generator retirements and transmission constraints.Re Posted From: The Looming Electricity Crunch Facing The USWatts Up With That . . . [More]

Professor David King: We Must Consider Extreme Climate Solutions

... Ideas such as thickening sea ice to prevent collapse ... may once have seemed extreme. ...Re Posted From: Professor David King: We Must Consider Extreme Climate SolutionsWatts Up With That . . . [More]

Professor David King: We Must Consider Extreme Climate Solutions

... Ideas such as thickening sea ice to prevent collapse ... may once have seemed extreme. ...Re Posted From: Professor David King: We Must Consider Extreme Climate SolutionsWatts Up With That . . . [More]

Evidence of Catastrophic Glacier Melt in… New York City?

TV weather-person cites Pleistocene glacial geology of NYC as evidence of catastrophic glacier melt.Re Posted From: Evidence of Catastrophic Glacier Melt in… New York City?Watts Up With That . . . [More]

Evidence of Catastrophic Glacier Melt in… New York City?

TV weather-person cites Pleistocene glacial geology of NYC as evidence of catastrophic glacier melt.Re Posted From: Evidence of Catastrophic Glacier Melt in… New York City?Watts Up With That . . . [More]

Climate Change Driving California’s Golden Road to Decline

In embracing the catastrophism that defines climate change as an existential threat to life on the planet, Newsom has left behind the old progressive notion of focusing on materially improving people’s lives by embracing inherently uncertain computer models predicting danger. Re Posted From: Climate Change Driving California’s Golden Road to DeclineWatts Up With That . . . [More]

Climate Change Driving California’s Golden Road to Decline

In embracing the catastrophism that defines climate change as an existential threat to life on the planet, Newsom has left behind the old progressive notion of focusing on materially improving people’s lives by embracing inherently uncertain computer models predicting danger. Re Posted From: Climate Change Driving California’s Golden Road to DeclineWatts Up With That . . . [More]

Fresh Evidence Emerges That Global Vegetation Growth Reaches New Highs Due to Increased CO2 Fertilis

Global vegetation reached a new greening peak in 2020, continuing a long-term trend since 2000 according to new dramatic findings published by a team of scientists based in the United States. The work helps confirm other recent scientific work that points to massive global plant growth directly related to recent increases in natural and human-caused carbon dioxide. Plants have evolved to grow in an atmosphere much richer in CO2 than current near-denuded levels, and the recent growth and its myriad benefits for humankind should not be surpris . . . [More]

Fresh Evidence Emerges That Global Vegetation Growth Reaches New Highs Due to Increased CO2 Fertilis

Global vegetation reached a new greening peak in 2020, continuing a long-term trend since 2000 according to new dramatic findings published by a team of scientists based in the United States. The work helps confirm other recent scientific work that points to massive global plant growth directly related to recent increases in natural and human-caused carbon dioxide. Plants have evolved to grow in an atmosphere much richer in CO2 than current near-denuded levels, and the recent growth and its myriad benefits for humankind should not be surpris . . . [More]

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #638

Quote of the Week: “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future!” —Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in Physics and father of the atomic model. [H/t Richard Lindzen]Re Posted From: Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #638Watts Up With That . . . [More]

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #638

Quote of the Week: “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future!” —Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in Physics and father of the atomic model. [H/t Richard Lindzen]Re Posted From: Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #638Watts Up With That . . . [More]

The Seattle Times Claims About the Termination of the National Weather Service Are False

The Seattle Times ClimateLab stories are often sloppy and incorrect, with the article in today's paper a good example of poor journalism, with politicized, error-filled claims.Re Posted From: The Seattle Times Claims About the Termination of the National Weather Service Are FalseWatts Up With That . . . [More]

The Seattle Times Claims About the Termination of the National Weather Service Are False

The Seattle Times ClimateLab stories are often sloppy and incorrect, with the article in today's paper a good example of poor journalism, with politicized, error-filled claims.Re Posted From: The Seattle Times Claims About the Termination of the National Weather Service Are FalseWatts Up With That . . . [More]

Monday Mirthiness – The ‘Hockey Hole’

Mann has made a career out of defending his statistical sausage, and now it seems karma has come full circle. Re Posted From: Monday Mirthiness � The ‘Hockey Hole’Watts Up With That . . . [More]

Monday Mirthiness – The ‘Hockey Hole’

Mann has made a career out of defending his statistical sausage, and now it seems karma has come full circle. Re Posted From: Monday Mirthiness � The ‘Hockey Hole’Watts Up With That . . . [More]