Story of the Week... El Niño/La Niña Update... Toon of the Week... SkS in the News... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... Climate Feedback Reviews... SkS Week in Review... 97 Hours of Consensus...
Story of the Week...
Seven charts show why the IEA thinks coal investment has already peaked
Global investment in coal-fired power plants is set to decline “dramatically” after passing an all-time high during the past several years, says the International Energy Agency (IEA).
That’s one of the most striking messages from World Energy Investment 2017, published today. The report, now in its second year, offers a comprehensive picture of energy investment from fossil-fuel extraction through to transport, energy efficiency and power networks.
The IEA report is not only backwards looking, reporting money already invested. It also offers a glimpse of forthcoming trends, by reporting the value of decisions taken to invest in future.
Overall, investment fell again last year, as the oil-and-gas sector continued to cut back in response to low prices. Steady investment in renewables, along with falling costs, saw 50% more capacity being added in 2016 than in 2011. But gains for low-carbon wind and solar are being offset by declines in hydro and nuclear.
Carbon Brief has seven charts with the key messages from this year’s energy investment report.
Seven charts show why the IEA thinks coal investment has already peaked by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, July 11, 2017
El Niño/La Niña Update
The latest ENSO forecast by CPC/IRI is holding steady since last month and favoring ENSO-neutral conditions (50-55% chance) into the winter of 2017-18. Although not favored, El Niño development has an elevated chance of occurring (~35-45%) relative to the long-term average (~25-35%), so we still need to keep our eyes on this possibility.
July 2017 ENSO update: Holding steady by Nat Johnson, ENSO Blog, NOAA's Climate.gov, July 13, 2017
Toon of the Week...
SkS in the News...
[To be added.]
Coming Soon on SkS...
- 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Waming Digest (John Hartz)
- Reflections on the politics of climate change (How Trump informs us about climate denial) – part 2 (John Abraham)
- As Trump pulls out of the Paris Agreement, remember: We've seen this before (Benjamin Franta)
- Scott Pruitt wants to take climate science into The Matrix (Dana)
- Is energy ‘dominance’ the right goal for US policy? (Daniel Raimi)
- ClimateChats: Climate Pictures (Adam Levy)
- 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup (John Hartz)
Poster of the Week...
Climate Feedback Reviews...
[To be added.]
SkS Week in Review...
- 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #28 by John Hartz
- Study: On climate change and elsewhere, politicians more conservative than citizens by Dana Nuccitelli (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
- Planet Hacks: Food , Video by Climate Adam
- Those 80 graphs that got used for climate myths by Ari Jokimäki
- Conservatives are again denying the very existence of global warming by Dana Nuccitelli (Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian)
- 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #27 by John Hartz
97 Hours of Consensus...
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Story of the Week... El Niño/La Niña Update... Toon of the Week... SkS in the News... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... Climate Feedback Reviews... SkS Week in Review... 97 Hours of Consensus...
Story of the Week...
Seven charts show why the IEA thinks coal investment has already peaked
Global investment in coal-fired power plants is set to decline “dramatically” after passing an all-time high during the past several years, says the International Energy Agency (IEA).
That’s one of the most striking messages from World Energy Investment 2017, published today. The report, now in its second year, offers a comprehensive picture of energy investment from fossil-fuel extraction through to transport, energy efficiency and power networks.
The IEA report is not only backwards looking, reporting money already invested. It also offers a glimpse of forthcoming trends, by reporting the value of decisions taken to invest in future.
Overall, investment fell again last year, as the oil-and-gas sector continued to cut back in response to low prices. Steady investment in renewables, along with falling costs, saw 50% more capacity being added in 2016 than in 2011. But gains for low-carbon wind and solar are being offset by declines in hydro and nuclear.
Carbon Brief has seven charts with the key messages from this year’s energy investment report.
Seven charts show why the IEA thinks coal investment has already peaked by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, July 11, 2017
El Niño/La Niña Update
The latest ENSO forecast by CPC/IRI is holding steady since last month and favoring ENSO-neutral conditions (50-55% chance) into the winter of 2017-18. Although not favored, El Niño development has an elevated chance of occurring (~35-45%) relative to the long-term average (~25-35%), so we still need to keep our eyes on this possibility.
July 2017 ENSO update: Holding steady by Nat Johnson, ENSO Blog, NOAA's Climate.gov, July 13, 2017
Toon of the Week...
SkS in the News...
[To be added.]
Coming Soon on SkS...
- 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Waming Digest (John Hartz)
- Reflections on the politics of climate change (How Trump informs us about climate denial) – part 2 (John Abraham)
- As Trump pulls out of the Paris Agreement, remember: We've seen this before (Benjamin Franta)
- Scott Pruitt wants to take climate science into The Matrix (Dana)
- Is energy ‘dominance’ the right goal for US policy? (Daniel Raimi)
- ClimateChats: Climate Pictures (Adam Levy)
- 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup (John Hartz)
Poster of the Week...
Climate Feedback Reviews...
[To be added.]
SkS Week in Review...
- 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #28 by John Hartz
- Study: On climate change and elsewhere, politicians more conservative than citizens by Dana Nuccitelli (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
- Planet Hacks: Food , Video by Climate Adam
- Those 80 graphs that got used for climate myths by Ari Jokimäki
- Conservatives are again denying the very existence of global warming by Dana Nuccitelli (Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian)
- 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #27 by John Hartz
97 Hours of Consensus...
Penny Whetton's Wikipedia page and quote source.
High resolution JPEG (1024 pixels wide)
from Skeptical Science http://ift.tt/2uxZW2k
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