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Research Coordinator for @citizensclimate, environmental scientist, climate journalist for @CC_Yale. Author of Climatology versus Pseudoscience. Views my own.

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America is hurtling toward a power grid crisis

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By Dana Nuccitelli
| Yale Climate Connections
A crisis is brewing for the U.S. electricity grid – one that could make your electric bill skyrocket and thwart efforts to address climate change. To understand the problem, think of transmission lines – the poles and wires that transport electricity from power plants to homes and businesses – as an interstate highway system for electrons. Like too many cars on the road, too many electrons traveling across power lines can cause traffic jams.
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Trump’s Iran war supercharged EV sales everywhere except the U.S. Original

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By Dana Nuccitelli
| Yale Climate Connections
Electric vehicle sales are a surprising beneficiary of the Trump presidency – at least outside of the United States. The Iran conflict caused global oil prices to surge above $100 per barrel in March, April, and May of this year. Gasoline prices soon followed suit, exceeding $4 per gallon in the United States most days since April Fools’ Day. As the biggest consumer of oil from the Middle East, Asia was hit hardest by its rising prices, shortages, and restrictions.
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Solar, wind, and EVs have knocked out a doomsday climate scenario Original

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By Dana Nuccitelli
| Yale Climate Connections
Thanks to the transition from fossil fuels to clean technologies, what used to be considered the worst-case climate change scenario now appears to be outside the realm of plausibility, climate scientists said in a recent study. That study made headlines in May when President Donald Trump falsely claimed that climate scientists had admitted that their projections had been wrong, a claim akin to an anti-vaxxer gloating that the official end of the pandemic proved that COVID was never a problem.
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