Denialists are not giving up in any way, shape or form, but their “reasons” why renewables can’t work have worn thinner than thin. Don’t take my word for it. We know with significant accuracy what people say about it in the US and worldwide. Not that the current well-paid Merchants of Doubt are giving up at all. (NB. Amazon is a good research tool if you don’t buy from them.)
UNDP: The world’s largest survey on climate change is out – here’s what the results show
More than half of people globally said they were more worried about climate change now than last year, and four out of five want their countries to strengthen commitments to address climate change.
Survey results show high levels of support for a range of climate actions, including nature restoration, rapid transition from fossil fuels and climate education in schools.
Four out of five people around the world (80 percent) want more climate action from their country. They also seek global unity in responding to the crisis, with 86 percent agreeing that their countries should set aside geopolitical differences, such as those regarding trade and security, and work together on climate change.
(Setting aside geopolitical differences would also help with poverty, dread diseases, and all the rest of the Millennium Development Goals. War! Rumors of war! Who needs them?)
Wikipedia: Public opinion on climate change
In Europe, the notion of human influence on climate gained wide acceptance more rapidly than in the United States and other countries (data from 2007).[37][38] A 2009 survey found that Europeans rated climate change as the second most serious problem facing the world, between “poverty, the lack of food and drinking water” and “a major global economic downturn”. 87% of Europeans considered climate change to be a very serious or serious problem, while ten per cent did not consider it a serious problem.[39]
A 15-nation poll conducted in 2006, by Pew Global found that there “is a substantial gap in concern over global warming—roughly two-thirds of Japanese (66%) and Indians (65%) say they personally worry a great deal about global warming. Roughly half of the populations of Spain (51%) and France (46%) also express great concern over global warming, based on those who have heard about the issue. But there is no evidence of alarm over global warming in either the United States or China—the two largest producers of greenhouse gases. Just 19% of Americans and 20% of the Chinese who have heard of the issue say they worry a lot about global warming—the lowest percentages in the 15 countries surveyed. Moreover, nearly half of Americans (47%) and somewhat fewer Chinese (37%) express little or no concern about the problem.”[40]
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Explaining climate change science & rebutting global warming misinformation
Global warming is real and human-caused. It is leading to large-scale climate change. Under the guise of climate “skepticism”, the public is bombarded with misinformation that casts doubt on the reality of human-caused global warming. This website gets skeptical about global warming “skepticism”.
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Texas anti-environmental law declared unconstitutional www.texastribune.org/…
A federal district judge on Wednesday declared a 2021 law restricting state investments in companies boycotting the fossil fuel industry unconstitutional, calling it “facially overbroad” and citing First and Fourteenth Amendment concerns.
The law requires the comptroller’s office to maintain a list of financial firms that refuse, terminate or penalize business with a fossil fuel company “without ordinary business purpose.”
The American Sustainable Business Coalition filed the suit in 2024
ASBC president and co-founder, said SB 13 had already cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars and called the ruling a “massive win” for sustainable businesses.
“The court has affirmed what we’ve always known: you cannot punish businesses for their investment decisions or silence those who speak about climate risk,”
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China at a tipping point for EV adoption.
“Toasterlike” Process Recovers Rare Earths From E-waste
An ingenious new method for recovering and recycling rare earths.
From IEEE Spectrum:
A new process makes it easier to recycle the chemical elements used to make the strongest permanent magnets. These rare earth magnets are used in hard drives and EV motors. Beyond their use in magnets, rare earth elements are used in lasers, glass, electronics, and a host of other applications important to modern daily life. They are expensive to mine and separate, and have long been a geopolitical football in trade wars, including the current one between the United States and China.
Compared with existing methods to recover rare earth elements, a process based on rapidly heating waste magnet material in the presence of chlorine gas uses one-third of the processing steps, reduces energy consumption by 87 percent, and produces 84 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions. That’s according to a life-cycle analysis done by researchers led by James Tour, a chemist at Rice University. Their process is described in a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ✂️
Existing methods for recycling rare earths require high temperatures, multiple stages of processing, and the use of harsh solvents and large amounts of energy. Tour compares his lab’s setup to a toaster oven, which uses electricity to rapidly heat a quartz tube under a slice of bread. Instead of a quartz tube, this reactor uses a sheet of carbon paper as the heating element, which can get much hotter, up to about 10,000 kelvins in one second (over 9,700 °C). Though the element gets incredibly hot, it happens in a very short amount of time, so the process, called flash joule heating, doesn’t require much energy. ✂️
So far, Tour’s group has tested the process with two of the most common rare earth magnet materials: samarium cobalt and neodymium iron boron. “You can take these magnets, pull the material back out, and it can go into a new magnet,” says Tour.
India’s electrotech fast-track: where China built on coal, India is building on sun
From Ember:
India is forging a better path to the electrotech future of energy. Cheap solar and batteries are enabling India to develop without the long fossil detour taken by the West and China.
When we compare India today with China at equivalent income levels ($11,000 PPP in 2012), several observations emerge:
Rapid solar deployment. In 2012, China had negligible solar generation. In 2025, solar accounted for 9% of India’s electricity generation, up from half a percent a decade earlier. India has a powerful new tool to scale cheap power, and it is using it to spectacular effect.
Much lower coal use. Indian per capita coal generation, at 1 MWh, is roughly 40% of China’s level in 2012. Coal demand is approaching its peak and is very unlikely to follow China’s subsequent ramp-up to around 4 MWh per person.
Rapid growth in EVs. In 2012, China had almost no electric vehicles on the road. By mid-2025, EVs accounted for around 5% of car sales in India and the country is the global leader in electric three-wheeler sales.
Much lower oil demand for transport. India’s per capita road oil demand, at 96 litres, is about half of China’s level in 2012 and is close to peaking. India is not going to rescue the oil industry.
A similar rapid electrification pathway. India’s electrification rate is nearly 20%, comparable to China’s level in 2012, and is growing relentlessly by around five percentage points per decade.
Global Warming Catastrophes
During the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, I documented complaints about manufactured snow being excessively slick and icy for competitors. Beijing, like many places around the world, experienced warming temperatures and drought conditions, which led to energy-, water- and economic-resource intensive snowmaking.
“There are very few places in the world suitable to host a Winter Olympics,” I wrote. “Of the 19 places that have hosted in the past 70 years, they are warming.”
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