Dog walking forecast 2.5.25 | Weather
…The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Kentucky…Illinois… Ohio River at Paducah affecting McCracken, Massac, Pope and Livingston Counties. .The Ohio River at Paducah, KY will remain at minor flood stage until the end of the month of Feb. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS… Turn around, don’t drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur […]
Texas takes giant steps toward nuclear energy dominance – Watts Up With That?
From CFACT By Duggan Flanakin Is everything bigger in Texas? Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp last week announced that his university has surpassed even the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology and now has the nation’s largest nuclear engineering research department. And just in time, because Sharp also announced that Texas A&M is offering land near […]
How Ideological Policy Choices Deepened the Grid Crisis – Watts Up With That?
In a detailed report at Green Tape, Charles Yang exposes a critical misstep by the Biden administration that has worsened the ongoing transformer shortage. As the U.S. grid faces increasing strain from rising electricity demand, the previous administration had a rare opportunity to bolster domestic transformer manufacturing using $250 million in Defense Production Act (DPA) […]
Frozen frenzy: Nearly nonstop winter storms to hit the same parts of the US for days to come | News
(CNN) — Winter storms are about to blitz through the eastern half of the United States at a frenetic pace that could continue for a couple of weeks. The jet stream, essentially a river of air in the atmosphere that storms flow through, is locked in an almost perfect line from west to east, and will funnel […]
Not Clean, Green, Cheap – Watts Up With That?
From MasterResource By David R. Legates “Hydrogen energy will cease to become viable when the subsidies provided to it by governments of the world dry up. Hopefully, the new Administration will recognize that hydrogen embrittlement applies not just to metals, but to our economy as well.” Hydrogen. The first element in the Periodic Table and […]
Dog walking forecast 2.18.25 | Weather
PADUCAH — Get out the doggie coats and booties, because they’ll be needed today! Almost the entire Local 6 region is under a Winter Storm Warning, with significant snowfall — 4 to 8 inches — likely. Temperatures are expected to peak in the mid 20s, with snow arriving in the early afternoon. Source link
A Systemic Blind Spot – Watts Up With That?
Introduction The field of climate science has long been presented as an objective, data-driven discipline, immune to the biases and financial conflicts that plague other scientific domains. However, a recent preprint study by Jessica Weinkle et al, Conflicts of Interest, Funding Support, and Author Affiliation in Peer-Reviewed Research on the Relationship between Climate Change and […]
The Public Gives a Big “NO” to $9 Billion Pipeline to Capture CO2 from 57 Ethanol Plants Across Five States – Watts Up With That?
From Energy Security and Freedom Guest Post by Makenzie Huber of South Dakota Searchlight via ESG University. Hundreds of people, many of them opponents of a carbon dioxide pipeline, filled the Southeast Technical College auditorium Wednesday evening for a state Public Utilities Commission hearing regarding a second attempt by Summit Carbon Solutions to gain a permit […]
Oil Refinery Takeovers and the Coming Supply Crisis – Watts Up With That?
California’s energy policies have been walking a tightrope for years, but now, the state is contemplating an extreme measure that could tip it into full-blown crisis mode: taking over oil refineries. According to a recent Los Angeles Times article, California policymakers are seriously considering state ownership of refineries to ensure gasoline supply remains stable as […]
Dog walking forecast 2.6.25 | Weather
…WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TUESDAY TO 9 AM CST WEDNESDAY… * WHAT…Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 4 and 6 inches with locally higher amounts possible. * WHERE…Portions of southern Illinois, southwest Indiana, and western Kentucky. * WHEN…From noon Tuesday to 9 AM CST Wednesday. * IMPACTS…Plan on slippery road conditions. […]