Climate Change

"Siberia’s Ice Is Melting, Revealing Its Past And Endangering Its Future"

"Nikita Zimov walked through the sticky brown muck of Siberia, just above the Arctic Circle. The sun radiated over the Russian republic of Sakha, also known as Yakutia, on a nearly 70 degree day. It was August of 2022, but in many ways the young scientist had traveled back in time thousands of years."

Source: Washington Post, 01/04/2024

"Sierra Nevada Snowpack At Lowest Level In 10 Years"

"California’s statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack — the source of nearly one-third of the state’s water supply — is at its lowest level in a decade, a major turnaround from last year when huge storms ended a three-year drought and buried ski resorts in massive amounts of snow."

Source: San Jose Mercury News, 01/04/2024

"Could 2024 Be A Breakout Year For The Transmission Grid?"

"Study after study has found the country can’t build renewable energy at the pace needed to rapidly decarbonize the power grid without also building a massive amount of new power lines, fast. But over the past half-decade, grid growth has slowed, not accelerated, bogged down by conflicts over siting, permitting and paying for new transmission capacity."

Source: Canary Media, 01/04/2024

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