The Standing March

During the COP21 Paris climate talks, a video projection representing more than 500 people was projected on buildings around Paris. Titled “The Standing March”, the video projection served as a reminder to the representatives participating in the talks...
Evolution of Ivanpah

Evolution of Ivanpah

In 2014, the world’s largest concentrated solar thermal power plant, Ivanpah Solar, began generating electricity from the Mojave desert. Unlike photovoltaics, which convert sunlight directly into power, Ivanpah has 347,000 mirrors which direct sunlight into...

Gratitude

We are stunningly lucky to be alive on a planet that supports life. We are even luckier to be living in this brief moment in time when not only can we (here in the northern hemisphere, western world) take a hot shower any time we want, we can look out into the sky and...
A climate change Christmas Carol

A climate change Christmas Carol

In this fabulous series, Skeptical Science writer Howard Lee re-writes A Christmas Carol for our times, with ghosts of climate past, present and future haunting Ebenezer Scruggio. Illustrations by JG. Part 1: The Ghost of Climate Past. Part 2: The Ghost of Climate...