‘Hurricane Maria killed more than 4,600 people in Puerto Rico, 70 times the official toll, according to estimates in a Harvard University study.’

Source: Hurricane Maria ‘killed 4,600 in Puerto Rico’ – BBC News

‘In this election preview show we discuss several key races where energy and climate issues are expected to be major factors. To up the ante, Political Climate co-hosts Shane Skelton and Brandon Hurlbut make a friendly election wager.’

Source: Election Preview: Energy and Climate Races to Watch in 2018 | Greentech Media

“We don’t have unlimited time,” she said. “Do we or don’t we care about our grandchildren? We’ve been stealing their future.”

Source: Jane Goodall Says We Need to Act on Climate Change | Time

‘California may be a leader in the fight against climate change, but the state is increasingly hard hit by symptoms of the unrelenting rise of greenhouse gases, a new state assessment finds.’

Source: Shrinking glaciers, bigger fires and hotter nights: How climate change is altering California

‘Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) staff can no longer advise builders they need to obtain a permit mandated by law to maintain endangered species habitat, according to new Interior Department guidance.’

Source: New Interior guidance prohibits telling developers Endangered Species Act permits are mandatory | TheHill

‘HSBC, whose global assets total more than $2 trillion, announced Friday that as the climate change crisis deepens, it will no longer finance new coal-fired power plants (with a few targeted exceptions), Arctic drilling or new oilsands projects, including pipelines.’

Source: Europe’s biggest bank retreats from the oilsands | National Observer

‘A group of 131 representatives and 39 senators signed a resolution introduced Wednesday that calls for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt to resign.’

Source: 170 lawmakers sign resolution calling for Pruitt’s resignation | TheHill

“A critical parameter for installing fixed-tilt panels is the tilt angle, since PV panel output increases with increasing exposure to direct sunlight. Energy modelers also need to know the optimal tilt angle of a panel for calculating regional or global PV output in a given location or worldwide.”

Source: World estimates of PV optimal tilt angles and ratios of sunlight incident upon tilted and tracked PV panels relative to horizontal panels

‘Solar photovoltaic and wind power are rapidly getting cheaper and more abundant – so much so that they are on track to entirely supplant fossil fuels worldwide within two decades, with the time frame depending mostly on politics. The protestation from some politicians that we need to build new coal stations sounds rather quaint.’

Source: Solar PV and wind are on track to replace all coal, oil and gas within two decades

‘Report from global renewables agency REN21 highlights just how dramatic the global energy transition will be, as the cost of wind and solar continue to fall, and storage continues its rapid adoption.’

Source: This is how baseload gets replaced by renewables and storage