Category: Climate change
Report: Data centers poised to push up energy costs, challenge MI’s climate goals
With the proliferation of data centers, Michigan needs to take more action to meet its own clean energy targets and protect residential ratepayers from increased energy costs. That’s according to a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Q&A: What to know about Michigan’s proposed invasive plants
Stateside’s April Baer chatted with a state forester about new species proposed for the Michigan invasive species list, and what you can do to foster native plants in your garden.
Researchers find Antarctic penguin breeding is heating up sooner
Warming temperatures are forcing Antarctic penguins to breed earlier and that’s a big problem for two of the cute tuxedoed species that face extinction by the end of the century, a study said.
Avoiding Contrails on Night & Winter Flights Is Aviation’s Fastest Climate Win — New T&E Study
A new analysis by T&E shows that 25% of European aviation’s contrail-related global warming comes from night flights in autumn and winter, which make up just 10% of European air traffic. Contrail warming is highly seasonal and concentrated in time: in 2019, 75% of European contrail warming occurred between January to … [continued]
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When Steel Outlives Strategy: The Climate Cost of Germany’s Hydrogen Pipeline
Germany’s 400 km hydrogen backbone segment is now pressurized, full of fossil hydrogen, and waiting. There are no meaningful suppliers connected to it and no contracted offtakers drawing molecules out. That fact alone makes it worth slowing down and doing the accounting carefully, because large infrastructure decisions do not become … [continued]
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