Robert E. Mace shares his experience visiting Hellisheidi, the third-largest geothermal power plant in the world. What can we learn from this innovative system?…
Drilling for Clean Energy: Iceland, a Geothermal Pioneer
What Humpty Dumpty and the Atlantic Have in Common
If you want to understand how our climate will change in the coming years, you’ve got to understand tipping points. When a small change causes a larger long-term effect, we call this a tipping point….
Weather, Climate, and Measuring Chili Pepper Heat
Have you ever wondered how scientists can predict climate trends over hundreds of years but can’t predict the weather weeks from today? The reason lies in the fact that weather and climate are two different things….
What are the Odds?
In this post, we dive into the tricky business of probabilities as it relates to 100-year floods and explore the widely different interpretations people attach to probabilistic words….
OSCAR and CLARA: The Future of Climate-Water Resilience
There’s something about water-reuse projects that give me a treated-wastewater-slurping grin when I tour them, and it was no different last week when I elatedly toured the City of Austin’s on-site, building-scale wastewater reuse demonstration project during its ribbon cutting. The 2011 to 2015 drought gave Austin quite the scare as the Highland Lakes disturbingly…
Climate Change COP-out?
The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) recently concluded. Running for two weeks in Glasgow, Scotland, leaders from 200 nations worldwide came together to review and advance goals related to humanity’s response to climate change and create the Glasgow Climate Pact. Delayed a year due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, COP26 was a check-in on…