Brave New Climate

They’re German. And they make sense on climate-change mitigation! This animated video is one of the best summaries I’ve seen on the prospects for, and impediments to, cutting greenhouse gases...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2020/10/02/kurzgesagt-on-climate-change-mitigation/

Some replies to questions posed so far, in the previous comments thread (and one on Twitter). Disclaimer: These are my personal opinions and/or represent my synthesis of the evidence I’ve seen....

https://bravenewclimate.com/2020/09/21/ama-1/

It’s been a while — well over 4 years, in fact… Time for an update? Brave New Climate is is a blog with its roots in the climate and energy problem. It was started in 2008, flourished for a...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2020/09/17/bnc-update/

By Jessie Buettel & Barry Brook. Original published on The Conversation. Anyone who has been outdoors in a populated area in the past month will be aware of the massive success of Pokémon GO, wh...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2016/09/14/pokecology/

Time for a new open thread, since apparently the previous one is now loading a little slowly… I’ll close the old one to comments, so please continue discussion here. As for the quiescence of ...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2016/09/10/open-thread-26/

Ph.D. projects now offered in the Dynamics of Eco-Evolutionary Patterns (D.E.E.P.) research group, based at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Tasmania. We study ecological an...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2016/07/11/ph-d-scholarships-in-ecology-conservation/

Time for a fresh open thread! (the old one being weighed down by over 1000 comments). The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothin...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2016/07/03/open-thread-25/

Back in February 2015, I posted on BNC about the announcement of a Royal Commission into the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (henceforth NFCRC) in the uranium-mining state of South Australia (SA). This was fo...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2016/06/07/on-the-nuclear-fuel-cycle-royal-commission/

I’ve never liked titles of scientific papers that being with “On the…”. It’s always struck me as simultaneously pretentious and uninformative. These days I usually try to give the main...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2016/06/04/what-on-the/

The 6th January 2015. That was the last time I posted an original contribution to Brave New Climate (BNC)  — at least something that wasn’t a re-post (e.g., from The Conversation), a guest p...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2016/05/27/bnc-3-0/

The last Open Thread has screamed past 1000 comments, so time for a new one… (And for those who are wondering why there have been so few posts on BNC recently, well… there are reasons. I wi...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2016/05/01/open-thread-24/

Guest Post by John Morgan. John is Chief Scientist at a Sydney startup developing smart grid and grid scale energy storage technologies.  You can follow John on twitter at @JohnDPMorgan. A lo...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/11/08/the-capacity-factor-of-wind/

The last Open Thread is feeling a tad dated, so time for a new one… The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic�...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/10/25/open-thread-23/

This is Part III of the “Sustaining the Wind” series of essays by NNadir. For Part I, click here. Part II is here. In part 2 of this series, we discussed the claim of Udo Bardi, an academic ...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/10/19/sustaining-the-wind-part-3-is-uranium-exhaustible/

This is Part II of the “Sustaining the Wind” series of essays by David Jones. For Part I, click here. At the conclusion of part 1 of this series, we saw that the putative demand for the eleme...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/08/17/sustaining-the-wind-part-2-indium-and-beyond/

What follows on this blog over the next few weeks will be a series of five important essays on sustainable energy, by David Jones (who also blogs as NNadir on Daily Kos, bio here). A previous art...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/07/27/sustaining-the-wind-p1/

Last week I presented at the Australian Academy of Science on ‘techno-fixes for climate change’. This talk was part of an AAS series organised by Bryan Gaensler called “Science Fiction beco...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/07/12/techno-fixes-for-climate-change/

Guest Post by Graham Palmer. Graham recently published the book “Energy in Australia: Peak Oil, Solar Power, and Asia’s Economic Growth” (“Springer Briefs in Energy” series). The Tesla...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/07/05/making-sense-of-the-tesla-triumvirate-solar-batteries-and-electric-vehicles/

Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff recently released the popular book “Greenjacked! The derailing of environmental action on climate change“. Preamble Following a recent article by Helen Cal...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/06/18/complaint-about-misleading-helen-caldicott-article-in-the-saturday-paper/

Guest Post by John Morgan. John is Chief Scientist at a Sydney startup developing smart grid and grid scale energy storage technologies.  You can follow John on twitter at @JohnDPMorgan. The ...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/06/05/less-than-the-sum-of-its-parts-rethinking-all-of-the-above-clean-energy/