The Climate Buzz

27/12/2024

The Climate Buzz is excited to welcome City of Asheville's Urban Forester, Keith Aitken, this Monday, 12/30, @ 9am on @103.3ashevillefm . Keith became Asheville's first Urban Forester in March of 2023 after serving as the recreation program leader for Asheville Parks & Recreation. In this leadership role, Keith is charged with enhancing the Tree Canopy Protection Ordinance Amendment and providing cross-departmental coordination and engagement with community partners to ensure the health and well-being of our city's trees. I hope you can join us and have a listen this Monday, 9am-10am, on Asheville FM!

The Climate Buzz is co-hosted by Bob Hanna, Lisa Raleigh (RiverLink), & Brad Rouse (Energy Savers Network). We're committed to sharing the stories, the people, the science, the challenges and the solutions for a warming planet. We hope you can tune in locally on 103.3FM and streamed at www.ashevillefm.org; you can also check out the AshevilleFM App. And don't forget to follow/like us on FB and Instagram to keep up with all the latest climate buzz!

22/12/2024

Did you know that Chinese consumers buy 67% more cars per year than US consumers? Did you know that in November over 50% of those cars were either pure EVs or plug in hybrids?

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Also: Geely is Rising Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market, with plugins scoring yet another new record, a little more than 1.27 million sales (in a 2.42-million-unit overall market). .......

20/12/2024

Thanks to our youth, there was a big win today in the climate movement!

Montana’s Supreme Court has upheld a landmark climate ruling that said the state was violating residents’ constitutional right to a clean environment.

18/12/2024

Pinning down exact amount of Helene's inland rainfall that came from climate change isn't possible, but studies say at least 10%.

14/12/2024

We are excited to welcome geologist, Philip Prince, to The Climate Buzz Monday, 12/16, @ 9am on Asheville FM. A graduate of Furman University, Philip’s experiences in academic research, geologic mapping, and landslide hazard assessment allowed him to develop a unique perspective about communicating geology. In the wake of Hurricane Helene, Philip created a popular series of videos on youtube channel, Geomodels, explaining the reasons for the massive flooding and landslides that occurred throughout the western North Carolina region. I hope you can join us and have a listen this Monday, 9am-10am, on Asheville FM!

The Climate Buzz is co-hosted by Bob Hanna, Lisa Raleigh (RiverLink), & Brad Rouse (Energy Savers Network). We're committed to sharing the stories, the people, the science, the challenges and the solutions for a warming planet. We hope you can tune in locally on 103.3FM and streamed at www.ashevillefm.org; you can also check out the AshevilleFM App. And don't forget to follow/like us on FB and Instagram to keep up with all the latest climate buzz!

11/12/2024

According to the Arctic Report Card, the Arctic tundra has shifted from a carbon sink, which it has been for millennia, into a carbon dioxide source, while also remaining a methane source.

This map shows the Arctic carbon balance over the past two decades. Land areas that had a net positive carbon dioxide flux, meaning they were a source of carbon to the atmosphere, are colored purple. The darkest purple clusters show areas where there were large releases of carbon dioxide due to wildfires. Green areas had a negative carbon dioxide flux, meaning they were a “sink” that removed and stored atmospheric carbon.

Read more: https://climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/2024-arctic-report-card-arctic-tundra-now-net-source-carbon-dioxide

10/12/2024

Arctic tundra is releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as hotter temperatures melt frozen ground and wildfires increase.

09/12/2024

Did you miss today's The Climate Buzz with special guest, Caleb Rudow? No worries as Asheville FM archives the last two shows on our show page! Come have a listen and keep yourself up-to-date on all the latest climate news!

The Climate Buzz Hosted By: Bob Hanna Genres: Talk Come join co-hosts, Dr. Bob Hanna, Lisa Raleigh (Executive Director of Riverlink) and Brad Rouse (founder of Energy Savers Network), as we share the stories, the people, the science, the challenges and the solutions of a changing climate. Every Mond...

05/12/2024

I got an opportunity to hear climate scientist, Dr. Zeke Hausfather, speak last night at the Collider last night. I particularly appreciated the charts he shared that were helpful in understanding the impact of global CO2 emissions and how they correlate with our warming planet. The table below shows how global temperatures have changed since the 1940s with a definite upward trajectory over the past 80+ years. Our current trajectory is 3C (5.5F) warmer by the end of our century and with every degree warming comes 7% more moisture that will increase the number and intensity of catastrophic hurricanes and tropic storms such as we experienced in Western North Carolina with Hurricane Helene.

03/12/2024

Brad reported on this news story Monday.

Biggest solar power plant in the US to showcase new coal-killing long duration iron-air energy storage technology.Biggest solar power plant in the US to showcase new coal-killing long duration iron-air energy storage technology

27/11/2024

25/11/2024

Primary energy fallacy. If you've ever heard "we can't build the grid to be big enough to handle all of the energy we need", the speaker may have been suffering from the "primary energy fallacy" - it's easy to succumb to. Indeed, the electricity needed to simply replace all the energy we use would seem to require 4 times more electricity than we use today.

Therein lies the fallacy. EVs or heat pumps provide the same services as gas cars or furnaces, but they use only one third of the energy, more or less. So by converting everything to electricity we can replace fossil fuels with about 2 times the electricity we use today. That's still a lot more electricity, but duable over 20-30 years if we try. And then, no more oil, gas, or coal and all that they imply.

Don't fall for the primary energy fallacy.

Whenever I post something on renewable energy on social media it never takes long for negative comments to arrive in my feed. One type of…

22/11/2024

Today's the last day for Asheville FM's fall fund drive and would greatly appreciate a donation any amount that supports our grassroots, volunteered powered radio station. I am deeply thankful for AshevilleFM supporting our show, The Climate Buzz, that is committed to sharing with you all the important stories, people, science, challenges and solutions of a warming planet. To make a donation, go to www.ashevillefm.org and click on the big red donation button!