The Angry Clean Energy Guy

Big Data, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence are being harnessed by Big Tech in an unholy alliance with Big Oil aimed at increasing oil & gas production, climate emergency be damned. This Episode tells you much more about that, as well as about how we can derail this alliance. Hero of the Week: Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, for the EU Green Deal she tabl...

The Angry Clean Energy Guy's Top 10 Reasons to be a Climate Optimist Anytime you get depressed by the climate catastrophe all around us, come back here, to this Episode, to refresh, then go back out and fight: The case for climate optimism is strong. 

A cataclysmic event (well, sort of) happened recently: The largest multi-lateral lender in the world, the European Investment Bank, said no to lending more money to oil, gas and coal.  Why cataclysmic? It’s the gas bit. Because we’ve been told, time and time again, by oil companies  that “natural gas” is clean, or is a bridge to a cleaner future. Now the biggest multilateral bank in the world says...

 The Angry Clean Energy Guy on insects, what they do for us, why we should love them and how new shock findings confirm that we are in the middle of an insect Armageddon of planetary ecological breakdown proportions. Hero of the Week: James Shaw, Minister of Climate Change of New Zealand, for working on a new regime that would require companies to assess and report their climate-related financial...

On how in 1982, Exxon Mobil published a beautiful 46 page report and estimated with stunning accuracy that the atmosphere would contain 415 parts per million of carbon dioxide this year. Then: They lied; They lobbied; They corrupted; They profited. And so we ended up, in 2019, with a climate emergency.  Hero of the Week: 1,000 Australian engineers rebelling and putting engineering firms under pres...

On (almost) everything you need to know about the dangerous global boom taking place in the petrochemicals industry, the plastic myths and cons it peddles and (some of) what we should do about it. Hero of the Week: Ban ki-Moon for acting on climate in South Korea. Villain of the Week: Liv Lønnum, Deputy Minister in the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, for being a pretend conservationist...

On the Saudi Aramco IPO, what it is, its risks, valuation, flawed rationale and why the IPO of the third largest polluter in history, in the era of fighting climate change, is pure hubris and greed. Hero of the Week: Every person that went out for a climate strike worldwide, notwithstanding the deafening silence in Asia. Villain of the Week: Norway's Equinor, for lying to the British public a...

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on a major recent development and a precursor of what’s coming for Big Oil everywhere, namely Shell and Exxon having their social license to operate dirty and dangerous gas fields revoked in Groningen in the Netherlands; and on China’s Belt and Road initiative and the bad rap it gets for being environmentally unfriendly. Villain of the Week: Maxime Bernier, leader of the...

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the other planetary emergency coming to us via Brazil, the decimation of 500,000,000 bees through the use of pesticides illegal elsewhere; on how Costa Rica offers hope to the burning Amazon Rainforest; on using plastic waste to pay for bus fares in Indonesia and Ecuador; and on a huge health warning sign I wrote that should be slapped on the side of petrol- and diese...

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the climate change lawsuits tsunami spreading around the world to hold polluters to account; and on plastic particles falling out of the sky with snow in the Arctic and plastic raining on the Rocky Mountains and on the Pyrenees mountains - and what to do about it. Hero of the Week: Medi Bastoni, a 43-year-old father of 4, walking 700km backwards from his home to Jakar...

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on amazing reforestation initiatives in Pakistan, India, China, Ethiopia, Europe as well as the Great Green Wall from Senegal to Djibouti, the amazing lack of reforestation in the US and Russia and the criminal destruction of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest; on the climate movement's propensity to attack each other instead of staying focused on its civilization-savi...

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the inexorable and intolerable continuing rise of emissions 27 years after the Earth Summit of 1992 in Rio de Janeiro; and on the RE 100, the best global initiative to fight back against catastrophic climate change by bringing together major businesses driving the world to 100% renewable electricity.  Winner of the Week: Adidas, for challenging the (very irresponsible...

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on a virus infecting sustainability: Big Oil are deliberately poisoning what sustainability means, diluting its impact and reach, and they are doing that in plain sight, borrowing the language and applying it to terrible initiatives and companies all designed to propagate our use of harmful fossil fuels and indeed increase it, rather than decrease it, when everyone knows...

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the weirdest, strangest and most violent climate chaos apparent everywhere in June in China, India, Pakistan, the United States, Europe, Russia, Japan, the Arctic, Antarctic and Greenland - seemingly with not a single news outlet connecting the dots. Winner of the week: Insurers Chubb for being the first US insurer to have the common sense and the guts to exit coal; V...

The Angry Clean Energy Guy names and shames top fashion brands and describes why the fashion and garments industry is a horror show from a climate change and environmental perspective. Villain of the week: Shell Oil, who think they are smarter than everyone else, now greenwashing by pretending to sell "responsible" dirty gas cargoes, as if that could even be a thing. Hero of the week: Am...

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the (very) dirty secret of luxury cruises which are in fact just punctured garbage bins on water; on New York State's aggressive 100% renewable energy mandate and on Canada's parliament voting that we are in a climate emergency one day then finding it perfectly normal to approve a massive pipeline for filthy tar sands oil the very next day

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the impact of climate change so far in June (and just June) on India, Pakistan, China, Finland, Russia, Australia and the US - and how these major climate impacts are seemingly broadly ignored by the media even though they dwarf in importance what counts as news these days; on the $200 billion value destruction at GE, directly related to how much its management mis-ju...

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on what the climate movement must learn (but hasn't, yet) from the fight against HIV /AIDS: The battle against Big Pharma was won in a way that offers important lessons for the fight against Big Coal, Big Oil and Big Gas. Hero of the week: Dr. Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University. Villain of the week: Asia Pulp a...

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on electric bicycles; palm oil, deforestation, haze and climate change; “natural” gas and why the re-branding of methane gas into “natural” gas can’t hide the fact that methane gas is CO2 on steroids. Hero of the week: Jerry Taylor, who spent most of his professional life arguing against climate action, then changed his mind. Villain of the week: ABC’s World News Tonight...

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on dolphins dying en masse in Peru because of offshore oil & gas exploration techniques and in France because of industrial fishing; on why green bonds do more harm than goods; on lyin' coal companies and the forked tongues at BP Oil; and on electric buses and why they should be deployed everywhere right now

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the human race reaching the highest levels of planet-warming gases in our atmosphere in human history; on an Exxon scientific paper from 1982 accurately predicting we would be there in 2019; on how much cash, lungs and lives we are granting Big Oil free of charge to destroy the planet; and on the Bintang supermarket in Ubud, Bali

On a super-important report on our biodiversity from IPBES, Amsterdam and cars, Beijing and electric scooters, Michael O'Leary, Ryanair as the new coal and the aviation industry

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on China's Belt and Road Initiative; Fund managers and oil companies; Jakarta; Cyclone Kenneth in Mozambique; Deforestation and Indian lawyer and environmentalist Afroz Shah

On microplastics, geoengineering, chevron, occidental, BHP, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Danone, Unilever, generating electricity from wood and climate change protests

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the Bank of England, the world's capital markets; plant-based diets; stopping flying; overthrowing capitalism; mainstream media and the BBC; and Shell Oil