Memo to the White House: Closing coal plants is a good thing | Grist

The White House should be throwing a big party every time a coal plant closes  [Why not celebrate every time there's a major blackout?]

Tim DeChristopher chats live with Ask Umbra | Grist

In our first live video chat, recently convicted climate [hoax] rebel Tim DeChristopher, aka Bidder 70, will take questions from Grist readers just days before his sentencing in federal court.

Eliminating soot would save 2.5 million lives a year, slow climate change [or not] | Grist

the stuff is also an agent for global warming: As it lingers in the atmosphere, it makes the earth darker, thus making it absorb more energy from the sun.

Soot warms, not cools the atmosphere

Considering current climate models generally attribute a net cooling effect from [sooty] brown clouds, a “rethink” might be in order, according to Peter Pilewskie of the University of Colorado at Boulder, who wrote an accompanying commentary in the same issue of Nature.