The recent EF 3 & EF 4 tornadoes in Tennessee and Kentucky tracked over 100 miles. What’s happening?

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with Charley Bowman, Chair Environmental Justice Taskforce of the WNY Peace Center

Nine years ago, Stanford professor Marc Jacobson & colleagues published their plan for 100{18f4e0a41fddb2e88741536e88191ef0d4c56a815c6739466934f6385f4e0c26} renewable energy for New York State. He later extended the plan to the entire US. Jacobson assumed hydro would play a big role in keeping the lights on, and received considerable heat over that assumption. Jacobson now walks back the hydro assumption and says batteries can play a huge role. If we are not going to tear up Mother Earth for more hydro, we now face the problem of cleanly and fairly tearing up Mother Earth to extract the metals necessary for those batteries — without destroying rain forests. He published his new plan two months ago.