Some good news out there! Renewable energy is exceeding fossil fuels

#CarbonFreeEconomy #RenewableEnergy

Renewable energy overtook coal in 2025 to become the world’s largest source of electricity, according to @ember-energy.org

Together with other clean energy sources, renewables helped push fossil fuel generation into structural decline last year – falling by 0.2%

Musk scorned “shady” loopholes, yet offshore tax tricks likely saved Tesla hundreds of millions When Tesla released its annual report for U.S. regulators in January, the Texas-based automaker, led by the world’s richest man, reported a federal tax bill of zero dollars for 2025.

Elon Musk's Tesla reported an estimated federal tax bill of $0 for 2025. A Reuters analysis found that Tesla units in the Netherlands and Singapore posted $18 billion in profits that likely saved the company more than $400 million in US taxes reut.rs/48wd21x

Electric car sales soar 51% in mainland Europe as Iran war drives up fuel prices Norway leads the way in terms of switching as data shows 224,000 new EVs were registered in March

Electric car sales soar 51% in mainland Europe as Iran war drives up fuel prices

‘Very likely’ cat bonds will be used to source risk capital for data centre build out: John Seo - Artemis.bm As the data centre build-out continues to expand as an emerging field across the industry, it appears very likely that insurers, reinsurers and various

Fermat Capital Management's John Seo: Without catastrophe bonds, the ability of data center developers to arrange financing could be at risk. Facilities are moving away from hurricanes but directly into the path of other severe convective storms.

There was one report of softball size (4" diameter) #hail near Maple Bluff, WI Tuesday. (NE Madison metro)

Per NOAA's database, the only other occurrence of 4" hail in Dane County dating to 1950 was on July 2, 1960.

One of most damaging hail events in Madison history?

(📸: Kyle Obremski)

Melania broke the two-week Epstein file ceasefire.

#wxSky

You forgot another d letter word, dementia

An active morning already for Hawaii and a TON of lightning in the storm that hit the Big Island earlier.

Hawaii faces another Kona storm while some areas are still recovering from the last two:

www.cnn.com/2026/04/08/w...

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Wow, that headline photo eerily encapsulates much about the current state of affairs in a single moment

March 27: Here are three graphics that highlight why there is rising concern regarding the prospect of difficult wildfire activity in the months to come.

- Widespread drought
- Very dry soils
- Well below normal Western US snowpack (water equivalent)

This is on top of continued anomalous heat.

#wxSky #ClimateEmergency

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

This is absolutely incredible: the average temperature over the past six months (October-March) will end up at 52.5°F in #Albuquerque.

That's 4°F above the previous record warmest.

🤯 Even after accounting for climate change, the odds of it being THAT warm are 1-in-123,000!! 🤯

Another win for clean energy, let's keep them coming.

Cyclone Narelle is making the case for one of the most incredible / unique Australia storm tracks on record. The storm originally made landfall in far northern Queensland on March 20, and is now forecast to outline most of the entire northern & western coasts of the country.

Trump’s latest bid to snuff out offshore wind: Pay firms not to build it US administration will pay TotalEnergies $1 billion to end its offshore wind leases and invest in LNG exports. Critics say the move could make energy even more expensive.

US administration will pay #TotalEnergies $1 billion to end its offshore wind leases and invest in #LNG exports. Critics say the move could make energy even more expensive.

Battery storage has proven itself invaluable during California's record-breaking spring heatwave.

During peak demand, grid batteries delivered ~11 GW – a third of demand.

They kept power price spikes lower and short-lived.

Chart for March 19

#wxsky #climatechange

CITI: “.. We estimate Brent prices will rally as the conflict continues over the coming days, to $110-120/bbl.

“.. Our bull case scenario .. is for $130 bbl average 2Q-3Q, with prices reaching $150/bbl Brent and up to $200/bbl ‘all-in’ (crude oil plus consumption weighted oil product premiums) ..”

This is what happens when you fire people and you don’t comprehend their work.

#shortsided

The image is an informational graphic titled "NORTH AMERICAN POPULATION DENSITY," created by Visual Capitalist. The main feature is a three-dimensional, relief-style map of North America, where population density is represented by the height and color of the peaks. Highly dense areas are shown as tall, dark red peaks, while sparsely populated areas are flat and light tan. The accompanying text explains, "We map out where over half a billion people live on the third-largest continent, from clusters near coasts and warmer latitudes, to the more sparsely populated northern regions and interiors." Several key urban areas are highlighted with their average density listed in people per square kilometer, including: New York, US (11,314 people/km²), San Francisco, US (7,193 people/km²), Mexico City, MX (6,163 people/km²), and Port-au-Prince, HT (2,395 people/km²). The map visually demonstrates the dramatic clustering of the population along the coasts and southern borders of the United States and Mexico, with a notable density around the Great Lakes (Chicago and Toronto) and very sparse populations across Canada's interior and the western US.

North American population density map. Beautiful!

by @Civixplorer

#wxSky #climaterisk

Quote by Dr. Carlos Martinez, Senior Scientist at UCS:“UCS strongly urges NSF to preserve NCAR as an intact national research center...recognizing that dismantling or fragmenting this proven model would undermine one of the nation’s most important scientific institutions."

The NSF has provided no evidence to justify dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Doing so would undermine one of the nation’s most vital scientific institutions. @ncar-ucar.bsky.social

Read the letter UCS submitted today:

🔗 act.ucsusa.org/3NeWZh1

Norwegian new passenger cars sales by type: Monthly

US new light-duty vehicle sales by type: Monthly

Tale of two petrostates.

Data from @robbieandrew.bsky.social: robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/

Sometimes, a higher risk severe weather forecast features one remarkable, long-lived supercell.

Tuesday, this supercell produced severe weather and multiple tornadoes for almost 4.5 hours over 121 miles from near Minonk, IL into Starke Co. IN.

Radar history courtesy of NCAR/RAL.

An impressive view of the tornadic supercell that produced massive hail in Illinois earlier today.

Increasing energy dependence on a volatile, globally traded commodity delivers neither energy security nor affordability. Hope that helps. 🫡