In case you missed it live, the recording is available below (as always!). There were some great questions from the audience yesterday (which is usually true, but I always like to highlight the participatory nature of these sessions!).
I had time to read that much about it today and was relieved.
I’m hoping the results of this election become highly contagious and spread across the globe. Granted, I don’t know much about the winning candidate, but this still seems like a giant step forward. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...
Interesting. An international conference specifically about transitioning away from fossil fuels. This is a way for countries that get it to cooperate outside the sclerotic UNFCCC framework. Worth watching.
The latest installment in my 10-part series on climate change and hurricanes: 4 recent post-hurricane heatwaves have had massive post-storm power outages responsible for multiple heat-related deaths: Beryl (2024), Irma (2017), Laura (2020), and Ida (2021).
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"This is what the novel Ministry of the Future got wrong, with its horrifying "wet-bulb" event in India, where the grid goes down...letting heat kill a million people. Now in places with fragile grids, people are taking matters into their own hands with cheap distributed solar"
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I'll host a live office hour on Wed, Apr 8 at 2pm PT to discuss imminent shift to a more unsettled weather pattern across CA & the West, including potential for widespread thunderstorm activity & beneficial precip. Also: I'll offer another federal update.
I hope that trend continues for you. I only had one filling until I started having kids. Then dental hell broke loose!
BIG, EXCITING NEWS!
Dr. Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social -- world-leading climate scientist and author -- is coming to Project Drawdown after leaving NASA.
She will be a Senior Scientist, leading an exciting new initiative on "Emergency Brake" climate solutions.
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“Even some U.S. citizens working on the O’Harrow farm support the deportations, a position Joel finds confusing and thinks comes from too much talk radio on the tractor.”
And in my opinion, likely reinforced on social media www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...
It’s the extra money I’ll have to fork out if I don’t. Not to forget my gag reflex.
Johnston says, even if the strait opened today, there would be *years* of economic fallout, just from the several-week bubble of cut supply. If it stays closed for weeks or months ... he just says, "it *can't* go on that long. The entire world economy would wrench itself apart." So there's that.
I keep listening to podcasts with oil analysts & the shit they are saying is absolutely apocalyptic.
If it stays closed, we're going to have to reduce oil demand *more than demand fell during Covid*. Remember that? When the entire world shut down? More than that.
67/ Cannot talk of the US as one entity when it comes to fuel.
"New England heats with fuel oil.
The Southeast heats with electricity.
The Midwest heats with natural gas.
Same country, completely different energy systems.
Every county in one map:" ht John Bistiline
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I agree. This event has been meteorologically astonishing, and its impacts will be felt long after it ends in terms of record low snowpack, sharply increased wildfire risk, and extreme low watershed runoff/streamflow into summer and beyond.
Had used it sparingly and not the paid version.
That was the fastest “delete account” for me ever.
Go listen to the new episode of Decoder, where @reckless.bsky.social interviews Grammarly CEO Shishir Mehrotra (see quoted post), which also inspired my newsletter for today: www.readtpa.com/p/sloppelgan...
Full disclosure: this is not my area of expertise, and I had to look up the author, Lovins. But given I was 16 in 1976 and not thinking about any of this back then, it’s fascinating.
Reading now
From October 1976!
“Good solar hardware, often modular, is going into pilot or full-scale production over the next few years, and will increasingly be integrated into buildings as a multipurpose structural element, thereby sharing costs.” www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Daniel Swain talked about this some in one of his recent YouTubes.
“Physics-based forecasts should remain valid even as the climate changes; AI systems, by contrast, are trained on historical data and could falter when confronted with events that differ radically from anything they have seen previously.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I’ve been reflecting on how I attended a fundamentalist protestant church in the ‘70s (i’m old!) and yet separation of church and state was revered.
Edmunds, an online retailer for new and used cars, says searches for hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and EVs are up 20% in one week and EnergySage saw a 17% increase in homeowners requesting quotes for solar installations, and a 23% increase in requests for solar plus a home battery.
The central & southern Great Plains actually do tend to see a late winter/early spring peak in wildfire activity, prior to spring/summer wet season when grasses green up but when strong large-scale windstorms are still common. That "dry, very windy, plus dead grass" overlap is rare in summer.
The Morrill Fire in Nebraska has killed 1 and consumed 549,000 acres with 0% containment. This is more than 10% of the entire area burned by U.S. wildfires in 2025, and makes it one of the 20 largest fires in U.S. history. Sunday forecast is grim: High Wind Warning, 25-35 mph winds, gusting to 50.
Oh such times we’re living in
I just shared an article from a major news network about a politician before remembering the dreadful path the network has taken. I deleted it but… 🫤
"...pathocracy is a system of government 'wherein a small pathological minority takes control over a society of normal people'."
Replacing a factual sentence with an imagined story about a person who doesn’t exist is not only bad editing. It’s a deception that could end my career as a journalist (or the career of any journalist who took that terrible advice).
Ever used Grammarly? Then you might want to read this thread!