There's a better way to power the world.

Nobody ever fought a war over solar panels and wind turbines...

Reposting as today is #EarthDay

Happy #EarthDay! 🌍

Today we are launching a white paper on Barriers to Glaciers-Related Financing.

As temperatures continue to rise, finance will be needed to respond to the impact of glacier loss on mountain 🗻 and water 🧊 ecosystems.

iccinet.org/glacier-fina...

First they came for evolution
Then they came for climate science
Then they came for epidemiology
Then they came for, like, really really basic math

Figure 3D from DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.02.118. Six panels are shown showing salmon/pink colored 'blobs' (like oil drops on the surface of a broth) and smaller brownish pinkish cells in random patterns. Each panel is labeled differently. I have added rounded boxes in different colors to highlight overlapping / duplicated areas. Lots of those boxes!

*How *not* to handle image manipulation*.

Editors, please do not address this level of photoshopping with a correction.

In 2020, I flagged Figure 3D of this 2017 BBRC paper. Multiple regions appeared reused within or across panels.

pubpeer.com/publications...

#ImageForensics
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Johan Rockström: “We will do anything we can to be
a force of truth in this process”

Listen to this very interesting interview with Johan ahead of the world's first Transition Away From Fossil Fuels conference in Colombia.

www.wedonthavetime.org/play?ac_vh_s...

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

The Guardian just published a story on our paper "The Risk of a Hothouse Earth Trajectory" regarding a potential point of no return. You can read it for free here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm co-organizing a free, 2-day Zoom workshop from the NAS & hope you'll consider attending!
📅 April 23-24: Discuss how we can enhance scientific integrity in the social and behavioral sciences
REGISTER: www.nationalacademies.org/projects/DBA...
PROGRAM: www.nationalacademies.org/cdn/material...

RATE MY “COAL COMEBACK” 🫵

8 government announcements are being repeated in the media as evidence of a “return to coal”.

But how consequential are they.. really?!🧵

The only way to durably protect hauliers - and the economy - against fossil fuel shocks is to support them to electrify trucks.

Sales of electric trucks in China outsold diesel trucks last December.

So far this year, only one electric HVG was newly registered in Ireland.
#fuelprotests #speirgorm

The biggest 1% of trees in woodland typically store 50% of the carbon. Without these trees, “forests cannot sequester large amounts of aboveground carbon”

“In the vast majority of places, large, old trees are declining quite rapidly”

They Cut Down ‘Grandpapa’ | The Tyee
thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

Zack Polanski calls for UK to withdraw trade agreement with Israel after strikes on Lebanon Green leader says PM should impose tougher sanctions on Israel, which he accuses of acting in ‘completely uncontrolled way’

Damn right!

But the facilitator of the Gaza genocide that is the Starmer goverment will never do anything to annoy its fascist and racist ally

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Artemis II's last test: Will its heat shield work? Excess charring on Artemis I's heat shield had NASA racing to understand what went wrong—and to ensure the technology was still safe for the current crew's high-speed reentry.

I can say without hesitation that this is the HARDEST article I have ever written, but I am incredibly proud of it.

If you have questions about Orion’s heat shield, given the issues with Artemis I, I hope I can provide some answers:

www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Image of penguins and Southern Elephant Seal

Emperor Penguins + Southern Elephant Seals now classed as 'endangered', Antarctic Fur Seals 'vulnerable', as climate change melts sea ice + reduces available food.

We are living through the great vanishing.

We have the tools to stop this.

Free to read:

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/c...

48th #Retraction for Didier Raoult - by @plosone.org - because the IRB approvals did not cover all regions and experiments.
PubPeer concerns raised by me in March 2021: pubpeer.com/publications...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

A quote from @70sbachchan.bsky.social that didn't make it into my NYT piece:

"Countries can make very big strategic choices during oil shocks that last for generations."

That includes policymakers ... and consumers. 👇

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

Great addition to a recent blogpost from @nworbmot.bsky.social

nworbmot.org/blog/solar-b...

Most of humans can go 90% solar in 2030. It's mostly northern Europe that's the edge case that also needs loads of wind. And the last 10% fuel... we'll take care of that before too long.

I wrote a perspective for Anesthesia & Analgesia -
"Seeing Is Believing? Scientific Misconduct and the Detection of Problematic Images"

Still trying to make it Open Access. Fingers crossed!

journals.lww.com/anesthesia-a...

Canada's Oil industry is excited at how the illegal US-Israeli war against Iran is a "massive opportunity" for Oil development & windfall profits

@mark-carney.bsky.social calls proposed offshore Bay du Nord oil devt in Newfoundland “a very attractive project” that'll produce “very low carbon oil”

How inverters can stabilize a renewables-heavy grid Daniel Duckwitz and Catarina Augusto explain how we can run stable electricity grids on inverter-based clean energy resources.

I think it foreshadows a future in which every battery system connected to the grid has a grid forming inverter. Every one of them becomes a source of frequency and voltage stabilisation. The grid becomes rock solid.
www.volts.wtf/p/how-invert...
docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy24ost...

The final report on the Iberia Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) blackout is out.

Many will be blaming renewables and talk about inertia: nonsense.
The cause was bad voltage control.
Solar and wind could have helped but that was illegal.

The fix is is surprisingly easy.
www.entsoe.eu/publications...

The Iran War Is Another Reason to Quit Oil What if the drone is to warfare as the solar panel is to energy?

The drone is to warfare as the solar panel is to energy: small, cheap, harder to centralize and control.
We're seeing the sudden rise of both technologies

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

I did say “Ben Lamm is a tech bro who thinks technology can solve the world’s problems, but de-extinction isn’t going to do that.”

Cascade of A.I. Fakes About War With Iran Causes Chaos Online (Gift Article) The technology has been used to create misleading fakes before. But never at this scale.

GenAI: not only a huge problem in science, but also for news rooms. Fake news all around.

Cascade of A.I. Fakes About War With Iran Causes Chaos Online
By Stuart A. Thompson and Alexander Cardia @nytimes.com
#GiftLink

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Barry Blitt’s sketchbook.

@airmail.news
airmail.news/issues/2026-...

For Batoul Hamdan and her two children, seven-month-old Fatima and Jihad, three, Monday’s iftar, the evening meal that breaks the daily fast during Ramadan, was special. For a week, they had eaten to the sounds of bombs in their home in Arab Salim. Hamdan eventually decided to leave for Al-Nimiriya, the sleepy town where she had grown up. Surrounded by her parents and siblings in the family home, she hoped they could finally enjoy the festive mood of Ramadan. They had just finished their meal when the bomb fell. The Israeli airstrike collapsed the two-storey building instantly, killing all eight members of the Hamdan family: grandparents Ahmad and Najib, their children, including Batoul, and grandchildren Fatima and Jihad – three generations wiped out in a moment. On Thursday, only snarled rebar and broken concrete remained of the Hamdan family home. The fragments of their lives – a certificate of achievement from the children’s schooldays, cutlery from their cabinet, frayed purses – had been ejected by the force of the blast and now littered the ground. “There was no warning before the strike. My own two kids started to cry, I picked them up and started to run away from the explosion when it happened,” said Qassem Ayoub, a neighbour and town police officer, as he stared at the wreckage. “Why were they targeted? I don’t know, ask the Israelis.”

Israel's campaign of murderous ethnic cleansing and genocide continues in Lebanon. How can any human hand-wring about this? The 'both sides' are the side of life and the side of death.

Israel is obsessed with mass-murdering children and they must be stopped

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

A new UN climate resolution is a ‘credibility test’ of the global rule of law In a world characterized by increasing violence, instability and disrespect for international law, the UN General Assembly’s ability to pass a resolution welcoming and affirming the ICJ advisory opini...

International law is being tested in dozens of ways at the moment. @isabellakaminski.bsky.social shines a light on one: whether the UN will adopt a resolution welcoming the ICJ advisory opinion on climate or break under pressure from polluting countries drilled.media/news/un-icj

Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab

Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle NCAR Research Lab - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...

That's funny, I could have sworn he said something about not needing Royal Navy vessels because the war was already won.
You broke it Don, you fix it.

would love for the iran war to burst the ai bubble