Take a look at this very informative interview with @janrosenow.bsky.social
The push he describes in Europe is also happening in NY State, and seems to drive the current effort by our Governor to postpone implementation of our climate law and progressive energy policy.
Energy disinformation is the new climate denial.
New interview with @wblau.bsky.social of Brunswick Review on why Europe is underestimating electrification, overestimating hydrogen & arguing about scarcity when alternatives are abundant.
review.brunswickgroup.com/article/europe-energy-transition/
NEW PODCAST: Electricity is just 20% of global energy. The other 80% (heating, transport, industry) still runs on fossil fuels. Full electrification could cut total energy demand in half. More in my conversation with @bobbyllew.bsky.social of Everything Electric Show
youtube.com/watch?v=-jSqcwxpd14
🌊 paper alert !
Global observations suggest that while eddies export carbon to depth, their role in the biological carbon pump is likely modest (<5%)
📄 The full article is available in Global Biogeochemical Cycles:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
#Argofloats #OneArgo
How come only the corrupt, incompetent women in Trump's cabinet are getting the boot, and not the corrupt, incompetent men?
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6/ PROXIES - We only have direct AMOC measurements since 2004. But sea surface temperatures, ocean salinity, subsurface density, and deep-water tracers all tell the same story: the AMOC has weakened since the mid-20th century.
Different methods, different data, same conclusion.
4/ PALEO - Deep-sea sediment cores from the Atlantic preserve chemical fingerprints of past ocean circulation.
They show the #AMOC shut down repeatedly during the last ice age, triggering hemispheric temperature swings of 10–15°C within decades.
This system has an off switch.
3/ What's changed isn't one alarming paper.
It's a consilience of evidence:
- Paleo records
- Basic physics
- Proxy reconstructions
- Earth system models
- Direct observations
All now converging on the same conclusion. Together, they can't be ignored.
![NASA: The Thermohaline Circulation (The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt) [720p]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yyjm6azqeob2dqgn47e4g6uf/bafkreia2kybhdcezlzrjenpry2ymfqu4d6nz6qg4avho35svzw53ygmc24)
2/ It's called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the #AMOC.
Warm, salty water flows north at the surface, cools, sinks, and returns south at depth.
But add enough freshwater from melting ice and rising rainfall, and that engine stalls. It's happened before.
Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.
1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.
In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.
Most people have no idea. 🧵
With its aggressive push for offshore oil & gas production & deregulation frenzy (e.g., withdrawing protections of endangered whales as a national emergency), can we rely on Trump Administration to prevent another BP oil spill from this ultra-deep development? Gift 🔗
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/c...
In 2022, SpaceX was charged with illegally firing workers who spoke out against Elon Musk.
Then, Elon Musk helped elect Donald Trump, and Trump's labor board dropped the charges.
Was this a political favor? I'm pressing for answers.
Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
In the short term, the Iran War is delivering massive windfall profits to Big Oil. But in the long term, this is likely to be recorded as a step change moment weakening the fossil fuel industry's domination of the global energy system.
Long line of folks waiting to see Tom Steyer speak in Santa Barbara last week.
I went to see Tom Steyer's town hall in Santa Barbara last week. The line wrapped around the block before the doors even opened. Standing room only inside. Hundreds of people couldn't get in.
Whether or not the media is saying it: Steyer has momentum. And I was very impressed. THREAD!🧵
Buenos Dias from Colombia! 🌺
Around 50 nations will meet here to discuss fossil-fuel transition.
They have already been circulated a draft report recommending that they “halt all new expansion”, according to an exclusive by me for @carbonbrief.org
www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-sci...
In 2025, the world started construction of nuclear power plants that would generate 12 GW of power if completed.
In the same year, it installed 108 GW of batteries and 600 GW of solar capacity.
If @governor.ny.gov and the Legislature must keep the big picture in mind... if officials are looking to scale back [the CLCPA's] mandates to grease their political prospects in an election year, that’s not leadership; it’s a craven retreat."
@timesunion.com
www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...
For all you LNG / oil market watchers, I present you the quote that is going to end all quotes.
The Strait is open, apart from the thing that means it is not open.
Oil prices should be $200bbl due to this quote alone.
In return for nearly $77 million in tax breaks, the expansion of a JPMorganChase data center in Orangeburg, NY promises to create exactly one permanent job.
The subsidy is the largest of its kind, per job, in the country.
nysfocus.com/2026/04/20/d...
As Trump's war on Iran continues, reminder that his own son-in-law Jared Kushner — who is leading negotiations with Iran — stands to profit from lucrative contracts with its regional rivals.
War gives dictators like Trump (and his family) more power and more wealth.
In China battery electric trucks and hybrid trucks now outsell diesel trucks for the first time.
US drought sparks worries
The biggest concern is around agriculture and then food prices. If America has a poor crop year because of the drought, it could be a global problem, as a strong El Nino often reduces crop yield in other places, such as India.
apnews.com/article/drou...
Can we finally agree that burning wood for energy is a terrible idea and won't be carbon neutral, let alone carbon negative, in our lifetimes? BECCS using wood certainly shouldn't qualify as CO₂ removal (CDR).
Burning wood for power worse for climate than gas equivalent, report finds
Research casts doubt on plans by UK government to offer subsidies for carbon capture attached to the power source
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Many govts hope capturing carbon from power plants burning wood will cause "negative emissions." New Nature Sust. paper today finds this likely increases emissions for decades, generates no negative emissions within 150 years, and increase electricity costs ~3.5-fold.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:
Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%
Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%
This is what a rigged system looks like.
Everytime there is a mass shooting, this image comes to mind. People in some of the highest positions of power in our country wearing gun pins. People who claim to be “pro life” and want to “protect the children.” People who claim to follow Jesus. This is idolatry of guns.
Everytime there is a mass shooting, this image comes to mind. People in some of the highest positions of power in our country wearing gun pins. People who claim to be “pro life” and want to “protect the children.” People who claim to follow Jesus.
This is idolatry of guns.
"When I started writing about the climate crisis in the 1980s I was in my twenties, and I didn’t fully comprehend that there could be a force on this planet so steeped in greed & power that it would sacrifice the earth & its inhabitants for its own narrow interests. But there is, and it’s Big Oil."
We can and should rebuild this infrastructure! All across the country. 🚆⚡️