Nu jā, varu tikai piekrist ka resursu tērēšana. Pie tam, vismaz pēdējas ministrijas izveide bija vispār bez jebkāda plāna (var jau būt kā saki, ka vrb tāpēc ka tika taisīta vienam cilvēkam). Ierēdņu pārbīdīšana ir kkads bezjēdzīgs teātris šajā kontekstā, manuprāt.
Vai tad tā ir latiņa ar kuru salīdzināt ? KM arī ir ap 100. Un šaubos ka šis ir vienīgās ministrijas. Pirms izveidoja KEM VARAM bija ap 300 un tad tā bija viena no lielākajam ministrijām (neskaitot ĀM).
KEM gan nav mazs departaments - tagad pēc vides pievienošanas (kas bija loģiski), tajā ministrija tagad manuprāt ir ap 100 darbinieku.
Clean-energy technologies shaved 3bn tonnes off global CO2 emissions in 2025 (~9%)
Fossil-fuel demand would have been 7% higher without clean-energy deployment since 2019
9/10
I'm not sure which planet he's talking about but it's not Earth.
I am not a lawyer, but am I reading correctly that the majority opinion cited the concern of “irreparable harm” to the coal industry (which employs ~40,000 people) with no mentions of the “irreparable harm” higher CO2 emissions could bring to the population of (at the time) ~7,500,000,000 people?
Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, secured a secrecy provision in EU law to block public access to critical information on data centres’ environmental impact, Investigate Europe can reveal.
Buried 30 paragraphs into this abysmal BBC piece blaming renewables for the high cost of UK electricity is the actual reason it's so expensive, which is fossil gas. But Justin Rowlatt seems uninterested in this detail.
Laikam jau drīz vairs nebūs ekspertu, kas šo nebūs skaidri un gaiši pateikuši.
Ja par spīti tam, valdība tā rīkojas, medijiem ir jāuzdod pareizie jautājumi, kā arī, runājot par degvielu, jāpārtrauc to dēvēt par "palīdzību iedzīvotājiem", ja tā ir palīdzība tikai autovadītājiem. Valodai ir nozīme.
IEA: “Global oil demand is expected to fall by 80,000 barrels per day year-on-year in 2026, revised down from growth of 640,000 barrels per day seen in last month’s report. The pace of decline will subside in our base case forecast, after supplies chains start to normalize from May.”
This is a key point btw.
People think security means preventing Russian tanks from making it across the channel. Not that simple.
Britain gets much of its energy from
Norway (shares a border with Russia), and half of its food from abroad. You don’t need to be at war to feel the consequences of war.
In other words a Russian shadow fleet vessel paid a 2500€ fee to be able to flush coal and deck dirt into the Baltic
*nogurusi nopūta*
Just for once, there's lots of stuff in here that was really good to wake up to this morning 🙂
For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025.
48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.
I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact
I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.
It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.
Renewables are hitting an inflection point.
Renewables capacity now nearly half of global total. Will be over half by end of 2026
Another signal of change coming
“The Middle East crisis has confirmed dramatically energy security is not something we can have with fossil fuels” say @irena-official.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply www.ft.com/content/19f1...
i just feel insane that people don't remember the last inflationary spike due to fossil supply shortage and how that could have brought about a massive switch to renewables and didn't and I am not talking about 1973 I am talking about 2022
All* the significant long-term trends in climate over the last 60 years or so are driven by human activity.
*very minor caveats apply
Climate has almost disappeared from our conversation.
But it remains the most pressing challenge of our times.
Last week the WMO said the planet is “more out of balance than at any time in observed history.”
Energy security and climate security are not competing priorities.
this is terrible for a million reasons
but I feel bad for how my first thought was "godDAMN that was a shitty ski season"
I know we all say it a lot but it is REALLY recent that numbers like this were close to unimaginable, for a grid the size of Britain and its current level of interconnection elsewhere.
This is important because pretending we can't exist without fossil fuels is a big lie designed to stop us trying
A new world order
Gas only sets Spain's electricity price 15% of the time. When gas costs spike it barely registers on the electricity bill. In countries like Italy and the UK gas sets the price 90% of the time. The difference is enormous.
I spoke to @politico.com about this.
www.politico.eu/article/spai...
The last LNG tankers from the Gulf arrive in the next 10 days. After that, many countries face a sharp drop in supply.
Qatar’s Ras Laffan plant — 20% of global LNG — could be offline for 3-5 years.
Reminder that fossil fuel import dependence is an energy security problem, not just a climate one.
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...
Hard to be optimistic about anything at the moment, but there is one positive development I suppose. Donald Trump has made the strongest possible case for why countries must turn their back on fossil fuel. And they seem to be listening.