Americans have spent an estimated $20.5 billion more on gas and diesel since Trump attacked Iran ...
... funding colossal war profits for Big Oil from Riyadh to Moscow to Houston (next post)
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iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
image from inside Artemis II text: i need more men to understand that two men crying and hugging in space after one of them announced they were naming a moon crater after the other one's late wife is actually what peak masculinity looks like.
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.
Hall of fame FT correction
From March 15 through March 26 there have been...
More than 100 monthly records & more than 700 daily records broken or tied.
Since March 1 there have been more than 1,100 daily records broken or tied across the nation.
Some record heat will remain through the weekend for areas of the Southwest.
“I am leaving because I want to tell the truth.”
One of the world’s top minds on climate says goodbye to NASA.
Me: This escape room is hard. Friend: This is a bookstore. Daisy Chain Book Co.
Battery is such a game-changer, and nowhere is that more obvious than in California:
2019: daytime solar☀️
2025: dispatchable solar☀️☀️☀️
The House Oversight Committee released videos Tuesday of closed-door depositions with two men in Jeffrey Epstein's inner circle as part of its probe into the late convicted sex offender. https://cnn.it/4t5HvLx
Verdict is in for the New Mexico child safety case against Meta. Goes against Meta on every question.
Jury finds Meta liable for ~37,000 violations. Maximum liability of $5,000 per violation.
when citizens were given a chance to decide how to distribute an heiress' fortune they overwhelmingly chose environmental and conservation causes to focus on.
bbc.com/news/article...
New York's governor is trying to undermine the 2019 climate law that the NY legislature passed with overwhelming support. Where the rubber meets the road: Accounting for methane, the main component of natural gas and a fast/potent climate pollutant. 🧵 with some background on methane.
Nothing screams “we’re just winging it” like having to buy oil from Iran while in the middle of a war with Iran.
Welcome, Dakota and yay, team!
Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable.
Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours.
Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment
NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.
Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
KAITLAN COLLINS: What would say to Epstein survivo---
TRUMP: You are so bad. You are the worst report. No wonder CNN has no ratings. She's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. They should be ashamed of you.
🚨🔥 Warmest Christmas on record for the Contiguous U.S.! The average high of 57.9F and the average low of 36.6F each broke the Christmas record by a full 3F. 🔥🚨
US Military Academy at West Point Graduating Class of 1889 Featuring Charles Young, 1889
In 1826, drunkenness at West Point Military Academy was such a problem that alcohol was banned from campus.
On Christmas, cadets smuggled in 4 gallons of whiskey, used as the base for an eggnog party.
The night ended in the Eggnog Riot of 1826.
Wait until you hear some of the names involved!
The Supreme Court’s decision blocking President Trump from sending the National Guard into American cities is likely to raise a politically fraught debate about the president’s willingness to invoke a 19th-century law to deploy the regular military on American soil instead. https://cnn.it/45qYuyn
For a counterpoint to the current federal administration's misguided energy policies, look not to a blue state, but the state of Texas: no renewable energy mandates there, they just let the market pick the winners and it's solar plus storage:
insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
They updated the website today to remove the word "independent"
Before (left), after (right)
Good front-paging.
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
