Big Oil lobbying the last 40 year is well documented & coming to a head before the SC soon.
@billmckibben.bsky.social: Here’s what’s at stake: if this law passes and stands, then the oil industry will never be held accountable for the fact that they knowingly destroyed the planet’s climate system.
Happy DC Climate Week to all who celebrate! Looking forward to the many intriguing conversations and connections that this week has in store. Reach out if you'd like to link up and shoot the breeze/chew the fat/spill the tea/etc.
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We did ~850 miles RT a few weeks ago. Couldn’t agree more with you about the pace being more humane, especially for our 2 young kids. I don’t miss feeling like we need to minimize pit stops. Fast chargers were ubiquitous on the east coast and all 4 of us appreciated more leisurely stops.
Bad news - in 2015 when the Paris Agreement was signed, the world was following a trajectory to 4-5C by 2100. I'd add a link to my NCA chapter where we did this analysis, but the admin has taken it offline.
Good news - today, we're headed to 2.7C by 2100. Still too high: but a lot better than 4-5C.
The US admin expecting to hear a swelling global chorus of, “I want my; I want my; I want my LNG.”
In other words, command the right terms that the public will embrace early and often enough, and you’re free to execute on objectives that largely run counter to those themes and the core mission you inherited.
It’s a sad demonstration of how the public won’t interrogate too far beyond buzz words these days. Invoking affordability and eliminating red tape earns permission to “block the agency from calculating the value of saving lives when calculating the costs of setting new pollution limits.”
India’s fast track to clean power should provide a model for developing countries to leapfrog fossil fuel dependence.
@ember-energy.org analysis of India’s journey is top notch.
Policy catching up to the realities of the data center boom would put a realistic cap on what has felt like runaway investment and development. Supply chain limitations, which the article references, could be overcome and might just push ground breaking and ribbon cutting to out years.
This true @christopherpeli.bsky.social ?
This planet — with all its troubles — is worth caring for.
That should be our single purpose, as a species: To be stewards of this magnificent world, ensuring it thrives long into the future.
Don't pay attention to the noise from the White House. It's very clear that markets and consumers vastly prefer lower cost energy sources that hedge fossil fuel price volatility. 88% of all new generation added in the US last year. electrek.co/2026/04/01/f...
"The oil crisis is exactly what the net zero brigade wants"
These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."
“What makes this moment historically distinctive is that the choice isn’t primarily ideological… The organizing axis is not political philosophy but physical metabolism—who controls the energy, minerals, and technology on which modernity relies.”
“This is a strategic abyss: to align with the aggressive, decaying past or the efficient, neo-totalitarian future.”
“But it, too, carries a dark shadow—the potential subordination of national metabolic sovereignty to a Beijing-centered supply chain architecture that trades one form of dependency for another.”
“Joining a China-led Green Entente offers something formally more progressive: a forward-looking, post-carbon model that takes seriously the physical constraints of a warming planet.”
“A world where energy abundance is weaponized as clientelism, where cheap oil buys loyalty, and where the infrastructural lock-in of a thousand procurement contracts slowly forecloses the future.”
“The petrostate bloc offers a backward-looking, carbon-intensive vision in which the weak and the small are firmly subordinated to the strong and the large…”
Really excellent and jarring glimpse into the approaching energy-driven geopolitical future by @nilsgilman.bsky.social
“Ultimately, the choice for the middle powers comes down to what kind of modernity they want to inhabit…”
Thanks for providing some optimism despite the concerning headline.
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I wish it hadn’t come to this, but the money I’ve spent annually on a @washingtonpost.com subscription are better off directed toward independent journalists. I look forward to a day when a new owner restores the Post’s integrity.
The tide is turning.
“The Energy Department did not deny that it had failed to hold open meetings or assemble a balance of viewpoints, as the law requires, when it created the panel, known as the Climate Working Group. ‘These violations are now established as a matter of law,’ wrote Judge Young.”
Really great edition! I lean more toward skepticism and mistrust when it comes to AI but the climate applications are encouraging. Shared with my team that sits right at the climate-AI intersection.
This is what municipal government should look like at every level. So refreshing compared to the vanity posts that have become so commonplace, typically promoting or celebrating the worst or most oppressive policies.
Yea this rocks. Just the very fundamentals of government. This type of messaging and civil service should he unanimously praised and broadly replicated.
Hard to conceive of a more obvious good vs. evil vignette than this.
Stare at this chart by @ember-energy.org for a moment and imagine a chronological animation with call outs for major energy, economic, and social milestones over the course of Indian, Chinese, and American history since 1900. Great example of storytelling in data.
I love this chart as it's a great example of storytelling in data. A chronological animation that contained call outs for major energy, economic, and social milestones would take it to a whole other level. Nicely done as always @ember-energy.org
Smashed the Save button on this thread. Thanks for the recs!