We can and should build a society that meets everyone's basic needs, regardless of employment status, with no paperwork, no shame, no questions asked. Food, shelter, utilities, health care, child care, education - we can and should make these freely available to all.
Heartened at the news that @avilewis.ca Avi Lewis has been voted head of Canada's progressive party, the NDP. This is a man who's taken climate change seriously, and who will help Mark Carney by providing a serious critique from the left.
"The finest hour that I have seen
Is the one that comes between
The edge of night and the break of day
It's when the darkness rolls away" - Kate Wolf
Screenshot of text that says: "Important Notice (3/24/2026): NOAA NWS/NCEP has terminated the NCEP/NCAR R1 reanalysis as of March 18th, 2026. NCEP/NCAR R1 has been used as the atmospheric forcing data in the PIOMAS reanalysis . We had not been aware of this change in service which was apparently formally announced Feb 13. 2026. This means that we will have to find alternatives and generate a replacement. It will take considerable effort and time to update data streams, re-calibrate the model and generate updated time series. We don’t yet have a good sense if that’s possible with available funds and if so, when we will be able to resume production of a new PIOMAS time series. While a replacement of the NCAR/NCEP R1 as the forcing product makes ultimate sense, we would have wished for a longer time period to facilitate the transition. We are sorry what this means to our many users. PIOMAS has been in production since March 2010 and we rarely missed updates by more than a couple of weeks (except for government shutdowns). This will be longer. Check back here for updates! "
I had a feeling this was going to happen. Sad news, especially given the poor state of sea ice after this winter.
Looks like we won't be getting any more data for Arctic sea-ice thickness and volume for a while from PIOMAS. See: psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro...
Happy to have our research included in these top takeaways from No Kings 3 yesterday: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/u...
It cannot be long before Trump’s retinue of sycophants, enablers and justifiers, in government and in the media, start telling us, "I never liked the guy", "I tried to restrain him" and "I was only obeying orders."
So be sure to keep the receipts.
Whoa! As of today ALL bus lines within the municipality of Copenhagen are electric!
Good for climate, local environment, passengers and public budgets.
#dktrp #dkgreen via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...
Yesterday, millions of people across the US participated in over 3000 events as part of the third No Kings Day. Here are some of the main findings from our research at the event in DC organized by @freedcproject.bsky.social: danarfisher.com/2026/03/29/a...
If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today.
That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right
Not sure what this normies stuff is about but if you haven't noticed nice ladies do a lot of the activist work in this country and have since the abolitionist movement, you maybe should.
Under Trump, companies now get equal tax credits for using carbon capture to drill for more oil
we are gonna be seeing a lot more of this insideclimatenews.org/news/2803202...
Hard to convey the size of the crowd at Seattle #NoKings - there are thousands more behind me.
New video up on YouTube! youtu.be/u1Xs5EA5_uU?...
Another channel covered the vehicular cycling vs bike infra history, but this channel's overall tone is more appealing to me, and maybe more palatable to people whom I disagree with.
TotalEnergies to reassess 2050 net zero plans due to slow energy transition By Forrest Crellin and Shadia Nasralla March 26, 20262:10 PM GMT+1Updated 19 hours ago
This is why fossil fuel companies always presented their "targets" linked to the caveat that they can only act as fast as society moves: so that when they successfully lobby for fossil lock-in, they can pretend they're just passively going along with trends
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Rising Conservative Star Just Guy Wearing Nazi Armband And Crying
Rising Conservative Star Just Guy Wearing Nazi Armband And Crying theonion.com/rising-conservative-star...
I spoke with @nytimes.com about today's #NoKings Day events and why the focus must be on channeling outrage into strategic action (and not meeting some magical number):
“It’s not about inflatable costumes. It’s not about clever signs.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u...
$10B DHS slush fund has the same annual budget as the entire EPA or the National Science Foundation and have some left over.
The Mid-transition is "the period during which carbon-emitting systems and zero-carbon systems that both exist at sufficient scale to impose operationally relevant constraints on the other"
Now in this war - what is imposing the operationally relevant constrains on the oil and gas supply?
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aging infrastructure. This has made energy supply somewhat more vulnerable to shock and energy infrastructure more attractive to military targeting. Even wars of choice unfold in a global context, and Iran is no different: a new age of resource conflict arising just as the old energy order was being upended but before the new one has really taken hold. Call it a midtransition war.
No: don't call it a mid-transition war
This is not a mid-transition impact, this is the same oil shock/disruptive impact as the last however many times, moderated somewhat and for some countries because there are actually alternatives available and in some cases deployed
H/t @gruberte.bsky.social
"The average American homeowner’s insurance bill rose 12 percent last year, reaching $2,948 per year, and will rise another 4 percent this year. This is much faster than overall inflation for the same period."
That is a $435/year rise. Equivalent to the price of gas rising 56¢ per gallon.
A lot.
I imagine this cost is eating up the monthly payments many homeowners and landlords could have otherwise used on decarbonization budgets.
For a typical US household, about 15% of monthly electricity bills goes straight to shareholder profits - a recurring wealth transfer from everyone to the small minority of people who own the vast majority of stock (the richest 10% of Americans - all multimillionaires - hold ~90% of US stock value).
I’m actually surprised that it took him so long to say it.
Branding environmentalists as terrorists has very apparently been part of the plan all along.
State Rep. Danny McCormick, a Republican who represents rural Caddo Parish — where the Amazon data center will be built — told the Gulf States Newsroom the NDAs exist for a simpler reason.
"They don't want the little people to know what they're doing until after they've done it."
I like this for a lot of reasons. But mostly because the path to decarbonization AND cost reduction is electification, and electric regulation is primarily done at the state level in the US. Governors can lead, and Spanberger is. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
Worth remembering that the Trump Administration has not prepared for such a perilous wildfire season. In fact, it has worked to limit federal capacity to respond to disasters and support states after disaster hits.
@warren.senate.gov & Josh Hawley are calling on EIA to collect annual energy-use disclosures from data centers. This is a critical first step to addressing the industry's secrecy on facilities' energy & water use, denying critical information to those who care about sustainability & affordability.
The Spanish grid operator now allows (and pays) solar and wind to help regulate voltage. Not clear from the article whether they now pay for performance, or if plants that overcommit and underdeliver still get paid in full, as thermal generators did just before the blackout.
h/t @chrisbaraniuk.com
