DC Climate Week starts Monday. 500 people in DC for the Opening Ceremony. Sold out. But you can watch live — globally, free — starting 1:30 PM ET. Come listen to @jigarshahdc.bsky.social,
@ericwesoff.bsky.social, and more with @canarymedia.com streaming it worldwide.
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Cumulative area burnt by wildfire curves for the US showing 2026 starting off massively worse than any prior year
This seems suboptimal
"Clark et al. (2016) showed that decisions made in the next few decades will lock in sea level rise, ice sheet loss, and temperature change that persist for thousands of years — well beyond any planning horizon human civilization has ever contemplated."
Been living between a bunch of airbnbs the past month while my house is being repaired and after using induction for a decade, gas stoves suuuuuck. Gas stoves are so slow to boil water and heat up pans. Induction is hot magic.
@franzish.bsky.social is the managing director for finance for GB50, what can you share with @volts.wtf?
www.usgreenbanks.org
Are you looking at how the GB 50 is trying to replace the ggrf with capital and more?
* 2015-2025 was the hottest 11 years on record
* Earth’s energy imbalance is the highest in 65-year record
* The ocean has been absorbing about eighteen times the annual human energy use each year for the past two decades
Probably fine.
The DC Climate Week 2026 Opening Ceremony is 50% sold out.
Monday, April 20.
Confirmed speakers include Jigar Shah, Katie Rae (Engine Ventures), Matthew Nordan (Azolla Ventures), Dave Turk, Nelson Switzer (Climate Innovation Capital), Eric Wesoff, and Victoria Herrmann.
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DC Climate Week is back. April 20-26, Washington DC.
Year 1: 4,731 people. 152 events. More hugs than handshakes.
Year 2 is shaping up to be bigger. Full calendar: dcclimateweek.com
This graphic shows four line graph time series and each are monthly from January 1984 through January 2026. The first graph is a 12-month running mean of global mean surface temperature anomalies. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1991-2020 baseline using ERA5 data. The second graph is monthly carbon dioxide abundance. The CO2 graph is the Keeling Curve. Current levels are 429 ppm. The third graph is monthly global methane abundance. Current levels are 1946 ppb. The fourth graph is monthly global nitrous oxide abundance. Current levels are 339 ppb. The three greenhouse gases show seasonal cycles and long-term increasing trends using data from NOAA GML. The global mean surface temperature anomaly record also exhibits decadal variability and a long-term increasing trend. All graphs are rising and shown in four different colors, including white, yellow, orange, and pink.
End of month climate change check-in: 🫣
+ Global temperature: 📈
+ Carbon dioxide (CO₂): 📈
+ Methane (CH₄): 📈
+ Nitrous oxide (N₂O): 📈
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Support my favorite podcast if you love hearing about how Climate-Tech is being deployed across the US and globally. David Roberts @volts.wtf is a hero that I constantly learn from. I was starstruck meeting him at NY Climate Week ‘25, thanks to a free ticket for subscribers ;).
Electrification of heavy industry feels inevitable, but US and European electricity prices are surging. So: are you more bullish on hybrid approaches combining electrotech with biology or chemistry to cut energy intensity, or do fully electrified companies still win long-term w/ short term $ parity?
Do you like charts? Oh yes you do. I've just published hundreds of them, as I do every year. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
What does wildfire smoke do to normal HVAC filters and what air filters actually work with wildfire present?
"Global investment in green technology for the first three quarters of the year has already surpassed all of 2024. The fortunes of the sector have been in decline for three years, but explosive energy demand fueled by data centers has sparked a reversal."
@volts.wtf we can certainly learn a lot from Taiwan. You can come out for DC Climate Week and celebrate Earth Day organizing around climate in DC.
"Air pollution from oil and gas causes more than 90,000 premature deaths and sickens hundreds of thousands of people across the US each year, a new study shows..."
If MAHA were anything other than dipshit reactionary fantasies & conspiracy theories, it would focus overwhelmingly on air pollution.
Fermented tomatoes is my favorite summer treat! 2% salt by weight and a bunch of garlic. Let sit at room temp for a while and enjoy!
"a lot of people assume that there’s really great knowledge and huge due diligence on the chemical safety of these things. But it really isn’t the case.”
We are swimming in a toxic soup of chemicals, + we know very little about what they're doing to us:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
What novel processing techniques are exciting and what are the under appreciated resources that we are now able to economically tap into. Also, when will bio-mining scale?
In case anyone needs to reference the DOE's liftoff reports, which no longer appear on the official website: yardsale.energy/liftoff-repo... 🔌💡
@nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social
🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️ I’m so sad to miss the canary live event, but I’m in town the rest of the week.
Thanks for coming to DC Climate Week, sorry I missed you! What did you think of the week?
We are up to 140 events!
DC Climate Week is heating up 📣 🔥 🎉 ! We have over 100 events on the public calendar and more than 2,000 people participating across the week! If you haven't checked the calendar lately, now is the time. Some extremely exciting events have been added!
DCCW Calendar: lu.ma/dcclimateweek
DC Climate week is happening April 28 – May 2, 2025. Attendees will engage with policymakers, learn from world-renowned experts and help make the nation’s capital a sustainable model for other cities.
Learn more here: ow.ly/IgZN50VAN9a
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