Hello, I wrote about Pete Hegseth’s anti-climate stance vs. the very real climate risks faced by the USM, which it is not ignoring, and how these things are in tension. Please check it out!

you have a future on the Thought Leader speaking circuit with that type of analysis!

“The natural habitat of the Earth is actually water,” Bessent said during a discussion on Tuesday with Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish political science known for his climate skepticism. “Ice was probably — it’s a very long cycle — but ice was an unusual cycle. We are going through cycles, and I believe that it is very difficult to deconstruct the reasons around why anything changes.” However, the causes of climate change are well-documented. That includes natural variations in the tilt and wobble of the Earth as well as its path around the Sun, which ensure the planet goes through periodic Ice Ages over tens of thousands of years. There’s even a term for it: Milankovitch cycles, which have been known about for more than a century.

personal nerd achievement unlocked: including a reference to Milankovitch cycles in the Bloomberg Green newsletter www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

wait just looked up who was interviewing Bessent about climate change and it was Bjorn Lomborg lmao

having done my undergrad at Hampshire and grad degree at Columbia, I really feel this. While I work in climate (my grad studies), no way I'd be here without having had the latitude of a liberal arts education

News to me and the 8 billion people who live on land

Trump’s God Squad Exempts Gulf Drilling from Endangered Species Protections The Endangered Species Committee, a little-used panel of US senior federal agency leaders, on Tuesday exempted oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from sweeping endangered species protections, ...

The Endangered Species Committee, a little-used panel of US senior federal agency leaders, on Tuesday exempted oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from sweeping endangered species protections, citing reasons of national security.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

hell yea congrats!!

Iran War Is Pushing Consumers to Break Up With Fossil Fuels EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps, now cheaper than ever, are becoming more attractive as the conflict upends oil and gas markets.

New: Around the world people are turning to low-carbon EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps as the Iran war upends oil and gas markets. Bloomberg journalists, including yours truly, filed dispatches from San Francisco to Lagos for this story. Free link
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Zack Polanski’s Plan to Tax Billionaires, Make Energy Cheap YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts

My interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social is now live. We touch on wealth tax, Iran, North Sea, community energy and so much more.
youtu.be/STXgaWdfWKs

huge congrats! perfect person for a perfect role

Bar graph: "Electric Vehicles Cut Oil Demand Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-18/electric-vehicles-avoided-use-of-2-3-million-barrels-of-oil-daily-in-2025?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3MzgyOTIwNywiZXhwIjoxNzc0NDM0MDA3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQzJJUFFLR0NUSEgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwQzg4NkY0NTI0NzY0RUE0OEY2QTk4RTk1NDc5RTI2NSJ9.8MBMTiCrVmNRXzTXAhqhk5Atz-VrJc01wtzUTfcVDf8

What stands out perhaps most here is how much oil demand electric two- and three-wheelers have avoided. Most talk in developed countries is about passenger cars, but the transition to electric among these smaller vehicles in developing countries has been huge.
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EVs Avoided the Use of 2.3 Million Barrels of Oil Per Day in 2025 With gas prices climbing due to the Iran War, interest in electrified transportation is on the rise.

EVs already avoid 2.3 million barrels of oil demand per day, an amount roughly on par with UAE production

Trump’s War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world’s fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.

there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran

A Texas weather station just recorded a temperature hotter than any other previous winter temperature on record in the U.S. The Falcon Dam cooperative weather station, along the Rio Grande River about 70 miles south-southeast of Laredo, reported a high temperature of 106 degrees Thursday.

Chat is it bad when its 106 degrees in February? weather.com/news/weather...

The Trump administration literally canceled $450 million in grid resilience grants to Puerto Rico last month but sure the halftime show was absolutely apolitical

Compared with the 1st year of previous admins, including Trump’s 1st term, the current admin has taken fewer polluters to court & settled fewer existing court cases, per a new review of federal court records by the nonprofit EIP.

Story @bloomberg.com w/gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.

i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts

somehow the full post is even worse. it makes American Canto read like Didion

The Data Center Surge Has a Hidden Source of Carbon Emissions Tech companies are turning to green concrete to help reduce the massive environmental footprint of building out data centers.

Data center energy and water use have gotten a lot of (rightful) attention. But there's another issue that's getting less attention than it should: The immense amount of carbon-intensive concrete needed to build them 🎁🔗

What Democrats Can Learn From the Trump Energy Playbook Democrats shouldn’t be afraid to take more aggressive actions on clean energy, former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said.

Jennifer Granholm's advice for Democrats: Implement their agenda as aggressively as Trump and tie building renewables to lowering energy bills.

Oh, and don't mention climate: “On Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs, climate does not rise as much as how much I'm paying for my electricity bill" 🎁🔗

Not the just White House. Also extremely unclear what penguins and MAHA have to do with each other

Local news remains undefeated in creating new weather metrics

The fossil fuel industry has a long history of mascots. One of my favs is Captain Coal, who is featured in coloring books and other materials the Lignite Council gives out for free to teachers

22GW of renewables thwarted or in limbo under Trump ‘blockade’ An Interior Department memo is hampering wind and solar on public lands. It’s one of many federal actions slowing the build-out of cheap, clean energy.

Chaser: The administration has paused or canceled renewables projects on public lands that would be big enough to power 16.5 million homes

Trump Pushes for Emergency Power Auction to Fuel AI Boom The Trump administration and several states laid out a plan intended to compel technology companies to effectively fund the construction of new power plants as a way to tame surging consumer utility b...

Shot: The Trump administration is pushing the biggest US grid operator to hold an emergency wholesale electricity auction later this year to accelerate new power coming on the grid and bring down costs 🎁🔗

Trump’s Rare Earth Push Extends Lifeline to Green Tech The industry saw record funding in 2025 as the US looks to build out a supply chain of elements crucial to the defense and energy sectors.

The US rare earth industry saw record venture funding in 2025 as the US looks to build out a supply chain of elements crucial to the defense and energy sectors. My latest for @bloomberg.com w/ Emily Forgash www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #rareearths #climatetech #investment

A chart back to 1970 showing the global average temperate rise, which matches the warming effects of CO₂, methane and other warming gases, until an anomalous heat spike after 2023.

Heat and greenhouse gas pollution rise in lock-step — until 2023, when the thermostat goes bonkers.

🎁🔗 The 2025 climate numbers are in.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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