This is, of course, an implicit admission of liability for the climate crisis.

Seven countries now use renewable energy for 100% of their electricity - The Renewable Energy Institute Countries including Albania, Paraguay, Ethiopia & Nepal produced more than 99.7% of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, solar and wind power marking what scientists say is an “irrev...

Seven countries now use renewable energy for 100% of their electricity

Recent data has shown that in 2022, countries including Albania, Paraguay, Ethiopia & Nepal produced more than 99.7% of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro,

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Spoiler alert: nothing trickled down.

I've updated my El Niño forecast plume with the latest April data (ECMWF, NMME, CFSv2, Canadian models). Its now looking like it might end up giving 2015/2016 a run for its money in terms of strength, with a peak of ~2.6C in the ENSO3.4 region by end of year: dashboard.theclimate...

TODAY: Iranians are forming human chains around civilian infrastructure (bridges, power plants) as Trump threatens to kill them all

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

Doctors Headline: Doctors Still Seeking Sweet Spot Between Infection Control And Infection Embrace Story by Lois Caravan and Mark Mywords photo from Adobe

Doctors Still Seeking Sweet Spot Between Infection Control And Infection Embrace

Night Into Day The thing changing the world this year is...batteries.

This looks like a complicated chart, but in fact it's some of the simplest and best news imaginable: batteries are quickly turning night into noon. Worth a read if I say so myself
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Sometimes I think about how when my parents were born interstates literally didn't exist but then they did and the entire landscape of the US was completely changed by the time they were adults. So, like, could we just do that for high speed rail?

Local Opposition Is Slowing A.I. Data Centers. Wall Street Has Noticed.

The latest data shows that at least $156 billion across 48 data center projects was blocked or stalled by local opposition in 2025.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/b...

Earth on track to become uninhabitable, scientists say.

Unless nations cooperate to quickly end the #fossilfuel era, rather than continuing to fight and attack eachother.

Because war = #ecocide

Emma Wiesner: “Do I understand you correctly that we’re in a situation where oil & gas prices are skyrocketing bc of the war in Iran & the Middle East right now, & you want to remove climate policies meant to take us out of fossil fuel dependence — then continue using oil, gas & coal?”

Iran war updates: Trump claims talks ongoing, Iran hits central Israel These were the updates on the US-Israeli war on Iran on Tuesday, March 24, 2026.

Saw the numbers and thought “that can’t be right” but no, 498 schools hit by US/Israeli bombs in Iran. 281 hospitals. sourced to the Red Crescent by Al Jazeera. Unspeakable

“Not density OR trees, density AND trees.” “Better cities are climate action.” Via the Urban Truth Collective. Background image of very high density street in Yaletown, in downtown Vancouver. Double row of street trees, plus yard trees, plus trees in the bike lane separator, for a total of five rows of trees along the street edge.

Not density OR trees. Density AND trees.

Better cities are climate action. #UrbanTruth

How its going:

Line graph time series of 2026's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. Additional scatter points show the maximum extents from 2000 to 2025. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year.

Unless there's a sudden shift in weather conditions, preliminary estimates show that 2026 set another new record low maximum extent for #Arctic sea ice. This follows very closely with last year, which previously set the record. Not good!

Download graphic at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Seeing the same burial image on social media, others turned to X’s AI assistant Grok to check its veracity. Like Gemini, Grok will breezily assure you the photo is not from Iran at all – although it lands on a different date, disaster and location. The image is “from Rorotan Cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia – a July 2021 stock photo of Covid mass burials. Not Minab,” it says. In both cases, the AI answers sound sure: they don’t equivocate, and even provide “sources” for the original image, should you choose to check them. Follow the thread to examine those, however, and you’ll begin to hit dead ends: either the image doesn’t appear at all, or the link provided is to a news report that doesn’t exist. For all their impression of clarity and precision, the AIs are simply wrong. The cemetery image, it turns out, is authentic. Researchers have cross referenced the photo of the site with satellite images that confirm its location, and it can be cross-referenced again with dozens more images taken of the same site from slightly different angles, and again with video footage – none of which experts say show signs of tampering or digital manipulation. The “factchecks” by Gemini and Grok are just one example of a tidal wave of AI-generated slop – hallucinated facts, nonsense analysis and faked images – that are engulfing coverage of the Iran war. Experts say it is wasting investigative time and risks atrocities being denied – as well as heralding alarming weaknesses as people increasingly rely on AI summaries for news and information.

To everyone out there who defends and encourages reliance on generative AI: I want you to explain to me how software systems that do this is not just defensible but something good and to be encouraged. Go on. Explain it to me, right now.

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Line graph time series of 2026's daily Arctic sea ice extent in the Sea of Okhotsk compared to each year from 1979 to 2025. There is a sharp seasonal cycle and a long-term decreasing trend in winter.

Sea ice is a record low for this time of year in the #Arctic (see zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...).

One of the drivers of this is related to an extreme event ongoing in the Sea of Okhotsk, where current conditions are not even close to any other year in our satellite record (similar to May). Yikes! 🌊

Register | Organizing for Climate Resilience, May 2026

Ben Lomond Quaker Center is hosting a virtual workshop series I'm leading on Tuesday evenings in May 2026 called "Organizing for Climate Resilience." This will be useful for Friends (Quakers) as well as anyone who is interested, with a…

People in casual spring attire ride bicycles and mobility scooters along a continuous regional cycling highway in natural and built-up areas between Waalwijk and Tilburg in the Netherlands.

People in casual spring attire ride bicycles and mobility scooters along a continuous regional cycling highway in natural and built-up areas between Waalwijk and Tilburg in the Netherlands.

People in casual spring attire ride bicycles and mobility scooters along a continuous regional cycling highway in natural and built-up areas between Waalwijk and Tilburg in the Netherlands.

People in casual spring attire ride bicycles and mobility scooters along a continuous regional cycling highway in natural and built-up areas between Waalwijk and Tilburg in the Netherlands.

These characteristics—directness, separation, intersection quality, width, and recognisability—combine to create not just a safe route but an efficient and attractive one; forming the backbone of a modern cycling network, and encouraging more people to choose the bike for longer, everyday journeys.🔚

Again, ICE did not stop abducting ppl but the news decided en masse to stop talking about it

London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨

London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

Summary This paper compares the job creation claims of developers planning hyperscale data centres in Scotland with data gathered from actual figures from data centres globally and a new analysis of a data set from Virginia (USA) relating to job creation across various sectors in their economy. It includes a review of the job creation claims of proposed data centres in Scotland. In our analysis of a long term data set of Virginia (USA) we found that it took $33 million of investment into data centres to create one job, around 400 times the cost of a job from IT investment that did not go into data centres. Data centre investment has astronomically poor value, in terms of jobs creation, compared to all other sectors, even Utilities, which was the next most expensive sector for investment per job created at $2.2 million per job. Our survey of evidence for employment levels in data centres in operation showed that most data centres have between 20 and 50 direct employees once operational. Those reports that define the types of jobs onsite at data centres report the employment opportunities being mainly security and technicians. There is more employment during construction - with 1000-2000 construction jobs on average supported during the build out of data centres, although it is not made clear whether these jobs are for the whole of the build and fit out or just for specific periods. We found that predicted job figures are hugely inflated when compared to real case scenarios. For the developers who have provided estimates of job creation the mean number of jobs created is 4146 per data centre. Job estimates made by Scottish data centre developers do not cite sources or methodologies in the figures they have produced so it is difficult to scrutinise the claims, however, even when construction, indirect and induced jobs are taken into account, the figures seem extremely high compared to known examples of actual jobs created by data centres. In addition to employing extre…

"In our analysis of a long term data set of Virginia (USA) we found that it took $33 million of investment into data centres to create one job, around 400 times the cost of a job from IT investment that did not go into data centres"

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Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating Exclusive: Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action maddening, say analysts The world’s worst mega-leaks of the potent greenhouse gas methane in 2025 have been revealed by an analysis of satellite data. The super-polluting plumes from oil and gas facilities have a colossal heating impact on the climate but often result from poor maintenance and can be simple to fix. The assessment found dozens of mega-leaks, each having the same global heating impact as a coal-fired power station. Continue reading...

Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating

Gov. Jim Pillen, other state lawmakers survey wildfires that have devastated central and western Nebraska According to a news release from the governor's office the three wildfires have damaged approximately 600,000 acres.

Nebraska is very on fire

www.ketv.com/article/nebr...

Sign up for an author discussion about the chapter I co-authored with Catalina Morales Bahena, "Reclaiming 'Enough': Away from Scarcity toward True Abundance" in the book Hungry for Hope (Eerdmans 2025). March 31, virtual. Also, check the link for a great Discussion Toolkit for use with groups.

Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity.

Utility safety concerns about plug-in solar panels prompted 5 states to delay votes on enabling legislation. Germany has 1.2 million balcony solar panels registered with no safety problems reported. Here's my @npr.org story: www.npr.org/2026/03/12/n...

2026 Beane Lecture | “Walk Cheerfully Over the World”

Last week, I had the opportunity to offer the Beane Lecture at William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa. My topic was, "'Walk Cheerfully Over the World': Living Justly Amidst Climate Change" (the link is to a video of the talk, if you're…