"Solar's growth from 2024 to 2025 was basically the highest growth of anything ever"
Remember all of the articles telling us that the energy transition wasn't real and we should aim to do it slowly?
We should compile a list of the authors of those as "people to never listen to again."
a chart showing the growth of fossil fuels by type as described in post tetx
Fossil gas and oil were the two key drivers of global energy-related emissions growth in 2025, according to the IEA's latest report.
Another reminder that we urgently need to get rid of these fuels because their use kills our life support systems in the atmosphere
www.iea.org/reports/glob...
Government plans to cap legal fees in planning and environmental cases were opposed by 98 percent of more than 1,400 respondents to a public consultation.
A review of responses said changes could weaken “fundamental legal safeguards” for taking cases:
www.thestory.ie/2026/04/21/p...
Public consultation showed near universal opposition to government plans for capping legal fees in planning and environmental cases.
Our latest update:
www.thestory.ie/2026/04/21/p...
The Court of Justice has found, for the first time, that a Member State (Hungary) is in breach of Article 2 TEU (values of the EU) as a standalone provision. curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...
Hold my beer says @louthcountycouncil.bsky.social
www.independent.ie/regionals/lo...
This document is an important expression of how we built things to work (and what US administrations pushed I trade deals and soft power across party lines for decades): clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov/WH/New/Comme...
It's particularly instructive.
FP Logue consultant @tjmcintyre.com authors important case digest on cross-border "legitimate interest" cases handled by the European Data Protection Board
www.linkedin.com/posts/fplogu...
This is excellent.
Good morning with good news: Solar globally grew by 600 TWh in 2025, largest ever rise from any source, excl rebound yrs.
RE & nuclear growth was more than total electricity demand growth.
Fossil fuel generation DECLINED!
RE = coal generation!
iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/ade8f... #energysky
My article in the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association magazine explaining why we are missing a golden opportunity to make Ireland the jurisdiction of choice for EU environmental litigation
www.linkedin.com/posts/fplogu...
'The fuel protests last week could be viewed as a large-scale ecological experiment to test the resilience of our economic and societal ecosystem.... The results are in – and they are not reassuring.'
www.jcfj.ie/2026/04/15/w...
There are now 20 times more uncommenced units compared to JR units
Official statistics confirm sharp drop in housing judicial reviews, which we've been reporting since Q3 last year, which is a function of abandoning the SHD procedure and reforms in An Coimisiún Pleanála coming to fruition
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...
New report just out from @investigate-europe.eu: Microsoft and DigitalEurope (a tech lobby group) decided they don't EVER want anyone knowing the energy consumption of individual data centres
So they lobbied successfully to get their own wording copy-pasted into regulations in the EU.
We've got to stop thinking fascism is dark magic, like it's evil but it works, so decent people must agree not to use it. It doesn't work. Every fascist society ever has contained the seeds of its own destruction. We oppose it not because it works, but because too many people suffer while it fails
THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026
* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
1/10
Fred Goodwin? You must've meant Matt Goodwin. But it was great to hear Saoirse Ronan on the pod
1 yr ago I wrote a massive thread on @iea.org huge AI / energy report.
WELL it's one year later and they've released an update, but notably, there is no chatbot. Well....I'm going to read it anyway, and you're all going to get spammed with notes :)
that's means a NEW ULTRATHREAD 🧵
[B]illionaires are systematically, intellectually, and neurologically unable to understand the ups and downs and reality of 99.9% of the people in the world. They're not morally worse. They just see the world with blinkers on, gold plated blinkers,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ijm...
Nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws
Irish government: YES THIS IS GOOD WE WANT THIS
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Ireland, striving to become Europe'sdata center hub, falls victim to its own success share.google/Ll49qFqiSkEx...
#speirgorm
The Govt actually supports the President's participation, something only admitted late into this weird recitation of anonymous grumbles.
Yes, I know my enemies
They're the teachers who taught me to fight me
Compromise, conformity
Assimilation, submission
Ignorance, hypocrisy
Brutality, the elite
All of which are American dreams
A nice reminder from Ember, using British data. Wind and solar are complementary. Our system works best when you have both, each calling on their own strengths in terms of generation patterns.
If either struggles to grow like it should, we end up with a more expensive, slower fossil phase-out
This is a genuinely mindblowing combination. 1) Deliberately false information, 2) promoted in schools, 3) using public money, 4) in the service of private profits, 5) at the cost of our collapsing ecosystem.
