I don't have an exact answer, but my intuition is that it wouldn't make a difference on heat islands. Every place in the world has a nighttime inversion, ours are only well known in the winter bc they last for several days & trap pollution. Effect in the summer would be same as anywhere else.

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.

The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

Science is good. We should fund it.

We're working on it, but I'm highly skeptical also. There are a number of things that are problematic about it. Their main objective is to not invest in anything now because they're facing massive wildfire liability, and everything flows from that.

Me in @sltrib.com on Rocky Mountain Power's latest IRP that zeros out wind and solar for the next 20 years in Utah:

“It’s a major missed opportunity, it'll lock us into a more expensive generation mix that’s riskier and exposed to volatile fossil fuel prices.” #utpol
www.sltrib.com/news/environ...

They're facing potential bankruptcy from wildfire litigation in Oregon, so Warren Buffett has said he isn't interested in investing any money into it.

The Utah Renewable Communities energy program is almost ready for launch June 2 is the deadline for communities to officially enroll in Utah Renewable Communities. Participating customers will pay $4 a month toward new clean energy sources in the West.

Me in @kuer.org
PacifiCorp has no new wind or solar projects planned for Utah customers through 2045

That’s why Mitchell said URC stands to make a difference

“This program is a concrete way to build new clean energy resources for serving Utah customers” www.kuer.org/politics-gov...

Wrong Logan 😁

"He wanted it big. He wanted lots of gold, lots of marble. He wanted visitors awestruck by his architectural expansion of the country’s symbolic seat of power."

{gift link} www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Follow along with us at @nature.com as we bring you today’s #ArtemisII lunar flyby - straight from mission scientists at Mission Control in Houston. I’ll have live updates throughout the day on this historic Moon mission. 🧪🔭

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This winter is a postcard from the future with a dramatically warmer climate. It is in our collective power to determine how warm the future is based on how quickly we can reduce our emissions. The time to act is now.

Opinion: Now is the perfect time to buy an electric vehicle Opinion: Now is the perfect time to buy an electric vehicle

Opinion: All emissions matter. Every tank of gasoline, cross-country flight and fossil-fueled load of laundry makes the earth a little warmer. So anything you do to reduce your emissions makes the problem a little easier to solve — once we collectively decide we want to solve it.

Letter: The Trump administration paid $1 billion to stop wind turbine projects. Who thinks that’s the best way to spend that money? Letter: This summer, when temperatures sizzle and water is scarce, ask yourself what you can do so that our political leaders (state and federal) promote our future instead of destroying it.

Letter: This summer, when temperatures sizzle and water is scarce, ask yourself what you can do so that our political leaders (state and federal) promote our future instead of destroying it.

Letter: Utah is a hotbed of geothermal energy. Why aren’t we using it? Letter: Why are our state leaders so fixated on nuclear energy — one of the most expensive options out there — when we could lead the nation in clean, reliable and economically sound geothermal?

Letter: Why are our state leaders so fixated on nuclear energy — one of the most expensive options out there — when we could lead the nation in clean, reliable and economically sound geothermal?

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...

Source?

Trump provokes an historically unprecedented brain drain from the US. The United States has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.

The abiding feeling of 2026 is that too many consequential things are happening too fast for most people to follow, let alone understand. The United States invaded Venezuela in the night and captured its leader, Nicolás Maduro, 69 days ago. Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent 66 days ago; Alex Pretti was tackled to the ground in Minneapolis and killed by agents of the state 49 days ago. The last tranche of the Epstein files—millions of pages documenting Jeffrey Epstein’s dizzying connections to many of the most famous and powerful people in the world—came out 43 days ago. It’s been 22 days since the Supreme Court struck down Donald Trump’s tariffs. On February 4, a pseudonymous account believed to belong to an Open AI employee snarkily commented that “Anthropic has the same level of name recognition among superbowl viewers as literally fictional companies.” Now the company is embroiled in a massive fight with the Pentagon; its CEO is on the cover of a forthcoming issue of Time. Yet most of these events have been pushed aside to make space for a war in Iran that the administration has hardly attempted to justify.

the pace of awful news has outstripped our ability to give it the attention and duration it all deserves

Mike Lee tweet. He's quote tweeting a tweet from "Leading Report" saying that Dems are now the favorites to win control of the Senate in 2026. Lee says: Let’s turn this around—by passing SAVE America Pass it on

Mike Lee quote tweeting MAGA influencer ALX saying: Senate GOP, this is your sign to start doing your job and stop subverting the will of the people. Pass the SAVE America Act. Lee says: Republicans will lose power—likely for a long time—if we don’t get SAVE America passed This shouldn’t be hard It is, but failure cannot be an option

Admitting publicly that you only want this bill that is designed to disenfranchise voters is necessary to make sure your party wins is quite a choice. The GOP has done away with subtlety and euphemisms and is now all "we need to cheat because the polls say people don't like us."

The lawyers are likely correct that Carr would lose this in court. They were also likely correct that Trump would lose his lawsuits against ABC and CBS -- but their corporate owners (with much deeper pockets to fight than a local station) folded instead. That’s the real threat.

Let's be clear: you would not be pulling THAADs from South Korea and moving a Marine Expeditionary Unit from Japan to the Gulf two weeks after launching a war on Iran if you had properly anticipated the fallout it would be likely to cause.

when a presidential admin screws up as badly as the trump admin has screwed up in Iran, accountability is essential. There must be congressional hearings, investigations, and consequences for those responsible--including people losing their jobs, going all the way up to the top 1/2

i would like to have people take war seriously

The National Security Case for Renewable Energy - The American Prospect Turns out oil is vulnerable to price shocks caused by blood-crazed presidents.

"wherever renewables have been installed, they are turning out to be security gold." prospect.org/2026/03/13/i...

The National Security Case for Renewable Energy - The American Prospect Turns out oil is vulnerable to price shocks caused by blood-crazed presidents.

The Iran war is showing that renewable energy is a national security imperative, and that fighting renewables tooth and nail as the White House has been doing since day one deeply undermines national security, as @ryanlcooper.com writes.
prospect.org/2026/03/13/i...

credit where due, Macron is right on this one prospect.org/2026/03/13/i...

One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”

“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath

Some costs aren’t costs.

This action "is a ringing alarm bell warning all of us of the extent to which this administration has succeeded in degrading our governing institutions in such a short period of time." My statement progressivereform.org/cpr-blog/epa...

Fervo Energy Drills Hottest Well to Date at New Giga-Scale Geothermal Project Site - Fervo Energy HOUSTON, TX (February 9, 2026) – Fervo Energy, a leader in next-generation geothermal development, has announced the successful completion of an appraisal

Big 2026 energy news is hotter, deeper, faster!
@fervoenergy.bsky.social drilled a successful appraisal well (11 days 555 F) proving a 2nd gigawatt scale greenfield geothermal site in Utah. Data centers should sprint to capitalize near term, clean, firm energy! #utpol
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