Renewables have passed coal power globally,. Global electricity generation n TWh, 2000-2025.
Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’ | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @ember-energy.org
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🌟 You'll hear from experts @robfordmancs.bsky.social, @beccam-c.bsky.social (@ippr.org) and Roisín Cavanagh (@friends-earth.bsky.social).
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will present our latest research on climate and volatility.
An argument I see a lot from American car guys on IG and Tiktok is "well, US consumers aren't buying EVs, so it's important to continue making new petrol cars." To which I say fellas, that's ... not an accident.
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It's the opposite of his intention, but the Idiot Emperor is forcing the world off fossil fuels. This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The swamped earth strategy
Environmental security at its finest!
This is a really important story. If Europe makes Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) with products of beef farming linked with tropical deforestation, then we're only decarbonising on paper and getting nowhere.
Exactly. My last book has a go at doing so re climate politics, if you are looking for other takes. (As well as lots of stories about climate action in Ottawa). www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸
We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto.
The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.
That said, it seems to me there are a lot of political scientists who only rarely ask this question!
Thanks Raul. I am writing a lot on this at the moment (intro poli sci book), not sure how i had missed this!
The Tony Blair Institute should at this stage be regarded as a hostile entity working to directly harm British sovereignty.
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Air conditioning already accounts for about 15% of global electricity demand. And that’s set to triple by 2050.
We spend a lot of time talking about clean power. Much less talking about the fact that cooling itself is becoming a major climate and business problem.
#ClimateChange #PassiveCooling
Presenting the reopening the Strait of Hormuz as a victory is like the Greeks failing to take Troy but celebrating the safe return of their wooden horse
Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK should not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period.
They tried to make this man an MP while he's being paid €10k a month by Hungary.
thanks for hosting !! Great day's conversations.
Group of people sat at desks, speakers on a podium at the front
Three people sitting on chairs, blue carpet & white walls
Four people sat on chairs, blue carpet, PowerPoint presentation projected in the wall
Four people sitting on chairs, one with a laptop. White background & blue carpet
Last Friday we had a really engaging joint workshop between the environmental politics research groups at Sheffield University & Manchester University. The purpose was to present work in progress - lots of overlapping themes on climate, energy, environmental regulation, biodiversity & water
subtext: Trump's cronies have bet on a fall in the oil price. www.theguardian.com/world/middle...
Palantir discovered ontology in much the same way Columbus discovered America.
That is to say:the broligarchs are thieves & barbarians. They plant their flags on others' work & say "look at our genius!"
Now they're claiming to have "popularized" a well-known branch of philosophy 1,000s of yrs old.
1/ Disruptions mean countries will rush to exit US-led oil order
Worst case scenario for oil companies (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“
i.e short term pain but Long: Iran war will accelerate ongoing STRUCTURAL shift to solar+EVs+batteries
🙌 Some Monday motivation from our partner
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"Programmes including...the Centre for Joined-Up Sustainability Transformations (JUST) are bringing together residents, public services, funders and policy makers to learn from one another and redesign how decisions get made."
1. Germany already said the war is illegal.
2. US now threatening "complete obliteration" of Iran's energy system and, maybe, of desalination plants – i.e., war crimes.
3. Reminder: The war is conducted from Ramstein, Germany: "the nerve center of America’s operations against Iran".
What gives?
I suspect your move from Essex to Oxford helped lead to that discovery ... :-).
The logic of the Trump regime is grounded in the right-wing’s desire to establish the US as a petro-empire that manages the impacts of climate change w fascism: fake elections, disinformation as common sense, concentration camps for migrants, & the destruction of blue states by extreme weather.
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Been a while since it came out but just got my copy today. Very pleased to be in this.
Packed rooms for GEP 25th anniversary panels at ISA this week. @gepjournal.bsky.social @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social @kmoneill.bsky.social @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @devoncantwell.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social @robertfalkner.bsky.social @bethdesombre.bsky.social