You can never really trust Canada's 'Big 5' banks.
"Royal Bank of Canada and Scotiabank both announced on April 16 they are abandoning their interim climate targets. Scotiabank is going a step further by entirely ditching its net-zero by 2050 target. Both blamed changes in government policy."
"Over the course of March, the nation got more electricity from renewables than it did from natural gas, which is typically the single-largest source of energy on the U.S. grid. It’s the first time renewables have bested the fossil fuel in the U.S. across an entire month"
(From Canary Media)
Unsurprising, but... "Delta deleted its pledge to use sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for 10% of its jet fuel by 2030. It also rephrased its quest to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 as an 'aspiration,' rather than a 'goal.'"
(From Bloomberg)
My latest on the trials and tribulations of Canada’s high-speed rail development efforts…
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/14/o...
Supposedly Guyana is the most food self-sufficient country in the world.
(And Canada can only sustain itself for 4 food groups 🤨)
Good point
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👀 "Last month, Patrick Brown, head of climate analytics at Interactive Brokers, looked at how traditional weather forecasts stack up against prediction markets and found the markets outperformed the US National Weather Service."
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We are currently in a growth phase for GWh-scale Sulfur Based Batteries… (Source: www.nature.com/articles/s43...)
Thanks for clarifying
Holy smokes! An incredible start to the 'Wildfire Season' in the US this year - owing to an abnormally hot and snowless winter in some parts of the country.
We want affordable EVs in Canada, but let's agree not to accept EVs made with slave labour please!
(Source: Heatmap)
Higher fossil fuel prices are causing countries to expand their biofuels production and blends: This is expected to increase food prices (for instance, cooking oils will become more expensive as supply tightens) leaderpost.com/pmn/business...
Global warming is a slowly meandering ghost
Deer silhouettes
🌓Went down a little rabbit hole about space flight to the moon yesterday after the launch, and I was surprised to learn there actually 96 bags of human excrement that were left there. How nice. 6 US flags, and 96 bags of 💩
www.sciencefocus.com/space/why-is...
That was some real cool shit
That's what we're trying to find out!
Sweet! I just received funding along with a great bunch of fellow researchers to study the 'societal costs' of climate change (broadly defined). We will be looking at how the impacts of climate change, fossil fuel dependency, and even climate policies themselves might incur 'costs' on society 👍
You can exit through the door, or the hole in the wall above the door… pick your poison 😹
As Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood writes about this report: "African countries import more than US$100 billion per year in fossil fuels even though Africa has enough renewable energy potential to meet 1,000 times its own energy needs."
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Quebec is one of the *relative* coldest places on Earth today... [Colder than usual for this region, this time of year]
Effectively... don't rule out 'worst case scenarios': "This bolsters the argument that to avoid climate-related risks to systems that are key for global food security and ecosystem functioning, effective policy should take into account worst-case scenarios as well as average projections."
There is a more detailed interactive map at the Climate Impact Lab site where you can click on your specific district to see the expected change in mortality where you live by 2050 (relative to 2001-2010 average). Where I live mortality is expected to decline.
"Poor countries may lose 10 times more people to deaths from high temperatures than rich ones, according to an analysis by Climate Impact Lab." (Bloomberg Green Newsletter)
That’s like the first thing I ever hear degrowthers talking about always - being flexible with their petchem feedstocks!
😅🤞
Moon shots: Video mode; zoom in to 9X; swipe up to bring exposure down to -2; start recording and drag down exposure until moon comes into focus, then take a screenshot.
Just took this pic of the moon with my iPhone using a cool hack I saw on Instagram 👀
The IEA’s “Sheltering from Oil Shocks” pamphlet reads like a Degrowth manual
