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Just a quick observation that amid all the turmoil created by the Zelensky meeting, this got completely ignored: A Chinese citizen paid Trump $50 million for the SEC to drop its charges against him.

submitted 6 hours ago • 35 comments

The week began with the US voting with North Korea at the UN, in defense of Russia, and ended with the US President and VP personally berating the leader of a country invaded by Russia. Wow.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

If you missed today's lowest point in US History, do not despair. A new lowest point is expected to arrive tomorrow.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Snippets don't do the whole thing justice. The meeting was one of the weirdest and most disgraceful moments in modern American history.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Clean energy was a record 10% of China's total GDP in 2024, worth $1.9 trillion dollars. That's almost as much as the entire world spent on fossil fuels in 2024. This is the economic gold mine Trump wants to take away from Americans. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Amazing data source for anyone interested in tracking the big climate-related spending bills of the Biden era 👇

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The short version for those of you still hiding under your pillows: Reports of Trump’s “honeymoon” were greatly exaggerated to begin with; his approval numbers are historically flaccid; and the public generally hates a lot of what’s he doing right now. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

submitted 8 days ago • 48 comments

"The senior US Republicans tasked with dismantling Joe Biden’s signature climate policy have enjoyed an investment boom of more than $130bn in the areas they represent thanks to the former president’s law." www.ft.com/content/e627...

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

We are indeed in an "emergency." But it can't be solved with fossil fuels, since it's caused by fossil fuels. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/c...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

The only good thing happening.

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

submitted 11 days ago • 454 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 14 days ago • 5657 comments

That famously green company Shell has put out its new energy scenarios and, boy, they are worth your time. Here's a thread 🧵 By 2100, in the worst-case scenario, the oil company sees global warming peaking at 2.2C. In the most ambitious, it comes back down to 1.3C. www.shell.com/news-and-ins...

submitted 17 days ago • 30 comments

Is the United States Still a Liberal Democracy? open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

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NEW: Global EV sales grew 18% year-on-year in Jan 2025 Was this due to the "devastating collapse" of 21% growth in Europe? The "stalling" 12% growth in China? Maybe the "plunging" 22% rise in US/Canada? Or "faltering" 50% rest-of-world growth…? Data: Rho Motion 🤷‍♂️

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

Ford's CEO said the quiet part outlout on last week's earnings call: the economics of massive EVs just dont work. heatmap.news/electric-veh... Why extended range electric vehicles (EREVs) are the solution to electrify full-size pickups & SUVs, as I wrote last June: heatmap.news/electric-veh... 🔌💡 🔌🚗

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

I wonder how one possibly justifies any of these actions

submitted 18 days ago • 973 comments

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 21 days ago • 270 comments

If I was a foreign power wanting to cripple US power, I'd: 1. Purge intel agencies + expose agents 2. Mess w/Treasury 3. Politicize military 4. Turn off foreign aid 5. Shutter anti-corruption + election interference teams 6. Sow discord with allies Wait, I'm getting an update...

submitted 22 days ago • 27 comments

some good news for your friday: in 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power capacity it now takes one day

submitted 21 days ago • 14 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

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submitted 24 days ago • 134 comments

The news getting you down? I invite you to stare at this chart of solar and wind deployed capacity in China. They blew past their ambitious 2030 target... last July.

submitted 24 days ago • 64 comments

china surpassing renewable energy expectations in 2024: 45.2% increase in solar capacity, 18% in wind (both new records)

submitted 29 days ago • 25 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 29 days ago • 2306 comments

It’s a cult.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The Teamsters have endorsed Democrats for president since '96. And despite the Dems saving pensions and retirement benefits for 2 million Americans, the Teamsters didn't endorse a candidate this cycle. Now, within a week of taking office, Trump gutted the NLRB. Is this what Sean O'Brien had in mind?

submitted 31 days ago • 431 comments

And there it is: China emissions down 0.3% in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to Carbon Monitor's estimate

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting. Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.

submitted 111 days ago • 117 comments

If you look closely, Ishiba's policy speech on Friday contained some bold ideas. My latest at Observing Japan: open.substack.com/pub/observin...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

China couldnt compete w/the West in producing internal combustion vehicles, so it made a huge bet c. 2009: invest in EVs & help Chinese automakers leapfrog incumbents from the West. That gamble has clearly paid off with declining oil imports & expanding auto exports www.cnn.com/2025/01/23/c... 🔌🚗 🔌💡

submitted 37 days ago • 18 comments

NEW | Solar generates more EU electricity than coal for the first time in 2024 🇪🇺☀️ Renewables made up nearly HALF of the electricity mix last year, while fossil power fell to a historic low ⚡ ember-energy.org/lat...

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

The US is exporting oil and gas at record levels and facing a climate crisis that requires enhancing energy efficiency and lowering emissions as fast as possible, which is to say these Executive Orders could not be more misguided.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

New: Updated U.S. Government Emissions Projections Emissions are expected to decline 29-46% by 2030, 36-57% by 2035, and 34-64% by 2040, compared with 2005 levels. This represents about double the 2030 emissions reductions projected before the passage the IRA & BIL 🔌💡 www.energy.gov/policy/artic...

submitted 43 days ago • 31 comments

As Biden + team exit, it is worth reciting how big the boom in clean energy manufacturing has been. 🔌💡 By our count, 2017-21 Trump-era investments add up to: 47 projects, $27 billion, and 97,616 jobs The Biden boom: 334 projects, $200 billion, and 230,796 jobs www.the-big-green-machine.com

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

You might not think you're in the 1%, but "the richest 1% – about 77 million people, including all those earning more than $140,000 (£114,000) a year – are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution each year as the poorest half of humanity."

submitted 49 days ago • 69 comments

How long does it take the richest 1% to burn their share of the annual carbon budget? Ten days.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵

submitted 51 days ago • 62 comments

Hyundai is building a brand new steel mill in southern Louisiana (Donaldsonville) to supply steel for their Hyundai & Kia vehicle factories in the US, which produce EVs & other vehicles in Georgia. 1300 new jobs. Investments like this may just save the IRA... 🔌💡 🔌🚗 www.google.com/amp/s/www.no...

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

A lesson we never seem to learn: you can't cut emissions just by building out renewables. You also have to stop burning fossil fuels. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/c...

submitted 51 days ago • 10 comments

Kim Stanley Robinson in NATURE magazine: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 51 days ago • 11 comments

scoop: will oklahoma be the first state to ban renewable energy? its becoming increasingly likely. as investments from the inflation reduction act flow into red states, we're seeing backlash. republicans are disliking renewables more than before. cc @heatmap.news heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

submitted 52 days ago • 201 comments

1. Throughout my adult life, I've disagreed with Presidents and policymakers about the means of securing U.S. security and prosperity. And that's to be reasonably expected, because no one has a crystal ball or complete understanding of a situation.

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Meteorologists say the Los Angeles fires were caused by drought and gale-force winds. But a growing mass of X users suspect a different cause: DEI.

submitted 52 days ago • 78 comments

My genuine fear is that with Trump/Musk, I see U.S. governance on track to become more and more like China.

submitted 54 days ago • 12 comments

One under-appreciated, under-discussed explanation for Trump winning is simply that the people who voted for him believed a wide array of false things. The mainstream commentariat's refusal to center information rot has led to much confusion. Highly recommend this piece from @karlbode.com:

submitted 57 days ago • 43 comments