Blowing ~£200bn of taxpayer money on CCS boondoggles would be tragic and stupid, but hardly unprecendented, as I wrote recently in @transitiontimes.bsky.social #5: www.transitiontimes.net/tt-5-ccs-in-... and Nelder Notes #4: www.transitiontimes.net/nn-4-carbon-... 11 min read

Just a quick reminder, since we launched into the void of a holiday weekend: This is my new platform. If you'd like to support my work, please become a Premium subscriber here: www.transitiontimes.net/subscribe/

Hot off the press: In @transitiontimes.bsky.social #10, I review the data & commentary on the ongoing heatwave and what it means for climate action. www.transitiontimes.net/tt-10-the-he...

New post! In Nelder Notes #6, I review the backsliding on climate commitments and muse on the state of climate campaigning: www.transitiontimes.net/nn-6-backsli...

The data center gold rush is throwing climate under the bus... 1/3 www.reuters.com/business/ene...

What to do about "climate hushing?" Climate scientists have their views, as @sammyroth.bsky.social writes www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/climate-hu... but I tend to think *social* science has more to offer, as I explained in @transitiontimes.bsky.social www.transitiontimes.net/tt-8-fixing-...

I got the chance to talk to @chrisnelder.bsky.social about how Europe needs to pay far more attention to what's happening in its distribution grids. The full report is here: beyondfossilfuels.org/2026/06/02/g... Listen below and get in touch if you want to work together on this!

There's roughly as much capacity languishing in distribution grid connection queues as the *entire* grid capacity in 8 European countries.

Is this what they meant when they said we need to win the AI race with China? "US fossil fuel power spending to beat China for the first time in decades."

What “Cash for Clunkers” should have been all along and needs to be again, everywhere!

@chrisnelder.bsky.social just launched @transitiontimes.bsky.social "a new publication designed to highlight the most vital new information about the global energy transition." www.transitiontimes.net/tt-1-welcome... 🔌💡

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣 I am very excited to announce my new platform and products! 1) The @transitiontimes.bsky.social newsletter, made to promote all the good work being done on the #energytransition! See the welcome note at www.transitiontimes.net/tt-1-welcome... 1/3

Just because you're not paying attention to the creeping incursion of the fascist surveillance state doesn't mean it's not paying close attention to you. DOGE has rebuilt some of the federal government’s most sensitive websites with visitor-tracking software. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Apparently we've moved on from the "fragile ceasefire" of the past month or so. On the drone attacks violating the latest, day-old ceasefire: "This is not a violation of the ceasefire; it is ceasefire management” apnews.com/article/iran...

Ooh! Great idea! Could we have a fund to help the workforce through the energy transition first? (No? That's only for tech? Nobody will pony up for those in the energy and energy-adjacent industries? Big Tech always get what it wants first, even when climate is a more urgent need? I see. Rats.)

@willknight.bsky.social I read your new piece but I don't know what you mean by AI having "a Chernobyl moment." I'm pretty familiar with what went wrong in Chernobyl and as far as I know it wasn't about geopolitical competition or an "arms race." Can you clarify? www.wired.com/story/ai-arm...

A forensic investigation by @propublica.org ca and @drilledmedia.bsky.social found the smoking gun behind the past couple of decades of malinvestment into CCS--a technology that has never become commercial except for producing more oil--thanks to the aggressive sponsorship of BP.

The DOE estimates that geothermal power could meet as much as 40% of US demand growth by 2030. Listen in and find out how!

You can listen to our South AFrica miniseries too, right here: energytransitionshow.com/SouthAfrica2...

TFW one of your papers was cited as a source for a paper whose title you can't even comprehend 🤣 "A mixed integer quadratically constrained programming model for optimal deployment of capacitated fast-charging stations for electric vehicles: a Bayesian optimization approach"

Is this still a "fragile ceasefire?" Or are we ready to retire that special little trope now.

This is… quite a thread.

Tired: Pretending there's no end to fossil fuel consumption. Wired: Well-planned managed decline.

@oboylemm.bsky.social Nice job on your CBS News hit today!

Yes! That's one of the key insights we explored at length in our new South Africa miniseries, which you can find right here: xenetwork.org/ets/category...

South Africa has enough wind and solar resources and land to generate at least three times as much power as its entire annual load. Ditching coal makes so much sense...but what about the jobs?

If you told 1994 me, with my 14.4 kbps modem, that in 2026 I would be constantly trying to turn off unwanted videos automatically streaming on my computer and paying nothing for data, I would not have believed you.

Great data here, showing just how large and sudden the increase in Africa's production and deployment of solar is. Perfectly in line with our @transitionshow.bsky.social miniseries on South Africa! Part 2 launched Wed, and the final part launches June 3. xenetwork.org/ets/category...

Part 2 of our miniseries on South Africa, based on my travels there last year. Grid geeks gonna love this one!

Oh are we doing the RCP8.5 wars again?

The NYT writes up the looming water shortage in Corpus Christi www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u... without even mentioning oil & gas or that a single plastics plant there can consume as much fresh water as every residential user in the city combined indoeden.substack.com/p/substituti...

Democrats should ensure that voters hear this so much it haunts their dreams this fall.

Apparently the administration is still using #TrumpMath - On This Week with George Stephanopoulus this morning, US Amb Mike Waltz said that Iran's currency is "down over 100%" 🤔

By @350.org's count, the war in Iran has already cost ordinary households more than $150 billion, which goes to oil and gas companies opposing the #energytransition. The energy transition is the only way out of the fossil fuel trap, esp. for importers of oil & gas.

Man, this is a good, if infuriating episode. Clémence Dubois is brilliant.

Thanks Trump!

This part of the show really stood out to me and Clémence Dubois had a great, concise answer. For a longer analysis, I'd highly recommend "Reconsidering Reparations" by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social as an accessible deep-dive on the topic! (CC'ing @chrisnelder.bsky.social on this reading rec.)

By @350.org's count, the war in Iran has already cost ordinary households more than $150 billion, which goes to oil and gas companies opposing the #energytransition. The energy transition is the only way out of the fossil fuel trap, esp. for importers of oil & gas.

Further to my point of 2 months ago (see below)... Hey, fellow podcasters! We're all wildly inefficient meatsacks now, as compared with our silicon-based competitors. Read it and weep: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Think about how many stories & headlines you've seen about small modular reactors (which still don't exist commercially) and how they can be 'manufactured' at scale. Now think about how many stories you have NOT seen about the small modular energy manufacturing juggernaut that's actually happening.

No, solar panels aren't constantly oozing toxins. These and other myths the fossil-fuel industry would like you to believe about solar are easily debunked. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The Access of Evil

In short: Most countries will transition to renewables in response to the current crisis, and demand for oil & gas will be permanently reduced. Developing new domestic oil projects in a place like the UK would not help supply and would be a terrible business decision.

Per new analysis by @ember-energy.org, China's solar exports in March were a whopping 68 GW, DOUBLE the previous month, and equivalent to Spain’s entire solar capacity, surpassing the previous record set in August 2025 by 49%. Yow! ember-energy.org/latest-updat...

I’m back on the Energy Transition Show to talk about everything that happened in the global power sector in 2025. There was much to discuss and a fantastic conversation with @chrisnelder.bsky.social Give it a listen!

Gil Scott-Heron was so correct. The revolution really is not being televised. In fact, most media are afraid to even talk about it.

A few other highlights! For the first time: • Global electricity generation from fossil fuels fell because renewables grew faster than demand. • Renewables pushed FF off the grid, causing power-sector emissions to drop. • Solar recorded the largest single-year increase of any electricity source

Listen in and hear the latest evidence that the energy transition is unstoppable! Solar is growing faster than any other source of electricity, ever, and renewables are now generating more power than coal globally.

CNN put together a montage of Trump saying as far back as March 9 that his war against Iran "is going to be finished pretty quickly," then him saying that same thing over and over for the past six weeks

So much great news in this latest @iea.org report, helpfully summarized by @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org as usual!