It’s been a frosty December in Alberta. Past winters have seen grid alerts warning of possible blackouts — so will there be enough electricity to cook the tofurkey this year? And what causes grid alerts in the first place? @drewanderson.bsky.social digs in: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-grid...

When you vote, you’ll get to choose, as we leave the Holocene, speeding blindfolded, deep into the Anthropocene, which of these former geological epochs you’d most enjoy inflicting upon your children. Vote wisely. #FossilFuelPollution #AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

Every “nice” 60+ degree day in December has its costs. I am chilled to the bone in this winter drought when people talk about how “beautiful” the warm snow-cap-less day is.

@standupforscience.bsky.social can provide much needed joy and hope to our research communities. Fighting back, pranks, shenanigans and shit storms, THIS GIVES US HOPE AND ENERGY. www.standupforscience.net/join-science... and IT'S ALSO THE ONLY WAY TO REACH THE PUBLIC. 🧪

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In Big Oil's Pocket . . . China will bury America with its highly successful green projects, while old man Trump, stuck in the past era of stinky polluting coal & oil, sends our soldiers off to war for oil in places like Venezuela.

”And yet throughout 2025 there remains a rock solid, consistent, worldwide majority of humans that support more & bigger climate-smart policies, Canada most certainly included. That a lot of people not being represented in policies like these.”

Survival is a community event. Global warming caused the damage. A global community must respond. What these people need most is care evidenced by action from 🇨🇦🇺🇸 🇨🇳, as responsible for using fossil fuels. Aid and ↓fossil fuels. @mark-carney.bsky.social @calgaryclimatehub.ca @katharinehayhoe.com

⚡️”As a part of the wider active travel offering, they are helping to replace a significant proportion of single-use private car trips, supporting our zero-carbon aims, and helping tackle congestion and air quality issues." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Destroying Knowledge”: Michael Mann on Trump’s Dismantling of Key Climate Center in Colorado | My interview earlier today with Amy Goodman on @democracynow.org: www.democracynow.org/2025/12/22/s...

Despite where we are today: "Democracy must expand — through time, to represent future generations, and across space, to embrace the interdepend- ence of Earth’s systems." Otherwise things will get very unpleasant for us globalchallenges.org//app/uploads...

The coast needs YOU - sign the declaration to stand with First Nations and defend the incredible bio region of the Great Bear Rainforest and Sea. Add your name here: https://coastalfirstnations.ca/north-coast-protection/

Offshore wind has a higher capacity factor than gas plants

Exactly like that time #DanielleSmith 's big idea to address increasingly larger wildfires during a #ClimateCrisis was investigating mass arson conspiracy claims from her increasingly nuttier base. Of course she found nothing & the #Wildfire file remains unaddressed #abpoli #cdnpoli #ClimateChange

This is madness. Freezing offshore wind projects in progress will waste money, cost jobs, make electricity less reliable and more expensive, and will cause health harms given that fossil fuels will be used instead. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

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6. That election had a robust debate over the gulf war and criticism of the size of the 2008 bailout. Romney was framed as an out of touch plutocrat. To the extent energy came up it was the criticism of the Dems for Waxman Markey cap & trade in 2009, not "thank you for drilling".

5. But enough on climate. This is an opinion piece and if MY's opinion is that we shouldn't act on climate at a scale sufficient to the threat there's not much I can do. Let's go to the facts. First, the idea that Obama won in 2012 because he embraced an all-of-the-above strategy. Really?

4. Yglesias instead seems to implicitly argue that politicians should only do what wins elections, virtue be damned. One wonders what he thinks of those foolish 1850s abolitionists. As Condleeza Rice once said, politics is the art of making the impossible inevitable. That ain't this.

Kids who got new bikes for Christmas, "super excited" to walk them around the city that's too dangerous to ride in. www.creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorec...

Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...

20 of the Top Under-the-radar Cycling Routes on the Planet. momentummag.com/20-under-the...

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@truthdig.com joined CCNow as a partner this year and participated in #The89Percent project. We are so happy to have them on board. Check out their year-end roundup of some of their favorite and most-read stories about climate and environmental issues!

Hydrogen Can’t Cut The Mustard, Even In Dijon - CleanTechnica cleantechnica.com/2025/12/19/h...

Stop burning fossil fuels. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

Hi @mikegrunwald.bsky.social 👋 The point is that the GOAL to stop burning fossil fuels is still up for debate. @petergleick.bsky.social said we need to do it, that's all. So stop pretending the climate movement doesn't do "strategy and prioritization and uncomfortable conversations." It's gross.

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UPDATE: neighbours complain about kids with bikes on sidewalks.

#SkyTrain officially opened for business on January 3, 1986. But some riders took the train for a test drive long before opening day. Angus McIntyre has the First Riders Club certificate to prove it. Story: evelazarus.com/40-years-of-...

Your Sunday morning podcast is HERE. Fire up that morning coffee and enjoy. Have a GREAT Sunday! www.podcastics.com/episode/3955... #MarkCarney #cdnpoli #ClimateChange #BigOil #MOU #ClimateSky #CanadaSky #abpoli #EnergyTransition #ClimateAbundance #yyc #ElectroState #PetroState

Trump's One "Yuuge" Mistake Carney, Hodgson, Smith, Eby, Canadian oil CEOs are making the same mistake #bcpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli markhamhislop.substack.com/p/trumps-one...

@alecstapp.bsky.social: "This should be a wake-up call for US policymakers" #alwaysbecharging edition.cnn.com/2024/11/18/c...

We had many days with subzero temperatures here. Also in Finland, Norway and Sweden heat pumps are very common. And field studies show good performance down to below -15C. Cold climate heat pumps even further.

3. Leadership is about doing what is necessary, not just what is popular. Read literally anything our founders wrote about virtue, and the inherent risks to a society based on democratic processes to sustain the rule of law to the extent that unvirtuous people gain power.

2. What he says about climate is patently false (more on that later) but to the extent he's saying "politicians shouldn't do the right thing unless it's popular", I'd note only that that is a toddlers view of leadership. If the popular kids are mean, should you be mean?

1. First, let's talk about the elephant in the room that he doesn't mention explicitly but haunts the whole piece: climate change is real, we've overshot the goal and the only way to turn the corner is to leave fossil fuel in the ground. To ignore that is to talk about rocketry and ignore gravity.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

A key point—new wells produce less and less O&G (Red Queen problem, w/field decline inevitable) creating imperative to plan for a managed transition, econ/revenue diversification, & cleanup of O&G infrastructure. We must not leave people & communities behind & the land ravaged.

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Your Sunday morning podcast is HERE. Fire up that morning coffee and enjoy. Have a GREAT Sunday! www.podcastics.com/episode/3955... #MarkCarney #cdnpoli #ClimateChange #BigOil #MOU #ClimateSky #CanadaSky #abpoli #EnergyTransition #ClimateAbundance #yyc #ElectroState #PetroState

Very thoroughly reported story on why Florida is arguably the most dangerous state for bike riders. (One telling factoid: Only 124 citations for drivers violating the state's 3-foot law in 2024.) www.cltampa.com/news/florida...

What does it take to move 1000 people? Smart infrastructure supporting choices that don’t take up so much space (or produce so much emissions/pollution, cost so much public money etc). Mobility in cities is about space. Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.

California has also peaks were it has to waste energy because of excess solar production

Extreme weather events have hiked homeowners’ insurance rates. Fed budget cuts have only strained state coffers. In MN, homeowners insurance rates have increased 40% since '18 due to hail damage, leading to non-renewals and some companies leaving the market. www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...

‘The biggest transformation in a century’: how California remade itself as a clean energy powerhouse www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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"Yet China continues to lap the rest of the world on #EnergyTransition, Australia now generates so much #SolarPower they're offering their citizens FREE ELECTRICITY during peak hours & in South Korea a new law requires parking lots beyond a certain size to also become solar farms."

Several countries including Costa Rica, Nepal, Albania, Ethiopia, Iceland and Norway have already reached, or come very close to, 100% renewable power. For countries like Ireland, Spain, and the UK, renewables have saved over a billion in energy costs. Read more:

Our planet that is heating up - watch 100 years of September-October-November temperature departures over land areas (where we live) through the year 2025... Data provided by NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...