Researchers studied 100s of armed conflicts over the past 75 years and found that the risk of violent conflicts grew during El Niño events. The effect was most pronounced in C. America and southern Africa, areas where El Niño has worsened drought. By @bberwyn.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org

As analysts at Ember put it: “this is the first energy shock with a superior alternative.”

This is an extraordinary finding. “Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered. It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Alright, lets do another live skeet react to the actual text in the Canada Alberta agreement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

its like if I was a cookie baker and I sold my cookies to the government at a price for the cookies we agreed it was worth, but then I said I should get paid an additional payment for the eggs and butter I used in the cookies.

Now let's say the floor price of 1t of carbon they capture which they can use or sell is $130. So their costs are $100 and they net $30 which can go towards paying off Capex. But in addition to that they get 1/2 of their operating costs, or $50 as an additional credit under the system.

Join us! This year's Tree Party marks Calgary's first ever "Bloom", a Plant Baby Plant community activation that turns inspiration into action. Robin Wall Kimmerer (Braiding Sweetgrass) will give a video welcome to share her message of joy and reciprocity. www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/tree_party20...

8/ None of these giant changes make our country more secure, independent, or stable. None of them directly address the cost of living crisis. All of them promise corporate welfare for the billionaire class, and more hardship for the 99%.

#CostOfClimate #ClimateChange #yyc #abpoli #cdnpoli #CanadaSky #ClimateSky #EnergyTransition #Electrostates #Petrostates #China #Iran #America

And no U.S. media outlet reported on a study that finds that a major U.S. city and cultural center is in the process of disappearing and its entire population requires relocation? Did I miss something?

Original paper [paywalled]: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Low-lying southern Louisiana faces multiple threats, with rising sea levels driven by global heating, compounded by strengthening hurricanes, also a feature of the climate crisis, and the gradual subsidence of a coastline that has been carved apart by the oil and gas industry.”

Katrina was the missed opportunity to have this conversation. It was obvious then. If we’d had it, the past 20 years might not have been wasted.

#CostOfClimate #ClimateChange #yyc #abpoli #cdnpoli #CanadaSky #ClimateSky #EnergyTransition #Electrostates #Petrostates #China #Iran #America

This is worth 2 skeets because it's kind of wild. Lets assume company X has a CCS plant built and now we focus on the just the operating part: They operate their CCS unit which costs say $100/t (this is just a rough number to make the math easy, it could be higher or low).

This part in the weeds means that builders and operators of CCS amounts to a direct subsidy for building, and getting credits for operating means a double counting of emissions reductions (they will already get credits for reducing emissions, then they get credits again for the money they spend)

"US had a trillion dollars in #ClimateDamage last year. That's a big number. It'll only grow. Unsustainable, unproductive & we're not talking about the human costs either, just economic damages & lost businesses. Physical risk is still being ignored by economists, many industries & whole countries."

Immaculate coffee outside vibes. I used to commute through Rotary Park and it's still one of my favourite spots in the city. #yycbike

Tree Party coming back May 30 Check out many events of @calgaryclimatehub.ca at www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/events

Read Sara's whole thread on todays AB-fed MOU, but she is the first I've seen to pick up on the double-counting-of-credits aspect. I wrote a whole boring-ass report on the last time Alberta allowed double-counting of emissions credits. TLDR: It's not good for climate

It looks like a lawsuit led by Michigan could finally close at least one of the coal plants forced to remain open by Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s “emergency“ order. Even the owner of the coal plant want to shut it down.

Marine professional says don’t eat this shrimp. Please.

"Gold Standard Science" = science that isn't a threat to the fossil fuel industry, polluters, and other special interests that fund the GOP

California clean energy advocates: thank you. 75% of you may now shift your efforts to transportation, ag and industrial, resilience, or electricity elsewhere.

In case you missed our latest climate science briefing, check out the recording from this week: youtube.com/watch?v=rNYS... After overviewing the latest global statistics, we did a deep dive on the newest data around current drought conditions and the growing likelihood of a strong El Niño.

"Climate damage now costs us trillions per year. Globally it's up to 16 MILLION per hour yet we keep hearing all of these stay-the-course arguments ignoring these enormous costs. Folks managing risks for big companies, let alone entire countries, remain functionally blind to these HUGE numbers."

7/ The message to Canadians is crystal clear: the C-suite asks, and Ottawa delivers. If you're a powerful corporation, you go to the front of the line. If you’re struggling to pay rent, feed your kids, or find a family doctor, you’re told to wait.

6/ Prime Minister Carney is rushing Canada in the wrong direction.  His government has flooded the zone with sweeping changes all at once, bulldozing public debate, Indigenous consultation, and environmental protection along the way.

Interviews with multiple people, including national chief of the Assembly of First Nations Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

And now from The Beaverton! 😂 www.thebeaverton.com/2026/05/carn...

By Althia Raj at the Toronto Star. Includes comment by Misty MacDuffee at Raincoast Conservation Foundation about impacts on southern resident killer whales, and Phil Pothen from Environmental Defence about SARA’s “jeopardy test”. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

“Rising costs, a dying planet, constant traffic, the creeping sense that your daily routine revolves around a machine that drains your time, money, and attention.” 46 reasons to ditch your car (or at least stop using it for everything). Via @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/reasons-to-d...

A new pipeline is.... simply not that. AT ALL. #cdnpoli #ClimateChange #EnergyTransition #MarkCarney #abpoli

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By Tim Gray, executive director of Environmental Defence. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

By Althia Raj, columnist for the Toronto Star (paywalled) www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

For instance! Batteries are going to solve this.

Commuting by bicycle in Belgium pays off as employees earn compensation for every km they ride. 1 in 6 employees commute by bike and get a bicycle allowance of €0.28/km. People cycling to work in 2024 earned an average of around €460 net per year (some as high as €810), up 20% over the past year.

5/ Yesterday’s release of the government’s so-called clean electricity strategy is a transparent attempt to distract from this latest capitulation to the fossil fuel industry – & it’s not even a ‘clean’ electricity strategy worthy of the name when it opens the door to more high-emission gas plants.

4/ The Liberal government is taking us backwards, locking us into more pipelines, more fossil fuel dependence, and more handouts for some of the richest corporations on earth.  An industry expected to make $90 billion in profits this year alone does not need more gifts from the public.

"The cost of a typical utility-scale battery installation has fallen by well over half since 2022, and by 27 per cent last year alone" www.ft.com/content/b5c5...

"The only thing happening faster than the federal rollback of climate policies is the global renewable energy revolution that will turn all of these concessions to Big Oil into a massive lost opportunity to build a better, safer Canada." www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/st...

“Last seen over 50 years ago in cities everywhere.” #MissingMiddle #UrbanTruth

For receipts see Chp 5 of The Language of Climate Politics or this more compressed argument 👇 newrepublic.com/article/1659...

Civil society organizations responded with outrage to the Canada-Alberta agreement announced today. The deal dramatically weakens industrial carbon pricing for big polluters, and doubles down on fast-tracking an oil pipeline to the west coast. Read our reaction 👇 shorturl.at/JPpze

The article sums up all of the environmental protection and renewable strategies that have been removed by our PM. Rather sad and angering to see the long list.

So one fun-to-me question: are Canada's policies consistent with its current stated climate targets, and if not could young Canadians successfully sue the Carney government under the Mathur precedent the way they sued Ford in Ontario?

3/ Meanwhile, renewables met 100% of global demand growth for electricity last year. The rest of the world is racing ahead on clean energy, building the economy of the future.

2/ By gutting carbon pricing to the point of irrelevance, it has dismantled the last federal climate measure standing. We now have a federal government that no longer even pretends to rein in big corporate polluters.

1/ This announcement marks the Carney government’s official surrender to the oil and gas lobby.
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