In the midst of a climate fight in NM, one thing that stands out is that too many folks want Earthly realities to conform to their individual economic endeavors. Too few folks exercise their agency to align their economic endeavors to Earthly realities.

Fearing that educated judges might rule on climate cases, Republican Attorneys General successfully bullied the The Federal Judicial Center (the education & research arm of the federal court system) into removing a chapter summarizing climate science from their scientific judicial reference manual.

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

#Venezuela #ClimateChange #OilWar #EnergyTransition #ElectroStates #PetroStates #CleanEnergy #Renewables #cdnpoli #abpoli #Trump #yyc #Electrification #ElectrifyEverything #ClimateSky #CanadaSky

And less room for the oil #Alberta desperately wants to sell them #abpoli #ClimateSky #CanadaSky #cdnpoli #ClimateChange

More than half of the world’s new electric cars are now plugging into Chinese sockets instead of lining up at gas stations. By 2024, it is estimated that China’s EV sales were growing about 40% year on year, even as some Western markets stumbled. www.ecoticias.com/en/china-sol...

248 researchers and staff gone from what was one of the world’s leading renewable energy research hubs in 9 months is absurd.

Wild fact from @billmckibben.bsky.social's latest newsletter: "The last colder-than-average month on planet earth was in February of 1985, which means that no one under the age of forty has ever known one."

Ethanol is such a good example of the hazards of the mid-transition, as @shastingssimon.bsky.social and @gruberte.bsky.social put it. Looked like a good idea 20 years ago but now outright harmful... and yet backed by an ironclad bipartisan constituency for reasons unrelated to climate.

Reflecting on that incredible #BadBunny message "the only thing more powerful than HATE is LOVE" and I find myself going back to one of my favourite #Gandhi quotes. I've watched #Superbowl halftime shows (& largely hated them) my whole life, I never expected to be inspired by one. Bravo, Bad Bunny!

At this there was a terrible baying sound outside, and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn. They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws.

"The United States doesn't have partners. It has states with which it does transactional business and states which it influences in its own self-interest...over the next few years how we in Canada think of our sovereignty is going to continue to be challenged very strongly by the United States."

Often the talk of sovereignty PM ⁦‪Carney‬⁩ pitches in every major speech, isn’t matched by the walk - nor innovation. Minus the necessary EV mandate, we continue to follow Trump’s strategies in promoting oil/gas & fossil-fueled cars. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/09/a...

This is all a charade. This is really about climate chaos — creating it, bringing forward what the wealthy see as inevitable. The wealthy do not see themselves as being in the same boat as the rest of us. Bruno Latour saw this coming. Know your people. Know your food. Know your water. Link in alt.

“The climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – and could undermine the very foundations of economic growth.”

Another fantastic report from @carbontracker.bsky.social shows that the models policymakers rely on are systemically understating the economic risks of climate change.

Solar and wind power eclipse coal and gas for first time in EU www.courthousenews.com/solar-and-wi...

There's a global solar energy revolution happening led by China and it should have been one of the biggest stories of 2025. While the US is committing to a suicide pact with fossil fuels, the rest of the world is leapfrogging into cheap nearly limitless energy. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...

Really hope all those journos that were angry and calling for more climate action last week publish something about this bonkers, corrupt, planet-burning LNG idea. We won't see any real change unless the issue stays in the news and we're constantly asking for better #nzpol

You are so Nashville if your kid's 1.5 mile ride to school requires a practice run on a Sunday morning, stringing together a convoluted route of sidewalks and alleyways because there's not a shred of bicycle infrastructure to keep her safe.

"Good Morning, and welcome to today's soilcast..." A new boon for farmers: soil health readings as easy as checking the weather. That is the promise of Earth Rover, whose vibration-sensing tech is currently being tested in Kenya ahead of a proposed global roll out. news.fixthenews.com/G3lvcPP

Wind power generation in Texas is double solar power generation (also unchecked abundant data centre growth is eating up all new solar + boosting fossil gas generation, resulting in rising emissions)

@ecojusticecanada.bsky.social, representing Stand.earth, @wildsight.bsky.social, & @wildernews.bsky.social, is challenging the federal government’s more than 11-year delay in fully mapping critical habitat for threatened Southern Mountain Caribou — a legal requirement under the Species at Risk Act.

Southern Mountain Caribou have been listed as threatened for over 20 years — yet their critical habitat still hasn’t been fully mapped. While the government has dragged its feet, old-growth forests have been logged and herds have been lost.

After more than a decade of broken promises, we’re taking Canada to court. 🧵 #ClimateSky

Reminds me of the craziest story I heard recently. In 2024 the Earth rang every 92 seconds for 9 days. Later it was found the top of a mountain broke off in Greenland and fell into an inland fjord at 100mph. It caused a tsunami that bounced off a 90° turn in the fjord and back to the mountain.

We’ve been warned over and over again. I believe we are rapidly approaching insane climate swings over very short periods of time. Quick extract more oil; open more coal mines, buy more gas gobblers to drive - it won’t hurt too much much now. The damage is done, now we (and our kids) live with it.

The big difference is that solar+battery is fit and forget. Once it's installed, whether from China or anywhere else, it's yours and you are independent. No more payments to anyone. With fossil fuels you're an addict, dependent on your dealer who can make you dance to their tune.

What an interesting thread. France went all in on nuclear power plants, which are now being displaced by cheaper wind and solar. Ramping nuke plants up/down and turning them on/off puts unexpected wear and tear on pumps, valves, pipes, etc., raising maintenance costs and shortening equipment lives.

#cdnpoli #ClimateChange #ClimateSky #CanadaSky www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"This is the hard truth I want to land: climate does not care what’s trending. It’s not interested in Jeffrey Epstein, Gaza, or Greenland. There is no algorithmic mercy. Physics is physics, and it is getting more abrupt." #climatecrisis #ElNino #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-are-...

I hate the word pivot but I love this concept for our beloved #CanadaPost

Now we have two additional pieces of evidence. First, there's the notable fact that US elites *abandoned climate change & diversity, wholesale, with barely a peep of protest, after one election went the other way*. Not how you act when you're deeply committed!

I always found this ridiculous, but they could point to various statements & initiatives, and I was kind of left saying, "no, that's not what real commitment looks like. That looks like minimal rhetorical effort to avoid criticism." But now! ...

An observation I've been thinking about: Around 2020, we were told that US political & corporate elites had been gripped by "wokeness" & thus become obsessed with climate change & diversity. This wokeness was alleged to be so severe & monomaniacal that it threatened the entire culture & economy.

#Venezuela #ClimateChange #OilWar #EnergyTransition #ElectroStates #PetroStates #CleanEnergy #Renewables #cdnpoli #abpoli #Trump #yyc #Electrification #ElectrifyEverything #ClimateSky #CanadaSky

I bought all seven, just to own the libs www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

This is pretty cool. Is it an example of @jlappen1.bsky.social and @gruberte.bsky.social's "minimum viable scale" frame? Did Norway hit a virtuous cycle of fewer gas cars -> gas stations close due to low demand -> gas cars get more annoying to fuel -> fewer gas cars -> ... ?

CAUSED AND/OR AMPLIFIED/INTENSIFIED BY HUMANS BURNING FOSSIL FUELS #Oil #Coal #Gas #FossilFuelPollution theconversation.com/heat-with-no... www.nature.com/articles/s43... #ExtremeHeat #Health #HeatStroke #WetBulbTemeratures #Death #Grief #Trauma #FossilFuelPollution #AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

Your Sunday morning podcast is HERE. Fire up that morning coffee and enjoy. Have a GREAT Sunday! www.podcastics.com/episode/4019... #ClimateChange #OilWar #EnergyTransition #ElectroStates #PetroStates #CleanEnergy #Renewables #cdnpoli #abpoli #yyc #Electrification #ClimateSky #CanadaSky

#Venezuela #ClimateChange #OilWar #EnergyTransition #ElectroStates #PetroStates #CleanEnergy #Renewables #cdnpoli #abpoli #Trump #yyc #Electrification #ElectrifyEverything #ClimateSky #CanadaSky

Your Sunday morning podcast is HERE. Fire up that morning coffee and enjoy. Have a GREAT Sunday! www.podcastics.com/episode/4019... #ClimateChange #OilWar #EnergyTransition #ElectroStates #PetroStates #CleanEnergy #Renewables #cdnpoli #abpoli #yyc #Electrification #ClimateSky #CanadaSky

Under the Trump EPA - enforcement action against polluters has plummeted... via @insideclimatenews.org by Kiley Price, Marianne Lavelle insideclimatenews.org/news/0502202...

Worthwhile thread; a climate / AI connection that is new to me.

"Trump has abandoned the rules-based order America helped usher in after 1945 that relied on multilateral agreements & institutions, that even though the United States was the hegemonic power, I mean nobody could deny that but at the same time, we at least had a fig leaf that our issues mattered."

@calgaryclimatehub.ca Gosh, if you have ANY ideas. I'm fresh out. #sarcasm #ClimateChange

Goodness. Whatever could it be? #ClimateChange

The weather has been a bit weird across the U.S. this winter. Historic amounts of snow fell in the Carolinas, iguanas were stunned by freezing cold in Florida and would-be skiers were looking at dirt on Utah’s slopes. Here’s what’s going on, and when it will finally end.

"Single-stair buildings allow for more varied unit layouts, since the apartments can be arranged more freely around a central staircase. That flexibility could make it easier to build more family-friendly three- and four-bedroom units." www.vox.com/housing/4101...

Insurance industry experts are warning of a 1 in 20 chance of almost 2 metres of sea level rise by 2100, with 0.3 to 1 metre assessed as highly likely. It’s really rough on the local communities there but there seems no choice but to retreat. axa-research.org/get-research...