The International Energy Agency has forecast US-based spending on power plants fuelled by coal and gas will reach $50bn this year, or some $3bn more than China, in data obtained by the FT. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I did this story when I was with Bloomberg and it foundationally changed how I move in the summer. There's so much I couldn't get into and I'm super super heat tolerant. As in I've never overheated and not because I avoid heat or don't do dumb stuff.

What happens in the oceans has huge implications for global weather patterns. Hotter oceans keep the air warmer, fueling heat waves; energize storms making them fiercer; and increase evaporation, boosting the chances of extreme rainfall and flooding. edition.cnn.com/2026/07/01/c...

"Time & time again Indigenous communities, land defenders & knowledge keepers are the ones holding the line, protecting forests, watersheds, grasslands & biodiversity that benefit all Canadians. We owe them a debt of gratitude, our full attention, proper funding for the challenge & so much more."

Slow Clap for British trade unions. Unite & GMB choose during extreme heatwave to lobby to block Ed Miliband appointment as chancellor because he wants faster decarbonization in the UK & more green energy deployment that threaten unions is 1. incredibly narrow minded 2. bleak

Before my mom died last year in Montreal, these increasingly hot days in the city always made me fear for her life. 45 degrees will kill many people. Those deaths are one of many prices of our continued climate inaction (many of which we dont even understand yet), despite knowing what we should do.

It’s also false 69% across Canada, 62% in Alberta, support government regulations to limit oil and gas companies’ greenhouse gas emissions. Albertans align with Canadians on supporting stronger climate policies than what we have &, like other Canadians, oppose publically financing another pipeline.

If you want to ragebait yourself, watch this. It’s a lot of fear mongering and bullshit to say, effectively, that we’re doing a shock doctrine and we’re abandoning our climate targets. Happy Canada Day Eve, everyone.

Reminder: " #sustainable" means an entirely different thing to a Big Banker than it does a scientist #cdnpoli #MarkCarney #ClimateChange

#MadMaxRide #StampedeParade #CalgaryStampede #Stampede #Stampede2026 #yyc #yycbike

“the few folks who show up every summer who say “actually air conditioning is bad” are wrong on the morals but also, if you care about this kind of thing, incredibly wrong on the climate *politics*” bsky.app/profile/cost...

Concrete traps heat. 20thC urban planning model of paving everything & building concrete/glass buildings has created a urban heat island disaster. Cooling Adaptation - green belts, shade, water - needed in 21st Century cities.

I was reading this excellent article about what may be one of the most consequential industry capture episodes in climate research. The authors reference a "BP carbon capture and storage pilot project" that was touted in 2007. I was curious what CCS project that was. 🧵

Happy #CanadaDay to those who celebrate. What a great day to listen to this month's show about the important role #Indigenous people have always played in #Conservation, #EcologicalRestoration, #NatureBasedSolutions & so much more. #ClimateChange #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli #abpoli #yyc

@jennyyeremiy.bsky.social could not agree more with Treaty 6 Birdie👇& the @calgaryclimatehub.ca 👇👇 Upholding Treaty Rights means upholding international, natural, & the rule of law by enforcing regulations. Moving alberta into a process of peace & justice for all! I learned a lot this week! 🧡🪶☮️🍁✊

Mark Carney: “The changes we have made will mean that our emissions will be higher in the next few years than they were projected to be under the previous government’s plan. “In my judgment that plan was not sustainable over the long term.”

Carney did not say what Canada’s new emissions targets would be in the 17-minute video but said his government is still committed to the fight against climate change.

“The changes we have made will mean that our emissions will be higher in the next few years than they were projected to be under the previous government’s plan,” Carney said. “In my judgment that plan was not sustainable over the long term.”

Canada will not hit carbon emission reduction targets set under the Trudeau government, Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a video posted to YouTube. He argued that downgrading the country’s climate-change ambitions is necessary for global stability and national unity.

This comes just days before Alberta is expected to unveil a controversial new pipeline proposal under the terms of a memorandum of understanding Carney signed with Premier Danielle Smith last fall.

When the heat index in New York in Chicago is higher than Phoenix's.. "More than 160 million people are under extreme heat warnings or heat advisories ahead of the Fourth of July weekend." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/w...

Reform UK want to wind down climate action in West Norfolk because 'the UK is only 1% of emissions' But decarbonisation isn't a burdensome obligation to wriggle out of - it'll be a massive benefit to our region We'll have better health, energy sovereignty and a stronger economy Me in the EDP

The false promise of carbon capture kept us from enacting stronger climate policy from 2000-2020. Will the false promise of geoengineering keep us from doing the right thing for another couple of decades?

#OceanHeat #CO2 #CO2e #RateOfChange #ElNiño #Storms #RapidIntensification #Drought #ExtremePrecipitation #ExtremeWeather #Acidification #Hypoxia #BiodiversityLoss #Extinction #Food #ThermalExpansion #SeaLevelRise #HumanDisplacement #Oil #Coal #Gas #FossilFuelPollution #AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

Design at every scale in a city from interiors & buildings to shade & green belts For eg.India's Urban ministry remit includes Heat:"Cooling cities will require a transition away from heat-absorbent materials, towards use of alternative construction materials" www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-chan...

Carbon cycle and Water cycle are both out of whack. I worked on green Infrastructure & Blue-Green Infrastructure for two years and think the 20thC concrete-based urbanization model has to be reversed in 21st Century of Extremes. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Happy #CanadaDay to those who celebrate. What a great day to listen to this month's show about the important role #Indigenous people have always played in #Conservation, #EcologicalRestoration, #NatureBasedSolutions & so much more. #ClimateChange #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli #abpoli #yyc

Oil Workers Are Drilling for Geothermal Now Alberta oil workers are shifting to geothermal energy. Same drilling skills, cleaner energy, jobs closer to home. No LNG subsidies needed. Source: The Energy Mix, "Oil Worker's Shift to Geothermal Reflects 'Endless' Opportunity in Clean Careers"

How did the EcoBungalow cope with last week’s heatwave? How might keeping the house cool in an increasingly warm climate be improved? New Blogpost. #EcoBungalow #Passivhaus #EnerPHit #retrofit #overheating #ventilation #PHPP #MVHR #PassiveHouse www.ecobungalow.co/post/phew-wh...

New study: the European heat wave would rank as the 7th deadliest in world history, using numbers from EM-DAT for historical events, as I detailed yesterday: yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/06/east... Callahan’s study is only for the 7 days ending Jun 28, and extreme heat also occurred Jun 29-30.

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

#MadMaxRide #StampedeParade #CalgaryStampede #Stampede #Stampede2026 #yyc #yycbike

As of right now the #AirQuality in Calgary is, again, officially, a high risk to the health of Calgarians. #yyc #yyccc #ClimateChange

Urbanization used 20thC Civil Engineering: Hard, grey, impervious infra to pave, pipe & pump water away. While 21stC extremes need soft, absorbent #GreenInfrastructure. More wetlands/mangroves to slow water & sink it down i.e the multiscale redesign of cities www.susdrain.org/files/resour...

AC's are required. But they are not the only solution to problem of overheating deadly cities. 20thC urbanization model caked cities in heat trapping concrete & asphalt and broke the water cycle & carbon cycle. 21stC cooling solutions must learn from the past

#ClimateChange #NatureBasedSolutions #Indigenous #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli #abpoli #yyc #EnergyTransition #ClimateJustice #ClimateAction

"If Canada is serious about confronting climate change it must stop borrowing #Indigenous credibility & start following Indigenous leadership. That means respecting free, prior & informed consent and investing in Indigenous-led #conservation, #RenewableEnergy, ecological restoration & stewardship."

I attended community hall presentations by @calgaryclimatehub.ca, @forourkidsog.bsky.social & other environment orgs as they discuss the impact of extreme weather in #Alberta We are energy leaders. There’s so much opportunity for Alberta’s future economy & prosperity in renewable energy investment.

#MadMaxRide #StampedeParade #CalgaryStampede #Stampede #Stampede2026 #yyc #yycbike

Wet-bulb temperature combines heat and humidity into a measure that is linked to heat stress. Climate change has made this week's wet-bulb temperatures at least 5x more likely across many areas, with dangerous levels expected in some locations. Explore the data: csi.climatecentral.org/humid-heat

Heatmap News has just created a new genre of obituaries. And note the headline. heatmap.news/daily/lee-ra...

A bit under the radar but the efforts to make the public subsidize Alaska LNG's white whale are heating up. "Factoring in contingencies for risks or unexpected developments, he thinks a more realistic cost is $62 billion to $65 billion."

Oh, and I should have added: as for academic support, Professor Myles Allen, who has the ear of government here, has been pushing very hard for CCS, and arguing with those of us who think it's daft. So yes, sadly and strangely, what @robertferry.bsky.social‬ says is true, at least for the UK.

In summary, even high profile academics were sold on the potential of CCS to allow fossil fuels to be part of the energy mix into a "net-zero" future. But that was always a fantasy and it is in large part responsible for decades of delay on actions that would have actually made a difference. //

Sadly, Germany has - after years of massive fossil lobbying - started to go down the slippery slope of funding and favoring CCS and BECCS illusions while waiving fossil fuels through.

Huge #heatwave grips the East Coast. It’s just one of multiple historic heatwaves popping up around the planet! So what is contributing to this in the US and #Europe? It’s part emerging super #elnino piled on top of a much warmer Earth! Here’s how it all comes together… #climate #climatechange

@jeffgoodell.bsky.social's Heat book has a chapter on "CHEAP COLD AIR. "The most enduring legacy of AC may be the divide it has created between the cool and the damned" Adaptation is hard. But heat-trapping asphalt and cities can and must be greened. www.economist.com/culture/2023...

Western greens should be similarly sceptical of KSR 'Ministry for the Future' heat holocaust for India. It is patronizing & fatalistic with no agency or adaptation. As I told @dwallacewells.bsky.social "We’re not going to die for your narrative" www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/o...

#ClimateChange #NatureBasedSolutions #Indigenous #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli #abpoli #yyc #EnergyTransition #ClimateJustice #ClimateAction