Really full house today at the #Brazil pavilion as 5 ministers and envoys join minister #Mariana Silva to call for a roadmap on transitioning away from #fossilfuels at #COP30

Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines. Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context. I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.

Listening to a good @ember-energy.org reaction to the @iea.org's new world energy outlook - sign up here @e3g.bsky.social @davidxvx.bsky.social ember-energy.org/latest-updat...

Our top takeaways from @iea.org’s latest #WorldEnergyOutlook: ⛰️Peak fossil fuel demand is coming, contrary to oil & gas producer narratives, ☀️Renewables are the fastest-growing source of energy, 💰Net zero is cheaper than fossil fuel dependence. 🔎 www.iea.org/reports/worl... 🧵1/10

Renewables are the fastest growing energy source in *every* scenario, including Trump's preferred fossil-friendly one. No sign of the rest of the world following the US in throttling clean energy www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📢China's emissions are flatlining 📢https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-18-months/

The idea *suppliers* of fossil fuels are neutral meeters-of-demand remains one of the worst lies Their job is not just digging up fossil fuels: their job is bullying, pushing, fighting, lying and lobbying to ensure fossil fuels get burned as much as possible www.rigzone.com/news/wire/ch...

you'll be pleased to hear this did not turn out to be a representative snapshot. The clean energy portfolio grew 15% in the past 12 months vs 10% for the "balanced" portfolio

Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30 The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon. My reporting today @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...

What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.

Objectivity, impartiality and balance are all *different things*, and the lazy tendency to treat them as synonyms, and to use partisan balance alone as a proxy for the others, is the root cause of a vast amount of nonsense.

The fact that rich people are buying up the media and politicians, and using up the remaining carbon budget is very bad for everyone.

@bmj.com, a renowned health journal, slams car bloat: "Cars are becoming steadily larger, [and] with this comes potential harms to health...Action is needed locally, nationally, and internationally to curb sales of new SUVs and to reduce their presence in urban areas." www.bmj.com/content/391/...

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

"When I first became President of Colombia, Indigenous leaders told me that I must make peace, not just with the rebels, but with nature too... That is why I support Brazil’s initiative... to develop a roadmap to break dependence on fossil fuels." english.elpais.com/opinion/2025...

Excellent primer for #COP30 in the #Amazon: To make peace with nature, we need a #fossilfree Amazon english.elpais.com/opinion/2025...

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

Strong piece from former President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, arguing in support of a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels at #COP30. "It is in the interests of producers and consumers alike to engage constructively." english.elpais.com/opinion/2025...

"When I first became President of Colombia, Indigenous leaders told me that I must make peace, not just with the rebels, but with nature too... That is why I support Brazil’s initiative... to develop a roadmap to break dependence on fossil fuels." english.elpais.com/opinion/2025...

President Lula: "Over time, oil companies worldwide, including Brazil’s Petrobras, will transform into energy companies, because a growth model based on fossil fuels cannot last." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The US is just getting ready to start putting a lot more LNG on the global market. Bad timing! "Pakistan has struck a deal to cancel 21 liquefied natural gas cargoes under its long-term contract with Italy's Eni as part of a plan to curb excess imports that have flooded its gas network"

signs of future turmoil for LNG Demand in China and India still down from last year, no sign of a turnaround www.reuters.com/markets/comm... Pakistan cancels 21 LNG cargoes, as solar takes over www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

😢 "Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"

Three hours of free electricity every day in Australia for retail consumers, thanks to solar. This means those without solar panels benefit from solar! Abundance. Affordable, to say the least. Clean electricity. #energysky www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Global inequality has reached a point where it's no longer just an social or justice issue. It’s a structural crisis threatening democracy and economic development. since 2000, the richest 1 % have captured 41 % of all new global wealth.The poorest 50 % have received just 1 %.

Osborne deserves a lot more condemnation, for not just doing austerity but doing it so cackhandedly: 1. Not borrowing to invest when borrowing costs were at essentially zero 2. Cutting spending by salami slicing every part of the public sector with no real analysis of where could take it

I don't know if that's true anymore. Real newspapers have a limited scope, the erosion of local news means that the bar for stuff to get reported on is quite high, and I see stuff on TikTok all of the time that people is saying is happening in their communities that I have no way to verify

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day. Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

my name is ozymandias, king of kings. look upon my works. your call may be recorded for quality and training purposes

Your daily reminder: the suppliers of fossil fuels are incentivised to manufacture, defend and enforce demand for their toxic, outdated and unreliable product Actively forgetting this dynamic and assuming cheap renewables win out in the 'free market' = doomed to failure

this is what we're up against

this is honestly my main argument against AGI hype

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Very poor from the government: it won't review suitability of X for its communications, and insists on keeping secret its previous review.

New polling on data centres finds 72% of Europeans want a measure requiring new data centres be built only if they’re powered by new and additional renewable energy. ⚠️ People aren’t willing to trade the climate for unsustainable data centre growth. Read more 👉 beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/10/27/e...

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain. Nobody with any sense or decency should be there. No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there. Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

when we did the most *conservative* accounting of this (using advertising data, because of course they're also not transparent about it), the NYT alone had taken in $20 million from oil and gas companies in just THREE years. it's absolutely wild drilled.media/news/drilled...

so much discourse about immigration, so little about aging

more of this please! you can't claim to be "a major player in the energy transition" while expanding fossil gas production www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I've written about oil industry cleanup liabilities. Look at their argument. "We would not be able to take on certain wells that are in packages and would be less likely to take risks buying packages..." Admitting if they have to pay for cleanup, they wouldn't be in this business.

You know, there’s this pervasive view that people don’t care about climate change / are bored of it / find it overwhelming but I wrote this story this week and social media went crazy over it. People care!!!! They really care are they need a way to channel it www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

not a good look

Did a new one

46. Achieving a net-zero energy transition, for most countries, will not look like winning a war or marching while waving flags. It will be the ability to say "no thank you, we do not want what you are selling" to the petrostates, and walking (or cycling, or taking a bus, or driving an EV) away.

39. …It would still really help if rich people would stop pissing carbon into the atmosphere for no reason.

38. Ordinary people have no idea how much progress we’ve made. Tell people at parties that UK carbon emissions in 2023 were at their lowest level since 1879, for example. Most developed economies are now reducing carbon emissions without lowering quality of life.

34. Europeans shouldn't feel guilty about using electricity for airconditioning, it'll all come from the sun anyway by 2030. Solar generation times and seasons match airconditioning demand pretty well, which is good news for really hot countries as well.

29. Electrification of transport is far better than biofuels; solar plants can run an electric car on a small fraction of the land used to grow fuel to run a biofuel car.

24. We oughtta be building more wind. Seriously, solar will get built anyway, but wind needs some help, and wind blows in the dark and in the winter. It doesn’t help that solar pushes down power prices and generates renewable energy credits (where relevant), which hurts wind farm economics.

2. 20 years ago when I got this job, I thought maybe solar would one day be 1% of global electricity supply. In 2024 it was about 7% worldwide, and rising fast. You can see this eating into fossil fuel power generation in, for example, Europe.