Glad to see that the NYT made the consequences of Trump’s climate denial the top story today. It’s at least that important.

“If Americans increased their protein intake by just 25%…it would require about 100 million acres of additional ag land each year — an area larger than Michigan, Ohio & Pennsylvania combined — & increase annual emissions by 100s of millions of tons of CO2e, according to @worldresources.bsky.social.”

This piece on the Colorado oil lease auction reminds me of a word I heard recently from the CEO of Exxon while discussing new oil opportunities.... "uninvestable" Lot of that going around. There is plenty of oil left in the world but not a lot left that makes money at $60/barrel.

If a website appeared overnight that gave hundreds of millions of users the opportunity to create CSAM you'd expect governments to shut it down quickly, so the question is why X gets a pass when it's done just that? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

these people are so deeply weird

no crying at the casino, guys as.ft.com/r/edd91386-5...

directionally, this is just a progression of the move from meeting someone at the pub to dating sites and then apps. what I think they all get wrong is thinking a person's inherent traits make them your soul mate, as opposed to shared experiences and mutual support www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/s...

On the case for Starmer’s refusal to criticise Trump and the strategic paralysis it conceals. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sweet lord, yet another example of a fossil fuel supplier admitting that demand for their fossil fuel product rises when it's cheap and freely available thanks to their increased extraction!!!! Starting to suspect supply impacts demand, folks!!!!!!! www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

If you're angry about the idea of paying for oil company opex in Venezuela to produce petrocaca that the market doesn't need and the climate cannot take, you're going to be furious about the amount you already pay to keep fossil fuel companies even viable www.theguardian.com/business/202...

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome." @pcgamer.com #CES www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

Rystad's oil production scenario for Venezuela -->>> www.linkedin.com/posts/artem-...

It is equally easy & possible to write, "Trump weighs violating US treaty commitments under the UN and NATO by seizing the sovereign territory of one of our closest allies" You don't have to normalize & sanewash reality. Other purely factually accurate, more serious choices remain readily available.

impeach him. try to do it once a month, if necessary. build the case over and over to not just the American people but to the world that this isn’t the way things should be here, that this isn’t the way we should use our power abroad.

Absolutely fucking tremendous from the FT.

new euphemism for geoengineering just dropped: "future-proofing our climate and weather" I wondered why this comms job was so high-paid 🧐 www.linkedin.com/jobs/collect...

Sorry, but triumphant claims about autonomous vehicle safety are wildly exaggerated. It's an open question whether today’s self-driving cars are any safer than those driven by humans. And if reducing crashes is the goal, that isn’t even the right question. My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵

hilarious that the white supremacist dating site was 86% male

I'm starting to get the emails. Reporters: please see my comments below.

there are two arguments hanging in the balance here, both of which have some merit: (1) it doesn't do the UK government any good to publicly antagonize the US government, so why do it? (2) it doesn't do the UK government any good to curry favor with the US government, so why not stand on principle?

Reporter: Did you speak with the oil companies before the operation? Did you tip them off? Trump: Before and after. They want to go in and they’re going to do a great job.

It's the TYPE of oil.

🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭 it wasn't worth it then and it's certainly not worth it now

to be on the side of consumers in 2026 is to reduce oil dependence by every available means

I still remember Nikos Tsafos’ comments on a webinar 5 years ago that oil, for all its useful physical attributes, isn’t inherently reliable but rather that we put enormous resources into creating a system that creates the reliability.

Always striking to me how "range anxiety" is still part of our EV discourse, while images like these are standard fare for every catastrophe.

It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.

Yes, Twitter and Musk themselves aren’t even attempting to apologize for “Grok creating CSAM” - but this too is an example of allowing a machine to take blame! Who CREATED the machine that’s apologizing for its actions in a fashion that shifts blame to itself and not to its actual human creators?

regulate now or jail the execs who signed this off later, when people inevitably die in crashes

This is delicious

Update: I emailed the opt-out address listed on their website and got a reply. But, I never. Should. Have. Had. To. Opt. Out. I’m so tired of these tech companies & their entitlement. DoorDash putting small restaurants on their apps w/o permission, AI scraping our sites, & now this? It’s exhausting

Semafor asked me what I got wrong in 2025 www.semafor.com/article/12/2...

The electricity grid was pretty green on Christmas Day, with just 73g of CO₂ emitted for every kWh generated

“Car bloat”—increasingly oversized automobiles—worsens road safety, affordability and the environment. Here are some of the stories I wrote in 2025 examining the trend and proposing solutions. 🧵 In @vox.com, I likened car bloat to secondhand smoke (which helped bring down the US tobacco industry).

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

that's my mayor 😎

no *you're* crying Happy Christmas!

It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs! It's mostly just the US that's being left behind

If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism. That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

#getsmart #holdfast

what a lovely generous act. more than a one-off stunt too - he's using it to lobby for reforms

This is the (pretty negative) prognosis for the oil and gas industry from the belly of the beast in Texas, even with absolutely every bit of federal and state help they could possibly have. But sure, let's continue to pour all our hopes for "abundance" into this leaky bucket.

12. And if we want to talk about the politics, here's some easy math: there are a lot more voters who consume energy than there are who produce energy. If you're confused on that point, you might be a crappy pundit...

FAO the BBC

incredible how Anthropic spun this epic fail as just what they intended, actually

I've tried and failed a couple times to write a post explaining how serious this would be. NCAR is globally essential to our climate change response. This can't just be replaced. Every scientist in the world will be doing climate research with one hand tied behind their back for at least a decade

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

LNG Imports Fall in Asia, Europe. Drop-off in demand for LNG just as a wave of new production facilities come online raises questions about whether demand will ever materialize for a fuel that investors have spent huge $ to bring to market. www.theenergymix.com/lng-imports-...

Looking to stop a local datacenter? This seemed to work.

Revealing on how much AI uptake is currently being driven by investor expectations - transmitted via boards - rather than people who actually execute stuff. Of course, if you're not an actual doer it is much more likely that you will be tempted by magical thinking.