There are plenty of political pundits on the right who suspect a climate agenda behind any political move that is anything except 100% pro business. People not talking about climate change still often cannot escape the suspicion. Not a promising strategy to get elected on and make a change.

I was told that these data centers don't even need any water...

Where is that sudden self awareness coming from?

Apparently, the EU is now battling disinformation by... Posting a broken link to the EU web portal. Would love to see the toolkit though.

> But [Roberts] argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately. Funny how it always comes full circle to industry talking points.

Wow, Trump managed to lose the National Review. Did not think those folks would ever write anything negative about Trump. Even calling him out for feeding us "intolerable hogswill" (sir this is not the 1800s though).

Debian did not, in fact, install `firmware-linux-free` by default. I appreciate the dedication to keeping bloat to a minimum but also this package is kind of useful and I did go several months without it...

The new playbook is officially to install friendly leaders, as opposed to changing the underlying system.

Add it to the pile of broken carbon capture promises... Another case of what we refer to as futurewashing. Make big announcements and then back out when the attention is somewhere else. Three decades of empty promises. Don't ever trust a "by the end of the decade" statement.

What happens to a regular user when they log onto a website, see an opinion, and then hundreds of supposedly real comments agreeing with the poster? I'm pessimistic about the future of public discourse.

This is why the global community has not bent the global emissions curve (Stoddard et al. 2021). So-called "lower emission fuel" gas is not displacing other fuels. We are extracting more fossil fuels and building more power plants and not retiring old capacity fast enough relative to new capacity.

> The court said the Netherlands was not complying with international accords, such as the 2015 Paris Agreement, in which most countries in the world vowed to cut emissions. So far in Europe, too, the agreement has not been worth the papers it's been written on. Curious to see where this is going.

I've been waiting way to long for a journalist to frame this correctly: > Climate chaos roiled many industries Extreme weather has affected harvests around the globe. It's not (only) domestic policy; warming, floods, and droughts also impact harvests of goos such as coffee and chocolate beans.

Just wild...

> Short‐form video addiction, sleep quality, and social anxiety are significantly correlated (r = 0.439, 0.404, 0.457, P < 0.001). Noooooo way!!! I'm shocked!

Politician trying to involve himself with micro-level decision making at a public university. This does not bode well for the future competitiveness of American academia.

Nothing will ever convince me that the Ford F150 was ever a good faith attempt. In my brain version of the events, executives sat thought "what is the project that would sink the fastest" so they could say they had tried EVs but costumers didn't want them. Or maybe they really are that incompetent.

Why the DOJ find it important to protect Indyke. He was Epstein's lawyer, and now we learn that he was personally involved. He is not a Washington person. We expected there to be politically motivated protection of certain people, but is the DOJ just going to blanket protect anybody in the docs?

0.1% is a crazy large number for what it is actually!

'It's a small percentage of global' was the same line run by the Bitcoin mining folks when trying to dimiss the impacts of their activities. You can put any highly-polluting activity atop a massive denominator to get a teeny percentage and happily dismiss it Wrong for them and wrong for this

According to S&P 500, Dow Jones, and Nasdaq, we've had a great year...

The most difficult thing about moving to the US is learning how to spell Massachussets

Irony is dead. It's a plastic version of Charlie Brown's flimsy Christmas tree. The symbol of the rejection of consumerism. He would rather have the flimsiest, tiny, real tree than to buy something shiny made from aluminum. And now you can buy that, too.

The Canadian Liberals are still a party of resource-extractive capitalists. People just got confused when did not approve the Northern Gateway pipeline. But then he went ahead and approved Trans Mountain and Line 3 anyways. 10 years of Liberal rule in Canada have not moved the needle in the least.

I respect Environmental Research Letters, but these results is already outdated. The authors estimate that the adoption of AI will add ~900,000 tons of CO2/year. The Homer City Energy Campus alone (a 4.5 GW gas station planned for next year to power AI) will blow those numbers out of the water.

"We haven't tried anything, and we're all out of ideas" The biggest disappointment is how Bill Gates hat sprinkled money on vanity projects such as CCS, nuclear fusion, and solar thermal power plants. When he just could have bankrolled the Adani Green Energy of North America.

You know, after all those grand victories, such as *checks notes* record-high emissions in 2024...

The European mind cannot handle the sheer length of American ingredient lists. (This is just some latin American stuffed potatoes, not a three course meal).

Just heard that the National Science Foundation will not renew its contract for the last remaining research ice breaker. This will really put a damper on Antarctic research. Not sure what the operator will do with that ice breaker, but there is a possibility that this is irreversible. Pay attention!

Looks like cars could get much more expensive in America and Europe. Strongly suspect some governments will chime in with subsidies.

Of course they're looking to revive KXL. That's a throwback you have to do every four years, obviously. Feels like a hollow victory when no fossil fuel project is never truly dead and people just abide their time.

Just noticed that using unicode characters as the shape for ```geom_point``` is pretty stable now. Game changer, now I can finally make parrot plots 🦜🦜🦜 I wonder whether any work on 4.0.0 went into this. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

I keep forgetting that we categorically cannot have nice things.

Now that Tesla has officially given up on building an affordable electric car, could someone else maybe full that void? Anyone? No? Too bad.

Looks like someone accidentally said the quiet part out loud. To reduce fossil fuel issue, you stay by curtailing production.

Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down www.ft.com/content/5ba8...

Always wondered why restaurant food often seemed so disappointing across North America. I had suspected Sysco had something to do with it. Spot on!

Today we were talking about busses, and my daughter worried that if less people buy cars, car factory workers will lose their jobs. I gave her a handwavy explanation that public transit generates jobs, but I don't actually know the labor economics of that. Anyone care to weigh in?

ExxonMobil's "What we do section" opens like this: > Creating energy and sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs Now that's a sentence I would love to see cited in a greenwashing lawsuit in Canada...

> No more beards, long hair, superficial individual expression. We don’t have a military full of Nordic pagans. Hegseth... Always impressed by their range. Managing to insult such a broad variety of people. Too bad I can't grow a good beard.

Just for the record, here is another subsidy for combustion engines.

The amazon turning from carbon sink to carbon source is terrifying. Really driving home the climate feedback/tipping points thing. > a growing fire-climate feedback, demonstrating how regional extremes increasingly shape the global carbon budget and complicate pathways to climate stabilization.

The U.S. Energy Secretary just said on stage at @nytimes.com Climate Forward event that “there are not oil and gas subsidies" in response to a good question from David Gelles. “It’s not a subsidized industry.” Uh. @oilchange.bsky.social @oilchangeus.bsky.social

Just saw my profile among the list of contributors to ggplot2 4.0.0 - that is a project I want to be affiliated with for sure. Pretty sure it's just for a ticket I opened. It was resolved within a record two days or something, too. The beauty of a well-running free and open-source software project.

Utilities really are not rising to the occasion, maybe energy demand from new data centers (AI anyone?) is to blame? Tons of new commitments to build gas power plants - 118 GW capacity planned by 2035. Only 29% of coal capacity poised to be retired by 2030.

I live in one of the red areas, hope that narrows it down!

CapitalOne has almost $19B invested in fossil fuel companies, and only about $100M in renewables. Maybe I should rethink who I bank with...

I'm hearing lots about insurance companies absorbing meteorologists/recent grads. This industry is in a math war, and the math says things are getting much worse by the year. That's the real economics of climate catastrophy/adaptation were facing.

Unrelated, but my favorite German word is "vorauseilender Gehorsam" or anticipatory compliance. When you take action in expectation of orders that haven't even been given to you or even if you're not in the line of command, to avoid trouble or even opportunistically. For examples see German history.

We/many countries could have easily adopted renewable energy 2/3/x times as fast, it's really sad. In many ways it feels like a half-assed attempt by a high school student who is mostly just whining. Drop in the bucket compared to the cost of new submarines, jet fighters, and other vanity projects.