Types of Tornado Alert xkcd.com/3267/

Well that looks bleak.

OK, so just as I have to yell at my fellow Americans "air conditioners *are* heat pumps!" to combat basic ignorance of what the tech actually is, Europeans need to hear "heat pumps *are* air conditioners" because y'all are making arguments which don't make sense if you see why heat pumps are good.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Lunacy. I wonder how much of history was negotiations like this. Some old warrior king who took too many hits to the head. With everything later rationalized by historians.

Many climate models omit the permafrost carbon–climate feedback. In this new paper we show that inlcuding it can increase Earth system tipping risks, especially in overshoot scenarios with peak temperatures below 3°C or peak cumulative emissions of below 2000 PgC. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

“Looking at all industries, the researchers found Canada’s TFP grew.08 per cent annually between 2000 and 2018. With the oil industry excluded from the data, the TFP growth ballooned eightfold to .65 per cent.” news.mcmaster.ca/over-a-barre...

Nostalgia Content xkcd.com/3256/

Where else was one supposed to shelter from the wind when they threw you outside for recess at -20C? We used to be able to fit 3 kids in one of those tires.

“Everybody who met him, even if they met him briefly, seemed to remember him forever," About sums it up. RIP Andy, you were one of a kind.

These nuts are going to be a problem for a long while unfortunately. They have already started scaring away any non O&G capital from Alberta (Vancouver is to Calgary as Toronto was to Montreal), so they have destroyed any chance of a smoothish post oil future.

A lot of competition for most insane headline of the Trump era, but we may have a winner.

Made it to Vienna for #EGU26! It’s been 3 years since I attended in person. Kind of forgot about all the smoking.

“These small EVs aren't available for sale in American showrooms - and may never be - but for about the price of ​an average new car in the U.S., a consumer in China could buy all five of these EVs.”

Send this to anyone who complains about high gas prices.

Sometimes ‘overcapacity’ is just prescience.

Some simple truths about methane vs. CO2. I've said this before, in various ways, in various peer reviewed papers, but I keep repeating it with variations hoping the message will get through somehow. (1) CO2 accumulates in the atmosphere. If you introduce a new CO2 emission source into the system

#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍 A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.

Well that was cool. Didn’t know how much I’d be afraid the rocket would blow up. I think I’ve watched too many Challenger Documentaries. Good luck and god’s speed to Jeremy Hansen and the other astronauts!

IMO the clean energy transition will start moving fast now, but while it will be a gentle ride for some economies, it's going to cut like a buzz-saw through through those that chose to delay and lock-in structural fossil fuel dependency. This will be masked by a brief burst in revenues for sellers.

The timescale on this figure really bugs me. What is ‘historical’ supposed to mean? Clearly not supposed to be written history since that starts in the Bronze Age. Did they rename the Common Era “Historical” is some deranged compromise?

I’ve never wanted to read the ethics board approval for a study more than this: www.newscientist.com/article/2517... Also drives home the fact that neurons are not Universal Turing Machines.

A reminder that the rapture is considered theological nonsense by almost all Christian denominations, and is a belief confined to some branches of American Protestantism.

Finally, an advertisement that doesn't suck. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

Why does the Nova Scotia government want to cost universities hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars? Why have they spent almost half a million dollars on an American consulting firm? Find out more tonight! Online town hall (zoom link on linked page below) cocogov.org/blog/townhall/

The great gift of a classical Earth Science education. All data is best displayed as a ternary diagram 🙂

Even more evidence that Syphilis originated in the Americas. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Well that was blunt. “ We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false. That the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient... And we knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.”

A BYD Plant in Oshawa will create a 1000 Year Laurentian Elite Victory

It’s mental that western car companies are just boldface lying about EV sales. electrek.co/2026/01/14/c...

This is horrifying. I’ve cycled thousands of km in rural Nova Scotia and been chased and nipped by a few dogs. My deepest condolences to this poor kids family. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

A group of Peruvian shamans gathered on a beach in southern Lima to perform their annual New Year ritual, delivering predictions for 2026 that included the fall of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and a serious illness for US President Donald Trump

Literally yes, in the sense that the Roman senatorial class owned or invested in the commercial farms and industrial processing and shipping operations that produced and distributed olive oil.

Also this is a story that has nothing really to do with the US. Many, many stories do not.

On the one hand, Nova Scotia could pick up a lot of wind turbine equipment very cheap. On the other hand, this is a disaster for wind investment and investment certainty in general in the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...

1/ The New York Times reports that Trump plans to name an entire new class of US Navy warships after himself. If so, this will break genuinely new ground in a level of state-sponsored sycophancy never seen before in global naval history.

Hell yeah: @science.org's official Breakthrough of the Year for 2025 is ... [drumroll] ... ... the unstoppable rise & spread of renewable energy.

The foundational axiom of science is that reality is real and that it can be understood at least to some approximation. The foundational axiom of fascism is that there is no such thing as reality, and truth is whatever the leader says it is. Science will always wither under fascism.

I really didn't think modern civilization was this vulnerable to "I don't like what I see so I'm going to gouge my eyes out."

The beautiful idea of NCAR, to improve understanding of our planet through a cooperative, shared and open intellectual team effort, is literally what has got me out of bed every morning for nearly two decades. This cannot, CANNOT be allowed to happen. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

2025 marks another year of record clean energy additions, electrification and declining fossil reliance. Check out: ember-energy.org/lat... (8/8)

And here, friends, is why the assurances one hears about how AI errors are being fixed ring hollow. On the left, Grok four minutes ago as I post. On the right, an actual news story from a reporter published 52 minutes ago. Note the novelistic invented detail in the Grok account.

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.