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.

People might laugh but indoor air quality in rinks is generally terrible, and hockey kids get asthma at disproportionate rates. Electric Zambonis really are an important innovation.

People used to say, with great confidence, that variable renewables could never safely provide more than 5% of grid power. That estimate has crept up ever since, though the "great confidence" part never wavers. Anyway, about China ...

Oh boy definitely some Technocracy vibes here. Might be time to brush up on mid 20th century science cults. electrek.co/2025/11/21/e...

And there goes short haul trucking. Another ‘hard to mitigate’ sector that turned out not to be hard to mitigate.

For a yr, I've been working on a series for The New Atlantis about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Our ancestors built them up over decades to fend off hunger, thirst, darkness and disease. But too few of us know about them—and they're all at risk. The conclusion is now available online:

Fossil fuel enthusiasts keep arguing that we need to increase our exports of LNG and oil to address energy poverty in the developing world. I call bullshit — and I bring my receipts. #abpoli #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/25/o...

Q Anon may just have been the single greatest success in the history of Nigerian financial fraud.

I'm really glad renewable technology development doesn't depend on the COP negotiations. Petrostates, fossil fuel companies, and their lackeys can sabotage diplomacy, but it's becoming increasingly transparent what they do is simply evil, while we will ditch fossil fuels anyway.

Canadian Universities do not, and have never used standardized tests for entry. So we just built systems to deal with these kinds of problems. I did not take a single standardized test between grade 6 and completing my PhD.

I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵

www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/... #Canada #cdnpoli #Budget2025 #ConfidenceVote #PierrePoilievre #DonDavies #yvesfrancoisblanchet

The North American #petrostate bubble is so weird. Even the classic Middle Eastern autocratic petrostates don’t construct weird alternative realities to justify fossil fuels, they actively & transparently follow the money wherever it flows, including into the clean energy transition.

Now that the Sept and Oct data are (belatedly) in, it looks like 2025 will be the second warmest year in the record (~80% probability). The last three years are in a class of their own.

No emission peak this year. Emissions up in China, US and EU. Land use change emissions are down.

NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart) What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...

I think, of all the slides in this report, this is the most important -- it's really worth examining closely. This illustrates why the triumph of electrotechnical is inevitable.

"China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. " www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

From The Archives: Dick Cheney Vice Presidential Library Opens In Pitch-Dark, Sulfurous Underground Cave https://theonion.com/dick-cheney-vice-presidential-library-opens-in-pitch-da-1819574915/

China Agrees To Purchase 11 U.S. Soybeans

Continents xkcd.com/3159/

Levelized coats of solar in China has reached $27/MWh, that’s 2.7 ¢/kWh

An update from the analysts at WoodMac: yes, as of 2025, solar PV remains the cheapest source of power in the world. And -- bonus! -- it is still getting cheaper with every passing day.

My Sunday update on explosive intensification of #HurricaneMelissa and why I fear a generational disaster is emerging www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

This is actually an astounding statistic. In the 1800s 40 acres was what was seen as necessary to feed a family. The increase in yields from the green revolution is simply astonishing, even though it came with steep environmental costs (pesticide, nitrate pollution, monoculture).

Shielding Chart xkcd.com/3158/

Great NYT article China’s fast growing nucelar industry www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Went to the wake of a former student today. I was on his supervisory committee and he defended his MSc last May. Life is short and we never know what day might be our last. Rest in peace Jack, you will be missed. www.clcurry.com/obituaries/1...

So at the university football game I sat next to a cheerful student from Japan who was telling me how much she liked the "colorful traditional costumes" and the "old folk music" and asking about the "dances," and I realized she was talking about the marching band and that she was, well, spot-on.

Excel spreadsheets that suggest the type of graph you might want to make are not alive. Thank’s

Well that’s not good.

The NPC thing will be these calculator worshiping cultist’s downfall. Not believing that other people are real is a fatal blind spot.

#NovaScotia we she keep an eye on this.

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

There is no algorithm for truth.

Also, while it's a bit tangential to the main issue here, I will point out that this represents a formal White House Press Office statement regarding a single individual's personal political contributions over more than a decade that cumulative amount to less than $1,000. 👀