Really nice figure from Holland et al showing that Coal continues to remain on the margin for significant number of hours in Midwest, Texas, and West. (Yes yes yes, I agree future will shift this out, but as of now, it's there). www.nber.org/system/files...

"On January 1, 2024, I embarked on a project I had had in mind since my retirement four years earlier: to spend a year without reading a single book, newspaper, magazine, learned journal, academic treatise". Wonderful essay by Dan Karlin on his experiment www.the-tls.com/lives/autobi...

amazing q&a with paul krugman

this is paragraph written by olivia nuzzi

New Post: Katie Wilson is Seattle’s Next Mayor seattletransitblog.com/2025/11/13/k...

A fire at a coal power plant in Wyoming and cascading shutdowns leave 93,000 without power. WECC frequency dips to 59.77 momentarily. cowboystatedaily.com/2025/11/13/m...

I’m enjoying feral motherhood movies — ”if I had legs I’d kick you”, “die my love“ -- especially as most people fail to explain why fertility is falling across the globe. Maybe it’s because the world is deeply hostile to motherhood and perhaps a 2 hour can show you that

sfstandard.com/2025/11/12/w... Waymo now on freeways.

Worth your time drfrancisyoung.substack.com/p/oracles-fr...

Yet another grant rejected, so I'm caramelizing a kg of onions

Air pollution protests in Delhi apnews.com/article/indi...

General psa: i've been using the (free version of) the insight timer app to get back into a longer daily meditation practice and I really recommend it. (An earlier me would be horrified that I'm using an app for this - but it's actually just the right level of interactivity to reinforce a habit.)

Also, what’s also makes it more accurate is the tons of good NESO data they incorporated. Real-time met weather data, site level PV data, distribution and transmission network. Good data on even simple models can do great.

If you care about US manufacturing, then you'll be glad to hear the coat was cut and sewn in Rochester, NY at a company that has been around since 1899. This is a unionized workforce with immigrants from around the world, some of whom have been with the factory for 50+ years.

I know we've all got a lot on our minds and the gusher of news doesn't stop for anybody, but.... Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

Yes!!!!! This is such a wonderful moment in history.

"Glaciers of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) and the broader High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, which are vital water sources for nearly two billion people, could suffer catastrophic losses even under moderate global warming scenarios, according to a new global assessment by @iccinet.bsky.social"

I'm hiring PhD students to start in Fall 2026! Current research interests include energy affordability, integrating hyperscale demand in our electricity grids, and advancing sustainable mobility Apply by Jan 15, 2026: www.rit.edu/study/sustai... More info at madalsa.org

The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime. We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.

Happy for Rochester!

Your daily dose of climate hope. From the team at RMI: rmi.org/wp-content/u...

Last city I visited with very good biking infrastructure: Bentonville, Arkansas Last city I visited with excellent transit: Kansas City, MO

How Dodgers became a hotbed for Japanese talent: respect www.mlb.com/news/dodgers...

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Japan has done incredible things for the city of Los Angeles.

I must confess: I may miss climate stories in the economist but never the obituaries.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/c... Cool piece from NYT on rising electricity prices, citing our research in California.

The growth of wind and solar power is happening rapidly in all kinds of countries. Except one. Which tells its own story www.ft.com/content/c406...

Delhi is testing cloud seeding to combat air pollution from crop burning, factories, and traffic, with PM₂.₅ levels often exceeding safe limits.

I’m seeing this trend of novels being written almost like screenplays. Understand Reese Witherspoon buying your book rights is a ticket out of precarity but I miss good world building in…. words.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Excited to dig into this paper! but important caution: average prices — revenue recouped by a consumer segment/electricity sold to them — don’t necessarily reflect the actual retail rate they face.

Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.

I think we can lay the groundwork to win this. @hammerandhope.bsky.social ran an interview with the folks who won Build Public Renewables in New York, lessons there worth checking out hammerandhope.org/article/clim...

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GenAI models come with 'Acceptable Use Policies'. They prescribe what is acceptable and what is not, like harassment discrimination, child harm, violence, fraud, spam etc. Good! But what’s almost never considered unacceptable? Harming the environment! We argue that this must change 👊 rdcu.be/eLiTR

Love this story by @jeffstjohn.bsky.social, about a Berkeley startups that's seemingly cracked the code for roasting coffee with electricity instead of fossil fuels: www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele...

Brb, time to give to Wikipedia…

More than 60% of auto-rickshaw sales in India were battery electric in 2025 Chart from @robbieandrew.bsky.social

New perspective : How do we design electricity prices that reflect changing system costs but also not hurt people’s bill? Balancing efficiency & equity in rate design can be tricky. We provide ideas to operationalize it and challenges along the way Open access: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution on.ft.com/47socTF

By popular demand, @aceckhouse.bsky.social and I have put together a deep-in-the-weeds explainer on SB 79. Enjoy! substack.com/home/post/p-...

As #snakebites surge in #Southasia due to flood conditions, revisit Diwash Gahatraj and Ali Jabir Malik'ss award-winning reporting linking climate change and snakebite prevalence in #Southasia. Read their piece from May 2024 now:

I didn’t think anyone could make a car chase exciting in 2025 but Paul Thomas Anderson did it.

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

In April, Spain and Portugal suffered Europe's worst blackout in 20 years. Now, 5 months later, an expert panel has released a report on the blackout. In the meantime, opportunists filled the information void, blaming renewables without evidence. The misinfo stuck, @juliaradio.bsky.social reports.

Congratulations to 2025 #MacFellow William Tarpeh! The Stanford chemical engineer is working on sustainable and practical solutions to treat wastewater and recover valuable mineral resources. 🗞️: stanford.io/3IZIBqF

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All the life goals, right here www.theguardian.com/science/2025...