Only someone with a heart of stone, or an agri-oligopolist, wouldn't enjoy this Sankey diagram of a river 🏞️👌

Really striking graph 📉 This is simultaneously a sharper and longer trend than I'd have predicted. It's hard to find 'the apps', or even recessions, within the determination of the underlying trend.

Germany has 2.5 GW of grid batteries operational and a 10.5 GW pipeline. If that pipeline had been online in 2025, it could have avoided a third of wind and solar curtailment and saved ~€0.8bn. New @ember-energy.org analysis asks whether upcoming capacity auctions will treat batteries fairly.

Fantastic tool from Carbon Brief capturing the sweep and the nuance of extreme weather. This kind of thing takes lots of work so 👏👏👏

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Sensational data-vis here 👏

Breaking: AI is an unalloyed good now. #philsky

Increasingly think there is a strong case for an explicit wealth tax in order to make the politics of a more general tax rise more manageable. About fairness and burden sharing rather than revenue raising as such.

Will be very interested in seeing this hypothesis play out. My take from 10,000ft up (and repeated 2020s polycrisis) is that there's usually more short-term flex in these systems than appreciated (reserves, hedging, substitution). But make medium-term predictions from these data at your peril. 🛢️

110 years ago to the day, my grandfather Henri Auclair led his squad in the assault of the "tranchée de la Madone" in Verdun and was met with a barrage of machine gun fire. He was knocked unconscious by one bullet; but saved by his helmet, without which, well, you wouldn't be reading this.

I just pissed myself... this is the movie he is mad that people are calling slop... I demand you watch with the sound on... it is so much worse than you think it is going to be...

Zürich Too much airport per capita.

How Michael Edwards would fix Liverpool.

🧵/ Let's put Labour's local election results into perspective... They lost 58% of the seats they were defending, the 10th worst performance for any party in the last sixty years and the 5th worst for a govt. This compares to the Tories losing 48-53% in the locals prior to their landslide defeats.

Homeostatic-arse discourse. The upwards-pointing chariot of market incentives, covering positions, & TACO mean we can only break out of the meme-loop once something really big breaks to herald a fundamental change in pricing. At which point it finds its new level *very* efficiently. ❤️‍🔥

Trim time for Hitler I’m sorry I’m so sorry

Does uncontrolled disintegration of anchoring fossil-energy pricing regimes and institutions herald climate optimism or pessimism? 🆙📉 I'd thread the needle by saying its clearly positive for medium-term emissions, investment, unilateral electro-statism Set against sharper short term, 5 yr pol econ

This matches what we know about Pakistan for sure - massive decentralised installation (due to energy cost pressure & tail of flooding impact on service provision) out pacing centralised government efforts. It will be interesting to see if the African examples follow suit.

China’s solar generation of 1,175 TWh in 2025 is nearly THREE TIMES that of the US, as the former cements its position as a global solar powerhouse 🇨🇳☀️ However, it is Hungary and Chile that now get a QUARTER of their power from solar 🇭🇺🇨🇱 ember-energy.org/lat...

Love how the most ideologically pro-fossil fuel admin in US history is accidentally executing the most anti-fossil fuel policy in US history. This war is going to have lots of horrid effects but this is a real silver lining.

Why does it look like Rachel Reeves is officiating a wedding between Keir Starmer and Gordon Brown

Good to see a nice, evenly matched game for once. #lfc #epl-live

I think the argument here is plausible (for an important kind of biddable voter) - but the misuse of 'credible' is an example par excellence of sane-washing that non-partisan experts should be avoiding. The whole post works if you just say 'hard' on immigration. It's accurate. Say that.

I know you’re joking but serious point here - I don’t think anyone has got to the bottom yet of why you get such provider variation in Lab vote destination. Feels important!

Happy 9th anniversary to Tom Holland's performance of Umbrella on Lip Sync Battle, a pivotal pop culture moment in history! youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

Gilts are not in a good place at the moment. Some local election jitters in there I’m sure, but as Iran conflict drags on the UK just looks increasingly vulnerable (not benefitting from safe-haven flows/too much vol for opportunistic RV trades/weak policy levers/BoE stuck in a tough spot)

Slightly diminish a book The Beginning of the End of History

Just found out I had Will Stancil blocked*, and in terms of multiplication of content on my feed unblocking is like going from black and white to colour 🌈😳

Richard Dawkins is, and essentially always has been, a jackass. In a world of unknowable things, this is a knowable thing.

JK Galbraith Disney movie, coming to screens soon. (Thanks to AI and permissive copyright interpretation)

Chastening. If you view the below process as prompt coaching a dull-witted assistant through a process of achieving methodological rigor - and have confidence it can apply the structure generally to other Qs - you can see the potential. The jarring bit is the misplaced, misleading confidence.

The police corruption and cover-up in this story is so brazen and elaborate. Defies believe - yet appears to be true.

This is the most detailed 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell to date, obtained using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. 🔬🧪

something sort of insane is that we have non-trivial evidence that posting is the top of all possible hierarchies of needs. some of the richest men in the world who could be on their mega-yachts choose to not only post, but orient their lives around posting related things

“Their veins ran with Anglo-Saxon courage” is some serious Madison Grant/Lothrop Stoddard stuff, straight up 1920s Klan/eugenicist language.

It's time to talk about that thing I spent most of my PhD studying: OPEC! This is going to be a bit of a messy situation though I think, overall, this is a positive development for energy transition so here goes my take on what to expect. 1/x #EconSky #EnergySky #ClimateSky #Greensky

BIG news today in OPEC land. “UAE says it has decided to exit OPEC and OPEC+ as of May 1 in line with country’s strategic and economic long-term plan, according to state-run WAM. Some thoughts below 🧵

If true (IF...) then the white hot stove of politically leveraging *existing* 💲 swap-line access right before a massive global shock is being well and truly touched. ♨️

What a pleasantly sunny day 🌞⚡💡

To the doubters. I live in the Paris suburb. Paris govt made a conscious decision years ago to reduce intercity traffic, toxic car emissions, encourage public transport, construct biking lanes & increase green spots (planting trees/parks). It has worked.

As I said in my book: "If China achieves its dual carbon goals while the United States remains stymied by its fossil-fuel interests...it will also establish authoritarianism as the form of governance that can best resolve the climate crisis. This would be a tragedy for human freedom." 4/n

New Nesta paper by me and colleagues: How to respond to the energy crisis (and make it the last one ever) We set out three key things the UK government should do: 1) A big push on low cost energy efficiency 2) Electrify, fast! 3) Use the crisis to lock in stable energy bills for the long term

"average MP drinks a couple of pints before every vote in Parliament" factoid actualy just statistical error. average MP drinks 0 pint before voting. Supersloshed Georg MP, who lives in the Strangers' Bar & drinks his own keg every week, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

"Large swathes of India are witnessing a blistering summer this year, with the maximum temperature touching 46.9C (116.4F) on Sunday, according to India Meteorological Department. The weather department listed 16 cities where heat rose to 45C or more on the day."

The only caveat to this is that in trying to hammer home this point, people overcommit and make the false deduction that 'transport doesn't matter' - when for some foods the matter a lot. Those foods just aren't representative! If your food comes by ✈️, yeah that's most of its footprint 🤷‍♂️

Exhibit A: in a recent antitrust filing, Meta argued it isn't a social media monopoly because it isn't really a social media company anymore. Only 7% of Instagram time and 17% of Facebook time is spent on content from friends or followed accounts. The rest is algorithmic video from strangers.

"In Guyang-ri, a farming village of 70 households south-east of Seoul, people gather for communal free lunches six days a week. The meals are funded by the village’s one-megawatt solar installation, which generates roughly $6,800 in net profit each month." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

I honestly don't think this site is emotionally ready to relitigate nuclear power, gender, *and* polling... 😅 It's Friday. Guys.