Headline's a bit exaggerated but shows how bad environmental stewardship can directly increase business risk. That's what we showed in our latest paper: carbon is as much a risk management issue as it is a climate issue. Some LNG supply chains are at high-risk of being major carbon liabilities.

Clemson students called on their professors to be fired for political speech they didn't like. The legislature threatened to defund the university if it didn't comply. The professors were fired. Chairman Mao approves. www.thestate.com/news/politic...

It is *much* more important to marginally increase the rate at which clean energy replaces coal/gas globally (China is doing this fast!) than to create an innovative solution for zero-carbon aviation or zero-carbon fertilizer. Like - not even close. Yet, media focus is often on novel solutions.

Lots of insane takes in the media but FIRE has been rhetorically consistent on this issue! The list of potentially illegal retribution for speech is only growing.

The amount of damage this administration is doing to America's global standing and relationships built on decades of painstaking diplomacy is incalculable. There is no coming back if the next admin doesn't commit to aggressively prosecuting criminal behavior of every single Trump admin official!

That's a $9 billion loss to US defense industry. Korea is re-thinking all US manufacturing investments. When you arbitrarily cancel near-complete projects & take ownership of companies, nobody will want to do business with you. Is anyone keeping a tally on the economic damage from this admin?

i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again tell me what u are doing be proud of what u do and share it here

Here are 10 provocations on climate and energy. Tell me if you agree, disagree or have a nuanced take. Drop your own provocations in reply or quote post. Start: 1. By 2030, the use of air conditioning will lead to greater increase in electricity demand than data centers. And it's not even close!

Great list; I agree with most of them. Critically, NOBODY has an answer to China's leadership in green tech - they are taking over Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe. The US is *simultaneously* walking off the field in innovation, global leadership & ability to attract the best from around the world!

Welcome to the Communist States of America where you will only be allowed to teach the party line and any deviation will get you sent to the gulag. I am ashamed as an American, as a conservative, and as a Texan!

Cool study - using AI to show people car-free visuals of familiar streets helped increase support for transit-oriented policies. What was hilarious was this description of the nightmare that is I-35 in Austin as "popular American street, the I-35 in Austin". Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you were a secret foreign spy agency and wanted to destroy US competitiveness or its attraction to global investments, I am not sure what you would do different that what this administration is doing. Not just a self-own but traitorous actions abetted by a feckless Supreme Court.

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

I encourage people to watch this video. The selected footage shows the professor doing nothing even slightly out of line, whereas the student misinterprets the law and hopes to impose her religious beliefs on the material. Administrators caving to this is terrifying.

Watch this video. The prof did nothing wrong - she has a right to teach & students are free to leave class. The admin was absolutely wrong! Has @thefireorg.bsky.social said anything? If students think a college should be a place where they shouldn't be challenged, then don't fucking go to college!

This is literally China/North Korea/Russia-style BS! For a people that famously rejected monarchy, half the country (and especially the wealthy) seem eager bow to Dear Leader. Talk about a complete renunciation of the American spirit!

New study limits total carbon sequestration potential to ~1500 Gt CO2, an order of magnitude lower than prior estimates. Many are nitpicking with study's methods but I think this is great news! Even the most conservative estimate here suggests reliable storage for 150+ years at 9-10 Gt CO2/yr.

One reason I left X was that the mediocre pundit club just got so annoying. And I would put Ezra Klein in here - he was great when he reported on healthcare but now thinks he's an expert on every topic. It's a pyramid scheme of ever-expanding fake expertise - that's the currency of punditry.

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

"95% of organizations found zero return on investment despite spending $30-$40 billion on GenAI." Anyone who has used GenAI would not be surprised by this. Organizations are pushing to incorporate AI everywhere, without recognizing that diffusion takes a long time, just like with any other tech.

We will come to see the Trump admin's foreign policies as pivotal to the decimation of the US-led world order. Trump and his inexperienced goon squad are pushing potential allies further towards China in a shift that could mark a global realignment. India & China hate each other and yet.

I was an intl student before I was an American - nothing says Big Loser Energy more than trying to destroy everything that made this country great. This is big boon to US's adversaries as it will effectively halt the US innovation engine. Hard to see these actions as anything but treasonous!

New study confirms dramatic drop in air pollution in Paris between 2012 and 2022: • 40% drop in NO2 (smog) • 28% drop in PM2.5 (particulates) Modernization of the car fleet played the biggest role in decline—but the city's 34% drop in car traffic was instrumental. www.airparif.fr/actualite/20...

About a dozen current/former *pro-enforcement* ICE agents tell Reuters the Trump Admin's arrest quotas are leading to detention of thousands of non-criminals, green card holders, and even citizens. Share this. Every Republican should lose in 2026 bcuz of this.👇 www.yahoo.com/news/article...

My research group had a great 2-day back-to-school retreat last week, doing mini-hackathons and addressing shared challenges! What a great way to start the semester! #HookEm

Okay, 3 days later, an incomplete list of Trump admin policy with direct connections to making electricity more expensive. 1. Passage of the OBBB, which stripped tax credits from wind and solar (wind, solar, batteries are now ~90% of the interconnection queue) www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.

One way I’m understanding the Trump admin is that they’re jettisoning anything with even a whiff of small-l liberalism — global trade, higher education, basic science, the biotech industry. But what they don’t realize is that American power is rooted in liberalism. It is a liberal hegemon.

If this continues, the most talented American students will want to study abroad, because they'll want to study with the most talented students and faculty from around the world, and those people won't want to come to the United States even if they can. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...

Good! As a conservative, this sh!t is just embarrassing! Many of our State leaders need to go back to school and read the Constitution! Religion has no business being in public schools!

Detroit needs competition! Instead of building a trade fortress around us, we should encourage innovative companies from all over the world to set up shop in America, build factories, and hire American workers. Let the Big3 compete or go out of business.

This is not surprising - a lot of companies rushing to integrate AI (specifically, LLMs) into their product without much thought to their real value. As the report says, backend/routine tasks can be done by AI, but anything more complex or require adaptive learning is a long ways away.

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

All of my political contributions now go to primary challengers of these do-nothing, seat-warmer, Dem leaders. Jeffries, Schumer, Clyburn, Clark, etc. all have to go!

Lot of things I have concerns about including pace & scale of AI integration into curriculum and teaching at UT. However, I will give them credit for two things: 1) AI use is optional 2) Bans use of AI detection software AI could be helpful but it requires careful design & strong oversight.

I wrote an article about the policy irrelevance of the social cost of carbon in the hopes of prompting an uncomfortable conversation about the future use of the metric. So I was excited to see that @Revkin asked @CassSunstein about my critique 🧵 revkin.substack.com/p/a-fresh-lo...

The climate data was fine The labor data was fine The crime data was fine They just didn't like the answers (hot, not, not)

My concern with incorporating AI into teaching is that we don't fully understand its impact. Don't get me wrong - I am intrigued & testing AI to complement classroom instruction. However, it is unethical for university admins to force AI on to students without adequate testing & safeguards.

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

We are not prepared for $5 natural gas - notice how the CIs are skewed high? There's significant upward pressure on prices. - Demand growth from datacenter +LNG - Limited supply growth (perhaps East Texas?) Keeping consumer prices low requires shielding them from costs to serve large loads.

I don't think enough good things can be said about the people who worked hard to build the political pressure for his and everyone else's release, including senator van hollen. otoh there is no bottom to my contempt for the people who were urging the opposite course of action

Honestly, the macOS is a pleasure to use - apps are well integrated across devices and no unnecessary or annoying features/pop-ups etc. AI - on most consumer facing applications such as search results, online shopping, customer care(!) - is simply spam!

You've heard of #methane super-emitters at oil and gas facilities. But have you heard of super-emitting LNG supply chains? Our latest work uses satellite data on 12 LNG exporting countries to assess their GHG intensity. Paper: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations estimates that DOGE "generated at least $21.7 billion in waste across the federal government, despite its ostensible goal of eliminating government waste," noting this amount could've covered the rescissions package twice—with $2.9 billion to spare

About 18 years ago, my Postdoc advisor dropped an undergraduate student in lab and asked me to teach her. I asked her career plans. She said she was going to be an astronaut. I glibly replied “ok well let’s work on your plan B”. She’s about to blast off into space in an hour.

I've been getting a lot of requests for comments on the DOE report "A critical review of the impact of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions on the U.S. climate". Here are some initial thoughts. More will come later.

Federal policy makers, especially Dems, have a lot to learn from Texas if you want to rapidly expand clean energy. Even a tech-neutral approach to energy infrastructure expansion will result in an overwhelming build out of clean tech because it's faster and cheaper than fossil fuels.

This is, no exaggeration, Trump stealing a billion dollars from the United States. There are other planes for POTUS to use. This one will not be functional during his term for long, if at all. But this one he will keep afterwards via his "presidential library."

We have two major studies dropping next week! 1) Using satellite data on global LNG producers, we discover super-emitting supply chains! 2) We report on the first ever GHG emissions tracing from US LNG supply chains using direct measurements. With counterintuitive fundings! Stay tuned!