“The issue that’s going to resonate with voters is affordability, and it just turns out that at this point in the energy transition, doing the right thing is cheaper.”

“At a moment when few politicians are speaking out about #ClimareChange, Tom Steyer has thrust the issue to the center of the California governor’s race. Steyer’s focus on climate … has placed him among the top Democratic candidates in most polls.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/c...

Excellent example of great design, she even used her own image as inspiration for this sign. Jock's and her work is replicated across the world.

Petropower and its acolytes are vile. So vile.

Christ donation.watch/en/unitedkin...

Renewables are increasingly controlling the wholesale price of electricity in Great Britain In 2025 when gas was below 20% of the electricity mix wholesale power prices averaged £60/MWh, compared to £130/MWh during hours where gas generated over 1/2 of power www.businessgreen.com/news/4529591...

❗️During NATO exercises to defend the Swedish island of Gotland from a simulated “Russian attack,” Ukrainian drone operators completely crushed the Swedish forces. The Swedes halted the drills three times to rethink their tactics. Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces, General Michael Claesson,

“To combat the epidemic of abuse, Suffolk county council has given lollipop people body-worn cameras to record drivers behaving badly.” So much for the war on the motorist! 🚗 💨 👀

A haze of flowering saxifrage... The magic of an Irish rainforest.🌍

Right into the computers of the journalists who are writing the anti-immigration stories.

A letter published in the Plymouth Herald: "Have you noticed that the authors of articles against net-zero offer opinions, but rarely solid evidence to back up their claims? But where do they get their ideas?" Good question...

What makes me antsy about the pivot to video is I feel like I’m the least important person in any of my stories. I’m not the face of my articles - the people whose stories I’m telling are. But more and more we want the journalist to be the face, the brand www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Some good suggestions for individual householders on how to isolate themselves against the current/ future energy price shocks: - PV & home batteries - Get an EV (or better still an (e)bike) - Ditch a gas boiler for a heat pump - Get on a smart electricity tariff

This is what Reform UK looks like in local government: a Reform UK councillor, elected just last week, was already forced to resign. And he is not the only one... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/11/newly-elected-reform-councillor-resigns-stuart-prior-social-media

My dad, aged 22, drove a British Army lorry in convoy from Iraq to Tunisia during WW2 in May 1943. He travelled through the peaceful country of Palestine including stops at the Sea of Galilee, remarking how nice the place was in a letter home to his family. I include an excerpt next... 1/2

Ofcom just announced it’s investigating GB News for its shockingly biased and one-sided Trump interview, which was packed full of lies and misinformation. Please sign this petition to ensure Ofcom enforce its own rules against GB News. 38d.gs/xz09

Feeding frenzy.

He's probably right that the war is coming to an end but not in the way Putin pretends it will. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Saudi Aramco warns fuel stocks heading for ‘critically low levels’ ft.trib.al/dllTUlC

Good news. While most of my ash trees have succumbed, I have a few ash trees which are now 2 to 4 metres taller and flourishing when compared to their dead and dying neighbours. Just a matter of time? I'll take a picture and append it to this post shortly. 1/2

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

"What my students and I now guard isn’t a boundary against machines so much as a sanctuary for authorship, a place where everything on the page and not yet on the page belongs to an actual person." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

and crypto is an ideal funding source of fascists, as it's hard or impossible to trace. Crypto is - at least in part - effectively money laundering to fund fascists.

NEW ANALYSIS: What's going on in Spain? Spain's wholesale electricity price in early 2026: €44/MWh. Italy: €127. Germany: €96. UK: €103. Wind+solar now deliver 44% of generation. Gas sets the price in just 9% of hours, down from 55% in 2022. Full analysis: janrosenow.substack.com/p/spain-just...

Good points in this piece from Chris Rapley: "Not once in the history of human spaceflight has an astronaut been known to tamper with their life support system... Sabotage is unthinkable – socially intolerable... We are doing to our planetary life support what no astronaut has done to theirs. "

We’re a long ways away from “Do no evil”.

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Time to change the law: hate speech should invalidate a ballot.

Solar panels reduce thermal stress in dairy barns www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/06/s...

There is something really off with Hagens and this rather well regarded podcast. This week he has an oil and gas engineer telling us renewables are a pipe dream. Meanwhile fossil fuel use has peaked. Unsubscribe

"The unexpected boom in home batteries and the equally surprising surge in rooftop solar installations means that Australia’s target of 82 per cent renewables by 2030 – long dismissed as a lost cause by some – is now very much within reach."

If they can do it, so can everybody else

Putin has had to ask Trump to intercede on Russia's behalf, to plea-bargain with Ukraine to agree not to attack the May Day Parade (where there will be no armoured vehicles, because they've all been destroyed in Ukraine). This should tell us where the initiative now lies in this war #SlavaUkraine

@robmanuel.b3ta.com feel like a b3taician could make a website the counts the quitting/fired reform councillors

I thought for a moment this was another 'Onion' headline.

Sir David Attenborough was 78 in 2004 when a single lecture changed his view on climate change Seeing four graphs rise together, CO2, global temperature, population, and industrialisation, convinced him the link was undeniable “I do not have any doubt at all” www.carbonbrief.org/the-2004-lec...

this really does make me despair. this is a woman who has just got elected as a Reform councillor. she works for the NHS and wants to know “where the money is going”. it’s going on social care, babe

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said there was "no obligation" to declare a £5m gift he received from a billionaire backer before he became an MP. Sky’s Beth Rigby points out the rules

Could Labour's Clean Energy Plan leave a legacy "as powerful as the creation of the NHS"? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #NetZero #Renewables #GBEnergy #EnergyCrisis

Home batteries: a ‘gamechanger’ for cutting energy bills?

Mehdi Hasan We can’t let Iran have nukes because they’re run by maniacs who might use them. Meanwhile, in the US: 🔴President Trump threatens Iran with a nuclear holocaust: “If there’s no ceasefire… you’re just going to have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran.

Republicans in Congress Push “Climate Shakedown” Bill That Permanently Shields Big Oil From Accountability www.sierraclub.org/sierra/clima...

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

Think using a chatbot makes your work better? Think again. 1/3

Ha! The BMW iX3 and the Tesla model S have very similar battery capacity (only 8kWh difference). Their respective ranges have almost nothing to do with battery size and everything to do with efficiency :-)

Thought as much. Straightforward smear. Very much to be expected from the Labour Together gang and their media outriders.

This Tory, Chris Philp on the small boats issue they precipitated, post their bodged Brexit 🤔

It would appear the problem is that AI is programmed to please its users.