While I’m sure landlords are salivating over the color of the year, I love that the Internet has just collectively said “Fuck Pantone” and chosen phthalo green as the REAL pick. (Apparently it’s pronounced “thay-lo” green, which I wouldn’t have guessed in a billion years, but Bob Ross says so 🤷)

Visited Seoul for the first time ever and absolutely loved it. Absolutely magical city. Everyone is so generous and kind. I was especially thrilled to be there for the very first snowfall of the season which people say is a day of love, romance and new beginnings. It WAS SOOOOOO romantic 😭😍😭😍😭

When global temperatures shot up by ~6°C about 56 million years ago, plants were unable to thrive The reduced ability of vegetation & soils to capture & store carbon may have kept temperatures elevated for >100,000 years Today Earth is warming ~10 times faster than it did 56 million years ago

We haven't noticed this in Sydney because we've had five years of rain but the Southern Oscillation Index has flipped so we're likely now entering a very prolonged period of drought and the hyperscaler data centres will drink everything unless we act now.

Starting to feel like Labour's steady hand repairing our country is starting to pay off. The OECD yesterday upgraded the UK's expected growth for next year from 1% to 1.2% with 2027 now expected to see 1.3% growth. 1/2

Big batteries overtake big solar in the world’s largest isolated grid First substantial grid scale batteries in Western Australia? Less than 2 years ago reneweconomy.com.au/big-batterie... @reneweconomy.com.au A bit more here: www.linkedin.com/posts/raywil...

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

My back of the envelope calculation of energy demand for Open AI is around 1.67 million GWh per year = 190 GW of capacity or 8.5x Three Gorges Dams running 24/7 at maximum capacity. This is one company. It's mostly powered by gas. AI is an unbelievably massive climate bomb.

The 80% number comes from IPCC ar6 wg3, which referred to emissions running up to 2019. Last week's GCB puts it at 94%. #IPCC need to get better at future-proofing guidance for policy, so decisions aren't based on what the world looked like nearly a decade ago. essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

Pocket guide to materials discovery calculation methods (repost from the other place)

Is Mamdani the kwisatz haderach?

Australia's drop in productivity and constant slashing of science funding over the last 30 years are not just related phenomena, scientific research and innovation IS THE KEY DRIVER of productivity. Devastating to lose more good people at our beloved CSIRO. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

I love how dreadful this colour palette is. BRING BACK AWFUL 90s COLOURS!

Rising tiger, India, on track to deliver 500 GW of new renewable capacity by 2030. An absolute GIANT emerging.

Sun, sand, and human imagination, and all 3 are unstoppable, to paraphrase anonymous scribes at @economist.com

Korea is flexing here with this highly artistic floating solar farm, newly commissioned days ago. 47.2 MW of capacity located near the 50 MW Imha hydroelectric dam. The modules are arranged into the shape of Korea’s flag and the Mugunghwa, Korea’s national flower.

New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk A chart mega-thread follows 🧵

For my politico piece from summer 2024, that has unfortunately aged well, see here: Still a good primer on what's happening in global goods market and the stakes for the EU, me thinks. 3/ www.politico.eu/article/chin...

Luca: "Here's a possible explanation. Higher exports from China crowd out production of high-tech goods and innovation in the rest of the world. Over the medium term, GDP in the rest of the world drops because of lower productivity growth." 2/ www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Excellent AER paper from Luca et al. demonstrating how China’s exports crowd out production and curb innovation globally. It reinforces the argument I made in Politico last year about the drag China’s distortions place on EU productivity and innovation. 1/

Pinging the LNP who may want to consider this megatrend within their policy ruminations.

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons to want more walkable cities.

I decided to join in on the fun and write a popular science-y article about the recent manuscript. It is available on the @genomelybio.bsky.social Substack Subscribe for free :D genomely.substack.com/p/what-was-t... bsky.app/profile/jlst...

Congrats, Rux Energy! 🥳 Winning the CMA CGM Award for hydrogen storage is a game-changer. This innovation is critical for safer logistics in a green future! 🌍💡 #HydrogenRevolution #Innovation

When I review a Word document, sometimes I get rid of all the double spaces after periods in one fell swoop by doing a find and replace and typing two spaces into the find box and typing one space into the replace box

This has to happen pretty much every year for the rest of my life. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

In some absurdly good news which I cannot even fathom, we at Rux Energy have won the CMA CGM Startup Award 2025 for Safe Transportation of Dangerous Goods for our hydrogen storage solution. I am fortunate to have such a strong team, with my UK director Charles delivering the final round pitch.

Live footage of our most ancient ancestor

NEW pub in @science.org 🥳 Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life? For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided. We provide new evidence suggesting that... 🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How to Measure Climate Progress Yes, it's about CO₂, CH₄, W/m², and every ±0.1°C. But yes, moving off oil, coal, and gas is about improving economic competitiveness and human prosperity for decades to come. My latest for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/m...

With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels. 10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C 20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.

Virginia Guiffre rocks the House of Reps. 🎯 Newly sworn in Rep. Grijalva signs discharge petition.

I think IEA gets a lot right here except the long term outlook. Yes LNG is booming but what I was told by peer experts who were at all of the last 5 COPs was that COP28 felt like a last hurrah for LNG. AI was seen as it's saviour. But everyone was expecting a fade out. www.iea.org/news/as-risk...

Great news as Prof Lidia Morawska who has done fantastic work on particulate matter and raised awareness of the fact that covid 19 can be spread via airborne route has just won a prize in recognition of her achievements

The IEA has brought back the Current Policies Scenario (CPS) in the World Energy Outlook (WEO). I think this will be useful. Fossil CO2 emissions keep rising, when they should be falling. It is time to admit that. So I hope the CPS can help address this issue. www.iea.org/reports/worl... 1/

I remember, when in the dead of night, on 19th Dec 2009, Obama left the COP15 climate talks in Copenhagen, in part bc the Affordable Care Act needed his physical presence to pass. We, the World, paid the price with a failed Copenhagen Accord. This collective sacrifice... now thrown down the drain.

Probably somebody reported an old post and the AI autosuspended her. @support.bsky.team bring back Sarah Kendzior's account. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

Incredible news. China will emerge, like India, one of the 21st century's Great Energy Superpowers. The Prize was there too for Australia and other countries too, but the policy and government funding support to pour rocket fuel on the ecosystem means that future is slipping through our fingers.

America's political elite has decided that climate change is no longer that important or worth talking about, but rest assured, it's still happening, it's extremely bad, and yes, it is going to affect you here in America.

There's clearly some bad news here, too. But now, natural gas won't be ascendant for much longer, or stay there through the end of the century. The forces driving down climate tech costs are just too strong.

Great dissection of where the world stands on climate 10 years after Paris: better than ever; worse than needed. Start here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... But lemme quibble a bit with the CO₂ₑ emissions pathways painted here. A quick 🧵

Vale Dr Rosalind Franklin. An absolute giant of the field, one of the finest crystallographers and chemists to have ever lived. a genius taken from us at age 37. We will remember her and her contributions to discovering the structure of DNA among many many other important biological structures.

We wrote a paper that used double helix metaphor, "Our findings illustrate that both educator response & education policy create a double helix of oppression...that make it incredibly difficult for Black girls to be protected from racialized sexual harassment"-this was our note on Watson's citation

La Niña is living on borrowed time. The extreme -IOD we're currently seeing (right) is about to collapse because the warm water in the Equatorial Indian Ocean will get flushed into the tropical West Pac at depth over the next month in this MJO event's westerly wind burst (left)

PNAS: Six-million-year-old ice discovered in Antarctica offers unprecedented window into a warmer Earth via our NSF COLDEX & US Antarctic Program. ❄️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This, so many times this by @economist.com. Europe needs to understand that is is stronger than Russia, as long as it acts together. Funding Ukraine's defence only seems expensive if you don't compare it to the available alternative options. This is also the fiscally conservative choice.

The recent election wipeout has gutted the Federal Libs of their moderates so this slide was perhaps inevitable. Nevertheless the Australian Liberal Party is in deep long term trouble if it drops Net Zero, given climate is a key issue with absolute majority support. share.google/gfB8SD7Hg1Pg...

Absolute Legend.

New Paper Alert 🧵📣 There is a growing concern that the negative valence in climate stories paralyses consumers & perhaps even prevents them from taking pro-environmental actions. However, we found that climate anxiety is a robust and universal driver of pro-climate behavioral intentions.👇