Grim new numbers from the annual EI stats review - America is driving growth in energy-related emissions. www.energyinst.org/statistical-...

I find these stories fascinating & wish they were covered more closely (and this one is relatively detailed). Why did Morgan Stanley split from the other bondholders, what went down w the warrant they originally wanted etc @danielmunevar.bsky.social

Trying to explain the user was blocked account to less online friends

The old soccer world is dying, the new one is struggling to be born.

IDK what Europeans with such windows (tilt-turn) are doing? Even the ugly, bulky portable a/c still requires a window. Common to see people jerryrig around an open window here when it's hot. But what are the systems that don't require a window at all?

This, not polar bears, is what climate crisis means. Cascading infrastructure breakdowns. Can't get around coz roads have buckled; power plants shut down coz rivers are too hot & shallow Never forget that the "economy" is a wholly owned subsidiary of nature phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...

Really enjoyed this discussion. I believe the recording will be getting posted soon.

Also check on your neighbors, especially the elderly. They may not run the air because of the costs, offer to host, or take them to a cooling station, make sure they have water, etc. if neighbors have to go to work and leave pets at home, offer to check on them too

On tomorrow! Go register if you want to talk about the real nature of money with co-author @jwmason.bsky.social + me and @70sbotchan.bsky.social and other readers

China did energy security first after oil prices SHOT UP after 2003 US invasion of Iraq Reaping benefits decades later as whole world wants electrotech to exit fossil fuels... Its a Geopolitics of Energy story that @katemac.bsky.social sky.social & I tell in our new podcast Listen to Trailer here!

Please be talking to your family and friends about this. We can’t count on them to read the news, and the corporates are unlikely to amplify the warning. #auspol

Three of the biggest things this decade: - Chinese solar - Chinese battery storage - Chinese EVs *if you’re in the US then the EV thing is almost invisible to you. But everyone else knows

unironically: i think these guys should just do Brazilian jujitsu. mad at the world, vaguely insecure about your masculinity, need a hug? turns out we have an App for That

NEW podcast w @katemac.bsky.social On Politics of Techno-optimism. open.spotify.com/episode/4AVR... Why are some technological solutions getting enormous attention & money (eg. AI or escaping to Mars or capture carbon) while genuine technological revolutions like solar & batteries get blocked.

This ac thing is peak Europe. The only adaptation is mitigation?

Piccadilly Circus ground surface temperature is 56 C degrees!

CARAVANSERAI VOLUME II ISSUE 8: The review issue! Neil Chiang clues us into Mumbai Climate Week, in February; marshmallow fluff reviews Dan Wang's Breakneck; and Gadfly reviews Ian Shapiro's After the Fall, about the End of the Cold War. caravanseraiforum.substack.com/p/scene-vol2

10/ @katemac.bsky.social and I increasingly think that every country’s politics is being fought over and reshaped by these new material forces. Michael Jacobs in @newstatesman1913.bsky.social on UK's energy and economic choices. www.newstatesman.com/environment/...

“Beijing now sees AI-enabled machines as a way out of the demographic trap.” What even is this logic

This is a terrible disaster. Magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Venezuela, minutes after another M7.2. More than half a million people exposed to “severe or violent” shaking, and best estimates suggesting tens of thousands may have been killed earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

"A technological revolution is not being allowed to take place in the west, or at least in the US -- and that's because of politics" @70sbachchan.bsky.social in our new bonus podcast episode pod.link/1884213852/e...

How will Europe's homes & elderly adapt to heat? "Millions of families are struggling in hot houses & apartments across the UK & Europe, the world’s fastest-warming continent" Most at risk? "Recently built homes with a lot of sealed floor-to-ceiling windows www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

“All these disasters spark talk of a ‘new normal.’ That, too, is a form of denial. What we face is planetary instability and disruption of everyday life as burning carbon loads the climate dice so that it throws six after six.” - @katemac.bsky.social & I: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...

I don’t know anything about AI. I’m just doing historical materialism

I have loved @thepolycrisis.bsky.social field notes from the frontiers of change so much, can’t wait for the next season, many thanks @katemac.bsky.social & @70sbachchan.bsky.social 💫

“The deranged idea—as Amitav Ghosh describes it—that we are safe, that things are under control, that bad things only happen to people who are far away, persists. Anticipating future ruin, we fail to act in the here and now.” @katemac.bsky.social & I @phenomenalworld.bsky.social

bluesky is the new york times of social media, where it tricks you into thinking it is for global news, only to occasionally snap back into revealing that it was a local news source for new york city all along

I had been thinking surely this is the moment when the UK takes heat seriously but

A woman I knew from church did a summer stint with a group that met the seafarers when a ship came into port, connected them with shops, phones to call home, rides, etc. her description of working conditions for these (99%) men was an education. One of the highest fatality & injury occupation rates

“Seafarer abandonments” is a phrase I didn’t know before reading this, and it includes thousands of tragedies each year

My Trade Secrets today. The EU's done climate change the economist's way, pricing CO2 emissions & incentivising global adoption. But it's outflanked by China's greentech mercantilism, developed mainly for non-environmental reasons, & Trump's accidental Iran war carbon price hike. Funny old world.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

"Donald Trump is China's best greentech salesman", Perfect caption @alanbeattie.bsky.social. @katemac.bsky.social & I honoured to be cited for our essay arguing Iran war will accelerate the energy transition together w @ember-energy.org @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/3adb...

europe get one thing right challenge @katemac.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/70sb...

What a country

So cool to be included here! the artwork and edition title 🔥

New book club! AGAINST MONEY, with @jwmason.bsky.social Mon June 29, 4pm EST us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I’d particularly like to see more use of “primarily from burning fossil fuels”. That seems to be missed out of a lot of comms but it’s such a powerful phrase because it reports the problem and the solution simultaneously.

Headteachers in London are being told to keep their schools open in the heat. Many are concluding they can’t. But they’re also worried about Ofsted attendance stats and whether they’re just sending kids home to cook in even hotter flats. www.londoncentric.media/p/londons-sc...

"LAN of the Long White Cloud" is my new favourite wifi SSID (available at the downtown ferry terminal in Auckland, New Zealand)

Details coming soon!

Despite a name shared with a hallowed figure of the party, and apparatchik credentials as a former state prosecutor, the 'grey man' simply could not wield patronage to master the endemic elite intrigue this sultry riverine capital is known for etc etc

Polly Crisis would be a good drag name.

@katemac.bsky.social & I started @thepolycrisis.bsky.social to break silos & make a pidgin so ppl can understand what’s going on: Security AND Climate Domestic politics AND foreign policy Macroeconomics AND Populism Commodites AND pol economy Anthea Roberts & Nicolas Lamp synthesise our project

“A Legacy in Dispute” by Yann Bessett phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-l...

Today Colombia votes in a contest between the anointed successor to Gustavo Petro and a self-styled outsider from the far-right. Two new pieces take stock of the last four years of Colombian politics, the results of the first-round vote, and the prospects for the next administration.

My kid’s friend introduced us to “The Amazing Digital Circus” this weekend; we binged it together and I’m lowkey traumatised

Ships hunt far and wide for fuel after Iran war hits supplies— The search for fuel underlines the turmoil the US and Israeli war against Iran has caused across supply chains and shipping routes, increasing costs… www.ft.com/content/1a54... @alicemhancock.bsky.social @financialtimes.com