COUNTRY ANALYSIS: We have downgraded the #US climate action to "Critically insufficient" - it's the most aggressive, comprehensive and consequential climate policy rollback the CAT has ever analysed. 🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US

AC/UHVDC haha this is fun #energysky 🔌💡

This is pretty heartwarming. An honest political conversation ending in respectful disagreement and another pint. Feels retro. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

ICE vehicles waste a whopping 80% of the energy in their fuel. Electric vehicles are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain: EVs need not convert one form of energy to another resulting in much higher efficiency.

Despite all the net zero pledges, all the marketing, researchers found only 2% of companies had aligned their capital investment with their net zero goal As they say, money talks and it’s speaking volumes

Quite the headline juxtaposition on the NYT homepage this morning.

75% of UK govt. climate/energy funding goes to #nuclear What a waste.

Me, 1990s: You say the world is all #VUCA now, without them Cold War certainties? okay granddad 2001: Woah. We really had not yet begun to VUCA had we 2008: How is the VUCA in our moneys now? Is that allowed? 2017: Was VUCA this one guy all along 2025: *shirtless, banging djembe* vucavuca vucaaa

Coal power is showing signs of decline in China 🇨🇳 In the first half of 2025, coal power declined 55 TWh (-1.7%), as growth in solar and wind exceeded demand growth ☀️🍃 This is the first time China has ever seen prolonged falls in coal power outside of a major economic shock.

Agrivoltaics comes to India & goes global Farmer grows turmeric under PV. "My income has tripled, and I sleep peacefully without the stress of climate or crop failure" Sun Master pays him ~$1,200 annually per acre & $170/month to maintain the solar panels. www.bbc.com/news/article... #energysky

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵

No, Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk wasn't “practicing politics the right way.” He promoted racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia. Kirk had every right to express his political views, and his death is an outrage. But no one who believes in peace and love should praise what he was doing to our politics.

Linking of oil giants to major heatwaves marks ‘leap forward’ for legal liability cases Study shows how individual fossil fuel companies are making previously impossible heatwaves happen and could have to pay compensation www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Government has revealed conditions for Woodside's North West Shelf gas project approval: strict limits on nitrous oxide pollution. Woodside says the conditions are "not technically feasible." If the project isn't feasible without damaging Murujuga, it shouldn't be allowed to go ahead. #auspol

Now trending: rogue state

When I think about climate change, I see a lot of progress — except in one sector. Food. The food system is responsible for 22-34% of our greenhouse gas emissions, with no end in sight. And it swims in a sea of greenwashing and disinformation. Here’s how we can fix it. Go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24

Where are the red Make America Great Again hats out in the fields? You know, the same people who swore immigrants were “taking their jobs.” Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Here's a ray of sunshine in a very dark world Germany has already exceeded its goal of shutting down 8 GW of coal plants - 3 years earlier than expected Amazing what a little sun and wind can do 😎 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

That's a *chef's kiss* of a community note, though.

🌅 Here is everything you need to know about joining us for Sun Day this September 21 🧵 sunday.earth

Third Act art crew getting ready for Sun Day! The silk screen is humming @sundayofaction.bsky.social @thirdactorg.bsky.social

Great investigation of the growing rhetorical combat over energy affordability. Note who's barely in this story, though: the clean energy industry itself is largely silent on one of its greatest strengths. Why? Lots of possibilities, and certainly multiple reasons. Two I've investigated lately:

While we're on racism and Katter. His electorate of Kennedy is named in honour of the white supremacist Edmund Kennedy who called for the extermination of indigenous Australians and the removal of children from Nth QLD to Tasmania. It's 2025, and we have a federal seat named after this scumbag.

it's easier to buy a gun in the united states than high-rise trousers

This move to import more U.S. corn ethanol will increase GHG emissions, rather than decreasing them.

The original is unbeatable, but the Psychemagik edit of this is a vibe as well. Goes for days.

In 1854, Dr John Snow removed the Broad St pump handle in London thereby stopping consumption of polluted water, ending a cholera epidemic, and launching the field of public health. Health professionals should unite behind the goal of ending air pollution to usher in a new era of public health.

Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study Story by @dharna.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We ship 11 billion tonnes of stuff around the world and 40% of that is fossil fuels.

The monthly generation data on Pakistan's solar boom continues to be truly wild. After the monsoon are we headed north of 30%... this year?

Good morning with good news: 24/7 solar is here! Red Sea New City in Saudi Arabia operates a 24/7 400 MW solar plus 1.3 GWh storage microgrid. www.ess-news.com/2024/09/18/h... #energysky. 100% solar is expensive but solar & storage can economically generate 60%-97% of electricity in most places!

I’m 100% into A.I. (Adding Insulation)

Including Erin today, there have been 42 hurricanes that have reached Category 5 in the Atlantic since records began in 1851. 11 of those have happened in the past 10 years. Climate change is increasing the maximum strength of hurricanes — so stronger storms now happen more often.

The New York Times got defeated by a 2-year-old headline from The Onion.

Commonwealth Ombudsman already smashed them and now not even govt's chosen auditing firm can say if the house of cards system of punitive mutual obligations is legal. Quite literally, they say, it is indefensible. Yet it persists. Even after Robodebt. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

I'd take an entire novel of this thank you

Dunno guys, maybe international diplomacy is harder than it looks from the shrimp buffet at Mar-a-Lago?

Signs of the climate crisis, number 4,763: Now you can buy an insurance policy for your insurance policy. susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/hedging-ag... But as @scrawford.bsky.social points out, this may just pile up risk. A kind of climate credit default swap. #greensky #climate #adaptation

If you haven't heard about the ongoing Global Plastics conference in other media, it might be worth thinking about why not.

I hate this so damn much

Blown away at how much solar is installed on Sydney rooftops. It's amazing. 🤯

I disagree. I will tell you what's wrong with his jeans. 🧵

This thread neatly summarizes the main divide I see in the energy and climate community. Do you think we need political intervention to intentionally wind down fossil fuels, or do you think if we make clean alternatives cheap enough then companies will voluntarily wind down fossil fuels?

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Some really brilliant work here … strong recommend

It is massive. Thanks to Peter Deppeler on Twitter for the footage. #GazaGenocide #MarchForHumanity

🔌💡The Trump admin scrapped 3.5 million acres of offshore wind plans—five years in the making. This isn’t about reliability. It’s about propping up fossil fuels and stalling progress. We deserve better.

“The postwar order rested on three pillars: American hegemony, the fossil-fuel energy system, and an open, multilateral trading order. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order.” — New: @katemac.bsky.social & I www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...