A 60% jump in EU LNG imports from the U.S. in 2025 managed to drive up greenhouse gas emissions on both sides of the Atlantic - in the EU from the burning of the gas, and in the U.S. by prompting a shift to coal-fired generation as prices rose.

Two decades ago, the European Union got basically none of its power from wind and solar. Now, those are its leading sources of electricity.

Brilliant option. Seems like an easy win.

Occasionally flock of robins or cedar wax wings (or both) descend on my toyon bushes and spend a few days eating all the berries. It is one of my favorite events of the year! Today it is all cedar wax wings – about 20 of them. #birds

@ieefa-northamerica.bsky.social just launched a North American LNG Export Tracker: ieefa.org/north-americ... 🔌💡

Robert focuses on local control of things corporations can directly change, and separates them from GHG emissions that are outside direct control. I find this more informative and useful than the scope 1,2,3 discussion which muddles the discussion in many cases. open.substack.com/pub/marginal...

Where would we be today if all of the money that went into carbon offsets, and all of the effort that went into shaming people for their personal carbon emissions, went instead to supporting politicians and policies that would effect systemic change (e.g., energy policy, emissions disincentives)?

200 charts in @nathanielbullard.com 's annual energy assessment, but this is the one that surprised me. We spent 25% of our money on firewood in the 1800s? That's stunning. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

We took a look at the UK's biggest ever offshore wind auction, and dug into what it will mean for energy bills and the "clean power 2030" plan ⬇️

Oil markets suffer from the same blind spot electricity markets once did: they rarely treat efficiency as a competing resource. China is now taking their domestic success on peak oil demand to 50+ Emerging Markets.

Coal generation falls in both China and India in 2025! Coal down 3% in India. Coal down 1.6% in China. "The simultaneous fall in coal-powered electricity in the world’s biggest coal-consuming countries had not happened since 1973." Wonderful! www.theguardian.com/business/202... #energysky

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Clean energy supporters hope for high oil prices due to reduced supply, but the opposite is happening. Despite global tensions that should increase price, it is falling. I read this as the market pricing in future demand reduction due to electric vehicles esp. in Asia. OECD peaked already in 2006.

I’ve been thinking about learnings from 25 years of climate work. Highly relevant right now: we need electricity to be cheap to harvest the climate benefits of renewables. Cheap power, and lots of it, solves a lot of problems.

I was talking to a colleague on Friday and he said, oh, I didn’t know you wrote a book?? and clearly I have not been obnoxious enough anout this. So: I wrote a book. Some people thought it was good. You should read it www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

"The US is in a particularly difficult situation because a lot of the misinformation is coming from official authorities,” said Sander van der Linden, a University of Cambridge psychologist who studies misinformation. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/17/m...

The Westlands Water District just adopted the Valley Clean Infrastructure Plan which "repurposes up to 136,000 acres of drainage-impaired and water supply-limited lands for solar generation" and "could generate up to 21 GW of renewable energy." wwd.ca.gov/wwd-media/pr... h/t @cvonka.bsky.social 🔌💡

Listen to this week's Shift Key podcast on Eavor's first-of-a-kind geothermal project, which went online in Bavaria this month, @heatmap_news heatmap.news/podcast/shif... or wherever you get your podcasts. 🔌💡

One of the many things you can do is donate to climate champions running at every level of government. State legislature, county council, weird statewide offices you've never heard of: they all matter and your contribution can make a big difference. secure.actblue.com/donate/clima...

If you genuinely believe the future is worth fighting for, then we need 1) visions of what a better future looks like and 2) a movement that facilitates climate action at all scales. Both of those require knowing what works (and talking about it!). This is not a bad thing in movement building!

Ember continues to rock the analysis world. With developing country solar/battery prices falling (Chinese exports), the world can anticipate the true jump straight to renewable economies. Just like cell phones skipped central networks. #energysky ember-energy.org/app/uploads/...

Good morning with good news: Cheap batteries transform daytime solar into economic anytime electricity! Battery prices fell 50% in 2024, compared to 2023, and have dropped again in 2025! Dispatchable solar with 4-hour battery falls to ~$76/MWh! Wow! ember-energy.org/app/uploads/... #energysky

Peterbilt's new trucks are exciting. As @aukehoekstra.bsky.social has recently published, we are near the tipping point where it is simply cheaper to operate electric trucks. Tribalism fails pretty quickly when money is on the line. These trucks will get used. insideevs.com/news/781391/...

We have the solutions to stop climate change. Now, it's time to bring them to scale. Fast. To know what works, what doesn't, and how to get moving on science-based climate solutions, visit the Drawdown Explorer.

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

Water fact. What's the single largest irrigated crop in the United States? .... .... .... Lawns. Substantial potential to reduce US #water use exists by improving watering practices for lawns, or replacing them with low-water-using gardens and alternatives. pacinst.org/publication/...

Delighted to see Fervo geothermal mobilizing capital for their Utah plant. I expect costs to decline for them because they use new technology and lots of labor - Wright's law will apply. This will get cheaper. heatmap.news/energy/fervo...

Silicon anodes are coming to market! Huge improvement in energy density (400 Wh/kg!) and charge rates (10 min rapid charging) for Li-ion batteries, and an alternative to graphite, which is almost all sourced from China now. This is one area where US could regain leadership in battery tech. 🔗⤵️ 🔌🚗 🔌💡

This is a great piece by @leahstokes.bsky.social with practical ideas to lower electricity prices… www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Y'all the latest episode of the #Kilauea #eruption just went CRAZY. It looks like pressure built up enough to explode out the ground around the two existing vents (first few seconds), leading to a massive surge in lava fountaining.🌋🤯 USGS Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...

PSA: Kīlauea here in Hawaiʻi is doing its thing and you want to see it.

I'm writing a book about what we're learned about #climate solutions over the past 25 years. More on that later. It occurred to me that you might be interested in hearing about some of the books I've read that are important or fun, but not listed as climate books. A holiday 🧵 once a day.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

"Just after 12 p.m. last Wednesday, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power shut down the last coal plant directly powering California," writes @sammyroth.bsky.social: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-... 🔌💡

If CO2 emissions go to zero in 2050 (top), the sinks (green) will bring atmospheric CO2 back down (middle), & temperature will stabalise at ~1.7°C (bottom). Going to zero today will keep us <1.5°C Constant emissions leads to 2.6°C, rising rapidly thereafter. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Three horned owls this evening on my house and nearby trees! 🪶

#Agrivoltaics moving into the mainstream in #Italy Would be good to see some horticultural production in the mix, beyond sheep. Italy awards 2 GW in agrivoltaic tender backed by #EU funds. #agsky #energysky www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/12/i...

I only move the leaves off the driveway that'd get disturbed by cars anyway.... all the birds get their food from under the leaves, plus the bumblebees survive under there🥰

New York officials signed a $32 million contract with Copper "to develop, pilot and produce 10,000 new energy-efficient induction stoves for use in New York City public housing facilities." www.nyserda.ny.gov/About/Newsro... 🔌💡

A number of new estimates of current policy warming by 2100 have been released in recent months, including three prominent ones from UNEP, IEA, and CAT in the run-up to COP30. I've got a new piece over at The Climate Brink digging into the details: www.theclimatebrink....

In my EI blog post today, I discuss the CA debate over how to return some of the cap and trade revenue to households and explain why I think a fixed rebate for every household the utility serves should be replace by a discount per-kilowatt-hour. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/s... 🔌💡

Do this! You can rake the leaves to the edges of the lawn if you want, or rake them into a bed where you have other plants or trees. Larvae of pollinators overwinter in those leaves. If you remove the leaves, you will also be removing the pollinators that help your plants reproduce.

A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers. This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.

The jury — which feasted on sandwiches for lunch on Thursday, according to a person familiar with jury lunches

One of the great joys of a small pond here in Northern California is that the big birds like it too. Even owls at night, but this Cooper's hawk is a regular 🪶

The world might be pulling back on climate truth: but I'm stepping it up. How? I'm adding new videos, deep dives & behind-the-scenes stories to Talking Climate. Why? Because climate honesty and hope matter more than ever right now. Join me on Patreon: bit.ly/47pCLaf Or Substack: bit.ly/4ntfvhJ

Higher education has some work to do on climate action. We found that the median reduction in direct (Scope 1) emissions is only ~9% - with over a third of U.S. colleges and universities actually reporting Scope 1 emissions higher than in their baseline year. scholarworks.smith.edu/env_facpubs/35

Note that my alma mater Carleton College has done this in FREAKING MINNESOTA. The pipes run deep under the quadrangle where they pour water for a winter outdoor ice rink. Simple calculation by @carleton.edu was payoff in about decade, independent of the GHG benefits. I’m very proud of them.

Today in 1949, A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold was first published. That book had an enormous impact on how I think about land and helped create the idea of a “land ethic.”