Which countries are actually succeeding in building clean energy? China leads in absolute volumes, no surprises there, but relative to the size of the energy system, five other countries achieved larger increases in the past six years.

I LIKE this guy. “We need your imagination, your narrative creativity and your lively thinking […] I thank you for every time you have sown seeds of reconciliation, of encounter and of friendship.”

Nice piece by @davidfickling.bsky.social "It’s not necessary to invoke any hidden aspects of China’s economy to explain everything we’ve seen over the past few months. China’s oil demand has peaked." 🔌💡 The Mystery of China’s Oil Demand Drop Is No Mystery www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

EIA: "In CAISO, utility-scale solar generated more electricity than natural gas on a daily basis on 82% of days in the first five months of 2026, up from 21% in 2024 and 2025." www.eia.gov/todayinenerg... 🔌💡

Here comes another illuminating report from @ember-energy.org, this one on "Electric Asia." That gap between "the electric fast track" and "the fossil detour" in the graph on the left is turning out to be a crucial choice between energy security and chaotic dependency

Gas spent 20 years owning the evening peak. Batteries took a year to crash the party. That's disruption. Not gradual, but a rapid shift in who supplies grid's most valuable hours. The battle was never about total generation. It was about the peak & batteries are winning it. #Bettrification #BESS

As we kick off the 2026 midterm election season, we're resharing our guide to Handling Political Harassment & Legal Intimidation. Read about the legal risks scientists face from politically-motivated attacks, & how to defend against them: www.csldf.org/resource/poc...

Wow. #energysky @akshatrathi.bsky.social

It is hard to transmit progress to general audiences. I love this plot from Ember showing that global electricity generation growth in 2025 was entirely met by clean energy. Fossil had no growth. Globally. Entirely. I will be using this a lot. ember-energy.org/app/uploads/... #energysky

Extreme heat kills more than half a million people every year, roughly one person a minute. It kills more than any other extreme weather event. Many of these deaths could be prevented, which is why reporting during heat advisories is so important for public safety.

One of the biggest challenges in climate action is imagining what a better future could actually look like: especially when solutions are so often framed as sacrifices that require loss, instead of opportunities to benefit from. This week's good news and what-to-do takes those on directly!

Yesterday it was not all that surprising that renewables were meeting California's needs and charging the batteries and being exported. But at 10 pm the gas plants were still not providing much, with 6 GW batteries and 3 GW of SunZia NM wind (in the imports). Data from CAISO.com #EnergySky

We’ve worked for three years to get milkweed to grow. Last year a volunteer popped up in the garden box. This year it attracted a monarch that laid eggs!! I am so stoked. #butterfly 🦋 #insect #nature

Frontier is now accepting applications for technology teams and researchers with pilot and research projects to turn asbestos waste into carbon removal. If you're interested, learn more about the request for proposal here and apply: frontierclimate.com/...

A few years ago Frontier started a search for scalable low-cost approaches to durable carbon removal that were under-invested in. Today we are launching the Quebec Surficial Mineralization Hub to kickstart one of the most promising:

A grosbeak decided it wanted the feeder all to itself. #birds

CA pipevine swallowtail caterpillars on pipevine

Bluebird bathing will continue as well. #birds

Mohawk butterfly for the win! 🦋

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

Holy smokes! An incredible start to the 'Wildfire Season' in the US this year - owing to an abnormally hot and snowless winter in some parts of the country.

One of those slow news stories in a fast news world. Suicide rates around the world have been dropping since the mid 1990s ourworldindata.org/data-insight... @ourworldindata.org

Bringing Clean Energy Opportunities to Women and Youth in Nigerian Agriculture #energysky -- via RMI

You wanna know if deeply rooted grasses put more carbon in the ground? "Sometimes you've gotta rent a van and drive around the country..." So said @ericslessarev.bsky.social & team in this wonderful study. 12 sites in central/eastern USA... dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Planning for a future we want, instead of just the detritus of today, is a task that begins now. Noah Deich has some great thoughts on what a new US Department of Energy could look like. It could be transformative and effective. Good job Noah. #energysky open.substack.com/pub/ndeich/p...

The butterflies in Las Trampas park are amazing today. The relatively rare pinevine swallowtail is everywhere (blue tail). 🦋

This is true in science also. Good ideas are ten-a-penny - but what is impressive is actually getting it done. It’s the doing that makes the work worthwhile, not the initial spark (99 times out of hundred).

My resignation letter

We need to bring back the ideal of masculinity focused on quiet self-sacrifice for the sake of others. Alpha shit is for losers. Be a man and humbly forgo the shit you want for years so you can provide for your family, you indulgent little wuss

Robert Hoglund @roberthoglund.bsky.social is the voice of rationality for carbon dioxide removal. He makes the case for CDR needing a narrative shift away from speed and scale, toward prove and learn. Today the vital need is to trust and understand CDR. carboncurve.substack.com/p/why-carbon...

The Anna's chase the migrant hummingbirds off the citrus trees - this Rufous (I think) is trying out the New Zealand tea tree.🪶

When the Orange trees bloom, the hummingbirds feast. I think this is a female Anna's hummingbird. They stay here all year. 🪶

This is the best map of the United States I've ever seen. xkcd.com/3221/

TURN ON (the Merlin Bird app) TUNE IN (to nature around you) DROP OUT (til Monday) 🌱

We just launched Frontier’s 2026 Innovation program! We will provide R&D grants and pre-purchases to address critical field research gaps and get emerging technologies out of the lab and into the field: frontierclimate.com/... We are specifically looking for:

As a rare climate scientist working in Silicon Valley, I've been drinking from the AI firehose a lot more than my peers. I thought it would be helpful to lay out my experiences of both the promise and pitfalls of using AI to accelerate scientific research:

When I was a child I poured through National Geographic, amazed by the world’s diversity. Too often we lose track of diversity in energy planning - and lose the opportunities diversity creates. We need everything, hopefully in the places they work best. #energysky open.substack.com/pub/ndeich/p...

When I first started investigating CO2 I assumed this factor would be well known. It wasn't. Thanks for measuring it in a key location.

I caught these two red tails making little red tails. The girl flew away but the boy stayed to strut a little...🪶

Always one of my favorite days of the year - first poppies!

I believe this is the mating ritual of the Northern Flicker. They are 'skypointing' as I have seen larger birds do. There was a group of 6 or 8 in this tree – this pair seems to have hit it off. 🪶

Sound advice from David. And as heretical as it may seem, don't start your talk by thanking anyone. For one minute you have the complete attention of the audience - use it to tell them why you are talking to them. Buy the next five minutes of attention. Both of these show respect to the audience.

Bravo Robert. CDR investors and hypesters have pushed rapid growth, but as you say, “the story is not rapid scale, but proving, learning and earning trust”. Many companies have a toe in the water. They need to know CDR works and is acceptable. open.substack.com/pub/marginal...

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

Always excited to see a wood duck. They are so shy I would never see them except for the long lens.

I was birding in my local park when a river otter poked up through the duckweed. I didn't see the fish until I got home and zoomed in! The long view is the pool where I saw the otter, in the distance.

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.