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.

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 🔌💡