Heat rises, right? So if global warming was real wouldn’t all that heat rise to the north? Meanwhile it’s freezing here in Boston but sweltering in Australia, way down south.

Pretty much everyone I know who's bought an EV in the past few years lists its potential utility as a backup generator during natural disasters or other types of grid issues as a big factor in their decision calculus tbh

The US now has more than 600,000 EVs that can feed power to houses during an emergency.

Wowww am I old. Still one of my top five albums.

Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.

Attending the National Auto Dealer Association convention which is also right next to a 50,000 person hVAC industry convention and lemme tell you, golf shirts are as popular as ever.

Grew up in the DMV and read the WaPo sports section every day as a kid. Sad to see it go. Have canceled my subscription, also sad but now necessary.

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...

I was recently in Nepal, one of the poorest countries on the planet. I saw more EVs on the roads there than I do here in France. The fact that they are self-sufficient in electricity (hydro) and next-door-neighbours with China has a lot to do with it, but anyone I spoke to said "low operating costs"

California’s EV boom led to cleaner air in its neighborhoods, with satellite data linking this growth to lower NO₂ pollution. insideevs.com/news/785951/...

My recent interview about Arctic warming, data visualization, and the art of science communication - delphizero.substack.com/p/zack

The lyrics suck but it’s got an infectious beat. Could end up a rave fave.

“There will be no caregivers in this country if our isolationist policies are all enforced.”

An important point of Duhigg's essay is that the left endlessly polices the boundaries of acceptable belief, enthusiastically excluding potential allies from ever being brought into the fold, whereas MAGA "welcomes anyone wearing the red hat." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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If... "you screw up your economy trying to drastically reduce your emissions" Ah, which country is doing that (or even trying to do that)? Countries deploying wind, solar, EVs, etc, seem to be doing just fine to me. Modelling does not suggest that climate policy screws your economy either. 1/

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The charges against Don Lemon are ridiculous. He’s a target because he’s black, because he’s media, and because he’s a Trump critic, and because Trump and his minions cannot accept any dissent. It’s deeply pathetic, unamerican, and lawless.

NEW: UK rooftop solar growth reached an all-time high in 2025 Households and others added a record 800MW to their rooftops 1/3

Wow! Almost a 50% drop in greenhouse gas emissions in the EU energy sector over the last decade. That's a huge leap forward, but we'll have to ramp up our investment in grids to continue this progress in the years ahead. ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/...

The EU battery storage boom continues at record speed🔋 SolarPower Europe's #EUBatteryReview25 reveals the EU installed 27.1 GWh of battery storage capacity in 2025, marking 45% year-on-year growth for the industry Download the report: www.solarpowereurope.org/insights/out...

At a recent conference I was struck by how much of the data center conversation was about selecting the right real estate. Not about accessing lowest cost power. IMHO that is a huge mistake. This reliance upon gas as the MAIN power source is going to leave stranded assets.

Bad Rabbit.

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About $1.2 trillion of that poured into renewable energy and power grids alone, both of which play a vital role in serving rising electricity demand from data centers.

Fossil fuels are simply not reliable in winter weather.

HUGE moment for the EU car market as battery EVs overtake petrol cars for the first time ever But there's no "natural" demand for EVs amirite? Article by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...

"However, a majority of Americans (61%) underestimate the proportion of the American public that is worried about global warming, and an additional 24% indicate that they “don’t know enough to say,” while only 8% accurately estimate the public’s level of worry."

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

“Take risk, act swiftly and seven other tips for deploying catalytic capital the right way” impactalpha.com/getting-cata...

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Faster, better, cheaper, smarter wins. Slower, worse, expensive, dumber loses. It doesn’t matter how much whining and crying slower, worse, expensive, dumber does…it loses, it’s only a question of when. “Firewall Against Chinese Cars Is Cracking” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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One time when Michael Shellenberger wrote some lies about me one of his followers said that he’d like to throw acid on my face. He’s clearly a very peace loving man. (He was given the chance to denounce the threat and did not.)

If only we could power our grid with Susan Collins’ statements of “concern”. We would have an infinite supply of power.

With renewable energy deployments dipping last year due to Chinese power market reforms, electric vehicles are the overwhelming global leader in decarbonization technology:

Wow. I know many will poo-pooh this, but I will be rooting for him to succeed in his effort at self-change. It’s really not easy. And while it’s clear a PR firm had a lot to do with this statement and the decision to put it out, it’s still brave to be so publicly vulnerable.

Good news: energy transition investments in 2025 rose 8% Bad news: At $2.3 trillion, still below $2.9 trillion for the most economical transition. Far below $5.2 trillion for net zero by 2050. You can thank Trump for some of the bad news. But not all of it. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Whatever is my right… is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess. —- A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. - Thomas Paine

My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking

As a native Washingtonian, I ended up coming back to WaPo for the sports and political and international coverage. All three are now getting whacked one way or another. So I’ve once again canceled. Sad.

no matter what else is happening, if feasible, please share photos of your dogs playing in the snow tomorrow

It’s like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder How I grew this big cucumber

I got a request from a reporter about Trump's statement that "what happened to global warming?" w.r.t. the cold event covering much of the U.S. this weekend. Here is my reply.

Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty."

don't push me cus I'm close to this veg

I have a framework of an agreement with my kids to have them make their beds every morning and wash all the dishes each night.

getting sick of the lying

Masdar signs deal for 1 GW round-the-clock clean energy in Uzbekistan #EnergySky

My bold prediction is that at least one of Ford or GM will form a Polestar-type JV with an East Asian OEM of superior BEVs. Within five years. It’s increasingly the C-suite’s only “escape hatch”.