Nice ‚dual use‘ example: They’ve Got a Plan to Combat Global Warming (and Also Russian Tanks) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/c...

A ‚Heat Pump‘ Café. Clever and important idea, given that energy disinformation is now likely to cause more damage - in tons of GHG - than climate disinformation does.

London’s Northern Line, the eternally unwashed dumpster shuttle at 110 decibel.

Ein Online-Abo einer deutschen Zeitung einzurichten, ist immer noch dieselbe UX-Freak-Show wie vor zehn Jahren.

Six-letter beast that devours UK Prime Ministers, including the next one?

While you were worried about supposed ‚kill switches’ in Chinese solar panels or wind turbines: there are some other - serious - risks to European infrastructure and businesses. www.ft.com/content/4c3a...

Amsterdam is the world's first capital city to ban public advertisements for both meat and fossil fuel products. "Since 1 May, adverts for burgers, petrol cars and airlines have been stripped from billboards, tram shelters, and metro stations." www.aol.com/amsterdam-ba...

www.thenationalnews.com/news/uae/202... The mostly absent context of those recent OPEC news.

Zum Muttertag ein Thread über die Verhöhnung der Mütter 1945 bis 1970er - also in Zeiten, in denen die "Hausfrau und Mutter" als gesellschaftliche Norm galt. Es gilt für die Hausfrauen auch, was für alle anderen Frauen gilt: Egal, was sie machen, wie sie es machen, es ist iwie falsch.

Putin claims to want the Donbas while that alone - at the current speed of military progress - would take him three more decades. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/w...

NEW ANALYSIS: What's going on in Spain? Spain's wholesale electricity price in early 2026: €44/MWh. Italy: €127. Germany: €96. UK: €103. Wind+solar now deliver 44% of generation. Gas sets the price in just 9% of hours, down from 55% in 2022. Full analysis: janrosenow.substack.com/p/spain-just...

The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...

It is just an op-ed, and good newspapers are supposed to challenge conventional wisdom. This sentence, though, won’t age well. And, to be less benign: it is criminally stupid: „When it comes to climate change, for now, it might be better to say nothing at all.“ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

Starmer was timid. And then you get eaten. The only thing to unlock this mess is not to ‚listen to Reform‘ as if they were closer to understanding the country, but to be honest and brave about the country‘s central strategic must: to become a member of the EU again. (Russian bots: I smile at you.)

Just spotted $6.70 diesel in Northwest Indiana. Expect to see more of this as the weekend progresses.

Earth systems are now changing faster than we can update our idioms: Bureaucrats no longer change at ‚glacial speed‘. Glaciers now change faster than bureaucrats do. And project managers should no longer warn of trying to ‚boil the ocean‘. The ocean is already boiling.

Renewables growth cut Spain’s electricity bills by 24.2% over the past two years www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/30/r...

"The UK has avoided the need for gas imports worth £1.7bn since the start of the Iran war, as a result of record electricity generation from wind and solar..."

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20-30% of global emissions come from food, agriculture, and land use sectors as well as indirect emissions. Reshaping our food system means targeted solutions: better fertilizer in India, rice farming in SE Asia, forest protection in Brazil, diet shifts in the US. 👉 drawdown.org/food-and-climate

Goethe: „…ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft“ - Mephisto

Funny how that works

Starkes Stück! Warum #Klimajournalismus (besonders im ÖRR) mehr braucht als Mut Eine schonungslose Analyse der Kollegin Nadja Hahn. Sie verließ nach 20 Jahren den ORF, weil sie mit ihrem Versuch, guten Klimajournalismus im ORF zu institutionalisieren, auf systemische Grenzen stieß. #brandmelder

If the Romans had used nuclear energy we would still be guarding their lethal waste. That’s assuming they had stored it somewhere.

I can‘t figure out why, but I have never seen news stories about how oil rigs hurt whales. Only wind farms do that. And only solar panels have a recycling problem. Gas stations are fine.

For the UK local elections tomorrow: which party is most vociferously for eventually rejoining the EU?

I can‘t figure out why, but I have never seen news stories about how oil rigs hurt whales. Only wind farms do that. And only solar panels have a recycling problem. Gas stations are fine.

There was always a chance the US would lose its competition with China, but it wasn’t inevitable that it would elect a president who spends the entire match deliberately kicking the ball into his own goal www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...

Asian and European economies feel ripple effects of Gulf oil shock via vastly different channels • In Asia, hit from oil shock will be biggest for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and naphtha • European imports of Gulf oil products centre on jet fuel and diesel/gasoil www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Mark Carney: “It’s my strong personal view that the international order will be rebuilt, but it will be rebuilt out of Europe.“ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/w...

It took a madman. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security

What was then Royal Dutch Shell detailed it in 1998: a scenario, whereby oil & gas go the way of tobacco, shunned from polite society within 25 years. Now their former headquarters stand in a city that has banned fossil fuel and meat ads. Bravo, Amsterdam! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/c...

News from the former COP President. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Trump’s initial post about removing US troops from Germany came just hours after he spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has long sought to reduce the number of NATO troops in Europe... "The Pentagon 'was not expecting it'... www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Chinese solar exports surge 125% on policy change rush, not underlying demand acceleration #energysky -- via pv magazine global:

How I wish this important text was available in English.

In a strange twist of planetary history, it may have taken someone as uninformed as Trump to inadvertently hasten the decline of oil and gas.

This.

The American preoccupation with producing, consuming and controlling oil may ultimately prove a misplaced priority: a scramble to control the energy resources of the 20th century.“ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/o...

Kluger Beitrag von @joerglau.bsky.social : Auf Trumps Bestrafungen muss man reagieren, und endlich selber Zölle erhöhen, und Militär Projekte stornieren www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

Santa Marta: Key outcomes from first summit on ‘transitioning away’ from fossil fuels ✍️ @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

So what. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/u...

Brexit was a collective experiment in testing if a country could ignore its geography. Trump is a collective experiment in testing whether governing requires education.

Trump reneges on part of EU deal Eu offers cool diplomatic response but warns it reserve options to protect Eu business www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

You need Ramstein more than we do.

Dropping climate from the energy debate is politically smart. It's also a catastrophic mistake. Some more thoughts on why: www.linkedin.com/posts/wolfga...

This is the first oil crisis in which alternatives to oil and gas — solar panels, EVs, batteries, induction stoves heatpumps — are cheap and easy to get. These flying off the shelves already... This has reporting from 10 countries www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Me, to the industrial goth girl as we fought over the last pick at the bar jukebox.