Unless pols like Kathy Hochul cut pollution, fast, instead of doing the bidding of oil & gas interests, we’ll get 50+ days per year of over 90+ heat by 2050 in NYC. Yet Hochul gutted NY’s climate law. We have to turn her around, which would also create loads of good jobs & lower energy bills!

Windfall: noun. A sudden, unexpected piece of good fortune or financial gain. Trump's crypto gain isn't an unexpected good fortune. It's a grift.

Google's total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025. This is the biggest increase in their electricity consumption ever, writes @ketanjoshi.co It reflects the "obscene energy hunger" of bloated generative AI systems. ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Once Trump lost interest in Ukraine (after the launch of his foolish war on Iran), Ukraine's situation began to improve.

Attention, Denmark! On 2 July, the environmental and sanctions-monitoring NGO Urgewald reported that a top Ukrainian sanctions official had said that Denmark's Fayard shipyard is helping Russia sustain its liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports by servicing its specialised tanker fleet.

Denmark’s Fayard shipyard races to service russia’s LNG fleet before #EU sanctions take full effect, keeping putin’s Arctic gas exports afloat. www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

The world has been watching this playbook unfold for decades across many sectors. Grifters spreading lies for profit to the detriment of society and our environment should be something our politicians and media should be exposing but instead are all too often part of this grift.

We seem to have hit a nerve with this one and I'm completely blown away by the response. Close to 100,000 views in 24 hours for an academic paper on tabloid framing and the German heating law. I suspect it's because so many countries are watching the same playbook unfold at home.

A bribe? Surely not!

Trump Administration Pays Duke Energy $129 Million to Halt Offshore Wind Farm - New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/c...

By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Trump: widening inequality and the unchecked power of billionaires. There's no "center" anymore between a takeover of the government by oligarchs and true freedom. Dems need to learn this.

Here's a reminder that Trump, a convicted felon who was found by juries to be a sexual predator, is keeping Howard Lutnick in his Cabinet even though Lutnick flat-out lied to the public about his business and personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, who raped children.

Cars are one of the reasons why cities get so much hotter. An average gasoline car can produce 3.9 MJ of waste heat for *every kilometre* it drives. That’s enough to raise the temperature of a 665 sqft apartment twenty degrees centigrade.

Dozens of planned gas plants to ​directly power data centers in the United States could emit as much greenhouse gas annually as ‌Australia or France www.reuters.com/business/ene...

KAILASH: “.. Making promises is one of Mr. Musk’s strengths. Delivering on them is not. His ability to continuously move investor attention from one failure to another ‘big idea’ is unrivaled.” @barrons.com #$SPCX www.barrons.com/articles/spa...

New York City's large building owners will soon be able to buy credits instead of cutting emissions to comply with Local Law 97. As a candidate, Zohran Mamdani said he'd limit that option, but he hasn't taken a position as mayor.

Even without their creating bias in the researchers they fund, there are actually multiple ways that oil and gas companies can use funding to influence academic research and the public perception of an issue. This paper lays out those ways and proposes a solution. Read 👇

"Tobacco kills up to two-thirds of long-term users, so the historic delay in understanding the risks led to millions of preventable deaths." What will the death toll be from fossil fuel corporations corrupting scientific research on climate change and climate action?

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

This is very grim, and likely to get grimmer over the coming decades, but it doesn't have to be this way. We have the technology and the money to quickly improve energy efficiency, replace fossil-fueled power plants with clean generation, and replace fossil-fueled machines with electric versions.

An important bipartisan affordable housing bill to bring down costs could be the law of the land TODAY. Instead, Trump refused to sign it because we won’t let him lie about voter fraud and rig the midterms. He doesn’t care about affordability. He cares about himself.

In Trump’s America: Trump gains $2.2 billion from the presidency. 8 million Americans lose their healthcare.

My latest for @grist.org looks at two reports — one from @ran.org, the other from @ciel.org — showing how big banks are investing in fossil fuel expansion, including the industry's pivot toward plastics. grist.org/economics/ba...

Trump’s income in 2025 topped $2 billion — a 233% increase from 2024. It's not just stock trades. Over half of his gains came from his crypto business, which foreign countries have funneled money into to curry favor as he deregulates the industry. We must not become numb to this corruption.

The data center industry is building behind-the-meter fossil gas power plants at a frightening pace. If allowed to go forward, these 74 plants would generate 143 GWs of electricity – enough to power CA three times over. This new report provides pollution & demographic info for each of the projects.

Great news! Air Products scraps wasteful CO2 capture/blue H2 plant that would have increased fossil gas mining+air pollution, added CO2 pipes, & stored CO2 under a lake near a wildlife area when it could have eliminated the gas, producing the H2 from clean, renewables www.wfmz.com/news/area/le...

Reagan DEFINITELY would not be allowed in today's Republican Party.

Chief Justice John Roberts' legacy is a far-right Supreme Court that prioritizes expanding corporate power above all else. I warned of his right-wing nature when I testified against his nomination in 2005.

This excerpt from the official 1956 Republican Party Platform underlines that the former Republican Party--the Party of Lincoln and the party that espoused these ideals--no longer exists. It has been replaced by a party based on a greed, cruelty, and a cult of personality.

But these unlawful antics never should have happened in the first place.

The court has spoken: Trump's attempt to get political revenge by shutting down the Hudson Tunnel project wasn't just illegal, but "flagrantly" unlawful. This ruling is good news for the thousands of workers building the project and the hundreds of thousands of commuters who will depend on it.

Is this what they meant when they said we need to win the AI race with China? "US fossil fuel power spending to beat China for the first time in decades."

"We need rapid, massive bold reform. I'm calling for the Green New Deal. There's not enough urgency being used when we are talking about this issue." - Melat Kiros Sure seems like talking about climate helps Democrats win elections. Maybe just maybe people have noticed all the fires and heat waves.

Parked but not idle: The buses “will charge up their nearly 200-kilowatt-hour batteries overnight, when the power supply is at its cleanest & cheapest, then send energy back to the grid from 4 pm to 7 pm on days when the grid is strained. The district will earn revenue for the power it shares…”

No previous president has ever manipulated American foreign and domestic policy in order to make himself a billionaire. Unprecedented www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

JD Vance said that the Watergate Scandal wouldn't end a presidency today. I break down how bad it really was and why Vance wants to normalize corruption: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPI_...

🚨 We analyzed the Supreme Court’s decisions over the past 20 years and found that for the first time, the court issued more consequential rulings on its “shadow docket” (unsigned orders often decided without arguments) than the traditional merits docket. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.

I started work at Cornell 41 years ago today. And I am now set to retire in just 6 months..... a very strange feeling.

Russian Urals oil is now below $45 or around 3500 rubles per barrel. The Russian budget is based on 5500 rubles per barrel ($59 per barrel and 92.2 exchange rate). Link to source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🚨Future of Heat Initiative blogpost🚨 There's a legislative proposal in Massachusetts that would restore a level of scrutiny to gas utility infrastructure spending that was standard until 2014. Since then, spending has grown apace, but safety outcomes haven't really changed. 1/3

Or you could say “29 Year-Old DSA Candidate Ousts 15-Term Congressman Who Accepts Corporate PAC Money in Colorado” Left-Wing Insurgent Ousts 15-Term Congresswoman in Colorado www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

They softly oppose or weakly support stuff like Medicare for All. They walk away from electrically popular concepts like a Green New Deal. And they don’t even have a proposal they’re serious about to prosecute Trump corruption or deal with the Supreme Court.

As the progressive wing of the Democratic Party continues to be ascendant, it will be interesting to see if a new vision of security is likewise articulated. Ecological security puts Earth system stress at the center, but also leans into equity and justice.

From one who was there, it had huge impact. see, for instance, its use in an Inconvenient Truth--this is how political validation proceeds. A big part of the Democratic party adherence to the idea of natural gas as the savior.

A University of Hawaiʻi report says that building more solar farms with battery storage is the most cost-effective way to power Oʻahu, rather than building new power plants. The electricity company doesn’t agree. Lol.

Liking Mayor Pete Buttigieg 👍🏼.....