Amazing work here highlighting the need for more demand side energy managent on the residential scale 👇 congrats @kevinjkircher.com and team!!

LO—and I cannot stress this enough—L

Yo Austin,TX connections-if anyone is looking to rent an awesome house in the Hyde Park area, DM me.

Rule#1 for pick up and drop off at our local 🇳🇱 school: cars are not allowed 😍 What a stark contrast to what we were used to in TX.

As I have moved to 🇳🇱 now, this account will henceforth be an urbanism account. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

In heatwaves, when air conditioning demand peaks and reliable electricity generation is needed most, nuclear and coal power plants that use nearby bodies of water for cooling risk failure due to too-warm cooling water. Those with air cooling towers are better off, but heat/humidity hurt them too.

🚨🥵Given the heatwaves in the US and Europe we have a timely preprint: From Comfort to Survival: Indoor Heat Vulnerability During Extreme Events papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... There is extensive work on outdoor heat exposure, but a considerable gap on indoor heat risk. Our work tackles this.

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated". #climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience

THREAD: I’m going to share this thread here to clearly state my perspective on electric vehicles, car dependency and better cities, for all those who frequently ask me about it, including media, elected leaders and many others. Here goes. Please share it frequently if you think it will help. 🧵#EVS

Shocking!

When you’re getting lectured by the <checks notes> German government on failing to account for the dangers posed by right-wing extremism, it might be time to take a seat.

Classic case of familiarity bias. I switch between the two as needed where needed. None of them is particularly good or bad.

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Great stuff here for residential electrification 👇👇👇

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

Always wondered how the Star Wars Emperor could start with a battle-hardened army and end up with an "entire legion of his best troops" being beaten to death by teddybears with sticks. Then Hegseth ended up as US Defence Sec. And now yeah that makes sense.

For first time in many years the @iea.org expects electricity demand per capita in advanced economies to start to rise - a reversal of the trend over the past 15 years. Graphic is interesting also because it shows huge differences in electricity demand per person with US by far consuming the most.

Here is a sign-on letter for individual scientists and other experts to speak out and protect NOAA. I signed it and I encourage you to sign it as well. secure.ucsusa.org/a/2025-prote... 🌎🧪🦑🐠

Power demand is sky high in ERCOT this morning. This is the first time ERCOT has ever served 80,000 megawatts in the winter. We have a new battery storage record with 4,578 megawatts deployed at 7:15. Once again, batteries are playing a major role to keep the heat on. #txlege

Happening tomorrow! Join James Gerber, Ph.D., on Wednesday, February 19 at 7pm CT/9am SST to learn about Project Drawdown's research on food, land use, and agricultural solutions in Southeast Asia. Register for FREE now: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #climatesolutions #climatechange

alternative headline: war criminal excited about convicted felon's plan for genocide

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Russia recklessly attacked again the Chornobyl nuclear site. Such attacks on civilian nuclear sites are unacceptable. It shows once again that Russia is not looking for peace.

Roses are red Violets are blue Hitler was a nazi And you are one, too

Nazis raus

Hands down, best Super Bowl spot, and one especially close to my heart and my community. From Asheville floods to LA fires, climate change is taking the places we love. For the sake of future generations, it's our responsibility to acknowledge the problem, address the causes, and advance solutions.

I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment. Humor me?

From the time I was seven years old, I have wanted to be a scientist. The wonders of the universe, the delights of biodiversity, the cryptic secrets of number theory — I fell in love with these worlds and marveled that there was a role in our society for people who worked to uncover and share them.

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

The immune response from the Covid boosters introduced last September is holding up very well against current circulating variants 👍https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(25)00058-1/fulltext

Convicted fellon and indicted war criminal discuss real estate deals.

Solar is surging in every EU country, but a few key players are leading the charge ☀️🇪🇺 🇭🇺, 🇬🇷, 🇪🇸 and 🇨🇾 generated more than a FIFTH of their electricity from solar in 2024 🇩🇪, 🇪🇸 and 🇮🇹 generated the most electricity from solar overall ember-energy.org/lat...

LFG!!

Statement from Project Drawdown executive director @globalecoguy.bsky.social regarding President Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement. #climatechange

30 years ago. We knew. Even Exxon knew.

Good rant 👇👇

It's not a limit! It's a target. 🤬

Dont forget flexing the loads 😀 lets call them smart loads ? 𝗚𝗿𝗶𝗱-𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 - 𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗙𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 - 24/7 Carbon-free Energy Please consider joining:- www.linkedin.com/groups/13513... > 2000 members - a carefully curated spam-free resource Thanks, Mike

Bluesky is a handy place to connect to experts on climate change (and other things)... So many scientists, policy wonks, and others are here -- sharing their time and expertise with the world. Here is just one starter pack, helping to identify some of my favorites: go.bsky.app/Q4Uo8vV

I have a new analysis over at The Climate Brink exploring how rates of warming have changed over the past century. Post-1970, GHGs (CO2, CH4, etc.) would have led to just under 0.2C per decade, but falling aerosols (SO2) have increased that rate to 0.25C. www.theclimatebrink....

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

Unchecked capitalist would be the word he's looking for

I want to add to this by acknowledging that not everyone likes doing outreach and/or not everyone is good at it (and even if you ARE good at it, your outreach may not be impactful). If this is you, I have a couple tips. For context, I lead scicomm efforts professionally for a museum...

Ich habe gerade angefangen, einen Blogbeitrag über den vermeintlichen Konflikt zwischen Führungskraftsein und „kumpelhaftem“ oder gar freundschaftlichem Umgang zu schreiben. Es ist schwieriger als erwartet, meine Gedanken zu diesem Thema zu sortieren. Hier also erstmal nur ein paar lose Gedanken:

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Does Santa only go for cookies? Or can I interest him in some of these?

not really visionary. Why not the United States of the World? Guy needs some ambition. Alex the Great would eat him for breakfast. /s