Honored to be quoted in this AP article on AI's potential for climate solutions. Important topic critical implications for our built environment. ...though of all the things I said, they went with "That's literally a super low-hanging fruit" 😂 apnews.com/article/clim...

Saying we need massive CO₂ removal is like saying we need fusion power. We might need them but we ain’t got ‘em.

"Accounting for these increased methane emissions removes over two-thirds of the apparent post-2005 decline in United States net greenhouse gas emissions." Essential paper by @kevinjkircher.com. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Three strategies to link paragraphs and improve the flow of your academic writing. patthomson.net/2025/11/08/t...

Hi Bluesky, God just needs 17k followers to hit 600k. And then 66k more after that to hit 666k. That will be funny. Thanks, God

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥 There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️ They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬 Thread:🧵Plz RT

In aviation, why do they use nautical miles and not aeronautical miles? 🙃

Greenwashing is illegal now. Great news!

Well it happened again. A task I procrastinated for 3 months has been completed in 5min. Please clap.

We now *know* what to do to stop climate change. Project Drawdown has analyzed trillions of data points, spent tens of thousands of hours, and has done the hard work to find evidence-based solutions. No more handwaving. No more greenwashing. Just science. And we're giving it away for *free*.

Want to make publication-ready figures come straight from Python without having to do any manual editing? Are you fed up with axes labels being unreadable during your presentations? Follow this short tutorial including code examples! 👇🧵

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s. It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling. Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

Reviewer #1: Thank you for your revised manuscript with thoughtful ideas. Reviewer #2: I recommend against the publication of this study. Reviewer#2 strikes again 😂

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

It's Nobel Prize week! A good time to remember that the economics prize was created by Swedish bankers in 1968 (67 years after the 5 original Nobel prizes) against the wishes of the Nobel family, partly to legitimize neoclassical economics in the public eye and partly to help banks avoid regulation.

The jig is up for CCS and DAC. oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

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.

Gleichschaltung

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

Gleichschaltung in progress

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