More on the global grift: Hungary’s Péter Magyar: “Orbán-linked oligarchs are transferring tens of billions of forints to the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Uruguay, and other distant countries.” Oligarchs are the enemy everywhere.

Clean energy nerds have been excited for decades about the idea that developing countries might leapfrog fossil energy systems, much like leapfrogging land lines for cell phones. Very cool to see it becoming a reality!

Joe Biden, 2024: "I will run for re-election and I will beat Trump."

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Looking ahead, there is only one strategic way forward for Europe: ▪️ speeding up our energy transition ▪️ accelerating the deployment of homegrown, clean, affordable energy sources. That is the only way to reduce dependencies and ensure our energy security.

New data out today underlines how fast Australia's energy transition is accelerating.  It is a clear sign that our plan to deliver cleaner, cheaper, more reliable energy system is on track.

"EV costs are forecast to drop below current internal combustion vehicle prices in major markets" ⚡️⚡️⚡️ of course they are! #alwaysbecharging

"Some big beneficiaries of Harborne’s largesse have undergone conversions to the crypto cause." But... "Donations...[are] not a material consideration in policy decisions.” Sure. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage has been getting away with dodgy dealings & ‘friendships’ with the most appalling of men - traitors, fascists, money launderers, sex traffickers, rapists, women beaters etc & the British media have turned a blind eye. It’s about time they took a hard look at what this con-man is involved in.

A ghostly short story for your sunny Saturday. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Solar panels don’t damage the countryside you just don’t like the way they look. Skylarks. Linnets. Yellowhammers. www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-pan...

Our car-dependent status quo is the result of political choices that have steered decades of financial-, spatial- and design decisions. It is time to repoliticize these decisions and reshape our public spaces.

OMG 🔥 finally, after 40yrs ⚡ A group of some 60 countries is meeting this week on the Colombian coast to figure out how to phase out fossil fuels, after three decades of United Nations-led talks have struggled to produce a clear path for battling climate change. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Apart from the actual stats, the most reliable indicator that immigration is plunging (to our obvious economic detriment) is Nigel Farage turning his dishonest attentions to the mythical millions of benefits claimants.

25 April 1923 | A Czech Jewish woman, Ruth Rychnovská, was born in Prague. In #Theresienstadt Ghetto from 22 December 1942. Deported to #Auschwitz on 6 October 1944. She did not survive.

This is not normal

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Important also to translate this into costs of gas power in LNG-dependent markets. At $10/mmbtu, pretty much the minimum that LNG can be had for in the best times, a high-utilization plant will need $100/MWh electricity to cover its costs. That’s about 25% above solar with a 4hr battery nowadays.

Jesse Peltan: "Electric vehicles are an extremely powerful tool for reducing oil demand. This is so obvious when you use the same units. There is a ton of chemical energy in the oil we burn to move cars, but you only need a small fraction in electrical energy for EVs to do the same job."

I think serious coverage of the war would incorporate Trump’s mental decline more centrally. His commanders don’t want him in the room, and his erratic self-obsessed nonsense keeps derailing efforts to find an off ramp. * 55% say Trump mentally unfit for office

Silver linings and all that.

This man worked for the Milton of Drimmie Estate, which makes money in part from offering pheasant shoots. Released en masse, pheasants cause immense ecological damage. The gamekeeper's job is to kill all predators that might eat the pheasants. He was doing his job. The scourge is the sport.

Even saying that Musk is posting "about race" is softening what is happening here, which is that the world's wealthiest person is committing himself to spreading overt Nazi propaganda.

Moving on from LNG to renewable energy: How South Korea plans to use the Iran crisis to spur a renewables revolution www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

It's the Special Abusive Relationship.

I feel so sorry for the kids caught up in this. This level of censorship/self censorship can have a profound effect on a lifetime of trying to navigate ‘contentious issues’, let alone their understanding of gender & sexuality. It’s hard to unlearn systems of fear and self censorship.

Scottish gamekeeper Russell Mason receives derisory sentence for brutal killing of Goshawk raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/04/24/s...

This BBC Radio drama about the making of Basil Dearden’s landmark 1961 film VICTIM is excellent. Thanks @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social and @eggsbened.bsky.social for recommending it! #FilmSky #1961Club www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

A few tens of millions to shield an entire industry from potentially hundreds of billions in liability for harming people by changing the climate. Incredible return on investment. Corruption like this should of course be illegal, but it's wild that warping US politics is apparently *so cheap*.

About 40 cars plugged in at Exeter Services, drawing a total of about 2MW, on a grid that is 86% solar atm. This displaces about a thousand litres of fossil fuels an hour. The energy revolution is faster than realised.

This sounds bonkers and then you realize it’s merely a boringly factual statement of what actually happened. He needs to marched in chains & an orange jumpsuit to jail for the rest of his life.

Sadiq Khan tells me Keir Starmer was wrong to brand the Green Party as extremists and says the Prime Minister needs to do much more to win back voters from Zack Polanski's party, as Labour faces heavy defeats in next month's local elections bylinetimes.com/2026/04/24/i...

I spent 6 months working for a Swiss NGO researching the tactics used by Big Oil and how similar they are to Big Tobacco’s tactics, and I can tell you that the ones used by ‘Big AI’ are virtually identical.

Cyclistes à Paris avec Notre-Dame au fond. Beaucoup de cyclistes. Une cinquantaine en trente secondes.

He keeps saying it. Is anyone listening? www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/o...

“Children and adults were laid on makeshift gurneys …These human caravans walked for hours in up to 104-degree heat in an attempt to reach medical treatment” Musk and Doge have so much blood on their hands www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

🚨 It’s official!!! 🚨 The U.K’s National Energy System Operator has just confirmed that on 22 April 2026 Britain set a new record of 98.8% zero carbon electricity…🇬🇧♻️⚡️🔋💡💪🥳

this post is warmly dedicated to everyone who bought an SUV 'for safety' www.transportenvironment.org/articles/eve...

Unserious party is (again) unserious. Never thought I'd say this, but I miss the old Tory Party with which I would deeply disagree with on most things, but at least they were serious. I've come to realise that our democracy needs a Serious Conservative party, or we get an Unserious one. And "Reform"

Badenoch is a profoundly unserious person.

If only there were some alternative, cheaper technology that didn't burn the Earth or depend on an increasingly unreliable fuel source...

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Industrial electrification is now a security imperative, not just a climate one. Our new @ox.ac.uk @ecioxford.bsky.social analysis finds up to 90% of industrial energy demand could be electrified. The potential is there. The main constraint is policy. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-04...

This is easily explained. Environment secretaries always kneel down to the NFU.

Israel murdered Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil. Killing journalists in a war zone is a war crime, and Israel has been doing it with impunity for years. The U.S. cannot continue to be complicit in Israel’s crimes against humanity.

Asleep at the wheel.

Global fossil generation growth in 2025 stalled thanks to a record increase in solar ☀️ Yet a lot of solar potential remains untapped – especially in countries where fossil generation is growing and conditions for solar are most favourable. ember-energy.org/lat...

Indonesia gets it, while the West ambles towards the transition we so urgently need to make... or actively tries to sabotage it.

I think it’s good politics to speak loudly and clearly about the climate crisis. Time to end the climate hushing billmckibben.substack.com/p/lets-talk-...