Sleep thieves abound

I'm not lazy, I'm just convenience maxxing.

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

SportsNet strikes again! Bottom of the 9th, World Series. Unbelievable.

Excellent piece to start your day. I loved the parallels @daanwalt3r.bsky.social draws between battery rollout and previous agricultural revolutions. Daan has quickly become one of my favourite authors.

So … vaccines prevent autism?

We are all time travelers who can do one small thing that changes the future

By Monday, Australia will have surpassed 100,000 small battery systems installed and registered since 1 July when household batteries became eligible for rebates.

The wind doesn’t always blow, but it’s a real corker when it does. Leaving plenty extra ⚡️ to charge batteries for when it doesn’t.

Fascinating.

🧵 We’re all familiar with the debate over whether green growth or degrowth is the better strategy for rapid emissions reduction. What we talk less about is that the current global economic system of growth actually *requires* the energy transition in order to sustain itself. Why?

Economic growth beyond 2050 requires us to transition. It will be for this reason that we do and not because the greenhouse effects of CO2 and CH4 will kill us all.

Incredible thread.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

ULEZ means about 1,500 sq kilometres - the whole of Greater London - is covered by road emissions control. Stop and think about that for a second. It's incredible. Its impact on public health has been huge. Studies said it would take 200 YEARS to reach this emission level. Khan did it in five.

This was a great episode.

It is interesting to see how horse fodder and food was as much a part of our energy mix (20%) in 1820 as coal is today. In 1920 coal was up at 70%. Note these are percentages not quantities. visualizingenergy.org/americas-ene...

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire.

No, this is not a good argument for nuclear power. In a system with lots of variable supply and demand peaks, the last thing you need is "baseload" supply you can't switch off. What you need is flexibility. As for reliability, no: unplanned loss of a GW nuke is worse than predictable variability.

Brilliant to work with @wellcometrust.bsky.social on this article which looks at how fungi are learning to adapt to rising temperatures — with serious implications for human health www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-f...

Really impressed with myself that I solved this end game. Yes it took me 6 days, but solved it I did! 😀

Preordered my copy!

Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand) Results: Last week: 100% RE Last 212 weeks: 98.5% RE (1/5)

Exceptionally well done documentary on the liberating power of solar energy. Thank you @billmckibben.bsky.social & @jigarshahdc.bsky.social for the incredible motivation. 🥰

Dear @ukri.org, I think JJ Thomson nailed the perils of having Government agencies use “clear eyes” to decide where to focus research funding to maximise benefit to society. 🧪 (www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...)

Reading is what is saving my sanity right now. There’s not great stuff going on, and while yeah, I’m doing my activism, I’m also reading. Some recs on #books: @billmckibben.bsky.social ‘s Here Comes the Sun. Super interesting, compelling, optimistic, and a call to action. 1/x

++. Highlights @mliebreich.bsky.social’s Primary Energy Fallacy perfectly. 👌

@chess.com is acting weird today. Been unable to log in for hours now.

I love this. Can't remember where I found it but so glad I kept a copy.

This whole piece (and Part 1) is well worth a read, but here's the essence: "decarbonizing the first 90% as quickly and affordably as possible, rather than letting the perfect be the enemy of the good."

In the 1st half of 2025, @climate.noaa.gov 's staff were terminated, shutting down daily operations. Now, former members have joined w/ nonprofit partners to launch Climate.us, where climate info can be safeguarded from politics. Check out our website and join the effort today.

Definitely the coolest Sun Day video yet! Please watch and share (I promise you'll like it) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoDn...

While the Trump administration tries to cancel offshore wind for "national security" reasons, here's the CEO of Ukraine's largest private energy company

During the day yesterday in California, >75%of all electricity was produced by renewable #energy, including solar. After the sun went down, half of all electricity STILL came from renewables, including wind batteries, hydro, geothermal, etc.

God I just love this…

The generation graph of South Australia is wild. Green (wind), yellow (solar), and blue (battery) dominate throughout the entire day. 😍

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Wow. Check this out. Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Y'all don't know what batteries are doing for you. Saving you some bank.

Most-viewed Guardian articles last night. Editors shouldn’t think that the public doesn’t want to know more about climate change. Or about ocean science 🌊! Read the article about our paper: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

and the NIST cops aren't about standardizing all of these different types of cops smdh www.commerce.gov/osy/field-of...

Loving @billmckibben.bsky.social’s Here Comes The Sun book. > Their basic contention about energy and poverty was both self-serving and wrong. Coal after all had had 200 years to solve global inequality, a task at which it clearly failed.

I hope people read and react to this idea: what if climate policy focused on flooding the planet with cheap, or free, solar panels? Globalize China and India's panel factories, buying panels by the boatload and just offloading them at every wharf on earth billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-modest-p...

After 60 years of trying to electrify populations with fossil fuels, people finally figured out there was a much better way. One with less corruption. Electricity poverty is real and clean energy is now at scale to solve it. This will unleash human flourishing.

Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand) Results: Last week: 100.0% RE Last 209 weeks: 98.5% RE (1/5)

Hey Folks...You may start seeing social media sites and a website for Climate.us If you see it, follow and share. It is legit and has some amazing, credible people behind it trying to plug leaks in the climate science world. Trust me on this one. More is coming....

Most people should use a password manager, but there's no one-size-fits-all recommendation. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

Fossil fuels falling below 50% of global electricity will be an historic milestone. It will be achieved probably by 2028. Wind and solar gained 2.87 points of global generation share from June 2024 to June 2025! They reached 18.45% of global generation in June 2025 & 19.86% in April. #energysky