What would happen if the New England states’ national guards were deployed to protect the wind farm workers, ignoring the EO entirely in a coordinated fashion? The states need this power desperately, the companies are bleeding cash, and it’s getting to the point where maybe they just call the bluff?

It brings me no pleasure to report that my beat — offshore wind power — skyrocketed to the top of new sites today. I just published a scoop about Trump's halt on 5 in-progress wind farms capable of powering 2.7 million homes. Here's a mega🧵 🔗 2nd post is a link to my scoop 🎁 last post is a gift

He must have missed last week’s insightful New York Times editorial board series on the Pentagon’s outdated planning—how all the experts say we are woefully unprepared for 21st century conflict because we keep building 20th century weapons.

In the context of Yglesias vs Rep. Casten: The idea that any U.S. political candidate could honestly say to voters that there will be an increase in LNG exports under their leadership is make believe. Even the leadership we have now can’t magically make global market demand grow.

CO2 is amazing. While having just a little too much in the atmosphere is really bad, it may also be the best stuff to use for longer duration energy storage, which is key to keeping more of it out of the atmosphere. Simply convert CO2 back and forth from a liquid to gas. energydome.com

As Sammy points out, Yglesias is wrong even by his own standard. Dems LOST in 2016 *despite* Obama's policy of soaring domestic production. Biden WON four years later on a climate plan of 100% clean power by 2035 and net-zero by 2050. Harris LOST in 2024 after totally losing the climate base.

Legalsky: How does today’s order have any real impact on the ground if the previous order has already been struck down just two weeks ago? Can the Whitehouse just keep issuing the same EO with a new date on the top every time the courts strike the last one down?

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

I don’t think most people reckon with the fact that the world will likely pass 2C by 2040. If you buy a gas powered car or a new gas boiler today, if you vote for a politician who takes advice from Matt Yglesias or Third Way, if you keep ordering beef you are contributing to that dystopian future.

On #AGVTV at #AGU25, Dr. Melissa Kenney and I talked about the opportunity for the entire scientific community to contribute towards climate assessment research. Submit your papers at USclimatecollection.org. youtu.be/7Kb-hfwIUxQ?...

Policymakers could be relying more on “bright spots” research. Our standard model is to identify problems and apply fixes. Bright spot research identifies the places where things are already working better, finds out why, and systematizes them.

Here in the U.S. we have serious Supreme Court envy.

I think we have to allow this slightly gratuitous use of aviation fuel. They were out for the solstice sunset which was pretty great this afternoon, at least from Pittsburgh.

Look at the LNG export emissions from the U.S. yikes! One might think since the infrastructure is newer that it would be cleaner.

This is my experience as well. I don't think we're going to see the productivity gains that were promised. Companies that do adopt it widely will deliver lower quality products. It will never innovate because it can only return probable variations of that which has already been done.

More CO2 means more acidic oceans and that means shellfish and bivalves find it increasingly difficult to form shells. If you like clams, scallops, mussels, lobster, or crab, then you should want to stop burning fossil fuels as soon as possible.

For more about the early history of solar power, Mouchot and Ericsson, check out this summary. It is fascinating to think about an alternative path of human advancement where coal and oil had not been so geologically accessible in the places where it was.

The guy who basically invented the coal steamship and locomotive believed that "solar power offered the only way to avert an eventual global economic paralysis that would result in putting a stop to human progress.”

Not all climate “solutions” are created equal. Some actually do more harm than good like some of the top ones here. Bookmark the Drawdown Explorer in case you are ever not sure.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Global spending on advertising per year = $1,100 billion On deploying wind energy = $150 billion On deploying solar energy = $275 billion On public transit = $240 billion On affordable housing = $60 billion We spend more on influencing ourselves to buy things than we do building the future.

“To counter investor owned utilities that deploy ‘guns for hire’ consultants to inflate costs and sow confusion, public power advocates must focus on deep community organizing, and demand citizen independent oversight and complete transparency for all future feasibility studies.”

Hell yeah: @science.org's official Breakthrough of the Year for 2025 is ... [drumroll] ... ... the unstoppable rise & spread of renewable energy.

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

We may be entering the final stage of enshitification where users will all have to pay subscription fees for the privilege of giving platforms free content and scrolling through AI slop.

How Argentina set up a three-tiered investment guarantee and sparked $10 billion in new renewable energy projects. 1. Revolving energy payment guarantee fund for rapid backstopping 2. Government guarantee in case the first tier fails 3. IMF guarantee in case the second tier fails

This has been the lowest hanging fruit of easy political spoils for decades. The Democratic party decided to wait around and let the party of Nixon and Reagan pluck it away from them and I don’t understand why.

I'll take you up on that. The simple reason Matthew Yglesias is wrong about the politics of clean energy. 🧵

For 500 years during the Middle Ages, fishing practices in Lake Constance (Swiss Germany) were entirely sustainable because each year the fishermen would meet and determine the size of the mesh holes in next year’s nets based on the catch from the previous year.

China's massive deployment of clean technology allows it to have things we think of as the future, like flying taxis, delivery drones, battery swapping for EVs, high-speed rail, autonomous taxis, robot delivery trucks, and modern subways.

The gap between Liberal and Progressive is getting wider. Liberals will sell out our future chasing some mythical centrist voter. They are stuck in the 1990s except in the 90s we understood the science of climate change.

One thing we can predict with certainty in 2026 is that the balance of wealth will continue to flow from the Global South to the Global North.

Key criteria are repairability, adaptability, deconstructability (RAD), along with environmental design for low embodied and operational energy demand. In this way we can make buildings last longer, perform better, and lower the impact of construction.

Love this roof! Should have been solar BIPV though.

We've poured about $1.6 trillion into LLMs and the market capitalization of crypto is $3.5 trillion. Just imagine if we'd instead invested $5 trillion in public transit, housing, research, education, public health, and a clean electricity grid.

The more LNG export terminals we build the worse this is going to get.

👀 Resonance is magic. Big implications for decarbonizing heavy industry. What do they sound like?

About normativity We call something normal or normative when it describes a set of cultural laws, rules, or practices (norms) governing human actions not based on physical laws and where there are often many alternative sets of rules that could also work as well or better. You “ought” to do this.

Meet the world’s largest heat pump - for now. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.bbc.com/news/article...

This DOE order to keep a coal plant running against state law is especially awkward as the people of Washington State struggle to put their lives back together in the wake of relentless atmospheric rivers that have been supercharged by coal fired power plants.

“One study, published last April, which looked at medical records from across the country, found that from June 2022 to September 2023, 21,180 18- to 30-year-olds had tubal ligations, up from 11,480 in that age group in the four years before the decision.”

Am I Glad that PBS has been forced because they no longer have federal funding to sell Sesame Street IP to Clorox, a petrochemical company who makes plastic bags? No, I’m not Glad.

I’m old enough to remember when conservatives went on about the right of the states to make their own laws. In this case the benefits to the people of Washington are pretty clear: lower energy bills and cleaner air.

I've tried and failed a couple times to write a post explaining how serious this would be. NCAR is globally essential to our climate change response. This can't just be replaced. Every scientist in the world will be doing climate research with one hand tied behind their back for at least a decade

When he says "that they previously stole from us" he may be referring to the nationalization of the oil industry in 1976, when, after 50 years of colonial extraction by Royal Dutch Shell and Standard Oil, President Pérez acknowledged the natural resources of a nation belong to the people. 🧵

We have the technologies we need to cut pollution from the industrial sector. In our new report, we take a deep dive into an immediate, practical opportunity: electrifying low- and medium-temperature process heat in manufacturing food, beverage, paper and chemicals. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We've always considered immigration a good thing. Now more than ever. The fact that a minority of the population could have driven a decadal democratic right-wing populist political cycle based on lies and xenophobia is a testament to the power of media and propaganda.

Data center energy market demand contributed to Ford’s decision to pivot away from EVs‽

I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The climate balance sheet is even more unequal than I could have ever imagined. It would cost less to completely shift from a global petroleum economy to a 100% clean energy economy than it would cost for the imposing countries to pay back their climate damages.