📈Officially, another record year of heat for the planet. Per @noaa.gov, 2025 was Earth’s 3rd-hottest year on record (since 1850), trailing only 2024 (#1) and 2023 (#2). 🧵Let's dig in a little deeper

If you want optimism on EVs, and the Ford news has got you down, look beyond North America (for now)

As Alberta completes its first full year without coal in its power supply mix, renewables (wind, solar, and hydro) have reached 22% of total generation and natural gas makes up 78%.

"The B.C. government released a 10-year flood mitigation plan in 2024 but it had no price tag, no project priorities, and no timelines"

End of 2025: Shelbourne St. w/ new sidewalks & protected bike lanes nearly complete - 2 small segments to go. Lots of folks on foot & bike. (And to think: I was writing ltrs to & meeting w/ Saanich Council & staff about urgent need for AT options here in 2012-14 -along with multiple neighbours)

'Frustrating and defeating': More rain in forecast as Abbotsford surveys flood damage vancouversun.com/news/frustra...

Great explainer video on atmospheric river flooding here by @johannawagstaffe.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Western Washington faced threats of "catastrophic" conditions Thursday as an atmospheric river sweeps through the Pacific Northwest. 100,000 people have evacuated their homes in the Skagit Valley, an hour north of Seattle, to reach higher ground.

While B.C. has avoided catastrophe of 2021, Washington State currently dealing with historic flooding. In Sumas, a border town just south of Abbotsford, “probably 100 per cent” of the downtown is under water, Mayor Bruce Bosch said in an interview. “It’s looking like close to the ’21 flood.”

BREAKING: Over the last hour floodwaters have inundated Sumas, Wash. Flooding will soon be starting in Sumas Prairie.

Heavy rains from an atmospheric river have forced evacuations and closed all major highways out of BC’s Lower Mainland due to extreme flooding and high avalanche hazards—reminiscent of catastrophic climate-driven floods in 2021. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

BREAKING: Officials in Sumas, Wash., immediately south of Abbotsford will be sounding their flood siren that warns residents to evacuate. This is a sign of likely flooding in Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford. www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

A new report on Canadian LNG and oil exports rests on highly questionable assumptions about the global emissions impacts of these fuels and lacks transparency on the modelling inputs used. Here’s a brief explainer 🧵⬇️ ppforum.ca/publications...

Montreal’s BIXI bike share is closing in on another record year, likely reaching 14.5 million trips in 2025. www.ledevoir.com/actualites/t...

BC's 2025 Climate Accountability report is out. There's good news: more heat pumps, renewable diesel, GHGs down a bit and expectation that will continue. But BC expects to see only 1/3 of reductions to meet its 2030 target. I fear that's over-optimistic for 2 reasons.🧵 www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/e...

Getting close to Dutch levels of connectivity in Victoria with @nicthedoor.bsky.social, More in the blog... www.rollinginthecity.ca/blog/getting... #cycling #bicycle #cities #streets #urbanism #YouTube

This is amazing. So much progress in only 10 years. This makes me want to move to Victoria

NEW RESEARCH: Indigenous housing inequality will drive up health impacts and costs in Canada unless policy changes are made to improve energy efficiency, increase climate resilience and support well-being. Read our latest report with Indigenous Clean Energy 🧵⬇️ climateinstitute.ca/reports/heal...

Today’s MOU between the federal government and Alberta risks unravelling Canada’s climate policy. Read our full statement ⬇️ climateinstitute.ca/news/mou-alb...

The Best Cycling City No One Talks About with (among many others) @burgundavia.bsky.social and @ryanjabs.bsky.social

Many of you already know, but for those who don’t, I’m running for Victoria city council! Thanks to everyone who came out to my campaign launch, it was great to see so many friendly faces.

When the #ParisAgreement was signed, a huge global boom in coal was happening, threatening 4 degrees of warming. 10 years later, and coal's generation increased by the FOURTH most. Solar #1, wind #2 💪💪💪

Oh, Canada...

How do Canada’s emissions reductions compare to its peers in the G7 and other major trading partners? We took a closer look at the data 📉 440megatonnes.ca/insight/are-...

Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines. Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context. I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.

Our modelling shows industrial carbon pricing has essentially zero impact on households’ spending on food, adding less than $20 per year by 2030 to food prices compared to today.

There’s a lot of confusion circulating on industrial carbon pricing and food prices in Canada. Our fact sheet lays out why this cost-effective policy has essentially no impact on the price of groceries and other products. Here’s a short 🧵 climateinstitute.ca/news/fact-sh...

Yet another great primer on industrial carbon pricing from @climateinstitute.bsky.social. It's Canada's potentially most impactful climate policy, but it's hanging by a thread as provinces have gamed and, increasingly, flaunted the federal carbon pricing benchmark. Ball's in the feds' court.

NEW: China's president Xi Jinping unexpectedly joins the UN climate summit, by video, to offer his nation's 2035 climate pledge * Cut GHGs to 7-10% below peak by 2035, "striving to do better" * Raise non-fossil share of energy to at least 30% * Boost wind/solar to 3,600GW

It’s been five years since we woke up to apocalyptic orange skies and everyone stopped for a moment and stared at the sky. Five years since @barackobama.bsky.social shared my @sfchronicle.com photos of that day, a fun fact that will follow me forever.

Our latest early estimate of national emissions shows Canada’s progress flatlined in 2024, putting the 2030 target out of reach. Canada is at a fork in the road: the country needs a policy reboot from all governments to get emissions back on track. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

NEW: Our early estimate of Canada’s national emissions is out and shows progress stalled in 2024. The country’s 2030 targets are now out of reach, emphasizing the need for a coordinated policy reset with the federal and provincial governments. ⬇️ climateinstitute.ca/news/2024-em...

The 2025 BC fire season area burned (872k ha) has moved into 5th place with the recent fire activity. This means that the top 6 fire seasons have been since 2017 (records go back to 1950) Area burned-red bars (2017-2025 graph below) far exceeds the green bars (1950-2016). Climate change in action.

The Embankment cycleway (CS3) in London was purposefully built to be wider than was usual in order to future proof it. Some said it would hardly be used. Now there’s a decent case for widening it further. Induced demand is real.

Wildfire smoke is blanketing communities across Western Canada due to record heat and persistent drought conditions fuelling wildfires across the region. That poses serious health risks for millions of people and is expected to increase with climate change. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Numerous large and active fires in central BC producing large smoke flumes. GOES- West geocolor below.

What about China? Big news: the country is strengthening and expanding its carbon market—which is already the biggest in the world—with absolute emissions caps in 2027. 👇📉 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Saskatchewan’s decision to invest nearly $1 billion in coal power is from an era that’s long gone. Not only will it accelerate the climate crisis in the middle of 🇨🇦’s second worst wildfire season on record, there are plenty of options to replace coal. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

#UPDATE: Emergency officials say they are conducting "tactical evacuations" of about 400 properties north of Peachland due to an out-of-control wildfire next to Highway 97. globalnews.ca/news/1131246...

It's official. 2025 is now the third worst wildfire year on record in Canada. A study from 2018 examining fire-regime changes in Canada over the prior 57 years showed the fire season had been starting approximately one week earlier and ending one week later. Probably longer now.

Jaysus. 2025 currently ranks as the FOURTH worst year for Wildfire Burn Area in Canada, but it's mid-July. It will most likely end up as the SECOND worst season in the CIFFC's record.

Coal produced just 6% of EU electricity in June 📉 Germany and Poland – the EU’s biggest coal users – also saw record lows in June amid solar and wind’s strong performance 🇩🇪🇵🇱 ember-energy.org/lat...

More noise around the 🇨🇦 Zero Emissions Vehicle mandate policy, for example www.politico.com/news/2025/07.... But opponents of this policy seem to be consistently misrepresenting how it will work. A short 🧵:

6. The One Big "Beautiful" Bill increases U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by roughly 190 million metric tons per year in 2030 and 470 million tons in 2035—or about 2 percent of 2005 emissions in 2030 and 7 percent in 2035. #OBBB 🔌💡

5. The One Big "Beautiful" Bill decreases clean electricity generation in 2035 by more than 820 terawatt-hours—more than the entire contribution of nuclear or coal to our electricity supply today. #OBBB 🔌💡

The House just passed the One Big "Beautiful" Bill. Here's six key takeaways from REPEAT Project's rapid analysis of the bill on what passage means for U.S. energy costs, investment in new electricity supplies, and greenhouse gas emissions. #OBBB 🔌💡

Inside the digital publishing industry, which I try to monitor closely, this is the big news. By Julia Alexander at Puck.

+14,000 bike trips in a day on Rue St. Denis is wild. That's +7,000 each direction. In Victoria we max out at just over 4,000 per day. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...