Clean Energy accounted for all electricity growth this year. Gas/Coal were basically a wash and will be for years to come for electricity generation. We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.

I've got all the text documents from the Epstein Files drop loaded into NotebookLM if anyone wants it. notebooklm.google.com/notebook/0d5...

I gotta say the evidence that Schumer is secretly controlling the cave caucus is some real thin gruel. It basically rests on the assumption of a level of Senate partisan discipline normally seen in a parliamentary democracy when it isn't just leaning on even grosser "perfidious jew" tropes.

I grasp that the timeline has some other things going on, but I had longform thoughts about elections this week and subsequent discourse that I’d been kicking around and drafting for a couple days, and before the Steelers game is kind of the last minute I can get them in

My mother was the breadwinner in the family, first to get a college degree in the family, and when she was pregnant with me her boss came into her office, told her that she'd never be the same accountant again, and fired her on the spot. That was in nineteen eighty two

Joe Rogan has one of the world's most popular podcasts. Unfortunately, like nearly all of the most popular online shows, his tends to spread climate misinformation. For @climateconnections.bsky.social I scrutinize his recent episode with octogenarian climate contrarians Lindzen & Happer 🧵 (1/11)

Trump Sees Opportunity As Democrats Fail To Deliver Decisive Blow

Possible NYT headline tomorrow: Pitfalls Await Incoming Democrats; or maybe, Democrats Struggle to Hit 70% Anywhere.

One time. The GOP has won more than 50% of the popular vote <one time> since 1992. And yet, every day, you are bombarded with Takes™️ from Ezra Douthglesias about how deeply unpopular The Democrats and their policy platform are, without any reflection on how the same standard applies to the GOP.

In 2018, Meta decided “clean energy” and “climate change” were politically sensitive topics, and demanded that I - a climate scientist - register as a political org to post and boost posts on them. I refused, and my page has been shadow banned since then. For 7 years. Until this week, that is 😳

His worst offense was reorienting the entire Paris agreement away from affordability toward innovation through his Mission Innovation side show in 2015. China went the route of deployment, we decided that we needed to focus on innovation instead. www.wsj.com/articles/oba...

Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.

I find it very funny and telling that the WelcomePAC ""report"" was written by a guy who had a substack as a Yale student, got to guest write on Matty's blog and appeared on Slate's podcast in 22 because he is the son of one of the co-hosts) and then went on to work for David Shor and Future Forward

This is normal post stroke follow up, sometimes on a 30 - 60 - 90 day schedule. You get an MRI for post stroke because you’re measuring infarcted tissue, which is not evident on CT scan. He’s exhibiting something called recrudescence, or a reemergence of symptoms after the initial stroke.

Democrats should hold the largest mass protest since the 70s. THEN the media would cover them!

I'm trying to digest the editorial, but I keep coming back to this plot & the simple statistical mistake it's making. **OF course** moderate Democrats outperformed Harris in purple seats, purple-seat voters don't like progressive presidential candidates! The comparison artificially inflates strength

36. We’re finally getting serious about net zero carbon. Getting that last 5-20% of carbon out of power will be hard, and require some expensive solutions. The first 80-95% is easy-ish but we're getting on with it.

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

38. Ordinary people have no idea how much progress we’ve made. Tell people at parties that UK carbon emissions in 2023 were at their lowest level since 1879, for example. Most developed economies are now reducing carbon emissions without lowering quality of life.

And it was worldwide:

For your sanity I hope you don't learn about the false moral filter of "US support" and the vastly larger deadly global conflicts in Sudan, Ukraine and 5 to 10 other places. You would need 400 social media accounts to protest

Congress Thinks Hiding Fund Fees Is Good for You via Jason Zweig Even if fund expenses seem to disappear, they’re still the biggest drag on your returns. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

The Dems orchestrating the most successful political messaging campaign of this administration and it's all bad from the people who asked them to do this the loudest.

This should be leading the news. But it won't. #charliekirk #vincentbattiloro youtu.be/KdcRHDMChIk?...

If your Dem Senator is: Fetterman (I know) Shaheen and Hassan King Cortez-Masto Durbin Gillibrand Schatz Peters and Slotkin Call them and tell them why they need to hold strong.

This gamification and commoditization of takes, of followers and all that shit. It really bugs me, and it's obviously driving a lot of the "how dare u stupid libs go to bluesky and post in an echo chamber."

"There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours." That's a call for isolationism pure and simple. Also while there might be a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems, they won't.

“Eggs were the symbol of inflation in the last election. Now, as electricity bills spike, they are becoming a symbol for consumer frustration in 2026. Eighty million Americans are struggling to pay, four in five feel powerless, and politicians are scrambling for someone to blame."

This is wild.

This is an incredibly uplifting video of both hope and reality. The sun is democratic. You can’t hold it hostage. From the Fossil Free Media team, with @billmckibben.bsky.social, @sanders.senate.gov & @jigarshahdc.bsky.social youtu.be/IDK-3RC5SgY

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

Global EV market in August 2025: 1.7M sales up 25% YTD up 15% vs August 2024 up 5% vs July 2025 share.google/0o9ZWKhFuLsc... 🔌💡 🔌🚗 #upshift

also kirk's form of persuasion really was race-baiting short form internet propaganda aimed at impressionable kids, funded by racist rich people trying to erode informed consensus and cement permanent rule in an anti-democratic way, something I see no indication of Ezra Klein understanding

All major industrial economies had roughly the same inflation path, despite different monetary and fiscal policies. This tells us the inflation was primarily about Covid, not policy. Anyone thinking the covid inflation was caused by QE and ZIRP wasn't paying attention 2008-2016

This thread, JFC… A. They have nothing to do w fundraising for the DNC. If you don’t know that you shouldn’t be taken seriously (but will by people who want to shit on Dems). B. I don’t know what’s happening DCCC vs NRCC, or DSCC vs NRSC, but that’s what they’re responsible for C. We’re doomed!

NEW: Gavin Newsom announces a "HISTORIC" event this Thursday

And yes he says that but here he veers back into, "we need to shut up about women and such"

Global ICE sales peaked in 2016 at 80.47 million autos and fell to 62.05 million in 2024! They will fall further as EV sales continue to grow around the World. EV sales may be 30 million in 2028, pushing ICE below 50 million.

The Composition of the FOMC www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/08/the-... IMPORTANT: It is critical that the Fed stay independent, data driven, and immune to political pressure. This is also true for the Federal statistical agencies …

A white driver in Greenville, North Carolina, rolled his truck straight into a sinkhole on July 26, prompting rescue from a tow truck company and Greenville utilities. He could have avoided the whole mess if he had listened to a couple of good Samaritans who atlantablackstar.com/2025/07/29/w...

This is a very important caveat to the issue polling in here

Man, @emptywheel.bsky.social draws & quarters Atkins for spreading BS about what Dems are/are not doing (they’re doing a lot, largely driven by or at least coordinated w Jeffries & Schumer). But she _also_ raises important Q’s RE relying on Bluesky for news www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/27/i...

Jews in Canada are 25x more likely to be victims of hate crime than all other Canadians, according to a new report. "The daily reality is families wondering if it’s safe to walk to synagogue, school buses being checked for explosives, and students being bullied and harassed for being Jewish."

The energy transition continues to evolve, with battery storage increasingly positioned as critical infrastructure rather than just clean tech. Recent developments show sustained investment and innovation despite policy shifts: 1/

Sirota was a coal lobbyist for years: www.google.com/amp/s/www.hu...

Oh, hey www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/d...

It was great to have Brian Deese on this week's podcast. We talk about the impact of the IRA and the implications of the OBBBA. TLDR: The solar/EV industry lacks real political power. www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...

1/ I'm doing a long Epstein thread that's: 1) what we know about him and Trump, and 2) what I think the FBI has and doesn't have. First, about Epstein. He was known even in his 20s to be preying on teenagers, the private school where he taught during college said he would party with students.

"If you don’t worry about it now, it’s too late later on. [..]We are passing down extremely grave problems for our children, when the time to solve the problems is now" Check out Sagan's 1985 congressional testimony on climate change here: www.youtube.com/watc...

John asked some great questions & I had fun answering them.