“I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation” | My new op-ed in the @sfchronicle.com: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... #ScienceUnderSiege

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

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first, it's no good for climate action As Amory Lovins once said “Nuclear power actually retards climate protection because it is so expensive and slow to deploy.... Each dollar spent on a new nuclear reactor yields 10 to 40 times less carbon savings per year" rmi.org/nuclearwhyev...

Trump loses yet another legal battle against wind. Federal judge lifts Trump administration’s halt of nearly complete offshore wind farm in New England Judge states that "granting the injunction is also in the public interest" apnews.com/article/trum...

Given that Trump's government is regularly providing false or misleading info to the public about energy, health & climate through multiple departments, it is incumbent on us to view these departments under this administration as instruments of propaganda, not of truth or science

Every 76 MW helps!

And another reminder that a transition of the U.S. to 100% WindWaterSolar across all energy sectors reduces private annual energy costs to Americans by 63% (giving an energy-cost payback time of <6 y) and total social energy costs by 86% (payback time <1 y).

And a 4th reminder that a transition to 100% WindWaterSolar reduces the annual total tonnes of mining in the world by >84% despite the need for precious metals, which are a trivial component of total mining tonnage.

Brazil🇧🇷 just hit a milestone; #wind and #solar power now account for one third of the country’s #electricity generation, marking a big leap in their shift toward renewables ⚡🌿

September 21, 2025! Let's put paid to the old fossils and stop killing people with the nuclear fuel cycle!

Amory Lovins continuing to make sense . . .

"At this pace, CA will be 100% [clean energy] 24/7/365 by 2035." And we're barely even trying! Imagine what California (or anywhere) could do if all leaders actually called out the danger of fossil fuels, ended subsidies, and made the biggest polluters actually pay for the damage they've done.

Sweden’s largest solar plant goes online www.pv-magazine.com/2025/09/05/s...

Happy to share "Still No Miracles Needed" will be published by @universitypress.cambridge.org on Jan 22, 2026 The book is on how to address air pollution, global warming & energy insecurity with existing techs deployed on a massive scale-no miracle techs are needed web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years. CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years. But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures. Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.

www.greenmatters.com/pn/japanese-... Some GOOD NEWS to share Japanese Scientists develop plastic that dissolves in seawater in a few hours !! It can also breakdown in soil taking about 200 hours SEE WHY SCIENCE MATTERS

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Windmills are lovely. They are part of the future, we must invest in clean renewable energy.

As such, discouraging solar PV on farmland and EVs while encouraging corn ethanol saddles consumers with tens of billions of dollars of excess fuel costs for decades web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...

On top of that, wind turbines don't even take up farmland. They are like a second crop that gives farmers extra cash beyond that what they get from their crops.

100% WindWaterSolar could power the US for all purposes using less farmland (0.84% of US land) web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j... than for corn ethanol (1.24%), which fuels only 4% of US transport web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j... USDA halts solar+wind funding on farms www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...

[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social] Mountains of smoking waste sprawl across the Dandora dump in Nairobi, Kenya. Among the refuse are remnants of fast-fashion - fabrics with synthetic fibers which fragment into microplastics laced with toxins which seep into soil, water and air.

It’s a flat out LIE to blame clean energy for higher bills. Experts point to fossil fuels, aging grids, and extreme weather. Wind and solar are the cheapest power. Trump promised lower costs—families are getting the opposite. abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...

Building new solar/wind farms is cheaper than operating existing coal plants leahy.substack.com/p/one-third-...

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"predictions are hard, especially about the future" (and ESPECIALLY when driven by ideology rather than science)

Panda-monium! Love this from my feed this morning. 😀

7 reasons why new large+small nuclear reactors are useless for solving air pollution, climate, or energy security 12-23 years from plan to operation 2-6x the cost of wind 9-37x the CO2e as wind Weapons proliferation Meltdown risk Waste risk Mining lung cancer nationalinterest.org/blog/energy-...

And most of the land needed for WWS is empty space between wind turbines that can be used for multiple purposes, including putting some of the solar on.

'If fascism scares you the way it does me, figuring out how to break the centralized power of the fossil fuel industry is a key form of resistance.' - @billmckibben.bsky.social

Heat pumps really are incredible. A new report from the American Lung Association found that installing heat pumps in factories could save 77,000 lives. grist.org/energy/insta...

One of the best ways to cripple Russia’s ambitions longterm would be to moonshot renewables development then spread the tech everywhere super-cheap. Russia produces nothing of significance beyond oil and gas. The economy would tank. Plus a huge win in the fight against the climate crisis.

World's largest (4.1 GW) offshore wind farm approved by Scottish government. Next largest: 3.6 GW. Project could generate enough electricity to meet the annual electricity needs of every Scottish home twice over. www.aol.com/one-worlds-l...

Where is the energy emergency requiring more fossils? U.S. annual-average end-use supply & demand for all power from all fuels and across all sectors: transport, industry, residential, commercial sectors, have been constant (only 3.3% increase) from 2000-2023 (latest data).

How do you charge a battery-electric car with no grid electricity nearby? With on off-grid microgrid run on solar PV+batteries. Microgrid also powers the buildings 24/7 WWS=WindWaterSolar @stanforddoerr.bsky.social @woods.stanford.edu @stanfordenergy.bsky.social @stanforduniversity.bsky.social

In four years, large offshore wind farms will be built offshore of both U.S. coasts. They save lives, create jobs, provide stable energy for generations, minimize transmission needs and visible lines, lower energy costs, and help reduce hurricane damage.

Batteries shatter peak discharge record: 11.166 GW at 7:15 PM Wed 8/6 Highest total (724.2 GWh) and peak (40.08 GW) demand day of year Batteries can now meet 28% of this peak demand for 4 h which is why gas is becoming obsolete CA breaking records even when not a 100% WWS day

“tearing apart the moral and legal framework that holds our world together” #LetGazaLive #EndTheFamine #PursuePeace

#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory Japan hits 107 degrees F. You can deny it all you want but climate change is here & it’s only going to get worse if we don’t anything to slow it down We’re risking our food security & our livelihoods. More importantly, our health & lives www.reuters.com/business/env...

Trouble is if we don’t build replacement capacity before retirements, we’re asking energy consumers to eat the difference. That’s worse than accelerating VRE + BESS + EV installs. Latter do eat into fossil demand, but only got faster relatively recently. They have a ton of room to grow.

TRANSITION? WHAT TRANSITION? Wind and solar, pet hates of the populist right, will meet >90% of global electricity demand growth to 2026, helping renewables topple King Coal's reign as the world's top power source www.carbonbrief.org/...

The Greenland ice cap is losing around 30 MILLION tonnes of ice an hour due to the climate crisis - 20% MORE than what scientists originally thought. No time to waste. Stopfossifuels. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables #go100re

From halal carts to hot dog stands, sellers have long relied on noisy, polluting fossil fuel generators. Enter battery-powered alternatives — but the transition isn’t cheap or simple. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/30/e...

IEA's mid-year electricity review is out. Some highlights below: First time in 100 years, renewables are set to overtake coal in global electricity production as soon as this year (or latest next year). Wind + Solar contribution to global grid mix will reach 20% by 2026, up from 4% in 2016. 🧵

New graphs showing fossil gas use down 42.5% since 2023 and 24.3% since 2024 on CAISO grid WWS up 16%, solar up 47.4%, batteries up 213% since 2023 162nd of 207 days in 2025 with >100%, for an avg of 4.7 h/day (v 1 h/d in 2023) WWS has met 57.5% of demand in '25 v 48.7% in '23