Absolutely wild. Read that again: the *actual* costs of *just wildfire smoke* are higher than the currently projected costs of *all climate impacts combined*.

A striking, touching illustration of the shifting baseline syndrome. To someone from two generations ago, what we think of as beautiful, unspoiled nature would seem, or in this case, sound, like an almost barren landscape with just a couple of odd survivor species hanging on.

BREAKING: Electrification Action Plan dropped. The EU just committed to doubling electrification: 46% of final energy consumption by 2040, up from 23% today, where it has sat for a decade. My rapid response analysis of the Electrification Action Plan: open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...

as called on TV2 Norway:

Ukraine having consistently great nights. Last night they hit oil and military targets across several Russian regions including Rosneft's Saratov refinery, a Borisoglebsk airfield, two oil tankers near Taganrog, and a Nizhnekamsk petrochemical plant. #explodey

I would broaden this out a bit. The structure of the information environment these days basically means that *everyone* lives in their own algorithmically reinforced bubble. Whatever countervailing forces there were have been all but wiped out. It's bubbles all the way down.

People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.

Elon Musk asked for a name of a person he has killed. He got a list.

”As far as Germany and the car industry is concerned, comparable sums of money were available for reinvestment in the form of record-breaking profits. But rather than being plowed back into much needed new investment, they were paid out to shareholders in the form of dividends…

Incredible development: Ukrainian forces have already broken their own monthly record for destroying Russian air defense systems, surpassing May's total. So far in June, they have destroyed 44 Russian air defense systems and the month isn't over yet. 1/3

I especially love this diagram.

People are still underestimating how much the prospects of LNG growth in Asia are totally busted. Even setting aside the Hormuz factor, the economics are just brutal: 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

IEA said Iran War created the worst fossil-fuel disruption in history. Price of oil stayed below $150. Why? Biggest reason: China cut its demand by 5 million barrels a day. Some say it's a mystery. But @davidfickling.bsky.social says public data explains it. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This is worse than the solar alone chart that the IEA flubbed. More importantly - it should remind us all that no matter what any high on the high person says - they could be damn wrong beyond your wildest dreams!

Here's a fun fact about Elon Musk: in 2020, his (nominal) net worth was $20b, and today it's $1t (nominally). But *that's* not the fun fact; *this* is: everything he's done since 2020 was a flop. 1/

“Simply put, there is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. Extreme wealth is always an extreme power. It’s the power to stifle competition, shape public discourse, influence policymaking, buy elections, stall social progress.” @gabrielzucman.bsky.social

Gift link ;) www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

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Every story about, and interview with, Elmo about his trillion dollars should start and end with how he knowingly and willfully condemned millions of children to starvation and death. That's all.

We can only pray that this is the apotheosis of the Second Gilded Age, the death knell of late-stage capitalism, built on the backs of tax subsidies to devil Musk, enriching the schmucks buying his stock and gospel. SpaceX Climbs in Debut, Musk Becomes First Trillionaire www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

"I have no idea whether Musk is an engineering genius, or just a savvy and lucky venture capitalist. The scientific world is divided on that question. I do know that he is a monstrous human being." www.ft.com/content/77af...

Here's Lisa Salters' arm interviewing Victor Wembanyama postgame

This Iran War is to Asia what the Ukraine war was to Europe. An acceleration of clean energy sovereignty is underway. World continues to buy record amounts of Chinese solar panels, batteries, EVs Pleasure to be in Bloomberg @akshatrathi.bsky.social . Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Current Prime Minister Pashinyan, who is broadly pro-West, has declared victory. He defeated the pro-Putin candidate despite massive attempts by Russia to sway the vote. There is a non-zero chance that Russia will attempt to use coercion and military force. Russia has troops there.

I seneste afsnit af dkpol fik @esben.bsky.social og Jakob Nielsen ind på denne lille perle med Frank Hvam. Tak for den 🙂 #dkgreen youtu.be/ch2q3xTxP-g?...

“For the first time in 130 years Denmark will not have an agriculture minister. In their place will be a minister for nature and animal welfare” Extraordinary wins by environmental & animal welfare groups in Denmark’s ‘Pig Election’: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

NEW @iea.org data: clean energy investment is now more than double fossil fuels. $2,155bn vs $1,008bn in 2025. The crossover happened around 2016. Since then the gap has only widened. What was a narrow lead a decade ago is now a >2-to-1 split.

“We’re at dangerously low levels already" “We have shared those concerns at the highest levels of government about what’s coming in mid-to-late June. … I hope they are paying attention to inventories right now. You’re hitting tank bottom.” Days away now. www.politico.com/news/2026/06... #energysky

My latest for Bloomberg: "We are about to see the Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 – a discontinuity in energy markets as profound as the oil shocks of the 1970s, and one that could bring forward the peak in fossil fuel use and emissions to this side of 2030." about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

the hungry observatory

Our current methane emissions add roughly 0.6 degree of global warming and stopping them is the fastest way to reduce global warming. Now GWP* is used by politicians and lobbyists to say: "If we keep doing it, this 0.6 degrees would not increase further, so we have no impact on the climate."

I have come to love this subgenre of video, and boy oh boy this might be one of the best ones to date lol

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

A world without gas infrastructure? If we aggressively electrify the economy, green methanol could cover most of the remaining non-electric demand - without needing large-scale hydrogen or methane networks. New paper in Joule: "A Minimal Methanol Backstop for High Electrification Scenarios"

An increasingly likely nightmare scenario for 2026: worsening fossil fuel and fertilizer crisis, combined with record global temperatures and drought. Fossil fuel dependence really doing a number on us.

This is something fundamental happening in both demand and supply side of energy: people can now just buy gear, absent policy support, at a scale that shifts the energy system! It’s gone well beyond rooftop solar panels for rich households getting FiTs.

"The EU is imperfect, irritating, boring, but we haven’t come up with anything better in our history. A time of peace, prosperity, freedom, democracy, and solidarity among nations that have fought each other for centuries is a miracle. May it last as long as possible." Donald Tusk on Europe Day

So the war was quite literally pointless. All around the world they're rationing energy, there are food shortages, people are suffering and dying, all for absolutely fucking nothing.

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

Overestimating nuclear and underestimating renewables … Nuclear is a way to spend billions today making no emissions reduction for at least a decade. - highly questionable in a transition where time is of the essence.

Rhodium Group just dropped a detailed report on why your electricity bill keeps going up. It’s excellent. The diagnosis is right. The prognosis is too defeatist. A thread. 🧵

WOW: The UAE’s decision to quit OPEC looks like one of the biggest crude producers joining the “peak oil demand” camp. Here’s why: 🧵

Holy sh.. The cover of Germany‘s very pro-business Manager Magazin about Minister Reiche‘s irresponsible decision to double down on gas power plants. Illustrates once more that old journalistic frames of there being such a monolithic thing as ‚the business community‘ are outdated.

everything in american politics boils down to this

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

OUT: Carney's speech. IN: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speech in Beijing "navigate this post-Rupture world in which Washington’s reliability can no longer be assumed, and in which Beijing’s partnership, however complicated, cannot be refused" www.sinicapodcast.com/p/pm-pedro-s...

"Crucially, it shows that the EU intends to make a big bet on electrification as the only way to kick its fossil-fuel addiction." Yup.