I'm glad that @christianonre.bsky.social increasingly includes nuclear in his analysis, if only to show that adding nuclear is really more expensive than a system running completely (100%) on renewables.

For those stuck in the mindset that "Mark Z Jacobson is not a serious scientist": pls get out of your echo chamber and look at actual science rankings. Yes, he's outspoken: - Solar, wind and hydro solve problems. - CCS, fossil, nuclear and blue hydrogen do not. But is he wrong there?

The day after Dutch parliament voted to get Antifa activists earmarked as 'terrorist organization', copying Trump, the Fa side shows its colors at an anti-immigrant rally in The Hague: windows smashed at D66 (liberal) party office, violence against police. nos.nl/l/2583298

Intimidation and hurting the out-group is the point.

Shall we treat autism based on scientific research or on the gut feeling of people trying to awaken our tribalism and base instincts to increase their power? Being a bit on the spectrum myself I find it annoying that people cynically abuse autism like this.

Sen Chris Murphy has been at work and deserves credit

I'm not sure. Postdoctoral researchers make America smarter. But they, especially immigrants, are usually opposed to fascism, and most scientists don't like alternate realities based on lies. So getting rid of them might be bad for America, but it might be good for Trump: not as dumb as he talks.

Energy illiterate Wright explaining energy should be seen through the lenses of: 1) Who paid Trump" 2) Is it the opposite of what liberals did 3) How can we flood the zone And I, stupid scientist, thought I had to spend 20 years finding the best way to understand and model it. I'm such a dupe.

Dear conservatives, just imagine for a moment that Obama had called the GOP a "domestic extremist organization"... Can you please - for the love of God - understand that this is not normal? That no matter how much you hate liberals, your leader is taking you to a place you should not follow him to?

Dutch talk-show host Lubach put together an absolutely savage takedown of Disney after they bowed down to the Trump administration to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air

God fucking dammit. Marissa Gillett is a hero. She pushed back against piratic, insular, greedy utilities and so they went after her -- badgering her, slandering her in the papers, suing, complaining to her boss. And they won. The utilities won. She has resigned. Fuck this world.

This is an exceptionally good description of fascism.

When this new instance of suppression of free speech we saw with Jimmy Kimmel is allowed to pass, I think the American slide towards fascism cannot be undone anymore. So I wrote a carefully researched substack post about it. I don't know what else to do. aukehoekstra.substack.com/p/we-can-do-...

Of course everything is different this time. But is it?

I love this image: how solar plus batteries can push out fossil fuel from the bottom up.

American soybean farmers don’t have a single order from China as they head into harvest season. China usually buys 25% of the entire crop. Crisis looms for the farmers and there’s only one man responsible.

Turns out giving visiting workers the full ICE treatment doesn't increase investments. You could argue that they should not have set up the factory on a visum that only allowed them to train Americans. But the Korean press still thinks treating them like criminal scum for that is in poor taste.

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

I'm 100% with @mliebreich.bsky.social on this: Climate scientists should face the music and start researching which scenarios they run are plausible, and which ones are not. The "How should I know what is plausible?" defense is getting old. Good scientists can defend their assumptions.

Just look at what happened with solar investment - it’s astonishing. Solar has seen the most rapid investment growth, soaring from $142 billion in 2015 to a projected $441 billion this year.

Far right organisers in this country consistently side with foreign billionaires over our democratic institutions. They are not patriots. They are quislings.

The scale of Russian and Chinese bot farms is unimaginable. They have 1,000s of cell phones in warehouses generating AI content to sow chaos.

Speaker Johnson: if you talk about existential threats to democracy or offer history lessons about how this parallels totalitarian chapters in human history, we will silence you.

"Each year, nuclear adds as much net global capacity as renewables add every two days. Soaring renewables generate three times more global electricity than stagnant nuclear... …China added 197 times more solar and wind than nuclear capacity, at half the cost." www.utilitydive.com/news/nuclear...

If you think renewables in the US have slowed down thanks to Trump, you’re not really paying attention. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Top *eight* articles on NYT devoted to Charlie Kirk, top one asks if he will be remembered like MLK. This is a man who only a tiny percent of Americans had even heard of before his death, whose views are too nasty for NYT to detail. But they are trying so hard to turn into martyr.

We need to get better at scaling climate solutions. One thing we need is MORE money. But we also need SMARTER money, which helps us get the maximum climate impact for every dollar And science can show us how to do that. Check out my TED talk on smart climate investing. go.ted.com/jonathanfoley

ICE will be phased out by the market faster than by policy. It's a point I've often made in the last 10 yrs. But with this clear signal, some EU companies might wake up faster and survive.

It is pretty remarkable to compare this to the same climate denier efforts 15 years ago, where some fabricated nonsense would've run rings around scientists and fooled 97% of media outlets. This is the fruit of so much hard work from climate comms people building an infrastructure of defence

Well written summary of what needs to happen to speed up the transition from fossil fuel to renewable energy (mainly solar and wind) by @mliebreich.bsky.social who's knows what he's talking about. Read and learn from this "not a manifesto"! But I want to add a more provocative idea.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Earth science departments are being gutted across the country, which is utterly bizarre given their relevance to our understanding of climate, hazards and disasters, the soils that feed us, the industries that drive our economies, and the importance of ancient life to understanding biodiversity.

Let's try harder, for them! "Dolphins communicate in ways that demonstrate incredible intelligence. They forge lifelong relationships and use unique whistles that function like names. They are social and playful. And they also serve as important indicators of ocean health."

I keep thinking how hard it must have been for the father to turn his own son in. And it almost seems like his son was doing it for lolz. How must that feel for Charlie's wife and children? It's all so devoid of meaning and yet so filled with suffering.

Scientists: We need to reduce meat consumption to keep food production within planetary limits. EU consumers: We like alt protein and know what's meat and what isn't since it's obvious. EU politicians: Let's legislate language to protect the meat industry. www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2025...

As thermal generation retires, the grid needs new stability sources. Enter grid-forming inverters: they replicate inertia, provide voltage control, reactive power, short-circuit level, and do this alongside existing frequency services. All at roughly the same cost as today’s grid-following units.

Exterminate the brutes www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Just a reminder, before you get bamboozled about what side of the political spectrum in the US has a gun violence problem. fivethirtyeight.com/features/ext... www.reuters.com/world/us/whi... ccjls.scholasticahq.com/article/2697...

That’s me in the hard hat, in front of the bucket of a terrifyingly enormous digger. What you can’t really tell from the picture is that my head was spinning. I’d just had one of those moments that change your life forever. It would set me off on a journey around the world…!🧵

One of those "it's hard to be shocked in 2025, but...." stories. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

10 provocations that I agree with.

To be fair, greentech deployment and climate action was never a race, it was a fitness program. Nobody has to win, everyone should want to improve. Perfectly valid to say "well done China! Can I get a quote for some solar panels and batteries?"

Dear Trump supporters. Imagine a Democrat president saying this about "Republican-run" cities.

1/ New research @lut.fi @dominikkeiner.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.en... on bifacial solar PV presents a novel investigation of the yield modelling, power system impact of its large-scale adoption and capacity-density optimisation.

"Thou shalt not research any geo engineering". That is the message of a new scientific study that tries to block funding for researching things like slowing down icebergs breaking off. I think it's dogmatic and unhelpful. Save your protests for actual proposals. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Crony capitalism in full swing

As republican political theorists have argued: a key feature of authoritarianism is the way it undermines dignity & self-respect. Not even the most powerful people in society are immune. Here, they degrade themselves, because that’s how you survive - by fawning & sycophancy.

Nice analogy from @hannahdaly.ie demonstrating the unfairness of the grandfathering that is inherent in the "temperature neutrality" approach being used by some countries with high livestock methane emissions, such as Ireland and New Zealand. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

So the Department of Defense is being rebranded to the Department of War..? What other rebrands are coming? The Department of Fossil Fuels? The Department of Disease? The Environmental Destruction Agency?