Noah Gordon
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I research climate change at the Carnegie Endowment
What's the minimum viable scale for a fossil energy system? another brilliant edition of The China Lab by
@jeremywallace.bsky.social
, here highlighting
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and Josh Lappert
about 18 hours ago
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On projected climate peaks and their instrumentalization
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The BREAKāDOWN
6 days ago
"When the conversation is about peaks in emissions or fuel consumption, the climate community must always remember to ask whom the discourse serves."
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on the politics of promises
www.break-down.org/three-peaks/
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Three Peaks
The story of climate action is one of peaksāpromised, assumed or still to come.
https://www.break-down.org/three-peaks/
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Adrienne Buller
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"Who has an interest in claiming a peak is nigh, or too high to reach? If the peak occurs, how fast will the descent be, and where is the bottom of the mountain?" New this week
@the-breakdown.bsky.social
:
@noahjgordon.bsky.social
writes on the politics of promises
www.break-down.org/three-peaks/
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Three Peaks
The story of climate action is one of peaksāpromised, assumed or still to come.
https://www.break-down.org/three-peaks/
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The story of climate action is one of peaksāpromised, assumed, or still to come. But who, and what, do those peaks ultimately serve? My first essay for
@the-breakdown.bsky.social
! Thx
@johnmerrick.bsky.social
&
@adriennebuller.bsky.social
www.break-down.org/three-peaks/
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Three Peaks
The story of climate action is one of peaksāpromised, assumed or still to come. But who, and what, do those peaks ultimately serve?
https://www.break-down.org/three-peaks/
6 days ago
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The 51st is a good alternative to the corpse of Bezos' Washington Post if you want local DC news.
@51st.news
Here
@dancharles.bsky.social
covers how it costs more to replace a DC home's gas pipes than to electrify the home
6 days ago
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The US is expropriating fossil assets to keep them running against capital's wishes, tremendous stuff
www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-eme...
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Coal plant owners say DOE āemergencyā order to run it violates Constitution
By mandating the generatorās availability to operate, the order āconstitutes both a physical taking and a regulatory takingā of property by the government without just compensation or due process, the...
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-emergency-order-craig-colorado-coal-tri-state/811088/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Issue:%202026-02-02%20Utility%20Dive%20Newsletter%20%5Bissue:81305%5D&utm_term=Utility%20Dive
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max nesterak
19 days ago
Itās -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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Industrial food can be good, as can the simple pleasures of Waffle House. Looking forward to this one by
@gnrosenberg.bsky.social
and
@jandutkiewicz.bsky.social
. Some parallels to
@mikegrunwald.bsky.social
's recent book, I think.
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My favorite part, on the US billionaires who don't like climate tech once it gets too mature
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21 days ago
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Against Techno-Optimism, by me and
@cathfraser.bsky.social
in
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jacobin.com/2026/01/capi...
about 1 month ago
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advait
about 1 month ago
"Rationalist-optimists lack humility in the face of a planetary system." Really loved this piece from
@cathfraser.bsky.social
&
@noahjgordon.bsky.social
taking aim at naive techno-optimist faith in negative-emissions technologies and laying bare our inevitable stranded asset problems. Must-read.
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Parallels between the abolition of slavery and the abolition of fossil fuels? Rob Lawlor and Nathan Wood with a thought-provoking paper
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Long Heat is one of the most important climate books of the decade. Andreas Malm & Wim Carton savage the "rationalist-optimists" who believe that carbon removal and SRM will solve the crisis.
@cathfraser.bsky.social
and I review it for
@jacobinmag.bsky.social
!
@versobooks.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
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Pleasure to write this for Jacobin!
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about 1 month ago
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Catherine Fraser
about 1 month ago
A fun collab with
@noahjgordon.bsky.social
reviewing one of my top books of 2025. tough to give the book justice in just a couple thousand words! check it out, and do check out The Long Heat!
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These radical climate protestors must be stopped! (Jokes, it's the farmers again)
about 2 months ago
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Can't wait until the US is so desperate to extract Venezuela's oil that it nationalizes ConocoPhillips. climate fam we are so back
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about 2 months ago
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Oscar Berglund
about 2 months ago
Great
@carnegieendowment.org
series on climate conflict that I contributed to with a chapter on criminalisation and how movements respond to it. Watch the video
@noahjgordon.bsky.social
made to introduce it.
youtu.be/j-MHPvP-6Wk
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Why Climate Social Movements Are Heating Up
YouTube video by Carnegie Explains
https://youtu.be/j-MHPvP-6Wk
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Great report here by
@tobiasgehrke.bsky.social
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2 months ago
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The EU grid package is out--great summary here by
@carokyllmann.bsky.social
of
@cleanenergywire.bsky.social
. Map is by
@nkurmayer.bsky.social
for
@euractiv.com
!
www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/q...
2 months ago
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Green hydrogen remains much more expensive than blue hydrogen. And neither of them really exists, which is fun.
2 months ago
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Another COP ends in disappointment. They all will until we admit that decarbonization entails creating winnersāand losers. It's economic conflict; some people will and must lose money. From Existential Politics, the new book by Jess Green
@greenprofgreen.bsky.social
!
3 months ago
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Jesse D. Jenkins
3 months ago
Battery export boom: China has exported approximately $60 billion in battery energy storage systems and components in the first three quarters of 2025, up 24% from last year
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
US export comparisons in 2024: Soy, $25b. LNG, $28.9b. Auto exports, $59.2b. šš”
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https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/bess-boom-chinas-battery-exports-charge-new-highs-2025-11-18/
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John Cassidy
3 months ago
Capitalism and Its Critics--crib notes!
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"Practical Men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slave of some defunct economist"- J.M. Keynes Capitalism and Its Critics by
@johncassidysays.bsky.social
is a tour de force of primary research. Here are some of the best quotes he found:
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Extraction by Thea Riofrancos is really goodāand beautifully written. Itās refreshing to see a warning about the risks of mining for decarbonization that is neither bad-faith fossil propaganda nor a call for fatalism and hard degrowth.
@triofrancos.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Dave Jones
3 months ago
š¤”OIL DEMAND WILL KEEP RISING𤔠What are the IEA assumptions that make rising oil demand so improbable?
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No oil peak until 2035, even under stated policies (pink line). No gas peak in sight. Grim stuff
3 months ago
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The seat in the British Museum where Karl Marx studied āproductive forcesā? It was G7. Fun nugget.
@johncassidysays.bsky.social
really did his homework for this book
3 months ago
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Insightful thoughts here on why capital owners may oppose decarbonization. It's like opposition to unions: it's not about wages necessarily but about who has the power in the workplace
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The big story we're missing about AI is the opportunity cost of having all the electricians build data centers instead of constructing power plants or electrifying homes. OpenAI claims it needs 20% of US electricians and mechanics!
www.latitudemedia.com/news/openai-...
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A quarter of the power added in the US this year will be batteries--four times as much batteries as gas. This is your fossil fuel king?
www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
3 months ago
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We've made such progress on climate change that we've cleared the very high bar of "less bad than a extinction-level meteor"
3 months ago
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A great day for addressing symptoms and not causes
4 months ago
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Carnegie Endowment
4 months ago
We usually assess the climate crisis by a single metric: greenhouse gas emissions. But thatās just one metric, and itās not enough. Assuming that humans control a āglobal thermostat,ā says
@noahjgordon.bsky.social
, is dangerous. Noah explains why for Emissary:
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
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Humans Think They Can Control the Climate Thermostat. Thatās a Problem for Climate Policy.
The cessation and mass removal of emissions would not simply turn back the clock.
https://carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2025/10/climate-change-carbon-sinks-tipping-point-policy?lang=en
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The oceans and land mop up about half of the carbon that humans emit. Until they don't. My new piece on the weakening of natural carbon sinks, and the fallacy that we humans have our hands on a global thermostat, is out now for
@carnegieendowment.org
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
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The oceans and land mop up about half of the carbon that humans emit. Until they don't. My new piece on the weakening of natural carbon sinks, and the fallacy that we humans have our hands on a global thermostat, is out now for
@carnegieendowment.org
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
4 months ago
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Jeremy Wallace
4 months ago
The best thread of the year? The best thread of the year.
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Graphic of the day: Earth's drift towards climate tipping points. Humans determine the fate of the energy transition, not the climate. The thermostat can easily slip out of our hands.
4 months ago
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āLord, limit warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, but not yet.āā IPCC chair Jim Skea dropping bars
4 months ago
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It's useful to compare the required speed of potential climate solutions to the fastest ever transformations driven by the profit motive. Left is
@bentleyallan.bsky.social
(w/me), on minerals Right is Turner et al in Nature, on BECCS
4 months ago
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Are you reading The Long Heat yet? Natura facit saltus...
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4 months ago
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Albert Pinto
4 months ago
Argentina edition of Libertarian bible
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This is my quant
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We talk about CO2 emissions, but we really care about CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. If the land & oceans no longer soak up half of the carbon humans emit--and the land sink disappeared in 2023--we are in a whole new ballgame. 2024 saw the biggest increase ever.
4 months ago
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The US is threatening all those who support the IMO carbon tax. This is rogue state behavior
4 months ago
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āThe U.S. Empireās boomerang is not confined to the 19th and 20th centuries⦠Today, local police forces cruise around small U.S. towns in bomb-proof quasi-tanks recycled from Iraq and Afghanistan.ā
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I'm putting together a team
4 months ago
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Jeremy Wallace
4 months ago
Tomorrow!
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