The EPA's decision to quit regulating emissions might be symbolic, but what it symbolizes if scary: a government that puts antiquated ideology and corporate profits over the health and welfare of its people Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

“Still investigating” … It’s not like he was speaking Voynich manuscript! America has almost as many Spanish speakers as Spain does.

My favourite subset of Morgan McSweeney coverage is Irish publications writing variants of “County Cork boy in the news for completely screwing up the British government”

The year is 2035. British foreign secretary Peter Mandelson is under pressure to resign for lobbying President Taylor Greene about BYD’s ongoing takeover of General Motors.

'The Epstein files reveal a patriarchy in action. This is a world where the men are rich and powerful, and the women are not. The emails showcase the private behaviour of a male ruling class, as they network, joke and trade information.'

Perhaps it was coincidental timing, but nothing underscores the collapse of the Washington Post like firing most of the Pulitzer prize winning #climate reporters the very same day as their opinion pages publishes a BS screed by climate misinformer Bjorn Lomborg.

Help me out here: has anything useful come out of the Epstein files yet about the enduring mystery of how, exactly, he made his money? www.ft.com/content/a07b...

Such a great quote. Can’t remember if it’s Voltaire, or Cicero, or WH Auden?

Energy people: can we put “BESS” alongside “prepone” and “do the needful” as a notable coinage from Indian English? I am pretty sure I first saw the acronym cropping up in Indian energy discussions.

Big Oil loves Landman's anti-clean-energy message so much that it's hijacked it to spread its own propaganda Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

In short in matters animal, vegetable, and mineral, He is the very model of a modern surgeon-general

Jacinda Ardern reminds us politics doesn't have to be brutal to be effective

Bill Gates may not have turned full-fledged climate denier, but he’s made them very happy by spouting their modern talking points Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

What an absolute legend. RIP D’Angelo youtu.be/95Aes_r98sY?...

Heartbreaking: Neo-soul legends Angie Stone and D’Angelo both passed away in 2025, just 7 months apart. Stone died in March at 63. D’Angelo died today at 51. They shared a son together. An entire generation’s soundtrack, gone. Rest in power to both 🕊️💔

Listening to all those classic jazz standards Autumn in New York April in Paris Moonlight in Vermont Wednesday in Wisconsin

Not great: China's world-leading renewables boom is losing momentum, @davidfickling.bsky.social warns Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

When the tariff king who’s upending the world economy doesn’t know the difference between merchandise goods and services

I feel an “Indian & Pakistani Restaurant” called “Adaab Hyderabad” is telling a very subtle joke to its customers

Blackouts are commonplace in Kuwait, with the petrostate still wedded to 1960s oil-boom dreams.

Technologically advance a band The B-2s, beloved for their classic hit “Bronze Lobster”

Can someone explain to me the difference between the weird oxymoronic jargon “indefinite preemption” and the plain English “cancellation”?

More signs of very weak performance from China’s coal sector today — January-August thermal generation down 0.8% year-on-year, despite extremely weak hydro generation. August thermal electricity is up just 1.7%, during what should be the peak.

New paper. I wish this wasn't the case, but most progress on reducing US greenhouse gas emissions is likely spurious. Why? EPA underestimates methane emissions from oil and gas. Relevant today as Repubs vote to gut IRA's methane monitoring/mitigation program. 🧵 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lL4K_6se4...

EXCLUSIVE: @bloomberg.com has obtained more than 100 previously undisclosed emails between UK Ambassador Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein from 2005 through 2010 that reveal Mandelson's steadfast support for Epstein after Epstein was charged with sex crimes 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Native Americans: *controls wildfire by setting low-intensity fires to spread naturally when undergrowth is more wet* Modern Americans: *controls wildfire by manufacturing huge lumbering diesel-powered BurnBots which are obviously not up to the job* www.latimes.com/environment/...

“Bring manufacturing jobs back to America!” 🫡 “Not like that.” 😡

Hang on, are these tariffs based on atomic mass? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hilarious to discover the backstory of that Rockwell Freedom of Speech painting: It was inspired by a farmer who tried to prevent the rebuilding of a burned-down school because the town would have to raise taxes to pay for it.

Someone should tell the economic geniuses running our trade policies about the existence of inventories! 🧵

The IEA in 2014 saw European coal demand rising 0.1% between 2013 and 2019. In practise, it fell 30%.

Was trying to catch this guy at the #sydneymarathon but it turns out he was pretty quick

Great essay blending contemporary politics with personal family history, by @karishmajourno.bsky.social, on how the refugees created from the partition of India (in this case from Sindh, in modern Pakistan) made a talented, and often wealthy, diaspora across Asia.

Just dreamed that I was watching a pop video for Tom Waits’s “16 Shells From a Thirty Ought Six” directed by the Brothers Quay. and I am insanely disappointed to wake up and find this was never a thing.

Rainfall in the Yangtze basin was 25% below average in July. Why persistent dry spells may be making China’s decarbonization harder: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This should get WIDE circulation: MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.” gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...

The state of AI hysteria is really reminding me of the peak of autonomous-car evangelism 12 years ago. If you were Very Online and in tech/econ spaces back then (and I was, back then) this was a huge deal: www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp...

Remember when $600bn of subprime mortgages crashed the global economy in 2008? You’re going to love what’s going to happen with the $400bn going on AI capex with no viable revenue model, which *Sam Altman* thinks is a bubble.

Pretty much the first mention in history of coal pollution comes from the Nottinghamshire coalfields, which fed the Cottam Power Station demolished this week. Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III, fled Nottingham in 1257 because the locals were burning so much coal. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Indonesia is finally seeing the potential of #solar — 100 GW is the sort of numbers that will make a difference, compared to the measly 17 GW in its latest grid plan. www.pv-tech.org/indonesia-ta...

Another terrible flash flood in the Himalayas provides further evidence that religious pilgrims are on the front lines of climate change: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This is wild: China is likely to produce about twice as many service robots as people this year:

🧵1) Today @davidrbakersf.bsky.social & I published a deep dive on green hydrogen. Depending on who you ask, the fuel is either a crucial solution to reduce greenhouse gases or an overpriced, overhyped distraction. Here are some key takeaways so you can decide. www.bloomberg.com/explainers/g...

1/ Australia’s $147b green hydrogen dream is coming apart. At least 7 major projects have stalled, and BP has pulled out of its $36b Pilbara mega-plan. Global hype is deflating — and fast. My colleagues and I dug into why, and how it unraveled.🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...