I'd love to hear the foremen telling their crews: We are going to do it right and make sure this gets done safely and well. But we're also going to work bloody fast. We need to get this done before those bastards find some other way to try to shut us down.

ICTP has issued a call for IPCC AR7 Chapter Scientists, with funding for developing country candidates from Wellcome. Kumaran Kadirgama and I will be serving as CLAs for the WGIII Industry chapter, and we would welcome good candidates. Deadline Oct 18 @ipcc.bsky.social www.ictp.it/opportunity/...

Telltale that temperatures are rising, our measurements are getting more detailed, or both.

More evidence of a pretty straightforward strategy for Canada here for everyone (rightfully) mad at the USA. Build lots of Housing + Expand Immigration = Eat the USA's lunch

Tell me either you have no understanding of climate damages without saying so, or that you’ve lost all empathy for those who cannot adapt within their incomes.

This ad is very indicative of the moment, Chevron paired with the B70 Valkyrie, a Mach 3 strategic bomber that was abandoned because Soviet surface to air defence missiles and US intercontinental ballistic attack missiles made the B70 obsolescent. Shades of #electrotech>>#petrotech

Duh. Never saw wildfire smoke from *in* Nova Scotia for days and days on end before, and occasional New Delhi air . apple.news/A7nAGMi58SCm...

These are better than gas stoves, even the $75 ones from IKEA. Boil faster, simmer more evenly, don’t pollute your home or make you run your noisy fan, and run on 110V.

I’m going to really enjoy watching LA slowly turn into a walkable /subwayable city. It will transform the culture and the politics 😀

So, Canadian cities, get ready for another round of H1-B equivalent immigration

I don’t misspell words, I just miss words in sentences. In creating mode, my brain sees them being there when they aren’t, but in editing mode, I can see that they’re not. But the problem is those are two different brain modes. *sigh* h/t @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social

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I enjoy watching French murder mysteries while flying @aircanada.bsky.social, but why are they always set in the French Alps? And usually women murdering their husbands?

Give the “kid” a listen. If the hair doesn’t stand up on the back of your neck by the end …

Our latest early estimate of national emissions shows Canada’s progress flatlined in 2024, putting the 2030 target out of reach. Canada is at a fork in the road: the country needs a policy reboot from all governments to get emissions back on track. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

This should be relatable for most Canadians www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/c...

Familiarizing myself with the more formal version of “hewers of wood, drawers of water”, Harold Innis’ “staples” thesis 😉 @brhaley.bsky.social en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_...

And American #cleantech innovation carries on, despite having every road block thrown in its face. Also, we're going to batteries everywhere to eliminate short run electricity peak demand.

“You cannot just do policy in a vacuum - you have to constantly sell it”. This is antithetical to everything I was taught as a “rational data driven analyst”, and yet this what I do.

Strongly recommend reviewing the deck for the #energysky crowd, but keep your analytic hat on. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

People are forgetting the era when you had to have your “yellow book” of immunization certifications to enter many countries. Given the way things are going in the US, we may have to reinstitute that system more generally.

This is a direct result of EU's carbon tariffs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

hot take: Proposed update to TIER that allows companies to count on site investments as payments is not good policy. 1. It's hard to set the BAU against which these investments count 2. It is double counting, thats the whole point of a carbon tax 1/ www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...

So … given its low unemployment rate, the US economy was floating along on a layer of undocumented low wage labour it has now forced into hiding or exile?

Fusion tokomak runs for 22 minutes. Not net power, but a key step on the way to robust operation. www.earth.com/news/france-...

Whoa! Elsevier fired @richardtol.bsky.social, longstanding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Energy Economics. Richard's side of the story should be ringing alarm bells. #EconSky Fraud and cover-up richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 wheez 🤣

$11050 CAD, $7980 USD. This is the new Beetle if it makes it on your market.

The Deep Decarbonization Pathways initiative is in process of completing a special issue in @climate-policy.bsky.social on the implications of neutrality & net negative emissions for bottom-up pathways for developing countries, including pprs on AFOLU, transport, power & industry @iddri.bsky.social

Interesting paper from @dralaaclimate.bsky.social on one aspect of how to use AI robustly in climate research, conscious of its limitations.

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Thousands of women are sharing this and saying yes, this was their experience, many of them sharing their own horrific 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s experiences. (And almost everyone sharing it appears to be female.)

I find it so ridiculous we have to relearn the lessons of the 1920s and 1930s all over again. We know where this all leads, and we know where we’re going to arrive, but is it worth the dents on democracy and potentially millions (and millions?) of deaths and broken souls?

One of the things that capitalism struggles with is differentiating between things that are made with love/care/contemplation/beauty, and things that aren’t. Sometimes it comes out in the price, sometimes not. I don’t know what to do with this, but it’s important.

The immorality of this is stunning. Taking advantage of parents’ biochemically heightened fears for the children to make their kids LESS safe while turning a profit. The litmus test of almost anything is “does it protect children, society’s future”.

The whole travelling COP circus thing has to transform. Most places cannot handle 50-100k people. We need an annual gathering, but make it special designated zones in Dubai, Hong Kong where air connections, visas and hotels are easy www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/c...

I tried to think of something snarky to say but I’m just sad and disgusted www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...

Despite my preconditioning as a western Canadian, the “boot” of southern Ontario is a beautiful garden, and would be made more beautiful slathered with agrivoltaic power generation mixed in with the farms. Lots of transmission in place, near massive loads, it’s the works.

Despite my preconditioning as a western Canadian, the “boot” of southern Ontario is a beautiful garden, and would be made more beautiful slathered with solar voltaic power generation mixed in with the farms. Lots of transmission in place, near massive loads, it’s the works.

Dear @theguardian.com, we count on you for reasonably well informed lefty takes on global events. This wasn’t one. #CCUS may have a critical role to play in cement & chemicals and removing excess CO2. The picture you show is of a Norwegian #CCS plant that works. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

We are so used to thinking of steel communities as being terribly dangerous, polluted & grim. Just the switch to gas based DRI followed by an EAF eliminates the coking, sintering, & and furnace gases. You have to bag house the EAF & control noise, but otherwise you almost might not notice them.

Really like @akshatrathi.bsky.social ‘s provocations here, except IMO this requires some more nuance. From the cesspool

Yet another fugitive methane source- coal exploration boreholes, of which just Queensland, Australia is estimated to have 130,000 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Today's super interesting tidbit - while nitrogen and phospate demands have ~2X since 1965, the demand for potash has increased ~5X. Why? Because there's no broad environmental "mine" for potash like nitrogen in air, & because we've industrialized potash poor soils. Huh #skpoli

Every time I see one of these stories, I’m tempted to point out that if this sort of demand signal were all that was needed, we wouldn’t have already pretty much given up on the green hydrogen play that the Germans were ostensibly clamouring for a couple of years ago. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

We’ve arrived at the “We cannot figure out what the tariff to charge/pay is, so we’re just not going to ship/buy it” stage of world trade history. 🙄

A possible pathway for high value added #CCUS www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Leg braces - $20-$30k, I’ve had at LEAST 6 leg braces. Wheelchairs - $5k for manual with no bells and whistles, I’ve had 2 Medications - anywhere between $100-$2000 /month pending health issues Surgeries - 19 surgeries $40k to - $1m inc. hospital stays I had polio. This is the cost.

I was thinking about this while clearing debris that could catch fire from around my home, & we have to remember very little fed money is now available. It’s about what we can financially lever or reg the private sector to do, which is motivated about what’s profitable on a 0-20 (5-10?) year horizon

It’s amazing that you now have to worry about what vegetation & debris could catch or carry a wildfire next to Vancouver homes & other wood structures. It’s (was?) a year round temperate rainforest.