China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies. It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

This was one of the biggest mistakes of the environmental movement, framing fighting climate as inherently sacrificial. EVs are better vehicles than gas cars, I love every day I can ride a bike or walk to work, heat pumps heat & cool, video conferencing give us our time back, etc.

I caught ChatGpt doing incorrect stoichiometry. Be careful out there ....

No kidding - the teachers & RCMP who put themselves in harms way, without hesitation, to slow the shooter down in Tumbler Ridge and ultimately end it are grade A Canadian heroes. I cannot imagine how I’d feel if my own kids had been in that school. 🙏^n

*Sob*, someone please brief Merz properly on CBAM, the market stability reserve, etc, etc. Many other things are far more dangerous to European industry than the EU_ETS.

US peeps, can the administration actually just repeal the CO2 endangerment finding, or just not enforce it? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

Québec is going to skip the fossil fuel industry part and go straight to the CCS->CDR part.

We’ll see what comes on line the next few years, this is partly a legacy of IRA tax credits, but this shows you how fast the US can move on this when motivated.

I had to prep for a media interview on🇨🇦's new auto strategy, & thought I'd summarize where I landed. It's far better from the perspective of comprehensively supporting the transition from the supply side & the charging network, but worse because we lose the mandatory sales🧵

😳 OMG, this is on a scale with Ecole Polytechnique. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I went to elementary, junior and senior high school in a remote-ish communities this size. The social trauma would be off the charts, everyone knows everyone ... 💔💔💔

Satellite data reveals that coal mines are the largest detected source of energy sector methane super-emitter events in the EU. Poland’s coking coal mines were seen to emit the most but more venting may have occurred undetected, outside of satellite overpasses. ember-energy.org/lat...

Interesting visual history of the UK’s contracts for difference auctions for renewable power. Solar is really taking off. I wonder if the’ll run an auction for dedicated storage at some point. 👇

So … my potato plants grew all winter, there’s almost no snow in the local mountains (3rd year in a row dramatically reduced), and these just arrived 3-4 weeks early. Climate change is a hoax, they said.

And that is it folks, we can probably call it, this time the decline in China’s electricity emissions are structural, not transient, due to high efficiency load following coal plants pairing with variable renewables 😀

Everyone working in development economics should read this chapter. They provide evidence that what works in development is less about finding universally good levers and more about designing interventions compatible with locally embedded social structures. www.nber.org/papers/w3481...

My phone is now correcting "it" to "ITC", as in "investment tax credit".

From the folks who brought you Project 2025, now they've produced a strategic roadmap to "A Handmaid's Tale".

Attack of the (self inflicted) blob

Air pollution from burning fossil fuels causes 100,000 to 200,000 avoidable American deaths per year. At the EPA's statistical value of life of $10 million, these deaths cost America $1 to $2 trillion per year, every year. These costs far outweigh the costs of transitioning off of fossil fuels.

There’s a strange love triangle between shale oil associated gas, US LNG exports and North American gas consumers through Henry Hub prices, that may soon turn to an ugly breakup, especially if oil prices stay low.

After they were ignored at the TofV, the Vietnamese then went on to tromp the French, Americans & Chinese in battle. We shouldn’t be surprised if using a mix of 5 yr plans & capitalism they’re highly developed <2050, from $4kpc nominal, ~$15k PPP now www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...

Worked so hard to get this money... yet another thing to get canceled and erased

7.8% is generous & broad. It’s more like 5-6%. @beanjammin.bsky.social

Watching Lindsey Vonn’s skis not detach because they were weighted to the faster parts of the course made me want to throw up. Necessary, but the risk … Downhill has gotten so fast, so superhuman.

Their refusal to share data and code notwithstanding, we roughly reproduce Voortman & de Vos. They underpower their analysis and misread a statistical procedure. Correcting that, we find that sea level rise DID accelerate. essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....

🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS: Why the energy transition is disruptive, non-linear, hard to predict and often faster than expected. Our paper in Nature Reviews Clean Technology shows how feedback loops create virtuous and vicious cycles that can accelerate or block change. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

IMO, this is the quiet but global thing that’s going to reach out of the dark & bite us - warming, drying &!shifting rainfall patterns. Something changed in my home region (PNW) ~3-5? years ago, the snowfall dropped precipitously, and now every summer is a drought & fire summer. And it’s +1.3-1.5°C.

Times article has an incredible illustration

I've been privileged over the years to write a sequence energy modelling methodology papers with (now Professor 🥳) Steve Pye of UCL, along with a rotating cast of amazing people. The latest dropped today in Nature Energy ➡️ rdcu.be/e2tt6

This was entirely predictable and avoidable. Thanks to the Trump admin's erratic and nonsensical policies, we are plunging head first into a self-inflicted recession. And no one's coming to help us because we've pissed off our allies. Can admin officials be tried in court for economic sabotage?

I’m suspecting one of the most underreported things in climate & energy is the advent of v.high efficiency (45-49%) load following coal plants in China, allowing as much variable renewable capacity as can be built with little curtailment. India is watching carefully & will follow.

Cleanly electrifying personal land transport, especially in urban areas, as well as building heating, appliances & cooking would not only cut ~2/3 of global energy GHGs, it would save millions of lives. And we know how to do it with tech you can buy today, before we talk about exotic measures.

👇 Active demand response, including batteries peppered through the system at various voltage levels, in the electricity system may be critical to keeping overall costs down, with the grid being ~75% of the cost.

An important and underappreciated fact of electricity economics: The US average *wholesale* electricity price is ~5 c/kWh, or ~25% of the average *retail* price of ~19 c/kWh. The other ~75% of the electricity prices we pay is about poles, wires, transformers, generation capacity, and utility profit.

Netherlands and China are on the way to being the next Norway, where internal combustion engine auto sales are nearly dead. BEVs were 65% of Dutch auto sales in December and 41% for 2025. In China, internal combustion autos market share falls to ~40%. robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/ #energysky

The Poles are officially investigating the Epstein thing as a Russian intelligence “kompromat” blackmail operation. “Poland to probe possible links between Epstein and Russia, PM Tusk says - “https://www.reuters.com/world/poland-probe-possible-links-between-epstein-russia-pm-tusk-says-2026-02-03/

#AFOLU. Again, systematic drying in a forest turning it into a source of GHGs instead of a sink. This time Australian tropicals, not boreal, however.

👀 India’s going to be in deep “coal as solar following asset” territory very soon.

China is building & installing 20 MW turbines while US developers are fighting tooth and nail to build already approved 5-12 MW turbine farms. Sigh. thehill.com/policy/energ...

Is the #bclng rush over? It strikes if you’re not FIDded and building, getting capital going forward is going to be hard.

On January 31, thousands gathered in Minneapolis for the Ride Together, Stand Together bike ride honoring Alex Pretti, who was an avid cyclist and outdoorsman.

Another weird fact. Houses are designed for a rough number of occupants and their exhaled water vapour & CO2. If you add two more adults, especially in moist winter, our CO2 easily goes north of 1000ppm and I have to “burp” our small house.

New paper on US iron and steel decarbonization pathways from our crew based on the global NetZeroSteel model. Lead by the indomitable fgnxl.bksy.social. NetZeroIndustry.org Free access here to March 22 kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Directed by Thom Zimny Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

I was having a great work day, and then the news pops up some idiots decided to commit treason by asking the Trump administration for $500 billion to support Alberta separating from Canada. Can we just throw them over the border with catapults, like diseased horses in medieval castle warfare?

😁 Heck, yeah.

Decarbonization around the world is accelerating, not slowing down. Read @rjcsmith.bsky.social’s latest on how building a cleaner, more competitive economy that is less dependent on the U.S. is an act of patriotism. climateinstitute.ca/for-can...