StratPlan (E.Hall) @SBPlan

Facts: In 2025, 15 Billion tons of coal, oil & gas were extracted, shipped and burned once. By contrast, just 30 Million tons of critical minerals were used by the global clean energy sector >Big Oil needs to extract 300 times more physical mass from the Earth to deliver the same amount of useful energy over a 20-year lifespan as renewables >Fossil fuels = Endless daily addiction to destruction >Clean tech = one-time investment, pays for decades

@Rainmaker1973 Sell By dates, we're never meant to be conflated with used by dates. I believe you cannot even donate to the food shelter , older-dated canned foods.

ERCOT projects an all-time July peak demand record today >83 gigawatts. There's over 30 GW of spare capacity *at peak* thanks to Texas' diverse fuel mix incl. 40 GW of solar. Right now, 60% of the generation in Texas is from solar & wind and 9GW worth of batteries are charging.

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Wind and solar don’t just cut carbon emissions. They are also the cheapest forms of energy, period. Our choice: double down on fossil fuels that are driving record heat across the world, or cut utility bills AND address the climate crisis by moving to sustainable energy.

The “It’s Called Summer” comments nonsense are out of hand.

National Weather Service @NWS

5 days ago

“It’s Summer, it’s Hot.” We hear ya, but this is no ordinary heat. Several all-time heat records are likely to be broken across the Eastern U.S. this weekend, with triple-digit heat up and down the East Coast. Stay hydrated, have a cooling plan and #StayCoolforthe4th

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BREAKING: Vibrio vulnificus — a deadly, flesh-eating bacteria with a staggering 20% mortality rate — is now being detected in multiple U.S. waterways. And here’s the part you’re not supposed to ignore: this comes after the Trump administration dismantled critical water monitoring systems and gutted CDC programs that were tracking this very threat. When you defund science and silence public health experts, Americans pay the price.

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So much Taylor Swift hate over this wedding. It’s funny because I haven’t come across a single post hating on Travis.

If the U.S. is the richest country in the world, why can’t we build a society that delivers the same quality of life as the Nordic countries? We have over 900 more billionaires and millions more millionaires than Norway. So what’s stopping us?

The global AI token landscape just flipped in one year thanks to open source firepower: 🇨🇳 Chinese models: 17% → 47% (now #1) 🇺🇸 US models: 72% → 33% Developers are flocking to affordable, high-performing open models for massive workloads. This is what happens when innovation is open to all. Long live open source! 🔥

Global Times @globaltimesnews

4 days ago

The global landscape of LLM token requests has witnessed a dramatic one-year reversal: 🇨🇳Chinese models jumped from 17% to 47% to become the world's top origin, while the 🇺🇸US share fell from 72% to 33%, marking a fundamental realignment of global #AI adoption. #FactsMatter

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I think this is REALLY important to understand. For example, ocean acidification is happening about 2.5 times FASTER right now than it did during the Great Dying (end-Permian)—the worst extinction event in Earth’s history.

Ben See @ClimateBen

5 days ago

our rapid minor mass extinction is on the left there in red looking for all the world like the fastest major one ever

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Its not just France or Utah and Colorado, where more than 360,000 acres have burned so far Canada too on fire Over 100 wildfires burning across Quebec, with northern regions hit hardest Before deniers shout Arson Majority of fires caused by lightning cbc.ca/news/canada/mo…

CGTN Europe @CGTNEurope

6 days ago

An out-of-control wildfire burning in northern Quebec's Côte-Nord region has spread across 45 sq km, the province's wildfire management body said. Although the 2026 wildfire season is off to a slower start than last year, the Canadian government warns that "warmer-than-normal

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Seven years ago a representative from Google reached out to me in an official capacity to discuss the company's energy use. I told them it would become necessary for major firms in core economies to reduce energy use in order to enable Paris-compliant decarbonisation. They assured me that their new AI tools were already helping them identify ways to improve the company's energy efficiency, so they weren't worried. They insisted this would soon yield radical efficiency improvements, and lead to energy use reduction without any change to their production activities. "Just wait, you'll see!" they told me, full of confidence. I told them that's not how it works. In growth-oriented capitalist firms, savings from efficiency improvements are generally leveraged to expand production. I predicted that even if their AI found ways to improve efficiency, Google's energy use would go up, not down. Seven years later and this is where we're at:

The disconnect between solar forecasts & reality is astonishing. Year after year, solar deployment has blown through projections made a few years earlier. Planners assume future arrives at the speed of forecasts, when disruptive technologies arrive at the speed of cost curves.

China now manufactures 89% of the world’s solar panels, 70% of the world’s wind turbines, 83% of the world’s batteries, and 75% of the world’s electric vehicles — all at a lower cost than the West.

The evidence keeps growing. After billions of administered doses worldwide, a major new Lancet review concludes mRNA vaccines are safe and highly effective. The same platform used for COVID-19 is now being harnessed to tackle influenza, RSV, and cancer. Science wins.

Breaking News! Code Yikes! Global sea-surface temperatures averaged the hottest on record in June of this year, beating the previous record set way back in 2024. The Climate 8-ball is taking a steambath.

🚨🇪🇺 Over 20,000 heat deaths in Europe in one week! "The June 2026 heat wave was the most extreme heat event ever experienced in Europe. Using previously developed heat-mortality response functions, I calculate that June 22-28 saw 20,390 heat-related deaths across Europe. This result highlights the accelerating threat of mass heat mortality events in Europe despite previous adaptations to heat."

Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8

2 years ago

Models don't take into account the reduction of aerosols over western-central Europe and underestimate regional warming by ~0.5 °C!! And summer warming by ~1.0 °C! Exacerbated summer European warming not captured by climate models neglecting long-term aerosol changes 📎👇

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In 2008, skeptics claimed more than 20% variable renewables on a large grid was not possible. In 2017, they backtracked to 80%. And then to 90%. Then 95%. Once it became obvious that 100% renewables is possible, now they say, "not everywhere is like California" and "what about nighttime?" The fact is, there is no limit. 100% WindWaterSolar renewables is possible every hour of every day everywhere. web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jac… 151 of 176 days (86%) in 2026 with WWS meeting >100% of demand for an average of 5.2 h/day. Gas down 61%, batteries up 337%, solar up 56% in '26 v '23.

Just when you think you'll get a break from this intense heat, a 3rd major heatwave is on the way & forecasts suggest it may be even worse. #Spain could see temps of 46°C, #France 45°C & the #UK near 40°C again. This is the new climate & one we are dangerously underprepared for.

Dueling Heatwaves ‼️ Europe vs the USA in a match no one wants! It’s #Europe ’s most severe #heatwave in history with Germany highs up to 109 this weekend VS the USA where next week will be sweltering with feels like temps up to 115°! All this heat is boosted by the developing strongest El Niño we’ve ever seen, steroids on top of the heating climate! #unitedstates