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Andddd global temperatures are soaring to new daily record highs again! Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

MIND-BLOWING STATS: A record two-thirds of new cars in China are now electric (NEVs*), while combustion-car sales have fallen by two-thirds since they peaked in 2017 – In 2020, ~95% of sales were combustion-engine cars – By Sep 2026, they crashed to 33% – On the flip side, NEVs hit a record 67% 🧵

That's such a cool, cool idea

In just four years, annual battery storage additions grew tenfold as costs declined, driving rapid deployment. The same increase in solar capacity took nine years, and wind 15 years. ember-energy.org/lat...

The Abduction of Persephone, by Nicola Maria Rossi, early 18th c

🌊 How the ‘Super El Niño’ is changing the colour of the ocean ...it's turning bluer El Niño weakens the winds that bring nutrients to the surface. Fewer nutrients → fewer phytoplankton. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Me coming home from kindergarten

Incredible use of the format

Fun video about the "TV pickup" in the UK power grid. When a popular TV show ends, a million or two people walk into the kitchen and put a ~3 kW kettle on for tea. That ~3 GW load spike comes online within a minute or two, and ~3 GW of generation must come online just as quickly to match.

Les indisponibilités climatiques du parc nucléaire FR atteignent déjà 13,7 TWh. Le record était de 5,5 TWh en 2003… Ces 13,7 TWh sont concentrés les centrales de Chooz (sur la Meuse), Saint-Alban (le Rhône), Golfech (la Garonne), Bugey (le Rhône) et Cattenom (la Moselle). Un manque …

Democratic Failure to Prevent Conservatives From Lying Raises Ethical Questions About Talarico bsky.app/profile/shoe...

Most hilarious space #map I’ve ever seen. Where astronauts left their poop on the moon. Source: buff.ly/2WTYgdF

BLAS: “.. Once again, I had to update the y-axis as the cost of oil freight (Persian Gulf to the Far East) climbs further. Now at >$1.4 million per day.” @bloomberg.com @javierblas.bsky.social ⛽️

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

Global fuel subsidies may top $1 trillion this year — amid $100 crude, elevated borrowing costs and strained budgets. “.. we don’t see a very clear pathway out of the three-pronged crisis,” he said. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Europe didnt just experience an exceptionally hot summer in 2026. It experienced a summer where multiple climate extremes reinforced each other. First - temperature records were broken at daily, monthly and seasonal scales across Europe Read more: climate.copernicus.eu/summer-revie...

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

We're wounding Nature. Of course Nature is going to fight us back. And, at species level, we get what we deserve.

#OTD in 1901, #EnricoFermi was born. His scientific work stands out for originality and range. He was an exceptional scientist, capable of lightning-fast intuitions, but also a tireless worker, deeply human towards colleagues, students, family, friends. A thread.⤵️ ⚛️🔭🧪 #HistSci #Physics

While facing the threat of an export ban?

This is another nice size comparison map. While New Guinea and the UK appear to be of the same size on a Mercator map, NG is three-times the size of the UK. Source: buff.ly/3kx978C

we know because data, EV batteries last as long as the car itself. Even with this data and real world evidence. My MiEV is 17 yrs old this yr on its original battery, the stupid myth of EVs needs battery replacement (insert timeframe here) still persist. insideevs.com/news/809604/...

I am a mom and scientist begging everyone to look closer at the muck. We’ve been conditioned to see wetlands as wastelands. But three decades of research, I see a fiercely defiant wilderness. The boreal mire is a dynamic carbon-trapping vault that in some places has outlasted ice ages. 1/

NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: "Just build more solar and batteries" I see this comment many times in my social media feed. The problem: The slogan undersells the problem. It also undersells the solution. The good news: we already have most of the tools we need. janrosenow.substack.com/p/the-proble...

While all the talk has been about 2027 being odds on to be the globes hottest year on record (as post-El Nino years see a global boost in warmth), 2026 has quietly slipped into a "more likely than not (ie >50%)" chance of becoming the globes hottest year. dashboard.theclimatebrink.com#global

Inflicting pain IS the point arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Electricity is 23% of global final energy but delivers 37% of useful energy and powers 46% of the global economy. We don't need to replace every fossil joule. We need to replace the services. A much smaller task. Great to see the @iea.org’s new Electrification report finally measure this.

Nucleare entro il 2034. Si accettano scommesse sul numero di anni di ritardo: avrà 2, 3, o 4 cifre? it.euronews.com/2026/09/23/l...

From The Borowitz Report.

Draw a circle 4,000km circle around Yuxi, China, and you capture over half of humanity. The area has long been home to fertile river plains, monsoon rains. Intensive farming sustained dense populations here for millennia. Today’s megacities were built on that foundation. Source: buff.ly/9kffaNN

European gas is above €82/MWh - the highest since late 2022. Hormuz remains largely shut and gas storage is at 68% going into winter. None of this started in Europe but we pay for it. The only exit is using less gas. Heat pumps, electrified industry, insulation.

Another year full of climate extremes... Did you know the last 100 days have all set new daily records for global sea surface temperatures? Learn more about our rapidly warming oceans in our webinar this week, & bring your questions! 📣 Register in advance: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

“.. With Saudi oil now blockaded, Americans are about to discover why maintaining stability in the Middle East and not handing it to a consortium of Russia and Iran was always important.” @jayinkyiv.bsky.social

Deaths in New York and New Jersey this century. Two events stand out. Source: buff.ly/DNyuDvI

Put south at the top and Brazil takes centre stage! Colours show species richness per 100 km², with green marking the richest areas. Brilliant use of cartography by Brazil’s public statistics agency, IBGE. More of this, please! Source: buff.ly/puQ3B50

Agosto 2026 è stato il mese più caldo a livello globale da quando si rilevano dati. Pareggiato (o leggermente superato) il record di luglio 2023. L'Europa occidentale ha vissuto l'estate più calda mai registrata: +2.54°C rispetto alla media, 0.56°C più del record precedente del 2003. Dati Copernicus

Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/

NEW – How this summer’s heat and drought impacted crops in Europe – in six charts ✍️ Written by @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org 📊 Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/E1uI8OA

Summer 2026 is, by far, the hottest ever observed in France, surpassing 2003 by 0.8°C. Only 5 days below normal, compared to 86 above With +3.8°C in June, +3.7°C in July, and +3.3°C in August, France had never chained together such anomalies before. Kudos:Serge Zaka and dataclimat. hr

Impossible to Inevitable! Electric heavy transport has crossed from technical possibility into commercial scaling. EV heavy trucks reach 27% market share in China in Q1 2026. China's 2030 sales share goal for EV heavy trucks is 40%. It will smash it. oilprice.com/Energy/Energ... #energysky

Con la fine dell'estate meteorologica, che per convenzione va dal 1° giugno al 31 agosto, possiamo finalmente dire addio alle ondate di calore estive. E dare il benvenuto a quelle autunnali.

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

August 2026 was the warmest August on record in the the Copernicus/ECMWF ERA5 dataset, at 1.65C above preindustrial levels. This beat the prior record set in August 2024 by a fairly wide margin (~0.14C).

Suddenly due process matters.

Distributed solar power, the most potent tool available for bottom-up economic development & empowerment, is racing across Africa.

The car industry didn’t see this coming. In 2015, 330k fully electric cars were sold globally, about 1% of the market. In 2025 it was 14m, close to 1/5 of all new cars. The fleet on the road tells you about the past. Sales figures tell you about the future. janrosenow.substack.com/p/the-car-in...