An expert in media and communications helped me understand 25 years ago what a tiny percentage of America knows what’s on NPR but MANY Americans know what’s in People. @amyactonoh.bsky.social story is in People. people.com/amy-acton-st...
Michael Noble
Michael Noble
@nobleideas.bsky.social
Advisor to industry, government and philanthropy on deploying climate solutions at speed and scale of the climate crisis. NobleIdeas LLC, Saint Paul, MN. Speaker Melissa Hortman and me celebrating MN’s 100% clean electricity standard.
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And as someone who is not Muslim, I think of yet another privilege of mine never having been asked to renounce Isis, Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood, or terrorism. No one would ask be what Tommy asks @abdulelsayed.bsky.social
As a Muslim who has been accused of dual loyalty and asked to denounce everything from ISIS to the Iranian state, I breathed a sigh of relief that I think I’d been holding in for like two decades watching this.
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Heat pumps for 820,000 Canadian homeowners over 8 years. Annual heating bill savings of $1,400 for homeowners. Heat pump rebate varies by income, with maximum rebate $10,000. Electrification of heating is key decarbonization action. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #energysky
“What kind of ancestor do I hope to be?” — McKnight Foundation president Tonya Allen, at @freshenergy.bsky.social annual #FreshBreakfast.
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The most interesting political news all weekend just might be this from Kansas and The Wichita Eagle. Has the MAGA train run off the rails and rolled into the ditch? www.kansas.com/opinion/gues...
Even if you are blasé about the regular drumbeat of extreme climate events, this is fucking amazing. Really. Potentially it could have caused devastation to cruise ships in Greenland, but ultimately it was harmless. But it seems the Earth is trying to get our attention.
OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
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Wait? What? something good!
The Trump administration has awarded $1.9B to boost projects using transmission grid tech like dynamic line rating and advanced conductors—a big boost for a class of tech experts say could dramatically expand U.S. grid capacity if deployed at scale: www.canarymedia.com/articles/tra... #energysky
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Gas lobby bid to halt home electrification falls flat as Labor says it will stay the course #energysky -- via Renew Economy: reneweconomy.com.au/...
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Frank Montoya Jr., a retired career FBI official who held senior counterintelligence roles, put it this way: “If I’m paying for your wedding, at some point, you’re going to owe me something.” #DonaldTrumpJr #corruption #grift
NEW: On social media and in tabloids, photos from Don Jr. and Bettina Trump’s Bahamas wedding were tightly curated. But sometimes, what — or, who — isn’t pictured is just as important as what is. Let’s go on an investigative, visual tour.
This is the candidate running against Lauren Borbert—an admiral, @eileenlaubacher.bsky.social. She won’t sleep with the staff. www.eileenforcolorado.com
Three different expert organizations rate each Congressional race for who is more likely to win, the R or the D. Here’s an interesting analysis how they are all low-balling @democrats.org. Don’t get smug. Work like hell. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-18...
I got to meet ziibiing.com today.
minnesota: we’re the first in the nation to early vote, let’s show the rest of the country that this is another way we show up and stop the onslaught of violence against our neighbors. let’s get these fascists out of power. join people this friday, 10AM at the hennepin county government center.
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Remaking the world with fossil fuel emissions, chapter 82.
Been a while since I studied geology, geomorphology and geoengineering for my undergrad degree, but if I was looking out for additional risk, then these apparent fault lines and planes adjacent and parallel to the combined landslide and glacier collapse would be where I'd look. 🤔 📷 Guoxiong Zheng
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Oh what, wait, increased power sales to data centers can deceease electric rates? Who knew? (All the experts knew.) Have not seen this in any headlines.
Indiana & Michigan Power is announcing a planned rate decrease - "The plan is made possible thanks to load growth and increased revenue from large customers including data centers." finance.yahoo.com/energy/artic...
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What percentage of voters understand Capital One and JP Morgan maintain they closed 300 Trump bank accounts for “money-laundering?” www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Pay attention, people. This is physics, not opinion.
IPCC Chair Sir Jim Skea is crystal clear: “If you want to stop global warming, you must get to net zero carbon emissions." The problem is, with some honourable exceptions as per this @pilitaclark.bsky.social column, most of the UK media isn't being this clear 🧵 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Fix this, @govsherrill.bsky.social. Easy to fix.
The draconian New Jersey e-bike laws had exactly the effect everyone feared
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From niche technology to 500,000 households “taking control:” Cheaper Home Batteries hits half-million milestone #energysky -- via Renew Economy: reneweconomy.com.au/...
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If you ever wanted to read 6500 words on how the Trump Administration is using financial engineering, showmanship, and coercion to underpin its dealmaking...today is your lucky day. Part 2 of "The Trump approach to critical minerals financing" is now live. 🔌💡 tailings.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
Yah, Minnesotans will not be impressed. @amyklobuchar.com gonna crush whoever Rs put up, and double crush him if it’s Mike Lindell.
Every single Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota (including Mike Lindell!) makes clear that if Trump tried another Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities, they would support his efforts to brutalize residents
Five Straight Years Warmer Than Anything Prior to 2023
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
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Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
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@wrigleyfield.bsky.social Not as attentive as i used to be on who I should follow: but you had me at “almost car free” and, are you kidding me, Wrigley Field!! And Minneapolis!
From the federal Department of Shitting On The Constitution, your daily news: apnews.com/article/trum...
Continuous looney tunes shit from the @whitehouse-47.bsky.social on energy—especially the lunatic jihad against wind power.
Good. What the guy in the Oval Office is doing isn't energy policy. It's a weird, half-baked vendetta against wind turbines. www.utilitydive.com/news/califor...