Let me be explicit. Here at the end of 2025, if you hear anyone say replacing fossil fuels with renewables is going to be expensive, they're either misinformed, uninformed, or lying to you.
Even leaving out the massive economic costs of #climate changes caused by burning fossil fuels, #renewableenergy is cheaper now.
More evidence of the utter stupidity of Donald Trump.
1. He's panicking because he's just realized he'll be blamed for the rise in oil prices because he's illegally bombed Iran.
2. He doesn't know the Department of Energy doesn't drill for oil.
If Trump succeeds in torpedoing the economy and causing a recession, decimating tourism and air travel to the US, and weakening industrial production, he may cause a substantial drop in US emissions of climate-destroying gases and help us meet our Paris Agreement commitment.
#climate
Wait.
Elon Musk now has the email for every federal employee?
Isn't THAT a bigger story than the stupid request for 5 bullet points of what they've been doing?
More coverage of the story about Trump's meddling in California #water.
https://thinc.blog/2025/02/01/trump-dumps-california-irrigation-water-out-of-season-for-no-purpose/
No surprise, Donald Trump's "Ukrainian peace deal" turned out to be more of a concept of a plan.
It's official.
2024 was the hottest year in the past 175 years (and certainly for far longer than that).
And yes, this is directly relevant to the devastating fires in southern California.
#climate #climatechange
Just a little fun water fact for Xmas.
97% of the world's #water is salty (the oceans).
Of the 3% freshwater, the vast majority is locked up in ice caps, glaciers, & deep groundwater. Only a tiny fraction of 1% is accessible in rivers, lakes, groundwater, & rain. Use it carefully.
3 Mile Island Unit 1 is a 50-year-old, out of date, dangerous, poorly designed, #nuclear power plant. It hasn't generated electricity for 5 years. The only way #Microsoft can afford to restart the reactor and use its electricity is if it is not paying the full costs of the risk of operating it, the cost of decommissioning it, the cost of dealing with the nuclear waste, and the risk of accidents. Who is going to pay for those costs? The public.
Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded in human history. Until Monday.
#climatechange
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/hottest-day-ever-record-monday-sunday-rcna163408
When I visited China in 2015, every motorbike and scooter in Beijing was already electric.
If people are surprised that China is now dominating the market for decent, low cost electric cars, they haven't been paying attention.
It's the American car manufacturers who, once again, have had to be dragged kicking and screaming into innovation and doing the right thing.
I think it's safe to say that all those economists who said the costs of climate change weren't going to be high were staggeringly, dangerously, wrong.
It's the climate of the PLANET, FFS.
“It’s just an unbelievable summer,” said Peter Gleick, a climate scientist and senior fellow at the Pacific Institute. “It’s the kind of extreme weather that we climate scientists have been warning about for decades—it just now seems to be happening everywhere, all at once.”
#climate
#water
If I had known I could get free vacations and gifts for life I would have considered going to law school.
When are we going to stop calling these "gifts," "loans," "personal financial arrangements," and call them what they are.
They're bribes.
Clarence Thomas’s $267,230 R.V. and the Friend Who Financed It https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/clarence-thomas-rv-anthony-welters.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
I've always thought the GOP had no policy positions other than seizing power, enriching themselves, and destroying effective government.
I was wrong. They're developing a policy focused around destroying the planet.
A Republican 2024 Climate Strategy: More Drilling, Less Clean Energy https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/climate/republicans-climate-project2025.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
"Humanity has a decision to make. We stand today at the brink of a new age, at a fork in the road of our own survival. We can become another extinct species, a blink in time in the natural history of the earth, or we can recognize that water is so vital to our continued existence that we must find a new way to live with it, manage it, and protect it. A bad future is possible; it’s just not the future we would choose if we had a choice." --Peter Gleick
My new piece in Time Magazine on our water crises and a vision for a positive future, from THE THREE AGES OF WATER.
Gift article.
If you don't think Elon Musk will use his control of Starlink's space-based internet monopoly to further his right-wing, authoritative, anti-democratic goals, you're not watching him do exactly that right now with his control of Twitter.
And he's already done it in Ukraine.