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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A while ago I made this chart to illustrate that yearly additions of solar and wind (in TWh of energy) are growing fast while nuclear is largely stable. But solar and wind started small versus the older and established technology nuclear. This year we've reached a new milestone.
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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The cryosphere is in real trouble. That means that people and agriculture downstream will be too.
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Giulio Betti @giuliofirenze.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
So che può sembrare folle, ma ancora non siamo al picco di questa ennesima ondata di calore. Oggi, lunedì, si sono registrate diffusamente temperature prossime o localmente superiori ai 40 °C, in particolare in Sardegna e sulle regioni centrali, in Emilia Romagna e sul Triveneto. 1/7
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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Deep Learning Reconstruction of Daily Soil CO2 Efflux Reveals Biogeochemical Insights and Reduces Annual Estimate Uncertainty Despite Limitated Daily Predictability -- led by Val Smykalov and her advisor @lireactivewater.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Deep Learning Reconstruction of Daily Soil CO<sub>2</sub> Efflux Reveals Biogeochemical Insights and Reduces Annual Estimate Uncertainty Despite Limitated Daily Predictability
A deep learning model reconstructed daily soil respiration data well in 26/82 sites (32%) despite low data coverage (0.2%–47% from 2003 to 2020) Estimation errors of annual efflux from daily pred...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026
NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever beforea chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever beforea chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever beforeGoogle's total energy consumption more than new zealand
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Dr Ella Gilbert @drgilbz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
What if... we made things less crap? No war, no billionaires, an end to poverty, gender equality, equal access to health & education, and a liveable planet. Um, yes?? A new report shows us how this seemingly lofty goal can be achieved... and all it takes is to tax the rich. youtu.be/5tsqotjWSy8
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What if... we made things less crap?
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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Interesting: the spatial pattern of afforestation matters for climate. It’s well known that reducing forest edges affects biodiversity and produces a climatic buffering effect, but (in China) it also produces more biomass (carbon) than planted forests with more edges.
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Extra Climate Benefits From Afforestation Due to Reduced Forest Fragmentation in China
Afforestation in China reduced forest fragmentation in 2015, transforming 51.8 M ha of edge forests into interior forests. This enhanced carbon sequestration (1.4±0.2 Pg CO2e, a cooling biogeochemica...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
RECORD YEAR: 2025 was the biggest year ever for renewables. A record 692 GW was added, mostly solar. More importantly, non-fossil sources generated 43% of the world's electricity and fossil generation fell. More in Bright Spots: open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...
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Renewables just had their best year ever
2025 was a record year for clean power but still falling short of what is needed
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Europe urgently needs more (and more democraticly distributed) AC but AC is not a bolt-on fix. The divide between the Cooled and the Damned will persist and even grow. And nobody’s going to AC the farms, forests, the ocean.
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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...
A map of Europes with dots for all 854 cities analysed, pink dots for the cities that broke humid heat records, grey dots elsewhere. Pink dots conentrated over Southern UK, Germany, Poland and Benelux.
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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Welcome to the Miocene, kids.
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The Geological Society of America (GSA) @geosociety.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The June issue of #Geology is now online. Topics include the 2015 Axial Seamount eruption, earthquakes in the Seattle fault zone, and Holocene changes in mountain snowpack sublimation. 🔗 geosociety.co/4ftxTql Cover: Ferromanganese nodules on the deep sea floor, courtesy Yongzhi Liang.
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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW The UK will adopt one of the world’s most ambitious climate targets as Labour takes on Reform opposition to net zero and moves to neuter the Green Party’s rise. Ministers have accepted @thecccuk.bsky.social's recommendation for an 87% cut in emissions by 2040 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
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Labour to adopt some of world’s most ambitious climate targets
No 10 moves to lock in sweeping emissions cuts, seeking to outflank the Greens on net zero while setting up a clash with Reform UK and the Tories
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW RESEARCH: We modelled three Hormuz closure scenarios. Europe never physically runs out of gas in any of them. But under the worst shock, LNG hits $54.9/MMBtu, above the 2022 peak. Energy security in 2026 isn't empty pipelines. It's empty wallets. Full paper here www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Solar plus storage in India is cheaper than building fossil fuel power plants. So they build the solar.
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India installs 15.3 GW of solar capacity in Q1
India installed 15.3 GW of solar capacity in the first quarter of 2026 – the highest quarterly addition on record – representing a 143% year-on-year increase, according to Mercom India.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The big question - when indeed will the Environment Agency do what it exists to do and, you know, er, enforce the law? Great work by @nicolacutcher.bsky.social and @friendsriverwye.bsky.social
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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 21/05/2026
This morning Irish climate experts wrote to Minister O'Brien @deptcee.bsky.social to express deep concern that urgent #methane reduction risks being undermined if climate targets are set using a ‘temperature neutrality’ approach. 1/13
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International scientists plead with Ireland not to adopt controversial greenhouse gas assessment method
Scientists raise alarm over proposal to ease Ireland’s climate obligations
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/05/2026
If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)
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Support Alex's Emergency Relocation + Next Steps on Give In May
Alex is leaving the US after his work permit renewal was wrongfully denied by Trump's USCIS.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Pakistan: solar just overtook coal as the largest single source of electricity. 21% of power from solar in 2025. Up from 2% in 2019. Coal peaked at 20% in 2020. Want to read more about one of the fastest solar transitions anywhere in the world? Sign up to my Substack janrosenow.substack.com
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Ruben Prütz @rubenpruetz.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
In a new study, published today in Nature Climate Change, we explore how carbon dioxide removal (CDR) – approaches that take CO2 out of the atmosphere – may affect #biodiversity. 🦎🐌 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Biodiversity implications of land-intensive carbon dioxide removal - Nature Climate Change
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) plays an important role in decarbonization pathways to meet climate goals, but some methods are land-intensive. Multimodel analysis reveals conflicts between biodiversity ...
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Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Four of the region’s largest refineries and petrochemical facilities used an average of 818.6 million gallons combined a month from 2022 through 2024. Residential users, meanwhile, used 374 million gallons in April 2026. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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E&E News: Parched Corpus Christi threatens to cut off water to refineries
The city’s water utility said it may need to “start turning valves” if industrial users go over monthly allotments during emergency conditions.
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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Hot, sweaty, exciting - and increasingly deadly. Climate change will be an unwelcome but very present player in the upcoming FIFA World Cup in North America - especially in the fan zones. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
A table of stadiums with information on the likelihood of games happening under extremely hot conditions.
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This is really grim. Imagine a different world. @tninstitute.bsky.social
A slide from a presentation that describes what NATO's 3.5% spending target would pay for. NATO’s new 3.5% GDP spending goal would lead to a total military expenditure of US$13.4 trillion by 2030, a US$2.6 trillion increase above current expenditure. This can cover nearly three years worth of climate finance needs of developing countries at $1 trillion a year or pay outright for the world’s global electricity grid to be made Net Zero compatible by 2030.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Where’s the fury about rightwing antisemitism? The newspapers that call out leftwing antisemitism publish antisemitic cartoons and champion politicians with a record of antisemitic statements. So who is holding *them* to account? This week’s column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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No one should get a free pass on antisemitism – so why does the right?
There is legitimate scrutiny of antisemitism on the left, but at the same time, rightwing media outlets offend with impunity. That makes no sense, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Finland opens Europe's first lithium mine - yle.fi/a/74-20209826
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Finland opens Europe's first lithium mine
The long-planned project will create about 350 jobs and offers Europe’s only production chain of its kind, reducing reliance on Chinese imports.
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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Mushrooms still carry traces of Chernobyl disaster - yle.fi/a/74-20220549
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Mushrooms still carry traces of Chernobyl disaster
Finland's nuclear safety watchdog says there's no need to avoid wild mushrooms on account of lingering radioactivity.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
“This is the first energy shock with a superior alternative” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...
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Dawn of the Electric World Order | The Polycrisis
Global shockwaves from the war on Iran
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/05/2026
Europe's grid operator warns that if data centre growth isn't well regulated, it would result in hard limits to renewable energy output in constrained areas. Now let's take a huge sip of coffee and check whether data centre growth is being well regulated ☕️ www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/09/e...
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Grid operators may reduce renewables penetration if data center growth continues unchecked, says ENTSO-E
A new report from the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity explores the potential for data centers to become flexible assets in Europe’s electricity system, as well as…
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 13/05/2026
Status of the most recent monthly-averaged greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Observational data provided by gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
Graphic shows three line graph time series of monthly carbon dioxide abundance in ppm (blue line), monthly methane abundance in ppb (red line), and monthly nitrous oxide in ppb (purple line). Graphs are all shown from January 1984 through January 2026/April 2026. Current levels of CO2 are 431 ppm. Current levels of methane are 1940 ppb. Current levels of nitrous oxide are 340 ppb. All graphs show long-term increasing trends along with some interannual variability and seasonality.
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Why have SSTs in the Gulf of Mexico been warming over 2x faster than the global oceans since 2012? I cover the mystery in my post today: yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/05/some...
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 13/05/2026
btw, regulators confirmed to us this morning that the 19 new turbines (and the 27 already on site) are not part of an air permit granted in March, meaning xAI has more than 1 GW of unpermitted gas power at Colossus 2 right now
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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This paper addresses the question why some tech learns fast and other tech doesn't. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... ht. @dekkerdekker.bsky.social
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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Interesting new paper documents clearly how the IAEA has been overestimating the growth of nuclear time and time again. It's the inverse of what I've documented for solar and batteries. doi.org/10.1016/j.er...
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Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🍅🧬Great flavor isn't accidental. It's written in the genome. Sweetness. Bitterness. Aroma. Scientists now map the code. AI breeding plus gene editing can now rewrite that code for better taste, nutrition, and sustainability. #Plantscience @jipb.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Genomic variation drives plant flavor diversification
This review explains how genomic variation shapes plant flavor by altering the biosynthetic and regulatory pathways of key attributes like sweetness, acidity, bitterness, piquancy, astringency, and a....
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 07/05/2026
🟡 Naru Research is open for business 🟡 So in some very cool news, my new consultancy is now officially at a stage where I can declare it open for business! 🎉 If you're keen on doing good in the climate and energy transition, but need research and strategy insights to help drive impact, let's chat!
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Naru Research – Trusted insights for outsized advocacy
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 07/05/2026
The next week is looking like it might be toasty for global temperatures in the latest model runs. If this holds it would put us well into record territory for this time of year: www.karstenha...
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Solar plus storage: $54 Coal: $70-85 Gas (methane): $100 The math gets pretty simple.
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Firm solar and storage costs fall to $54/MWh, says IRENA
A new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) finds that round‑the‑clock solar and wind paired with battery storage deliver power at lower cost than new fossil fuel generation in h...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/05/2026
Remember that company that Trump paid a billion dollars so that they *wouldn't* build offshore wind farms in the US? They're doing amazing shit over in Europe. Floating turbines are so cool!
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Offshore wind firm that took Trump payout hits a milestone in Europe
Even as Ocean Winds abandons two U.S. offshore wind leases, it’s staying the course on projects elsewhere, including a floating French array that flicked…
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Eleventh (?) retraction of a paper by Domenico Praticò @temple.edu HT: @smutclyde.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... pubpeer.com/publications...
Screenshot 1 of 4: showing Western blot panels in three figures, where I have added boxes of the same color to highlight panels that look identical. Screenshot 2 of 4: showing immunohistochemistry panels in four figures, where I have added boxes of the same color to highlight panels that look identical or that overlapScreenshot 3 of 4: showing Western blot panels in two figures, where I have added boxes of the same color to highlight panels that look identical. Screenshot 4 of 4: showing immunohistochemistry panels in two figures, where I have added boxes of the same color to highlight panels that look or that overlap.
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Professor Matthew England FAA @profmattengland.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
A deep dive into the AMOC and the Antarctic MOC, how they work, how they’re changing, and links to recent melting around Antarctica www.smh.com.au/environment/...
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A crying glacier and a shivering ice shelf: A beautiful, tragic story
What scientists saw in Antarctica this summer could affect the weather everywhere from Cairns to Cannes.
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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I don't know how to call the point in the transition where ecargo bike is featured on the Price is Right but we are there.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
39 countries cut energy taxes after the Iran war. Politically popular but self-defeating: untargeted subsidies blunt the price signals, lead to higher demand, cost the tax payer significantly more and provide less incentive to invest in alternatives.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/04/2026
Earlier this year, Trump released a bizarre executive order touting the controversial herbicide glyphosate (a.k.a. Roundup). Why? Our new investigation shines light on that—and a whole lot more.
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We are bombarding America’s forests with Roundup
Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Quoted in @ketanjoshi.co's piece in @theguardian.com: a year ago Spain's grid collapsed. Solar was blamed, return to fossil predicted. Investigations found voltage failures. Then Hormuz closed. Spain was shielded as renewables cut wholesale prices by 40%. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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One year after Spain’s blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on
Though solar was initially incorrectly blamed for crisis, renewables have helped insulate Spain from gas price rises caused by war in Middle East
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 28/04/2026
Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?
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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Potentially hyper-cheap sodium batteries are becoming commercially available and are getting LFP battery specs. This is nuts! This could lead to *incredibly* cheap batteries! electrek.co/2026/04/27/c...
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Ryan C. Smith @rcsmitheco.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Now is the time for bold fiscal, industrial, and policy action. Those who seize this moment will define the future, those who refuse it either due to pressure from deficit hawks and anti-tax advocates or thanks to the power of oil right now will be left in the past. 23/end
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Ryan C. Smith @rcsmitheco.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
So while oil and gas stand to gain a lot of money from the present boom, they will be operating in an environment where oil and gas are increasingly uncertain, risky investments, renewables remain reliable, cheaper, and more popular than ever, and capital for carbon is even scarcer. 18/x
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Big Oil is reaping a huge windfall from consumers due to Iran war
Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms are set to make an extra $234 billion by the end of 2026.
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Ryan C. Smith @rcsmitheco.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
It's time to talk about that thing I spent most of my PhD studying: OPEC! This is going to be a bit of a messy situation though I think, overall, this is a positive development for energy transition so here goes my take on what to expect. 1/x #EconSky #EnergySky #ClimateSky #Greensky
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