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Paddy McCully

@paddymccully.bsky.social
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Analyste @ReclaimFinance. Views own. Ex dam fighter & solar builder. Climate hawk. Underwater archaeologist, very briefly. Irish Ulster-Scots franco-hispanophone Ardsman in California #IRFU

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/09/2026
Republicans made climate partisan. Republicans are keeping climate partisan. The exact words & tone that people who give a shit about reality use to talk about climate are not the reason climate is partisan. Using different words will not make climate less partisan.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just a reminder that you can go millions of miles between oil changes when you drive an EV www.wsj.com/business/ret...
wsj.com
Iran War Is Driving Up the Cost of Your Next Oil Change
Higher gas prices were just the warm-up act for drivers, repair shops and retailers like Walmart and Costco.
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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return. Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21/09/2026
The Atacama Desert in Chile was in full bloom following a spell of unusually wet weather. See photos from the AFP photojournalist Javier Torres:
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Photos: Wildflowers Bloom in the Atacama Desert
Javier Torres, a photojournalist with AFP, recently visited the Atacama Desert in Chile, capturing images of a desert in bloom after a spell of unusually wet weather.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This might have seemed menacing at the start when he was planning his new Reich, but now everyone can see he’s a loser on every front it just comes across as pathetic, a weak, little man desperate to appear tough.
Trump post: looking at a globe with the words His Hemisphere
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Out of spite for President Donald Trump, Carney is accelerating the decoupling of a trade bloc that has generated enormous prosperity for North America." Seriously, Wapo editorial - you're going with Canadian spite? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Canada’s great European misadventure
Donald Trump is for now. A Brussels bureaucrat is forever.
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
India is installing half a million rooftop solar sets *per month*. That's phenomenal. www.ft.com/content/8b70...
ft.com
‘Offensively cheap’: solar power is looking up
Chinese-made panels on rooftops across the world are changing the facts of life for big utilities
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 14/09/2026
Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: "it is unimaginable that any month in the last few thousand years, maybe 100,000 years, has more [Precipitable water] in the atmosphere than August 2026." www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-atmosp...
theclimatebrink.com
The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Record
More water vapor means more rocket fuel for extreme rain — so this record is not good news
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Paddy McCully @paddymccully.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
But Hunter Biden’s laptop something something
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Paddy McCully @paddymccully.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Wild stats from China’s car market in Aug: ICE sales down 40% y/o/y; plug-ins 65% of sales. Reason given is partly high fuel costs #ThanksTrump!
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Natural gas is fading from California’s electricity mix more quickly than seemed possible just a few years ago." "a 26 percent drop in the first half of this year compared to the first half of 2025"
insideclimatenews.org
How California Is Kicking Its Natural Gas Habit - Inside Climate News
Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Climeworks' Mammoth facility in Iceland removed 675 tonnes of CO₂ in the first half of 2026, almost 6x as much as in 2025. If they keep it up, that'll be 1350 tonnes a year*. That's a time machine that takes us back 1 whole second in a year! 🙄 *Mammoth has a stated capacity of 36,000 tonnes. 🫠
bloomberg.com
Carbon Removal Pioneer Climeworks Increases CO2 Capture Sixfold
The world’s largest direct air capture plant is sucking more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a lower cost, an improvement for a sector struggling to scale economically as global warming surpasse...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nailed it
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo
nature.com
Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal
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Clean Energy Wire | CLEW @cleanenergywire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Germany nearly halves fossil fuel use for electricity between 2018 and 2026 Output by oil, coal and gas plants 174.6bln kWh to 94.2 bln kWh, while renewable energy production grows by about one quarter during same period www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany...
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
An "L" has fallen off the podium at the Republican midterm convention
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𝐉𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐚𝐫𝐝 🇵🇸🇲🇲🇬🇱🇨🇺 @jensgam.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
“On Sunday night, Ulrich Siegmund, the AfD’s lead candidate, thanked Musk on X “for your support and for your clear and highly important perspective on the political developments of our time”, adding: “I would very much welcome the opportunity for strong and constructive cooperation”.”
theguardian.com
Germany’s far-right AfD thanks Elon Musk as France warns state election win a ‘serious moment’
Lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes further ‘strong’ cooperation with Musk as French minister says ‘we cannot forget our history’
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 02/09/2026
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Headline from The Mirror that reads

Elon Musk admits he disguises himself at Burning Man as a way to 'unplug'

Burning Man kicked off last weekend, and it's set to run through Sept. 7 in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. One fan of the festival is billionaire Elon Musk, who's been several timesHeadline from the mirror reading

Orgy Dome guests say they were left sterile after catching horror STIs at Burning Man

Orgy Dome guests have shared their experiences contracting horror STIs at the sex positive space, despite the festival's insistence that attendees discuss their sexual health status openly and practice safe sex
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Former USAID disaster-response chief @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social suggested that the Trump regime’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID, including the SERVIR program, impacted flood prediction and early warning systems in Nepal and made it way more deadly.
rawstory.com
Unsettling question raised over Trump admin's role in devastating Nepal floods
The devastating flash floods in Nepal this week that killed at least 670 people and left around 3,000 missing — including 90 Americans — might have claimed fewer lives if not for the actions of the Tr...
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Paddy McCully @paddymccully.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is a lovely-terrible piece
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Paddy McCully @paddymccully.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I miss the Enlightenment
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Haitian immigrant in Ohio takes his own life after losing temporary protected status… felt humiliated by an ankle monitor ICE placed on him after Trump canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants…” What have we become? www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. this all looks like an example of the Trump Administration extending its creeping crony statism beyond U.S. shores.” @wsj.com #venezuela 🇻🇪 www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The sheer force and scale of the Nepal landslide is far beyond anything I've seen before. New footage from @ pilulaespacial on IG.
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Paddy McCully @paddymccully.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fuck Google Maps
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Japan has worked hard to get the rest of the world hooked on LNG as a fuel. They invest heavily in US oil and gas fields as well as the LNG export terminals. How's that going for the people of Japan? LNG - good for oligarchs, really bad for the rest of us.
asia.nikkei.com
Japan wholesale power prices set to surge 40% on LNG costs, IEA forecasts
Reliance on natural gas imports leaves country more vulnerable than other economies
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The score settling inside the MAGA ranks has great entertainment values, but it serves to highlight the essential lawlessness of ICE.
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Paddy McCully @paddymccully.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Your moment of Zen
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Paddy McCully @paddymccully.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
45% annual growth of PV in Africa!!! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Solar Boom Sweeps Across Africa as Rooftop Demand Takes Off
Africa’s adoption of solar panels as an electricity source will rise 45% this year as the use of the clean power technology broadens across the continent, Ember projects.
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Paddy McCully @paddymccully.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“The ongoing conflict in the Middle East demonstrates that we must urgently reduce imports of LNG and other fuels,” Thai Energy Minister Akanat Promphan said. “We need to build a cleaner and more self-reliant power system.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Thailand to Shift From LNG Toward Renewables in Wake of Iran War
Thailand plans to shift away from imported gas and embrace renewables and nuclear power as it seeks to build an energy system that’s less vulnerable to external shocks like the Iran war.
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Adapting to climate change without ending the fossil fuel industry.
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Paddy McCully @paddymccully.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Also Lake Superior could become Lake Canada Is Superior
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Paddy McCully @paddymccully.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Well done San Francisco Chronicle for such a sadly rare piece of perfect framing of a climate story
sfchronicle.com
California’s water shortages partly due to climate pollution from big oil and gas, study finds
The new study is one of the first to dissect the impacts of climate change on dwindling water supplies in the West.
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Paddy McCully @paddymccully.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
MAGA is a cult of utter fucknuts
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
These early modern depictions of the five senses are often very allegorical and moralistic. But then there's Jan Miense Molenaer, The Five Senses: Smell, 1637 (Mauritshuis). Yes indeed.
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Tom Hardy @tomxr.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
How do you sleep @thespectator1828.bsky.social
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🇭🇷 Croatia hit by largest-ever wildfires, — Reuters
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A decade ago, Elon Musk called burning fossil fuels “the dumbest experiment in history." Now he owns a gas turbine company and has quickly turned into a fossil fuel tycoon.
wsj.com
Elon Musk, the World’s Most Famous EV Pioneer, Is Now Leaning Into Fossil Fuels
SpaceX is planning a Texas natural gas plant to power a new chip facility, while gas turbines are already being used for campuses in Tennessee and Mississippi.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Burnham: “This summer has shown beyond doubt that climate change is not a far-off prospect but with us today… I know people are deeply worried about the climate crisis… This govt will rise to the moment & build a better, fairer, greener & more resilient Britain” www.independent.co.uk/voices/andy-...
independent.co.uk
I will send in as many troops as are needed to fight tinderbox Britain
The country is a tinderbox right now, and we must take extraordinary steps to protect ourselves, says prime minister Andy Burnham
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Artificial intelligence could help oil and gas companies spew as much as 13 times more climate pollution, per a new study — dwarfing the climate impacts of data center energy use. heated.world/p/ais-climat... via @emorwee.bsky.social
heated.world
AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought
A new study reveals that AI’s climate impact extends far beyond its massive data center footprint.
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
a crow's shadow crosses the withered grass the world burns
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Paddy McCully @paddymccully.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I’ve almost had enough of this kleptocratic fascist shit
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Paddy McCully @paddymccully.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
So the publisher of Axios needs AI to help him read 19th century novels (in English) as he can’t deal with the “wordy, old prose”.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11/08/2026
U.S. airstrikes killed 153 civilians and wounded nearly 250 others during an operation targeting militants in Yemen last year, a Pentagon review found.
washingtonpost.com
Nearly 400 civilians killed, wounded in U.S. strikes on Yemen last year
A Pentagon review found that the Defense Department, which attacked at least 1,000 targets in Yemen, found three incidents “more likely than not” harmed civilians.
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
UK has just set a mediocre carbon budget - a business-as-usual pathway; it doesn't follow the science or Paris agreement. We need to change this in the UK and every other country to slow down climate crisis. Help &support the #CarbonReckoning project to do this www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-...
crowdjustice.com
Carbon Reckoning: Holding the Government to Its Own Climate Law
Carbon Reckoning are a science based group, committed to the strongest possible action to require the UK sets climate policy commensurate with the scale of the crisis we face.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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