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Peter Bosshard

@peterbosshard.bsky.social
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Campaign adviser, blogger (SwissClimateRambles.substack.com) and mentor. Retired campaign manager with the Sunrise Project, Insure Our Future, International Rivers and the Public Eye.

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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The revolving door between the fossil fuel industry and governments keeps turning: the former CEO of the Swiss export credit agency just joined the board of a gas power developer which received controversial support under his tenure. Read more at swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/the-revolv....
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The revolving door between the fossil fuel industry and Switzerland’s export financier
How the fossil fuel industry rewards the services of former government officials
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Public Eye @publiceye.ch · 24/09/2026
Nach dem geräuschvollen Abgang von Helene #BudligerArtieda vom SECO wird spekuliert, zu welchem Schweizer Konzern sie wohl wechselt. Aber, hey, Menschen können sich ändern 🤷‍♀️ Wir glauben an Budliger und machen ihr ein attraktives Jobangebot mit vielen Karmapunkten 👉 www.publiceye.ch/de/was-wir-t...
Illustration von Helene Budliger Artiega, Büste, sie lacht. Daneben Text: Sehr geehrte Frau Budliger Artieda, wollen ie sich künftig für eine sozial und ökologisch nachhaltige Schweizer Handelspolitik und die weltweite Achtung der Menschenrechte einetzen? Public Eye hat das perfekte Jobangebot für Sie! (Logo Public Eye und roter Rahmen)
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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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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 02/09/2026
Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than a thousand people and left even more missing
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Nepal Seeks Climate Compensation From China, US and India
Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than a thousand people and left even more missing.
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
OUT TODAY: The take-off in African solar that official statistics can’t yet see 2026 is on track for +45% in solar installations, setting new records in 36 countries. New methodology reveals 3/4 of growth is distributed solar, much of which is missing from official data..🧵
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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Publicly insured CO2 emissions: a legitimate business secret or a political embarrassment? Read my latest blog post about the data which the Swiss export credit agency, a major global gas power financier, doesn’t want you to know. #SwissClimateRambles swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/what-the-s...
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What the Swiss government’s fossil fuel financiers don’t want you to know
Federally insured CO2 emissions – a business secret or political embarrassment?
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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In average years, Switzerland experiences 10x as many heat deaths as homicides. Yet the Swiss government is ignoring or slow-walking its legal obligations for climate action. My reflections about the latest heatwaves on the #SwissClimateRambles blog. swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/after-the-...
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After the heatwaves: a Ministry for the Future?
Deaths from heatwaves outweigh homicides tenfold – when will governments respond?
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Greenpeace Schweiz @de.greenpeace.ch · 12/08/2026
Der #Bundesrat lehnt die Initiative für eine #nachhaltigeFinanzwirtschaft ohne Gegenvorschlag ab. Damit stützt er die Finanzlobby. Denn ohne verbindliche Ziele wird der #Finanzsektor kein Geld in nachhaltige Aktivitäten lenken. Genau dazu müssen Banken & Co. jedoch gesetzlich verpflichtet werden.
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Bundesrat ignoriert grössten Klimahebel der Schweiz
Trotz des erwiesenen Handlungsbedarfs bei der nachhaltigen Ausrichtung des Finanzplatzes empfiehlt der Bundesrat die Finanzplatz-Initiative ohne Gegenvorschlag zur Ablehnung. Damit bleibt er ausgerech...
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Dr. Thomas Ronge @thomasronge.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
„This is climate breakdown, and its expressions are manifold. We can now expect everything from yellow and orange air and failed crops to buckling railways and the forced shutdowns of nuclear plants due to low water.“
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John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Senator Whitehouse said it better than anyone: "Climate risk makes things un-insurable. No insurance makes things un-mortgageable. No mortgages crashes the property markets. Crashed property markets trash the economy.” #wildfire #Spokane #insurance
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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Brilliant piece: The only people who have been sent to prison [for climate change] are those who have protested against it. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Climate and Punishment | Gabriel Winslow-Yost
Vigil finds George Saunders returning to the theme of his first novel, grief—this time not for a person but for a planet.
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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Trump and #Infantino are destroying the beautiful game. 🟥 It's embarrassing to have #FIFA based in my hometown Zurich and Infantino as our compatriot. I just signed the #outfantino complaint at rebootfifa.com and you can do the same!
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Act now to stop abuse of power at FIFA | Reboot FIFA campaign
Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. 
And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name to our mass complaint now >>
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
India: Extreme heat causes approximately 3,400 excess deaths nationally in one day. A five-day #heatwave is linked to nearly 30,000 extra deaths, according to the paper published in the Frontiers in Environmental Health journal last month. www.euronews.com/2026/06/10/h...
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Extreme heat causes 3,400 excess deaths per day in India - study
Experts warn that official heatwave death figures are grossly underestimated.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I especially love this diagram.
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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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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Gas importing countries don't replace coal with more LNG, but with renewables, new research by @accr.bsky.social finds. "Solar, wind and batteries have dealt the LNG industry's energy transition pitch a death blow", @antonycurrie.bsky.social says in this great piece. www.reuters.com/commentary/b...
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Breakingviews - Exxon's natural gas M&A push is pipe dream
The $574 ‌bln oil major may have eyed Australia’s Woodside and other producers in Asia. A ​purchase might work if the ​region really needed LNG as a ⁠transition fuel. But the success of ​renewables an...
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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
#SwissRe, the world’s biggest reinsurance company, is rolling back its climate commitments. The dirty little secret is that the company is benefiting from the climate crisis. Read my post on the #SwissClimateRambles blog to find out more. open.substack.com/pub/swisscli...
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Swiss Re’s dirty little climate secret
How the world’s largest reinsurer is benefiting from climate change
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 09/06/2026
BREAKING! The 17th #BankingOnClimateChaos report reveals that fossil fuel financing from the world’s top 65 banks has reached $8.7 TRILLION over the last decade. Instead of investing in a livable future, big banks are driving pollution & climate devastation. Learn more: bankingonclimatechaos.org
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This, by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social, is a brilliant, fascinating and definitional article. If you want to understand what's happening around the world, you should read it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly | Jonathan Watts
China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing result, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock
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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New #LNG terminals are locking us into expensive and polluting fossil gas for decades to come. In an oped for InsuranceERM, I list five reasons why #reinsurance companies, which have often assumed corporate climate leadership, should no longer underwrite them. share.google/EvE16MhpVg3p....
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Peter Bosshard: Five reasons why reinsurers should shift away from LNG
The climate campaigner analyses reinsurers' approach to LNG underwriting
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I can‘t figure out why, but I have never seen news stories about how oil rigs hurt whales. Only wind farms do that. And only solar panels have a recycling problem. Gas stations are fine.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/05/2026
Meanwhile the California grid now boasts the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants worth of batteries -- the total cost of which was, I suspect, less than a single nuclear plant.
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California’s Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants. Here’s What’s on the Horizon. - Inside Climate News
An expert in the state’s energy grid explains how the state is faring amid federal cuts.
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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
#GoodNews: A new Swiss popular initiative, submitted with 146,000 signatures today, will bring binding measures to shift Swiss banks and insurers away from fossil fuels to a vote. You’ll find more information at open.substack.com/pub/swisscli....
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Swiss people will vote on their financial center’s climate policies
146,000 signatures for a popular initiative handed in today
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
NEW: Global coal power generation UNCHANGED in March - even as gas price surged. Why? 🟡Gas was ALREADY more expensive than coal. 🟡ZERO retired coal units returned. 🟡SOLAR and WIND meeting all the global rise in electricity demand.
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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
#SwissRe, the world’s biggest reinsurance company, played a pioneering role when it ended support for new coal, greenfield oil and gas projects. When will it finally stop underwriting new #LNG terminals? Read my statement at their AGM this morning at swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/when-will-...
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When will the world’s biggest reinsurer kiss LNG goodbye?
My statement at today’s AGM of Swiss Re
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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Hawaii joins CA and NY with legislation to hold the oil and gas industry accountable for insurance related losses. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Hawaii Has a Bold Idea to Make Big Oil Pay for Disasters
Hawaii may seem like Eden to those of us living in, say, New Jersey. But lately the only thing biblical about it has been the scale of the punishment it’s taking from nature. In the process, it’s also...
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Today, April 7, is Kwibuka32, the commemoration of the 32d anniversary of the first full day of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda. Past US presidents marked the date with stock statements of “never again.” Today the president instead echoed the language & threats of the perpetrators.
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Jed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is terrorism. And an explicit threat of genocide. Crimes against humanity. No matter what immunity the Supreme Court has invented, there are higher courts of justice. And even higher courts of eternal judgment.
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Lawrence Vulis @lvulis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Banging on this that batteries met up to 44% of demand on the CA grid yesterday, roughly equivalent to 6 hoover dams. Cheap batteries are powering the grid. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicola...
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There was another massive battery storage record in California (CAISO) yesterday, March 29 🔋 At 7pm, batteries reached 12.3 GW of output, meeting 42.8% of grid demand! To put that kind of output… ...
There was another massive battery storage record in California (CAISO) yesterday, March 29 🔋 At 7pm, batteries reached 12.3 GW of output, meeting 42.8% of grid demand! To put that kind of output d...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/03/2026
"Developers will be required to install solar panels and heat pumps in all new homes in England as part of updated planning requirements published by the government." Imagine taking the energy transition seriously.
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Heat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in green tech drive
Solar panels that can be plugged in at home could be available to buy in supermarkets in the coming months.
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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Is anyone surprised? One more reason for Europe not to build on #LNG!
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.
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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Even though solar power is booming, a new gas power project threatens to lock #Senegal into buying expensive fossil power for 30 more years. Switzerland’s SERV appears poised to support the project with an export risk guarantee. Read my blog post on the case at open.substack.com/pub/swisscli....
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How Switzerland is crowding out renewable energy in Africa
SERV’s latest gas power plant: threatening the climate and Senegal’s economic development
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 05/03/2026
Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"From the US you get forced into trade deals promising a future of burning fossil fuels whose price is subject to wildly destructive US adventurism. From China you get reliably cheap EVs and green tech to generate renewables"- giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @alanbeattie.bsky.social
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Iran attacks show the perils of following America’s economic lead
A growth plan of renewable energy and diversified trade is far better than guzzling fossil fuels and aligning with the US
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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Trump's Big Beautiful Own Goal in Alaska: Not a single company bid for new offshore oil and gas exploration opportunities in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, dealing a blow to President Trump’s ‘drill, baby drill,’ agenda. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...
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Trump’s High-Profile Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Alaska Has No Takers
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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The sun won’t always shine and the wind won’t always blow, they said. Well guess what: #LNG doesn’t always flow. And while the wind will blow again tomorrow and its power can be stored in batteries, the same isn’t true for LNG. www.politico.eu/article/worl...
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Energy crisis fears grow as Qatar shuts off world’s largest LNG plant
A prolonged closure would have a major impact on global gas supply.
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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
40 Swiss and international NGOs today called on the Swiss government to honor its climate pledges and stop financing international gas power plants immediately. "Switzerland must no longer be among the small group of countries that sabotage international climate policy", they argued.
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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
"In the long run, if we don’t address the root cause, which is the substantial amount of emissions from fossil fuels, insurance will no longer be available", @cadavejones.bsky.social points out in this great WaPo portrait. www.washingtonpost.com/post-next/in...
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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
#GoodNews: #MunichRe recently became the first reinsurance company to restrict cover for new #LNG terminals. The restrictions are narrow but mark an important breakthrough. Which insurer will take the next step? Read my comment on the #SwissClimateRambles blog at open.substack.com/pub/swisscli....
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First reinsurer restricts support for LNG terminals
Munich Re no longer reinsures new LNG terminals linked to new gas fields
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/01/2026
Rather than depending on lunatic Putin for Russian gas or lunatic Trump for American gas, perhaps Europe should develop its own domestic power supply and be free of lunatics entirely.
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Miliband and Jørgensen: Clean energy is Europe’s only route to security and prosperity
Today’s summit will be fundamental in delivering the energy security and prosperity Europe desperately needs.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.
No Kings is projected on to a mountainside above the town’s lights
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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
„Spirit of Dialogue“? Bullshit! As @campaxorg.bsky.social show with a projection on the ski slopes of #Davos right now, the WEF and its guest of honor Donald Trump stand for the Spirit of Plutocracy.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"You didn't give me the peace prize therefore I can start any war I want" is true lunacy. The inability of the American media to treat this man's clear unfitness for office with anything resembling seriousness will go down as a black mark in history.
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Paddy McCully @paddymccully.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Fuckers
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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Interested in an energy system which is cleaner, cheaper and more resilient than the current electric grid? Make it work like the internet! Listen to this fascinating podcast with Jonas Birgersson of EnergyNet on @volts.wtf - easily the best podcast I have ever heard! www.volts.wtf/p/making-the...
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Making the electricity grid work like the internet
Jonas Birgersson joins me to explain how "packet-switching" for electrons can lead to energy abundance and grid resilience.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 12/01/2026
🚨 BREAKING: New York and Hawaiʻi are seeking to make fossil fuel companies pay for skyrocketing home insurance rates in the wake of wildfires and other extreme weather events linked to climate change.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Yes, that does say it all.
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