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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am also exceedingly proud of those of you who stop buying fossil fuels by giving up a car. You are also changing your life to help the cause. Fighting climate change is not easy, and with this U.S. administration, we have to take personal action. Don't line the pockets of fossil fuel titans.

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I permitted myself a rant on Substack. If you hate fossil fuel companies, stop buying their products. And for most Americans, that means a little expense and a little change of lifestyle with an EV. But think of how you are sticking it to Exxon and Chevron! rogeraines.substack.com/p/its-time-t...

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It’s Time to Fight Fossil Fuels with Our Feet

Buying EVs hurts the fossil industry, even if it causes us some pain.

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Here is a young one sitting in our trees early in the evening a few seasons back. I wonder if it is part of this morning’s chorus?🪶 I appreciate him letting me get a photo!

A young great horned owl sitting on a branch with his wings slightly open like a man holding his jacket open.

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As a child on a farm in Ohio we rarely heard this, even with deep woods on the hills behind us. DDT had stolen the big birds from us. The beauty of their recovery brings tears to my eyes. 🪶

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I awoke well before dawn today to the sound of three great horned owls surrounding my house. We live on the edge of town, but still in the houses. The owls come many nights, even spitting their pellets on our deck. What a joyful way to start my day!🪶

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Julian Wettengel @wettengel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Energy system plans increasingly use #biomethane for gaps #renewables don't (yet) fill; from heating & transport to industry Germany's @jochenflasbarth.bsky.social says "Of course, biomethane has its place, but it won’t be enough to act as a cure-all; the medicine cabinet is empty." Photo:HB/Gust

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Søren Have @sorenhave.dk · 29/09/2026

Exactly. Here's a summary of how we got there. bsky.app/profile/sore...

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is stunningly valuable to observe what has happened, and what the results of actions turn out to be. Even more the results of inaction. Good job Josh, Emily, and Mijin.

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Holy cow, absolutely amazing. No one in climate space deserves this more. Nor can I think of anyone who will put it to better use. Holly is deeply thoughtful, accepting, brilliant, a great writer and a compelling speaker. She is a true climate hero: brave, unflinching, and unassuming.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Electricity is 23% of global final energy but delivers 37% of useful energy and powers 46% of the global economy. We don't need to replace every fossil joule. We need to replace the services. A much smaller task. Great to see the @iea.org’s new Electrification report finally measure this.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/09/2026

One grim conclusion I take from every Climate Week I've attended is that the core old-school "climate communicators" have not updated their priors or their approach in decades, despite everything that's happened, and still, on a deep fundamental level, do not understand conservatives.

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Once again the red shouldered hawk hopes that by standing on my bird feeder, lunch will fly into his mouth. It is a common misconception. 🪶

A large hawk stands on the curved metal support of a bird feeder.

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 16/09/2026

hey I heard you like sankey diagrams that show huge populations making terrible decisions

A very complicated Sankey diagram showing the usage of electricity in the United States. Or the left are sources of energy and on the right are consumers, so, for example, nuclear is on the left and residential is on the right. Petroleum dominates.

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Facts worth repeating: It would be cheaper to pay the ~40,000 or so people employed by the coal industry $1M a year to do nothing than to pay for the health damages (not including climate change) caused by burning coal in the U.S. publichealth.hsc.wvu.edu/news/story?h...

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Counting up the costs of coal

Regular readers know that WVU’s Dr. Michael Hendryx has done work on that issue (subscription required), reporting that:

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Looking for encouraging reading? Great Mazzucato book just out. The Common Good Economy lays out why shared goals are vital, and how we can use our existing systems to achieve them. "A moral compass allows us to set the direction we want our economy to sail in." @mazzucatom.bsky.social

Cover of the book "The Common Good Economy" by Mariana Mazzucato. The two Os in Good are intertwined, evoking the idea of working tighter.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

@noupside.bsky.social makes a great point here about the ineffectiveness of stodgy message discipline and the tendency to think of social media not as a casual free-flowing conversation but as one-way mass broadcasting. You end up talking at people rather than to people.

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Liberals Need to Loosen Up to Play the Social Media Game Against Authoritarians: A Conversation with Renée DiResta

Their need to stay on message makes them less effective communicators

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Mike MacFerrin @icesheetmike.myatproto.social · 03/09/2026

Just a reminder that if voting didn’t matter, they wouldn’t go to such lengths to prevent you from doing it.

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"In a development first reported by Bloomberg, the new [Chinese government] plan ... last week confirmed a new target for EVs and hybrids to reach a 70% market share for passenger cars by 2030." www.businessgreen.com/news/4535653... via @james-bg.bsky.social 🔌💡

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China sets target for electrified vehicles to hit 70 per cent market share 2030

New goal for passenger car sales set to deal further blow to projected oil demand

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I just saw this commercial on SNF, and I aint gon lie, it had my full attention. Wasnt expecting that

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Weekend reading: I spoke with California Forward CEO Kate Gordon (@katenrg.bsky.social) about overcoming "anywhere but California" to build clean energy infrastructure in the Golden State: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/solving-the-... via @quittingcarbon.bsky.social 🔌💡

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Solving the Golden State's "anywhere but California" problem for clean energy manufacturing

In a conversation with Quitting Carbon, California Forward CEO Kate Gordon talks about building a durable green industrial policy in the Golden State.

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

From May 18: it was not all that surprising that renewables were meeting California's needs and charging the batteries and being exported. But at 10 pm the gas plants were still not providing much, with 6 GW batteries and 3 GW of SunZia NM wind (in the imports). Data from CAISO.com #EnergySky

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Everything they say is true. The challenge is that wind power-by-wire shows up as undifferentiated imports so it is hard to extract the signal from Zia. But to your point, batteries are there every day, and the wind in New Mexico is not. A systematic approach with many positives will win.

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This drop is almost entirely due to the long-lead Zia Wind project in New Mexico. Recognizing the obvious is a real value, and investing in things that take a decade requires bravery. GigaWatts of evening wind coming over a DC line to California are completely magic.

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

BloombergNEF: Co-located solar and storage investment hit a record in the first half of 2026. "Investors flee revenue uncertainty as assets co-located with storage boom." about.bnef.com/insights/cle... 🔌💡

Graphic showing global renewable energy investment by sector (e.g. utility-scale solar, onshore wind, etc.) from 1H 2019 through 1H 2026. Source: BloombergNEF.

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We got the pesticides out of our garage because Rachel Carson convinced us they should be totally eliminated, not because she thought our garage was the problem. She launched a wave that made a real impact. We can do the same now. Speak up.

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There are two powerful thoughts here rolled into one new paradigm – the Carbon Wave. Focus on how your actions can influence others to act. Don't let the fossil industry set the tone by blaming you for using their product.

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm trying to understand how wealth and the money to fix climate change mesh with all the other things we want in the future. Where did our attitudes come from? Part I of wealth as a requisite for the future we want is up on Substack now. rogeraines.substack.com/p/wealthits-...

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Wealth—It’s About More Than Money

Where did our fixation with wealth come from?

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It’s WHAT we eat (beef especially) that matters for climate. Not so much WHERE it is grown.

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you privatise the profits from fossil fuels, you can’t keep socialising the costs of the damage. Those who’ve profited should pay their fair share of the impacts. That’s why Spain’s push for an EU oil and gas tax to help fund climate adaptation is worth supporting. www.ft.com/content/86da...

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Spain pushes for EU oil and gas tax to pay for climate change response

Rising extreme weather costs fuel campaign ahead of new resilience strategy

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This red shouldered hawk 🪶 is a regular visitor to our bird feeder this fall. May be he hopes a finch will fly into his mouth? I should record continuously in case it does!

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Our new red shouldered hawk is a regular afternoon visitor to the bird feeder. This could be just a nice perch, or it could be him assuming that lunch in the form of a finch is going to fly into his mouth. Maybe I should record continuously in case it does.

A red shouldered hawk sitting on the metal support of a large bird feeder, in front of several manzanita bushes.

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Another issue that is missed is that you can put as much carbon into soil as you want, if you are willing to add nitrogen fertilizer. But you will never make up the carbon debt from making that fertilizer, or the NOx released when it is used. Sigh.

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What a cool video

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The costly and unequal argument ignores the way grids evolve - they may cost the nation less per electron, but the profits are very unequally provided to rich investors. Like the benefits of owning your small farm, owning your own solar generation gives you agency and stability.

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Anyone got a good link for places we can download the new maps, assuming they are approved? We need to all use them in our public materials.

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My experience with all of the carbon management methods is that there is no single huge approach, because they all require specialized local circumstances. That said, entrepreneurs find those places. But the dreams of billions of tons for one approach are always limited by resources and location.

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I think the key is identifying outcomes, and then putting the methods on very specific actors. For most industries and activities, simply replacing fossil fuels with a clean alternative is the best answer. But that is not a global answer. The IPCC graphs tend to imply a "one size fits all" solution.

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Joe Deely @jdeely.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is a really big deal! Fervo now has 1,064 MW under contract - most of which comes online by 2028. Google has an option for another 600 MW by 2030. If the 1.1GW operates at an 85% CF this = 8 TWh of annual generation. Total US geothermal generation was 16 TWh in 2025. #energysky

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 01/09/2026

The emissions scenarios underlying the next generation of climate model runs that will be featured in the upcoming IPCC 7th Assessment Report are officially out! I have a big new explainer over at Carbon Brief taking an in-depth look at what they mean and whats changed: www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Mike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In low-Earth orbit, more than 34,000 satellites and pieces of debris zip around at 17,500 miles per hour or more, circling the globe every 90 to 120 minutes. Chance of catastrophic collisions are sky rocketing. www.wsj.com/science/spac...

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Paid political influencers are highly effective propagandists. Which is why Pete Hegseth is paying them to manipulate other Americans in state-funded, prev undisclosed influence ops. Gift link: wapo.st/4x0p3pf

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Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian roles

Conservative veterans with large social media followings have been hired by the Defense Department and are amplifying Pete Hegseth’s culture-war fights.

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Domestic cats kill at least 400 to 2,000 times more birds than wind turbines — between 100 and 200 million in Germany, to be exact. Wind farms pose a threat to only 0.05% of the total population of avians. www.bgr.com/2243676/wind...

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Wind Turbines Cause Fewer Bird Deaths Each Year Than This Common Culprit - BGR

Critics cite bird deaths as a major problem with wind power, but they often omit a comparison that changes the scale of the issue.

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🪶 This is the fluffiest Red Shouldered hawk I have seen. Late in the day but still warm, he was checking out our yard and pond. We get a Cooper's hawk in this tree often, but this is the first Red Shouldered we've seen here.

A red shouldered hawk sits on a tree branch, looking right at the photographer. His feathers are extremely puffed up, with white bands running across his chest of dark tan (reddish) feathers.

A red shouldered hawk sits on a tree branch, looking intently down and to the right as if checking out prey. His feathers are extremely puffed up, with white bands running across his chest of dark tan (reddish) feathers.

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My home valley, Livermore CA, this morning. I can't complain. Went birding in the high hills early this morning but only saw coyotes. Posting this as "bird backdrop minus birds". 🪶

A long view of a valley with some low clouds in the distance. This is the Livermore Valley in California. In the foreground right is a California Buckeye tree, which has no leaves in summer. The peak to the far left in the distance is Mt. Diablo.

A valley with some morning haze. In the foreground are oak trees, middle ground is a golf course, and in the far distance more cloudy hills. The far distance is the Altamont Pass. The valley is the Arroyo Del Valle just south of Livermore, CA. Photo taken from the hills above Veteran's Park.

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is a great way to synthesize complicated emissions data. My message from this is that clean electrification is still the most important part of a future we want - it affects everything but food and land use. But no one can affect everything. Focus your efforts, and share your successes.

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That is what I say too: Every 1/10th degree of warming prevented is a profound gift to our children & grandchildren, & their children & grandchildren. And we, humans, have already averted many 1/10th degrees of warming from the likely outcome. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Super interesting Zeke, thanks! How do we get this in the eyes of those who need it. Hmm.

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Roger Aines @rogeraines.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Is this a good time to point out that Bloom is not only CO2 capture-ready, but that it is nearly trivial. There is no excuse for emitting CO2 from these facilities.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/08/2026

I've heard thousands of climate denial arguments over the last few decades. But do you know they all fall into one of 5 categories? 1. It's not real 2. It's not us 3. It's not bad 4. We can't fix it 5. You can't trust the info/experts Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A classification tree showing the breakdown of climate denial arguments.

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