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Christian Roselund

@roselund.bsky.social
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Analyst, writer, and decarbonization wonk. #YIMBY and #energytransition advocate. @climateactionri.org co-lead: #yestowind campaign. Personal account: these opinions are mine, all mine.

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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 2m
I've felt for a long time that we need more publicly funded (but not gov't controlled) #media outlets. But if we can't go that far, how about tax credits for local news organizations based on the number of journalists they employ? Strikes me as a great idea and I think more states should do this.
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Renu @renure.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When will the local media ask RIGOP candidates about their treatment of children? They own this cruelty; www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As Americans, we take care of our own. That means using our vast military might and diplomatic power to protect Americans* overseas. *Unless the Americans are of Palestinian descent, and the aggressor is #Israel.
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These are also reasons why Chinese #solar is exported everywhere where there isn't a massive wall of trade barriers to keep it out (i.e., the United States and to a lesser degree India).
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The insincere apologists for Israel‘s ethnic cleansing will never stop gaslighting the rest of us. In condemning Israel’s war crimes in #Gaza, @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social represents the majority opinion among Democrats & speaks for those of us whose voices are silenced by Dem Party leaders.
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This weekend I'll be writing comments as to why the US Forest Service should not gut the #RoadlessRule, which is both a way to both avoid waste of taxpayer dollars and a vital protection for much of the 3% of US old-growth forests that are left. Comments through 10/6. oregonwild.org/forest-servi...
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Forest Service to Extend Roadless Rule Comment Period - Oregon Wild
"It’s clear why the Trump administration would try to hide its own analysis from the public."
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have some minor quibbles with the developments & timelines described around China's turn to an internal market for #solar, but overall I think this piece is another good explanation of the confluence of factors that led China to become the dominant global manufacturer of EVs/solar/batteries etc.
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Last week I was accused by someone on this site of being against his specific oversized passenger vehicle instead of being against *all* oversized passenger vehicles on US roadways. So I want to clear they record on this one. This is something I wrote in 2023: medium.com/@croselund/s...
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Sociopathic Design, Part 1: A Car Crash in Massachusetts
Yesterday, while we were driving on I-95, an enormous SUV slammed into the back of my partner’s car. The impact was sudden and terrifying…
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Go ahead, Republicans. Ban diesel exports. Diesel costs will rise globally, and this will accelerate the #energytransition. Or don't. Diesel prices will continue to rise domestically, you will be voted out of office, and we can get back to domestic policies that accelerate the US energy transition.
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It is fall, and children are going back to school. Including in #Gaza, where #Israel has destroyed children's homes, schools, hospitals, and in many cases killed their siblings, parents, and other relatives. We, as Americans, funded these atrocities. /1 www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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Back to school in Gaza: Learning in tents after years of disruption
After nearly three years of disruption, children return to school in Gaza in makeshift spaces with scarce resources.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
FUKUYAMA: “.. Accelerationists tend to be very intelligent people, but that intelligence tends to be narrowly mathematical. We know how to do many things like produce electricity or clean water .. the problem is a failure of implementation.” www.persuasion.community/p/why-i-chan...
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I recall 10 years ago when I was working in the solar trade press, a certain Canary Media (then Greentech Media) reporter was skeptical about how California was going to deploy the 10s of GW of batteries needed to bring #solar power into the evening. Was actually pretty straightforward & it worked.
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's so rare for me to read an analysis of China's unparalleled expansion of #cleanenergy manufacturing that looks deeply at the complex interplay of factors that brought this about. Nice work @kaiserkuo.bsky.social and David Fishman. Some highlights. (thread) www.break-down.org/the-machine/
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The Machine
Is China's green technology revolution a model—or a warning?
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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dr. Joe Romm will indeed be sorely missed, per Dr. Mann. He was a force but based on my own occasionally (online) experiences with him, a force without the baggage of undeserved egotism.
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is big loss for those of us working on the #climatecrisis. Joe Romm was a legend. This guy deeply understood the #energytransition, he deeply understood politics, and he deeply understood how to communicate. Not a lot of people around with that trifecta. I'm sorry I never got to meet him.
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Funny thing - as @fieseler.bsky.social knows, that wasn't my favorite piece by her! But she did so much other good work on the politics of #offshorewind that I'm quite glad that she is getting the recognition she and her work deserve.
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone who knows me well knows I am fairly critical of journalists & publications who I think aren't living up to the calling of the profession. So I'm pretty picky about who I support. @sammyroth.bsky.social is a journalist worth supporting and Climate-Colored Goggles is important work.
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Big congrats to Orsted for completing construction of #RevolutionWind. Big congrats to the people of #RhodeIsland who will get lower, more stable energy bills. & big congrats to my #YestoWind peeps at @climateactionri.org. We fought for this project & we won./1 www.rechargenews.com/offshore-win...
rechargenews.com
US offshore wind project battered by Trump attacks installs final turbine
Last wind turbine installed at Danish renewables giant Orsted’s Revolution Wind project off New England
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Aryeh @aryehcw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Google’s response to BBM’s empire of schlock doesn’t inspire confidence for its future as a steward of the media ecosystem."
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you find a new publication on the net and you have never heard of it before, well, that might be because it's AI slop and the "writers" and "experts" it cites don't exist. Time to be extra careful about your news sources, friends. But how to combat this mass information contamination?
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It turns out that recklessly bombing facilities in cities where you don’t even bother to determine their current use (in this case, a girl’s school) is a war crime. Who knew? #impeachHegseth www.reuters.com/world/middle...
reuters.com
UN mission finds grounds to believe US committed war crimes in Iran, and Tehran crimes against humanity
A UN fact-finding mission also found that Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity during their deadly crackdown on anti-government protests.
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The research I've done points to the current #energytransition being initiated by the oil crises of the 1970s. I doubt that the primary motivation for the strongest pro-transition policies is the climate crisis. I suspect it is more often energy security & economics. It will now accelerate.
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The attack follows DHS posting "an image on social media depicting an Indian man with the words "Get off our roads, you don't know how to drive Mr. Singh." Elect racists, get hate crimes. This is not complicated.
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, I have one message: The brown, black & Muslim people who we kill overseas - directly & indirectly - are not any less deserving of grief than Americans. Their lives are not worth any less. When a human being is killed it is a tragedy.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
one of my best friends at the time was a girl my same age (10 years old) who wore a hijab and spent the next several years getting tormented by white boys for being a terrorist
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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 11/09/2026
You can credit @isabelschnabel.bsky.social with inventing & popularizing the term! gwagner.com/nyt-fossilflation gwagner.com/nature-fossilflation
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Greening Your Home Will Be Cheaper, but Expect Growing Pains
by Gernot Wagner
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#Fossilflation strikes again. I will be eternally grateful to @gwagner.com for creating? (or at least popularizing) this term that explains so much of what many economists leave out: in a fossil-fueled economy, rising fossil fuel prices hit everywhere.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11/09/2026
it was the equivalent of like 2 hours at the Battle of Stalingrad and people were acting like it was the worst disaster anyone had ever suffered
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was 26 on 9/11. I was driving tour buses in a national park as a seasonal job & had just crossed a pass when I got the news on the radio. I recall saying to my fellow park workers: they're going to kill a lot more people in the Middle East over this than died today. This was deemed insensitive.
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Some relatively good news from the United States. We installed 11.4 GW of #solar in Q2 2026, bringing the H1 total to ~19.4 GW. Solar is still being installed, 18 months into Trump 2.0. But market growth has stalled around this level since 2024. /1 seia.org/research-res...
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Solar Market Insight Report Q3 2026 – SEIA
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is leading the transformation to a clean energy economy. Learn more at seia.org
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Great news! EU #solar installations are up year-over-year in H1 2026, with 33.8 GW installed. This is particularly notable given that installations were high in 2025. Now the continent needs more batteries. And more transmission. #energytransition www.solarpowereurope.org/insights/out...
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EU Solar Market Update: 2026 Mid-Year Analysis - SolarPower Europe
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is awesome. Property rights must have limits. There are a lot of slumlords in #Providence who should be forced to sell their properties. I've seen these rentals. Many of them are vile.
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is my favorite photo today. An immigrant member of Congress in a head scarf at the wheel of a @teamsters.bsky.social-branded truck. Diversity, meritocracy, and worker power. This is what America can be. /1
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Rory Neuner @rneuner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Also heading out to vote today here in PVD!
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Glad to be able to go down to city hall in Providence, #RhodeIsland to vote today. Some of the more important races: @helenabfoulkes.bsky.social for governor. Helena has sophisticated, thoughtful plans for the power sector & mass transit. McKee has been a disaster.1 substack.com/inbox/post/2...
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Christian Roselund: The opposite of leadership: Dan McKee’s climate sabotage
“We can only hope that when Foulkes is governor, she also clears away the remaining rot and regressive elements in the state government that McKee inherited from Raimondo...”
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I've not been able to get @actblueorg.bsky.social to process new donations for weeks. Anybody else having this problem? Sincerely hoping this is not a widespread problem given how close we are to the midterms.
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Finally got around to reading @sueanderbois.bsky.social's very detailed & comprehensive Energy Plan. This is the kind of vision that we need in #RhodeIsland & this is why I will be voting for Sue for Lt. Governor. (We at @climateactionri.org also endorsed her). www.sueanderbois.com/priorities
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Priorities | SueAnderBois.com
Sue AnderBois is running for Rhode Island lieutenant governor to make government work for Rhode Islanders, give the office a purpose, and get things done.
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Yesterday legendary local journalist @steveahlquist.bsky.social published my account of the climate failures of #RhodeIsland Governor Dan McKee on his substack. For those of you not familiar, let's go over his biggest misses. /1 #climatecrisis substack.com/inbox/post/2...
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Christian Roselund: The opposite of leadership: Dan McKee’s climate sabotage
“We can only hope that when Foulkes is governor, she also clears away the remaining rot and regressive elements in the state government that McKee inherited from Raimondo...”
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thanks @steveahlquist.bsky.social for publishing my longer-form, blow-by-blow description of just how bad Governor Dan McKee has been on the #climatecrisis. And why no one who took part in the climate sabotage in his administration should be in any future admin. substack.com/inbox/post/2...
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Christian Roselund: The opposite of leadership: Dan McKee’s climate sabotage
“We can only hope that when Foulkes is governor, she also clears away the remaining rot and regressive elements in the state government that McKee inherited from Raimondo...”
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thank you @canarymedia.com for the opportunity to comment on @govdanmckee.bsky.social's climate record: ​“I’ve been trying to find a Democratic governor with a worse record on the climate than Dan McKee, and I’m not sure there is one.” #climatecrisis www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...
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Clean energy super PAC looks to take down a Democratic governor
Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee is the first Democrat targeted by the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition, which has notched wins against clean energy foes in GOP…
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I've known @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social for years. You'd think I'd have a better idea of where he is getting the policy proposals for his campaign. I don't. Because he isn't listening to long-time housing or transit advocates. But this does provide a clue. /1 www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/17/m...
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Democratic Socialism and ideas that resonate are not ‘radicalism’ - The Boston Globe
A co-chair of Reclaim Rhode Island and host of The Dig podcast sees an opportunity for David Morales to do in Providence what Zohran Mamdani has done in New York City.
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Had a great time last night canvassing with @climateactionri.org for @helenabfoulkes.bsky.social for governor and @meghankallman.bsky.social to return to state senate. These 2 races are really important for #RhodeIsland 's response to the #climatecrisis. I'll go into some details why. /1 (thread)
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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Other Rhode Island podcast names for the taking: Untreated Westerly Pure, Uncut Warwick Raw Middletown Crude Cranston Unprocessed Pawtucket
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Interesting that Joe Solomon is actively courting gun nuts & Republicans in his run in the *Democratic Primary* for #RhodeIsland attorney general. Thank you @steveahlquist.bsky.social for flagging. Another reason to vote for @keithhoffmann.bsky.social. steveahlquist.substack.com/p/joseph-sol...
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Joseph Solomon Jr. is asking Republicans to disaffiliate and vote for him in the Democratic Primary for Attorney General
"You go right on the Secretary of State website. If you’re going to update your voter address, it’s the same way as unaffiliating," said Representative Solomon. "Very, very simple."
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JenStewart4RI.bsky.social @jenstewart4ri.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is unjustifiable. And of course the current administration has never bothered to offer any compelling reason for their war on Iran, nor any achievable objective. International law makes clear - civilians should never be targets. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...
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Is the US committing war crimes by targeting Iran’s civilian infrastructure?
International law experts ‘seriously concerned’ about ‘strikes on schools, health centres and homes’ in contravention of Geneva conventions
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"The missiles detonated above a sports complex and two residential neighborhoods, Airwars found. The blasts killed at least 21 civilians, including seven children, according to Iranian officials.” #murder #warcrimes apnews.com/article/iran...
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New US missile appears to have left wide path of death and destruction in Iranian city, report says
Lockheed Martin has touted the pinpoint accuracy of its Precision Strike Missile. But the conflict monitor Airwars says a close look at what is believed to be its first use in combat highlights the po...
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
JD Vance should never be able to wash the stench of the blood libel he leveled at Haitian immigrants for as long as he lives. One can practically pin the center of the moral rot of this country on the Vice President himself.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.
"I wish President Trump could hear the mom's wails. The

family wants people to know that this was a suicide and they

want people to know that President Trump, (Stephen) Miller, and Markwayne Mullin's inhumane immigration policies made this happen," Ruby wrote.
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Absolutely thrilled to have the support of @tommatzzie.bsky.social and the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition to replace our awful governor here in #RhodeIsland with @helenabfoulkes.bsky.social. Don't mess with #cleanenergy. www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...
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Meet the super PAC working to crush clean energy's political foes
After Republicans voted to undo much of the Inflation Reduction Act, a few cleantech professionals set out to exact electoral revenge. So far, it seems to…
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