Chris Turner

There is a lot of this. And it is too often accompanied by a hundred self-serious dudes holding microphones saying “a president moving on a legume like this is a shrewd way to start a conversation about lentil imports or maybe to signal to US BBQ sidedish makers that he is on their side somehow”

Having lived in Missouri, Colorado and Alberta, I'm sticking with my take

I mean sure but by those measures the Texas comparison falls even flatter. Texas has six cities of 500k+ and its own regional economic profile defined in part by sharing a border (and history and population) with Mexico

Its municipal and (recent) provincial voting patterns suggest otherwise (and even before that Calgary was very red tory). And compared to Dallas or Houston? It may as well be Cuba

Calgary is much more liberal than any city other than Austin in Texas. Edmonton is Redmonton. Texas is entirely its own trip socially and politically (and was once its own country). And the Alabama comparison is just silly. Cowboy hats and oil money are a surface-level AB/TX overlap

Historically resource-based economy (CO also has ranching, mining, O&G). Modern cities and mostly progressive urban population, with many recent(ish) arrivals from the east. Was never its own country. Conservative rural population, with pockets of religious extremism. Outdoorsy, mountainous, pretty.

They’re both wrong. It’s the Colorado of Canada

That @thebeaverton.com data is concerning, few outlets more deserving of our trust

Chinese agricultural workers tending crops from a small vehicle under a canopy of solar panels

Still thinking about this image from @70sbachchan.bsky.social's thread, which might be the closest thing to a real-life solar punk illustration I've ever seen

“China’s package of automation, digitalization, and electrification offers firms and nations not just carbon-reduction but also—more persuasively—productivity, efficiency, and energy sovereignty.” This is where the pace of the 21st-century energy industry is being set, folks

I do wish we all just said, oh someone's trying to do climate scolding in the Guardian again, must be some weird nostalgic riff on that viral MGMT origin clip? And then moved on and checked last night's box scores. But since we do seem to be having a/c discourse, this is the correct a/c discourse

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You know what solved this agonizing dilemma in the intervening years? Heat pumps and clean power. And remarkably little public scolding

2005 called and it wants its pointless handwringing hairshirt environmentalist whinge column back

I'm not sure the analysts will ever stop being surprised. Sometimes feels like they feel some duty to coddle the expectations of incumbents or something

Solar continues to break records and exceed expectations pretty much worldwide

This is amazing framing for the brazen corruption of a law-breaking authoritarian president

Excellent kicker to the piece from an outside observer of the supposed competition

There’s a Race to Power the Future. China Is Pulling Away. Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.

Some in-depth reporting from @nytimes.com on how China is winning the energy transition (framed as a competition with the forced marched into a nostalgic fantasy now underway in Trump's America) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

With all due respect to Dr Suzuki, this is some bullshit. And stems from the disproven idea that there was only one model of change and that its failure to conquer the world is a failure of all climate action. The Chinese have a terawatt of new solar installed in two years suggesting otherwise

Indiana Jones & The Temple of 4Chan

I spend quite a bit of my time around energy policy wonks and am regularly reminded that even people whose job it is to track the energy industries often don’t fully get how quick the solar+storage biz is moving

In my household we will be celebrating Canada Boxing Day, the day after Canada Day, where we gather together on the porch and watch this clip of Lifetime Honorary Canadian George Springer over and over all afternoon. We may start doing this every second of July

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The other day on CBC’s Power & Politics, a DC-based reporter literally quoted “someone in my building” as context. It would be FAR better journalism to say “well, David, the president is threatening these other countries and pitching a branded fragrance, so it’s hard to discern a strategy here”

Any coverage of this administration that doesn’t contextualize Trump’s statements and actions in this senile soup of grievance — including the Canadian media’s coverage, which continues to default toward looking for strategic rationales — is simply bad journalism

Same French government is pushing hard for heat pumps (as is much of the EU). Heat pumps are of course also air-conditioners, so it’s maybe a more muddled tale than it seems?

This in my experience is what writers of books are sort of nodding at when they say “it’s a marathon, not a sprint.”

Most of the marathon is just continuing to put one foot in front of the other when you can’t remember why you started run this direction or where you thought you wanted to go

This is from @rockymtninst.bsky.social's foundational 2024 report The Cleantech Revolution rmi.org/insight/the-...

A bar graph shows the meteoric rise of wind and solar power generation around the world, with several spots marked by arrows captioned with the changing takes o pessimists who've insisted for 20 years that renewables would fail

Nice to see a story I feel like I've lived every beat in a dozen times over laid out so clearly like this

Everyone from the prime minister's office to the oil patch talkiing up energy projects Canada should be fast-tracking should be asked to reconcile their plans with this graph. Not saying it can't be done, but this is what the playing field looks like now, how's your play work amidst this?