Shivika Mittal

It's crazy how reliant the world's entire energy system is on one body of water, the Strait of Hormuz, just 20 nautical miles across at its narrowest, and situated in one of the most volatile regions on Earth. Here are the countries most dependent on oil&gas through the strait.

Shift Generation & Transmission Costs to Data Centers; Force the Largest to Provide Energy Storage & Clean Energy The House killed bills that would have saved Virginians money on electricity bills and made it harder to build more dirty fossil fuel energy generation plants. Yet these same bills passed the Senate a...

WOW! As of this morning only about 350 letters had been sent out urging our Delegates to hold data centers accountable and lower our energy costs. BUT after we blasted this call to action, we hit our goal of sending over 1,000 letters to our Delegates. Keep going!

actionnetwork.org/letters/shif...

AI data centre surge would put UK’s climate change targets at risk MPs call for ‘national conversation’ on potential drawbacks of sharp rise in data centres, which would use more power than the UK uses at its peak

Ofgem, the UK energy regulator, has disclosed that 140 data centres want grid connections, requiring **50GW** of power capacity at peak

Britain’s peak demand on a recently was 45GW

Can this amount of energy be provided cleanly? Even if it can, is it worth it?

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

A Secret Oil Cartel Might Have Killed Our Clean-Energy Future In a landmark antitrust case, Michigan alleges oil companies colluded to “capture and kill” clean-energy and electric-vehicle efforts.

Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠

this is a top @stuti.bsky.social piece and I also find the headline so interesting - 'proof the green transition isn't dead'.

I cannot imagine how anyone could even really formulate the idea that it *is* dead? I guess because they hear about it less; therefore assume it just died??

Fascinating figure from the EIA. The part at the bottom highlights the repeated patterns of policies reaching end of life, and being renewed again. Over and over again.
A consequence of this was that EIA's projections, based on current policy, kept saying that US wind installations would stall.

While our best estimate is that US fossil-fuel CO₂ emissions went up about 2% in 2025, the EIA is currently forecasting a drop of 2.2% in 2026.
robbieandrew.github.io/USA/

Scientists Confirm 2025 Was Third-Hottest Year, Trailing 2024 and 2023 Last year was one of the warmest on record, even with a La Niña weather cycle that worked to cool the world down.

2025 was the third-hottest year on record, coming in behind 2023 and 2024 and making it clear that climate change has arrived.

Interesting to note that the end of 2025 did not see the usual surge in sales. There have been policy changes and pressure from the government on the industry to rein in the steep discounting we've seen previously. Dec 2025 sales were 14% lower than Dec 2024.
www.cpcaauto.com/newslist.php...

Not just any researcher. Rob Lempert!

Would these executives be ok to use chatbots for their health advise and treatment without any human intervention/ expert valuation?

Inefficient Jet Engines Repurposed for AI Data Centres.
Rising electricity demand from AI is pushing tech firms to use repurposed jet engines for data centres. Only about 40% efficient, they burn far more fuel than modern power plants as grids struggle to keep up.
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

RERC says no to new 3,200 MW coal power citing consumer interest and cheaper alternatives RERC rejected a proposal for 3,200 MW coal power, citing consumer interest and cheaper alternatives like renewable energy and battery storage. The decision aligns with Rajasthan's Clean Energy Policy ...

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☀️ A big story from #India:
The Indian state Rajasthan just rejected a 3,200 MW #coal power plant because #renewables are cheaper.

www.downtoearth.org.in/energy/rerc-...

We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege

Every transmission story the same. Every transmission story is the same. Every transmission story is the sa...

Conditional and unconditional NDCs are there in revised NDC documents submitted. what are we modelling here ???

‘There is no money’: As carbon markets collapse, what happens to the forests they promised to protect? After it was found most offsets did not represent real carbon reductions, the money dried up. But successful schemes such as Kasigau in Kenya now face a stark future

The carbon market is not the way to do CO₂ removal (CDR). If we're serious about this, it has to be a government-led effort.

@robinlamboll.bsky.social are these pathways from AR6 database ???

When any government receives negative information about their inflated base year emissions due to improved methodologies, they should correct their course and increase mitigation efforts instead of maintaining the reduction target in the revised NDC. Here is one example from Nigeria NDC.

"Here is the graph, which is so wild, the climate scientist had to call a colleague & check it"

It is true actually! In the Global Carbon Budget we do not usually show the LUC like this, because of interannual variability & uncertainty. But it is what the data says!

politiken.dk/klima/art106...

Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.

This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.

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which indicator they used to make this claim "Australia is moving too fast, & faster than its peers in the OECD."

Is his pivot a result of the US political environment, or does he have some divine insight that climate scientists are missing?

Interesting climate/energy policy developments in China.

We have highlighted this point in UNEP gap report 2022 "mitigation cost estimates of least-cost
pathways disregard the economic benefits that accrue
through avoided damages and societal co-benefits of
a low-carbon transition"

‘Do You Want a Player to Die?’ Tennis Feels the Heat Over Extreme Conditions Sweltering temperatures in China have pushed the sport’s stars to the limit, leaving them cramping, throwing up on court and sweating through four pairs of sneakers

When tennis becomes a metaphor for all life on Earth.
www.wsj.com/sports/tenni...

Influence of individual models and studies on quantitative mitigation findings in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - Nature Communications The paper analyses the impact of the uneven representation of models and studies on key mitigation findings in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. It finds that the model with the most scenarios has a considerable influence on several findings.

New paper with @glenpeters.bsky.social in Nature Communications today. We show how models and studies with a lot of scenarios in the IPCC scenarios database have a large impact on key findings, including emissions reductions, net-zero GHG year, and coal, gas, and oil consistent with 1.5°C.

📢 Out now in the September 2025 issue of #JAERE! 📢
"Industrial Water Pollution and Agricultural Production in India" by Nick Hagerty ( @hagertynw.bsky.social ) and Anshuman Tiwari.
Read it here: buff.ly/oAalYIW
📈📉 #Econsky

Opportunities for decentralised solar power to improve reliability, reduce emissions and avoid stranded assets - Nature Communications National grid-connected solar mini-grids can reduce electricity costs, increase reliability and reduce carbon emissions. Improvements in grid reliability carry minimal financial risk to mini-grid...

Here is the link to this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...