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Join us on 12/16 for a deep dive into one of the most immediate, practical opportunities to cut industrial climate pollution in the U.S. — electrifying low and medium temperature process heat!

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@cw3eScripps is now accepting applications for its Summer 2026 undergraduate internship program! Paid & lodging provided, to work with world class weather, water, climate scientists in La Jolla, CA!

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New explainer video: what are those future Union Station run-through tracks?!?

Definitely not the driver this year but a fascinating paper I can’t wait to read.

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Strongest S&P Case-Shiller home price index gains nationally since February in the month of September (after my SA - their SA is bad). National prices +1.2% annualized, had fallen slightly MoM for March-July. This can get revised down but clear improvement.

Solar becomes top source of electricity in California Over the past 12 months, solar power has become California’s largest source of electricity, a trend likely to continue.

But arguably already happened last summer (maybe just a summer peak and not valid ytd) pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/07/09/s...

#climaterisk

Update from EIA confirms a decline in natural gas use in California with 2025 data. www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

ACA premium hikes for older households?

Have a disaster nerd in your life? Need a gift? A few ideas:

andrewrumbach.substack.com/p/my-2025-di...

How immigration lawyer networks are succeeding First, lawyers across the country are building informal mentoring networks to coordinate a legal resistance to mass deportations. Then, should SDG&E customers pay for the company’s firefighting progra...

From Friday - San Diego Gas and Electric bought a nighttime firefighting helicopter, never used it because of permitting issues, and ended up selling it to the county. Pretty expansive use of utility resources to tackle fire risk. #climaterisk www.kpbs.org/podcasts/san...

Jebus, in just 2 or 3 years Pakistan has imported enough solar panels that, in some times in the coming year, panels will cover *all* the country's demand.

Alright so my entire San Diego neighborhood is 2 way stops and it is insane. Just insane. Google maps is outdated but we have apt bldg every block (tons of new 5+1s) with 2-ways. Hell nearby we have 2 way YIELDS

A geospatial model that incorporates geotechnical information at the local scale may improve the geospatial liquefaction model used by the USGS. Find out more in #SRL. ⚒️

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@mtsw.bsky.social Everytime you say we're witnessing a transformative moment in global energy production. Reports quick to read to and lots of figures inside.

#climaterisk China has flat fossil fuel growth for 6quarters (Structural decline in FF demand). India had a flat quarter (mild weather). Even with hydro down YoY (EU), we are basically flat on FF electricity growth. It's happening guys.

Germany’s first grid-balancing solar project might be a ‘paradigm shift’ for energy A modestly sized solar PV project in central Germany might have just ushered in a new era of renewables’ relationship with the grid.

'plant has bidirectional aFRR capability, can rapidly curtail its output during periods of high generation, reducing systems’ reliance on fossil fuel plants for negative control energy. It can also rapidly respond and produce power at times of low generation, even during periods of negative pricing'

Sunday Read: Middle Village Has a Love-Hate Relationship with the IBX - Streetsblog New York City The IBX light rail project is collecting out a loud group of critics — and a wellspring of support in central Queens.

Will the IBX "destroy" Middle Village by "BRING[ing] DRUGS" and "homeless" to the Queens enclave? Or will it be a "positive thing for [the] neighborhood" by helping residents "save a lot of time ... going to Mets games?"

It all depends on your outlook. buff.ly/lRe4zut

This reads like a pkd novel.

Clean electrification is inevitable Kingsmill Bond explains why the global march of "electrotech" has moved beyond the reach of US political interference.

Today on Volts: the subset of cleantech known as "electrotech" -- solar, batteries, heat pumps, etc. -- is marching toward inevitable victory, not because it's low-emissions (though it is), but because it's more efficient & cheaper. I discuss the good news with @kingsmillbond.bsky.social.

Unmanaged Retreat: Inside America’s First Federal Climate Relocation Attempt — AMERICA ADAPTS The Climate Change Podcast Unmanaged Retreat: Inside America’s First Federal Climate Relocation Attempt. Ep. 240.

@americaadapts.bsky.social talks unmanaged retreat. #climaterisk www.americaadapts.org/episodes/unm...

Great suggestion. This mixup means lots of non technical people fundamentally miss what AI means in different contexts

What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management Grab your umbrella and your tights.

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

#climaterisk

I’m really surprised this isn’t bigger news. Just under 10 million people live in Tehran. Where can they go? Where else in Iran will have enough water? This will undoubtedly strain the country’s and the region’s politics, finances and governance capacity.

Oh I know. The NEC Amtrak is simply better than flying (we need this in other parts of the country).

Skip security and traffic at the airport is the only way it makes sense.

This is for the base plotting library. I don't use ggplot2. FWIW I found plotly really good for making interactive plots and that had a lot of customization options but took a while to transition

One solution iirc is changing the margins before plotting. You have to double check counting order (bottom axis CCW?) and that moves the entire axis text up/down...I think. It's been a while. Another is to use a custom axis with axis() and use xaxt='n' in plot()

Par(mar =c(x,y,z,d))

This visualization by @pythonmaps (a must follow account) shows global shipping lanes in the gorgeous ocean-centered Spillhaus projection. Extremely pleasing to look at!