Akshat Rathi

This is one of the great ironies of the radical right - they stoke crises which will excerbate things that they are most worried about...

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Same deal in Scotland which is still rebounding from the last ice age

Local news remains undefeated in creating new weather metrics

Capital is quiet quitting US assets and helping emerging markets. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We are going to see more and more of this.

It’s just cheaper than anything else else.

#TheSunHasWon

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Brazil Is Set for a Battery Boom. China Is Poised to Benefit Multiple Chinese companies, including Huawei, are expected to bid in an upcoming Brazilian energy-storage auction.

Between 2007 and 2024, power-sector projects accounted for 45% of China’s investments in Latin America’s largest economy, totaling $35 billion. So now that Brazil needs batteries for the grid, guess who is set to benefit?

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Repeat after me - the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy, among which is the rule of law

Even in Brazil...

California’s new grid hog isn’t who you think No, data centers aren’t the primary driver of California’s soaring energy demand forecast.

Dang. California Energy Commission predicts that EV load growth will be almost DOUBLE that of data centers between 2025 and 2045.

(This is CA specifically, which has the highest EV adoption rates in the country.)

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YouTube video by DW News California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at the World Economic Forum 2026 | DW News

This is worth a watch. Nice job @semaforben.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObkK...

Never forget, Greenland is a climate story. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Not much focus on India and other Asian countries that aren't China but increasing evidence that they're fossil fuel-driven development and going straight for renewables and electrification.

Danielle Smith in Alberta: "nah, this solar/batteries thing will fade away just like the internet and the iPhone did".

If this chart doesn't terrify the oil industry, I don't know what will. India’s peak road-oil consumption per person will never reach Chinese peak levels.

Electrification – not decarbonization – is the climate story of 2026 - Zero Decarbonizing energy is just one part of the climate story. The other half is electrifying as much as possible. That is why electrification, not decarbonization, is likely going to be the most importa...

On coal specifically, you will enjoy listening to this omny.fm/shows/zero/e...

All good questions. Unfortunately, a newsletter assignment of that length doesn't afford me the time to answer them. But I will investigate over future stories. Thanks!

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

A map of southeastern Australia showing the temperature anomalies during the heatwave.

While Australian heatwaves were some of the very first extreme events attributed to climate change, people still underestimate how much worse they got - killing more people than all other natural hazards combined. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

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Isn't that a good thing too? If some charts could explain it all, we'd be living a poorer world.

What why are you seeking? Economics growth is the main driver here. That is the why.

Cheaper solar, ev, batteries etc mean India is way faster than China to reach similar stage -- Excellent news as rollout continues in other countries

taking my Board of Peace announcement so seriously that I get one of the countries wrong

Corrected!

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lol first Trump mixes up Iceland and Greenland, now his press sec mixes up Belgium and Belarus

🥁 India Is Electrifying Faster Than China 🥁

Read our story on @ember-energy.org's analysis. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A mistake from the White House then? www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...

Electrification – not decarbonization – is the climate story of 2026 Podcast Episode · Zero: The Climate Race · 22/01/2026 · 41m

Great episode of @akshatrathi.bsky.social’s Zero pod with @kingsmillbond.bsky.social. Kingsmill you briefly mentioned that eg the IEA models implicitly assume Africa won’t leapfrog to renewables. podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/z...

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