P.J. Partington 🇨🇦

It makes me so sad that these people can’t think of something more interesting to do with a whole extra room. Get a hobby!!!! Start a canoe collection, become a weird puzzle person, build your kids a ball pit, stack all your unread New Yorkers, anything!!

This is blowing my mind. Is it some weird hybrid? One fossil kitchen and one electric one? 🤣

next time!

Ontario will miss 2030 emission reduction goal by even wider gap than it admits: auditor | CBC News Ontario's environment ministry says it will miss its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target, but the auditor general says province will in fact likely miss that target by an even wider margin.

I don't think there's a sad enough trombone sound for this www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A modified cover of Neil Young's seminal album Tonight's the Night reads "Energy Beers: Tonight's the Night" (because it is)

It's happening again, Toronto friends. Come one, come all!

Beaches Brewing, 8pm onwards

SERENITY NOW!

(Sunrise this morning on Lake Ontario)

A mysterious head looms in detail in front of a distant wind turbine. Is it… a cat? A gopher of some kind? It’s a hero for our times, that’s what. And if you come to the event you might be lucky enough to get a selfie if you as really nicely

And just maybe an Even More Special Guest will make a rare appearance out of their natural habitat in the NCR….

Powering the Future: Innovative Electricity Transformations in Canada · Luma Do you spend almost none of your time thinking about energy and electricity, but thinking you probably should spend a little bit more time? Do you have a…

Toronto pals, I *highly* recommend this event that NRCan is hosting for T.O. Climate Week. If hearing from your favourite federal electricity innovation nerds isn’t enough to lock your Friday morning down, we’ve got Microsoft, Toronto Hydro, Alectra, Goldfinch, AND a net-zero venue luma.com/npilhiuw

Come for the great journalism, stay for the endless hit parade of Shania Twain references

Purely in the name of fun, here's a chart of all countries that were at 3-4% EV share in 2019 in IEA's database: www.iea.org/data-and-sta...

Queen streetcars loop-di-looping at their Eastern turnaround point

The cover of Canada's 2025 National Inventory Report, featuring Queen streetcars loop-di-looping at their Eastern turnaround point, but at night this time

Not to brag, but my morning run took me past a famous landmark 🏃🌟

⚠️Safe underground carbon storage could reduce warming by 10 times less than previously thought.

New research by @iiasa.ac.at with scientists from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social mapped safe areas that can be used for underground carbon storage 🧵

Was wondering why our outdoor rug is often askew and this morning I got a clue as to why (or at least *how*)

Lots of bikes in from of danish parliament

Bike parking at the Danish Parliament ❤️

Wait, are you still in Copenhagen? I'm arriving tomorrow and would love to take you up on one of your headshots if you have any openings 😊

Baking Bread in Lyon For a newcomer to the city, a boulangerie apprenticeship reveals a way of life.

Perhaps a cousin of the great Baker Bob: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I’ll admit to being curious about the bacon chocolate churros and the gyro made with “choux oil” 🧐

Yessssss, Moon of the Crusted Snow is the best 🌕🥧❄️

(And its sequel, Moon of the Turning Leaves 🌕🔄🍂 )

Are they encouraging the kids to fail fast? 🤔

Free advice to IPCC comms people: "You back there are you back there listening to me am I audible what do I do to make this audible" would make for a title for the next AR cycle

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Friends, if you too missed this unspeakably beautiful @joriegraham.bsky.social gem during the blur of the pandemic, please give yourselves a moment to savour the complete and utter emotional devastation: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Of course! The whole time series is available on the open data site, just in case you feel the need to make graphs that will haunt you in your sleep...

data-donnees.az.ec.gc.ca/data/substan...

While not an IPCC/UNFCCC reporting category, net emissions from natural disturbances in managed forests are included for transparency purposes in Canada's NIR (e.g., highlighted row):

Still waiting on an Art of Translation interview! (Pretty please, @parisreview.bsky.social? 🥺🙏)

This is such an important area of investigation regarding the midtransition and who will be facing the costs, and how to manage it equitably.

Sunrise over still Lake Ontario, looking West from Balmy Beach, with downtown Toronto in distance

Reverse view

Sunrise over still Lake Ontario, looking East from Balmy Beach

Toronto good morning

Nice one, thanks for the tip! Virtue rules the day, as ever 😸

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I'm still struggling to understand where the "barley 20%" comes in, but I'm guessing it has something to do with Scotland? Isn't scotch barley 100% though?

Sunrise over still water and Eastern White Pines