P.J. Partington 🇨🇦

an important anniversary this year: colm tóibín's 2009 novel *brooklyn* is exactly as old as avril lavigne was, when she recorded and released her debut album "let go", featuring "sk8er boi", "complicated", and "i'm with you". congratulations to both

oh no, you're just a few days late for [widely-beloved] Carbon Dork Week! 💔

Would really appreciate if more people took courses like this!

Would be good to add more depth on end-use in Session 1 (maybe it’s already there) and bring climate forward to an earlier slot as essential context

International Women’s Day Event: “Your Career in Climate” with Catherine McKenna and Katharine Hayhoe To mark International Women’s Day 2026, the Lawson Climate Institute at University of Toronto, together with the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and the School of the Environment…

Almost sold out! 🎟️ Join us March 9 at @utoronto.ca for an International Women’s Day conversation on your career in climate with me and @katharinehayhoe.com! Register while you still can:

lci.utoronto.ca/event/intern...

Some of these are absolute bangers!! “kids for saving earth” and elegant raccoon would totally be hot commodities in today’s playground market

Same here! Also use both every day on our induction and never even imagined having an issue (or telling people how to cook)

“When life makes no sense I find that at least books do”

First page into my Dublin Review and they’ve already got me

(Liz Macbride, ‘Universal topics’)

Netherlands and China are on the way to being the next Norway, where internal combustion engine auto sales are nearly dead.

BEVs were 65% of Dutch auto sales in December and 41% for 2025.

In China, internal combustion autos market share falls to ~40%.
robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/ #energysky

The sweet sweet corduroy of groomed snow in morning sunshine

The sacred patterns

Cute lil brown and white owl in a hole in a tree

Snowy ravine with location of owl hangout circled, high up in a tree

Good morning from your local urban owl, surveying their frigid marshmallow kingdom at -20C

Canadians Are Boycotting US Ski Slopes Travelers from Canada, long the biggest source of international visitors to the US, have pushed back against the president’s imperialist rhetoric. Winter resorts are feeling the chill.

It me. Excited to rip some great Quebec hills in March! ⛷️https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-26/canadian-skiers-skip-us-mountain-resorts-this-season-thanks-to-trump?srnd=homepage-canada

Montreal bagel fresh from oven, feat. cream cheese, lox. If six ingredients are required can add red onion, capers, salt, pepper. 🥯

Sure, plastic crap is a scourge, but surely we can find a better target for our ire than one-handed 5 year olds looking for a good outdoor play. 🙄

Of all the things in the world to be a crusty performative joyless scold about, perhaps George could at least pick on a grownup's toy and not something that encourages kids to be outside and playing together in winter (including kids who might have trouble making snowballs on their own).

🥁 India Is Electrifying Faster Than China 🥁

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

www.canada.ca/en/environme...

Will be very interesting to watch! Particularly on the most affordable end 👀

"The proportion of the country-specific quota reserved for affordable EVs with an import price of $35,000 CAD or less will reach 50% by 2030, kickstarting the availability of more affordable electric vehicles in Canada."

Happy New Karl Ove Knausgaard Day to my North American comrades 🫡📚

Happy 20 years! What a wild ride... a dependable cycle of deja vu, regular jump scares, and a steady procession of progress I don't remember having the courage to imagine 🥂

Confirmed that US is withdrawing from:

-UNFCCC
-IPCC
-Int’l Renewable Energy Agency
-Int’l Union for Conservation of Nature
-UN Oceans

and many more

Trump Withdraws US From 31 Bodies in UN, Already in Fiscal Peril President Donald Trump has ordered the US government to pull out of 66 international organizations that the White House said “no longer serve American interests.”

Trump appears to have withdrawn the US from the UNFCCC, the foundational treaty for global cooperation on climate change (free to read) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In Q4 2024, electric SUVs in QC actually pipped ICE ones!

Ha, thanks. Couldn't abide gridlines though! And yes on driver of decline. The monthly data (much shorter time series) shows more clearly a huge run-up to end of the year as folks rushed to take advantage of the expiring program, peaking at 44% ZEV. bsky.app/profile/pjpa...

Here's a Québec version (closest we've got to Finland so far!)

(Quarterly data from StatCan 20-10-0025-01)

A graph showing a statistically significant relationship between the price index of booze and my inexorable ageing

My birthday wish for you all is that you find coworkers so lovely and so alive to what a frickin nerd you are that *11 years later* they bring you custom graphs for your birthday 😍🎉

As someone who had to dismantle their own cap and trade program and climate plan after a change in government, I endorse the message about political durability 😅 But don't let the agency drain out of the "seen to" side of it. Climate policy opponents can handily out-message facts and careful design

Psh, what are you, and expert in mid-transition or something? 😋

No, sorry, but is this not the complete opposite? A regulated utility using its political clout to lock in new gas infrastructure and its associated path dependencies? Ok with dealing with hardest stuff later, but in the world of real-life long-lived assets we should avoid making new hard stuff, no?

Ontario seeks to overrule independent energy board on natural gas decision | CBC News The decision forces homebuyers to pay upfront for natural gas connections. The province says that makes building more expensive in the middle of a housing crisis. Environmentalists say it incentivizes...

local example: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Data from StatCan Table 20-10-0085-01 www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/c...