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Trump says his policies will lead to “energy dominance.” Experts say electricity is going to get more expensive. Moves like slashing wind and solar will increase annual power bills by $78 to $192, one group found....

So, by coincidence, this showed up today:

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Also upgrading distribution systems for new requirements and catching up after years of near neglect on grid investment. For example, hardening distribution systems in the face of stronger storms or allowing for more distributed generation.

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Missed this back in July when New Yorker published it. A worthwhile read for anyone interested in renewables.

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

This is where the value of #NOAA & #NASA weather, climate, Earth science satellites comes into focus. Lives & property will be saved both near- and long-term. Keep this in mind as you work to shut down NASA #EarthScience research
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The future is within our grasp. Let's not miss the opportunity.

The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang

"Your job is not to turn in completed assignments; it's to learn how to think."

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so the USA gov't has pretty much declared war on the USA and I don't get why more people aren't freaking out...

International "State of the Climate" report confirms record-high greenhouse gases, global temperatures, global sea level, and ocean heat in 2024 The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

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more performative BS built on lies.

Increasing costs to prepare, mitigate, repair or replace don't care if you deny climate change or not.

More stupid. It's a flood of stupid. A tsunami of stupid.

Stupid. Self-destructive. And harmful. "We have met the enemy and he is us."

This is dumb, dumb, dumb. We are no longer a serious country.

Let's keep this going!

This was worth reading. A detailed debunking of bad faith claims by denialists.

I see no downside here, this would be a real benefit of LLMs.

This is an extremely significant development and will reshape geopolitics for a long time.

Continental Drying - the world is losing freshwater at dangerous rates Climate change is driving profound changes across the whole Earth system including the water cycle which is now changing at unprecedented rates with impacts on society, ecology and sea level rise.

Tom Harris of Climate Uncovered lays out the world's freshwater issues with insightful detail. Another one to bookmark.

drtomharris.substack.com/p/continenta...

How clear and simple data visualizations bring the climate crisis home Climate change is a slow-moving disaster. We need graphics that capture both its pace and its impact.

Data visualizations help us understand climate change. Find some very useful ones on this page from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:

thebulletin.org/2025/07/how-...

Why your energy bill is suddenly so much more expensive And why it’s not getting cheaper any time soon.

Good explainer about energy costs pointing out that bills are coming due for an aging distribution system no longer fit for purpose.

grist.org/energy/why-y...

New data from our Global #CoalPlant Tracker is out. These are just a few key trends:

📉 Ireland phases out coal
📉 Latin America: zero new coal proposals
📉 Türkiye: only 1 proposal remains
📈 Indonesia expands on- & off-grid coal

Explore the data ⤵️
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Arctic Sea Ice Extent battling for record low....

Zero-sum Thinking and the Labor Market is college worth it? and other questions about the state of things

more insightful analysis from Kyla Scanlon:

kyla.substack.com/p/zero-sum-t...

This is astonishing.

Global sea surface temperatures are once again pushing close to record breaking temperatures despite the lack of El Nino.

This is largely driven by a very, very warm seas in the Pacific & around northwest Europe.

"There's something happening here
But what it is ain't exactly clear ... "

Subsurface heat is likely involved in the intensification of the North Pacific marine heatwave (MHW) to insane levels | Jan Umsonst Subsurface heat is likely involved in the intensification of the North Pacific marine heatwave (MHW) to insane levels Its also another indication that subsurface heat accumulated in the oceans become...

Its also another indication that subsurface heat accumulated in the oceans becomes now a feedback as ever more is released back to the atmosphere...

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Line graph time series for Arctic sea ice volume in every June from 1901 through 2025. Two datasets are compared between PIOMAS-20C (a blue line) and PIOMAS v2.1 (a dashed red line). There is large interannual variability, but a long-term decreasing trend since 1990.

Now showing average June #Arctic sea ice volume since the year 1901...

A high resolution version of this graphic can be downloaded at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i.... Comparison between PIOMAS-20C and PIOMAS datasets available at doi.org/10.1175/JCLI....

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