Jonathan Buonocore

Our new paper! Building electrification can be good for health too – the more renewables on the grid, the better it is. 🛟 | #energysky

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... with @joeallenjoe.bsky.social and other lovely people who aren't on here

SLOPE The State and Local Planning for Energy (SLOPE) Platform delivers jurisdictionally resolved potential and projection data on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainable transportation to enab...

NREL is a national treasure 💡🔌

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I don't think we should talk about climate change anymore, we should talk about kitchen-table issues. Like how climate change will destroy your kitchen table and everything else you have

With 1 of 5ish deaths worldwide due to air pollution, largely from fossil fuels, it seems like it'd benefit present day well-being of a few people if a wee bit of money was left in the "Energy Transition" bucket...

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Does this mean they're going to start building a new peaker plant next year?

Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Is the EIA US Energy Atlas no longer publicly available? www.eia.gov/maps/ #energysky

Here's something that's not talked about enough

The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year

1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels

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Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength Conversations around misinformation that assume everyone cares about literal truth may be missing the point.

This seems pretty relevant for #climatesky folks... theconversation.com/winning-with...

Climate science is facing significant opposition in the US. Today we are launching the collaborative Strengthening Trust in Climate Scientists Megastudy 📈 Find out more and join our efforts 👇🧵

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That’s great!!

I contributed along with @jonlevybu.bsky.social @nckmllx.bsky.social @kaichenyale.bsky.social @rycalder.bsky.social @calebdresser.bsky.social @energymorgan.bsky.social @anorisarma.bsky.social and many other lovely people who are not on here.

We also find major deficiencies in how the health impacts of this action are quantified, ranging from air quality to questions about electricity reliability. There is much more, but in the end, we conclude that the evidentiary basis for greenhouse gases is robust, and stronger than it was in 2009.

We also find increases in other health harms that did not get attention in the 2009 endangerment finding, including mental health harms, displacement, violence, harms to workers, and harms for those experiencing displacement...

increases in foodborne illnesses, Valley Fever, and other climate sensitive diseases, harms to air quality, and many other diseases.

Major findings: There is increasing certainty in health harms due to climate change and that greenhouse gases pose an indisputable danger to human health and well-being. These health harms span harms due to heat, extreme weather including floods, droughts, storms, and wildfires...

Proud to be part of the Expert Working Group on Climate Change and Health that just put together a report summarizing the evidence of health harms of climate change to date. Report is here: zenodo.org/records/1728... 🛟 #climatesky

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

I would like to rebrand climate change as "fossil fuels taking away your temperature freedom" #greensky, 🔌💡 | 🛟 #climatesky How do I do this? Do I submit a formal application somewhere?

This Expert Working Group on Climate Change and Health in the United States comprises 114 scientists with experience researching various dimensions of the health effects of climate change. We are submitting this public comment in response to the proposed reconsideration of the Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards. Our overall conclusion is that EPA is incorrect in its assessment of uncertainties in the 2009 Endangerment Finding as a reason to reconsider the rule, given that the scientific evidence since that time reduces the uncertainty regarding health harms from climate change stemming from greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gas emissions, by altering the climate and disrupting earth systems, pose a clear and indisputable danger to human health and well-being.

Another expert review of the science behind the endangerment finding, this time from health professionals.

they conclude that CO2 emissions "pose a clear and indisputable danger to human health and well-being."

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Thank you! You’re making me feel much less bad about leaving tonight…

Trump Just Suffered His First Loss on Offshore Wind A judge has lifted the administration’s stop-work order against Revolution Wind.

breaking from me: the trump administration just suffered its first major loss in court over its onslaught on offshore wind

the revolution wind project can now resume construction after a federal judge found its developer orsted was likely to win against the trump order to stop work

@heatmap.news

Interior of a really nice new train that’s about 1/4 full. Rows of seats with four seats in each row and blue signs hanging overhead saying welcome aboard

I can confirm the Nextgen Acelas are really nice.

The Science of Delay Why we wait until millions are harmed by toxic chemicals before we act

The Science of Delay
The lesson of PFAS is the same lesson we should have learned from lead, asbestos, and air pollution: if we wait until the evidence is definitive, we’ve waited too long.

I’ve met plenty of climate deniers. I’ve never met a COPD denier or a heart attack denier…

DOE CWG STATEMENT (second paragraph of section 2.1.1, page 3): “Piao et al. (2020) noted that greening was even observable in the Arctic.” COMMENT: This statement implies that the Arctic greening signal was caused by elevated CO2 , however that is not the scientific consensus. Piao et al. (2020) attribute the greening trend in the Arctic predominantly to growing season length driven by warmer temperatures (see also Y. Zhang et al., 2022). Piao et al. (2020) also note that this positive impact of increasing temperatures appears to have weakened over the past four decades, “suggesting a possible saturation of future greening in response to warmer temperature” (see also comment on greenness trends related to Section 2.1.1, first sentence of Page 4). It is also important to put Arctic greening more broadly into the context of the carbon cycle and other impacts. While above-ground plants may have displayed more leaf area over the past decades, rising temperatures also thaw permafrost and drive accelerated decomposition in highly carbon rich soils (Turetsky et al., 2020), a process which is expected to accelerate as climate continues to warm (Miner et al., 2022). Thus even with Arctic greening, high latitude terrestrial systems may become net carbon sources to the atmosphere, causing an amplifying feedback (Braghiere et al., 2023). Other risks to the Arctic linked to higher CO2 levels and rising temperatures are not mentioned in this report (Virkkala et al., 2025). The Arctic is warming at a rate of 2 to 3 times the global average, leading to thawing of permanently frozen soils (permafrost), with downstream impacts including loss of structural support for buildings and subsidence, threatening communities, roads, runways, and other assets across Alaska (Manos et al., 2025; University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering US Army Corps of Engineers Alaska District & Laboratory, 2019).

Our comment on the DOE CWG report is done. It tips the scales at 439 pages, approx. 3x longer than the DOE report.
This is related to Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

Example: refuting one sentence.

Fantastic!!

For example/context, Boston University (famously located in Boston) has a PPA with a wind farm in South Dakota (famously not Boston), displacing coal, which is already pretty much gone from the New England grid. I for one would rather see that than getting hung up on 24/7/365 matching...

What kind of alternative market or standard formulations are out there? Is there capacity/interest in focusing on carbon emitted, or even including air pollution and health impacts?!?