Former BoE governor Mark Carney warned us of this back in 2015.

This is Africa's first Hyperscale Data Center powered 100% by renewable geothermal energy in Kenya: buff.ly/45Qiet4

We have so many solutions. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables

When you look up 'Predatory Delay' in the dictionary:
(via Alex Steffen)

Train vs tornado today in Nebraska. No injuries reported. Video taken by Eric Carlisle. #NEwx

According to New Mexico State Police, the train was carrying non-odor propane and gasoline.

Interstate 40 closed due to train derailment west of Gallup koat.com/article/inters…

Individuals doing national harm:

Is this a first? #Oilandgas and 'sunset industry' appear in the same sentence in the The Wall Street Journal:
wsj.com/business/energ… #energytransition

The man is a legend - author of a landmark in tiger biology, 'The Deer and the Tiger,' and the subject of Peter Matthiessen's own landmark, 'The Snow Leopard.'

🔥 'The Earth has a fever and we're all feeling it in different ways,' said John Vaillant to last night's sold out RRU Changemakers Speakers Series crowd. Stay tuned for a recording of the event on the hot topic that affects us all. #Fireweather #Climate

An ode to independent Canadian bookstores. 📚 Forget Amazon. Go wander the aisles and browse the offerings at your favourite independent bookstore, by ⁦Marsha Lederman⁩ via ⁦Globe Books⁩ theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

“I had come by to make sure the university president had not called in the APD, but he did,” McAfee posted later. “Then I witnessed a young person being viciously pummeled by the cops. After demanding that they stop and refusing to step away, I was arrested.”

Here's Hanif Abdurraqib (@nifmuhammad), a 2024 #WindhamCampbellPrizes recipient for nonfiction, reading from his @NYTimes bestseller, 'There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension', a lyrical, historical, & emotionally rich exploration of his lifelong love of basketball.

A good day!

(The house has been fully electric for about a year — it just took forever for Fortis to disconnect. They don’t leave without a fight!)
#electrifyeverything

This is what Predatory Delay looks like:
#ClimateActionNow #canpoli

Canada: This was the fire activity this week on the wildfire that started outside Chetwynd, British Columbia.

Those Canadian orders for Hotshot crews will come sooner than later it looks like.

Thanks to the subscriber that shared this. 🙏 #wildfire #earth #ArborDay

The planet-killing imperative of #oilandgas : “We have created tremendous value” in Guyana, said ExxonMobil’s CEO. “We believe it is critical to defend these rights and fully preserve the value we've created.” nytimes.com/2024/04/26/bus…

To escape the heat, these lizards slowly migrated to higher, cooler elevations (aka sky islands).

That worked for a while. But when the sky islands got too hot, they died.

Moral of the story: adaptation has limits -- for lizards, and for humans.

cbsnews.com/news/lizard-po…

Gas Flaring Is Endangering Communities - RMI rmi.org/where-gas-flar…
“An estimated 140 billion cubic meters of gas valued at $16 billion [was flared] globally in 2022 — wasted gas could have met the combined domestic demands of Japan and Italy.”

Add leakage! #usapoli #cdnpoli

Katherine Rundell, who won the @BGprize in 2022 (and donated the proceeds to charity), is a seriously brilliant writer - in several genres. The prospect of sitting opposite her is exhilarating, and not a little daunting. Hay Festival Sceptre Books #BooksWorthReading

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