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An important thread on the relentless heatwave

Justice Gorsuch's opinion refers five times to "nitrous oxide" (aka laughing gas) rather than the entirely different chemical compound -- smog-causing "nitrogen oxides" -- actually at issue in the case.

Alt-fossil fuel lobbying "Mr. President... I urge you to attend the upcoming UN Conference on Environment & Development... and to support... establishing a reasonable, non-binding, stabilization level of carbon dioxide" —Enron's Ken Lay to his buddy George H.W. Bush, 3 April 1992

Bush Jr. called Enron's CEO & long-term Houston pal "Kenny Boy." Defenders argued they weren't that close, Dubya just really loved nicknames. Some of his others: "Pootie-Poot" = Vladimir Putin "Saint Jim" = James Comey "Balloon Foot" = Colin Powell "Turd Blossom" = Karl Rove

"I look forward to voting these incompetent, hubristic grifters out and I hope they spend a very long time in the wilderness." AMEN.

To give you an idea of how significant Labour’s challenges with Muslim voters has been here is the swing in the seats where over 20% of the population are Muslim. Labour clearly have a real challenge to rebuild trust when in Government.

Happy to see @MeeraMahadevan's superb article—which already has dozens of citations as a pre-print—out at last. Her innovative methodology exposes data manipulation and systematic politicization of electricity in India, and its long-term costs, proving what's long been suspected

Georgia O’Keeffe paints the fossil fuel city (1927-8). Current exhibition “My New Yorks” is well worth visiting at The Art Institute of Chicago

During the 1970s, rising popular expectations in India collided with the energy crisis to impel a state-led embrace of coal, despite elite reservations about the environmental damage that would follow. Read more by liz chatterjee in the AHR’s June issue. doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rh…

This great new paper by Aditya Ramesh complicates cliches about big multipurpose dams reinforcing state power. At Mettur, he shows that hydroelectricity ran up against the irrigation interest of "an older extractive apparatus, that of agrarian property" doi.org/10.1353/cap.20…

Guilty as charged. I see epigraphs like montages over the opening credits, a bit of mood music for what’s to come. But totally agree that they’re secretly more for the author than the reader, a little hoard of shiny magpie things displayed with all the charm of a rock collection

"LIFE PUNISHES THE THRIFTLESS." Subtle thoughts on banking in/on the art deco Trustees System Service Building, Chicago (1929-30), ft. red marble from Oran, Algeria

Freebie of the day: my new colleague Sam Daly’s exciting new book on militarism as an ideology and a (counterintuitive) legal culture, helping to explain the troubling persistence of military rule across Africa. Ft. oracles, Fela Kuti, and a lot of men in uniform

A historic day. Good riddance to coal-fired power in Britain after 142 years!