Angela Antle
@acantle.bsky.social
2025 Rachel Carson WiR at LMU, Munich, debut novel (The Saltbox Olive - Breakwater 2025), Writers at Woody Point co-host, former CBC, MUN PhD candidate - #petrocultures #climatejustice #EnvHum Energy Futures www.theindependent.ca www.angelaantle.com
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Dear Mr. Wakeham: Climate changes aren’t coming — they’re here – The Independent
Not only are wildfires caused by climate change, new research links the heatwaves that cause them to oil companies active in Newfoundland and Labrador
theindependent.ca
This summer my family cabin was incinerated in one of the #Newfoundland wildfires. Recently our new premier stated he didn’t think #wildfires were caused by climate change. theindependent.ca/commentary/e...
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This whole presser illustrates just how absolutely impressionable Trump is. And Zohran has only met him for an hour—think of the absolute degenerates that surround the President daily, telling him who-knows-what. Remember him admitting the governor of Oregon (was it the mayor of Portland?) told >>
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
November 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This whole presser illustrates just how absolutely impressionable Trump is. And Zohran has only met him for an hour—think of the absolute degenerates that surround the President daily, telling him who-knows-what. Remember him admitting the governor of Oregon (was it the mayor of Portland?) told >>
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@acantle.bsky.social , The Saltbox Olive (Breakwater, 2025)
Angela Antle’s debut novel opens a window into an otherwise little known aspect of World War II: the experiences of Newfoundland soldiers in Italy.
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Angela Antle’s debut novel opens a window into an otherwise little known aspect of World War II: the experiences of Newfoundland soldiers in Italy.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
@acantle.bsky.social , The Saltbox Olive (Breakwater, 2025)
Angela Antle’s debut novel opens a window into an otherwise little known aspect of World War II: the experiences of Newfoundland soldiers in Italy.
@breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social
Angela Antle’s debut novel opens a window into an otherwise little known aspect of World War II: the experiences of Newfoundland soldiers in Italy.
@breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social
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In cold climates, future grids will peak on the coldest winter nights, driven by electric space heating. Those times correlate nicely with wind power, which grows in winter and at night.
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Your daily reminder: wind power is a workhorse with an extremely valuable generation profile and the entire project of fossil fuel elimination is at risk without it
BUT it doesn't have solar's inbuilt momentum, and so needs stronger gov't support for it to grow as fast as it should
BUT it doesn't have solar's inbuilt momentum, and so needs stronger gov't support for it to grow as fast as it should
A new British wind energy generation record announced today by @neso-energy.bsky.social of 22,711 megawatts at 7.30pm on Tuesday 11 November, which provided enough power to meet the needs of over 22 million homes and generated 43.6% of the nation’s overall electricity demand at that time ⚡ 🏡 📈
November 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
In cold climates, future grids will peak on the coldest winter nights, driven by electric space heating. Those times correlate nicely with wind power, which grows in winter and at night.
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A helpful thread on nuclear power, why it didn’t work the first time around, and why the tech-bro billionaire class really wants it to anyway.
People like to argue that nuclear energy mostly died in the US because of fear mongering after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl but it's really cost. And that's exacerbated by the fact that in the US nuclear is mostly a fully for profit enterprise. In most places with lots of nuclear it's state owned
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A helpful thread on nuclear power, why it didn’t work the first time around, and why the tech-bro billionaire class really wants it to anyway.
Great overview!
This is going to be a big old thread where I dump thoughts, reactions, charts etc from the @iea.org World Energy Outlook 2025 :)
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World Energy Outlook 2025
YouTube video by International Energy Agency
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Great overview!
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After all the dismissiveness and misleading presentation of growth rates, there's basically no escaping the fact that US data centre growth is a globally significant story that is directly incentivising new fossil fuel use and infrastructure growth
Feeling pretty vindicated, given last year's WEO
Feeling pretty vindicated, given last year's WEO
November 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
After all the dismissiveness and misleading presentation of growth rates, there's basically no escaping the fact that US data centre growth is a globally significant story that is directly incentivising new fossil fuel use and infrastructure growth
Feeling pretty vindicated, given last year's WEO
Feeling pretty vindicated, given last year's WEO
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Good news: more than 50% of the world’s economies have seen carbon emissions from fossil fuel power generation peaking. And with the speed of change in the electricity sector many more will join this growing list in coming years.
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Good news: more than 50% of the world’s economies have seen carbon emissions from fossil fuel power generation peaking. And with the speed of change in the electricity sector many more will join this growing list in coming years.
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The Canadian government is ignoring research and the voices of green business and is cutting our brand new greenwashing law. Read more in our Globe and Mail op ed today.
Opinion: Ottawa is scrapping Canada’s greenwashing rules. This is a mistake
Canada should not back away from holding firms to account for what they say about the environment
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The Canadian government is ignoring research and the voices of green business and is cutting our brand new greenwashing law. Read more in our Globe and Mail op ed today.
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The EU and China both endorse the Open Coalition - that's huge.
Carbon pricing is one of our best assets for the climate.
Over 80 countries now have a carbon price.
Today we launch the Open Coalition on Compliance Carbon Market.
Together with Brazil and other partners, let’s do it right, and let’s do it together.
Over 80 countries now have a carbon price.
Today we launch the Open Coalition on Compliance Carbon Market.
Together with Brazil and other partners, let’s do it right, and let’s do it together.
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The EU and China both endorse the Open Coalition - that's huge.
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When you switch from fossil to clean you only use like 30-40% of the energy to do the same stuff, bc most energy from fossil fuels is lost as waste heat
What's I'm trying to say is that all climate action is degrowth
WELCOME TO DEGROWTH EVERYONE
What's I'm trying to say is that all climate action is degrowth
WELCOME TO DEGROWTH EVERYONE
From my file on the IEA's world energy outlook.
"Primary energy" = what goes in
"Final energy" = what comes out
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The space in between: mostly lost energy bc burning fossil fuels is absurdly wasteful.
So in the net zero scenario, that gaps closes to zero --->>
"Primary energy" = what goes in
"Final energy" = what comes out
a
The space in between: mostly lost energy bc burning fossil fuels is absurdly wasteful.
So in the net zero scenario, that gaps closes to zero --->>
November 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
When you switch from fossil to clean you only use like 30-40% of the energy to do the same stuff, bc most energy from fossil fuels is lost as waste heat
What's I'm trying to say is that all climate action is degrowth
WELCOME TO DEGROWTH EVERYONE
What's I'm trying to say is that all climate action is degrowth
WELCOME TO DEGROWTH EVERYONE
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The claim that “emissions have come down” in this @nytimes.com @sominisengupta.bsky.social article on where we are ten years post-Paris is FALSE.
Global emissions were at an all-time high in 2024.
As it stands this claim is misinformation. They need to issue a correction!
Global emissions were at an all-time high in 2024.
As it stands this claim is misinformation. They need to issue a correction!
November 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The claim that “emissions have come down” in this @nytimes.com @sominisengupta.bsky.social article on where we are ten years post-Paris is FALSE.
Global emissions were at an all-time high in 2024.
As it stands this claim is misinformation. They need to issue a correction!
Global emissions were at an all-time high in 2024.
As it stands this claim is misinformation. They need to issue a correction!
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There’s a sort of Dunning-Kruger effect happening where people who read widely, consider various perspectives, and put in effort to understand views they disagree with worry that they don’t do that enough, while people who don’t do any of that accuse others of being in a bubble and call it a day.
November 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
There’s a sort of Dunning-Kruger effect happening where people who read widely, consider various perspectives, and put in effort to understand views they disagree with worry that they don’t do that enough, while people who don’t do any of that accuse others of being in a bubble and call it a day.
This summer my family cabin was incinerated in one of the #Newfoundland wildfires. Recently our new premier stated he didn’t think #wildfires were caused by climate change. theindependent.ca/commentary/e...
Dear Mr. Wakeham: Climate changes aren’t coming — they’re here – The Independent
Not only are wildfires caused by climate change, new research links the heatwaves that cause them to oil companies active in Newfoundland and Labrador
theindependent.ca
October 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This summer my family cabin was incinerated in one of the #Newfoundland wildfires. Recently our new premier stated he didn’t think #wildfires were caused by climate change. theindependent.ca/commentary/e...
Thrilled that this book will soon be available. It gives such a “thick” insight into the Confederation era and what many in #Newfoundland were dealing with on the eve of joing #Canada.
Come celebrate with us at our book launch: November 26 at 7 pm at The Great Hall, Queen's College (210 Prince Philip Drive). Readings. Laughter. Games (yes, games... with prizes!). Snacks. Fun. We'll have a grand time!
Hope you can join us!
@memorialup.bsky.social
Hope you can join us!
@memorialup.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Thrilled that this book will soon be available. It gives such a “thick” insight into the Confederation era and what many in #Newfoundland were dealing with on the eve of joing #Canada.
Top 15 news influencers in #Canada are all male…and many right leaning. #journalism
We've just published the most comprehensive study of news creators to date covering 24 countries. Authored by Nic Newman @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it identifies the most mentioned in each country
📱Report buff.ly/bL6y8Hj
🧵6 findings in thread
📱Report buff.ly/bL6y8Hj
🧵6 findings in thread
October 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Top 15 news influencers in #Canada are all male…and many right leaning. #journalism
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Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
October 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Ecocide.
More than half of Cambodia and Laos’ tree cover loss in 2024 was recorded inside protected areas, Mongabay’s Gerald Flynn reports.
In Cambodia, 56% of the nation’s tree cover loss was recorded within its protected area network last year. In Laos, the figure was 64%.
In Cambodia, 56% of the nation’s tree cover loss was recorded within its protected area network last year. In Laos, the figure was 64%.
Most Cambodia & Laos tree cover loss in 2024 happened inside protected areas
More than half of Cambodia and Laos’ tree cover loss in 2024 was recorded inside protected areas, Mongabay’s Gerald Flynn reports. The findings were a result of Mongabay’s analysis of satellite data…
news.mongabay.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Ecocide.
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Can’t stop thinking about the people of Jamaica. ❤️❤️❤️ created so little in emissions but get perhaps 175 MPH winds and up to 40 inches in some parts fueled by climate change.
If you doubt the magnitude of gusts over mountainous islands, just ask Hurricane Marylin (1995) survivors in St. Thomas USVI. Storm total precipitation could reach 40 inches (1000 mm). And the coastal storm surge as high as 13 feet (4 m). The worst storm in #Jamaica history. 2/2 fin
October 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Can’t stop thinking about the people of Jamaica. ❤️❤️❤️ created so little in emissions but get perhaps 175 MPH winds and up to 40 inches in some parts fueled by climate change.
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After a (very) long and (very) winding road, Dear Mr. Smallwood is almost here! I can't wait to finally meet this book in print in a few weeks.
Drawing on one of the province’s richest archival treasures, the letters written to J.R. Smallwood, contributors unearth the hopes, dreams, discontents, and desires of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians at the time of Confederation.
Coming mid-November @
memorialuniversitypress.ca/.../D/Dear-M...
Coming mid-November @
memorialuniversitypress.ca/.../D/Dear-M...
October 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
After a (very) long and (very) winding road, Dear Mr. Smallwood is almost here! I can't wait to finally meet this book in print in a few weeks.
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A 3.5ppm increase in one year. 🤯
Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
- CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
@wmo-global.bsky.social
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
@wmo-global.bsky.social
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
A 3.5ppm increase in one year. 🤯
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I gathered #opinions #concerns and #attitudes about #climate change in #Newfoundland. We are not immune.
Results from The Indy's #climate crisis reader survey are in!
In her latest #EnergyFutures column, Angela Antle shares responses from some of the more than 100 readers who responded. #nlpoli
theindependent.ca/commentary/e...
In her latest #EnergyFutures column, Angela Antle shares responses from some of the more than 100 readers who responded. #nlpoli
theindependent.ca/commentary/e...
‘Close to panic level’: Survey respondents chime in on climate crisis – The Independent
More than 100 readers responded to The Indy’s first climate survey, and almost all share deep concerns
theindependent.ca
October 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I gathered #opinions #concerns and #attitudes about #climate change in #Newfoundland. We are not immune.
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Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels
He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down
www.ft.com/content/5ba8...
He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down
www.ft.com/content/5ba8...
October 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels
He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down
www.ft.com/content/5ba8...
He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down
www.ft.com/content/5ba8...
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If you ever end up recording a final message, ensure you dedicate a good chunk of it to roasting your nemeses, like Jane Goodall did
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![In an interview for a new Netflix documentary filmed months before her death, famed British primatologist Jane Goodall called for billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to be blasted into space.
“Absolutely, there are people I don’t like,” she told interviewer and TV writer Brad Falchuk, “and I would like to put them on one of Musk’s spaceships and send them all off to the planet he’s sure he’s going to discover.”
When asked if she would like Musk to be on the spacecraft alongside them, she sounded off.
“Oh, absolutely, he’d be the host,” she said. “Along with Musk, it’d be [president Donald] Trump and some of Trump’s real supporters.”
“Put them all on that spaceship and send them off,” she concluded.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreiaykalfcmzzg4tatdoph7mku6ghkwgypjsfc746gprjuba62p774u@jpeg)
October 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
If you ever end up recording a final message, ensure you dedicate a good chunk of it to roasting your nemeses, like Jane Goodall did
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