Carol Oldham
@caroldham.bsky.social
Focused on climate solutions, nature restoration, and community. Lover of helping to pull big levers that make the world a better place for animals, plants, and people.
Hmmmmm really? Not…..minimizing plastic to begin with? 🤔
November 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Hmmmmm really? Not…..minimizing plastic to begin with? 🤔
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$113 Million & counting!
63-year-old jalopy coal plant raises electricity costs for Michigan's captive monopoly ratepayers by $113 million and counting!
Trump Admin order was not supported by MI regulators or local utility!
Coal also sickens people!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #energysky
63-year-old jalopy coal plant raises electricity costs for Michigan's captive monopoly ratepayers by $113 million and counting!
Trump Admin order was not supported by MI regulators or local utility!
Coal also sickens people!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #energysky
Trump order to keep Michigan power plant open costs taxpayers $113m
Critics say JH Campbell coal-fired plant in western Michigan is expensive and emits high levels of toxic pollution
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Good news for port towns!
Global regulations are having air quality benefits in ports and open oceans. @ncas-uk.bsky.social scientists used aircraft and ground measurements, with STEAM3 model predictions, to assess sulfur emissions from ships.
ncas.ac.uk/major-drop-i...
ncas.ac.uk/major-drop-i...
Major drop in ship sulfur emissions following global regulation - NCAS
Researchers confirm that sulfur emissions from ships have significantly reduced due to global regulations.
ncas.ac.uk
November 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Good news for port towns!
New cost info just dropped! ☀️💨
Solar Is Now 33% Cheaper Than Gas Power in US, Guggenheim Says - Energy News, Top Headlines, Commentaries, Features & Events - EnergyNow.com
(Bloomberg) Natural gas’s dominance as power-plant fuel in the US is fading fast as the cost of electricity generated by wind farms and solar projects tumbles, according to Guggenheim Securities. Util...
energynow.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
New cost info just dropped! ☀️💨
This is so cool. ❄️
Denmark cut 1990 emissions by 82% by 2035
UK cut 1990 emissions by 81% by 2035
EU cut 1990 emissions by 66.3%-72.5% by 2035
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #energysky
UK cut 1990 emissions by 81% by 2035
EU cut 1990 emissions by 66.3%-72.5% by 2035
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #energysky
UK Overtaken by Denmark as World’s Most Ambitious Country on Climate
The UK is no longer the most ambitious nation in the world when it comes to cutting CO2 emissions in the fight against climate change over the next decade.
www.bloomberg.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is so cool. ❄️
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"Fossil demand has been flat for industrial energy since 2014, for buildings since 2018, for road transport since 2019, & may peak for electricity this year. 2/3 of countries have already seen peak fossil demand in end-use sectors, & half the world has seen a peak in fossil fuels for electricity."
The Electrotech Revolution | Ember
The annual slidedeck from Kingsmill Bond and the Ember Futures team unpacks how electrotech is rewriting the economics and geopolitics of energy.
ember-energy.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Offshore wind is good stuff!
New report on the benefits of offshore wind for grid adequacy & reliability.
The contribution of offshore wind to grid reliability & resource adequacy | Reports | Charles River Associates
In this white paper, the authors assess the potential role of offshore wind (OSW) in addressing emerging reliability challenges under these conditions. The analysis finds that, from a resource adequac...
www.crai.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Offshore wind is good stuff!
Renewable energy is the cheapest energy to build around the world. Propping coal up costs us all in the short run and the long run.
Key Rs told Politico "Democrats had dominated them on the energy affordability issue—an issue for which they have no solutions...blocking offshore wind and spreading misinformation about green energy isn’t helping a single voter pay her utility bill."
newrepublic.com/article/2028... #energysky
newrepublic.com/article/2028... #energysky
Democrats Just Realized They Have a Winning Climate Message
Energy affordability propelled Mikie Sherrill and several others to victory on Tuesday.
newrepublic.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Renewable energy is the cheapest energy to build around the world. Propping coal up costs us all in the short run and the long run.
💰 that’s right, we are ceding our leadership (and lots of money) on renewable energy, because of dumb outdated ideas and politics.
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
💰 that’s right, we are ceding our leadership (and lots of money) on renewable energy, because of dumb outdated ideas and politics.
This sucks, their politics coverage was really good.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
This sucks, their politics coverage was really good.
Telling the truth shouldn’t get you laid off.
A scoop that I’m not happy to report:
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News kills its climate unit
David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.
heated.world
November 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Telling the truth shouldn’t get you laid off.
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Cool that renewables have become the cheapest source of energy in the world just as a bunch of reactionary-centrist US pundits have taken up the right-wing "climate vs. cheap energy" framing.
November 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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I just eye rolled so hard I saw the inside of my skull. What a waste of money and effort. Everyone else in the world is doing offshore wind, except us. 😐
RFK Jr. directs CDC to study alleged harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/4hxHgEh
RFK Jr. directs CDC to study alleged harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reports
U.S. health secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff to probe the potential harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
reut.rs
October 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I just eye rolled so hard I saw the inside of my skull. What a waste of money and effort. Everyone else in the world is doing offshore wind, except us. 😐
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chats in squirrel are limited
to a sort of Roman salute
foreleg extended then folded
open paw on breast as if to say
Look I take you in my open paw
and hold you to my heart…
—William Bonar, “SQRL”
published in OFFERING (Red Squirrel Press, 2015)
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sqrl/
to a sort of Roman salute
foreleg extended then folded
open paw on breast as if to say
Look I take you in my open paw
and hold you to my heart…
—William Bonar, “SQRL”
published in OFFERING (Red Squirrel Press, 2015)
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sqrl/
October 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Orkney is awesome. Last time we went, the house we rented had a turbine in the front yard. I love local ownership structures for important projects (ecosystem restoration, energy, etc) and I love everything about this!
‘Much fairer’: all profits from new Orkney windfarm to benefit locals
Construction due to begin in 2027 on what is expected to become UK’s largest publicly owned windfarm
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Orkney is awesome. Last time we went, the house we rented had a turbine in the front yard. I love local ownership structures for important projects (ecosystem restoration, energy, etc) and I love everything about this!
This is INSANE.
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see
Like the US economy
Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.
Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see
Like the US economy
Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.
Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth
Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500
www.bloomberg.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is INSANE.
Love that dirty water! Hometown making me proud.
October 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Love that dirty water! Hometown making me proud.
I love that growth curve- doubling in 10 years!
Wind and solar generated 58.2% of Germany's electricity in June 2025. Germany is the world's THIRD largest economy!
Germany's June W&S share
2025: 58.2%
2024: 48.1%
2023: 44.9%
2020: 32.3%
2015: 23.7%
W&S generated 44.2% of Germany's electricity for all of 2024! It was 18.5% in 2015.
#energysky
Germany's June W&S share
2025: 58.2%
2024: 48.1%
2023: 44.9%
2020: 32.3%
2015: 23.7%
W&S generated 44.2% of Germany's electricity for all of 2024! It was 18.5% in 2015.
#energysky
October 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I love that growth curve- doubling in 10 years!
I’m just a little bit obsessed with flow batteries (esp vanadium flow), anyone else?
Construction starts on Scotland solar, battery storage project
Work is underway by Scottish Water Horizons on a GBP …
www.kallanish.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I’m just a little bit obsessed with flow batteries (esp vanadium flow), anyone else?
Yayyyyyy!
Good morning with good news: Fossil fuels will generate less than 50% of global electricity by 2028-2030!
Why?
Renewables surge from 32% in 2024 to 43% by 2030, while nuclear keeps at least its 2024 9% share.
RE plus nuclear hits ~52% by 2030!
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Why?
Renewables surge from 32% in 2024 to 43% by 2030, while nuclear keeps at least its 2024 9% share.
RE plus nuclear hits ~52% by 2030!
#energysky iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/48ecc...
October 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Yayyyyyy!
Good news!
Global #renewable power capacity to double by 2030 - to
4600 gigawatts (GW) - equivalent China, EU, Japan’s power generation capacity combined to global energy mix. #Solar PV accounts for 80% of global increase, followed by #wind, #hydropower, #bioenergy, #geothermal.
www.iea.org/reports/rene...
4600 gigawatts (GW) - equivalent China, EU, Japan’s power generation capacity combined to global energy mix. #Solar PV accounts for 80% of global increase, followed by #wind, #hydropower, #bioenergy, #geothermal.
www.iea.org/reports/rene...
Executive summary – Renewables 2025 – Analysis - IEA
Renewables 2025 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.
www.iea.org
October 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Good news!
So much misinfo and disinfo about renewable energy.
When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.
After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack
When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.
n.pr
October 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
So much misinfo and disinfo about renewable energy.
Love this! A well planned and complete transmission (with no nuclear):
WIRED: Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy www.wired.com/story/as-coa...
Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy
The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.
www.wired.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Love this! A well planned and complete transmission (with no nuclear):
Excellent news!
World has reached a ‘critical turning point’ in switch to renewable energy www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
World has reached a ‘critical turning point’ in switch to renewable energy
Solar and wind power outpaced the growth in worldwide electricity demand
www.independent.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Excellent news!
This could be us but someone (ahem) hates renewable energy.
Marginal Gains: how wind is pushing gas out of the power market and cutting costs
Growth in British renewables cutting electricity prices by up to a quarter.
eciu.net/analysis/re...
Growth in British renewables cutting electricity prices by up to a quarter.
eciu.net/analysis/re...
Marginal Gains: how wind is pushing gas out of the power market and…
Growth in British renewables cutting electricity prices by up to a quarter.
eciu.net
October 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
This could be us but someone (ahem) hates renewable energy.