Larry A
@cer12an.bsky.social
Working on climate opportunities. Posting mostly on climate, data-driven solutions for the energy transition, and other things that catch my interest. Views mine. Appreciate tips on good books, data, and critical thinking.
Two pieces of Sunday reading. Important perspectives from Rebecca Solnit and George Monbiot.
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A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit
Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Two pieces of Sunday reading. Important perspectives from Rebecca Solnit and George Monbiot.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
One of my favorite sightings at #NoKings today: An elderly lady wearing her deceased husband’s Marine veteran cap hooking her cane over her arm to hold up her “Honk for Democracy” sign that was practically as big as she is. And getting happy honks all day 🇺🇸💪
October 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
One of my favorite sightings at #NoKings today: An elderly lady wearing her deceased husband’s Marine veteran cap hooking her cane over her arm to hold up her “Honk for Democracy” sign that was practically as big as she is. And getting happy honks all day 🇺🇸💪
In memory of Sister Marion Irvine, 95, who at age 48, fighting a smoking habit, tried for the first time to run 2 miles. Couldn’t. Walked most of it. Afterwards, thought “I bet I can do better tomorrow.” Look up the rest - it’s worth it.
“I bet I can do better tomorrow”
We can all use that.
“I bet I can do better tomorrow”
We can all use that.
October 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
In memory of Sister Marion Irvine, 95, who at age 48, fighting a smoking habit, tried for the first time to run 2 miles. Couldn’t. Walked most of it. Afterwards, thought “I bet I can do better tomorrow.” Look up the rest - it’s worth it.
“I bet I can do better tomorrow”
We can all use that.
“I bet I can do better tomorrow”
We can all use that.
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@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social reports on the EPA’s backdoor move to hobble the carbon capture industry heatmap.news/energy/epa-g...
The EPA’s Backdoor Move to Hobble the Carbon Capture Industry
Why killing a government climate database could essentially gut a tax credit
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September 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social reports on the EPA’s backdoor move to hobble the carbon capture industry heatmap.news/energy/epa-g...
I’ve never seen a grid operator talking like this.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
Halting Revolution Wind could be a disaster for New England’s grid
If Trump kills the now-frozen offshore wind project, utility customers will pay more money for dirtier and less reliable electricity.
www.canarymedia.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I’ve never seen a grid operator talking like this.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
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The fight over the future of the Inflation Reduction Act is here. This week on a special SHIFT KEY, we guide you through the budget reconciliation process & break down the biggest provisions in the House budget bill with former Senate & Treasury advisor Luke Bassett heatmap.news/podcast/shif... 🔌💡
May 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The fight over the future of the Inflation Reduction Act is here. This week on a special SHIFT KEY, we guide you through the budget reconciliation process & break down the biggest provisions in the House budget bill with former Senate & Treasury advisor Luke Bassett heatmap.news/podcast/shif... 🔌💡
“…the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.” - Mark Twain
Our turn to fight tyranny.
Our turn to fight tyranny.
May 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
“…the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.” - Mark Twain
Our turn to fight tyranny.
Our turn to fight tyranny.
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS! Waltham and Boston Stands Up” - sign up now to join me, or go locally to a demonstration where you are. www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS! Waltham Stands Up · No Kings
NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We’ve watched as they’ve cracked down on free spee...
www.mobilize.us
May 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS! Waltham and Boston Stands Up” - sign up now to join me, or go locally to a demonstration where you are. www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Update from the federal government: They’re trying to rename the Gulf again…
March 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Update from the federal government: They’re trying to rename the Gulf again…
On kings: “Could we take off the dark covering of antiquity and trace them to their first rise, we should find the first of them nothing better than the principal ruffian of some restless gang, whose savage manners or pre-eminence in subtilty obtained him the title of chief among plunderers…”
March 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
On kings: “Could we take off the dark covering of antiquity and trace them to their first rise, we should find the first of them nothing better than the principal ruffian of some restless gang, whose savage manners or pre-eminence in subtilty obtained him the title of chief among plunderers…”
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Breaking: 200-strong Climate Choir stages flashmob in St Paul's Cathedral, demanding that @churchofengland.org - a top ten UK landowner - #rewild 30% of its land.
Nature is in crisis. Time to #RewildTheChurch!
@wildcard.land
#ChurchofEngland #nature #wildlife #choir #climate #whatwouldjesusdo
Nature is in crisis. Time to #RewildTheChurch!
@wildcard.land
#ChurchofEngland #nature #wildlife #choir #climate #whatwouldjesusdo
March 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Breaking: 200-strong Climate Choir stages flashmob in St Paul's Cathedral, demanding that @churchofengland.org - a top ten UK landowner - #rewild 30% of its land.
Nature is in crisis. Time to #RewildTheChurch!
@wildcard.land
#ChurchofEngland #nature #wildlife #choir #climate #whatwouldjesusdo
Nature is in crisis. Time to #RewildTheChurch!
@wildcard.land
#ChurchofEngland #nature #wildlife #choir #climate #whatwouldjesusdo
The Global South is making massive progress on electric generation that is more affordable, less polluting, and less geopolitically risky & volatile than fossil fuels.
February 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The Global South is making massive progress on electric generation that is more affordable, less polluting, and less geopolitically risky & volatile than fossil fuels.
If you’re American you need to watch this. m.youtube.com/watch?v=d-4O...
Oligarchs Are Our Modern Day Kings
YouTube video by Bernie Sanders
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February 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
If you’re American you need to watch this. m.youtube.com/watch?v=d-4O...
Look at the chart for two minutes.
Life expectancy by country on the vertical axis, average annual health care spending per person on the horizontal.
What has caused the US to underperform so consistently and significantly since ~1980?
Discuss.
Life expectancy by country on the vertical axis, average annual health care spending per person on the horizontal.
What has caused the US to underperform so consistently and significantly since ~1980?
Discuss.
February 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Look at the chart for two minutes.
Life expectancy by country on the vertical axis, average annual health care spending per person on the horizontal.
What has caused the US to underperform so consistently and significantly since ~1980?
Discuss.
Life expectancy by country on the vertical axis, average annual health care spending per person on the horizontal.
What has caused the US to underperform so consistently and significantly since ~1980?
Discuss.
🙋🏼♂️New Orleans has more snow this Jan than Anchorage AK. It’s clear that debunked DICE estimates claiming 87% of the US GDP has zero impact from more extreme weather are complete BS.
Looking at you, DoE Sec. Wright. Have enough character to trade the financial self-justification for clear thinking?
Looking at you, DoE Sec. Wright. Have enough character to trade the financial self-justification for clear thinking?
January 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
🙋🏼♂️New Orleans has more snow this Jan than Anchorage AK. It’s clear that debunked DICE estimates claiming 87% of the US GDP has zero impact from more extreme weather are complete BS.
Looking at you, DoE Sec. Wright. Have enough character to trade the financial self-justification for clear thinking?
Looking at you, DoE Sec. Wright. Have enough character to trade the financial self-justification for clear thinking?
NGL one of the things on my to-do list before Monday is “Download useful reports and data resources from DoE & other federal websites in case they’re taken down”
January 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
NGL one of the things on my to-do list before Monday is “Download useful reports and data resources from DoE & other federal websites in case they’re taken down”
The WSJ OpEd page is a good place to see inaccuracies and self motivated narratives being laid out for fossil fuel interests by their yes-men (From what I’ve seen, mostly men. If you see others, put ‘em in replies) They’ve been busy the last day or so. 🧵…
www.wsj.com/opinion/a-ne...
www.wsj.com/opinion/a-ne...
Opinion | A New Year Resolution Worth Toasting: End Net Zero
It isn’t inevitable and it won’t be easy, but voters are finally having to face the enormous costs of eliminating carbon emissions.
www.wsj.com
January 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The WSJ OpEd page is a good place to see inaccuracies and self motivated narratives being laid out for fossil fuel interests by their yes-men (From what I’ve seen, mostly men. If you see others, put ‘em in replies) They’ve been busy the last day or so. 🧵…
www.wsj.com/opinion/a-ne...
www.wsj.com/opinion/a-ne...
This article has a v. cool mapping of utility-scale solar locations &size globally. (Note that it doesn’t show the many GW of BTM solar eg Aus & Pakistan)
Repost from Bill McKibben’s Substack newsletter, that you should subscribe to. 👏
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Repost from Bill McKibben’s Substack newsletter, that you should subscribe to. 👏
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Fossil fuels are being 'eaten alive' by the solar rush
Satellite imagery reveals the staggering rise of solar farms around the world in recent years. Can Australia get on board?
www.abc.net.au
December 30, 2024 at 7:57 PM
This article has a v. cool mapping of utility-scale solar locations &size globally. (Note that it doesn’t show the many GW of BTM solar eg Aus & Pakistan)
Repost from Bill McKibben’s Substack newsletter, that you should subscribe to. 👏
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Repost from Bill McKibben’s Substack newsletter, that you should subscribe to. 👏
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Some Friday hope: In the midst of all the waves back and forth, US power sector emissions have been making real and steady progress for 15+ years.
December 20, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Some Friday hope: In the midst of all the waves back and forth, US power sector emissions have been making real and steady progress for 15+ years.
Home insurance being revoked or skyrocketing in cost across the US in areas w/high weather & fire risk.
This raises many questions. Will residents expect gov’t to insure where private insurance won’t? Will people accept subsidizing others w/their taxes to do that?
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This raises many questions. Will residents expect gov’t to insure where private insurance won’t? Will people accept subsidizing others w/their taxes to do that?
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Insurers Are Dropping Homeowners as Climate Shocks Worsen
Without insurance, it’s impossible to get a mortgage; without a mortgage, most Americans can’t buy a home.
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Home insurance being revoked or skyrocketing in cost across the US in areas w/high weather & fire risk.
This raises many questions. Will residents expect gov’t to insure where private insurance won’t? Will people accept subsidizing others w/their taxes to do that?
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This raises many questions. Will residents expect gov’t to insure where private insurance won’t? Will people accept subsidizing others w/their taxes to do that?
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Brazil: Deforestation under Lula way down (-75%) in ‘00s and down 50% in last couple years, after going way up under Bolsonaro. Elections matter.
Data on annual deforestation rate in the Amazon from @hannahritchie.bsky.social and team at Our World in Data.
Data on annual deforestation rate in the Amazon from @hannahritchie.bsky.social and team at Our World in Data.
December 18, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Brazil: Deforestation under Lula way down (-75%) in ‘00s and down 50% in last couple years, after going way up under Bolsonaro. Elections matter.
Data on annual deforestation rate in the Amazon from @hannahritchie.bsky.social and team at Our World in Data.
Data on annual deforestation rate in the Amazon from @hannahritchie.bsky.social and team at Our World in Data.
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This is huge: China's refined oil consumption peaked in 2023, says the research arm of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). Will decline 1.3% in 2024, despite ~4.8% GDP growth projected this year. Why? EVs! (Mostly) www.reuters.com/world/china/... 🔌💡 🔌🚗
China’s oil consumption peaked in 2023, CNPC says
China's refined oil consumption peaked in 2023 at 399 million metric tons (7.98 million barrels per day) and is expected to fall 1.3% to 394 million tons in 2024, CNPC Economics & Technology Research Institute said on Friday.
www.reuters.com
December 15, 2024 at 4:01 PM
This is huge: China's refined oil consumption peaked in 2023, says the research arm of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). Will decline 1.3% in 2024, despite ~4.8% GDP growth projected this year. Why? EVs! (Mostly) www.reuters.com/world/china/... 🔌💡 🔌🚗
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The @uniofexeter.bsky.social convened a panel to advise the university on how to use carbon offsets in its ambitious net zero target. Our conclusion is that all offsets should be ditched. We very much hope other universities will do likewise.
theconversation.com/we-have-offi...
theconversation.com/we-have-offi...
We have officially advised our university to ditch carbon offsets – and focus on cutting emissions
Your organisation should probably ditch offsets too.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:45 AM
The @uniofexeter.bsky.social convened a panel to advise the university on how to use carbon offsets in its ambitious net zero target. Our conclusion is that all offsets should be ditched. We very much hope other universities will do likewise.
theconversation.com/we-have-offi...
theconversation.com/we-have-offi...