Silvio Marcacci
@silviomarcacci.bsky.social
Senior Director of Communications, @energyinnovation.org. Board Advisor, @theicct.org + @co2bc.bsky.social. Tired dad.
Advocate for clean energy, climate action, and Oxford commas. Me and karma vibe like that.
Advocate for clean energy, climate action, and Oxford commas. Me and karma vibe like that.
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NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
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They’re stealing from us. They are stealing from us and we have to put a stop to this. This cannot stand.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
They’re stealing from us. They are stealing from us and we have to put a stop to this. This cannot stand.
Such a good example of climate adaptation. Smart policy has as much of a role to play here as it does on emissions mitigation www.latimes.com/environment/...
Rocky Mountains get preemptive power shutoffs once reserved for California
Xcel Energy is preparing customers in the Rocky Mountain region for preemptive blackouts to help reduce the risk of wildfires as strong, dry winds threaten to knock down power lines.
www.latimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Such a good example of climate adaptation. Smart policy has as much of a role to play here as it does on emissions mitigation www.latimes.com/environment/...
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They want to withhold federal money for a state’s infrastructure if the state has a law that protects its residents from the downsides of AI.
Text of the EO now live on the White House site: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
December 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
They want to withhold federal money for a state’s infrastructure if the state has a law that protects its residents from the downsides of AI.
Hawley and every other Missouri Congressional Republican voted YES to raise power bills $640 in that state energyinnovation.org/wp-content/u...
"What I do not want to have happen is what has happened in Virginia, where they come in and everybody’s prices go way, way, way up," Hawley said. "That is a bad deal, and I do not want to see that happen in Missouri."
This is also why Virginia voters flipped the state blue in November.
This is also why Virginia voters flipped the state blue in November.
E&E News: Data center boom creates political conundrum for the GOP
President Donald Trump is all in on the artificial intelligence build-out. Other Republicans are being more cautious.
subscriber.politicopro.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hawley and every other Missouri Congressional Republican voted YES to raise power bills $640 in that state energyinnovation.org/wp-content/u...
Climate change is a threat multiplier.
The US military used to say so when is was telling the truth.
The US military used to say so when is was telling the truth.
My piece in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the rapid and widespread increase in violence over #water resources in the past several years.
Record levels reported in 2024.
thebulletin.org/2025/12/viol...
Record levels reported in 2024.
thebulletin.org/2025/12/viol...
Violence over water resources reaches record levels
The number of violent events over water resources reported in 2024 was nearly 20 percent higher than 2023 and nearly 80 percent higher than 2022.
thebulletin.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Climate change is a threat multiplier.
The US military used to say so when is was telling the truth.
The US military used to say so when is was telling the truth.
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Because
1. they aren't being vaccinated
2. they aren't being fed
3. when they are fed, it's a lot of crap
4. they're being shot
5. diseases are allowed to run rampant through their schools
6. one by one, their safety nets are being dissolved
1. they aren't being vaccinated
2. they aren't being fed
3. when they are fed, it's a lot of crap
4. they're being shot
5. diseases are allowed to run rampant through their schools
6. one by one, their safety nets are being dissolved
December 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Because
1. they aren't being vaccinated
2. they aren't being fed
3. when they are fed, it's a lot of crap
4. they're being shot
5. diseases are allowed to run rampant through their schools
6. one by one, their safety nets are being dissolved
1. they aren't being vaccinated
2. they aren't being fed
3. when they are fed, it's a lot of crap
4. they're being shot
5. diseases are allowed to run rampant through their schools
6. one by one, their safety nets are being dissolved
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Here comes the sun! (And wind and storage…) 🎶 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 apnews.com/article/clim...
Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says
A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.
apnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Here comes the sun! (And wind and storage…) 🎶 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 apnews.com/article/clim...
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I mean, this is an execution
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I mean, this is an execution
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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This will raise how much you pay to drive your car for the next ten years. Every time you fill up at the pump, the price should've been lower, but it won't be, because of this. Also more kids and elderly people will get sick from air pollution. Analysis: Seems bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/c...
Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This will raise how much you pay to drive your car for the next ten years. Every time you fill up at the pump, the price should've been lower, but it won't be, because of this. Also more kids and elderly people will get sick from air pollution. Analysis: Seems bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/c...
Just think of the potential for Spirit Halloween stores to use all those vacant data centers
Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
December 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Just think of the potential for Spirit Halloween stores to use all those vacant data centers
Comanche 3, Colorado’s newest coal plant has already been broken down *two full years* since it began burning crushed rocks in 2010. Now it will be offline another year.
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Comanche 3, Colorado’s newest coal plant has already been broken down *two full years* since it began burning crushed rocks in 2010. Now it will be offline another year.
Coal's not coming back - despite government bailouts, millions in subsidies, repealing clean air rules, and forcing plants to stay online even though states + utilities don't need them.
Burning crushed up rocks is simply too expensive and too unreliable. Me on Substack
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Burning crushed up rocks is simply too expensive and too unreliable. Me on Substack
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Coal’s Not Coming Back
19th century technology can’t compete economically with 21st century clean energy
substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Coal's not coming back - despite government bailouts, millions in subsidies, repealing clean air rules, and forcing plants to stay online even though states + utilities don't need them.
Burning crushed up rocks is simply too expensive and too unreliable. Me on Substack
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Burning crushed up rocks is simply too expensive and too unreliable. Me on Substack
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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"The cost of running coal plants rose 28 percent from 2021 to 2024, nearly double the rate of inflation over that time, forcing consumers to pay $6 billion in unnecessary energy bills," writes @energyinnovation.org's @silviomarcacci.bsky.social: thepowerline.substack.com/p/coals-not-... 🔌💡
Coal’s Not Coming Back
19th century technology can’t compete economically with 21st century clean energy
thepowerline.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:56 AM
"The cost of running coal plants rose 28 percent from 2021 to 2024, nearly double the rate of inflation over that time, forcing consumers to pay $6 billion in unnecessary energy bills," writes @energyinnovation.org's @silviomarcacci.bsky.social: thepowerline.substack.com/p/coals-not-... 🔌💡
It’s always projection with these people
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It’s always projection with these people
Rest in power.
Hard to overlook that the groups being killed off under the Trump administration are the ones that fight large-scale oil infrastructure.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Hard to overlook that the groups being killed off under the Trump administration are the ones that fight large-scale oil infrastructure.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Enviro group that helped lead Keystone Pipeline opposition suspends US operations
The group will keep three U.S. positions open in hopes of reviving operations in the future.
www.politico.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Rest in power.
Hard to overlook that the groups being killed off under the Trump administration are the ones that fight large-scale oil infrastructure.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Hard to overlook that the groups being killed off under the Trump administration are the ones that fight large-scale oil infrastructure.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Amazon just sued one of the largest power companies in Oregon after it failed to power up two data center (one without enough power and one with no power at all) campuses that were meant to be ready *in 2021*. Sure hope this isn't an industry wide problem!
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Amazon just sued one of the largest power companies in Oregon after it failed to power up two data center (one without enough power and one with no power at all) campuses that were meant to be ready *in 2021*. Sure hope this isn't an industry wide problem!
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...
Bill Gates gave $3.5 million to fund notorious climate denier Bjorn Lomborg, who says "climate change is not an existential threat."
Bill Gates just wrote that climate change is "not the existential threat some would have us believe."
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates just wrote that climate change is "not the existential threat some would have us believe."
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Bill Gates gave $3.5 million to fund notorious climate denier Bjorn Lomborg, who says "climate change is not an existential threat."
Bill Gates just wrote that climate change is "not the existential threat some would have us believe."
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates just wrote that climate change is "not the existential threat some would have us believe."
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
The Bari Weiss effect
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
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The Bari Weiss effect
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Current rate of sea level rise is 4.7mm/year (average over past 10 years), more than twice the 20th century average rise.
Half a metre by 2100 best estimate if Paris Agreement long-term temperature goal is met - much more if not.
Half a metre by 2100 best estimate if Paris Agreement long-term temperature goal is met - much more if not.
Future Sea-level Rise Is Certain, but the Amount and Speed Are Uncertain
The WMO co-sponsored World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)1 is at the forefront of sea-level change research. At the request of WMO Members and other United Nations entities, WCRP has developed a st...
wmo.int
October 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Current rate of sea level rise is 4.7mm/year (average over past 10 years), more than twice the 20th century average rise.
Half a metre by 2100 best estimate if Paris Agreement long-term temperature goal is met - much more if not.
Half a metre by 2100 best estimate if Paris Agreement long-term temperature goal is met - much more if not.
Trump is forcing dirty expensive coal plants to stay open even though states + utilities say they're not needed
That costs consumers millions + steals states rights
Colorado could soon face this threat - but we can resist
@michelle-solomon.bsky.social + me coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/28/t...
That costs consumers millions + steals states rights
Colorado could soon face this threat - but we can resist
@michelle-solomon.bsky.social + me coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/28/t...
Don’t let Trump’s fake 'energy emergency' harm Coloradans | Colorado Newsline
We think Coloradans deserve the right to decide how we power our homes, protect our kids from dirty air, and avoid surging energy bills.
coloradonewsline.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Trump is forcing dirty expensive coal plants to stay open even though states + utilities say they're not needed
That costs consumers millions + steals states rights
Colorado could soon face this threat - but we can resist
@michelle-solomon.bsky.social + me coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/28/t...
That costs consumers millions + steals states rights
Colorado could soon face this threat - but we can resist
@michelle-solomon.bsky.social + me coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/28/t...
Climate denial as an engine for GDP growth
"The amount of money we spend preparing for and recovering from climate-driven disasters…is now 36% of US GDP growth” - @eroston.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
"The amount of money we spend preparing for and recovering from climate-driven disasters…is now 36% of US GDP growth” - @eroston.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Climate denial as an engine for GDP growth
"The amount of money we spend preparing for and recovering from climate-driven disasters…is now 36% of US GDP growth” - @eroston.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
"The amount of money we spend preparing for and recovering from climate-driven disasters…is now 36% of US GDP growth” - @eroston.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Administration tariffs will cost US automakers 20% of their profits this year - $30 billion! So much for Made-In-America. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
Trump tariffs take $30B bite of automakers’ profits
The financial hit could make it more difficult for car manufacturers to make the transition to electric vehicles.
www.eenews.net
October 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Administration tariffs will cost US automakers 20% of their profits this year - $30 billion! So much for Made-In-America. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...