Billy Berek
@berekade.bsky.social
Climate advisor at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Masters of Climate science and policy. Interested in the nexus of climate impacts, mitigation, economics, financial stability, risk.
Also interested in politics, geology, astronomy, science communication
Also interested in politics, geology, astronomy, science communication
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"The global oil market may be at a tipping point as signs of a significant supply glut emerge" writes the IEA.
Tepid demand due to "subpar economic conditions, increasing vehicle efficiencies, & robust electric vehicle sales in many markets." 😮
www.iea.org/commentaries...
Tepid demand due to "subpar economic conditions, increasing vehicle efficiencies, & robust electric vehicle sales in many markets." 😮
www.iea.org/commentaries...
As oil market surplus keeps rising, something’s got to give – Analysis - IEA
As oil market surplus keeps rising, something’s got to give - A commentary by Toril Bosoni
www.iea.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
"The global oil market may be at a tipping point as signs of a significant supply glut emerge" writes the IEA.
Tepid demand due to "subpar economic conditions, increasing vehicle efficiencies, & robust electric vehicle sales in many markets." 😮
www.iea.org/commentaries...
Tepid demand due to "subpar economic conditions, increasing vehicle efficiencies, & robust electric vehicle sales in many markets." 😮
www.iea.org/commentaries...
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This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
October 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
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🚨 Launched: State of Wildfires Report 2024-25
The Americas felt the harsh reality of what it means to live on a more fire-prone planet, with extreme #wildfire episodes made 2-3 times more likely by #climate change.
🔥 Full details via our brand new website: stateofwildfires.com/latest-report/
The Americas felt the harsh reality of what it means to live on a more fire-prone planet, with extreme #wildfire episodes made 2-3 times more likely by #climate change.
🔥 Full details via our brand new website: stateofwildfires.com/latest-report/
October 16, 2025 at 6:36 AM
🚨 Launched: State of Wildfires Report 2024-25
The Americas felt the harsh reality of what it means to live on a more fire-prone planet, with extreme #wildfire episodes made 2-3 times more likely by #climate change.
🔥 Full details via our brand new website: stateofwildfires.com/latest-report/
The Americas felt the harsh reality of what it means to live on a more fire-prone planet, with extreme #wildfire episodes made 2-3 times more likely by #climate change.
🔥 Full details via our brand new website: stateofwildfires.com/latest-report/
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Chicago, get trained THIS MORNING 10:30a CT
ICE watch and community defense
Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
ICE watch and community defense
Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Chicago, get trained THIS MORNING 10:30a CT
ICE watch and community defense
Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
ICE watch and community defense
Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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RFK Jr. keeps repeating this ridiculous, ignorant bullshit.
Trust in expertise is literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I wrote a whole-ass thread about it last time around; maybe worth revisiting.
bsky.app/profile/carl...
Trust in expertise is literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I wrote a whole-ass thread about it last time around; maybe worth revisiting.
bsky.app/profile/carl...
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
October 16, 2025 at 6:33 AM
RFK Jr. keeps repeating this ridiculous, ignorant bullshit.
Trust in expertise is literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I wrote a whole-ass thread about it last time around; maybe worth revisiting.
bsky.app/profile/carl...
Trust in expertise is literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I wrote a whole-ass thread about it last time around; maybe worth revisiting.
bsky.app/profile/carl...
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this is sooooooo f'ing sweet. every time Sec. Chris Wright lies about the DOE Climate Working Group report, reporters cite our response.
September 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
this is sooooooo f'ing sweet. every time Sec. Chris Wright lies about the DOE Climate Working Group report, reporters cite our response.
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This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
www.whitehouse.gov
September 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Shipping challenges on the rain-starved Mississippi…again: Another year of low levels is hitting the shipping industry in a rare four-year run of drought
www.freightwaves.com/news/shippin...
www.freightwaves.com/news/shippin...
Shipping challenges on the rain-starved Mississippi…again
A lack of rain, particularly in areas that drain into the Ohio River, is leading to restrictions on barge sizes on the Mississippi River. On September 13,
www.freightwaves.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Shipping challenges on the rain-starved Mississippi…again: Another year of low levels is hitting the shipping industry in a rare four-year run of drought
www.freightwaves.com/news/shippin...
www.freightwaves.com/news/shippin...
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Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.
September 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.
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Please behold these two images one after the other — and remember that Manchin now works at a lobbying firm and is a private equity adviser
September 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Please behold these two images one after the other — and remember that Manchin now works at a lobbying firm and is a private equity adviser
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I'm forcing a subpoena on
FCC Director Brendan Carr for censoring free speech.
FCC Director Brendan Carr for censoring free speech.
September 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I'm forcing a subpoena on
FCC Director Brendan Carr for censoring free speech.
FCC Director Brendan Carr for censoring free speech.
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The list of war crimes just keeps growing .
cpj.org/2025/09/isra...
cpj.org/2025/09/isra...
Israel’s killing of 31 Yemeni journalists marks deadliest global attack in 16 years - Committee to Protect Journalists
Washington, D.C., September 19, 2025—Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, which killed 31 journalists and media support workers on September 10, signal that it...
cpj.org
September 20, 2025 at 5:10 AM
The list of war crimes just keeps growing .
cpj.org/2025/09/isra...
cpj.org/2025/09/isra...
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I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject.
Gift link:
Gift link:
Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Votes to Limit Access to Covid Shots
www.nytimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject.
Gift link:
Gift link:
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"I never stood with Bibi."
September 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"I never stood with Bibi."
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Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him
September 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him
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I was reminded yesterday that he blamed the Lahaina fires on native Hawaiians because they didn't pray to a Christian God.
September 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I was reminded yesterday that he blamed the Lahaina fires on native Hawaiians because they didn't pray to a Christian God.
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Just dropped: @financialtimes.com excellent special report on electrification. I told them:
“Overhauling the world’s energy system from fossil fuels is less daunting with electrification's efficiency gains—making the energy transition outlook more optimistic than it seems."
“Overhauling the world’s energy system from fossil fuels is less daunting with electrification's efficiency gains—making the energy transition outlook more optimistic than it seems."
September 12, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Just dropped: @financialtimes.com excellent special report on electrification. I told them:
“Overhauling the world’s energy system from fossil fuels is less daunting with electrification's efficiency gains—making the energy transition outlook more optimistic than it seems."
“Overhauling the world’s energy system from fossil fuels is less daunting with electrification's efficiency gains—making the energy transition outlook more optimistic than it seems."
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Feels like an entire movement taught that energy is dictated by market forces - and fossil fuels can't simply be legislated out of existence - has left all of us worse off in terms of a widespread ability to quickly generate meaningful opposition to fascism organized around a petrofuture.
September 9, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Feels like an entire movement taught that energy is dictated by market forces - and fossil fuels can't simply be legislated out of existence - has left all of us worse off in terms of a widespread ability to quickly generate meaningful opposition to fascism organized around a petrofuture.
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When even Rand Paul thinks you’re despicable.
September 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
When even Rand Paul thinks you’re despicable.
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On Saturday, September 6th, thousands gathered across Chicago to protest President Trump’s plan to deploy National Guard troops to the city.
Protesters carried signs and chanted “No Trump, No Troops, No Occupation.”
📷 steel brooks
#Chicago
Protesters carried signs and chanted “No Trump, No Troops, No Occupation.”
📷 steel brooks
#Chicago
September 7, 2025 at 6:45 AM
On Saturday, September 6th, thousands gathered across Chicago to protest President Trump’s plan to deploy National Guard troops to the city.
Protesters carried signs and chanted “No Trump, No Troops, No Occupation.”
📷 steel brooks
#Chicago
Protesters carried signs and chanted “No Trump, No Troops, No Occupation.”
📷 steel brooks
#Chicago
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The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump.
Join us.
Join us.
September 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump.
Join us.
Join us.
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To be an immigrant who receives federal benefits of any kind you have to be either a permanent resident or someone who has survived human trafficking; children and spouses surviving domestic battery; an asylum seeker; or a member of narrowly defined Cuban or Haitian groups. This is public info.
this idea sucks shit
September 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
To be an immigrant who receives federal benefits of any kind you have to be either a permanent resident or someone who has survived human trafficking; children and spouses surviving domestic battery; an asylum seeker; or a member of narrowly defined Cuban or Haitian groups. This is public info.
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"Alarm" to say the least.
Fascist fucks.
Fascist fucks.
Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice
Legal experts say the charges against Afghanistan war veteran Bajun Mavalwalla II mark an escalation in the Trump administration’s crackdown on first amendment rights
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"Alarm" to say the least.
Fascist fucks.
Fascist fucks.