@carbonwrangler.bsky.social
I can't get enough of this excellent, brief paper by Oliver Geden & Andy Reisinger.
If you care about climate, incl. human & environmental impacts, then you must also care about serious commitments to removals.
Take 6 minutes & read this masterpiece.
www.swp-berlin.org/en/publicati...
If you care about climate, incl. human & environmental impacts, then you must also care about serious commitments to removals.
Take 6 minutes & read this masterpiece.
www.swp-berlin.org/en/publicati...
Overshoot: Returning to 1.5°C Requires Net-negative Emissions Targets
Global warming is set to rise above 1.5°C by the early 2030s. Returning to 1.5°C before the end of the 21st century would not prevent all harms...
www.swp-berlin.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I can't get enough of this excellent, brief paper by Oliver Geden & Andy Reisinger.
If you care about climate, incl. human & environmental impacts, then you must also care about serious commitments to removals.
Take 6 minutes & read this masterpiece.
www.swp-berlin.org/en/publicati...
If you care about climate, incl. human & environmental impacts, then you must also care about serious commitments to removals.
Take 6 minutes & read this masterpiece.
www.swp-berlin.org/en/publicati...
Here's what I hope countries and companies commit to at COP30 in Brazil.
Plus: Arnold Schwartzenegger.
My latest Substack:
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/do-the-reps
Plus: Arnold Schwartzenegger.
My latest Substack:
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/do-the-reps
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Here's what I hope countries and companies commit to at COP30 in Brazil.
Plus: Arnold Schwartzenegger.
My latest Substack:
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/do-the-reps
Plus: Arnold Schwartzenegger.
My latest Substack:
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/do-the-reps
Pleased & proud to share this new piece on climate positive development in sub-Saharan Africa . It's one of a series of pieces pulled together by Climate Action Platform for Africa (CAP-A) and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. My piece is on p.32
Good work for everyone here
cap-a.org/wp-content/u...
Good work for everyone here
cap-a.org/wp-content/u...
cap-a.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Pleased & proud to share this new piece on climate positive development in sub-Saharan Africa . It's one of a series of pieces pulled together by Climate Action Platform for Africa (CAP-A) and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. My piece is on p.32
Good work for everyone here
cap-a.org/wp-content/u...
Good work for everyone here
cap-a.org/wp-content/u...
Cartoonist for the win
October 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Cartoonist for the win
Hey, daddy-oh!
Climate progress in the U.S. and Europe gotcha down?
Time to get out of your comfort zone and look at action around the great big world. You can start with my latest Substack.
substack.com/@carbonwrang...
Climate progress in the U.S. and Europe gotcha down?
Time to get out of your comfort zone and look at action around the great big world. You can start with my latest Substack.
substack.com/@carbonwrang...
The World is Large
The action is outside of Europe and North America
substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Hey, daddy-oh!
Climate progress in the U.S. and Europe gotcha down?
Time to get out of your comfort zone and look at action around the great big world. You can start with my latest Substack.
substack.com/@carbonwrang...
Climate progress in the U.S. and Europe gotcha down?
Time to get out of your comfort zone and look at action around the great big world. You can start with my latest Substack.
substack.com/@carbonwrang...
#Decoalification is hard work.
Now we have more of it.
Update in my latest Substack.
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/decoalific...
Now we have more of it.
Update in my latest Substack.
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/decoalific...
October 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
#Decoalification is hard work.
Now we have more of it.
Update in my latest Substack.
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/decoalific...
Now we have more of it.
Update in my latest Substack.
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/decoalific...
1/ I could not be more pleased and proud to share a new Roadmap on Sustainable Data Centers.
Link to the full report: www.icef.go.jp/roadmap/
Drafted for ICEF and supported by NEDO, this 300 page report touches on all issues of data center sustainability. Topics include -
Link to the full report: www.icef.go.jp/roadmap/
Drafted for ICEF and supported by NEDO, this 300 page report touches on all issues of data center sustainability. Topics include -
October 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
1/ I could not be more pleased and proud to share a new Roadmap on Sustainable Data Centers.
Link to the full report: www.icef.go.jp/roadmap/
Drafted for ICEF and supported by NEDO, this 300 page report touches on all issues of data center sustainability. Topics include -
Link to the full report: www.icef.go.jp/roadmap/
Drafted for ICEF and supported by NEDO, this 300 page report touches on all issues of data center sustainability. Topics include -
Horrific. Appalling. Un-American. Almost certainly illegal.
Also - made for TV.
The Economist argues the Chicago Raid is more about social media content than crime or immigration.
Jesus wept.
www.economist.com/united-state...
Also - made for TV.
The Economist argues the Chicago Raid is more about social media content than crime or immigration.
Jesus wept.
www.economist.com/united-state...
What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism
The worst excesses seem designed to produce content
www.economist.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Horrific. Appalling. Un-American. Almost certainly illegal.
Also - made for TV.
The Economist argues the Chicago Raid is more about social media content than crime or immigration.
Jesus wept.
www.economist.com/united-state...
Also - made for TV.
The Economist argues the Chicago Raid is more about social media content than crime or immigration.
Jesus wept.
www.economist.com/united-state...
Reposted
I think a lot about why we are not making more progress on climate. This graph from the Yale Program on Climate Change is telling - there are just too many more urgent problems. And I can't really argue with this outcome.
climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...
climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...
September 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I think a lot about why we are not making more progress on climate. This graph from the Yale Program on Climate Change is telling - there are just too many more urgent problems. And I can't really argue with this outcome.
climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...
climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...
Don't think of Maslow's famous Hierarcy of Need as to limit action, but instead as a roadmap for how to help all people along the Hierarchy.
Reimagine ways to improve the human condition and the natural world through ASCE.
My latest Substack. Enjoy!
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/maslow-and...
Reimagine ways to improve the human condition and the natural world through ASCE.
My latest Substack. Enjoy!
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/maslow-and...
Maslow and the roadmap to post-grievance world
Reimagining human needs in an Era of Abundance
carbonwrangler.substack.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Don't think of Maslow's famous Hierarcy of Need as to limit action, but instead as a roadmap for how to help all people along the Hierarchy.
Reimagine ways to improve the human condition and the natural world through ASCE.
My latest Substack. Enjoy!
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/maslow-and...
Reimagine ways to improve the human condition and the natural world through ASCE.
My latest Substack. Enjoy!
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/maslow-and...
I'm back! After a blistering travel schedule and life complexities, I offer a quick update on decoalification.
Watch this space - a new one coming Wednesday.
Enjoy!
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/decoalific...
Watch this space - a new one coming Wednesday.
Enjoy!
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/decoalific...
August 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I'm back! After a blistering travel schedule and life complexities, I offer a quick update on decoalification.
Watch this space - a new one coming Wednesday.
Enjoy!
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/decoalific...
Watch this space - a new one coming Wednesday.
Enjoy!
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/decoalific...
Worse than we thought
qz.com/irs-ice-tax-...
qz.com/irs-ice-tax-...
U.S. government says IRS is sharing tax data with ICE
The U.S. government acknowledged in federal court for the first time that the Internal Revenue Service is sharing taxpayer data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement
qz.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Worse than we thought
qz.com/irs-ice-tax-...
qz.com/irs-ice-tax-...
Light reading for the weekend.
Happy 4th!
Punchline: the title says it all.
Do the work, spend the money.
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/do-the-wor...
Happy 4th!
Punchline: the title says it all.
Do the work, spend the money.
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/do-the-wor...
Do the Work, Spend the Money
Less rhetoric. More action and finance
carbonwrangler.substack.com
July 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Light reading for the weekend.
Happy 4th!
Punchline: the title says it all.
Do the work, spend the money.
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/do-the-wor...
Happy 4th!
Punchline: the title says it all.
Do the work, spend the money.
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/do-the-wor...
1/2 Hot off the presses! Emerging SAF policy outside the EU and UK. New blog by the Carbon Direct team, featuring Hannah Williams and Shannon Keane.
Don't miss your flight. Check it out now.
www.carbon-direct.com/insights/bey...
Don't miss your flight. Check it out now.
www.carbon-direct.com/insights/bey...
Beyond the transatlantic core: Emerging SAF mandates in global markets | Carbon Direct
Emerging SAF markets are driving demand growth. Learn where new mandates are forming and how SAF producers can act now to gain a global competitive edge.
www.carbon-direct.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:59 AM
1/2 Hot off the presses! Emerging SAF policy outside the EU and UK. New blog by the Carbon Direct team, featuring Hannah Williams and Shannon Keane.
Don't miss your flight. Check it out now.
www.carbon-direct.com/insights/bey...
Don't miss your flight. Check it out now.
www.carbon-direct.com/insights/bey...
Hosannah.
Been saying this for years.
Thank you, Matt Zeitlin at @heatmap.news & to the team at @cleanaircatf.bsky.social for the original work.
Well known in energy circles.
Needs to be well known in policy and advocacy circles.
Report link in the first comment.
heatmap.news/energy/level...
Been saying this for years.
Thank you, Matt Zeitlin at @heatmap.news & to the team at @cleanaircatf.bsky.social for the original work.
Well known in energy circles.
Needs to be well known in policy and advocacy circles.
Report link in the first comment.
heatmap.news/energy/level...
Everyone’s Favorite Energy Cost Metric Is Wrong, Environmental Group Says
A new report from the Clean Air Task Force casts shade on “levelized cost of energy.”
heatmap.news
June 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Hosannah.
Been saying this for years.
Thank you, Matt Zeitlin at @heatmap.news & to the team at @cleanaircatf.bsky.social for the original work.
Well known in energy circles.
Needs to be well known in policy and advocacy circles.
Report link in the first comment.
heatmap.news/energy/level...
Been saying this for years.
Thank you, Matt Zeitlin at @heatmap.news & to the team at @cleanaircatf.bsky.social for the original work.
Well known in energy circles.
Needs to be well known in policy and advocacy circles.
Report link in the first comment.
heatmap.news/energy/level...
1/2 Love this longform article in @bloomberglp.bsky.social by @akshatrathi.bsky.social. It details the shortage of engineers for the #energytransition and what that means for project & economic risk.
Serious problem - for investors, workers, builders.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Serious problem - for investors, workers, builders.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
1/2 Love this longform article in @bloomberglp.bsky.social by @akshatrathi.bsky.social. It details the shortage of engineers for the #energytransition and what that means for project & economic risk.
Serious problem - for investors, workers, builders.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Serious problem - for investors, workers, builders.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Cool stuff makes the world better.
Especially if it makes abundant, sustainable, cheap energy (ASCE)
We should push for transformational growth as well as improvement.
Discussed in my latest Substack - just on time for the weekend.
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/the-cool-s...
Especially if it makes abundant, sustainable, cheap energy (ASCE)
We should push for transformational growth as well as improvement.
Discussed in my latest Substack - just on time for the weekend.
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/the-cool-s...
The Cool Stuff: Game-changing abundant, sustainable, cheap energy
A better world helps people be better and better off.
carbonwrangler.substack.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Cool stuff makes the world better.
Especially if it makes abundant, sustainable, cheap energy (ASCE)
We should push for transformational growth as well as improvement.
Discussed in my latest Substack - just on time for the weekend.
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/the-cool-s...
Especially if it makes abundant, sustainable, cheap energy (ASCE)
We should push for transformational growth as well as improvement.
Discussed in my latest Substack - just on time for the weekend.
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/the-cool-s...
1/4 We must build the world we want & manufacture clean goods to do so - especially steel and cement
What's the good stuff?
How can you define quality low-C products?
Carbon Direct is thrilled (!) to release this report - in close collaboration with Microsoft
www.carbon-direct.com/research-and...
What's the good stuff?
How can you define quality low-C products?
Carbon Direct is thrilled (!) to release this report - in close collaboration with Microsoft
www.carbon-direct.com/research-and...
Criteria for High-Quality Environmental Attribute Certificates | Carbon Direct
Explore Microsoft and Carbon Direct’s criteria for high-quality EACs for low-carbon concrete and steel to support decarbonization in data center construction.
www.carbon-direct.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
1/4 We must build the world we want & manufacture clean goods to do so - especially steel and cement
What's the good stuff?
How can you define quality low-C products?
Carbon Direct is thrilled (!) to release this report - in close collaboration with Microsoft
www.carbon-direct.com/research-and...
What's the good stuff?
How can you define quality low-C products?
Carbon Direct is thrilled (!) to release this report - in close collaboration with Microsoft
www.carbon-direct.com/research-and...
Wondering about the potential costs of data center expansion? To rate-payers? To communities? To infrastructure?
Carbon Direct has you covered. This new blog dives into potential risks, chokepoints & counterproductive outcomes.
Read. Think. Repeat.
www.carbon-direct.com/insights/who...
Carbon Direct has you covered. This new blog dives into potential risks, chokepoints & counterproductive outcomes.
Read. Think. Repeat.
www.carbon-direct.com/insights/who...
Who pays for the cloud? The hidden costs of rising data center demand | Carbon Direct
Data center demand is surging. Learn who pays the price, and how utilities, policymakers, and communities can push for climate and equity reforms.
www.carbon-direct.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Wondering about the potential costs of data center expansion? To rate-payers? To communities? To infrastructure?
Carbon Direct has you covered. This new blog dives into potential risks, chokepoints & counterproductive outcomes.
Read. Think. Repeat.
www.carbon-direct.com/insights/who...
Carbon Direct has you covered. This new blog dives into potential risks, chokepoints & counterproductive outcomes.
Read. Think. Repeat.
www.carbon-direct.com/insights/who...
Terrific piece in @heatmap.news Thanks, @jackandreasen.bsky.social
Agree that the opposition arguments are dusty, disinteresting, and incorrect.
Hard tasks are hard. #WeNeedMore, not less, investment and offtake agreements in DAC.
#WeNeedMore investment in innovation.
Agree that the opposition arguments are dusty, disinteresting, and incorrect.
Hard tasks are hard. #WeNeedMore, not less, investment and offtake agreements in DAC.
#WeNeedMore investment in innovation.
"Will DAC cross the chasm from pilot facilities to meaningful deployment? Or fall off the hype wagon into the dustbin of cool ideas that were always 10 years away?"
DAC doesn't work too well yet. That doesn't make it a scam, @jackandreasen.bsky.social argues:
DAC doesn't work too well yet. That doesn't make it a scam, @jackandreasen.bsky.social argues:
The Climeworks Scandal That Wasn’t
Direct air capture isn’t doing everything its advocates promised — yet. That doesn’t make it a scam.
heatmap.news
May 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Terrific piece in @heatmap.news Thanks, @jackandreasen.bsky.social
Agree that the opposition arguments are dusty, disinteresting, and incorrect.
Hard tasks are hard. #WeNeedMore, not less, investment and offtake agreements in DAC.
#WeNeedMore investment in innovation.
Agree that the opposition arguments are dusty, disinteresting, and incorrect.
Hard tasks are hard. #WeNeedMore, not less, investment and offtake agreements in DAC.
#WeNeedMore investment in innovation.
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If you read a hit piece about a climate tech that features a particular litigious Stanford professor, you should question the seriousness with which the story was reported
This great piece by @jackandreasen.bsky.social provides a more valuable and reality based take on what is going on in DAC world
This great piece by @jackandreasen.bsky.social provides a more valuable and reality based take on what is going on in DAC world
"Will DAC cross the chasm from pilot facilities to meaningful deployment? Or fall off the hype wagon into the dustbin of cool ideas that were always 10 years away?"
DAC doesn't work too well yet. That doesn't make it a scam, @jackandreasen.bsky.social argues:
DAC doesn't work too well yet. That doesn't make it a scam, @jackandreasen.bsky.social argues:
May 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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More thoughts on how to Harvest Abundance - second part of a four part series.
- You must be this tall to go on this ride
- To have a friend you must be a friend
- Hard numbers for hard decisions
- Try. Learn. Repeat.
Enjoy!
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/action-vs-...
- You must be this tall to go on this ride
- To have a friend you must be a friend
- Hard numbers for hard decisions
- Try. Learn. Repeat.
Enjoy!
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/action-vs-...
Action vs. Inquisition: Suggestions for outcome based progress
Beyond narrative, the actions are straightforward. Beyond diagnosis, the cure is straightforward.
carbonwrangler.substack.com
May 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
More thoughts on how to Harvest Abundance - second part of a four part series.
- You must be this tall to go on this ride
- To have a friend you must be a friend
- Hard numbers for hard decisions
- Try. Learn. Repeat.
Enjoy!
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/action-vs-...
- You must be this tall to go on this ride
- To have a friend you must be a friend
- Hard numbers for hard decisions
- Try. Learn. Repeat.
Enjoy!
carbonwrangler.substack.com/p/action-vs-...
Quick as lighting, the Carbon Direct team shares its thoughts on the proposed changes and repeals of the IRA by House Ways and Means. Thaddeus Woody worked in the House and has these insights.
Buckle up - the situation is dynamic and more changes coming.
www.carbon-direct.com/insights/hou...
Buckle up - the situation is dynamic and more changes coming.
www.carbon-direct.com/insights/hou...
House Republicans make first moves to repeal IRA climate provisions | Carbon Direct
House Republicans advance a reconciliation bill to repeal IRA tax credits and slash clean energy funding. Learn what’s at stake and what happens next.
www.carbon-direct.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Quick as lighting, the Carbon Direct team shares its thoughts on the proposed changes and repeals of the IRA by House Ways and Means. Thaddeus Woody worked in the House and has these insights.
Buckle up - the situation is dynamic and more changes coming.
www.carbon-direct.com/insights/hou...
Buckle up - the situation is dynamic and more changes coming.
www.carbon-direct.com/insights/hou...
A Public Service Announcement for folks who need help with their C footprint.
Focus on Scope 1 - controllable and regulated
Courtesy of Julia Millot and the fine folks at Carbon Direct.
www.carbon-direct.com/insights/sco...
Focus on Scope 1 - controllable and regulated
Courtesy of Julia Millot and the fine folks at Carbon Direct.
www.carbon-direct.com/insights/sco...
Scope 1 emissions explained: How to track, report, and reduce operational carbon | Carbon Direct
Scope 1 emissions offer a direct path to decarbonization. Learn how to turn operational carbon into innovation, resilience, and long-term business growth.
www.carbon-direct.com
May 13, 2025 at 5:08 AM
A Public Service Announcement for folks who need help with their C footprint.
Focus on Scope 1 - controllable and regulated
Courtesy of Julia Millot and the fine folks at Carbon Direct.
www.carbon-direct.com/insights/sco...
Focus on Scope 1 - controllable and regulated
Courtesy of Julia Millot and the fine folks at Carbon Direct.
www.carbon-direct.com/insights/sco...
Funny bar chart from the @financialtimes.com
May 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Funny bar chart from the @financialtimes.com