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Megan Darby
@climatemegan.bsky.social
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Heat pump appreciation account. Pro-human intelligence, especially when it comes with human kindness.
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this is what we're up against
Excerpt from Bloomberg article: At first glance, it might look like the US has exited the climate fight... But don't be confused: America is still in the arena; it's just fighting for the other side.
November 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
climatemegan.bsky.social
well this is depressing. my bank now gives the option of investing in specific sectors.

average annual return for crypto: 56.82%

clean energy: -2.6%
October 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
climatemegan.bsky.social
Imagine how much work goes into managing this level of price risk 🤯
Saudi Aramco's net income moves by $900mn for every $1 change in the oil price.
July 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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there's a heatwave in the UK. it's not all ice creams and splashing in fountains. @climatevisuals.bsky.social has tips on how to represent extreme heat in pictures www.climatevisuals.org/how-do-you-p...
a dry reservoir with a trickle of water in the bottom. an oil tanker lorry and cars drive on a bridge across it
June 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
climatemegan.bsky.social
good to know people in general haven't lost their critical faculties, despite some wild stories of people falling down AI rabbit holes

Reuters Institute's 2025 digital news report just dropped

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
audiences in most countries remain sceptical about the use of AI in the news and are more comfortable with use cases where humans remain in the loop. Across countries they expect that AI will make the news cheaper to make (+29 net difference) and more up-to-date (+16) but less transparent (-8), less accurate (-8), and less trustworthy (-18).
June 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
climatemegan.bsky.social
rookie error to repeat the alleged conflict of interest in the reactive statement
excerpt from Financial Times article: It added that the paper was not written "because Mr Blair has worked with oil-producing nations that hosted COP or because he worked on the gas pipeline for Azerbaijan gas to come to Europe".
May 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
climatemegan.bsky.social
the Trumpian right-wing party leader Pierre Poilievre lost his seat 🎻
April 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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this is a heat pump appreciation account
woman looks excited in front of a heat pump
April 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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yep www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mol...
Gas is volatile, versatile, and everywhere all at once. But LNG’s structural volatility, and security risks amid extreme geopolitical tension, mean it could be on a trajectory to a much more marginal role in the future energy mix than its boosters might suggest. No exporter is safe from declining demand for oil and gas; ships can get blocked from the Bab al-Mandab to the Panama Canal; petrostates and buyers should think twice about locking in new investments and infrastructure. All that is liquified can melt into air.
March 31, 2025 at 10:43 AM
climatemegan.bsky.social
mmmm processed potato
three potato waffles on a plate
March 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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although... nationalpost.com/opinion/what...
article excerpt: US intelligence agencies spend about $100 billion a year, compared to $5 billion for the UK and $700 million for Canada
February 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
climatemegan.bsky.social
great reporting on the fight for the future of the EU's Green Deal. Will the centre-right satisfy industry by trimming red tape or capitulate to the far-right who want to chuck the whole thing in the bin?

This is the best argument for staying the course, to me
www.politico.eu/article/insi...
Text excerpt: "If our competitiveness is based on cheap oil and gas, we will never be competitive," said Radan Kanev, a Bulgarian EPP member of Parliament. "We have to complete the Green Deal, not repeal it."
February 14, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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thank you for updating @semafor.com
updated bio reflects Sultan Al Jaber's commercial interests in the topic
February 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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update. sometimes a polite complaint works
bio has been updated to reflect the author's commercial interests
February 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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wow benansell.substack.com/p/did-deepse...
Text excerpt. Summary: DeepSeek's R1 model has 3% the training costs of US competitors. That's roughly equivalent to the decline in lighting costs of light between coal and gas lamps in 1925 and LEDs in 2005.
January 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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I need another article to really get into the global culture war that's playing out between suburban sprawl/gas-guzzlers and walkable neighbourhoods/e-mobility. What if the US is losing its cultural dominance to China? www.iisd.org/articles/ins...
excerpt of the linked article on how China's EV production and exports are growing, teeing up a global culture war between gas-guzzlers and e-mobility
January 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
climatemegan.bsky.social
without downloading any new pics what's your energy going into 2025
woman with glasses sticks tongue out to the side
December 29, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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pleased with my veggie centrepiece. hosting for the first time like a proper grown-up!
December 25, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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bullshit headline from NYT that is not borne out by the copy

all they've established is that the oil industry doesn't want to invest in the UK and that affects jobs

the article offers zero evidence that UK energy security or affordability is compromised by the shift to renewables
New York Times headline: Britain Promised Clean Energy, but It Still Needs Oil
December 13, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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my tepid take is that it's a bit rich to blame climate advocates for the inherent volatility of fossil fuel prices

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o...
December 9, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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negotiators *expect* Saudi Arabia to be obstructive at UN climate talks. If they're shocked, it must be *bad* www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/c...
excerpt from New York Times article detailing how the Saudi delegation is using procedural objections to stall COP29 climate negotiations in Baku
November 19, 2024 at 6:18 AM
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good morning Baku
November 18, 2024 at 3:32 AM
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yay that sounds like a lot of money! oh...
Headline: Green energy firms promise more than GBP 24 billion of new investment in Britain Headline: China's top miner to spend $24 billion on coal-to-oil project
October 11, 2024 at 9:12 AM
climatemegan.bsky.social
maybe if you installed it horizontally? it is tall and wouldn't have fit in our under-stairs cupboard. we built it into plans for a utility room. will eventually be boxed in
September 16, 2024 at 11:40 AM
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A good old-fashioned save-the-whales campaign in Mexico, where they're threatened by infrastructure to export US gas.

A side effect of Biden's "pause" on LNG approvals was to embolden plans to make Mexico the sacrifice zone

whalesorgas.org
September 12, 2024 at 8:37 AM