Grand rhetoric isn't enough and making targets isn't enough. Climate leadership requires being willing to challenge the power of polluting industries. That doesn't have to be divisive, but certainly will be as the government still drags its feet.

Spoiler alert - my next column is about HVO. If you squint closely, you’ll see from this data that nearly half of Ireland’s transport biofuels came from used cooking oil (UCO) and palm oil mill effluent (POME), from east Asia, which are widely believed to actually be virgin palm oil.

And since we're still making climate change worse every day, they'll probably be back a lot sooner than that.

Magnitude of current heatwave is incredible!

The forecast for tuesday shows an unprecedented area with temp. > 40°C 😱

Never before has it been so hot over such a large area (and so early!) 🔥

The vertigo of having to live like this for the rest of your life...

Data @meteofrance.com

I believe that this is the first whiskey I have ever tasted whose branding is of an indigenous Austronesian community in Taiwan. (It's fantastic.)

Wind turbines, on the other hand, do have a lot of mechanical inertia, just like conventional power plants. But this too is not allowed to be used to support the grid. ** The lack of inertia in renewable energy is therefore the result of a conscious policy choice. 9/

First hosepipe ban is coming for parts for Meath as reported by LMFM and at present no real rain forecast for next 2 weeks. Every year I ask when are we going to start investing in more reservoirs and water storage for all that rain we do get 🤷‍♂️

Help! ❤️

YouTube flagged our @cleaninguppod.bsky.social documentary on #ProjectBo as political advertising. 😬

Using #solar power to help save babies' lives is NOT political! 🌞

We've re-edited, now we REALLY need your likes, comments, RTs and shares to get the word out! 🙏

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..and failing to factor in the cost of the status quo and the overwhelming ethical imperative to act.

It also under-plays the great innovation happening already in long-duration energy storage, instead calling a decarbonised energy system "wishful thinking".

PV for a neonatal unit. This must be one of the most effective aid projects conceivable, in terms of lives saved per $ spent. Any academics out there want to work on quantifying it?

Please RT.

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The national average March rainfall was also the lowest on record: 6 mm vs 53 'normal', i.e. 89 % less.
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If you add up all the fossil power plants in Germany you get 70 GW. The average energy use is 50 GW.

Now know that there is a backlog of battery project seeking approval of over 225 GW!

This indeed is a tsunami! And we'd better learn how integrate these batteries into the grid fast!