Lise Townsend
@lise-town.bsky.social
science | climate change | nature | personal growth | minding my circle of control | love wins
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10 years ago Mark Carney warned about the "existential threat" posed by climate catastrophe and the need to move from fossil fuel burning.
Now he is using Stephen Harper's lines about becoming an "energy super power."
This is a powerful analysis on the MOU.
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/the-pipeli...
Now he is using Stephen Harper's lines about becoming an "energy super power."
This is a powerful analysis on the MOU.
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/the-pipeli...
The Pipeline MOU is a Tragic Failure of Vision
At best, Mark Carney capitulated to Danielle Smith's backward view of the future. At worst, the Prime Minister shares that view
markhamhislop.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
10 years ago Mark Carney warned about the "existential threat" posed by climate catastrophe and the need to move from fossil fuel burning.
Now he is using Stephen Harper's lines about becoming an "energy super power."
This is a powerful analysis on the MOU.
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/the-pipeli...
Now he is using Stephen Harper's lines about becoming an "energy super power."
This is a powerful analysis on the MOU.
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/the-pipeli...
Great read for anyone needing a spark of optimism. The electrotech revolution is coming and all the lobbying and back-tracking on climate commitments won't change that reality.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
The Electrotech Revolution | Ember
The annual slidedeck from Kingsmill Bond and the Ember Futures team unpacks how electrotech is rewriting the economics and geopolitics of energy.
ember-energy.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Great read for anyone needing a spark of optimism. The electrotech revolution is coming and all the lobbying and back-tracking on climate commitments won't change that reality.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
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Many city halls are deep in budget-time. Some are pushing austerity ideologies, and are ignoring the difference between costs and cost-savers/value creators. Citizens, PAY ATTENTION, and never forget that the TRUTH about a city’s REAL aspirations isn’t found in its visions. It’s found in its budget.
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Many city halls are deep in budget-time. Some are pushing austerity ideologies, and are ignoring the difference between costs and cost-savers/value creators. Citizens, PAY ATTENTION, and never forget that the TRUTH about a city’s REAL aspirations isn’t found in its visions. It’s found in its budget.
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Friends, can I ask a favour.
Our latest Honest Government out is a serious warning to Canada from Australia, which acts as a cautionary tail about the harms of the gas (LNG) export industry... Hence the cameo (spoiler alert) from our own aussie climate criminals, Woodside Energy
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Our latest Honest Government out is a serious warning to Canada from Australia, which acts as a cautionary tail about the harms of the gas (LNG) export industry... Hence the cameo (spoiler alert) from our own aussie climate criminals, Woodside Energy
1/🧵
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Friends, can I ask a favour.
Our latest Honest Government out is a serious warning to Canada from Australia, which acts as a cautionary tail about the harms of the gas (LNG) export industry... Hence the cameo (spoiler alert) from our own aussie climate criminals, Woodside Energy
1/🧵
Our latest Honest Government out is a serious warning to Canada from Australia, which acts as a cautionary tail about the harms of the gas (LNG) export industry... Hence the cameo (spoiler alert) from our own aussie climate criminals, Woodside Energy
1/🧵
Great thread on #solar and #energytransition challenges and successes!
38. Ordinary people have no idea how much progress we’ve made. Tell people at parties that UK carbon emissions in 2023 were at their lowest level since 1879, for example. Most developed economies are now reducing carbon emissions without lowering quality of life.
October 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Great thread on #solar and #energytransition challenges and successes!
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October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
🤩 wow COP 4.7 and low GWP (propane)!
Look at this badass heat pump! LOOK AT IT!
Dutch heating specialist offers residential heat pump for flat roofs
WeHeat said its monoblock air-to-water heat pump features a seasonal coefficient of performance of 4.7 and propane as the refrigerant. The system is available in four versions with output ranging from...
www.pv-magazine.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🤩 wow COP 4.7 and low GWP (propane)!
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UK's End of Coal:
"Each these 375ft tall, 290ft diameter cooling towers used to process a staggering 7.5 million gallons of water per hour.
Safely bringing them down meant using around half a tonne of explosives across ~16,500 holes, connected with 19km of detonating cord."
"Each these 375ft tall, 290ft diameter cooling towers used to process a staggering 7.5 million gallons of water per hour.
Safely bringing them down meant using around half a tonne of explosives across ~16,500 holes, connected with 19km of detonating cord."
August 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
UK's End of Coal:
"Each these 375ft tall, 290ft diameter cooling towers used to process a staggering 7.5 million gallons of water per hour.
Safely bringing them down meant using around half a tonne of explosives across ~16,500 holes, connected with 19km of detonating cord."
"Each these 375ft tall, 290ft diameter cooling towers used to process a staggering 7.5 million gallons of water per hour.
Safely bringing them down meant using around half a tonne of explosives across ~16,500 holes, connected with 19km of detonating cord."
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Yes, it is indeed unimaginable. But we are well beyond words of condemnation @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social. It's time for full economic sanctions on Israel.
Add your voice to the call at....
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Add your voice to the call at....
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Foreign Minister Anand says suffering in Gaza is ‘unimaginable’ in joint global statement urging unrestricted aid
Ministers from around two dozen countries say action is needed ‘to halt and reverse starvation’
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Yes, it is indeed unimaginable. But we are well beyond words of condemnation @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social. It's time for full economic sanctions on Israel.
Add your voice to the call at....
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Add your voice to the call at....
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane
July 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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I've been reading everything that @mliebreich.bsky.social writes for nearly two decades. His latest doesn't disappoint. about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
Liebreich: The Pragmatic Climate Reset - Part I | BloombergNEF
As the tide on clean energy turns, Michael Liebreich makes a strong case for a pragmatic climate reset.
about.bnef.com
July 28, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I've been reading everything that @mliebreich.bsky.social writes for nearly two decades. His latest doesn't disappoint. about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
💯 👇 I think about this all the time. one day our descendents will be like, they did wut?? 🤯
The oil industry misinformation has everyone so tied in knots thinking about EV battery fires that we forgot that driving around with gallons of extremely flammable liquid and lighting it on fire in a metal block 2,000 times per minute is kind of a bad idea. bsky.app/profile/d2lo...
When I first got an EV 3 years ago the second most common myth I heard after “the batteries will die” (not true, they last longer than a gas engine) is that EVs catch fire. A new study shows EVs are much less likely to catch fire than gas cars!
Fires per 100,000:
Hybrid: 3,500!
Gas: 1,500
EV: 25!
Fires per 100,000:
Hybrid: 3,500!
Gas: 1,500
EV: 25!
July 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM
💯 👇 I think about this all the time. one day our descendents will be like, they did wut?? 🤯
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A newborn sea otter’s fur is so dense they float like corks. 🦦 🦦
July 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A newborn sea otter’s fur is so dense they float like corks. 🦦 🦦
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These photos of solar power projects in China are incredible. I especially like this one of the Hangzhou West Railway Station.
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
July 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
These photos of solar power projects in China are incredible. I especially like this one of the Hangzhou West Railway Station.
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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What would Trump do if this song went viral today?
Hounds, “The Ballad of Jeff and Donny”
YouTube video by Seth Abramson
www.youtube.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
What would Trump do if this song went viral today?
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I wrote about the budget bill, police-state measures intensifying, Himmler's defense of camps, the dangers of mirroring Putin's Rosgvardia, Trump's wish for a multistate network of concentration camps, and a long list of things you can do right now to fight ICE.
America's (not-so) secret police
The budget bill unleashes a detention system that threatens every American.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I wrote about the budget bill, police-state measures intensifying, Himmler's defense of camps, the dangers of mirroring Putin's Rosgvardia, Trump's wish for a multistate network of concentration camps, and a long list of things you can do right now to fight ICE.
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The idea that self-censoring is a new form of oppression forced on white men rather than a normal part of having a prefrontal cortex and existing in society is some of the biggest bullshit in the centrist/right wing coalition gender grift
June 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The idea that self-censoring is a new form of oppression forced on white men rather than a normal part of having a prefrontal cortex and existing in society is some of the biggest bullshit in the centrist/right wing coalition gender grift
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For details on how oil futures markets work, how much it cost Canadians last time, and how to get off this pointless roller-coaster, see our Centre for Future Work Canada 'False Profits' research: falseprofits.ca/reports.
False Profits | Reports
False Profits is a new research initiative from the Centre for Future Work to document the economic harms of fossil fuel pricing, profits, and practices.
falseprofits.ca
June 14, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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💚 when renewable energy and biodiversity converge
New study: offshore wind farms may contribute to protection of marine life
Several shark+ray species were detected in and around Dutch wind farms
Trawling and other seabed-disturbing fishing are prohibited, allowing benthic ecosystems to recover
phys.org/news/2025-05...
Several shark+ray species were detected in and around Dutch wind farms
Trawling and other seabed-disturbing fishing are prohibited, allowing benthic ecosystems to recover
phys.org/news/2025-05...
Sharks and rays found using offshore wind farms as habitat
A new study by Wageningen University & Research shows that offshore wind farms not only produce energy, but may also contribute to the protection of marine life. Several shark and ray species were det...
phys.org
June 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
💚 when renewable energy and biodiversity converge
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📄 NEW: Mass media is pushing the false narrative that Musk has 'left' government to focus on his companies. But the reality is that Musk fronts a cartel of related and accelerating interests. My latest.
america2.news/musk-isnt-go...
america2.news/musk-isnt-go...
Musk Isn't “Gone” — and Tech Fascism Is Running Rampant
Musk wants us to believe he's "left government" to focus on his companies. But the broader tech fascist movement he's enabling is moving forward at astonishing speed.
america2.news
June 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
📄 NEW: Mass media is pushing the false narrative that Musk has 'left' government to focus on his companies. But the reality is that Musk fronts a cartel of related and accelerating interests. My latest.
america2.news/musk-isnt-go...
america2.news/musk-isnt-go...
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"The only way to eliminate the exposure is to replace a gas or propane stove with a non-emitting induction or other electric stove." Gas stoves increase the chances of getting cancer, with nearly double the risk for kids than for adults ow.ly/BubJ50VWIyQ 🔌💡
Gas stoves increase cancer risk, especially for kids, new study finds
The appliances emit benzene, a potent carcinogen. Exposure varies depending on ventilation and other factors, but there’s no safe level.
ow.ly
May 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"The only way to eliminate the exposure is to replace a gas or propane stove with a non-emitting induction or other electric stove." Gas stoves increase the chances of getting cancer, with nearly double the risk for kids than for adults ow.ly/BubJ50VWIyQ 🔌💡
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Global sales of electric cars continue to break records 🚘
In 2024, 1 in 5 cars sold worldwide was electric. In 2025, it's set to be more than 1 in 4.
Total electric car sales are on track to exceed 20 million this year despite economic uncertainties → iea.li/4mfHty3
In 2024, 1 in 5 cars sold worldwide was electric. In 2025, it's set to be more than 1 in 4.
Total electric car sales are on track to exceed 20 million this year despite economic uncertainties → iea.li/4mfHty3
May 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Global sales of electric cars continue to break records 🚘
In 2024, 1 in 5 cars sold worldwide was electric. In 2025, it's set to be more than 1 in 4.
Total electric car sales are on track to exceed 20 million this year despite economic uncertainties → iea.li/4mfHty3
In 2024, 1 in 5 cars sold worldwide was electric. In 2025, it's set to be more than 1 in 4.
Total electric car sales are on track to exceed 20 million this year despite economic uncertainties → iea.li/4mfHty3