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Mark Gongloff
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Really wish we could stop using the word “pragmatic” to describe polluting the planet for millennia
NYT headlines: After Climate Push, Energy Companies Return to Fossil Fuels in Europe Recent oil and gas deals in Europe suggest that the growing demand for energy may be leading companies to adopt a more pragmatic approach.
November 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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A key thing about the IEA's "current policies" scenario showing oil demand rising to 2050 is it assumes no further improvement in renewable tech or costs, defying all trends.

BNEF's base-case current policies scenario includes these trends & shows oil demand peaking in 2032
A chart comparing the IEA current policies scenario for oil demand, showing demand rising until at least 2050, vs BNEF's economic transition scenario, its base case, which shows oil peaking in 2032
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Another year, another history-making hot-water-fueled hurricane leaves @johnmoralestv.bsky.social nearly speechless
October 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Profoundly stupid all around.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Meanwhile, American auto companies and their investors are celebrating a return to the comfy internal-combustion engine (known in car circles as “ICE”) and its profit margins, aided by a gutting of emissions limits by the Trump administration and congressional Republicans. The market is rewarding General Motors and Ford with their highest stock prices of the year, after CEOs made an implicit promise to cool their EV ambitions.
October 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Now more of a monster
Clip from NHC update on Hurricane Melissa 5:00 AM EDT Tue Oct 28 Location: 17.2°N 78.3°W Moving: NNE at 5 mph Min pressure: 901 mb Max sustained: 175 mph Satellite image of Melissa with a caption noting it has broken its own record for the driest eye for the fifth time with a core temp of -3.61C
October 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Honorable Mentions:

Heart Eyes (fun romcom/slasher hybrid)
VHS Halloween (The Kidprint segment especially)
Night of the Reaper (pure 80s vibes)
Eddington (not horror, but the most upsetting final scene of the year)

As a weird horror freak, I'd love to hear your recos

12/12
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October 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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#1 The Ugly Stepsister. Too few people have seen this nasty little gem. Cinderella retold as body horror. The Substance of the 17th century. Great performances, period details, laughs and squirms 11/12
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October 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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#2 Weapons. Arguably the year's best. Like Cregger's Barbarian, it's genuinely hilarious and horrifying in turns and always inventive, but with more depth of feeling 10/12
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October 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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#3 28 Years Later. This movie has *everything.* Danny Boyle channeling an ayahuasca trip. Coming-of-age story. Well-hung zombies. Beautiful, surprising, moving 9/12
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October 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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#4 Bring Her Back. Not for casual horror fans. Grim, disturbing but expertly made and tonally perfect. Moments that made even my grizzled stomach turn 8/12
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October 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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#5 Final Destination: Bloodlines. The best of the series. Wildly inventive in finding ways to kill people 7/12
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October 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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#6 Sinners. A lot of people will have this higher, and I get it, but the horror half of the movie kinda underwhelmed me. Still, great movie 6/12
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October 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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#7 Companion. Maybe not even really horror? But Thatcher and Quaid are great as always, and it speaks to our bleak robot moment 5/12
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October 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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#8 Dangerous Animals. Serial killer + sharks + Australia = this. Shut your brain off and have a bloody good time, mate 4/12
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October 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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#9 Presence. Soderbergh tells a ghost story from the POV of the ghost. More interesting, scary and moving than it should be 3/12
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October 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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#10 The Monkey. The PBJ in Oz Perkins' Longlegs/Keeper sandwich, this is funny and inventive until it runs out of gas in the 3rd act 2/12
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October 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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The one time of year my being a weird little horror freak helps anybody else is Halloween. So with one week left of the season, if you need some scary recommendations, here are my top 10 horror movies of the year so far (note I still haven't seen Together, Long Walk or a couple of others) 1/12
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October 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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We are not serious people
A chart of battery electric vehicle adoption rate by country. Norway: 81.9% Hong Kong: 72.6% Myanmar: 55.8% Denmark: 55% Albania: 41% Sweden: 34.9% Malta: 34.4% Mainland China: 33.3% Netherlands: 31.5% USA: 7.5% Source: S&P Global Mobility, Axios
October 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Love to hear from my fans
Reader response email: “Liar liar pants on fire. You liberal monsters need to be caged!”
October 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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From @hausfath.bsky.social a couple of graphics that you would hope might pierce even the hardest climate-denialist armor: The vast majority of the world has experienced its hottest-ever temperatures in just the past few decades

www.theclimatebrink.com/p/most-of-th...
Chart: "Share of Global Land With Hottest Monthly Max by Decade" The 2020s have 38%, the 2010s have 29.4%, the 2000s have 10.3% and the 1990s have 4%. The other decades since the 1910s are all sub 3%, aside from the 1930s, the Dust Bowl era, which is 3.3%. From 1850 to 1900, the percentages are all 0.3% or less. Map: Global Land: Year of Hottest Monthly Maximum Temperature It shows that most of the world's land area has experienced its hottest maximum temperatures in the past two decades.
October 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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As much if not more than Trump's nonsense, data centers are keeping the coal industry alive, with the dirty fuel expected to be the second-biggest source of extra energy through 2035 after that other dirty fuel, gas

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Chart: Data Centers to Drive Need for New US Power Plant Capacity Marginal change in installed capacity versus a scenario in which there is no additional electricity demand from data centers. Chart goes from 2026 to 2035 and shows a steady climb up to nearly 80 gigawatts of extra demand, most of which will be met every year by gas. Coal will play an increasingly large part, though, rising to nearly a quarter of that demand by 2035. Solar, batteries and wind play minor roles from 2028 to 2034 but then make up about another quarter of demand by 2035. Source: BloombergNEF. Reflects BNEF's economic transition scenario, driven by the cost-competitiveness of technologies.
October 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Year-over-year change in EV sales in 2Q 2025, per BNEF:

Global: +23%
China: +23%
Europe: +27%

North America: -1%

The US is choosing to be left in the dust
Chart of Passenger EV sales by quarter in China, Europe, the US, Canada, Japan, South Korea and "Rest of World" Shows steady increases in each quarter and in each year, to 5 million globally for the 2Q of 2025, up from 4 million a year earlier. China and Europe make up the vast bulk of sales, with "rest of world" topping the US in most quarters this year and in projections for the first half of next year. Source: Bloomberg NEF
September 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Dumbest Gestapo Ever: ICE agent drops his gun in the middle of brutalizing someone claiming to be an American, then aims it at the crowd while being filmed. From @marisakabas.bsky.social

www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...
three photos of an ICE agent in the middle of trying to subdue somebody in the middle of a street in Maryland. The first shows the agent on the ground after scrambling to retrieve the gun he dropped. The second shows him aiming the gun at the bystanders filming him. The third shows him standing in front of the continuing struggle, trying to remember what happened to his dignity.
September 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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He’s promulgating the “antifa bullets” myth to help justify this crackdown
From Trump’s order: There are common recurrent motivations and indicia uniting this pattern of violent and terroristic activities under the umbrella of self-described “anti-fascism.” These movements portray foundational American principles (e.g., support for law enforcement and border control) as “fascist” to justify and encourage acts of violent revolution. This “anti-fascist” lie has become the organizing rallying cry used by domestic terrorists to wage a violent assault against democratic institutions, constitutional rights, and fundamental American liberties. Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality. As described in the Order of September 22, 2025 (Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization), the groups and entities that perpetuate this extremism have created a movement that embraces and elevates violence to achieve policy outcomes, including justifying additional assassinations. For example, Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin engraved the bullets used in the murder with so-called “anti-fascist” rhetoric.
September 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Of the 24K heat deaths in Europe this summer, 16,500 were attributable to human-caused global heating, per a new study from @granthamicl.bsky.social & many more

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A map of Europe showing temperature anomaly in degrees Celsius, deviation from 1990-2020 average temperatures, between June and August 2025. Southern UK, Spain, France, and much of southern Europe, Turkiye and North Africa all show significant extreme temperatures. "Scientists analyzed climate models and health records to estimate that 68% of 24,400 heatwave deaths in the summer of 2025 in 854 European cities can be attributed to human-caused warming, primarily sparked by burning oil, gas and coal, as well as deforestation. In Northern Europe, their report showed, nearly all of the heatwave deaths were attributable to human-caused warming. 85% of the deaths of people age 65 and older were attributable to human-caused warming. Source: Clair Barnes et al., Imperial College Scientific Report. Chart by Inside Climate News
September 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM