Chris Turner
@theturner.bsky.social
Author of HOW TO BE A CLIMATE OPTIMIST. Writer & talker about the energy transition. Baseball (in season). Nova Scotia resident.
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Gales of November came early. End of story. Capeche?
Gales of November came early. End of story. Capeche?
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was 50 years ago today. Check out the post quoted below that remaps older satellite data and uses ERA5 reanalysis to look back at the #weather on that day. #history 1/2 🧪
The 50th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: A New Perspective on an Old Storm: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Gales of November came early. End of story. Capeche?
Gales of November came early. End of story. Capeche?
This is a good thread. I forget where I first heard it, but a line that has stuck with me is that GenXers like me are at most the third generation to know the everyday luxury of hot showers. In all of human history.
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is a good thread. I forget where I first heard it, but a line that has stuck with me is that GenXers like me are at most the third generation to know the everyday luxury of hot showers. In all of human history.
“The President, who critics claim is 79 years old…”
"Appearing to close his eyes"
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
“The President, who critics claim is 79 years old…”
Loving you / isn’t the right thing to do
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<starts nodding along>
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Loving you / isn’t the right thing to do
<starts nodding along>
<starts nodding along>
Reposted by Chris Turner
Required Reading this week from @theturner.bsky.social.
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The energy transition is inevitable, and the faster we turn from petrostate to electrostate the better economy we’ll leave for our kids.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/f39d95c...
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The energy transition is inevitable, and the faster we turn from petrostate to electrostate the better economy we’ll leave for our kids.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/f39d95c...
A decade after the Paris Agreement, the clean economy is winning
As the world’s climate negotiators gather in Brazil, they must understand that the energy transition is now inevitable
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Required Reading this week from @theturner.bsky.social.
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The energy transition is inevitable, and the faster we turn from petrostate to electrostate the better economy we’ll leave for our kids.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/f39d95c...
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The energy transition is inevitable, and the faster we turn from petrostate to electrostate the better economy we’ll leave for our kids.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/f39d95c...
Reposted by Chris Turner
Supercharged natural disasters make more headlines & oil and gas makes more noise, but @theturner.bsky.social says the biggest climate story since Paris is the simply staggering speed at which the global energy transition has zoomed from margin to mainstream
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: A decade after the Paris Agreement, the clean economy is winning
As the world’s climate negotiators gather in Brazil, they must understand that the energy transition is now inevitable
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Supercharged natural disasters make more headlines & oil and gas makes more noise, but @theturner.bsky.social says the biggest climate story since Paris is the simply staggering speed at which the global energy transition has zoomed from margin to mainstream
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Some very useful corrections to the NY Times piece today on progress since Paris. We're actually doing much better than indicated by the emissions graph the Times used
Great dissection of where the world stands on climate 10 years after Paris: better than ever; worse than needed.
Start here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
But lemme quibble a bit with the CO₂ₑ emissions pathways painted here.
A quick 🧵
Start here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
But lemme quibble a bit with the CO₂ₑ emissions pathways painted here.
A quick 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Some very useful corrections to the NY Times piece today on progress since Paris. We're actually doing much better than indicated by the emissions graph the Times used
Ahead of COP30, I looked at the legacy of the Paris Agreement for this weekend's @theglobeandmail.com.
Surprise! I found that the energy transition I've spent 20 years tracking is going to be the best mechanism to pursue Paris targets in the decade ahead www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Surprise! I found that the energy transition I've spent 20 years tracking is going to be the best mechanism to pursue Paris targets in the decade ahead www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: A decade after the Paris Agreement, the clean economy is winning
As the world’s climate negotiators gather in Brazil, they must understand that the energy transition is now inevitable
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Ahead of COP30, I looked at the legacy of the Paris Agreement for this weekend's @theglobeandmail.com.
Surprise! I found that the energy transition I've spent 20 years tracking is going to be the best mechanism to pursue Paris targets in the decade ahead www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Surprise! I found that the energy transition I've spent 20 years tracking is going to be the best mechanism to pursue Paris targets in the decade ahead www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Possibly the greatest press conference in American political history
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Possibly the greatest press conference in American political history
Reposted by Chris Turner
A decade after Paris, the clean economy is winning - terrific summary from @theturner.bsky.social
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/9858ffb...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/9858ffb...
A decade after the Paris Agreement, the clean economy is winning
As the world’s climate negotiators gather in Brazil, they must understand that the energy transition is now inevitable
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A decade after Paris, the clean economy is winning - terrific summary from @theturner.bsky.social
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/9858ffb...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/9858ffb...
Here is yet another thing actually happening in the fight against climate change. Someone please notify Gary Mason @theglobeandmail.com before he opines again
November 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Here is yet another thing actually happening in the fight against climate change. Someone please notify Gary Mason @theglobeandmail.com before he opines again
This is what’s actually happening on one very active front in the fight against climate change
China is “reshaping the world’s energy outlook, geopolitics and its capacity to limit the catastrophic effects of #climatechange”, says @economist.com
- "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than US makes from exporting fossil fuels'
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www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
- "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than US makes from exporting fossil fuels'
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www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This is what’s actually happening on one very active front in the fight against climate change
This is an over-torqued headline over garbage analysis that would have you believe Bill Gates and a couple of Canada’s federal climate policies were the entire “fight”
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This is an over-torqued headline over garbage analysis that would have you believe Bill Gates and a couple of Canada’s federal climate policies were the entire “fight”
Hey look! It’s that power too cheap to meter we’ve been hearing about since the early days of nukes!
How's this for energy abundance? Millions of Aussies will start receiving three hours of free power each day in 2026. This is what happens when you make rooftop solar less than a buck a watt!!
"Rooftop solar installations cost about $840 (U.S.) per kilowatt of capacity before rebates." 🤯
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"Rooftop solar installations cost about $840 (U.S.) per kilowatt of capacity before rebates." 🤯
🔌💡
November 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Hey look! It’s that power too cheap to meter we’ve been hearing about since the early days of nukes!
This is some smart analysis (and eases the sting in convincing ways if you're a Jays fan).
And as ever with @davidjroth.bsky.social, I'm in awe of the craft -- e.g. this line (about the Brewers): "Whatever ineffable thing had been at work there was, by the series' end, pretty convincingly effed"
And as ever with @davidjroth.bsky.social, I'm in awe of the craft -- e.g. this line (about the Brewers): "Whatever ineffable thing had been at work there was, by the series' end, pretty convincingly effed"
David Roth on the World Series champs: defector.com/the-dodgers-...
The Dodgers Never Had It Made | Defector
This World Series ended the only way it could, which was frenzied and late. The clocks turned back just a few hours after that; the next day was in another season, shorter and darker. The day after…
defector.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
This is some smart analysis (and eases the sting in convincing ways if you're a Jays fan).
And as ever with @davidjroth.bsky.social, I'm in awe of the craft -- e.g. this line (about the Brewers): "Whatever ineffable thing had been at work there was, by the series' end, pretty convincingly effed"
And as ever with @davidjroth.bsky.social, I'm in awe of the craft -- e.g. this line (about the Brewers): "Whatever ineffable thing had been at work there was, by the series' end, pretty convincingly effed"
As part of the healing process, us Jays fans are going to have to face the unvarnished truth about the nature of the beast that defeated us, however terrifying that might be
November 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
As part of the healing process, us Jays fans are going to have to face the unvarnished truth about the nature of the beast that defeated us, however terrifying that might be
If you were raised on 80s sitcoms, this is like some freakish junk-culture Rosetta Stone. There was, for example, a Ferris Bueller TV adaptation, and it starred Jennifer Aniston
November 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you were raised on 80s sitcoms, this is like some freakish junk-culture Rosetta Stone. There was, for example, a Ferris Bueller TV adaptation, and it starred Jennifer Aniston
I'm surely not over the Jays' loss, but I agree with this pair of sentiments. Particularly how a baseball season like this one with such a bitter end can grow sweeter with time. Like how many viewers of Good Will Hunting realize Matt Damon and Robin Williams are recapping a series the Red Sox lost?
November 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I'm surely not over the Jays' loss, but I agree with this pair of sentiments. Particularly how a baseball season like this one with such a bitter end can grow sweeter with time. Like how many viewers of Good Will Hunting realize Matt Damon and Robin Williams are recapping a series the Red Sox lost?
I get that some heartbroken Jays fans what there to be ONE REASON to explain the loss, one mistake to blame it all on. But what happened was baseball being baseball to an exceptionally great degree, a dozen or a hundred tiny fractions of a second or an inch determining success or failure
For real though: no game in history had more plays that moved the championship WPA needle more than the Game 7 we just saw. It's either the biggest nailbiter of a game ever, or at least pretty high in the conversation.
--> www.mlb.com/news/most-wi...
--> www.mlb.com/news/most-wi...
November 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I get that some heartbroken Jays fans what there to be ONE REASON to explain the loss, one mistake to blame it all on. But what happened was baseball being baseball to an exceptionally great degree, a dozen or a hundred tiny fractions of a second or an inch determining success or failure
Fans of The Bear are less likely to forget this
(good thread here on why playoff series aren't decided on any one play)
(good thread here on why playoff series aren't decided on any one play)
People forget that before Steve Bartman reached his way into immortality, Alex Gonzalez booted a routine double play ball.
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Fans of The Bear are less likely to forget this
(good thread here on why playoff series aren't decided on any one play)
(good thread here on why playoff series aren't decided on any one play)
Agreed. The Jays found ways to outplay the Dodgers in every other aspect of the game, but they couldn’t figure out Yamamoto. (Vladdy did mash the stuffing out of that pitch in the 11th though…)
November 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Agreed. The Jays found ways to outplay the Dodgers in every other aspect of the game, but they couldn’t figure out Yamamoto. (Vladdy did mash the stuffing out of that pitch in the 11th though…)
I have been known to point out how arbitrary and cruel the baseball gods can be — but Miguel Rojas? Come on, that’s a bit much
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I have been known to point out how arbitrary and cruel the baseball gods can be — but Miguel Rojas? Come on, that’s a bit much