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@AaronBrockett12 Congratulations 🎉🎊🎈 y felicidades so happy to see you continue your great work here! Your spirit of inclusive leadership and listening is inspiring

Results are in, and the outcome looks clear: we won the Boulder mayor’s race! I’m deeply grateful to all our volunteers and supporters, our extraordinary campaign team, and most of all to my dear family. We will work together for a more inclusive, sustainable and equitable city!

@solar_chase Would love to hear more ideas about integrating solar with hydro - both dams and pumped storage hydro!

38. Floating solar is a thing, but it’s not a new tech. It’s solar onna boat. It’s mostly about having a place to put the modules and, when it’s on a hydro dam reservoir, a grid connection right there. Grid connections are like gold dust.

Time to make 2023 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon, comes out very soon (just sent final proofs to publisher!) #t=aboutBook" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/… amazon.co.uk/Solar-Power-Fi…

A wise person once said that you will experience climate change through a series of increasingly wild videos, until you are the one taking the video.

Why haven't we acted more quickly to slow climate change? In a new presentation, @algore argues it’s not b/c the technology to reduce carbon isn’t ready. It’s because the people who profit from carbon aren’t ready—and never will be, until we make them. heated.world/p/al-gores-new…

“Jonathan Donges of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research says that ‘to effectively prevent all tipping risks, the global mean temperature increase would need to be limited to no more than one degree – we are currently already at about 1.2°C.’” thebulletin.org/2023/09/bettin…

"Climate Change Has Finally Come For #BurningMan" by Chris @Stokel-Walker for @WIRED: wired.com/story/climate-…

While other property insurers are fleeing Florida or limiting where and what coverage they write, the state-run property insurance company Citizens is growing. But it may need to charge every policyholder in the state to stay solvent after a big storm. heatmap.news/economy/hurric…

Interesting idea here: put a carbon tax on *investment income* rather than consumption. Would better target those who benefit most from emission-generating businesses. theconversation.com/a-carbon-tax-o…

Fertilizer sucks for the world, except that billions of us would starve without it. I wrote about ⁦@pivotbio⁩, a tech startup (backed by ⁦@BillGates⁩, @algore⁩ and Big Ag) that’s trying to replace nasty chemistry with modern biology. canarymedia.com/articles/food-…

""The scientists also warned that the “crazy” extreme weather of recent months was just the “tip of the iceberg” compared with the even worse impacts to come."" theguardian.com/environment/20…

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is turning the tide on carbon emissions 🌊 @PNNLab and @EbbCarbon are partnering to harness the power of electricity and seawater to pull CO2 right out of the sky. canarymedia.com/articles/carbo…

Dozens have died after wildfires rampaged through parts of the Hawaiian island of Maui. Maui County confirmed the deaths after fires swept across Lahaina - a town of historic importance to Hawaii, and its former capital. Read more: trib.al/QarjJkM

Hitting the big 4-0 is a major milestone for me so I just wanted to take a moment to appreciate this day. I was also happy to see our country celebrate another birthday recently & of course continue to work on helping make the world a better place for us all. Onward!

How does 380 zettajoules of heat affect the climate system? The hottest June on record, worst wildfire season in Canada, unbearable heat from Asia to Texas, record ocean temps: and now an El Niño on top. @StottPeter, @hausfath, @MichaelEMann and I discuss: theguardian.com/environment/20…

“Anyone insisting that you ‘calm down’ about climate change is living in denial about the catastrophes that are at our doorstep.” — Adam McKay jacobin.com/2023/06/calm-d…

“In my 3 decade-long career being a weather forecaster, and now Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist, I have never observed so many of Earth’s vital signs blinking red.” wfla.com/weather/climat…

Hollywood gives us dystopias, but rarely includes the everyday patter of climate change in its plotlines. @KendraWrites tackles this phenom in a nice @MotherJones essay, and chats up some forward-thinking showrunners. motherjones.com/environment/20…

'Welcome to the apocalyptic haze of the new abnormal. There is nowhere left to hide.' New, brilliant op-ed for @indy_climate from @ClimateComms + @MichaelEMann independent.co.uk/us/voices/air-…

🧵The east coast is choking on wildfire smoke. Here are a few things I hope east coasters (especially journalists) will ponder in connection with the misery they are experiencing: