We worry there's enough fossil fuels to blow past climate goals.
But we don't worry enough about how to redirect the money spent on extracting those fuels to spending it on sustainability goals.
🧵on investigation with &
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The Amazon is eroding so fast that it may become a non-forested landscape, with grave results for Earth's biodiversity and climate -- > from for bloomberg.com/news/articles/ via
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Oh, yes, the clean tech arms race has definitely begun.
While the headlines recently have been about US v EU tensions, let's not lose sight of the biggest challenge.
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Remembering the night when I first witnessed the mesmerizing and rare blue aurora.
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2.5 years since this tweet, here's how the story played out bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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Are you interested in decarbonization, sustainability and climate change and want to do something about it?
I need help allocating a few $B into these areas over the next 2-3 years so...I am turning to you for help.
In return, you can work with me to implement it.
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The Adani short raises a fundamental question: Are India’s public markets trustworthy?
Great analysis by
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Clothes being sent to landfill is an underappreciated climate problem. Nice to see tech addressing the problem.
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Bloomberg Green is launching a new streaming show next week, hosted by the wonderful
Check out the trailer here 👇
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action on climate change is good for your health, pass it on
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It's interesting to look at the frontpages of Indian news publications today and search for "Adani".
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People who had viral infections like flu are more likely to later be diagnosed with dementia.
Lots of caveats here (see next tweet), but I think future generations will be…surprised by our lackadaisical approach to common infections.
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If it wasn't an emergency, this list of climate achievements would have been pretty good. They certainly are compared to many other countries. But it's not enough.
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Preventable Disease Kills 990 People in 21st Century 😡
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Wind power, an industry that's in great demand, has companies making little profit. Why? bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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The insurance industry provides many homeowners and businesses a financial safety net. Climate impacts are creating big holes in that net. bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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The most successfull anti-clean tech campagin of recent years has been the narrative that renewables and batteries consume so much material.
It's so wrong.
Compared to fossil fuels, their material consumption pales.
A coal plants uses 11 truck loads of coal. *Every hour.*
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It's remarkable how Germany, regarding itself a global climate action champion, and Texas, where you better don't mention climate change as a politician, have seen their wind and solar share growing almost equally quickly during the past decade.
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To claim the full clean energy credits in the IRA, cos must pay prevailing wages & use a min % of apprentice labor. But the feds haven't set prevailing wages for some job roles and apprentices are scarce, making the rules hard to meet, reports :
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It can take longer to get a permit for an offshore wind farm than to build it.
"That is unacceptable," says Ørsted CEO Mads Nipper in an interview with on Zero.
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The sky above my backyard, one winter night in Kiruna. 💚
Filmed in real time, what you see is what I saw.
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amazing!
((also a tiny bit sad as the creature looks old and infirm, which would explain why it’s at the surface and moving slowly))
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VIDEO: Rare video captured by divers shows a 2.5-metre giant squid swimming in the waters off Japan's west coast. Giant squid are known to live in the waters around the country and occasionally wash ashore, but seeing them alive in the wild remains relatively rare.
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There are many reasons to invest in women's education. Reducing CO₂ emissions isn't one of them.
Reducing fertility rates in low-income countries will hardly make a dent in global CO₂ emissions.
My latest Substack:
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A banger on plant-based meat that includes the phrases "cryogenically frozen balls of fats," "longer, harder erections," and — my fav — "the nose-biting fiasco"
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"Mind you, I’m not a categorical enemy of buzzwords, as long as they actually capture a phenomenon." That said... bloomberg.com/opinion/articl via
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Wow, Attorneys General of New Jersey & Minnesota say our new peer-reviewed study showing Exxon accurately predicted global warming boosts their efforts to hold the company accountable for its decades of climate denial. Great reporting by :
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Apparently, the folks at Davos debated whether the world is deglobalziing or reglobalizing …
I actually have a great deal of sympathy for the argument made by Niall Ferguson – namely that it is hard to “reglobalize” when there hasn’t yet been any real deglobalization …
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Readout Redux:
📋Alphabet’s job losses are many… but shows big tech workforce still higher than pre-Covid
📋plus says Inflation Reduction Act is “dangerous”
📋but predicts a “clean tech arms race” - so, tool up?
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Within months of the US passing the biggest climate bill, European lawmakers are scrambling to match incentives and avoid losing business. But diplomatic grumbling aside, is a race to save the planet really so bad? bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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You are used to hear the phrase “arms race” in a negative context, but this race will make the world a better place. Excellent piece by on the “climate tech arms race”
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It can take longer to get a permit for an offshore wind farm than to build it.
"That is unacceptable," says Ørsted CEO Mads Nipper in an interview with on Zero.
Listen and subscribe.
Apple: apple.co/3y28Q7c
Spotify: spoti.fi/3E4ynQV
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In recent years, the price of wind turbine prices are started to rise. That could hamper the industry's growth. bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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I have been yearning for some piece that looks into Orsted's transformation in detail but also something that digs into the slow-down in wind power - this very nicely his both notes ->
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If the future is renewables, why is the wind power industry struggling?
Zero pod sat down with Orsted CEO @NipperMads to understand. Story with @MathisWilliam.
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'Rising interest rates, competition from oil companies, and demand for ever-lower priced renewable electricity are putting wind-power champions in a bind.'
Super interesting read by +
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If the future is renewables, why is the wind power industry struggling?
Zero pod sat down with Orsted CEO to understand. Story with .
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This "...could reduce fuel consumption and emissions up to 30% relative to today's most efficient single-aisle airplanes..."
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Notice anything about these wings? 
Today, @NASA announced that Boeing and our partners have been selected to develop and fly a full-scale Transonic Truss-Braced Wing airplane through the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator program.
More: boeing.mediaroom.com/2023-01-18-Boe
Today, @NASA announced that Boeing and our partners have been selected to develop and fly a full-scale Transonic Truss-Braced Wing airplane through the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator program.
More: boeing.mediaroom.com/2023-01-18-Boe
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At the end of 2022, something strange happened in the US egg market: On a per-unit basis, consumer prices for plant-based eggs fell below those for chicken eggs.
Read my 🐣🌱 story: bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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