Jamie Wertz
@jamielynn.bsky.social
All things climate tech and clean energy. Usually found rock climbing or baking cookies. CS for EnergyHub. Personal account.
The fascist regime will constantly exert its will over you—both your thoughts and your actions. It will require obedience and outward displays of loyalty. People will be fired and silenced for being disloyal to the regime. Faced with those threats, most people will comply.
"Give them bread and circuses, and they will never revolt"
A list of the energy and climate programs affected by Trump’s funding freeze. It goes so much further than “just” climate programs — it’s nuclear cleanup funding, oil and propane support for poor families, DHS post-disaster grants. https://heatmap.news/politics/trump-memo-climate-programs
Trump’s Funding Freeze Will Hit These Climate and Energy Programs
A federal judge temporarily blocked the move just before the freeze went into effect.
heatmap.news
Good morning with good news: The world is on track to install nearly 600 GW of solar in 2024. To put that solar tsunami in context, the world had installed a total of 760 GW of solar by 2020. Global solar deployment will be up 29% in 2024 over 2023. Wow! www.vox.com/climate/3728... #energysky
US power demand now projected to grow by 128 GW by 2029! Last year, Grid Strategies broke the news that utilities and system operators had doubled their forecasts for electric demand growth from 2022 – a sudden jump driven by data centers and industrial load, among other factors.🧵 1/4 🔌💡
What if you want to procure clean electricity to meet your demand, hour-by-hour, but you don't know precisely what your demand profile is? Can it still work? A new ZERO Lab report on 24/7 carbon-free electricityu procurment led by @wilsonar.bsky.social finds out... 🔌💡
An Indian kitchenware company sold the cop29.com domain to Global Witness, despite a higher bid from the Azerbaijan presidency, because the company's marketing manager is worried about climate change. Excellent climate story @financialtimes.com
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2y agoAzerbaijan blocks COP29.com in fossil fuel domain name war https://www.ft.com/content/acd034cb-5f8f-40fe-9d41-cfa3a9d2ec25
"Grant is a coal miner. He’s been arrested for protesting against coal exports" www.smh.com.au/environment/...
Grant is a coal miner. He’s been arrested for protesting against coal exports
A coal miner for 44 years, Grant Howard was among 170 people arrested at the Rising Tide blockade of the Port of Newcastle.
smh.com.au
#EnergySky - are you looking for a cover photo for your profile page? I recommend @nicolekelner.bsky.social 's climate stripes watercolor artwork :)
I spent days digging into the public statements of every single Trump Cabinet pick to see what they've said about climate change and it was a horrible process but I did it because Journalism Is Important and climate change is actually real so please click it I beg you heated.world/p/trumps-ent...
Trump's entire Cabinet misrepresents climate change
I analyzed the public statements of each nominee. It was awful. (Though Matt Gaetz was surprising?)
heated.world
The United States’s political tumult has not changed the physics of climate change. The climate story is only going to get bigger, and it’s journalism's job to help audiences understand why that is happening and, crucially, that it doesn’t have to be this way.
Last week, the EPA announced a $7 billion grant competition to increase access to affordable, resilient, and clean solar energy for millions of low-income households. Especially community solar programs can target communities that were previously locked out of investments.
Biden-Harris Administration Launches $7 Billion Solar for All Grant Competition to Fund Residential ...
EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Launches $7 Billion Solar for All Grant Competition to Fund Residential Solar Programs that Lower Energy Costs for Families and Advance Environmental Just...
epa.gov
Great evidence behind the power of using art and visual storytelling in climate communications: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00856-9
Artistic representations of data can help bridge the US political divide over climate change - Commu...
Communication using visual arts combined with self-reflection led to less politically polarized perceptions of the relevance of climate change than communication using data graphs, in controlled exper...
nature.com
Hi climate-Bluesky. Looking to connect with book publishers who might be interested in an adapted, "If you give a mouse a cookie," book about clean energy: "If you give a hedgehog a heat pump." Any ideas?
The more negative words in a headline, the more people will click on it. Negativity drives online news consumption - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4
Negativity drives online news consumption - Nature Human Behaviour
Examining real-world data that tested different headlines for the same news story on real news readers, Robertson et al. find that people are more likely to click on a headline when it contains negative words compared to positive words.
nature.com
The five Supreme Court justices with the controlling opinion in the Sackett v. EPA case clearly have never made a partner wet before. They're incapable of knowing what the word means. https://heatmap.news/politics/is-water-wet-the-supreme-court-investigates
Minnesota's historic legislation ushers in a new era for solar and battery storage. It's a clear example of how the IRA is spurring state-led clean clean energy investment, as intended.
“‘This is how we lose a planet: through corporate dishonesty and obstruction,’ said Peter Kalmus, a Nasa climate scientist speaking on his own behalf.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/24/chevron-carbon-offset-climate-crisis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
‘Worthless’: Chevron’s carbon offsets are mostly junk and some may harm, research says
Exclusive: investigation finds energy giant’s efforts to offset its huge emissions rely on schemes with little impact
theguardian.com
