Photosynthesis shuts off at 40C. Plants and agriculture will not survive above 40C. Our food systems are heading toward calamity. coolclimate.substack.com/p/how-hot-is...

How Hot Is Too Hot for Food?

A Systems Breakdown on Agriculture’s Breaking Point

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Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 5d ago

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

To kickstart the market for plug-in solar, a nonprofit is selling kits at no markup -- around $300. Get yours while you can!

A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US

Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…

canarymedia.com

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption

Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026

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Your 'moment of doom' for May 28, 2026 ~ Top shelf doom. "The last bit of ice shelf in front of the glacier is poised to disintegrate... We don't know quite how this ice shelf is going to break up, but it's definitely going to go." www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

'Poised to disintegrate': Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' is set to lose its ice shelf this year

West Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" is on the brink of losing its ice shelf, further compromising the already melting ice mass and threatening to unleash devastating sea-level rises.

livescience.com

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

Amazing research out of UC Berkeley: "Off-grid renewable energy combined with heat batteries or heat pumps could cost-effectively supply one third of U.S. industrial heat demand."

Solar plus storage: $54 Coal: $70-85 Gas (methane): $100 The math gets pretty simple.

Firm solar and storage costs fall to $54/MWh, says IRENA

A new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) finds that round‑the‑clock solar and wind paired with battery storage deliver power at lower cost than new fossil fuel generation in h...

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Meanwhile the California grid now boasts the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants worth of batteries -- the total cost of which was, I suspect, less than a single nuclear plant.

California’s Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants. Here’s What’s on the Horizon. - Inside Climate News

An expert in the state’s energy grid explains how the state is faring amid federal cuts.

insideclimatenews.org

DC Climate Week starts Monday. 500 people in DC for the Opening Ceremony. Sold out. But you can watch live — globally, free — starting 1:30 PM ET. Come listen to @jigarshahdc.bsky.social, @ericwesoff.bsky.social, and more with @canarymedia.com streaming it worldwide. youtube.com/live/lmIe7UUtg6E

Opening Ceremony at DC Climate Week

YouTube video by Canary Media

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This seems suboptimal

"Clark et al. (2016) showed that decisions made in the next few decades will lock in sea level rise, ice sheet loss, and temperature change that persist for thousands of years — well beyond any planning horizon human civilization has ever contemplated."

Human-caused climate change is unmistakably distinct from Earth’s natural climate variability

Five independent fits across four independent archives and 66 million years — the empirical case in two figures

justdean.substack.com

Been living between a bunch of airbnbs the past month while my house is being repaired and after using induction for a decade, gas stoves suuuuuck. Gas stoves are so slow to boil water and heat up pans. Induction is hot magic.

* 2015-2025 was the hottest 11 years on record * Earth’s energy imbalance is the highest in 65-year record * The ocean has been absorbing about eighteen times the annual human energy use each year for the past two decades Probably fine.

Earth’s climate swings increasingly out of balance

Geneva, Switzerland (WMO) – The Earth’s climate is more out of balance than at any time in observed history, as greenhouse gas concentrations drive continued warming of the atmosphere and ocean and me...

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The DC Climate Week 2026 Opening Ceremony is 50% sold out. Monday, April 20. Confirmed speakers include Jigar Shah, Katie Rae (Engine Ventures), Matthew Nordan (Azolla Ventures), Dave Turk, Nelson Switzer (Climate Innovation Capital), Eric Wesoff, and Victoria Herrmann. luma.com/2im2fa4b

DCCW Opening Ceremony · Luma

The second annual DC Climate Week will kick off with a vibrant gathering of climate leaders, investors, policymakers, founders, advocates, and community…

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DC Climate Week is back. April 20-26, Washington DC. Year 1: 4,731 people. 152 events. More hugs than handshakes. Year 2 is shaping up to be bigger. Full calendar: dcclimateweek.com

DC Climate Week | April 20-26, 2026

DC Climate Week (DCCW) is a community-organized week of events, exhibitions, tours, screenings, and gatherings across Washington, DC. Together, we will explore the challenges of the climate crisis and...

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Rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, lengthening days by 1.33 milliseconds per century

Earth’s days are getting longer at an unprecedented rate. Climate change is to blame

Rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, lengthening days by 1.33 milliseconds per century

scientificamerican.com

End of month climate change check-in: 🫣 + Global temperature: 📈 + Carbon dioxide (CO₂): 📈 + Methane (CH₄): 📈 + Nitrous oxide (N₂O): 📈 Graphic by zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

Support my favorite podcast if you love hearing about how Climate-Tech is being deployed across the US and globally. David Roberts @volts.wtf is a hero that I constantly learn from. I was starstruck meeting him at NY Climate Week ‘25, thanks to a free ticket for subscribers ;).

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 5mo ago

It has occurred to me that the optimal level of marketing for my podcast Volts, upon which my family's entire income depends, might be higher than its current level of zero.

Even as elites abandon any pretense of giving a shit ... climate change is accelerating.

Scientists thought they understood global warming. Then the past three years happened.

The fastest warming period since 1880 occurred in the past 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data.

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Do you like charts? Oh yes you do. I've just published hundreds of them, as I do every year. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

Climate change is bad.

Our Almost-Apocalyptic Climate Future

By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees.

theatlantic.com

"Global investment in green technology for the first three quarters of the year has already surpassed all of 2024. The fortunes of the sector have been in decline for three years, but explosive energy demand fueled by data centers has sparked a reversal."

Global Investors Are Pouring More Money into Climate Tech

Clean energy companies, EV makers and other green firms attracted $56 billion in the first nine months of 2025 — more than in all of 2024.

bloomberg.com

"Air pollution from oil and gas causes more than 90,000 premature deaths and sickens hundreds of thousands of people across the US each year, a new study shows..." If MAHA were anything other than dipshit reactionary fantasies & conspiracy theories, it would focus overwhelmingly on air pollution.

Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study

Study analyzed health impacts of fossil fuels from exploration to end use, and found communities of color bear brunt of harm

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"a lot of people assume that there’s really great knowledge and huge due diligence on the chemical safety of these things. But it really isn’t the case.” We are swimming in a toxic soup of chemicals, + we know very little about what they're doing to us: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Chemical pollution a threat comparable to climate change, scientists warn

More than 100 million ‘novel entity’ chemicals are in circulation, with health impact not widely recognised

theguardian.com

In case anyone needs to reference the DOE's liftoff reports, which no longer appear on the official website: yardsale.energy/liftoff-repo... 🔌💡

DC Climate Week is heating up 📣 🔥 🎉 ! We have over 100 events on the public calendar and more than 2,000 people participating across the week! If you haven't checked the calendar lately, now is the time. Some extremely exciting events have been added! DCCW Calendar: lu.ma/dcclimateweek

DC Climate Week · Events Calendar

View and subscribe to events from DC Climate Week on Luma.

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DC Climate week is happening April 28 – May 2, 2025. Attendees will engage with policymakers, learn from world-renowned experts and help make the nation’s capital a sustainable model for other cities. Learn more here: ow.ly/IgZN50VAN9a #Partner

Last month was the 2nd warmest March on record for land areas around the world... Data provided by @noaa.gov NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).

DC 1st Climate Week is April 28 to May 2! It’s going to be an amazing event with some exceptional speakers throughout the week. Now is the time for community members to organize their own events alongside the main programming. www.dcclimateweek.com

DC Climate Week | April 28 – May 2, 2025

DC Climate Week is the premier event for global climate action, taking place in Washington, D.C. from April 28 – May 2, 2025. Join leaders in climate technology, policy, and sustainability for a week ...

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Update - my monthly climate change dashboard... Higher resolution graphic available at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...