Paddy McCully
@paddymccully.bsky.social
Analyste @ReclaimFinance. Views own. Ex dam fighter & solar builder. Climate hawk. Underwater archaeologist, very briefly. Irish Ulster-Scots franco-hispanophone Ardsman in California #IRFU
Wild stats from China’s car market in Aug: ICE sales down 40% y/o/y; plug-ins 65% of sales. Reason given is partly high fuel costs #ThanksTrump!
John Hanger@jrfhanger.bsky.social · 3d agoThe Chinese are running away from gas cars! Gas car sales plunge 40%! Plug-in hybrid car (combine battery and gas engine) sales fall 29% Only sales of fully electric autos grew in August. The end of the internal combustion engine nears in China. carnewschina.com/2026/09/08/g... #energysky
"Natural gas is fading from California’s electricity mix more quickly than seemed possible just a few years ago." "a 26 percent drop in the first half of this year compared to the first half of 2025"
How California Is Kicking Its Natural Gas Habit - Inside Climate News
Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity.
insideclimatenews.org
Climeworks' Mammoth facility in Iceland removed 675 tonnes of CO₂ in the first half of 2026, almost 6x as much as in 2025. If they keep it up, that'll be 1350 tonnes a year*. That's a time machine that takes us back 1 whole second in a year! 🙄 *Mammoth has a stated capacity of 36,000 tonnes. 🫠
Carbon Removal Pioneer Climeworks Increases CO2 Capture Sixfold
The world’s largest direct air capture plant is sucking more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a lower cost, an improvement for a sector struggling to scale economically as global warming surpasse...
bloomberg.com
Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo
Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal
nature.com
Germany nearly halves fossil fuel use for electricity between 2018 and 2026 Output by oil, coal and gas plants 174.6bln kWh to 94.2 bln kWh, while renewable energy production grows by about one quarter during same period www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany...
An "L" has fallen off the podium at the Republican midterm convention
“On Sunday night, Ulrich Siegmund, the AfD’s lead candidate, thanked Musk on X “for your support and for your clear and highly important perspective on the political developments of our time”, adding: “I would very much welcome the opportunity for strong and constructive cooperation”.”
Germany’s far-right AfD thanks Elon Musk as France warns state election win a ‘serious moment’
Lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes further ‘strong’ cooperation with Musk as French minister says ‘we cannot forget our history’
theguardian.com
Former USAID disaster-response chief @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social suggested that the Trump regime’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID, including the SERVIR program, impacted flood prediction and early warning systems in Nepal and made it way more deadly.
Unsettling question raised over Trump admin's role in devastating Nepal floods
The devastating flash floods in Nepal this week that killed at least 670 people and left around 3,000 missing — including 90 Americans — might have claimed fewer lives if not for the actions of the Tr...
rawstory.com
“Haitian immigrant in Ohio takes his own life after losing temporary protected status… felt humiliated by an ankle monitor ICE placed on him after Trump canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants…” What have we become? www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. this all looks like an example of the Trump Administration extending its creeping crony statism beyond U.S. shores.” @wsj.com #venezuela 🇻🇪 www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
The sheer force and scale of the Nepal landslide is far beyond anything I've seen before. New footage from @ pilulaespacial on IG.
Japan has worked hard to get the rest of the world hooked on LNG as a fuel. They invest heavily in US oil and gas fields as well as the LNG export terminals. How's that going for the people of Japan? LNG - good for oligarchs, really bad for the rest of us.
Japan wholesale power prices set to surge 40% on LNG costs, IEA forecasts
Reliance on natural gas imports leaves country more vulnerable than other economies
asia.nikkei.com
The score settling inside the MAGA ranks has great entertainment values, but it serves to highlight the essential lawlessness of ICE.
45% annual growth of PV in Africa!!! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Solar Boom Sweeps Across Africa as Rooftop Demand Takes Off
Africa’s adoption of solar panels as an electricity source will rise 45% this year as the use of the clean power technology broadens across the continent, Ember projects.
bloomberg.com
“The ongoing conflict in the Middle East demonstrates that we must urgently reduce imports of LNG and other fuels,” Thai Energy Minister Akanat Promphan said. “We need to build a cleaner and more self-reliant power system.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Thailand to Shift From LNG Toward Renewables in Wake of Iran War
Thailand plans to shift away from imported gas and embrace renewables and nuclear power as it seeks to build an energy system that’s less vulnerable to external shocks like the Iran war.
bloomberg.com
Adapting to climate change without ending the fossil fuel industry.
Well done San Francisco Chronicle for such a sadly rare piece of perfect framing of a climate story
California’s water shortages partly due to climate pollution from big oil and gas, study finds
The new study is one of the first to dissect the impacts of climate change on dwindling water supplies in the West.
sfchronicle.com
These early modern depictions of the five senses are often very allegorical and moralistic. But then there's Jan Miense Molenaer, The Five Senses: Smell, 1637 (Mauritshuis). Yes indeed.
A decade ago, Elon Musk called burning fossil fuels “the dumbest experiment in history." Now he owns a gas turbine company and has quickly turned into a fossil fuel tycoon.
Elon Musk, the World’s Most Famous EV Pioneer, Is Now Leaning Into Fossil Fuels
SpaceX is planning a Texas natural gas plant to power a new chip facility, while gas turbines are already being used for campuses in Tennessee and Mississippi.
wsj.com
Burnham: “This summer has shown beyond doubt that climate change is not a far-off prospect but with us today… I know people are deeply worried about the climate crisis… This govt will rise to the moment & build a better, fairer, greener & more resilient Britain” www.independent.co.uk/voices/andy-...
I will send in as many troops as are needed to fight tinderbox Britain
The country is a tinderbox right now, and we must take extraordinary steps to protect ourselves, says prime minister Andy Burnham
independent.co.uk
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"Vindicate [@realDonaldTrump], my God, and plead [his] cause against an unfaithful nation.
Rescue [him] from those who are deceitful and wicked."
- Psalm 43:1
Donald J. Trump •
@realDonaldTrump
Can you believe that I will be impeached today by the Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats, AND I DID NOTHING WRONG! A terrible Thing. Read the Transcripts.
This should never happen to another President again. Say a PRAYER!
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