Senator Whitehouse said it better than anyone: "Climate risk makes things un-insurable. No insurance makes things un-mortgageable. No mortgages crashes the property markets. Crashed property markets trash the economy.” #wildfire #Spokane #insurance

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse@whitehouse.senate.gov · 3d ago

The Great Climate Insurance Collapse is beginning before our eyes. How does it happen? Gradually, and then all at once. Buckle up. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Brilliant piece: The only people who have been sent to prison [for climate change] are those who have protested against it. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Climate and Punishment | Gabriel Winslow-Yost

Vigil finds George Saunders returning to the theme of his first novel, grief—this time not for a person but for a planet.

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Trump and #Infantino are destroying the beautiful game. 🟥 It's embarrassing to have #FIFA based in my hometown Zurich and Infantino as our compatriot. I just signed the #outfantino complaint at rebootfifa.com and you can do the same!

Act now to stop abuse of power at FIFA | Reboot FIFA campaign

Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. 
And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name to our mass complaint now >>

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India: Extreme heat causes approximately 3,400 excess deaths nationally in one day. A five-day #heatwave is linked to nearly 30,000 extra deaths, according to the paper published in the Frontiers in Environmental Health journal last month. www.euronews.com/2026/06/10/h...

Extreme heat causes 3,400 excess deaths per day in India - study

Experts warn that official heatwave death figures are grossly underestimated.

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I especially love this diagram.

Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...

Gas importing countries don't replace coal with more LNG, but with renewables, new research by @accr.bsky.social finds. "Solar, wind and batteries have dealt the LNG industry's energy transition pitch a death blow", @antonycurrie.bsky.social says in this great piece. www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

Breakingviews - Exxon's natural gas M&A push is pipe dream

The $574 ‌bln oil major may have eyed Australia’s Woodside and other producers in Asia. A ​purchase might work if the ​region really needed LNG as a ⁠transition fuel. But the success of ​renewables an...

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#SwissRe, the world’s biggest reinsurance company, is rolling back its climate commitments. The dirty little secret is that the company is benefiting from the climate crisis. Read my post on the #SwissClimateRambles blog to find out more. open.substack.com/pub/swisscli...

Swiss Re’s dirty little climate secret

How the world’s largest reinsurer is benefiting from climate change

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BREAKING! The 17th #BankingOnClimateChaos report reveals that fossil fuel financing from the world’s top 65 banks has reached $8.7 TRILLION over the last decade. Instead of investing in a livable future, big banks are driving pollution & climate devastation. Learn more: bankingonclimatechaos.org

This, by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social, is a brilliant, fascinating and definitional article. If you want to understand what's happening around the world, you should read it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly | Jonathan Watts

China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing result, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock

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New #LNG terminals are locking us into expensive and polluting fossil gas for decades to come. In an oped for InsuranceERM, I list five reasons why #reinsurance companies, which have often assumed corporate climate leadership, should no longer underwrite them. share.google/EvE16MhpVg3p....

I can‘t figure out why, but I have never seen news stories about how oil rigs hurt whales. Only wind farms do that. And only solar panels have a recycling problem. Gas stations are fine.

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.

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#GoodNews: A new Swiss popular initiative, submitted with 146,000 signatures today, will bring binding measures to shift Swiss banks and insurers away from fossil fuels to a vote. You’ll find more information at open.substack.com/pub/swisscli....

Swiss people will vote on their financial center’s climate policies

146,000 signatures for a popular initiative handed in today

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NEW: Global coal power generation UNCHANGED in March - even as gas price surged. Why? 🟡Gas was ALREADY more expensive than coal. 🟡ZERO retired coal units returned. 🟡SOLAR and WIND meeting all the global rise in electricity demand.

#SwissRe, the world’s biggest reinsurance company, played a pioneering role when it ended support for new coal, greenfield oil and gas projects. When will it finally stop underwriting new #LNG terminals? Read my statement at their AGM this morning at swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/when-will-...

When will the world’s biggest reinsurer kiss LNG goodbye?

My statement at today’s AGM of Swiss Re

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Hawaii joins CA and NY with legislation to hold the oil and gas industry accountable for insurance related losses. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Hawaii Has a Bold Idea to Make Big Oil Pay for Disasters

Hawaii may seem like Eden to those of us living in, say, New Jersey. But lately the only thing biblical about it has been the scale of the punishment it’s taking from nature. In the process, it’s also...

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Today, April 7, is Kwibuka32, the commemoration of the 32d anniversary of the first full day of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda. Past US presidents marked the date with stock statements of “never again.” Today the president instead echoed the language & threats of the perpetrators.

This is terrorism. And an explicit threat of genocide. Crimes against humanity. No matter what immunity the Supreme Court has invented, there are higher courts of justice. And even higher courts of eternal judgment.

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 4mo ago

BREAKING: President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Iran on Tuesday morning that a wave of expected U.S. military attacks on critical infrastructure would leave the country unable to recover, hours before his deadline for Iran’s leaders to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. bit.ly/4dyrn0K

Banging on this that batteries met up to 44% of demand on the CA grid yesterday, roughly equivalent to 6 hoover dams. Cheap batteries are powering the grid. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicola...

There was another massive battery storage record in California (CAISO) yesterday, March 29 🔋 At 7pm, batteries reached 12.3 GW of output, meeting 42.8% of grid demand! To put that kind of output… ...

There was another massive battery storage record in California (CAISO) yesterday, March 29 🔋 At 7pm, batteries reached 12.3 GW of output, meeting 42.8% of grid demand! To put that kind of output d...

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ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 4mo ago

first of many wild innovations unlocked by dirt cheap batteries, I'll warrant

"Developers will be required to install solar panels and heat pumps in all new homes in England as part of updated planning requirements published by the government." Imagine taking the energy transition seriously.

Heat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in green tech drive

Solar panels that can be plugged in at home could be available to buy in supermarkets in the coming months.

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Is anyone surprised? One more reason for Europe not to build on #LNG!

Andy Gheorghiu@andygheorghiu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Trump Threatens to Cut Off EU's American #LNG Supplies! Time to tell Donny boy to frack off! @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @marossefcovic.bsky.social @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu @president.europarl.europa.eu @bernd-lange.bsky.social @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu nationaltoday.com/us/dc/washin... 1/2

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

Even though solar power is booming, a new gas power project threatens to lock #Senegal into buying expensive fossil power for 30 more years. Switzerland’s SERV appears poised to support the project with an export risk guarantee. Read my blog post on the case at open.substack.com/pub/swisscli....

How Switzerland is crowding out renewable energy in Africa

SERV’s latest gas power plant: threatening the climate and Senegal’s economic development

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Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5mo ago

BREAKING: KRISTI NOEM IS OUT AT DHS. TRUMP SAYS HE'S REPLACING HER WITH SEN. MARKWAYNE MULLIN.

"From the US you get forced into trade deals promising a future of burning fossil fuels whose price is subject to wildly destructive US adventurism. From China you get reliably cheap EVs and green tech to generate renewables"- giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @alanbeattie.bsky.social

Iran attacks show the perils of following America’s economic lead

A growth plan of renewable energy and diversified trade is far better than guzzling fossil fuels and aligning with the US

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Trump's Big Beautiful Own Goal in Alaska: Not a single company bid for new offshore oil and gas exploration opportunities in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, dealing a blow to President Trump’s ‘drill, baby drill,’ agenda. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...

Trump’s High-Profile Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Alaska Has No Takers

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The sun won’t always shine and the wind won’t always blow, they said. Well guess what: #LNG doesn’t always flow. And while the wind will blow again tomorrow and its power can be stored in batteries, the same isn’t true for LNG. www.politico.eu/article/worl...

Energy crisis fears grow as Qatar shuts off world’s largest LNG plant

A prolonged closure would have a major impact on global gas supply.

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40 Swiss and international NGOs today called on the Swiss government to honor its climate pledges and stop financing international gas power plants immediately. "Switzerland must no longer be among the small group of countries that sabotage international climate policy", they argued.

"In the long run, if we don’t address the root cause, which is the substantial amount of emissions from fossil fuels, insurance will no longer be available", @cadavejones.bsky.social points out in this great WaPo portrait. www.washingtonpost.com/post-next/in...