Peter Sinclair
@peterwsinclair.bsky.social
Videographer. Climate/Clean Energy Comms. Sun101.org, Wind101.info, Thinc.blog . NCSE Friend of the Planet 2017. Working to support deployment of clean energy in the Heartland. This is the front line of Climate Action.
If you have not seen #Hadestown - get the Hell out to this Film Version. thinc.blog/2026/08/04/i...
If You Have Not Seen Hadestown, Get the Hell out to This Film Version
Climate is a theme among many, although they don’t bash you over the head with it.It is in any case, absolutely brilliant, riveting, and cathartic.Bring tissue. Review here from 2019, “…
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Music Break: Jesse Welles - I Ain't Goin' to Hell thinc.blog/2026/08/04/m...
Music Break: Jesse Welles – I Ain’t Goin’ to Hell
Made me laugh.
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More on Europe's power crunch. Interconnection helping stabilize, more solar and batteries could go a long way. Ember Expert interviewed by DW thinc.blog/2026/08/04/u...
Under Abundant Sun, Europe in Energy Crisis due to Drought, Heat
Good reporting from Deutsche Welle here on the water constraints that are cutting output at nuclear and hydro plants around Europe. Starts with a summary of the situation in Romania and Hungary tha…
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Hungary is preparing to completely shut down its only nuclear power plant later this week as the river becomes too shallow to supply water for cooling. The record low levels have also triggered a state of emergency in Romania, where energy conservation measures have carmakers halting production.
Peter Sinclair@peterwsinclair.bsky.social · 2d agoIn Romania: Blowing river channel to keep cooling water flowing to nuclear plant thinc.blog/2026/08/03/b...
In Romania: Blowing river channel to keep cooling water flowing to nuclear plant thinc.blog/2026/08/03/b...
Blasting River Channels to Keep Nuclear Plants Running
This is pretty striking. Not something you see often, I would say.Romania blowing river channels in desperate attempt to keep cooling water flowing to Nuclear plant, as the Danube shrinks from clim…
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Heat Hammering Herds - Could Solar Serve as Solution? thinc.blog/2026/08/03/h...
Heat Hammering Herds – Could Solar Serve a Solution?
I posted the other day on heat impacts to cattle herds. More evidence keeps showing up. One adaptation being explored, solar panels to shade pastures and animals. Sheep famously are taking advantag…
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Arid loving plant could be wood substitute for paper products. Implications for forests, carbon sinks, and maybe, wildfires? thinc.blog/2026/08/03/p...
Paper Alternative Could Keep more Forests for Carbon Drawdown
Replaces wood for paper products. Grows in arid zones. Result of a “moonshot” research program.Implications for forestry, carbon sinks, and maybe, wildfires? Wall Street Journal: For tw…
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Heat Hammering Herds - Could Solar Serve as Solution? thinc.blog/2026/08/03/h...
Heat Hammering Herds – Could Solar Serve a Solution?
I posted the other day on heat impacts to cattle herds. More evidence keeps showing up. One adaptation being explored, solar panels to shade pastures and animals. Sheep famously are taking advantag…
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Everyone should be concerned about AI, and the need for guardrails on Data Centers is legit - but a lot of DC hate is based on alternative facts thinc.blog/2026/08/03/d...
Data Center Panic Often Based on Alternative Facts
If you are reading this post, you are using a Data Center somewhere.If you are asking people to join your Facebook page, sign up for your Zoom, and contribute to your GoFundMe to oppose Data Center…
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This is it. Will they outnumber us or will we outnumber them? Teach your children well.
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social is Making Sense of Data Center Madness - and his podcast #EnergyEmpire is mandatory listening if you are in this space. Thanks for the swag, btw thinc.blog/2026/07/30/j...
Jigar Shah is Making Sense of AI Madness
Since ending his tenure as Director of the Department of Energy’s Loan Program Office under Joe Biden, Jigar Shah has been producing hands down the most useful and informed energy transition …
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Power Crisis in Europe as Heat, Low River Flow, Shuts Nuclear Plants thinc.blog/2026/08/02/p...
Power Crisis as Hungary’s Heat Could Shut Giant Nuclear Plant
Description: Hungary’s Paks nuclear power plant is facing a possible historic shutdown as record-low water levels on the Danube threaten its cooling system. Prime Minister Peter Magyar said the fac…
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I've been reading Peter Sinclair, or watching, since the days of Climate Crock of the Week takedowns of the execrable Lord Monkton. A real war horse of the science denial wars. I still check his site every day. Recommend
Peter Sinclair@peterwsinclair.bsky.social · 6d agoJigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social is Making Sense of Data Center Madness - and his podcast #EnergyEmpire is mandatory listening if you are in this space. Thanks for the swag, btw thinc.blog/2026/07/30/j...
Major Fire Disaster threatens thousands of homes in Spokane, WA. Homes burning, evacuations underway, State of Emergency in effect, National Weather Service declares a "Particularly Dangerous Situation". I blame Canada. thinc.blog/2026/08/02/m...
Major Wildfire Disaster Unfolding in Spokane
Tragedy unfolding quickly in Spokane, Washington area.Follow Daniel Swain to get the most informed analysis. National Weather Service has declared a “Particularly Dangerous Situation.”
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Raskin Launches Probe of Scheme to Sell Insider Access to Trump Truth Social Posts www.commondreams.org/news/truth-s...
Raskin Launches Probe of Scheme to Sell Insider Access to Trump Truth Social Posts | Common Dreams
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin is probing a "reverse Robin Hood scheme" by Trump's Truth Social set to benefit Wall Street.
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This Wildfire and Smoke Explainer is a Breath of Fresh Air thinc.blog/2026/08/01/b...
Breath of Fresh Air on Canada’s Fire, Smoke
Really great, sober, much needed, fact based explainer on Canadian wildfires, focusing on data, and addressing the most common “wake up, sheeple” internet memes. The creator has a good …
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thinc.blog/2026/08/01/h... Another driver for inflation. Heat takes a toll on livestock in the midwest
Heat Taking Toll on Midwest Cattle, Farmers
Another driver for inflation. Temperatures soared in the Western U.S. on July 12, 2026, as shown in this map of modeled air temperatures from the GEOS (Goddard Earth Observing System). Numerous wea…
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This Wildfire and Smoke Explainer is a Breath of Fresh Air thinc.blog/2026/08/01/b...
Breath of Fresh Air on Canada’s Fire, Smoke
Really great, sober, much needed, fact based explainer on Canadian wildfires, focusing on data, and addressing the most common “wake up, sheeple” internet memes. The creator has a good …
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When Nixon told the country “I am not a crook,” he welded the word crook to his own name. Debunk-first coverage does the disinformer’s work for free: it installs the very claim it means to correct.
🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 5d agoA simple rule for any journalist who cares about this country: "The lie never gets the headline or the lead sentence—the truth does, every time."
tRump’s shaking down companies for $25-50 million checks for his ballroom and library. His fundraiser literally tells them “the boss wants this money.” Apple, Amazon, SoftBank all paying up. Instead of fundraising, it’s a protection racket run from the White House. www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Trump Has Reportedly Been Demanding Companies and Donors Pay Up
President Donald Trump has taken an unusually hands-on role in raising money, personally directing multimillion-dollar fundraising efforts and pushing corporate leaders for increasingly large contribu...
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Waymo is I.C.E. They share GPS and photo-video data with I.C.E. and local PD. Waymo is about to roll out in full force in #Philly. Have seen multiple of these information-gathering drones, mapping the city before hundreds of driverless Waymos are dispatched. Philadelphians, you know what to do.
Fauci Farce more evidence of MAGA's Damage to American Science thinc.blog/2026/07/31/f...
Fauci Farce More Evidence of the Damage to American Science
Above, PhD immunologist weighs in on the Fauci hearings and long term damage MAGA has wrought on American science. Below, Paul Krugman: What the ongoing show trial of Fauci — which motivated this p…
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It feels bad in San Diego County. 🥵 🌞 Here's the link: thinc.blog/2026/07/31/s...
Super El Niño – How Bad Could it Get?
Today I learned – something I had not heard about the forces setting this current massive El Niño cycle in motion – two mirror-image cyclones on either side of the equator, spinning in …
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If you like your Bordeaux served at the same temperature as hot Saki, this is good news...
Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 5d agoBordeaux, 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.
Donald Trump “erupted” during a meeting with his top national security team last week, reportedly yelling expletives at those present, according to NBC News. The report says Trump is “exasperated” by the lack of progress in ending the Iran war and the lack of a clear strategy.
Super El Niño - How Bad Could it Get?https://thinc.blog/2026/07/31/super-el-nino-how-bad-could-it-get/
