Got a good job down at the Data Center. I work on the line, and it's hard work but it's honest and the wage is fair; my family and I are grateful for it. I rivet the word "absolutely" onto the little apologies that chatbots do when they misunderstand a prompt.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

Ok so this lady says solar panels are getting built on "the most productive farmland" in her area. Which just ain't true at all. It ain't true here in NC either. Where I ALSO hear that talking point over & over again. Smells like astroturf! So let's get the dirt on solar farms & dirt ✨

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 6d ago

I genuinely don't know what to do about this. In our diseased information environment, one MAGA-adjacent "influencer" can do more to shape public opinion than mountains of studies or facts. Where are the pro-clean-energy influencers to counter this shit?

How could we reform the ESA so that it not only works to displace housing from species’ habitat (which is it should work- this is the “stick”), but also incentivizes housing in non-habitat (via regulatory relief for infill, a new “carrot”). marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

The Endangered Species Act Reduces Housing - Marginal REVOLUTION

Max Tabarrok’s paper on the Endangered Species Act and housing (WP) has just been published in the Journal of Public Economics! It’s a clever paper: Max observed that the moment an animal is put on th...

marginalrevolution.com

Equating the environmental impacts of a data canter and a solar farm is just wild, like saying a grizzly bear and a cow are equally likely to maul you because they are both big and brown. Nice reporting by @jael.bsky.social for @heatmap.news. heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

I have made this argument on my local solar law volunteer committee farms that get subdivided to build second homes don’t go back to being farmland solar payments can help farmers keep their land

Third Act Upstate New York@thirdactupstateny.bsky.social · 2w ago

Rebekah Pierce, J&R Pierce Family Farm, on the argument that solar panels ruin land for crops: “Everything can be removed, even if the site isn’t being farmed around...Even if it’s not being farmed around, it can go back to being farmed in the future and it’s remained in that family’s name.”

Hermit crabs and humans are both dependent on scarce housing, and share some solutions, including “vacancy chains” and markets. Hermit crabs can’t vote for abundance policies, but people can. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Housing for Humans and Hermit Crabs

Musings from Maine on why these coastal crustaceans would vote for Abundance

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Really good explanation of the indirect land use effects (i.e., deforestation and other ecosystem loss) related to crop-based biofuels by @mbolotnikova.bsky.social:

This renewable energy source is actually terrible for the planet

America’s biofuels policy is helping destroy the world’s rainforests

vox.com

Being able to ride a horse or just hike through beautiful, open forests of the Sierras in California because they were kept open through prescribed burning and natural fire not being suppressed. Now it would be a miserable bush-wack.

Scott “bell beaker” Cave@hellabarnes.bsky.social · 3w ago

what is the reverse historical dorito? the thing from the past that would blow our minds in a positive way

Wherein private equity closed-end funds discover something called physical risk.

Private Equity Turns to Heat Detectives as Climate Risks Intensify

For decades, investment models at the largest private equity funds relied on assumptions of relatively stable weather patterns. Now frequent extreme events are creating new threats for their portfolio...

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Wildfire is once again making headlines across the western US and southern Europe. What have we learned from 20 years of the Fire and Fire Surrogates study? Explore this "Ecological Applications" Special Feature, spanning studies of the long-term impacts of forest management: tinyurl.com/46zt776y

Interesting call for papers on eco-voltaics: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/... #energysky 🧪🦇🐝🪺🌻

WHO'S INTERMITTENT NOW???

Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · last mo.

HEATWAVE HITS GAS POWER? Amid tight GB supplies, looks like gas plants cutting output due to heat? Carrington – unplanned 16% reduction due to "ambient conditions" Keadby 2 – 34% due to "weather" Staythorpe – 18% due to "ambient conditions" Grain – 12% "environmental" cause 1/2

An environmental group that’s explicitly helping build clean energy as a core part of their mission? Yep. It’s Audubon, and they’re 50% of the way to helping build 100 GW. I spoke with a leader there yesterday, and they are for reals. More here: sophielgilbert.substack.com/p/more-egret... #energysky

More Egrets, More Energy

How one of the nation’s oldest conservation groups is actively helping build energy and transmission infrastructure, and what they could do next

sophielgilbert.substack.com

Conservation/environmental groups are helping build clean energy. Audubon is a real leader here- one of their 4 long-term goals is to support the buildout of clean energy, and they report on annual progress, in GW! sophielgilbert.substack.com/p/more-egret...

More Egrets, More Energy

How one of the nation’s oldest conservation groups is actively helping build energy and transmission infrastructure, and what they could do next

sophielgilbert.substack.com

they should call them cheat pumps they’re stealing heat from outdoors to pump up their numbers

Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀@lissaharris.bsky.social · 2mo ago

fossil furnaces can’t possibly be more than 100% efficient, laws of physics a good heat pump right now will get up to 300 to 500% efficient! it sounds impossible, but it’s not: they don’t make heat, they just collect it from outdoors and move it inside or backwards for air conditioning

Medford Irrigation District reservoir in Southern Oregon now hosts more than 1,700 solar panels mounted on floating platforms. It will only power about 60 homes, but it should save 1.5 million gallons of water annually! #EnergySky

Help! Trying to find a good attempt at re-constructing how many people-hours per year were spent on ecosystem management/stewardship by indigenous/tribal folks before colonization in N. America? Obviously a hard thing to estimate, but has anyone tried? 🧪

!!!!!

Tor "SolarFred" Valenza@torsolarfred.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In a First, the U.S. Just Generated More Power From Solar Than Coal #energysky -- via Heatmap News heatmap.news/am/sola...

Incentives matter for conservation, and in this case, captive breeding created gecko abundance and affordability for EU pet owners (price dropped from $1500 to $40!), easing pressure on wild populations. 🧪🦎 news.mongabay.com/2026/06/how-...

How trade bans and local conservation helped save a dazzling blue gecko

Beauty is a curse — at least for the turquoise dwarf gecko of central Tanzania. Between December 2004 and July 2009, demand for this gecko from collectors in Europe boomed, leading to the capture and ...

news.mongabay.com

Good news on mangroves! They are awesome, protecting coasts from storm damage, and ppl took notice (i.e., their ecosystem service is an incentive to locals to stop cutting >> benefits from cutting them down to do fish farming), and once we stop the chop, they recover. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction

Swampy mangrove forests are staging a surprise comeback - which is good news for coastal communities and the climate.

bbc.com

I quit my tenured professor job in 2022. Change makes us deeply uncomfortable, which is why it mostly happens when it’s the only acceptable option. I’m sharing my own change journey over the last 5 years, now with the benefit of hindsight. sophielgilbert.substack.com/p/on-a-quest...

Change happens when it's the only acceptable option

How my journey from wildlife ecologist to climate bro and back again forced me to change, and even made me like it.

sophielgilbert.substack.com

▶️AI‑generated #climate #disaster images look persuasive but don’t boost climate action. Across 3 experiments, they raised emotions but also reactance, lower trust, and reduced willingness to act when people suspected the images were AI‑made. 🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/s44458-026-00092-0

Realistic AI-generated climate disaster images decrease support for climate action when artificial origin is suspected - Communications Sustainability

Support for climate action decreases when highly realistic disaster images are suspected to be generated by artificial intelligence, as shown by three large experiments testing emotional and resistanc...

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This is my first time reviewing a paper where the authors are english-as-a-second-language and say they edited with ChatGPT, and the resulting writing is technically correct but absolutely exhausting to read and comprehend, far beyond the average...are others experiencing this? 🧪

Kids are rad, because they are tiny people (minus the inhibitions and prejudices, and plus some wild creativity), oh and people are rad too.

Frankie Huang 黄碧赤@ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m so sick of former bird app takes, I want to hear everyone’s parenting hot takes

One year preprint ban for failing to capitalize on an obvious pun opportunity.... still insufficient punishment?!

Gavin Schmidt@climateofgavin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

One year preprint ban for having a title saying something is better or worse than expected and never saying what the expectation was based on.

Cool math trick: $0*2 = $0, so he's right.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Bezos on CNBC: "You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you."

Maybe we should just do this instead of 30x30 Old Skool protection?

Jon Corsiglia (he/him/el) | Eco-Economy Insider@ecoeconomyinsider.com · 3mo ago

Securing indigenous land rights is still the most cost-effective conservation investment alive. Indigenous-managed lands hold more than 1/3 of Earth’s intact forests and intersect with 37% of all remaining natural lands — while covering just 25% of the surface. #IndigenousLands

Is the looooong mullet the human equivalent of a beaver's tail?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDtq...

Beavers

YouTube video by Jesse Welles

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Coal is dirty, and it makes solar less effective, especially if located close together. Aerosols (which include more stuff than coal) reduced solar energy production by almost 6% in 2023!

Tor "SolarFred" Valenza@torsolarfred.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Coal pollution is significantly reducing the output of solar panels, major study finds #energysky -- via Renew Economy: reneweconomy.com.au/...

Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.

The world is installing grid batteries at a blistering pace

A total of 112 gigawatts of batteries were deployed around the world in 2025 — 10 times the amount added just four years prior.

canarymedia.com