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Fraser Valley Climate Action 🌿🌎💡 @fvca.bsky.social · 20h

The Southern Canadian Prairies have the greatest potential for grid scale solar. Coupled with East West grid improvements they could supercharge Canada's clean electricity.

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Fraser Valley Climate Action 🌿🌎💡 @fvca.bsky.social · 22h

Want some good climate news?
mailchi.mp/nationalobse...

Our friendly neighbourhood fireball

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kdbnicol.bsky.social @kdbnicol.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! I used to bicycle commute in Coquitlam to PoCo, and did so every working day except for 1 week of snow in the winter.
The Lower Mainland and bicycles? Especially south of the Fraser as well as… everywhere.
Made for cycling.
Needed: a dramatic increase in bicycle infrastructure valley wide.
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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 1d

The carbon tax paid c.80% of citizens more than it cost us. Only the wealthiest polluters were out of pocket. Cancelling it expressly benefits the wealthy while impoverishing the rest of us.

Plus, we need more robust climate policy, not less of it.

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sustainablesong.medium.com/bring-on-the...

Bring on the $1000 carbon price

Once you understand why, you might prefer $10,000

sustainablesong.medium.com

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Fraser Valley Climate Action 🌿🌎💡 @fvca.bsky.social · 1d

not climate but very cool idea to explore for Canadian Healthcare. Trauma physicians deployed outside the hospital.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/too...

Too many trauma patients die before they reach the hospital. These Toronto doctors have an idea that would ‘shake up the system’

For a few critically injured patients, the urgent interventions those patients need can only be done at a trauma centre. Can a new model help?

www.thestar.com

Fraser Valley Climate Action 🌿🌎💡 @fvca.bsky.social · 1d

Sad to see human suffering made worse by climate change.

A warmer atmosphere means more energetic storms.
Rising oceans mean higher chance of coastal flooding.
Climate change makes events like this more frequent and more damaging.

There is a human cost to not stopping climate change.

Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 1d

Photos coming out of Western AK are devastating.

Hardest hit are indigenous villages off road system, many miles by air from supplies. Most built on river deltas w/ no high ground to which to escape.

Cuts to NASA/NOAA mean worse weather data. Cuts to EPA mean no grants for erosion control. Etc.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

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Fraser Valley Climate Action 🌿🌎💡 @fvca.bsky.social · 1d

I have said this is true.
Someone actually did a survey to illustrate the shift to Bluesky from Twitter.
www.southernfriedscience.com/twitter-suck...

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Fraser Valley Climate Action 🌿🌎💡 @fvca.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder what BC Hydro's plans are for grid scale battery storage?

Anyone in British Columbia know?

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍

“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant

My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

www.southernfriedscience.com

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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 1d

Picture perfect California weekend

195th & 196th days in 2025 with >100% WindWaterSolar for part of day

WWS peaked at 135% of demand both days

Gas down 19% v '24 & 37% v '23
Batteries up 57% v '24 & 205% v '23
Solar up 15% v '24 & 44% v '23

WWS 54.6% of demand v 46.7% in '23

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Fraser Valley Climate Action 🌿🌎💡 @fvca.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting.

This would connect "wear and tear" on the roads and the cost of maintenance with the weight of the vehicles.
It might encourage smaller vehicles to lower taxes.

In BC we suffer from "pavement princesses" (giant single occupancy vehicles)

@davidebybc.bsky.social What do you think?

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

check this out: here in Norway we tax cars (including EVs!) by weight

www.skatteetaten.no/en/rates/wei...

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Fraser Valley Climate Action 🌿🌎💡 @fvca.bsky.social · 1d

For clean energy. This is a great time to be alive!

You can help by replacing your home's gas appliances with electric appliances.

Ontario Clean Air Alliance @oncleanair.bsky.social · 2d

We're too busy building high cost and polluting nuclear and gas plants in Canada to build out low cost, renewable wind and solar power, like the rest of the world is doing.

#cdnpoli #onpoli @mark-carney.bsky.social #fordnation

Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 24d

Solar laggard Canada 🇨🇦

Despite excellent solar radiation in many locations, Canada remains well behind other economies at similar latitudes.

Solar electricity generation per capita in 2024 (kWh):
🇳🇱 1,235
🇩🇪 877
🇯🇵 781
🇩🇰 668
🇫🇷 354
🇨🇦 237

Fraser Valley Climate Action 🌿🌎💡 @fvca.bsky.social · 1d

Truth really matters in the fight against climate change.

not "both sidesism"
not "lets have a debate"
not "paid lobbyists for moneyed interests"
Journalistic integrity that speaks truth to power really matters.

thank you for standing up for Truth.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Fraser Valley Climate Action 🌿🌎💡 @fvca.bsky.social · 1d

So encouraging to see the economics of solar making this shift from polluting power to cleaner power.

(despite all the noise from that man in the white house on the corner down the street)

Reliable affordable non-polluting energy is a benefit to all.

Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 2d

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Fraser Valley Climate Action 🌿🌎💡 @fvca.bsky.social · 1d

Makes good sense!

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Fraser Valley Climate Action 🌿🌎💡 @fvca.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Canadians. Got a minute?
The polluting interests are at it again.
lobbying politicians for things normal citizens don't want or need. Things that hurt our air, land, water, economy, health and our fight against climate change.

Spare a minute to help?

leadnow.ca/campaigns/re...

Prime Minister Carney: Reject Smith's BC Pipeline - Leadnow

leadnow.ca

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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 4d

NEW | EU solar generation has already exceeded its 2024 total as of September ☀️🇪🇺

Solar is by far the fastest growing source of electricity in the EU, up 20% year-on-year.

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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 1d

Another new record for batteries in California 🔋⚡️

Batteries met a record high 37.2% of load at 6:25pm yesterday, Oct 12.

The share of load remained at >30% for two whole hours from 5:50 to 7:50 during peak demand and discharged late into the night, reducing gas and imports.

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 2d

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 8d

NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL

How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

this is a nice rendering by @nickevershed.bsky.social but, er, it definitely shows coal power output remaining persistently high even as renewable energy grows, which feels like a problem

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

a hand-drawn chart showing renewable energy griwing but coal output remaining stagnat for the past three entire years because demand itself has been growing oddly fast

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 2d

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Fraser Valley Climate Action 🌿🌎💡 @fvca.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting read.
My summary:
"Because this project will never discharge its full capacity, some of the cost to build is essentially wasted.
Since batteries discharge daily, they have a much higher utility which offsets their higher up-front costs making them lower cost in the long run."

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