Peter
@peterlie.bsky.social
Sometimes a volunteer. A work in progress, according to Ethel. Amplifying climate info that catches my eye.
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Global Sea Ice Area Maximum never peaked lower than it did this year...
Less sea ice leads to less sunlight reflection back to space, more (high latitude) heat uptake and even faster ice melt.
Global Sea Ice Area Maximum never peaked lower than it did this year...
Less sea ice leads to less sunlight reflection back to space, more (high latitude) heat uptake and even faster ice melt.
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Global Sea Ice Area Maximum never peaked lower than it did this year...
Less sea ice leads to less sunlight reflection back to space, more (high latitude) heat uptake and even faster ice melt.
Global Sea Ice Area Maximum never peaked lower than it did this year...
Less sea ice leads to less sunlight reflection back to space, more (high latitude) heat uptake and even faster ice melt.
Worth a read if you have a few minutes. Sober and scary climate analysis that also holds some possibilities for hope.
November 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Worth a read if you have a few minutes. Sober and scary climate analysis that also holds some possibilities for hope.
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A statistic that concentrates the mind: In the first 6 months of 2025, China installed 250 GW of solar power capacity. This is around 150% of France's aggregate electricity production...
November 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
A statistic that concentrates the mind: In the first 6 months of 2025, China installed 250 GW of solar power capacity. This is around 150% of France's aggregate electricity production...
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Illinois: $1 billion in battery investment will save consumers $13 billion in capacity costs.
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
Illinois to add 3 GW of batteries, saving consumers $12 billion over 20 years
Illinois is set to issue procurements for 3 GW of battery storage, under a bill expected to be signed by Governor JB Pritzker. Transmission improvements to speed renewable deployment are also in the w...
pv-magazine-usa.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Illinois: $1 billion in battery investment will save consumers $13 billion in capacity costs.
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
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If our years ran from November to October, 2025 would be the second warmest year on record.
Probably in >100,000 years and potentially much longer.
Sea Surface Temperatures are now likely already higher than during the Eemian warm period, when global sea levels were ~7.5m higher!
Probably in >100,000 years and potentially much longer.
Sea Surface Temperatures are now likely already higher than during the Eemian warm period, when global sea levels were ~7.5m higher!
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
If our years ran from November to October, 2025 would be the second warmest year on record.
Probably in >100,000 years and potentially much longer.
Sea Surface Temperatures are now likely already higher than during the Eemian warm period, when global sea levels were ~7.5m higher!
Probably in >100,000 years and potentially much longer.
Sea Surface Temperatures are now likely already higher than during the Eemian warm period, when global sea levels were ~7.5m higher!
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Science!
Melanoma, pancreatic cancer, and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) are each serious clinical challenges due to how common or aggressive they are and how poorly they often respond to treatment. Which is why researchers are determined to develop an effective treatment for all of them.
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Science!
Hope scrolling feels very good.
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Hope scrolling feels very good.
Sigh.
Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 4, 2025 ~ Fast times!
"Glaciologists recorded a five-mile retreat in just two months on the Hektoria Glacier on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula, a rate nearly 10 times faster than previously measured for a grounded glacier..."
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
"Glaciologists recorded a five-mile retreat in just two months on the Hektoria Glacier on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula, a rate nearly 10 times faster than previously measured for a grounded glacier..."
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Antarctic glacier retreating at rate 10 times faster than previously measured: Study
An Antarctic glacier has experienced a rapid retreat 10 times faster than previously measured, according to new research.
abcnews.go.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Sigh.
We're living in a reality TV script where the writers' room is just chaos, dysfunction and a Magic 8-Ball.
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
We're living in a reality TV script where the writers' room is just chaos, dysfunction and a Magic 8-Ball.
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Wind saved UK consumers net 104 billion pounds on energy bills from 2010-2023.
Most of the savings were on gas bills.
Study authors call for ending price of gas setting electricity prices.
That is a major and complex issue.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... #energysky
Most of the savings were on gas bills.
Study authors call for ending price of gas setting electricity prices.
That is a major and complex issue.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... #energysky
Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds
Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Wind saved UK consumers net 104 billion pounds on energy bills from 2010-2023.
Most of the savings were on gas bills.
Study authors call for ending price of gas setting electricity prices.
That is a major and complex issue.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... #energysky
Most of the savings were on gas bills.
Study authors call for ending price of gas setting electricity prices.
That is a major and complex issue.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... #energysky
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Remember, the people profiting most from doing this to our world are building bunkers.
October 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Remember, the people profiting most from doing this to our world are building bunkers.
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As humans change the climate, largely by burning fossil fuels, the frequency and severity of weather disasters are rising. Climate Central now hosts the billion-dollar weather disaster database that the Trump administration took off NOAA's website.
www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
October 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
As humans change the climate, largely by burning fossil fuels, the frequency and severity of weather disasters are rising. Climate Central now hosts the billion-dollar weather disaster database that the Trump administration took off NOAA's website.
www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity costs in Europe. What can we learn from this?
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using renewables | Ember
Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe, largely owing to the country’s strong solar and wind growth which reduced the influence of expensive coal and gas power on the elec...
ember-energy.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity costs in Europe. What can we learn from this?
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
Climate Change Paradox
The Climate Change Paradox | Quanta Magazine
Earth’s climate is chaotic and volatile. Climate change is simple and predictable. How can both be true?
www.quantamagazine.org
October 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Climate Change Paradox
No one will ever be able to say we weren't warned.
This is why "all of the above" energy is not a climate solution.
Record amounts of clean energy were built in 2024, but since we're still building out fossil fuels—indeed, since we're still just *using* fossil fuels—the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is still going up, cooking us.
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Record amounts of clean energy were built in 2024, but since we're still building out fossil fuels—indeed, since we're still just *using* fossil fuels—the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is still going up, cooking us.
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October 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
No one will ever be able to say we weren't warned.
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Only money nerds will know about this guy but Buchanan was quite possibly the most evil economist in history. (Oh, of course he won the Nobel)
Meet the Hidden Architect Behind America's Racist Economics
Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean
www.ineteconomics.org
October 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Only money nerds will know about this guy but Buchanan was quite possibly the most evil economist in history. (Oh, of course he won the Nobel)
All the warning signs are flashing....
This changes everything!
The Northern Hemisphere used to radiate more heat to space than it absorbed from the sun, but this changed over the past 20 years.
More:
www.patreon.com/posts/141034...
The Northern Hemisphere used to radiate more heat to space than it absorbed from the sun, but this changed over the past 20 years.
More:
www.patreon.com/posts/141034...
October 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
All the warning signs are flashing....
Ember report from 7 October shows promising progress in renewables adoption. Feels good to see some hopeful news.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 | Ember
Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal’s share in the global electricity mix.
ember-energy.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Ember report from 7 October shows promising progress in renewables adoption. Feels good to see some hopeful news.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
Good explainer from arstechnica on solid state EV battery technology and market dynamics.
arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10...
arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10...
How close are we to solid state batteries for electric vehicles?
Superionic materials promise greater range, faster charges and more safety.
arstechnica.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Good explainer from arstechnica on solid state EV battery technology and market dynamics.
arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10...
arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10...
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“I think China is using [clean technology] in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate. China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field.”
www.ft.com/content/013e...
www.ft.com/content/013e...
The ‘profound’ global impact of China’s rise as an electrostate
The country’s companies now dominate many clean technology industries
www.ft.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
“I think China is using [clean technology] in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate. China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field.”
www.ft.com/content/013e...
www.ft.com/content/013e...
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Whether you like it or not, this is our painful truth in America.
October 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Whether you like it or not, this is our painful truth in America.
Not a good time to be doubling down on fossil fuels while also hamstringing renewables. But here we are.
Breaking News!
Code Yikes!
September averaged 1.47°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline, snapping a three-month "cool" streak.
Will this heat continue? The Climate 8-ball is consulting the I Ching.
Code Yikes!
September averaged 1.47°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline, snapping a three-month "cool" streak.
Will this heat continue? The Climate 8-ball is consulting the I Ching.
October 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Not a good time to be doubling down on fossil fuels while also hamstringing renewables. But here we are.
BS running hot today for sure.
September 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
BS running hot today for sure.