A Siegel
@asiegel.bsky.social
Passionate about fostering a prosperous, climate-friendly future for all.
Thoughts on climate, clean energy and related issues at GetEnergySmartNow.com
Thoughts on climate, clean energy and related issues at GetEnergySmartNow.com
Tariffs hit home: the model train example.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Note: the unnamed model train supplier is upfront and honest as to why there are price increases. If all firms were this upfront (and reporters clearer), Trump's polling numbers would be even lower than they are.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Note: the unnamed model train supplier is upfront and honest as to why there are price increases. If all firms were this upfront (and reporters clearer), Trump's polling numbers would be even lower than they are.
November 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Tariffs hit home: the model train example.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Note: the unnamed model train supplier is upfront and honest as to why there are price increases. If all firms were this upfront (and reporters clearer), Trump's polling numbers would be even lower than they are.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Note: the unnamed model train supplier is upfront and honest as to why there are price increases. If all firms were this upfront (and reporters clearer), Trump's polling numbers would be even lower than they are.
Basic sniff test: PRC poverty level (that <$US3/day) is lower than almost every single EU nation (quick scan, only Slovenia is 0.0). And, look at so many of the other 0.0 reporting nations. Really?
data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI...
data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI...
November 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Basic sniff test: PRC poverty level (that <$US3/day) is lower than almost every single EU nation (quick scan, only Slovenia is 0.0). And, look at so many of the other 0.0 reporting nations. Really?
data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI...
data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI...
Powerfully insightful indictment of #Skandalakis' #gaslighting in dropping Georgia elections case against Trump & co-conspirators.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Prosecutors shouldn't ignore evidence & grand juries nor give benefit of the doubt to serial criminals & liars.
@lawfaremedia.org
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Prosecutors shouldn't ignore evidence & grand juries nor give benefit of the doubt to serial criminals & liars.
@lawfaremedia.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Powerfully insightful indictment of #Skandalakis' #gaslighting in dropping Georgia elections case against Trump & co-conspirators.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Prosecutors shouldn't ignore evidence & grand juries nor give benefit of the doubt to serial criminals & liars.
@lawfaremedia.org
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Prosecutors shouldn't ignore evidence & grand juries nor give benefit of the doubt to serial criminals & liars.
@lawfaremedia.org
After decades of deceit about plastics recycling to turn attention away from their profiting off pollution, @exxonmobiloil.bsky.social is suing those who call them out for that deception.
www.ft.com/content/3eb1...
The oil majors & other fossil fools fight against any accountability.
www.ft.com/content/3eb1...
The oil majors & other fossil fools fight against any accountability.
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
After decades of deceit about plastics recycling to turn attention away from their profiting off pollution, @exxonmobiloil.bsky.social is suing those who call them out for that deception.
www.ft.com/content/3eb1...
The oil majors & other fossil fools fight against any accountability.
www.ft.com/content/3eb1...
The oil majors & other fossil fools fight against any accountability.
Sanctions work (imperfectly):
Russian war machine pinched due to higher costs.
www.ft.com/content/8f48...
"price of imports subject to export controls rose 75 per cent between 2021 and 2024"
#SlavaUkraine #UkraineRussiaWar
Tighten sanctions until Putin folds!
Russian war machine pinched due to higher costs.
www.ft.com/content/8f48...
"price of imports subject to export controls rose 75 per cent between 2021 and 2024"
#SlavaUkraine #UkraineRussiaWar
Tighten sanctions until Putin folds!
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Sanctions work (imperfectly):
Russian war machine pinched due to higher costs.
www.ft.com/content/8f48...
"price of imports subject to export controls rose 75 per cent between 2021 and 2024"
#SlavaUkraine #UkraineRussiaWar
Tighten sanctions until Putin folds!
Russian war machine pinched due to higher costs.
www.ft.com/content/8f48...
"price of imports subject to export controls rose 75 per cent between 2021 and 2024"
#SlavaUkraine #UkraineRussiaWar
Tighten sanctions until Putin folds!
With all his $billions and "brilliance", evidently Gates is a combination of too cheap and too arrogant to consider having a team of critical thinkers red-teaming what he's reading and, critically, before posting for the world to see recommendations on Gates Notes (and, funding).
8/n
8/n
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
With all his $billions and "brilliance", evidently Gates is a combination of too cheap and too arrogant to consider having a team of critical thinkers red-teaming what he's reading and, critically, before posting for the world to see recommendations on Gates Notes (and, funding).
8/n
8/n
While Smil feed into Gates' natural (even understandable) Innovation Uber Alles' mentality, Lomborg is an even worst case.
Gates has been enamoured w/Lomborg for years: funding & promoting him. Bill is totally oblivious, clearly, to how Bjorn "the smiling Dane" Lomborg is a fraudster.
7/n
Gates has been enamoured w/Lomborg for years: funding & promoting him. Bill is totally oblivious, clearly, to how Bjorn "the smiling Dane" Lomborg is a fraudster.
7/n
November 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
While Smil feed into Gates' natural (even understandable) Innovation Uber Alles' mentality, Lomborg is an even worst case.
Gates has been enamoured w/Lomborg for years: funding & promoting him. Bill is totally oblivious, clearly, to how Bjorn "the smiling Dane" Lomborg is a fraudster.
7/n
Gates has been enamoured w/Lomborg for years: funding & promoting him. Bill is totally oblivious, clearly, to how Bjorn "the smiling Dane" Lomborg is a fraudster.
7/n
A painful element of this is Gates' clear inability to challenge & test material.
For example, Vlaclav Smil is legitimately one of the world's greatest energy book authors -- energy HISTORY that its. Smil's forecasting is, however, fundamentally flawed. Gates clearly can't see that.
6/n
For example, Vlaclav Smil is legitimately one of the world's greatest energy book authors -- energy HISTORY that its. Smil's forecasting is, however, fundamentally flawed. Gates clearly can't see that.
6/n
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A painful element of this is Gates' clear inability to challenge & test material.
For example, Vlaclav Smil is legitimately one of the world's greatest energy book authors -- energy HISTORY that its. Smil's forecasting is, however, fundamentally flawed. Gates clearly can't see that.
6/n
For example, Vlaclav Smil is legitimately one of the world's greatest energy book authors -- energy HISTORY that its. Smil's forecasting is, however, fundamentally flawed. Gates clearly can't see that.
6/n
Why is Gates so (SO) wrong re #climate issues / solutions?
The core seems to be billionaires fallacy: an arrogance that they know better (on essentially everything), are able to parse information better, and adverse to challenge.
Michael Barnard on this.
www.linkedin.com/posts/michae...
5/n
The core seems to be billionaires fallacy: an arrogance that they know better (on essentially everything), are able to parse information better, and adverse to challenge.
Michael Barnard on this.
www.linkedin.com/posts/michae...
5/n
November 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Why is Gates so (SO) wrong re #climate issues / solutions?
The core seems to be billionaires fallacy: an arrogance that they know better (on essentially everything), are able to parse information better, and adverse to challenge.
Michael Barnard on this.
www.linkedin.com/posts/michae...
5/n
The core seems to be billionaires fallacy: an arrogance that they know better (on essentially everything), are able to parse information better, and adverse to challenge.
Michael Barnard on this.
www.linkedin.com/posts/michae...
5/n
Don’t forget the B3
(Blonde Bimbo Bondi)
Epstein connection
What was Bondi doing as Florida Attorney General as Epstein was abusing and raping Florida’s young girls?
BBB allegiance is to the PPP
(Predatory Pedophile Party)
(Blonde Bimbo Bondi)
Epstein connection
What was Bondi doing as Florida Attorney General as Epstein was abusing and raping Florida’s young girls?
BBB allegiance is to the PPP
(Predatory Pedophile Party)
November 23, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Don’t forget the B3
(Blonde Bimbo Bondi)
Epstein connection
What was Bondi doing as Florida Attorney General as Epstein was abusing and raping Florida’s young girls?
BBB allegiance is to the PPP
(Predatory Pedophile Party)
(Blonde Bimbo Bondi)
Epstein connection
What was Bondi doing as Florida Attorney General as Epstein was abusing and raping Florida’s young girls?
BBB allegiance is to the PPP
(Predatory Pedophile Party)
Re #Pollingism ( #Pollification ), an excellent discussion very much worth the read: contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
I come down on wishing for " #Magnetism " politics.
When it comes to #Climate Magnetism, for example, @jeff-merkley.bsky.social shined in 2008
@anatosaurus.bsky.social
I come down on wishing for " #Magnetism " politics.
When it comes to #Climate Magnetism, for example, @jeff-merkley.bsky.social shined in 2008
@anatosaurus.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Re #Pollingism ( #Pollification ), an excellent discussion very much worth the read: contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
I come down on wishing for " #Magnetism " politics.
When it comes to #Climate Magnetism, for example, @jeff-merkley.bsky.social shined in 2008
@anatosaurus.bsky.social
I come down on wishing for " #Magnetism " politics.
When it comes to #Climate Magnetism, for example, @jeff-merkley.bsky.social shined in 2008
@anatosaurus.bsky.social
An example, no climate "activist" would call Virginia Governor-elect @abigailspanberger.com a "climate warrior". Yet, her affordability agenda (critical/central to campaign) has serious climate-related elements re, for example, how clean energy offers fastest/best path for lower-cost new power.
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
An example, no climate "activist" would call Virginia Governor-elect @abigailspanberger.com a "climate warrior". Yet, her affordability agenda (critical/central to campaign) has serious climate-related elements re, for example, how clean energy offers fastest/best path for lower-cost new power.
As a radical extreme, consider the financial challenges and paperwork for a family with a brain cancer patient in the United States and France ...
getenergysmartnow.com/2009/11/05/c...
getenergysmartnow.com/2009/11/05/c...
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
As a radical extreme, consider the financial challenges and paperwork for a family with a brain cancer patient in the United States and France ...
getenergysmartnow.com/2009/11/05/c...
getenergysmartnow.com/2009/11/05/c...
Considering the #MTG #FAFO contrition, thoughtful perspective from Markos that this is another example of the
"defining pattern of modern conservatism:
Empathy arrives only when the pain becomes personal."
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
"defining pattern of modern conservatism:
Empathy arrives only when the pain becomes personal."
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Considering the #MTG #FAFO contrition, thoughtful perspective from Markos that this is another example of the
"defining pattern of modern conservatism:
Empathy arrives only when the pain becomes personal."
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
"defining pattern of modern conservatism:
Empathy arrives only when the pain becomes personal."
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Imagine if all countries were keeping pace with China in clean electrons.
* <1/5th of global population
* 2/3rds of 2025 #solar and #wind installations
The PRC is racing ahead as not just an #ElectroState but as a dominant #ElectroSuperPower.
1/n
* <1/5th of global population
* 2/3rds of 2025 #solar and #wind installations
The PRC is racing ahead as not just an #ElectroState but as a dominant #ElectroSuperPower.
1/n
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Imagine if all countries were keeping pace with China in clean electrons.
* <1/5th of global population
* 2/3rds of 2025 #solar and #wind installations
The PRC is racing ahead as not just an #ElectroState but as a dominant #ElectroSuperPower.
1/n
* <1/5th of global population
* 2/3rds of 2025 #solar and #wind installations
The PRC is racing ahead as not just an #ElectroState but as a dominant #ElectroSuperPower.
1/n
Trump’s new line:
“I could have sex with his five year old granddaughter in the middle of Fifth Avenue and he would still support me.”
#Epstein #TrumpEpstein #PedoTrump
“I could have sex with his five year old granddaughter in the middle of Fifth Avenue and he would still support me.”
#Epstein #TrumpEpstein #PedoTrump
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Trump’s new line:
“I could have sex with his five year old granddaughter in the middle of Fifth Avenue and he would still support me.”
#Epstein #TrumpEpstein #PedoTrump
“I could have sex with his five year old granddaughter in the middle of Fifth Avenue and he would still support me.”
#Epstein #TrumpEpstein #PedoTrump
Of course, am calling all Kaine's D.C. office at 202-224-4024 (Richmond office at 804-771-2221). You should too.
This was orchestrated. @markwarner.bsky.social would've voted for it if he weren't up for election. Virginia's two "D" Senators aren't acting as if they realize Trump is fascist.
This was orchestrated. @markwarner.bsky.social would've voted for it if he weren't up for election. Virginia's two "D" Senators aren't acting as if they realize Trump is fascist.
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Of course, am calling all Kaine's D.C. office at 202-224-4024 (Richmond office at 804-771-2221). You should too.
This was orchestrated. @markwarner.bsky.social would've voted for it if he weren't up for election. Virginia's two "D" Senators aren't acting as if they realize Trump is fascist.
This was orchestrated. @markwarner.bsky.social would've voted for it if he weren't up for election. Virginia's two "D" Senators aren't acting as if they realize Trump is fascist.
Either @schumer.senate.gov / @chuckschumer.com was complicit or unable to stop Senate Dem #SurrenderCaucus -- either way, he must go.
@kaine.senate.gov:
Virginia's voters (your constituents) made resoundingly clear that they want courage in standing up to Trump. Are you deaf?
@kaine.senate.gov:
Virginia's voters (your constituents) made resoundingly clear that they want courage in standing up to Trump. Are you deaf?
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Either @schumer.senate.gov / @chuckschumer.com was complicit or unable to stop Senate Dem #SurrenderCaucus -- either way, he must go.
@kaine.senate.gov:
Virginia's voters (your constituents) made resoundingly clear that they want courage in standing up to Trump. Are you deaf?
@kaine.senate.gov:
Virginia's voters (your constituents) made resoundingly clear that they want courage in standing up to Trump. Are you deaf?
Finding an elephant is hard.
Bully Trump is too cowardly (or just smart enough) to not take up Squad member challenges re intelligence testing.
Bully Trump is too cowardly (or just smart enough) to not take up Squad member challenges re intelligence testing.
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Finding an elephant is hard.
Bully Trump is too cowardly (or just smart enough) to not take up Squad member challenges re intelligence testing.
Bully Trump is too cowardly (or just smart enough) to not take up Squad member challenges re intelligence testing.
As discussed Nov 5, 2008: getenergysmartnow.com/2008/11/04/h...
For the painful "insider" why it didn't happen: bsky.app/profile/spac...
For the painful "insider" why it didn't happen: bsky.app/profile/spac...
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
As discussed Nov 5, 2008: getenergysmartnow.com/2008/11/04/h...
For the painful "insider" why it didn't happen: bsky.app/profile/spac...
For the painful "insider" why it didn't happen: bsky.app/profile/spac...
PS: My thoughts with Senator Obama's election to be the next President back in November 2008:
www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1...
www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1...
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
PS: My thoughts with Senator Obama's election to be the next President back in November 2008:
www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1...
www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1...
Thank you, sincerely, for this -- never saw the painful inside story.
What I wrote back in November 2008 (as an outsider ...): www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1...
What I wrote back in November 2008 (as an outsider ...): www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1...
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Thank you, sincerely, for this -- never saw the painful inside story.
What I wrote back in November 2008 (as an outsider ...): www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1...
What I wrote back in November 2008 (as an outsider ...): www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1...
Perhaps the Catholic Church needs to include education on "how to apologize sincerely" in its seminaries.
Using "all who were hurt" moves this away from apology to excusing.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
@michelleamyers.bsky.social @inquirer.com #Halloween #Aushwitz
Using "all who were hurt" moves this away from apology to excusing.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
@michelleamyers.bsky.social @inquirer.com #Halloween #Aushwitz
November 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Perhaps the Catholic Church needs to include education on "how to apologize sincerely" in its seminaries.
Using "all who were hurt" moves this away from apology to excusing.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
@michelleamyers.bsky.social @inquirer.com #Halloween #Aushwitz
Using "all who were hurt" moves this away from apology to excusing.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
@michelleamyers.bsky.social @inquirer.com #Halloween #Aushwitz
Trump explicitly admitted to selling pardons during the 60 Minutes interview and ... crickets.
During Trump 1.0, the issue was how many lies per day.
Trump 2.0? How many impeachable offences per day?
endlessurgency.com/p/trumps-cbs...
@mikenellis.bsky.social #ImpeachTrump
During Trump 1.0, the issue was how many lies per day.
Trump 2.0? How many impeachable offences per day?
endlessurgency.com/p/trumps-cbs...
@mikenellis.bsky.social #ImpeachTrump
November 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Trump explicitly admitted to selling pardons during the 60 Minutes interview and ... crickets.
During Trump 1.0, the issue was how many lies per day.
Trump 2.0? How many impeachable offences per day?
endlessurgency.com/p/trumps-cbs...
@mikenellis.bsky.social #ImpeachTrump
During Trump 1.0, the issue was how many lies per day.
Trump 2.0? How many impeachable offences per day?
endlessurgency.com/p/trumps-cbs...
@mikenellis.bsky.social #ImpeachTrump