Chris Bataille
@chrisbataille.bsky.social
Mountains, paddleboards & bikes. Tech & policy towards a net-zero GHG economy, focus on industry. @[email protected] @ColumbiaUEnergy @bataille_chris
http://IDDRI.org, http://netzerosteel.org http://netzeroindustry.org IPCC AR7 CLA WGIII
http://IDDRI.org, http://netzerosteel.org http://netzeroindustry.org IPCC AR7 CLA WGIII
So, what I take from this COP is most of the Global South, China and few northern allies are going to keep dragging progress forward, while the #petrostates drag their feet until their economies are literally hauled right out from underneath them by #electrotech www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
So, what I take from this COP is most of the Global South, China and few northern allies are going to keep dragging progress forward, while the #petrostates drag their feet until their economies are literally hauled right out from underneath them by #electrotech www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nice quote from @frankjotzo.bsky.social , illustrating the air quality transition China has undergone along with its push to clean energy reneweconomy.com.au/renewables-g...
November 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Nice quote from @frankjotzo.bsky.social , illustrating the air quality transition China has undergone along with its push to clean energy reneweconomy.com.au/renewables-g...
I apologize, but in this line of work you need to take advantage of every line of amusement, & John's insightful WEO solar diagram ... has a hat on it. Also, I like to compare it to Shell's 2018 SKY scenario for primary energy, where the inflection point on solar doesn't happen until the 2050s. ?
November 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I apologize, but in this line of work you need to take advantage of every line of amusement, & John's insightful WEO solar diagram ... has a hat on it. Also, I like to compare it to Shell's 2018 SKY scenario for primary energy, where the inflection point on solar doesn't happen until the 2050s. ?
Apropos of nothing, Stalin purged the Red Army officer ranks through the general staff just before Nazi Germany invaded, and it almost cost the world … civilization.
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Apropos of nothing, Stalin purged the Red Army officer ranks through the general staff just before Nazi Germany invaded, and it almost cost the world … civilization.
You've entered a new level of geekiness when you want to live watch a Canadian budget.
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
You've entered a new level of geekiness when you want to live watch a Canadian budget.
So, I’m Canadian and not intimately familiar with US governance, but don’t the Republicans majority control the House & Senate?
November 3, 2025 at 6:28 AM
So, I’m Canadian and not intimately familiar with US governance, but don’t the Republicans majority control the House & Senate?
WHEN DO WE GET TO THE TOP OF THE 4TH???
November 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
WHEN DO WE GET TO THE TOP OF THE 4TH???
I don’t watch sports but played hard-ball baseball intensively for years, but this stunning in this moment 🇨🇦😄
October 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I don’t watch sports but played hard-ball baseball intensively for years, but this stunning in this moment 🇨🇦😄
Great NYT article China’s fast growing nucelar industry www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Great NYT article China’s fast growing nucelar industry www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Looky what just arrived in the mail 😀
October 17, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Looky what just arrived in the mail 😀
A more recent short paper with a colleague targeted at our field www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A more recent short paper with a colleague targeted at our field www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How did we arrive here? www.euronews.com/business/202...
October 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
How did we arrive here? www.euronews.com/business/202...
A fast ChatGPT review of the estimated deaths from the USAID cuts. These are WWI, WWII scale casualty levels if the programs are not replaced.
October 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
A fast ChatGPT review of the estimated deaths from the USAID cuts. These are WWI, WWII scale casualty levels if the programs are not replaced.
So is Canada a #petrostate, doomed to be a long run rustbelt, or an #electrostate rising into the future? Maybe it's a choice between two states of mind, vision, planning & governance. Can we go our own "Norway"? See our essay, p73 of the global DDP report. ddpinitiative.org/wp-content/u...
October 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
So is Canada a #petrostate, doomed to be a long run rustbelt, or an #electrostate rising into the future? Maybe it's a choice between two states of mind, vision, planning & governance. Can we go our own "Norway"? See our essay, p73 of the global DDP report. ddpinitiative.org/wp-content/u...
WTH? It’s October …
October 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
WTH? It’s October …
Late fall micro rose
October 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Late fall micro rose
Are you old, obsessed with politics, or both if you get this reference? Points if you know what “THIS” refers to. 🙃
October 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Are you old, obsessed with politics, or both if you get this reference? Points if you know what “THIS” refers to. 🙃
I'd wager anyone in that room is more qualified to be Secretary of Defence, and better understands the threat multiplier implications of climate change. Security think tanks have been thinking about it since the 1970s, & the Pentagon formally since the 1990s.
September 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I'd wager anyone in that room is more qualified to be Secretary of Defence, and better understands the threat multiplier implications of climate change. Security think tanks have been thinking about it since the 1970s, & the Pentagon formally since the 1990s.
One of the things we may have to start doing is stop referring to labour as blue and white collar. Everybody works with technology now, which determines productivity and wages. Outmoded class distinctions don’t help fortune.com/2025/09/29/f...
September 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
One of the things we may have to start doing is stop referring to labour as blue and white collar. Everybody works with technology now, which determines productivity and wages. Outmoded class distinctions don’t help fortune.com/2025/09/29/f...