This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen.
You can hardly see “actual” for gas
Kate Mackenzie
London Climate Action Week #LCAW2026 starts tomorrow. On Monday, 22 June, #IPCC Chair Jim Skea will speak at the flagship Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change #IIGCC Summit event “The status of the global net zero transition”.
Snyder: “We make a mistake, I think, in how we think about evil and folly. We tend to think that one excludes the other: if it is evil, it must serve some intelligent purpose; if it is foolish, it must not be very malicious.”
Ten years on from the Paris Agreement, the accord's many technicalities have largely been sorted out.
The challenge now is how to achieve those targets, and countries are realizing that the answer won’t be found in UN negotiation rooms.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/un-s...
‘…due to climate change’ as the standard formulation in news reports about the heatwave is better than nothing.
The monotonous ‘due to climate change’ carries the risk, though, of presenting climate change as something that just so happens and that can’t be stopped.
We can stop global warming.
Renewables-plus-storage is so cheap that in large parts of the world it is cheaper to build a whole new clean power plant than just pay for the fuel and maintenance for a fully-depreciated gas generator.
Renewables aren’t just threatening new-build gas — they are undermining existing plants.
IPCC
Compressed Unstabilized Earth Blocks (CUEBs), particularly , represent an eco-friendly alternative to the cement stabilized Compressed Earth Blocks (CEBs) while providing improved performance over traditional materials, predominantly utilizing earth. 6mm long Sisal fibers are added to earth blocks:
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For investors, this El Niño might give us a glimpse of future climate change impacts that could regularly occur in the 2030s. Read our latest climate science insight: www.accr.org.au/insights/cli...
‘With its carefully orchestrated design and build process, North Gate Spirit walks a fine line between blending in and standing out,’ writes Pirasri Povatong of the Pocket music park in Chiang Mai, Thailand by Sher Maker, commended in the AR Public awards 2026.
Read the story in the June issue:
The Guardian
POLITICO Europe
Wolfgang Blau
Wolfgang Blau
El Niño tends to redistribute heat across the planet, which can lead to record-breaking temperatures, shifts in storm activity, and disruptions to food production.
