Earth is heading for a second year above 1.5C. newscientist.com/article/248020…

Argentina's agricultural heartland sees heavy flooding that could cause losses for corn, soy harvest Argentina is world's top exporter of soybean meal and oil and the no. 3 exporter of corn "The amount of water that fell was absolutely ludicrous" reuters.com/business/envir…

China is on track to become the world’s first major “electrostate,” with its electrification rate reaching 30%. This puts China ahead of both the EU and the US, where the proportion of electricity in total energy use has remained steady at about 22% in recent years.

Croatia reaches 1 GW solar milestone pv-magazine.com/2025/05/19/cro… - good news from #Croatia. Neven Duїc 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇲🇩

FUSION☀️ overtakes FISSION☢️

#OurFragileMoment: How Lesson’s From Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive The Climate Crisis | My recent lecture at University of Exeter Global Systems Institute, with references to Gordon Sumner, The Police, Carl Sagan & more: youtube.com/watch?v=W3epdf… #GSIExeter

Here another study confirming our <1.5°C Planetary Boundary. Already at current 1.2°C of global mean temperature rise, we are in danger for multi-meter sea level rise over the coming centuries with major Earth system impacts theguardian.com/environment/20…

And there is another 34 GW of batteries and 35 GW of solar PV in the queue to be grid-connected.

UK should adopt Passivhaus standard, established in Germany for over 25 years - super-insulated and airtight, mechanical ventilation, heat reclaim systems. theguardian.com/society/2025/m…

Nuclear has highest investment risk; solar shows lowest, say US researchers pv-magazine.com/2025/05/21/nuc… - pls follow on BSky @christianonre.bsky.social

🚨 NEW MILESTONE | Wind and solar generated over a QUARTER of #China’s electricity in April 2025 – the highest monthly share on record 🇨🇳 In the last 5 years, ☀️ Solar output QUADRUPLED from 23 TWh to 96 TWh ☀️ and solar share TRIPLED from 4.1% to 12.4% ember-energy.org/latest-updates…

NEW RESEARCH: Dynamic pricing at public chargers works—drivers shift charging to off-peak times. Great to see data Centre for Net Zero (Octopus Energy Group) Octopus Energy backing what we at RAP long supported. centrefornetzero.org/papers/the-imp…

Goodbye inland nuclear. Nuclear needs large quantities of water for reactor and spent fuel cooling and discharge. 'Water has emerged as the single biggest nature-related risk to euro area economy.' bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Engie breaks ground on 199 MW/995 MWh solar-plus-storage Chilean project pv-magazine.com/2025/05/22/eng… - great news from Chile with energy-to-power ratio of 5, real energy storage - close to projected system modelling results sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

If you believe parts of the media electric vehicle sales stalled. The data tells a very different story: Global electric car sales are accelerating at an unprecedented pace. Over past 3 years sales nearly tripled—reaching 17.3m new registrations in 2024 up from 6.5m in 2021.

FT on UK govt spending review negotiations: "wrangling also particularly tense with…energy & envt departments" "Miliband…in negotiations…[over] promises of £6.6bn for Warm Homes scheme and £8.3bn for GB Energy in this parliament"

The village of Blatten in Switzerland is partly buried by the collapse of a glacier which melted because our greenhouse gas emissions warmed the climate. Another reminder that not investing enough today to reduce emissions means far greater costs for society in the long term.

Despite new U.S. EPA claims, CO2 & black carbon both damage health+climate Mark Z Jacobson Responds To EPA War On Science "He was involved in processes that led to 2009 Endangerment Finding & EPA's waiver allowing CA to set own CO2 limits" cleantechnica.com/2025/05/29/mar… CleanTechnica

Supercharging pumped-hydro stations with floating PV pv-magazine.com/2025/05/29/sup… - pls follow on BSky @christianonre.bsky.social

Podcast on Global Electricity Transition Paths for Climate Targets (comparing scenarios of the World Energy Outlook vs #100RE) youtu.be/G__XveafA3A for this paper from 2023 doi.org/10.1016/j.apen… Peter Strachan