Paddy McCully
@paddymccully.bsky.social
Analyste @ReclaimFinance. Views own. Ex dam fighter & solar builder. Climate hawk. Underwater archaeologist, very briefly. Irish Ulster-Scots franco-hispanophone Ardsman in California #IRFU
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Republicans made climate partisan. Republicans are keeping climate partisan. The exact words & tone that people who give a shit about reality use to talk about climate are not the reason climate is partisan. Using different words will not make climate less partisan.
time.com
September 25, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Republicans made climate partisan. Republicans are keeping climate partisan. The exact words & tone that people who give a shit about reality use to talk about climate are not the reason climate is partisan. Using different words will not make climate less partisan.
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Just a reminder that you can go millions of miles between oil changes when you drive an EV
www.wsj.com/business/ret...
www.wsj.com/business/ret...
Iran War Is Driving Up the Cost of Your Next Oil Change
Higher gas prices were just the warm-up act for drivers, repair shops and retailers like Walmart and Costco.
www.wsj.com
September 25, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Just a reminder that you can go millions of miles between oil changes when you drive an EV
www.wsj.com/business/ret...
www.wsj.com/business/ret...
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HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return.
Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.
Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.
September 24, 2026 at 9:31 PM
HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return.
Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.
Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.
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The Atacama Desert in Chile was in full bloom following a spell of unusually wet weather. See photos from the AFP photojournalist Javier Torres:
Photos: Wildflowers Bloom in the Atacama Desert
Javier Torres, a photojournalist with AFP, recently visited the Atacama Desert in Chile, capturing images of a desert in bloom after a spell of unusually wet weather.
bit.ly
September 21, 2026 at 7:15 PM
The Atacama Desert in Chile was in full bloom following a spell of unusually wet weather. See photos from the AFP photojournalist Javier Torres:
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This might have seemed menacing at the start when he was planning his new Reich, but now everyone can see he’s a loser on every front it just comes across as pathetic, a weak, little man desperate to appear tough.
September 20, 2026 at 10:40 PM
This might have seemed menacing at the start when he was planning his new Reich, but now everyone can see he’s a loser on every front it just comes across as pathetic, a weak, little man desperate to appear tough.
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"Out of spite for President Donald Trump, Carney is accelerating the decoupling of a trade bloc that has generated enormous prosperity for North America." Seriously, Wapo editorial - you're going with Canadian spite? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Canada’s great European misadventure
Donald Trump is for now. A Brussels bureaucrat is forever.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 17, 2026 at 1:29 PM
"Out of spite for President Donald Trump, Carney is accelerating the decoupling of a trade bloc that has generated enormous prosperity for North America." Seriously, Wapo editorial - you're going with Canadian spite? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
Trump: "If we lose $50 billion a year with a country, and we say 'we're not going to trade with you anymore,' we don't lose $50 billion a year. It's very simple. Right?"
September 17, 2026 at 1:17 AM
The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
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Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer.
"No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
"No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
September 15, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer.
"No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
"No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
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India is installing half a million rooftop solar sets *per month*. That's phenomenal. www.ft.com/content/8b70...
‘Offensively cheap’: solar power is looking up
Chinese-made panels on rooftops across the world are changing the facts of life for big utilities
www.ft.com
September 14, 2026 at 6:34 PM
India is installing half a million rooftop solar sets *per month*. That's phenomenal. www.ft.com/content/8b70...
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Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today:
"it is unimaginable that any month in the last few thousand years, maybe 100,000 years, has more [Precipitable water] in the atmosphere than August 2026."
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-atmosp...
"it is unimaginable that any month in the last few thousand years, maybe 100,000 years, has more [Precipitable water] in the atmosphere than August 2026."
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-atmosp...
The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Record
More water vapor means more rocket fuel for extreme rain — so this record is not good news
www.theclimatebrink.com
September 14, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today:
"it is unimaginable that any month in the last few thousand years, maybe 100,000 years, has more [Precipitable water] in the atmosphere than August 2026."
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-atmosp...
"it is unimaginable that any month in the last few thousand years, maybe 100,000 years, has more [Precipitable water] in the atmosphere than August 2026."
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-atmosp...
But Hunter Biden’s laptop something something
September 14, 2026 at 6:53 PM
But Hunter Biden’s laptop something something
Wild stats from China’s car market in Aug: ICE sales down 40% y/o/y; plug-ins 65% of sales. Reason given is partly high fuel costs #ThanksTrump!
The Chinese are running away from gas cars!
Gas car sales plunge 40%!
Plug-in hybrid car (combine battery and gas engine) sales fall 29%
Only sales of fully electric autos grew in August.
The end of the internal combustion engine nears in China.
carnewschina.com/2026/09/08/g... #energysky
Gas car sales plunge 40%!
Plug-in hybrid car (combine battery and gas engine) sales fall 29%
Only sales of fully electric autos grew in August.
The end of the internal combustion engine nears in China.
carnewschina.com/2026/09/08/g... #energysky
Gas car sales fell 40% in August in China [Charts]
BEVs were only segment which avoided decline.
carnewschina.com
September 10, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Wild stats from China’s car market in Aug: ICE sales down 40% y/o/y; plug-ins 65% of sales. Reason given is partly high fuel costs #ThanksTrump!
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"Natural gas is fading from California’s electricity mix more quickly than seemed possible just a few years ago."
"a 26 percent drop in the first half of this year compared to the first half of 2025"
"a 26 percent drop in the first half of this year compared to the first half of 2025"
How California Is Kicking Its Natural Gas Habit - Inside Climate News
Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity.
insideclimatenews.org
September 10, 2026 at 2:59 PM
"Natural gas is fading from California’s electricity mix more quickly than seemed possible just a few years ago."
"a 26 percent drop in the first half of this year compared to the first half of 2025"
"a 26 percent drop in the first half of this year compared to the first half of 2025"
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Climeworks' Mammoth facility in Iceland removed 675 tonnes of CO₂ in the first half of 2026, almost 6x as much as in 2025. If they keep it up, that'll be 1350 tonnes a year*.
That's a time machine that takes us back 1 whole second in a year! 🙄
*Mammoth has a stated capacity of 36,000 tonnes. 🫠
That's a time machine that takes us back 1 whole second in a year! 🙄
*Mammoth has a stated capacity of 36,000 tonnes. 🫠
Carbon Removal Pioneer Climeworks Increases CO2 Capture Sixfold
The world’s largest direct air capture plant is sucking more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a lower cost, an improvement for a sector struggling to scale economically as global warming surpasse...
www.bloomberg.com
September 10, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Climeworks' Mammoth facility in Iceland removed 675 tonnes of CO₂ in the first half of 2026, almost 6x as much as in 2025. If they keep it up, that'll be 1350 tonnes a year*.
That's a time machine that takes us back 1 whole second in a year! 🙄
*Mammoth has a stated capacity of 36,000 tonnes. 🫠
That's a time machine that takes us back 1 whole second in a year! 🙄
*Mammoth has a stated capacity of 36,000 tonnes. 🫠
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Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal
www.nature.com
September 9, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Germany nearly halves fossil fuel use for electricity between 2018 and 2026
Output by oil, coal and gas plants 174.6bln kWh to 94.2 bln kWh, while renewable energy production grows by about one quarter during same period
www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany...
Output by oil, coal and gas plants 174.6bln kWh to 94.2 bln kWh, while renewable energy production grows by about one quarter during same period
www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany...
September 9, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Germany nearly halves fossil fuel use for electricity between 2018 and 2026
Output by oil, coal and gas plants 174.6bln kWh to 94.2 bln kWh, while renewable energy production grows by about one quarter during same period
www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany...
Output by oil, coal and gas plants 174.6bln kWh to 94.2 bln kWh, while renewable energy production grows by about one quarter during same period
www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany...
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An "L" has fallen off the podium at the Republican midterm convention
September 9, 2026 at 8:35 PM
An "L" has fallen off the podium at the Republican midterm convention
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“On Sunday night, Ulrich Siegmund, the AfD’s lead candidate, thanked Musk on X “for your support and for your clear and highly important perspective on the political developments of our time”, adding: “I would very much welcome the opportunity for strong and constructive cooperation”.”
Germany’s far-right AfD thanks Elon Musk as France warns state election win a ‘serious moment’
Lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes further ‘strong’ cooperation with Musk as French minister says ‘we cannot forget our history’
www.theguardian.com
September 7, 2026 at 4:27 AM
“On Sunday night, Ulrich Siegmund, the AfD’s lead candidate, thanked Musk on X “for your support and for your clear and highly important perspective on the political developments of our time”, adding: “I would very much welcome the opportunity for strong and constructive cooperation”.”
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Former USAID disaster-response chief @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social suggested that the Trump regime’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID, including the SERVIR program, impacted flood prediction and early warning systems in Nepal and made it way more deadly.
Unsettling question raised over Trump admin's role in devastating Nepal floods
The devastating flash floods in Nepal this week that killed at least 670 people and left around 3,000 missing — including 90 Americans — might have claimed fewer lives if not for the actions of the Tr...
www.rawstory.com
August 30, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Former USAID disaster-response chief @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social suggested that the Trump regime’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID, including the SERVIR program, impacted flood prediction and early warning systems in Nepal and made it way more deadly.
This is a lovely-terrible piece
"Two Men -- One as great as America ever produced, and the other Elon Musk" | Must-read stuff from my friend, the great @billmckibben.bsky.social: billmckibben.substack.com/p/two-men
Two Men
One as great as America ever produced, and the other Elon Musk
billmckibben.substack.com
September 1, 2026 at 8:15 PM
This is a lovely-terrible piece
I miss the Enlightenment
JD Vance on UFOs: “i don't have the file that says, "Oh, this wasn't a UFO. It was actually a demon."
“And my attitude is, if they are real, isn't it as likely they're angels or demons as they are extraterrestrials?”
“And my attitude is, if they are real, isn't it as likely they're angels or demons as they are extraterrestrials?”
September 1, 2026 at 7:24 PM
I miss the Enlightenment
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“Haitian immigrant in Ohio takes his own life after losing temporary protected status… felt humiliated by an ankle monitor ICE placed on him after Trump canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants…”
What have we become?
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
What have we become?
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
September 1, 2026 at 5:42 PM
“Haitian immigrant in Ohio takes his own life after losing temporary protected status… felt humiliated by an ankle monitor ICE placed on him after Trump canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants…”
What have we become?
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
What have we become?
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. this all looks like an example of the Trump Administration extending its creeping crony statism beyond U.S. shores.”
@wsj.com #venezuela 🇻🇪
www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
@wsj.com #venezuela 🇻🇪
www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
August 31, 2026 at 4:30 PM
WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. this all looks like an example of the Trump Administration extending its creeping crony statism beyond U.S. shores.”
@wsj.com #venezuela 🇻🇪
www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
@wsj.com #venezuela 🇻🇪
www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...