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Senior scientist at Oslo-based CICERO Center for International Climate Research • 🌍Global Carbon Project • https://robbieandrew.github.io/

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · May 8

On Tuesday I gave a ten-minute update on where global fossil CO₂ emissions are at.

CICEROdagen 2025 - En hel dag med klimakunnskap - Auditorium 0001

YouTube video by CICERO klima

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile:

No ship? New York offshore wind project faces yet another hurdle

Equinor’s embattled Empire Wind project was banking on a new ship to install turbines. The vessel is almost 99% complete, but now the shipbuilders are…

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 1d

Just what we needed.

Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 2d

NOAA data show Mauna Loa was about to be deluged, but perhaps the US government shutdown has saved it just in time?
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Graph showing: Weekly atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa, in the style of Hokusai.

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 2d

Quite the turnaround.

Graph with from https://www.globalccsinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Global-Status-of-CCS-2025-report-9-October.pdf title "Global capture capacity pipeline trending higher since 2017"

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 2d

The report is available for download here: www.globalccsinstitute.com/global-statu...

Global Status of CCS

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 2d

Update of the Global CCS Institute's report due out today, webinar starts in under an hour.

Global Status Report

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Norsk klimastiftelse @klimastiftelsen.no · 2d

Stans i elektrifisering av sokkelen betyr lite for kraftbalansen🔌Å nærme seg vedtatte mål for solkraftproduksjon og strømsparing er mye viktigere for kraftbalansen i Norge.

Det er en av mange poenger vår ferske tilnull kvartalsrapport. Les mer her: www.klimastiftelsen.no/aktuelt/ny-r...

tilnull kvartalsrapport 3 | 2025

En vellykket klimaomstilling handler om mye mer enn å kutte utslipp. En helt sentral komponent i omstillingen er det grønne energiskiftet. Derfor gjør vi et dypdykk i Norges energiskifte i denne kvart...

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 3d

Wise words...
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Screenshot of text: without federal support, the US is likely to continue lagging behind global EV leaders like China.

As Andrew put it: “From a climate perspective, with road transport responsible for almost a quarter of US total emissions, leaving the low-hanging fruit on the tree is a significant setback.”

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 3d

Well then you'd be unlikely to find gasoline that would be cheaper than that!

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 3d

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How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

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How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 3d

US: How much it costs to drive an EV depends on where you charge (home or fast charger), electricity prices, and gas prices, and these last two vary a LOT by state. You can look up your own state here.

How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 3d

The credit is that emissions didn't go up. They still need to come down!

Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 3d

With leap-year adjustment, that's 0.1%. So yes, flat.

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 3d

No, IEA is not leap-year adjusted (just checked). And it's +0.4% for energy plus industrial processes (i.e. an estimate of total).

Screenshot of a table from https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2025

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 3d

Certainly. It's marked CC Attribution (bottom-left).

Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 3d

Those 26 countries cover 85% of global cement emissions, but data lags vary widely.

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 3d

Probably somewhere -1% to +1%. China is down, but enough other countries are up (Egypt up >30% YTD!) that there's a lot of compensation. I have some 2025 data for 26 countries, and if I just use those directly, I get -0.7%. But China's annual is often closer to zero than monthly data suggest.

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 3d

Makes little difference for China, but CM includes international transport in each country's emissions totals here.

Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 3d

That is indeed what some of us tend to say.

Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 3d

And look at that. The development of MOFs wins the Nobel Prize for three scientists today.

Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 3d

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 recognizes the development of metal-organic frameworks, porous materials with applications in gas storage, water harvesting, and environmental remediation.

Three scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for the development of metal-organic frameworks

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi share the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work in the development of metal–organic frameworks.

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 3d

OK, so you're really arguing against things other than what I said!
Yes, the capacity growth thing doesn't seem to want to die. I share your pain.

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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 3d

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 recognizes the development of metal-organic frameworks, porous materials with applications in gas storage, water harvesting, and environmental remediation.

Three scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for the development of metal-organic frameworks

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi share the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work in the development of metal–organic frameworks.

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 3d

If one wind turbine goes offline, that's quite a different effect to one coal-fired power station going offline.
But my point was very minor, so I'm not sure why so much pushback here!

Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, obviously this is old tech and shouldn't be difficult. The point here is that even when people argue that it's the most reliable generation source, you can get these problems.

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Knut Einar Rosendahl @rosendahlke.bsky.social · 3d

Forrige torsdag hadde Asbjørn Torvanger og @oysteinsjolie.bsky.social en kronikk i Aftenposten. @angelsen.bsky.social, Ståle Navrud og jeg sendte et svarinnlegg til Aftenposten, men avisen fant ikke plass til det. Så da har vi postet det på LinkedIn i stedet ⬇️
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Klimakostnader: Seriøse spørsmål krever seriøse svar Forrige torsdag hadde Asbjorn Torvanger og Øystein Sjølie en kronikk i Aftenposten kalt «Klimaendringer er et alvorlig problem som krever seriøs… |...

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 4d

Even the newest coal plant in the US has been taken offline for two years to fix problems. That's 932 GW taken off the grid all at once, for two years.

Newest big U.S. coal-plant offline until 2027

The newest major coal-fired power plant in the U.S. is expected to be offline until March 2027 after a major failure in April.

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 4d

"lenke i kommentarfeltet"???

Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 4d

Coal is a fuel of the past.
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Opinion | Trump’s Coal Plan Is Doomed

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 4d

Today I have updated the global cement CO₂ emissions dataset. This is the second release this year, adding a lot of data updates since the February release, and including new data sources.

Global CO2 emissions from cement production

GCP-CEM: The Global Carbon Project CEMent-process emissions dataset This is an update of the dataset documented in: Andrew, R.M., 2019. Global CO2 emissions from cement production, 1928–2018. Earth Sy...

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