Roger Aines
@rogeraines.bsky.social
Carbon removal, photography, science communication. Check out the book Championing Science by Amy Aines and me. Most of my birds live in Livermore, California.
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Roger Aines
@rogeraines.bsky.social
· Dec 6
I'm writing a book about what we're learned about #climate solutions over the past 25 years. More on that later.
It occurred to me that you might be interested in hearing about some of the books I've read that are important or fun, but not listed as climate books. A holiday 🧵 once a day.
It occurred to me that you might be interested in hearing about some of the books I've read that are important or fun, but not listed as climate books. A holiday 🧵 once a day.
Sound advice from David.
And as heretical as it may seem, don't start your talk by thanking anyone. For one minute you have the complete attention of the audience - use it to tell them why you are talking to them. Buy the next five minutes of attention.
Both of these show respect to the audience.
And as heretical as it may seem, don't start your talk by thanking anyone. For one minute you have the complete attention of the audience - use it to tell them why you are talking to them. Buy the next five minutes of attention.
Both of these show respect to the audience.
PSA: Do not end your presentations this way. Leave your conclusion slide up instead of wiping their memories with this platitide.
February 11, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Sound advice from David.
And as heretical as it may seem, don't start your talk by thanking anyone. For one minute you have the complete attention of the audience - use it to tell them why you are talking to them. Buy the next five minutes of attention.
Both of these show respect to the audience.
And as heretical as it may seem, don't start your talk by thanking anyone. For one minute you have the complete attention of the audience - use it to tell them why you are talking to them. Buy the next five minutes of attention.
Both of these show respect to the audience.
Bravo Robert. CDR investors and hypesters have pushed rapid growth, but as you say, “the story is not rapid scale, but proving, learning and earning trust”. Many companies have a toe in the water. They need to know CDR works and is acceptable.
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The Carbon removal sector needs a new story
From speed and scale to prove and learn
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February 4, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Bravo Robert. CDR investors and hypesters have pushed rapid growth, but as you say, “the story is not rapid scale, but proving, learning and earning trust”. Many companies have a toe in the water. They need to know CDR works and is acceptable.
open.substack.com/pub/marginal...
open.substack.com/pub/marginal...
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The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...
February 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM
The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...
Always excited to see a wood duck. They are so shy I would never see them except for the long lens.
February 3, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Always excited to see a wood duck. They are so shy I would never see them except for the long lens.
I was birding in my local park when a river otter poked up through the duckweed. I didn't see the fish until I got home and zoomed in! The long view is the pool where I saw the otter, in the distance.
February 3, 2026 at 5:49 PM
I was birding in my local park when a river otter poked up through the duckweed. I didn't see the fish until I got home and zoomed in! The long view is the pool where I saw the otter, in the distance.
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A 60% jump in EU LNG imports from the U.S. in 2025 managed to drive up greenhouse gas emissions on both sides of the Atlantic - in the EU from the burning of the gas, and in the U.S. by prompting a shift to coal-fired generation as prices rose.
January 31, 2026 at 5:31 AM
A 60% jump in EU LNG imports from the U.S. in 2025 managed to drive up greenhouse gas emissions on both sides of the Atlantic - in the EU from the burning of the gas, and in the U.S. by prompting a shift to coal-fired generation as prices rose.
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Two decades ago, the European Union got basically none of its power from wind and solar. Now, those are its leading sources of electricity.
Chart: In the EU, wind and solar surpass fossil fuels for first time
The watershed moment comes as the region looks to prioritize clean, domestic energy sources over dirty coal or imported natural gas.
www.canarymedia.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Two decades ago, the European Union got basically none of its power from wind and solar. Now, those are its leading sources of electricity.
Brilliant option. Seems like an easy win.
🔥 Heat pumps keep winning.
See why heat pumps can actually be cheaper to run than gas furnaces in winter. Lower operating costs, improving cold-weather performance, and smarter electricity pricing are shifting the math fast.
@nytimes.com
#ClimateSky #EnergySky
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...
See why heat pumps can actually be cheaper to run than gas furnaces in winter. Lower operating costs, improving cold-weather performance, and smarter electricity pricing are shifting the math fast.
@nytimes.com
#ClimateSky #EnergySky
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...
Why Some Cold States Are Making It Cheaper to Run a Heat Pump
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Brilliant option. Seems like an easy win.
Occasionally flock of robins or cedar wax wings (or both) descend on my toyon bushes and spend a few days eating all the berries. It is one of my favorite events of the year! Today it is all cedar wax wings – about 20 of them. #birds
January 28, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Occasionally flock of robins or cedar wax wings (or both) descend on my toyon bushes and spend a few days eating all the berries. It is one of my favorite events of the year! Today it is all cedar wax wings – about 20 of them. #birds
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@ieefa-northamerica.bsky.social just launched a North American LNG Export Tracker: ieefa.org/north-americ... 🔌💡
North American LNG Export Tracker
IEEFA’s North American LNG Export Tracker is an interactive data set to visualize North America's LNG infrastructure, demand and capacity outlook, and import and export flows. (Updated: January 2026)
ieefa.org
January 27, 2026 at 7:02 PM
@ieefa-northamerica.bsky.social just launched a North American LNG Export Tracker: ieefa.org/north-americ... 🔌💡
Robert focuses on local control of things corporations can directly change, and separates them from GHG emissions that are outside direct control. I find this more informative and useful than the scope 1,2,3 discussion which muddles the discussion in many cases.
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Net zero targets are conditional
Introducing a new lens on corporate net zero
open.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Robert focuses on local control of things corporations can directly change, and separates them from GHG emissions that are outside direct control. I find this more informative and useful than the scope 1,2,3 discussion which muddles the discussion in many cases.
open.substack.com/pub/marginal...
open.substack.com/pub/marginal...
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Where would we be today if all of the money that went into carbon offsets, and all of the effort that went into shaming people for their personal carbon emissions, went instead to supporting politicians and policies that would effect systemic change (e.g., energy policy, emissions disincentives)?
January 19, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Where would we be today if all of the money that went into carbon offsets, and all of the effort that went into shaming people for their personal carbon emissions, went instead to supporting politicians and policies that would effect systemic change (e.g., energy policy, emissions disincentives)?
200 charts in @nathanielbullard.com 's annual energy assessment, but this is the one that surprised me. We spent 25% of our money on firewood in the 1800s? That's stunning.
www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
January 15, 2026 at 6:59 PM
200 charts in @nathanielbullard.com 's annual energy assessment, but this is the one that surprised me. We spent 25% of our money on firewood in the 1800s? That's stunning.
www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
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We took a look at the UK's biggest ever offshore wind auction, and dug into what it will mean for energy bills and the "clean power 2030" plan ⬇️
NEW – Q&A: What UK’s record auction for offshore wind means for bills and clean power by 2030 | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/uEBxzdK
Read here: buff.ly/uEBxzdK
January 15, 2026 at 3:12 PM
We took a look at the UK's biggest ever offshore wind auction, and dug into what it will mean for energy bills and the "clean power 2030" plan ⬇️
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Oil markets suffer from the same blind spot electricity markets once did: they rarely treat efficiency as a competing resource.
China is now taking their domestic success on peak oil demand to 50+ Emerging Markets.
China is now taking their domestic success on peak oil demand to 50+ Emerging Markets.
How China Is Taking its Fight Against Oil Demand on the Road
Most discussions of global oil markets fixate on supply: where the next barrel comes from, how much it costs to extract, and which producer sets the marginal price. That lens is in full force with the...
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January 6, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Oil markets suffer from the same blind spot electricity markets once did: they rarely treat efficiency as a competing resource.
China is now taking their domestic success on peak oil demand to 50+ Emerging Markets.
China is now taking their domestic success on peak oil demand to 50+ Emerging Markets.
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Coal generation falls in both China and India in 2025!
Coal down 3% in India.
Coal down 1.6% in China.
"The simultaneous fall in coal-powered electricity in the world’s biggest coal-consuming countries had not happened since 1973."
Wonderful!
www.theguardian.com/business/202... #energysky
Coal down 3% in India.
Coal down 1.6% in China.
"The simultaneous fall in coal-powered electricity in the world’s biggest coal-consuming countries had not happened since 1973."
Wonderful!
www.theguardian.com/business/202... #energysky
Coal power generation falls in China and India for first time since 1970s
‘Historic’ moment in biggest coal-consuming countries could bring decline in global emissions, analysis says
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Coal generation falls in both China and India in 2025!
Coal down 3% in India.
Coal down 1.6% in China.
"The simultaneous fall in coal-powered electricity in the world’s biggest coal-consuming countries had not happened since 1973."
Wonderful!
www.theguardian.com/business/202... #energysky
Coal down 3% in India.
Coal down 1.6% in China.
"The simultaneous fall in coal-powered electricity in the world’s biggest coal-consuming countries had not happened since 1973."
Wonderful!
www.theguardian.com/business/202... #energysky
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Clean energy supporters hope for high oil prices due to reduced supply, but the opposite is happening. Despite global tensions that should increase price, it is falling. I read this as the market pricing in future demand reduction due to electric vehicles esp. in Asia. OECD peaked already in 2006.
January 7, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Clean energy supporters hope for high oil prices due to reduced supply, but the opposite is happening. Despite global tensions that should increase price, it is falling. I read this as the market pricing in future demand reduction due to electric vehicles esp. in Asia. OECD peaked already in 2006.
I’ve been thinking about learnings from 25 years of climate work.
Highly relevant right now: we need electricity to be cheap to harvest the climate benefits of renewables. Cheap power, and lots of it, solves a lot of problems.
Highly relevant right now: we need electricity to be cheap to harvest the climate benefits of renewables. Cheap power, and lots of it, solves a lot of problems.
January 1, 2026 at 11:57 AM
I’ve been thinking about learnings from 25 years of climate work.
Highly relevant right now: we need electricity to be cheap to harvest the climate benefits of renewables. Cheap power, and lots of it, solves a lot of problems.
Highly relevant right now: we need electricity to be cheap to harvest the climate benefits of renewables. Cheap power, and lots of it, solves a lot of problems.
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I was talking to a colleague on Friday and he said, oh, I didn’t know you wrote a book?? and clearly I have not been obnoxious enough anout this. So: I wrote a book. Some people thought it was good. You should read it
www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
From Climate Catastrophes to Space Romance––Scientific American’s Favorite Science Books of the Year
Scientific American unveils its first-ever best fiction and nonfiction books of the year, spotlighting stories that blend science, imagination and unforgettable voices.
www.scientificamerican.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I was talking to a colleague on Friday and he said, oh, I didn’t know you wrote a book?? and clearly I have not been obnoxious enough anout this. So: I wrote a book. Some people thought it was good. You should read it
www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
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"The US is in a particularly difficult situation because a lot of the misinformation is coming from official authorities,” said Sander van der Linden, a University of Cambridge psychologist who studies misinformation.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/17/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/17/m...
‘A dangerous road’: Misinformation is spreading about the Brown University shooter - The Boston Globe
In the absence of a clear narrative, misinformation about the shooter and any possible motives has run rampant.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"The US is in a particularly difficult situation because a lot of the misinformation is coming from official authorities,” said Sander van der Linden, a University of Cambridge psychologist who studies misinformation.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/17/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/17/m...
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The Westlands Water District just adopted the Valley Clean Infrastructure Plan which "repurposes up to 136,000 acres of drainage-impaired and water supply-limited lands for solar generation" and "could generate up to 21 GW of renewable energy." wwd.ca.gov/wwd-media/pr... h/t @cvonka.bsky.social 🔌💡
Press Release (12-16-2025) - Westlands Water District
For Immediate ReleaseContact: Elizabeth Jonasson(559) 241-6233 Westlands Water District Board Votes to Adopt Valley Clean Infrastructure Plan District advances major land-repurposing initiative as wat...
wwd.ca.gov
December 17, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The Westlands Water District just adopted the Valley Clean Infrastructure Plan which "repurposes up to 136,000 acres of drainage-impaired and water supply-limited lands for solar generation" and "could generate up to 21 GW of renewable energy." wwd.ca.gov/wwd-media/pr... h/t @cvonka.bsky.social 🔌💡
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Listen to this week's Shift Key podcast on Eavor's first-of-a-kind geothermal project, which went online in Bavaria this month, @heatmap_news heatmap.news/podcast/shif... or wherever you get your podcasts. 🔌💡
Say ‘Guten Tag!’ to This New Kind of Geothermal Tech
Rob and Jesse catch up with Mark Fitzgerald, CEO of the closed-loop geothermal startup Eavor.
heatmap.news
December 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Listen to this week's Shift Key podcast on Eavor's first-of-a-kind geothermal project, which went online in Bavaria this month, @heatmap_news heatmap.news/podcast/shif... or wherever you get your podcasts. 🔌💡
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One of the many things you can do is donate to climate champions running at every level of government.
State legislature, county council, weird statewide offices you've never heard of: they all matter and your contribution can make a big difference.
secure.actblue.com/donate/clima...
State legislature, county council, weird statewide offices you've never heard of: they all matter and your contribution can make a big difference.
secure.actblue.com/donate/clima...
December 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
One of the many things you can do is donate to climate champions running at every level of government.
State legislature, county council, weird statewide offices you've never heard of: they all matter and your contribution can make a big difference.
secure.actblue.com/donate/clima...
State legislature, county council, weird statewide offices you've never heard of: they all matter and your contribution can make a big difference.
secure.actblue.com/donate/clima...
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If you genuinely believe the future is worth fighting for, then we need 1) visions of what a better future looks like and 2) a movement that facilitates climate action at all scales. Both of those require knowing what works (and talking about it!). This is not a bad thing in movement building!
December 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
If you genuinely believe the future is worth fighting for, then we need 1) visions of what a better future looks like and 2) a movement that facilitates climate action at all scales. Both of those require knowing what works (and talking about it!). This is not a bad thing in movement building!