Bob Landell
@BobLandell
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Grandfather; energy/green building consultant. The world has 3x the people than when I was born and 4.5x more GDP/person (constant dollars) = 14 fold “economy”
Joined September 2014
@bataille_chris Most people have encountered the info, don’t have a beef with future generations, and/or care about their kids… Is there enough time for the majority to see the economic benefits of climate action and the dangers of still-accelerating warming & imminent tipping points?
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China is building more coal plants, but they are more efficient (33%->45%+ eff), replace older plants, & operate flexibly to support variable wind & solar. In sum, they operate less time, leading to less local & global pollution with more power produced. @ColumbiaUEnergy
Most of China’s provinces are cutting coal use 🇨🇳🪨📉 In 26 of 31 provinces with available data, coal utilisation declined between 2023 and 2025 – with faster drops in provinces that rapidly scaled coal flexibility retrofits. https://t.co/IkS2Jemwjm
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“We’re not continuing on the same path we had before,” said Robert Rohde, chief scientist at Berkeley Earth. “Something has changed.”
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🆕Several Earth system components may be closer to destabilisation than previously thought. Crossing key temperature thresholds could trigger feedback loops, pushing the planet toward a “Hothouse Earth” trajectory. Study by @OregonState, @IIASAVienna, PIK. https://t.co/oAxgJrk5kp
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Bjorn Lomborg, wants you to know green transition costs $2 trillion per year while conveniently forgetting to mention fossil fuel subsidies are $7 trillion per year according to the IMF when you include health costs from air pollution, climate damages, and direct subsidies. He
Climate campaigners tell you green is cheap It isn't Global green transition cost is now $16+ trillion, rising with over $2 trillion/year (2% of global GDP) 113x our spending to avoid hunger Still, fossil CO₂ emissions set another record last year https://t.co/ypTLqfQ2Hq
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For context, China’s power sector emissions fell 40 Mt CO2e (0.9 🇨🇦) last year, India fell 37 Mt (0.8 🇨🇦), and the US went up 55 Mt (1.2 🇨🇦). 🇨🇦 is down 2/3 from its ~2005 power GHGs peak, but most of the gains were offset by oil sands growth.
In a reversal or recent trend, India & China cut power emissions for first time in 52 years, while US power sector emissions were up 3.3%, departing from a 2.4% average fall in decade through 2024.
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From Copernicus: This shows how the expected date for breaching 1.5C has been creeping ever closer in recent years. The orange date shows the baseline for the extrapolation; the red date shows when 1.5C is breached based on the trend...
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A few years back, @sapinker and @BjornLomborg where contrarian heroes of mine. Steven Pinker proved that despite all the doom and gloom in the media (where the adagio is "if it bleeds, it leads" and apocalypse sells) many if not most objective measures of well-being are still
Bjorn Lomborg, an early survivor of 21st century cancel culture, has long raised vital questions. Rather than disputing his logic or conclusions (which he would be the first to admit could be wrong), academics & activists tried to demonize & silence him, a trend that grew.
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Section (1.8) of the latest @iea WEO 2025 should be mandatory reading for the BC & federal ministries responsible for LNG. TLDR, if the CPS scenario pans out the global market will just barely absorb new prod, but with STEPS- there's oversupply for ~10 yrs, ergo lower spot prices
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There are 3,572 ridiculously underused Walmart supercenters parking lots, and some 500 million commercial parking spaces in the US alone. Covering these with solar would add more than 1.5 Terawatt of generation capacity, greater than the country's entire generation capacity from
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The reasons for 🇨🇦 to enact #NetZero policies are not that complicated… https://t.co/nstkFKvovS
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Giving credit where credit is due.
The ongoing shift in the Chinese building sector & input materials
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While we’ve been fooling around with hype cycle fads, China has gone and built out the thing that turns wind and solar into on demand “micro fusion reactors” - big, reliable batteries
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.@colinmckerrache: "This is still probably the wildest chart from our Electric Vehicle Outlook this year: By Q4, China's EV sales will overtake total US vehicle sales of all types (gasoline, hybrid, battery electric combined). Chart excludes low-speed models and 2/3-wheelers"
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China is simply not going to quit, and that's going to draw most of the world into their supply chain and eventually strategic sphere. By rejecting energy decarbonization, the US is simply pushing most of the world into China's sphere, and away from themselves. 4/n
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Even if we don’t consider its contribution to global warming, there is good reason to stop burning fossil fuels: “Air pollution from oil and gas causes more than 90,000 premature deaths and sickens hundreds of thousands of people across the US each year, a new study shows, with
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Darned Trudeau.
The energy transition is real: renewables now top fossil fuels for investment. 2025: $780B in renewables (projected) Past decade: +109% renewables +44% grids/storage +42% efficiency +131% electrification -34% oil -19% gas +13% coal
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To quote Marvin Gaye more than half century ago: “What’s goin’ on?” 🇨🇦 news stories on wildfires mentioning climate change: ONLY 13%. 🇨🇦 CC stories that touch on fossil fuels: ONLY 10% (1.3% of wildfire stories) Fossil fuels are 90% of carbon pollution
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Before you attack Canada’s industrial #carbontax - take a few seconds to understand how it works, and maybe think about the pain and expense that rises with more fires, floods, sea rise, etc.
Now, industrial carbon pricing is confusing -- way more than the consumer price. If you want to learn about how it actually works, here's a good explainer: https://t.co/ZTkzMiqfS2
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