NEW: The Biden administration is set to announce the winners of the first-round of funding for technology that fights climate change by sucking carbon from the air. Projects by Occidental and Climeworks are said to be front-runners. https://t.co/xklFpQaARj 🔓w/ @blkahn

@KellyHereid New postcard from the anthropocene (h/t @EricHolthaus)

Some personal news: I am over at The Other Place now too

Thread 🧵1) With monsoon season fast approaching, #Pakistan has already seen heavy rains and strong winds resulting in dozens of fatalities. This year, though, the rain is falling on a country still reeling. https://t.co/HMAu88YpTM w @FaseehMangi

📢Also, calling all Los Angeles-based climate tech founders, researchers, investors and policy people! I just made a cross-country move and am looking to get acquainted with the climate tech community here, so please DM me if you're LA-based and down for a coffee chat.

Excited to share the cover of my first book. It lays out a framework for scaling climate solutions through success stories from around the world. 🚨 If you pre-order, send the receipt and an address (akshat.rathi@proton.me), I'll mail a signed bookplate https://t.co/gFmt9xC3vv

Canada's wildfire season has already emitted millions of tons of carbon dioxide. Some of that has come from a forest offset project that burned earlier this month (it almost certainly won't be the last)

Forest carbon offsets are a risky bet, part 1390741238

FYI, this story contains ZERO on-record comment from NYC pizzeria owners who say climate rules would harm them or affect quality of pizza. The only source who says that is an anonymous "pizza restaurateur," who gave no reason for anonymity https://t.co/EtVv5WA29a

The Loan Programs Office from US govt 2010: $465 million to Tesla 2023: $9200 million to Ford That's 20x. https://t.co/kb3bvAyctn

Have you ever wondered what would happen if net zero were put to a popular vote? One, you are such a nerd. And two, we're about to find out this weekend

Direct air capture could become a trillion-dollar industry, but only if startups and their backers figure out how to grow up By @blkahn https://t.co/eiiiM0hOJK

Brian was extraordinarily polite about me accidentally texting him my itinerary updates and, much more importantly, had really interesting and deep questions about the future of carbon removal.

Ultimately, CDR could become a productive member of climate change-fighting society. Or, despite the best efforts of everyone around it, it could end up being a slacker getting high on its parents couch (but with much higher stakes)

We're entering the awkward teen years of removing carbon from the air. The technology itself doesn't necessarily need training wheels anymore. But it does need *a lot* of support and things to go right for it to mature to the scale needed...

Oh hey it's my first @climate byline. I spent last week hanging out with the world's biggest carbon removal stans. This is what I learned

Uhhhhhh... "A flight from Paris to New York powered solely by waste biofuels such as animal fats requires some 8,800 dead pigs"

There's *a lot* running on carbon removal success - a massive amount of removal has been 'pre-purchased' by a range of customers, and a relatively small amount has been actually captured. Data via the good people at @cdr_fyi https://t.co/Q0ZDysd5kP

Can't stop singing "baby nuke" like it's "baby shark," someone please help me

This is my final request that you read my many-months-long investigation into the far-right militias masquerading as emergency preparedness/relief orgs and why that doesn't bode well for a future plagued by super-charged natural disasters. #EMGTwitter