It takes 500 barrels of oil to fly to LA, and roughly 0 to take the train to Europe.
Changing your travel habits is about more than avoiding climate collapse; it's about the petro-states not holding you over a barrel.
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Given the current El Niño that is loading this seems extremely timely.
#ClimateLiteracy
*brakes
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Humans caused this by not slamming the breaks on the burning of fossil fuels!
Where is the urgency? Where are the emergency measures?
From the latest UNEP emissions gap report:
"To date, no NDCs have set targets to reduce oil and gas production or phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies"
European power prices are split since the US-Iran conflict. Gas-reliant markets like Italy and Ireland have seen high prices (€140/MWh) while renewable rich regions including Spain, Portugal and Sweden see far lower prices (€40/MWh).
These are average wholesale daily prices (8am to 8pm).
I wonder why Google doesn't dump overviews and just switch to Google AI Mode which doesn't seem to suffer from the same drama?
Want to keep up with speakers post #ATmosphere2026 published this feed via @surf.social
ATmosphere Voices
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Electric car registrations ahead of petrol models in Germany Cars Clean Energy Wire Electric cars have overtaken petrol models in monthly new car registrations in Germany, following the introduction of a new subsidy programme and the sharp increase in oil prices caused by the war in Iran. Registrations of pure electric cars rose 66 percent in March 2026 compared to a year ago to almost 71,000, the country’s motor vehicle authority KBA said.
How you know we are in truly unprecendented, unfathomable and historic times: Germans are buying more EVs than petrol cars
Truly uncharted waters here
www.cleanenergywire.org/news/electri...
Perfect. Thanks!
Norwegian new passenger cars sales by type: Monthly Battery electric 98% in February
Most of the world's car owners: Petrol & Diesel price shocks 😱
Norway: 🤷🏻
Data: robbieandrew.github....
BREAKING It will take months for jet fuel supplies and prices to normalise even if the Strait of Hormuz remains open, the director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) says
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
End of load-shedding & to an extent saturation.
Satellite view of a new shopping mall in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa showing the roof area covered in solar panels.
Today in South Africa almost all new builds look like this - every roof carrying as many solar panels as it can!
The lesson in all this? There are now real alternatives to fossil energy.
We have the technology we should just need to use it!
This is fossil fuel “demand destruction” in action
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South Africa's imports of solar cells, modules & panels 2022: US$ 345 million (R5.6 billion) 2023: US$ 947 million (R17.5 billion)
Almost everyone who could afford to do so scrambled to switch to solar energy!
We are a very sunny country.
Look what happened to solar tech imports during this period.
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Let me share an interesting story from South Africa. In 2023 we had a severe electricity crisis. With daily scheduled blackouts.
It was intense and very disruptive.
Then something interesting happened.
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RONI highlighted for the 2015/16 El Niño event showing the NDJ value at 2.4°C
I know it is only early April as you mentioned so there is that - but this forecast seems to put this upcoming event in the same range as as 2015/16 where RONI peaked at 2.4°C?
Would this be a reasonable assumption at this point?
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Deep space antenna 4 is now live! 📡
@esa.int's newest deep space antenna has entered operations at New Norcia, Australia, expanding Estrack’s capacity and powering future missions across the Solar System.
Curious about this next-generation antenna? Read more here: www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...
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As part of Project Glasswing, the launch partners listed above will use Mythos Preview as part of their defensive security work; Anthropic will share what we learn so the whole industry can benefit. We have also extended access to a group of over 40 additional organizations that build or maintain critical software infrastructure so they can use the model to scan and secure both first-party and open-source systems. Anthropic is committing up to $100M in usage credits for Mythos Preview across these efforts, as well as $4M in direct donations to open-source security organizations.
Anthropic says it's only releasing its new model to cyber-defenders because it has already found zero-day exploits in every major operating system www.anthropic.com/glasswing
I’m still experimenting lol. So things are a bit of a mess 😅
My current project is to see if Surf could also work as my RSS reader
Social feeds + RSS feeds all under the same roof
I've updated my El Niño forecast plume with the latest April data (ECMWF, NMME, CFSv2, Canadian models). Its now looking like it might end up giving 2015/2016 a run for its money in terms of strength, with a peak of ~2.6C in the ENSO3.4 region by end of year: dashboard.theclimate...
UK BEV sales jump 24% year-on-year in March 2026, the first full month since US/Israel attacks on Iran
+47% PHEV in March (+47 YTD)
+22% BEV (+15 YTD)
+7% hybrid (+6)
-6% diesel (-10)
-11% petrol (-4)
Petrol/diesel have lost 5 points of mkt share in 2026 YTD, 7pts in March…
Graph showing: Monthly sales of new passenger cars: United Kingdom (Source: https://robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/?lang=en&freq=monthly&type=relative&sort=alphabetical&country=United+Kingdom+SMMT)
UK BEV sales basically on trend. March is a very big month, so higher numbers for all categories, but as a share: on trend. The required target for the year is 33% BEV share, so that's going to be a push.
robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/?la...
NEW | Cheap battery storage means solar can now economically meet up to 90% of India’s electricity demand ☀️🔋
Solar paired with batteries could deliver electricity at a LCOE of INR 5.06/kWh, lower than the average power cost in most Indian states 🇮🇳
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The Iran War has broken the bargain that Trump promised to strike between American consumers and the oil industry — and its left his energy policy dead in the water. I wrote about it for @heatmap.news: heatmap.news/energy/trump...
The Orion European Service Module and Adapter Module visible on the left, with crescent Moon and crescent Earth about to disappear behind the Moon
Graphic showing Artemis II mission milestones
✅ #Artemis II update: ‘Earthrise 2026’, or rather ‘Earthset’. Just after this view from the livefeed, Orion and its crew reached their farthest point from Earth, 406 772 km away. They are now on their way home, set on the free return trajectory by our European Service Module🚀
@exploration.esa.int
To think this image was taken on July 16, 2015 and is surfacing again now.
We have so many magical images of our position in space.
