The Arctic refuge story is the one that stays with me — not because of the policy outcome, but because of what it reveals. Native Alaskans made it toxic. Campaigners made it impossible. That's not data winning. That's people with a relationship to a place refusing to let it go. I wrote my novel Empty Earth about a wilderness guide named Harry who understood that the only thing that ever actually stopped extraction was love for a specific piece of land. Looks like he was right.
Since Trump started the war with Iran, oil companies are making some nice profits from the higher oil prices. So long as it continues, and it shows no prospect of ending soon, they don't need to do any more expensive drilling.
The price per barrel before the war which is based largely on global supply and demand made more money spent on new drilling fairly unprofitable and although a higher price normally would inspire more drilling, I do not think they know the longer term projections from the war since the outcome and timing of the war are unpredictable. I am glad that the oil issue is making many countries form plans to move away from fossil fuel use, however. This is a silver lining, for sure.
However, if a lot of oil infrastructure is damaged in the middle east from the war causing lengthy rebuilding, higher prices 'might' inspire more drilling here at home. I hope not.
My thinking is that they are all vying to be the last man or last oil producers standing over time meaning staying lean and consolidating - just my assumption based on my reading on the topic. I am not an expert.
It seems to me that Venezuela was more about knocking out some competition to reduce global supply and boost price more than it was about increasing supply, just my view. Its connection to Iran kind of made me think Iran would be next. Russia's and US oil companies seem to be some of the biggest winners as prices soar.
Technology may be moving faster than politics. The real challenge is whether our institutions can evolve quickly enough to match the possibilities created by the energy transition.
I thought SUVs were really gross gas guzzlers. Then 25 years ago, I watched my elderly parents get in and out of one--being butt level made it a snap. Fast forward--we went into a Chevy dealer to get an idea what we should pay for an EV, Chevy Equinox, which turns out to be about $26,500 cash, so we bought it. It has most everything we could want (no sunroof but in Iowa, that's not a big loss). We just got a report that we spent $30 to go a little over 1,000 miles--about 3 cents per mile. The car is super quiet and smooth--it weighs about 4700 pounds. It's plenty snappy, too.
We have a fast charger--we got a $500 rebate and some of it will be for business expense, but the total price was a little less than $2,000. Kind of shocking, but we probably didn't need it--our hybrids were fine with the 120 volt charger. We can delay charging to midnight, although the savings really aren't there--yes we get a break on car charging, but we pay a higher rate for peak power.
The unfortunate flaw in Greeley Miklashek’s honorable long term contraception solution is “The Heat Will Kill Us First.”
On our current trajectory, within a handful of decades, we will fly past deadly milestones of extreme heat and cold, economic ravages of extreme weather, starvation from extreme drought and conflict by extreme global migration.
We simply don’t have time to cool the planet waiting for a global contraception program to save our assets and our immediate progeny. Whatever happened to the idea of reducing the atmospheric blanket, i.e., <350ppm CO2, even better Holocene 280ppm? Simply aiming for Net Zero CO2 emissions will not do the job— let us not forget about CH4 and other GHGs.
Energy waste is also a something we can tackle now. Massive amounts are used that need not be. We need to hunker down until a lot of these plans can be put into motion. This is at homes as well as businesses and requires a cultural shift.
Jigar Shah's interview with Matthew Ratteree the other day for businesses:
For homes and individuals, when you think of how much can be saved if people simply stop going places when not needed, or the fact that keeping water hot 24/7 can often be 18% or more of an electric bill and on and on.... well one can still live comfortably and likely easily cut all forms of energy use by 20% or more.
I now drive no more than 6 miles a week and fill up my economy car only 2-3 times a year and do not fly. My usage when the sun does not shine is only 4-5 kWh a day, and when it does shine, it is about 1 kWh. Obviously, most of this is simple conservation.
I have not been able to afford rooftop solar or an EV or even a hybrid. I do have some backyard solar panels and batteries that account for 3 kWh, but those were fairly cheap. I live comfortably - this is not pioneer living - it is simply mostly all about conserving. We can all do this TODAY and conserving often includes businesses. I realize that some have to drive for work, but the rest of the time can still amount to a huge change in usage.
I think people are unaware that we seem to be at some of the tipping points already, or so it seems. If they knew, I think many more would change their behavior and although that is not all we need to do, it would still help.
It's interesting that while the Trump administration is promoting the development of Artificial Intelligence and the US stock market is being driven upwards almost entirely by the competing needs of the tech giants to acquire ever more copious amounts of data for their large language models, it is also busy destroying important data it finds inconvenient and stopping the collection of such data.
Thanks once again for your highly informative survey of the ongoing movement toward a planet powered by renewable energy. It is highly encouraging to see all the progress that is being made despite the retrograde policies of our Federal government! The world is not standing still while the current inhabitant of the White House fusses and fumes.
I love your indefatigable optimism, Bill McKibben. Yes, we can pave deserts with solar panels and maintain a semi-Jetson lifestyle. It already seems to be happening. What worries me is that that kind of transition won't be available to the tropics and who knows where else (Paradise, CA for example). No amount of sun-powered air conditioning will keep Central America habitable in coming decades, if I understand the trends. The Gulf States, now so heavily contested, look to be cooked. Global South in general, cooked. Here's my question. How secure will the Global North feel when the rest of the planet is isn't sipping lemonade by the swimming pool?
Kyla Scanlon recently drew attention to a chart from the Phenomenal World website which shows that for the first time since the age of steam and rail the US is not leading the latest major energy transition i.e. from fossil fuels to renewables - and that's mostly down to Donald Trump.
There’s a thesis - does anyone know the book that proposed it? - that each time there’s an energy transition, there’s a corresponding change in the identity of the world hegemon. Several countries managed wind power (shipping), and Dutch managed water. Coal and the Industrial Revolution put England on top; the U.S. rose with oil; and now? China and electrotech? (China as the world leader is not a comforting idea.)
"In other energy and climate news...", what our dear Bill ignores is "The Heat Will Kill Us First", Jeff Goodell. I write about it in "Greeley's Newsletter".substack.com. There's ONLY one long term solution to our overheating planet: CONTRACEPTION. Have a blessed day.
The UN told US that in 1977, Dr. Miklashek. I haven’t forgotten (92, this year) because the figure was 2.2 children allowed to each couple the UN had counted and the .2 child was unimaginable! Watching the world ever since (children of WWII grade school were encouraged to watch the world—everyone had a someone somewhere) including 10 years on a small boat on the French canals—a front seat to climate change), daughter of a master gardener, married to a devoted Sierra Club member, my gratitude for what I’ve read here will inspire me to write more daily GOTV postcards to Democrats, some of whom “get it.”
Thank you, Bill McKibben. My husband was a fan. I was part of your Chicago audience the night after DT was elected in 2016.
I was just recently thinking about what you wrote above, as well:
"The physical, safe way to do it — I see paths to having, imagine in every panel on a commercial building you have a stack of these batteries like a server rack, and they are all plug-in based. You are not just doing one giant system on the roof, which has totally different safety and weight considerations and needs permits, etc. When you think about these metropolitan areas, you could imagine solar on every balcony, solar on the roof, storage on every panel, and they are all plugged in."
In my imaginary scenario, there are small scale batteries at every home and apartment and larger ones at businesses and buildings to store energy during high solar generation hours and then this stored energy is released during peak use time. So very similar except you have batteries located centrally in larger buildings which may be more efficient.
Even those homes and businesses without solar panels could still have batteries to help store and adjust for optimal grid energy use time.
This is similar to the impact of having free energy use hours, like in Australia, when there is a lot of solar power. Many would choose to charge up batteries at this free time for use later during higher priced high demand hours with a special rate plan, even those without solar or a balcony.
It can either be done by homeowners given these incentives like in Australia, and maybe a credit of voucher to buy a battery, or utilities could be required to place smaller batteries as a part of the metering system for which the storage and release would be controlled on a timer, a timer which could be remotely adjusted if there is suddenly higher demand.
I was just wondering if this was "doable." At-home batteries or power banks now seem to go on sale for about 350 a KWh and I bet utilities could do it cheaper on a large scale.
What inspired this thought is that I generate energy with my backyard solar setup, and store it in batteries to use during high peak use hours 4-9 pm as well as to run dehumidifiers overnight (I found low watt dehumidifiers at under 115 watts). The batteries can also be used during the day while charging and I run my fridge and re-freeze gallon water bottles during this time as well, and then the ice is used at night to keep food cold when the batteries switch to other uses. Someday I might be able to afford a larger battery for 24/7 fridge operation, but this does well for now, because the ice is still slushy when put back to be refrozen during the day so it only takes a few hours.
Anyway, I was thinking of getting another battery and I wondered what if everyone had at least one battery either provided by the utility as part or our metering equipment (or if we had the free charging hour to charge our own battery and a voucher to help buy one).
2-3 kWh batteries are now under 1 thousand each and even 1 kWh batteries (power stations) can go on sale for about 350 dollars. A battery at every household in CA would be something like 5% of energy use shifted from one part of the day to another....so solar goes farther....less need for gas?
One final thought...
It seems to me in reading a Yale study that we are already lapping at the heels of the tipping points and crossing them and that we are actually out of time.
Why are people unaware? Am I wrong?
I think a majority know climate change is real and man made so in order for them to not be changing their behavior means they are unaware that the danger is now - not something we only need to address with our % reduction goals for 2035 or 2050.
I think people would act now if they knew and change their behavior.
With all my talk about solar and batteries, the truth is that the larger share of my energy savings has come from conservation and reducing use.
Given the knowledge of urgency, it would be well within the capacity of most to reduce their footprint 5-10-20% with no actual investment.
And based on Jigar Shah's interview with Matthew Ratteree the other day. Many businesses could do the same.
Take the time to really listen to what is being said in the interview - 5 million BPD - no small potatoes.
That said, why not also have the state (CA) or states pay or subsidize an uber type ride to work so long as it is in an EV for low income folks to get to work or even better the state could buy a fleet of EVs to lease to low income folks with payments based on income or provide EV carpool routes run by the city.
My city just started a low cost electric van service to take residents where they want to go. This is good for folks without an electric bike or who are older.
Also, why are all buses not yet electric? When I lived in AZ they started making the electric bus transitions more than a decade ago....
It certainly shows Trump can't do math and seems to not understand these concepts.
If he really thinks it is stolen, then he does not get math.
In 2020, I was watching the polling trends, and Trump was polling behind Biden all but one month in the summer of 2020 in AZ. Biden was expected to win, and with how Trump treated McCain before and after his death and the fact that Cindy McCain, John's wife, endorsed Biden and considered him a close family friend, Trump was not expected to win the state, and yet after Trump lost, we had do endure watching the circus of our ballots being spun on color coded wheels at the fairgrounds, bizarre claims of bamboo in the paper, and use of blacklights with little to no protections or secure chain of custody. In the end, Cyber Ninjas refused to turn over data and had to be fined and forced to do so, and they did not find squat.
But why would anyone think they would? Trump was not expected to win in AZ and he even did just a bit better, not worse, than polling would have suggested even if he was supposed to lose.
This scenario can be repeated in state after state where there either was nothing that suggested he should have won, or it suggested it would be very close even in some traditionally redder states like Georgia.
Nothing was even strange enough to justify conspiracies in the first place which suggests the conspiracies were intentionally manufactured, nothing more, nothing less.
One giant contagious tantrum.
So, yes here in CA, there will be nothing to find.
I did the math before Pratt slid from second place to third for mayor and that was very predictable based on outstanding ballots and the math.
If Steyer catches up, it will be very close, so that is not predictable. I wish he had spent more time and energy going after Hilton instead of Becerra since candidates can't legally control who contributes to a PAC. Hilton is, and was, clearly the real threat to climate efforts.
Keep an eye on state legislators who are trying to stop the construction of data centers. I just read that New York State's legislature could prohibit construction of data centers.
Tech billionaires like Musk (who could become a trillionaire before long) are part of the kakistocracy (rule by the worst people) that is hastening America's dereliction. They are presently running amok.
This is another great update, thanks. I’ve been wondering whether the Hormuz closure may have sent a strong signal to some of the planned Gas-powered electric plants that they might prefer Solar… Especially since the aftereffects of the closure are going to continue until 2027 at least.
The Arctic refuge story is the one that stays with me — not because of the policy outcome, but because of what it reveals. Native Alaskans made it toxic. Campaigners made it impossible. That's not data winning. That's people with a relationship to a place refusing to let it go. I wrote my novel Empty Earth about a wilderness guide named Harry who understood that the only thing that ever actually stopped extraction was love for a specific piece of land. Looks like he was right.
It may be more than just the very effective campaigning. US oil companies seem disinclined to take forward Trump's 'drill, baby, drill' clarion call.
https://theconversation.com/us-oil-industry-doesnt-see-profit-in-trumps-pro-petroleum-moves-270518
https://www.offshore-technology.com/features/a-year-on-from-drill-baby-drill-why-are-there-fewer-oil-rigs-in-the-us/
Since Trump started the war with Iran, oil companies are making some nice profits from the higher oil prices. So long as it continues, and it shows no prospect of ending soon, they don't need to do any more expensive drilling.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8pyyz5e0ro
The price per barrel before the war which is based largely on global supply and demand made more money spent on new drilling fairly unprofitable and although a higher price normally would inspire more drilling, I do not think they know the longer term projections from the war since the outcome and timing of the war are unpredictable. I am glad that the oil issue is making many countries form plans to move away from fossil fuel use, however. This is a silver lining, for sure.
However, if a lot of oil infrastructure is damaged in the middle east from the war causing lengthy rebuilding, higher prices 'might' inspire more drilling here at home. I hope not.
My thinking is that they are all vying to be the last man or last oil producers standing over time meaning staying lean and consolidating - just my assumption based on my reading on the topic. I am not an expert.
It seems to me that Venezuela was more about knocking out some competition to reduce global supply and boost price more than it was about increasing supply, just my view. Its connection to Iran kind of made me think Iran would be next. Russia's and US oil companies seem to be some of the biggest winners as prices soar.
Technology may be moving faster than politics. The real challenge is whether our institutions can evolve quickly enough to match the possibilities created by the energy transition.
Well, they can -- the real question is whether they will.
History suggests that ability is rarely the problem. Motivation usually is.
I thought SUVs were really gross gas guzzlers. Then 25 years ago, I watched my elderly parents get in and out of one--being butt level made it a snap. Fast forward--we went into a Chevy dealer to get an idea what we should pay for an EV, Chevy Equinox, which turns out to be about $26,500 cash, so we bought it. It has most everything we could want (no sunroof but in Iowa, that's not a big loss). We just got a report that we spent $30 to go a little over 1,000 miles--about 3 cents per mile. The car is super quiet and smooth--it weighs about 4700 pounds. It's plenty snappy, too.
We have a fast charger--we got a $500 rebate and some of it will be for business expense, but the total price was a little less than $2,000. Kind of shocking, but we probably didn't need it--our hybrids were fine with the 120 volt charger. We can delay charging to midnight, although the savings really aren't there--yes we get a break on car charging, but we pay a higher rate for peak power.
Hey Bill, Thomas Piketty was born in France (Clichy, greater Paris region).
The unfortunate flaw in Greeley Miklashek’s honorable long term contraception solution is “The Heat Will Kill Us First.”
On our current trajectory, within a handful of decades, we will fly past deadly milestones of extreme heat and cold, economic ravages of extreme weather, starvation from extreme drought and conflict by extreme global migration.
We simply don’t have time to cool the planet waiting for a global contraception program to save our assets and our immediate progeny. Whatever happened to the idea of reducing the atmospheric blanket, i.e., <350ppm CO2, even better Holocene 280ppm? Simply aiming for Net Zero CO2 emissions will not do the job— let us not forget about CH4 and other GHGs.
We need to think outside the box near term.
Energy waste is also a something we can tackle now. Massive amounts are used that need not be. We need to hunker down until a lot of these plans can be put into motion. This is at homes as well as businesses and requires a cultural shift.
Jigar Shah's interview with Matthew Ratteree the other day for businesses:
https://energyempirepodcast.substack.com/p/matthew-ratteree-efficiency-at-oil?r=52j3gb&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
For homes and individuals, when you think of how much can be saved if people simply stop going places when not needed, or the fact that keeping water hot 24/7 can often be 18% or more of an electric bill and on and on.... well one can still live comfortably and likely easily cut all forms of energy use by 20% or more.
I now drive no more than 6 miles a week and fill up my economy car only 2-3 times a year and do not fly. My usage when the sun does not shine is only 4-5 kWh a day, and when it does shine, it is about 1 kWh. Obviously, most of this is simple conservation.
I have not been able to afford rooftop solar or an EV or even a hybrid. I do have some backyard solar panels and batteries that account for 3 kWh, but those were fairly cheap. I live comfortably - this is not pioneer living - it is simply mostly all about conserving. We can all do this TODAY and conserving often includes businesses. I realize that some have to drive for work, but the rest of the time can still amount to a huge change in usage.
I think people are unaware that we seem to be at some of the tipping points already, or so it seems. If they knew, I think many more would change their behavior and although that is not all we need to do, it would still help.
It's interesting that while the Trump administration is promoting the development of Artificial Intelligence and the US stock market is being driven upwards almost entirely by the competing needs of the tech giants to acquire ever more copious amounts of data for their large language models, it is also busy destroying important data it finds inconvenient and stopping the collection of such data.
https://thebulletin.org/2026/06/the-trump-administration-wont-face-the-facts/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AGI%20s%20ETA%3A%20Delayed%20%28again%29&utm_campaign=20260608%20Monday%20Newsletter
Thanks once again for your highly informative survey of the ongoing movement toward a planet powered by renewable energy. It is highly encouraging to see all the progress that is being made despite the retrograde policies of our Federal government! The world is not standing still while the current inhabitant of the White House fusses and fumes.
I love your indefatigable optimism, Bill McKibben. Yes, we can pave deserts with solar panels and maintain a semi-Jetson lifestyle. It already seems to be happening. What worries me is that that kind of transition won't be available to the tropics and who knows where else (Paradise, CA for example). No amount of sun-powered air conditioning will keep Central America habitable in coming decades, if I understand the trends. The Gulf States, now so heavily contested, look to be cooked. Global South in general, cooked. Here's my question. How secure will the Global North feel when the rest of the planet is isn't sipping lemonade by the swimming pool?
Kyla Scanlon recently drew attention to a chart from the Phenomenal World website which shows that for the first time since the age of steam and rail the US is not leading the latest major energy transition i.e. from fossil fuels to renewables - and that's mostly down to Donald Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ak6k1UQ2Drw
While China has assumed the mantle of leaders in this transition, Trump is investing in coal
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/04/trump-coal-defense-production-act
and spending more than a billion dollars of public funds to stop wind power projects that would provide American households with cheap energy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/trump-administration-wind-projects
The long-term economic effects of these decisions taken today by Trump will be disastrous for the American economy.
There’s a thesis - does anyone know the book that proposed it? - that each time there’s an energy transition, there’s a corresponding change in the identity of the world hegemon. Several countries managed wind power (shipping), and Dutch managed water. Coal and the Industrial Revolution put England on top; the U.S. rose with oil; and now? China and electrotech? (China as the world leader is not a comforting idea.)
"In other energy and climate news...", what our dear Bill ignores is "The Heat Will Kill Us First", Jeff Goodell. I write about it in "Greeley's Newsletter".substack.com. There's ONLY one long term solution to our overheating planet: CONTRACEPTION. Have a blessed day.
The UN told US that in 1977, Dr. Miklashek. I haven’t forgotten (92, this year) because the figure was 2.2 children allowed to each couple the UN had counted and the .2 child was unimaginable! Watching the world ever since (children of WWII grade school were encouraged to watch the world—everyone had a someone somewhere) including 10 years on a small boat on the French canals—a front seat to climate change), daughter of a master gardener, married to a devoted Sierra Club member, my gratitude for what I’ve read here will inspire me to write more daily GOTV postcards to Democrats, some of whom “get it.”
Thank you, Bill McKibben. My husband was a fan. I was part of your Chicago audience the night after DT was elected in 2016.
I was just recently thinking about what you wrote above, as well:
"The physical, safe way to do it — I see paths to having, imagine in every panel on a commercial building you have a stack of these batteries like a server rack, and they are all plug-in based. You are not just doing one giant system on the roof, which has totally different safety and weight considerations and needs permits, etc. When you think about these metropolitan areas, you could imagine solar on every balcony, solar on the roof, storage on every panel, and they are all plugged in."
In my imaginary scenario, there are small scale batteries at every home and apartment and larger ones at businesses and buildings to store energy during high solar generation hours and then this stored energy is released during peak use time. So very similar except you have batteries located centrally in larger buildings which may be more efficient.
Even those homes and businesses without solar panels could still have batteries to help store and adjust for optimal grid energy use time.
This is similar to the impact of having free energy use hours, like in Australia, when there is a lot of solar power. Many would choose to charge up batteries at this free time for use later during higher priced high demand hours with a special rate plan, even those without solar or a balcony.
It can either be done by homeowners given these incentives like in Australia, and maybe a credit of voucher to buy a battery, or utilities could be required to place smaller batteries as a part of the metering system for which the storage and release would be controlled on a timer, a timer which could be remotely adjusted if there is suddenly higher demand.
I was just wondering if this was "doable." At-home batteries or power banks now seem to go on sale for about 350 a KWh and I bet utilities could do it cheaper on a large scale.
What inspired this thought is that I generate energy with my backyard solar setup, and store it in batteries to use during high peak use hours 4-9 pm as well as to run dehumidifiers overnight (I found low watt dehumidifiers at under 115 watts). The batteries can also be used during the day while charging and I run my fridge and re-freeze gallon water bottles during this time as well, and then the ice is used at night to keep food cold when the batteries switch to other uses. Someday I might be able to afford a larger battery for 24/7 fridge operation, but this does well for now, because the ice is still slushy when put back to be refrozen during the day so it only takes a few hours.
Anyway, I was thinking of getting another battery and I wondered what if everyone had at least one battery either provided by the utility as part or our metering equipment (or if we had the free charging hour to charge our own battery and a voucher to help buy one).
2-3 kWh batteries are now under 1 thousand each and even 1 kWh batteries (power stations) can go on sale for about 350 dollars. A battery at every household in CA would be something like 5% of energy use shifted from one part of the day to another....so solar goes farther....less need for gas?
One final thought...
It seems to me in reading a Yale study that we are already lapping at the heels of the tipping points and crossing them and that we are actually out of time.
Why are people unaware? Am I wrong?
I think a majority know climate change is real and man made so in order for them to not be changing their behavior means they are unaware that the danger is now - not something we only need to address with our % reduction goals for 2035 or 2050.
I think people would act now if they knew and change their behavior.
With all my talk about solar and batteries, the truth is that the larger share of my energy savings has come from conservation and reducing use.
Given the knowledge of urgency, it would be well within the capacity of most to reduce their footprint 5-10-20% with no actual investment.
And based on Jigar Shah's interview with Matthew Ratteree the other day. Many businesses could do the same.
Take the time to really listen to what is being said in the interview - 5 million BPD - no small potatoes.
https://energyempirepodcast.substack.com/p/matthew-ratteree-efficiency-at-oil?r=52j3gb&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
That said, why not also have the state (CA) or states pay or subsidize an uber type ride to work so long as it is in an EV for low income folks to get to work or even better the state could buy a fleet of EVs to lease to low income folks with payments based on income or provide EV carpool routes run by the city.
My city just started a low cost electric van service to take residents where they want to go. This is good for folks without an electric bike or who are older.
Also, why are all buses not yet electric? When I lived in AZ they started making the electric bus transitions more than a decade ago....
Let them monitor our elections. They will find no significant fraud. It’s all a scam.
It certainly shows Trump can't do math and seems to not understand these concepts.
If he really thinks it is stolen, then he does not get math.
In 2020, I was watching the polling trends, and Trump was polling behind Biden all but one month in the summer of 2020 in AZ. Biden was expected to win, and with how Trump treated McCain before and after his death and the fact that Cindy McCain, John's wife, endorsed Biden and considered him a close family friend, Trump was not expected to win the state, and yet after Trump lost, we had do endure watching the circus of our ballots being spun on color coded wheels at the fairgrounds, bizarre claims of bamboo in the paper, and use of blacklights with little to no protections or secure chain of custody. In the end, Cyber Ninjas refused to turn over data and had to be fined and forced to do so, and they did not find squat.
But why would anyone think they would? Trump was not expected to win in AZ and he even did just a bit better, not worse, than polling would have suggested even if he was supposed to lose.
This scenario can be repeated in state after state where there either was nothing that suggested he should have won, or it suggested it would be very close even in some traditionally redder states like Georgia.
Nothing was even strange enough to justify conspiracies in the first place which suggests the conspiracies were intentionally manufactured, nothing more, nothing less.
One giant contagious tantrum.
So, yes here in CA, there will be nothing to find.
I did the math before Pratt slid from second place to third for mayor and that was very predictable based on outstanding ballots and the math.
If Steyer catches up, it will be very close, so that is not predictable. I wish he had spent more time and energy going after Hilton instead of Becerra since candidates can't legally control who contributes to a PAC. Hilton is, and was, clearly the real threat to climate efforts.
As Bill McKibben rethinks the basics of Christian theology, it appears that Pete Hegseth is doing something very similar at the Department of Defense.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/mormons-outraged-after-pentagon-no-longer-counts-lds-as-christian/ar-AA253sIa?uxmode=ruby&ctsrc=dgst&ocid=edgdhpruby&pc=U531&cvid=6a26438cb0cc482e8f0af976be73ea88&cvpid=2a3e5bb0f7b04bfa9a45c6b8f9ad9e2d&ei=60
He'll be issuing his own encyclicals next.
Keep an eye on state legislators who are trying to stop the construction of data centers. I just read that New York State's legislature could prohibit construction of data centers.
Tech billionaires like Musk (who could become a trillionaire before long) are part of the kakistocracy (rule by the worst people) that is hastening America's dereliction. They are presently running amok.
Oh, Bill, I am SO flattered that you've quoted my sermon!
This is another great update, thanks. I’ve been wondering whether the Hormuz closure may have sent a strong signal to some of the planned Gas-powered electric plants that they might prefer Solar… Especially since the aftereffects of the closure are going to continue until 2027 at least.