I don't think we've reached peak "Limited Edition" but we can't be far, surely?

Astonishing comment in the FT summarising the situation in Hormuz etc. Not sure if paywalled.
https://www.ft.com/content/77e5184d-9854-4a30-b53c-498223b436a5?commentID=7f2917fd-62f0-49de-8d44-bb5082137338

Hmm. Not sure that this FT magazine headline has aged all that well.

Sunday lunchtime. Wind is strong. The sun is out. Carbon emissions are low. 25 g/kWh.

An old friend invited me to the dress rehearsal of Siegfried at Covent Garden this afternoon. It is a spectacular environmentally-grounded production, brilliantly sung (Siegfried!! Whoa! Andreas Schager transcends the Heldentenor) and stunningly staged and lit. And it wins the award for finest use of Ferrocerium in opera! Mortgage your bicycle, sell some more old tech, exhibit a pet, and get yourself a ticket. You won’t regret it.

La chimie crée son objet. An absolutely outstanding talk by Jonathan Clayden about how organic chemistry has developed and evolved over the past 50 years at the Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group today. Very thought-provoking analysis of how different areas of activity have risen unstoppably and then fallen away (ironically, often not too long after a Nobel Prize is awarded… )

I love the FT but this op-ed by Daniel Yergin is just blatant fossil industry propaganda. No reference to renewables, let alone mention of how oil price shocks lead to shifts - I’m thinking of Pakistan where the Russian oil price shock has led to an astonishing deployment of solar and batteries across domestic and commercial sectors and big improvement in balance of payments.
None are so blind as those who can’t think beyond burning shit. coming from a chemist, that’s saying summat.

Wow. The UK grid's carbon intensity dropped to 39 g CO2e/kWh.

Public institutions having to grovel to under-taxed rich dudes is how you end up with Epstein scenarios. Discuss. Use both sides of page if necessary.