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Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

"AI will let us turn PhDs from 4 year degrees into 6 month degrees!"

Literally shitting on the part that makes it intellectual development. It requires things like *reading* for yourself and *writing* for yourself. Those aren't chores, they're part of skills acquisition and critical development.

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

It was fun here while it lasted, kinda, before the vulture capitalists took over, right?

graph showing clean energy stocks have outperformed the market .

Wait until the vibe investors figure this out.

FUCKING HELL WE NEED TO FIGHT THIS.

This is what ecocide looks like.

“There is no version of this that is neutral. Every dollar directed toward normalizing AI art generation is a dollar that didn't go toward a muralist, a poet, a filmmaker, a ceramicist.”

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

Alberta, Ottawa agree on deal that would see province front its own major project reviews | CBC News Ottawa and Alberta have reached an agreement that will see the province take control of regulatory approvals for major projects, something they say will deliver those projects more expeditiously.

Terrible capitulation on climate action by @mark-carney.bsky.social

The Alberta Energy Regulator and the Premier are both in bed with the fossil fuel industry, so reviews will be rigged in an obvious direction.

This seems… bad?!

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reache...

BREAKING via Reuters

U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation.

Seems like maybe a bad idea

This image shows gauges with the Feb 28 - Mar 13, 2026 COVID Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, and territories. From left to right: Canada: HIGH - 6.7 Alberta: HIGH - 6.5 British Columbia: MODERATE - 4.4 Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 10.0 New Brunswick: HIGH - 7.1 Newfoundland & Labrador: MODERATE - 4.7 North: HIGH - 6.7 Nova Scotia: HIGH - 6.0 Ontario: HIGH - 7.7 Prince Edward Island: MODERATE - 4.9 Quebec: HIGH - 6.6 Saskatchewan: HIGH - 8.1 A text box reads: 'The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red).'

Canadian COVID Forecast: Feb 28 - Mar 13, 2026

SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: MB
HIGH: CAN, AB, NB, North, NS, ON, QC, SK
MODERATE: BC, NL, PEI

About 1 in 99 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

This, tbh.

Would love love love to have a diversified economy instead of a petrostate

Alberta is [still] calling!

Breaking News!
Code Yikes!

February, 2026, finished as the 5th warmest February since 1940, at 1.50°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline, and likely the 5th warmest February in the last 120,000+ years.

Hot times ahead!

Earth's Monthly Energy Imbalance, 2001 through 2025. Trending up. More energy is being 'locked in' to the Earth system.

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

A trillion more reasons to embrace the #EnergyTransition:

US military reportedly used Claude in Iran strikes despite Trump’s ban Trump calls Anthropic a ‘Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about’

We know that AI tools "hallucinate" (they make stuff up, let's not sugar coat it), and that they are not good at being right. The idea of them being used for planning military operations might be the most frightening thing I've heard in a long time.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Carbon dioxide overload, detected in human blood, suggests a potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years - Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health - Anthropogenic activities are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposure...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Well here's a new one. Rising atmospheric CO2 may be turning our blood more acidic, and if we stay on this path, we will start experiencing direct health effects from this in a few decades.

Abrupt Gulf Stream path changes are a precursor to a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation - Communications Earth & Environment The northward shift and rapid displacement of the Gulf Stream provide an indirect early warning of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakening and collapse, revealed by both high-resolution ...

'Satellite altimetry shows a significant northward Gulf Stream trend near Cape Hatteras, which is also confirmed in subsurface temp obs. …indirect evidence for present-day AMOC weakening …abrupt Gulf Stream shifts can serve as early warning indicator for AMOC tipping'

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

Nate Horner's big deficit budget Another year, another Alberta budget at the whim of oil and gas royalties

🤠💸There’s a baked-in analysis in every Alberta provincial budget that is impossible to ignore: Alberta relies too much on revenues from oil and gas royalties to fund the daily operations of government.

daveberta.substack.com/p/nate-horne...

Assembly of Treaty Chiefs passes vote of non-confidence in UCP government February 26, 2026 (Treaty No. 6 Territory) — The Assembly of Treaty Chiefs (AOTC) of Treaty No. 6, Treaty No. 7, Treaty No. 8 has unanimously passed a vote of non-confidence in the UCP Government of A...

This seems important: “This UCP government has created conditions in Alberta that are unsafe for First Nations Peoples – promoting ignorance and intolerance along with its support for the separatist agenda is leading to outright racism.”