Sindicatum

Passionately helping to build a healthier world and to fight climate change by providing clean energy solutions to Asia

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

The climate crisis is deepening: global surface temperatures are rising at ~0.2 °C/decade, Arctic amplification remains extreme, ocean heat content continues to intensify, and violent wildfires are increasing in multiple high-risk regions.

End of.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Rhine falls to record low levels as drought strains Europe's rivers https://t.co/kK8iJU8xXk

[Sean Casten @SeanCasten]

This is ridiculously scary. Yes, we are currently talking about ballrooms and reflecting pools and inflation and Iran and Venezuela and Epstein and crypto grift and the moral rot of the @GOP. But all that is going to be forgotten soon. Shit is about to get real, as they say.

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Top 6 Recent Solar Breakthroughs
1 Great Britain (July 2026): Solar hit record 14.4% of electricity mix in July, smashes May's previous monthly record of 12.4%
2 EU (June 2026): Solar generated 25% of total electricity in June, highest monthly share ever
3 Texas (2026): US EIA forecasts annual solar generation to hit 78 billion kWh in 2026, officially surpassing coal (60B kWh) for first time ever
4 Spain (2026): Installed solar crossed 50GW, with solar and wind combined exceeding 50% of total generation capacity
5 Global Grid (2026): Solar expanded by a record 636TWh (+30%), meeting 75% of new global electricity demand and driving total renewables past coal worldwide for 1st time ever
6 California (2026): Solar beat natural gas on 82% of days in early 2026 (up from 21%), driving gas output down 60% YoY, while July solar hit a record 23GW backed by record 13GW evening battery discharge that physically evicted gas peakers off the wire

Voila. And this is only going to get better

Wires chewing pipelines

[George Tsakraklides @99blackbaloons]

Quick Newsflash:

🇭🇺 Hungary’s grid has collapsed because low water levels on the Danube aren’t enough to operate their nuclear ☢️ factory

🇬🇷 Meanwhile Greece loses a 5th firefighter this week battling apocalyptic blazes 🔥

The collapse of industrial civilisation won’t be televised. Welcome to the blackout 🫥

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

Hothouse Earth is here and now.

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Top 9 Recent EV Breakthroughs
1 Global Tipping Point (2026): Global electric passenger car sales tracking to hit 23m in 2026, a 28% global share, with over 80% of Asia’s power demand now sitting in markets electrifying faster than the US
2 Light EV Revolution (Global South 2026): Global stock of electric 2- and 3-wheelers at 350m vehicles, displacing record 1.15m barrels of oil demand / day, single largest driver of road-fuel demand destruction on Earth
3 Battery Tech: CATL unveiled 3rd-generation Shenxing/Qilin battery tech, delivers 98% charge in 6 minutes + 1,500km range
4 Heavy Trucks (China 2026): E-trucks at 29% market share in China, overtaking LNG models for 1st time, backed by battery-swapping hubs that swap a 40-ton rig's battery in under 5 minutes
5 Extinction Event (Norway 2026): Pure BEVs hit world-record 98.4% of new car sales in Q1 2026, leaving diesel, petrol, and plug-in hybrids combined at under 1.6% market share as combustion engines reach effective extinction
6 Beautiful Bans (Laos 2026): Laos issued a complete import ban on refined petrol/diesel passenger vehicles, forcing vertical S-curve transport shift and halting foreign exchange bleeding
7 Indonesia Boom (2026): Electrified vehicle sales up 69% in H1 to 117,000 units, with 1 in 4 new passenger cars now electrified (BEVs alone ~16% share)
8 Australia Surge (2026): EV sales more than doubled in H1 to over 100,000 units, market share leaping from 7.6% to 16.4% YTD and hitting record 23.5% in June, outselling both diesel and hybrids for 1st time
9 Emerging Markets Boom (2026): Sales doubled in Brazil, India, Korea and Viet Nam (Viet Nam BEVs at 43% share and Brazil up 125% in H1), with New Zealand BEVs more than tripling in key months

Voila. Technology beats finite commodities every single time

Wires chewing pipelines

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

[Prof. Peter Strachan @ProfStrachan]

'No one wants to be right about this’: Climate change scientists’ horror and exasperation as predictions play out.

"It’s as if the human race has received a terminal medical diagnosis and knows there is a cure, but has consciously decided not to save itself."

#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

https://t.co/gAHUlAqAjO

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

In 2025, the increase in US carbon emissions in absolute terms was 4 times greater than China's
>North America only region to increase carbon intensity of its total energy supply in 2025
>North American energy emissions up 2.7%, adding 152.3m tons of CO2, completely upending region’s previous 10-year decline trend
>10% spike in US coal consumption because 50% surge in US natural gas prices shifted fossil-fuel power plant economics straight back to 19th century
>US oil production, at 21.1m barrels/day, almost equaled Saudi + Russia

Unadulterated climate recklessness

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

Analysis: Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 #CBarchive

✍️ written by @DrSimEvans

📉 data analysis by Ho Woo Nam

Read here: https://t.co/B32uTOPPAI

[Rumpelstilzken @stay_wokeness]

Der Doubs in Frankreich (Foto: AfP) und die Loire in Frankreich (Foto: Reuters). Die "neue" Hitzewelle über Europa ist die alte, die nicht mehr aufhört. Exakt das, wovor Klimaforscher warnten, es allerdings erst für die 2050er Jahre prognostizierten.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

This isn't Spain. This isn't Greece.

This is North Wales.

A major wildfire on Conwy Mountain near Sychnant Pass has triggered a major incident, forcing evacuations in parts of Capelulo.

Authorities have closed Conwy Old Road and are urging nearby residents in Dwygyfylchi and Penmaenmawr to stay indoors with windows shut.

It's only going to get worse!

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Global battery storage capacity was 16 times smaller in 2020 than it is today
>Installed batteries up 66% in 2025 to 302GW globally
>China, at 144 GW, is just under half of world's total battery capacity
>China's utility and distributed battery storage fleet expanded by 81.7% y-on-y to firm up its grid

Intermittency, what intermittency?

[Tom Scott 🇺🇦 @Tom___Scott]

The UK is absolutely *not* immune to catastrophic wildfires on the scale seen in France, southern Europe and north America. The longer we keep burning fossil fuels, the more of these we will see.

[Prof. Peter Strachan @ProfStrachan]

Too hot to ignore

The oceans are full of heat, and it’s coming ashore

"Nearly 40% of ocean area worldwide is undergoing a marine heatwave, with intense hot patches in the Mediterranean Sea and the Pacific Ocean"

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
https://t.co/xMPAvhCDmK

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

It’s not just us. The Arctic had the hottest June on record and India one of the driest since 1901. Globally it was the warmest ever recorded and the 50th consecutive one above the 20th century average. Flaming June indeed….

https://t.co/I8AojFU0A9

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Solar’s deployment speed exploded by over 34 times between the 1st and 2nd terawatt milestones, and still accelerating. Average annual deployment velocity:
>1st 1,000GW (68 years): ~14.7GW /year
>2nd 1,000GW (2 years): 500GW /year
>3rd 1,000GW (1.2 years): ~833.3GW /year

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

Populists, for years : "Don't believe science. Climate change is fake. Drill baby drill"

Populists, now "It's all the government's fault for not giving you AirCon"

[Dr. Serge Zaka (Dr. Zarge) @SergeZaka]

Le joyau français qu'est la forêt de #Fontainebleau brûle. Déjà 300ha. Il s'agit dores et déjà d'un des plus grands feux documentés depuis 1900. On retrouve entre autres :
- 300ha le 14-15 août 1904.
- 762ha en 1921 sur plusieurs départs de feux dans la forêt et autour (notamment la forêt de la Commanderie au sud de Fontainebleau).
- 250 à 300ha en 1959.

Il n'y a malheureusement rien d'étonnant :
1⃣L'indice de feux est "très extrême" aujourd'hui (image n°4) après trois canicules et une sécheresse extrême. Niveau qu'on retrouve plutôt en méditerranée qu'en Ile de France sauf que les moyens mis en place ne sont pas les mêmes qu'en méditerranée.
2⃣La forêt de Fontainebleau est l'un des massifs forestiers les plus sensibles aux incendies du nord de la France. C'est la combinaison d'une végétation très inflammable (pin sylvestre, fougère, bruyère etc.), d'un sol extrêmement sec (sables filtrants, platières de grès, faible réserve utile en eau), d'une fréquentation humaine exceptionnelle (15 millions par an) et, désormais, du changement climatique.
3⃣Depuis plusieurs années, plusieurs phénomènes augmentent la quantité de combustible (dépérissement de certaines espèces notamment).

C'était attendu et documenté. Dans le nord de la France, les moyens de lutte doivent sérieusement être revu sur le modèle du sud de la France.

On a du retard. On patine. Par exemple, les canadairs promis par Emmanuel Macron à la suite des incendies de 2022, n'étaient plus produits en série depuis plusieurs années. Ils devraient arriver, il me semble entre 2028 et 2033. À ce stade, la France n'a donc pas reçu de nouveaux Canadair. La flotte continue essentiellement de reposer sur les existants, qui ont environ 30 ans d'âge moyen, avec des contraintes de maintenance importantes.

Pourquoi ne pas avoir écouté les scientifiques à ce sujet (bien avant Emmanuel Macron d'ailleurs qui essaye de réparer les manques de ces prédécesseurs) ? Pourquoi réagir à l'émotion et ne jamais anticiper les effets du changement climatique (pourtant connus et documentés depuis 30 ans) ?