Climate Hopium

A January 2026 Update from Climate Copium

Happy new year to you all and an update from me here at Climate Copium for the coming year.

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December 2025

What have we learned about climate progress in 2025? Quite a lot and some surprising victories and good news

Taking a look at the last year with a focus on the last quarter in terms of positive climate news.

Dec 28, 2025 • tomasrawlings

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November 2025

The Evidence is Clear: Bending the CO2 Curve towards Zero Means Not Just Fighting Climate Chaos - But a Better World for All

We are witnessing a technological revolution on the scale of the agricultural revolution where we are now able to draw in energy from the wind and sky…

Nov 9, 2025 • tomasrawlings

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September 2025

Around the World in 80 Gigawatts; On ‘Sun Day’ We are Witnessing the Dawn of the End of the Age of Fossil Fuels

Join me on Sun Day for a quick jaunt around the world as we find out what is happening with the mix of energy and where might future emissions be going…

Sep 21, 2025 • tomasrawlings

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August 2025

The Future is Solar

We are approaching a 'positive tipping point' on global energy generation and solar is leading the way! (Backed up with strong support from wind and…

Aug 11, 2025 • tomasrawlings

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July 2025

Renewable energy was winning so much that Big Oil needed Trump to use the full power of the government to try and stop it. Which they won’t.

Yes, the US government dealt a blow to the growth of renewables, but when you dig into it, it is a clear sign they are losing the economic and cultural…

Jul 13, 2025 • tomasrawlings

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June 2025

Humanity Crosses a Potent Climate Threshold;5 Reasons as why it matters so much that the largest manufacturing country in the world saw its…

Eyes on the prize people! Because the decoupling of human economic activity from CO2 emissions means there are many more paths to slowing then stopping…

Jun 13, 2025 • tomasrawlings

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May 2025

Despite the headlines we are on an almost unstoppable path to an energy transition and battery power is supercharging this renewable…

If you ignore the daily churn of the news headlines to look deeper at the data; you’ll see something quite remarkable is happening globally with…

May 12, 2025 • tomasrawlings

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April 2025

The European Union announces 100 billion climate and clean energy investment while globally oil use falls - for the first time ever - in the…

Twelve weeks down, 200 to go in the US, however most of the rest of the world has got on with tackling climate change, here’s some of the moves

Apr 1, 2025 • tomasrawlings

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March 2025

On Taking Action and Collective vs Individual Action and Hope over Despair

In this edition of the newsletter I want to look into four points that show the value of hope as a tool for action and why it matters more than you…

Mar 24, 2025 • tomasrawlings

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We’ve predicted doom before yet technology saved us; how the pace of human innovation often surprises us humans & thoughts on AI, energy…

Using AI's projected energy use as an example, time to discuss the intersection of technology innovation and predicting it. Humans are pretty good at…

Mar 9, 2025 • tomasrawlings

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It's not ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ but ‘Mill, Baby Mill’ (and ‘Shine, Baby, Shine’)

Seven weeks down, 205 to go, but Trump can’t change reality as renewables continue to blossom worldwide and climate action on rolls ever onwards

Mar 2, 2025 • tomasrawlings

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