Climate & Energy: 17 Aug – 23 Aug
Pressure eased 5 points across the week, 71 to 66.
66
pressure at the week’s end, 0–100
-5
move across the week
6
editions published
139
sources read behind them
The arc · 6 days with a board
The band each day fell in.
No written analysis for this week
Everything on this page is measured from the week’s own boards and editions. The written read is added when the engine runs its report pass; a week without one still has its record.
What we said to watch
The beat ended the week Contested.
The beat ended the week Contested.
The beat ended the week Contested.
The beat ended the week Contested.
The beat ended the week Contested.
The beat ended the week Contested.
The honest half. These are the markers the boards named at the time — kept on the record whether or not they turned out to matter.
The board on Monday, and the board at the end
Opened
17 Aug- Political retreat 72
- Heat hitting power plants 86
- Grid can't keep up 80
- Dear oil 82
- Electric transport spreading 70
- Cheap clean power 34
Ended
22 Aug- Rules moving against it 70
- Heat already banked 84
- Wires and connections 78
- Cost landing on bills 62
- Building anyway 34
Both boards exactly as they were written at the time — not a diff. The engine names the forces fresh every morning, so "The cheap-yen gap" on Monday and "Money leaving the dollar" on Friday may well be the same pressure under different words. Comparing the labels would measure the labels; comparing the two boards yourself is the honest version.
The week’s editions · 6
Washington wants fewer futures on the table. New work says each one runs hotter.
The clean machines are being built. That is where their carbon goes.
Britain's coldest rented homes belong to its most famous landlords
Europe's seas took the summer's heat, and the ocean gives it back slowly
Britain will pay for air conditioning, as long as it also heats
Britain moves to slow the one climate policy that was working
The same week, another beat