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Welcome but timid enquiry! The author writes: "My question isn't whether a world w/out growth is morally superior or more sustainable (though it may be both)" and "To be human is to grow – physically, psychologically, financially". But w/out sustainability we're cooked & on-going growth = cancer!

We’re heartbroken by the tragedy unfolding in Texas. As families wait desperately for news of loved ones, it’s crucial to reject disinformation, understand what went wrong, and learn how we can ensure we do better at keeping communities safe. Our latest blog offers 7 key takeaways. #TexasFloods

We’re heartbroken by the unbearable tragedy unfolding in Texas. As families wait desperately for news of loved ones, it’s crucial to reject disinformation, understand what went wrong, and learn how we can ensure we do better at keeping communities safe. Our latest blog offers 7 key takeaways.

"A review of... communications from a real-time messaging system operated by the NWS showed that no emergency manager from Kerr County was sending messages or interacting with NWS staff on the platform, even as emergency officials from other counties were doing so." www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/u...

Wowsers... the Vaisala 2021 Annual Lightning Report noted a dramatic increase in lightning in the Arctic. This recent news story by Nicola Jones notes that in 2019 lightning was reported just 32 miles from the North Pole - the closest ever recorded!

We're finally about to get our garden office heating/cooling heat pump installed. Engineer forgot to order planned 2.7kW unit and wants to use a 3.5kW one instead. Does this matter? Answers on a postcard pls! (Or preferably here, this afternoon, as he's due tomorrow…)

We are beginning to see a phenomenon that used to be rare in our forests, but now is an annual occurrence: recurrent flushing, with new foliage that is often pale. More on this coming this afternoon.

Hey #energysky -- looking for some clarification on the current status of LIHEAP funding. I've seen some news reports that seem to indicate that the program's funds may have been zeroed out in the reconciliation bill, but can't seem to find reports post-passage. Anyone know what's up?

Actually, I agree with this one on the @nws.noaa.gov "You never get credit for the lives you save"

“According to sources within FEMA, “barely any staff” have been deployed, and the Acting Administrator David Richardson “is nowhere to be found.” Per one source, “if this is how they are going to do a major hurricane response, people are fucked.”

Covering climate, health, or equity? Don’t miss the #NAHJ2025 opening plenary: “Climate Change and Health: Reclaiming the Planet with Solutions.” We’ll dig into the climate crisis as a public health emergency and how our stories can drive action. 📍Tomorrow, July 9, 9am PT RSVP: nahjconference.org/

This got published without me noticing -- top of to-read list www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

MY FOUR THINGS 1) FELT THE RHYTHM 2) FELT THE RIDE 3) GOT ON UP 4) IT'S BOBSLED TIME!

1) I SEE PRIDE 2) I SEE POWER 3) I SEE A BAD ASS MOTHER 4) WHO WON'T TAKE NO CRAP OFF OF NOBODY! I ONLY DID FOUR BUT THATS OKAY NOW

1) Nobody reads them 2) It's twitter's fault 3) Self-evaluate 4) Once a month 5) I believe in myself

This seems confirmed by various studies: free buses, or all public transport/transit, seems to only have overall benefits in small towns/cities, unlike improvements in the quality of the services.

Today is the first day of climatological.... *reads transcript*... ....revolt?

Batteries are way more interesting than solar Everyone is focused on batteries/capacity through VPPs

Will be in studio with @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social around 3pm today on @newstalkfm.bsky.social to discuss whether domestic wind turbines could help cut emissions (spoiler: 👎🏻)

I wonder what the editors of the NYT think about the fact that it’s not their reporting (decidedly mixed) but rather their word games and recipes that people find hard to replace. Was that their dearest ambition, to turn into a lifestyle app?

One of the most shocking aspects of the #TexasFloods is the rate of rise of the Guadalupe River. As a half a year’s worth of rain fell in just one day in the TX hill Country, the runoff cascaded into the river, causing a 30 ft rise in just 4 hours, and a new record level.

So many questions regarding storm preparations & response efforts in Texas. Story includes some insights gleaned from an NWS messaging system used for media, emergency management interactions. www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/u...

CELEBRATING THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF YOU ASKING ME THIS QUESTION!

Your 'moment of doom' for July 8, 2025 ~ Feedback loop alert! "sustained eruptions would pump significant greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, including carbon dioxide and methane. This would further heat the planet and potentially create a vicious circle..." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Living on Earth: Youth Claim Climate Damage by Trump www.loe.org/shows/segmen...

Today is the first day of climatological Nebraska?

if you listen to one piece of music today, make it “bodies under the rose garden” by @prettybittermp3.bsky.social one of their best songs. one of the coolest songs that’ll come out this year. RIYL: the postal service, dirty projectors, boygenius open.spotify.com/track/5kGWwV...

My objective today is to analyze floods that occurred in TX and NC over June/July so that folks can better understand the risk and vulnerabilities to help prepare for the next one, since they will become more frequent.

Trump’s cuts to climate research are derailing science and endangering long-term monitoring - The Daily Climate www.dailyclimate.org/trumps-cuts-...

Floods are swallowing their village. Trump’s EPA cut a major lifeline for them and others | Trump administration | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...

yep! been this way for years!

The world of "ice extinctions" fascinates not just scientists but also artists www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/o...

This piece makes the argument that I've seen over and over. "Yes, observational research on nutrition & health is flawed, but it's the best we've got so let's use it." This is the foundational premise of decades of conflicting, confusing nutrition info. www.sensible-med.com/p/the-60-yea...

Legislation would establish online dashboard to track chemical cleanups at military installations | Stars and Stripes www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

I've got my emotional support fork with me

please do not reply to my posts with AI summaries of reporting on the same topic. psycho behavior!!!

Should I live post it? I shouldn't do it should I?

Trump Pollution Exemptions Would Shield Lawbreakers, Endanger Millions - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/0507202...

morning exercise is doing wonders for my mental health. highly recommend

"My Uber driver was punctual and didn't bother with chit-chat. Five stars."

Crucially, decarbonising power so rapidly means that decarbonisation of transport and heat is so much easier through electrification...

When the Lone Star State needs leadership in a disaster, we can always call on Senator Ted Cruz (so long as he doesn't have other plans).

to push back against his mom, a trump voter, he’s sharing her top secret cookie recipe with the internet.

The plummeting of both honeybees and bumblebees in Seattle this spring has been really noticeable...the flowering trees and lavender near me should be absolutely alive with them, but there were none until recently, and now just a few. Canary/coal mine.

OK, I'm about as negative on Trump's climate arson as it gets, but this framing is way over the top.

So much of the media reporting on energy is unhelpful or misleading. Take the debate around coal in the UK - for years parts of the media reported a coal comeback which was due to seasonal fluctuations only. In September 2024 the last coal power plant went offline. Clear case for more nuance.

Thanks to the wise @andrewdessler.com for coming to speak with @thirdacttexas.bsky.social at a hard moment in the Lone Star State thirdact.org/texas/events...

You're looking at an early Whitehead torpedo, 1888, a self-propelled explosive used in naval battles. Whitehead called them 'Minenschiffs' ("mine-ships"), powered them with compressed air, stabilized with clockwork-mechanisms controlling guide fins. But we owe the modern name to a fish.

We've got the grandpup for a week!

Natural Gas Harms U.S. Economy And Won’t Solve Rising Electricity Demand - Forbes www.forbes.com/sites/energy...

i guess it’s good everyone here is Zohran posting instead of discovering the Ethel Cain discourse

This is so wholesome.

Re: hazard grant mitigation programs: “I’m just shaking my head, because it’s like, God, the programs that we have to help in that situation are the ones that are being curtailed by the president. It dishonors the lives lost if we don’t change behavior.” www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Re: hazard grant mitigation programs: “I’m just shaking my head, because it’s like, God, the programs that we have to help in that situation are the ones that are being curtailed by the president. It dishonors the lives lost if we don’t change behavior.” www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Re: hazard grant mitigstion programs: “I’m just shaking my head, because it’s like, God, the programs that we have to help in that situation are the ones that are being curtailed by the president. It dishonors the lives lost if we don’t change behavior.” www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

*based on a single model

We live in the dumbest timeline.

i cannot believe you are all still discoursing about a five day old NYT story about zohran mamdani

While on a walk yesterday, the neighborhood ravens - the big, brave & boisterous ones that get up close - were tracking the bug-like larvae crawling on a tree, and I kept pointing and the ravens kept looking, then one jumped in and snatched a spotty bugger and we both rejoiced.

At some point, we're going to need to address Nim Kidd acting like he doesn't understand rain forecasts ??? Sir.

Wow: Trump admin says it’s open to bringing back Pebble Mine, after Trump stopped it during his first term. @hmnorthey.bsky.social confirms for @eenews.bsky.social ⛏️ www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

Here's good reporting from @marisakabas.bsky.social on FEMA's response to the flooding in Texas. What exactly FEMA is and is not doing has been unclear, so this is helpful. www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-respo...

This post was made by the Guardian's political editor over a month ago, and I am still reeling from the sheer credulousness. That anyone in a position of responsibility can observe this political moment and have this thought is, frankly, frightening.

going to stay logged in here through vacation because i missed you all that much :)

i forget threads exists. it feels like a liminal space to me.

Good morning from the steakhouse town of Kansas City, where I’ve got a couple thoughts about plant-forward eating before my event tonight at the public library. 1

100 years of changing July sea ice... Total data set available from 1850 through 2017. Summary of methods: carbonbrief.org/guest-post-p...

Calling all experts! 📣 The @ipcc.bsky.social is calling for nominations for 2 key workshops in Feb. 2026. This is a crucial opportunity to help shape how diverse knowledge and new methods are used in climate assessments. 🗓️ Deadline: 16 July 2025 Learn more: www.ipcc.ch/2025/06/13/c...

If you are new to Bluesky and looking for UK/Europe energy people to follow, there are some ready-made starter packs below...

This is perfect: “Empathy is not idealism; it articulates a pragmatic vision of our shared fate.” Or as the poet put it long ago: No man (or woman) is an island. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

The science behind Texas’ catastrophic floods | Grist grist.org/climate/the-...

Thanks @bsky.app, this is a great new feature!

“The company pays a referral fee of 1 to 10% for customers who buy a product after reading about it in a news article. Around Prime Day, [they increase] the percentage.. according to reports.. [doubling] the commission it is paying in some product categories for this year's.. event.”

why the heck do we keep waking up so early?

US kids are 15x more likely to die by gun, and 2.5x more likely to die by car than kids in the OECD 18 countries. All while their health is deteriorating in other ways. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Senator Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding - Cruz was on vacation abroad while Texas was hit by deadly floods #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The fascist Trump coup is working in normalizing the deployment of the U.S. military domestically. Not just in immigration raids but now in staged "shows of presence" in downtown LA and also replacing FEMA when climate disasters strike.

look, it's very well written and I 100% agree with every word, but when politicians like @sanders.senate.gov or @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social who actually want to confront climate polluters get close to holding office @michaelrbloomberg.bsky.social spends his infinite money to stop them

TIL that when Carol Reed won the best director Oscar for Oliver!, he beat not only Stanley Kubrick (for 2001) but also Gillo Pontecorvo (for The Battle of Algiers)

this is really important. FEMA is effectively already being shut down.

Senator Kelly's first post about the fossil-fueled floods

The paperback for Saving Ourselves is OUT! As we face the polycrisis of democratic decline in our warming world, the future is up to us. Thanks to @palfrey.org @billmckibben.bsky.social @pilitaclark.bsky.social @davidrvetter.bsky.social @jeffgoodell.bsky.social www.danarfisher.com/pre-order-book

New research: Accelerating increase in the duration of heatwaves under global warming #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...

City kids, meet s'mores 🍫 In a fully electrified home, no less, entirely sans fossil-fueled flames in the kitchen. 😎

An old gas well started leaking in Ohio. It took six months and $400,000 to replug it. But not before it poisoned a woman’s backyard. And the fox may not be permanent. www.npr.org/2025/07/08/n...

Just FYI I am still opposed to climate people posting pictures of their glamorous trips. I assure you that I have complicated and pressing reasons to be in Denmark, and that I am also imperfect and hypocritical and sometimes rather thoughtless. What else can I say? #ShuttingUpNow

Extreme weather events, such as flooding and other natural disasters, are becoming more frequent and intense globally. Early Warning Systems (EWS) have proven effective at protecting lives, livelihoods, and ecosystems from climate-related hazards: www.unep.org/topics/clima...

Low water levels on Europe’s rivers push up shipping costs amid heatwave - Vessels on Rhine in Germany and Danube in Hungary forced to sail partially loaded www.theguardian.com/business/202...

seriously, Taylor Jordan writes ambient music under the name "The Greatest Hoax". he's a weird guy

I’m not sure what the “lower end of the median” is, since medians don’t have ranges, but Mamdani had test scores (and probably grades?) near the middle of the distribution of admitted students and his father was faculty, and yet he wasn’t admitted. Why is this interesting?

Very grateful I get to hang out at the world's most charming law school for the next two weeks. With Mijin! What a bonus!

"climate change is like steroids for the weather" #climatecrisis #texasfloods

¿Cómo se llama? 🦙

Necropolitics is also the norm in our current food systems and many social and climate justice activists are still oblivious to this (e.g. bsky.app/profile/nata...)

"Volcanic eruptions can cool the planet temporarily by shooting sunlight-reflecting particles into the atmosphere. However, sustained eruptions would pump significant GHGs into the atmosphere, including CO2 and methane. This would further heat the planet and potentially create a vicious circle..."

Unsurprisingly 👇 (But then it's baffling seeing people in love with overgrazed, barren landscapes...)

A ‘floating university’ and a pink mosque: Dhaka builds for a wetter future – in pictures #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How a £1.5bn ‘wildlife-boosting’ bypass became an environmental disaster - A14 promised biodiversity net gain of 11.5%, but most of the 860,000 trees planted are dead. What went wrong? [TLDR - A lot] Excellent story by Sandra Laville www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#climatecrisis - Melting glaciers could unleash barrage of volcanic eruptions - biggest risk of reawakening volcanos is west Antarctica where at least 100 lie under the ice, ‪ @pmorenoyaeger.bsky.social et al warn Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Day 2 of IPBES meetings! Today our Multidisciplinary Expert Panel (MEP) begins its session. 🧑‍🔬👩‍💻 Discussions focus on working arrangements, reflecting on lessons learned & preparing for joint sessions with the Bureau later this week. Ensuring credible, accessible science for people & nature!