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Among the other outrages in today's news from the @washingtonpost.com, management has gutted the Pulitzer-winning climate team, according to @sammyroth.bsky.social. Their work has been so important — one more reason to be heartbroken today. And pissed. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

Upside down weather! Parts of Montana will hit 70° for a high Thursday. Meanwhile Florida will be stuck in the 50s.

kinda urgent q: how does one approach threats to one’s safety without using police

Some of us independent journalists and newsletter writers were talking about the devastating Post layoffs and were thinking-- would folks find it useful at all if we held a little information session on the ins and outs of going indy, starting + running a newsletter or website, etc?

Democracy dies of heatstroke. What a tool Bezos is--imagining having that kind of money and still being afraid of Dear Leader. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

As I said on #WITHpod, the Administration is like a cartoon villain throwing thumbtacks in the road impeding renewable energy. Demand is up from AI, and they are artificially restricting supply and making clean energy functionally illegal to build. It's a crisis. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

With this story, it's worth emphasizing *just how much* energy demand is projected to increase in the coming decades Chart from www.icf.com/insights/ene...

I know there are some wineries in Alaska but I don't know of any on this side of the border... anyone got one - in Canada - that's further north than Prince George (53.9 degrees N)?

I haven't fired any of Hill Heat's staff today Hillheat.news/subscribe

me when I have too much zucchini in August:

Remember, ruining the ability of our democracy to fund itself is the point, not a mistake

I filed a travel insurance claim related to the winter storm (Fern, if you will) at the end of January. These morons denied it based on my having purchased the policy after "the hurricane was already named". Oh, sweet sweet children. You picked the wrong girl.

Record Highs VS Record Lows since 2020 in Florida. No contest.

I wish I believed in hell, part #9679. Jeff Bezos has so, so much to answer for.

Really enjoyed an evening in Sutton, talking all things #climate with a full house of extremely engaged locals. Am pictured here with David Healy and Donna Cooney of the Green Party, who kindly hosted the event. (And another pile of books signed and sold!)

YESSS! I have been WAITING to read this book and it's happening!!

Bright is who I trust on inside-baseball NY political analysis. (In addition, this reads to me - as a quondam New Mexico political operative type - as exactly on point; this is the kind of analysis work I do to judge the political possibility space.)

14(!) climate reporter, fired www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

Everything old is new again.

The entire history of everything tells us that the billionaires ruin everything, why do we refuse to learn this lesson?

The Washington Post has laid off least 14 climate journalists, newsroom sources told @sammyroth.bsky.social, effectively decimating one of the most important reporting teams in American climate journalism. A sad, terrifying, enraging day for the planet.

The Washington Post was consistently doing some of the best climate reporting out there in recent years. This is a huge loss (h/t @sammyroth.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/climatec...

It's actually not hard to be against ICE, if you want to.

It's not actually mandatory to be either working in a Nordic country or indeed in Nordic meteorology (I'll be presenting Antarctic climate work), so if you would like to hang out with the cool kids on a very weather beaten group of islands and talk about weather and climate for a few days...

@governorferguson.bsky.social ?

Hey @gilduran.com I'd love to chat but can't DM -- can you get in touch?

I would absolutely kill for a TV on the Radio collab

moving to Singapore as we speak

not yet but I would love to collab with the rock n roll basketball tournament we have every year in dc

we haven’t gotten to cloning ourselves… yet

pink balloons go pop

Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team. The Post sent layoff notices to at least 14 #climate journalists. open.substack.com/pub/climatec...

What's wild about these conservative guys is that they seem to fashion themselves Tough and Manly *because* they are scared of everything all the time. As though seeing grumpkins and snarks around every corner is a species of courage. It's so bizarre to me.

"warmer homes in the winter, cooler homes in the summer, lower emissions, and real climate action that improves people’s lives — starting with the communities too often left behind." Heat pumps FTW

How to Kill Independent Media, Jeff Bezos Edition

We've paid 32 families rent today. Thank you to the random one of you who paid like half of those.

Ed Schreyer talks national power grid, hydropower, and electrification Premier of Manitoba when Hydro began expanding on the majestic Nelson River. My dad worked at Kettle Rapids (first hydro dam) and I worked at the Radisson Converter station. #mbpoli youtu.be/u10sahgcWIY

Wait, how did I miss this by the one and only @elongreen.bsky.social on one of my favorite sites??

@sammyroth.bsky.social reporting that the Post cuts include 14 climate journalists: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

This is....not good.

Everyone loves solar power.

It seems like the US invading the sovereign country of Venezuela, kidnapping its president, and stealing its oil shouldn’t have been something the rest of the world “shrugged and moved on” from quite so quickly.

Look I'm not saying anyone needs to get opportunistic and I was just posting about needing to build collective power as journos but this is 100% a layup for a newsletter pitch for Caroline should she choose—Jeff Bezos fired me from my job covering Amazon. Now I'm going indy to do it no holds barred

Clearcutting and slash-and-burn tropical deforestation techniques are pretty vivid when you apply them to US civic institutions.

South Park should definitely NOT make an episode where Towelie hot boxes a car with Coalie and they both get black lung

Absolutely gutting to see what's happened at the Post. These are some of the best working journalists out there. The best. The layoffs have nothing to do with the quality of the work. These are political decisions about what and what not to cover made by a billionaire.

Wait why's everyone mad at Lizzo? You log off to do Real Work for a couple of hours and next thing you know you're confused by everything on social media ...

"America's deeper question is whether or can restore a culture of shame"

I know everyone means well with their 'scoop this reporter up immediately' endorsement posts but christ — who's doing the scooping? What's left? Thinking about our industry this way, like this is a momentary setback and there are ample open roles, obscures the truth about the rot at its core.

#Venezuela #ClimateChange #OilWar #EnergyTransition #ElectroStates #PetroStates #CleanEnergy #Renewables #cdnpoli #abpoli #Trump #yyc #Electrification #ElectrifyEverything #ClimateSky #CanadaSky

How many people on here are old enough to recall when AIDS was called GRID (gay-related immune deficiency) and have a colleague or family member who was killed by HIV? Raises hand twice. revkin.substack.com/p/craftivism...

#ElectroStates are the exact opposite of #PetroStates. Electrified economies powered by renewables rely less on territorial control & more on technology, grids, manufacturing capacity & finance. #EnergyTransition is therefore not just an emission strategy, but a peace strategy." #ClimateSky #cdnpoli

You've probably heard that a group of CA tech guys wants to build a brand new port city in northern CA. The project is called "California Forever" & it's apparently breaking ground this year. Lots of folks are skeptical! On Wed., I'm going to talk with Jan Sramek, the founder/CEO. Got questions?

you would not believe the number of people who tell me (a scientist who studies climate feedback loops) that we should despair about climate change because of climate feedback loops

I have found that I am developing something resembling revulsion at anyone with a platform, power, and/or privilege who is not using them to speak out about / push back on everything that's happening right now

the Epstein files are what patriarchy is when it is stripped of its pretense

Behind every major fire response and every carefully planned prescribed burn is a team of scientists working to understand those conditions down to the finest detail 🔥 Hear from U.S. Forest Service's Dr. Marcus Williams on this week's Weather Geeks: linktr.ee/WeatherGeeks

Industrial carbon pricing is one of the most cost-effective tools Canada has to maintain competitiveness, diversify markets and cut emissions. Calls to weaken or eliminate this policy get some fundamentals wrong. Here are the facts ⬇️🧵

Guess who's fasting all day! ✋ Guess why! 😫

210 researchers, doctors & dietitians have written to express concern about the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans. They say scientific evidence has been disregarded, and reliance on a process with conflicts of interest with the meat & dairy industries harms scientific integrity and public health.

What’s driving EV adoption in Canada? Our latest Insight digs into the numbers to see how EV availability standards, subsidies, and affordability shape EV adoption. ⬇️ 440megatonnes.ca/insight/what...

Another brutal blast of weekend cold. 🌬️🥶 Both Saturday and Sunday about 20-25. Saturday, gusts of 40-50 mph possible, threatening isolated to scattered power outages and wind chills in the single digits to ~10. Early Sunday, it could feel around minus-5 in and around D.C. More @ cwg.live

Trends in February temperatures over land areas for the last 50 years... Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...)

Jeff Bezo's destruction of the Washington Post brand is the worst brand destruction since.... Elon Musk destroyed both Twitter and Tesla, which was the worst brand destruction since... Trump destroyed the USA.

Side note: really feel like we need to just call dumb things dumb more. We went off track with being nice about dumbness

My entire X feed is @washingtonpost.com reporters in heated conflict zones around the world and the U.S. announcing that they've lost or left their jobs. The post is abdicating its responsibility and unique capacity to serve just when we need fierce, fully-funded & fully-staffed journalism the most.

Jeff Bezo's destruction of the Washington Post brand is the worst brand destruction since.... Elon Musk destroyed Tesla.

Did you know air pollution is the top preventable cause of premature death + ill-health in the world today: killing nearly 10 million people per year? And 2/3 of air pollution comes from burning fossil fuels? For more surprising & powerful facts on health and climate, follow @maibached.bsky.social

A win. www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...

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Sad to see retail and restaurants in DC Union Station declining. COVID and office closures hit businesses hard and it looked like things were coming back a little…and now it must be the govt layoffs hitting them again. Storefronts and common spaces empty that were bustling in the 2010s.

This statement alone is an act of voter intimidation. The point is to suppress minority turnout.

does anyone have any guesses for what ekko is announcing on feb 11

If you like my brand of nerdy map content, come see me present How Maps Lie: an informative and entertaining exploration of just how wildly different maps are from reality. February 5, 6PM Paul Pratt Memorial Library in Cohasset, MA February 12 6:30PM at Jacob Edwards Library in Southbridge, MA

It's nice that there's now a caucus in Congress, but the real battles over electricity bills are at the state level, in state public utility commissions (or their equivalents, sometimes with different names). www.eenews.net/articles/fig...

Judging by their complete absence in the work parking lot, I think there’s been a pretty sizable iguanacide this past week in Miami 🦎⚰️

Still no garbage pick up in Mt Pleasant DC, over a week since the storm. Gross, @mayorbowser.dc.gov @brianneknadeau.bsky.social - can we please get some attention before it warms up more and the rats return??

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

People often ask me why I left the U.S. and there are various reasons but the thing that made me start really making an exit strategy was when journalists covering Standing Rock were being arrested. Historically a very bad sign for democracy. Seeing it get worse and more blatant is scary and sad

a win is a win?? "The nation had 86.2 million cattle and calves as of Jan. 1, the USDA said in a biannual report, after a persistent drought drove ranchers to slash their herds. That was down 0.4% from a year earlier, when the herd also hit its lowest level since 1951."

“The least cynical explanation is that Bezos simply isn’t paying attention. … Or maybe, as many of us who deeply love the Post fear, the decimation is the plan.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Our Trees is now offering an opportunity for you to ask about trees now that Spring is arriving. Become a paid subscriber to Our Trees at our reduced rate, and join the conversation. It will be fun!

"President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act is among the top uncertainties that could slow momentum." www.utilitydive.com/news/solar-m...

We just had a federal agent pull a gun on a random pickup truck while directing traffic during an illegal traffic stop while a separate federal agent was aggressively intimidating a legal observer, so ICE can just fully GTFO ASAP please.

The reactionary right is *excellent* at systems thinking - when it comes to their own self-enrichment.

I had a lovely chat recently with a university professor whose students are reading my book one chapter per week and discussing the end of chapter questions in a group chat. islandpress.org/books/multis...

Another day of “reaching out” and “pivoting”… Completely unrelated, but I’ve just got tickets to see this: wankernomics.com/live#uktour

Sea surface temperature data (ERSST version 6) from January 2026 are in, and here's the latest look at the newly-operational Relative Oceanic Niño Index, or #RONI. ENSO has dug a little deeper into #LaNiña territory with a RONI value down to -1.03 °C. bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/roni/

hey friends - ekko is trying to raise money for lauryn-adrianna, a black trans woman in our community who recently became unemployed and needs financial assistance for stable housing any little bit counts if you can provide it!

jfc

Seen some comms flying around abou the #Stanford 🤝 @elsevierconnect.bsky.social “World's Top 2% Scientists Network”, and I think it’s absolutely horrible. Top 2% in terms of what, exactly…?

I really loathe this. Samsung used to do this to Apple all the time and then every smartphone manufacturer merged into one crappy, identical black rectangle constantly copying each other. Anthropic will be eating their words before too long, I guarantee it.

More of this, much more. Yes, induction, and heat pumps, and properly insulated windows should be standard fare for any high-end home design www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/r... And yes, there's a $60 induction plate at IKEA...

Alberta Does Not Have Grievances. It Has Issues AB doesn’t need a new constitutional deal or separation. It needs better politicians than Danielle Smith and Jason Kenney. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli markhamhislop.substack.com/p/alberta-do...

This is so incredibly brave. And also enraging that electeds see this and think reform and not tribunals.

Cartography is funny because we're all portrait artists painting the same model but not all of us are in the room. Most of us have to peek at maps made by other people to complete our own work. Sometimes the copied bits are mistakes. What's your favorite map feature that went viral?

Looks like Signal is having issues again

New campaign: Tell @ofcom.bsky.social to stop climate misinformation From @goodlawproject.bsky.social and @stopfundingheat.bsky.social #climatecrisis climatemisinformation.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

The court sketches of the Norwegian semi-royal in court over assault and abuse charges......this is a completely different person lol