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WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days? cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...

This is the core proposition & selling point for reactionary thought: not that they are better, but simply that *everyone* is corrupt, everyone is a crook, everyone's just out for themselves, so you might as well get yours. That is the molten core of right-wing thought everywhere.

I can’t so much as buy a tin of beans without thinking about how our ruling classes are currently enabling a colonial war of genocide and mass starvation in Palestine. If our world had any shred of justice these monsters would rot in The Hague.

SCOOP from me: Trump's AI action plan released last week makes a specific set of recommendations around loosening Clean Water Act permits for data centers — recommendations mirrored in letters sent to the administration by Big Tech lobbyists earlier this year:

"Talk like a normal fucking human being" is the wild new strategy blowing Democratic minds.

Things That Sound Like Hyperbole But Aren't: the world's dominant communications systems now principally reward the production and sharing of information that is directly harmful not only to democracy but to life on Earth.

The EPA cited my paper in their argument against the endangerment finding today. However, their point is completely backwards: my paper actually supports the EPA's 2009 range of 1.8C to 4C warming by 2100. www.nature.com/artic...

This is like saying Anne Frank died of Typhus so were the Nazis really responsible. Utterly vile. #BoycottNYT.

Clear examples of the degraded forecasts we face in this piece from @michaelrlowry.bsky.social Here's Iona from yesterday, with a clear shot of its internal structure in the current state on top, and a useless green blob in the suggested replacement on bottom.

Currently a Tsunami Watch (threat still being evaluated) for entire U.S./Canada West Coast following very large M 8.7) sub-oceanic quake near eastern Russia in West Pacific. Plenty of time to refine/crunch numbers further for West Coast, but more imminent threat closer to epicenter.

To fight the Trump administration's war on solar, we have to get rid of dumb permitting requirements for putting panels on your roof and balcony. Australia and the EU have done this--time for our mayors and state legislatures to follow www.motherjones.com/environment/...

how have i not seen this before?

Working on multiple scammy green finance, offset, carbon credit related stories at once and not for the first time am wondering what drives people to put so much time, money and effort into a scam when they could have done something actually useful instead.

Worth remembering that when activists pushed Biden to declare a climate emergency & use emergency powers to accelerate the clean energy transition, VSPs scolded them. Ha ha, that's crazy! Fun update: Trump has claimed emergency powers to substantially slow the transition & no one said shit.

I wouldn't be sad if the world eliminated ticks, mosquitoes, and billionaires.

This is beyond personal interest, really. He's just pro-pedophile as a principle.

Honolulu is suing fossil fuel companies for climate change damages, and the companies are trying to get the suit dismissed by claiming that the statute of limitations has expired because we’ve known about climate change for decades. Lol.

I hate to give him credit for anything but Trump's "no tax on tips" thing was pretty brilliant reactionary politics. It's simple & memorable, it appeals to normal working people, and it is secretly a mechanism to fuck poor people at the expense of the rich. Trifecta!

AI is killing the internet. If all anyone reads or sees are AI summaries, what incentive is there for people to continue to generate the material that AI is summarizing?

LIVE: Senator Warnock introduces the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act in the 119th Congress. 🗳️ Timed with the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act (August 6), this bill renews the fight to protect and strengthen our democracy. #VotingRights #JohnLewisAct #VRA6

"...cancer mortality rate declined by 34% from 1991 to 2022 in the United States, averting approximately 4.5 million deaths." - ACS Cancer Statistics, 2025. In 30 years, we've cut the death rate from cancer by a third. The current pipeline has *actual cures* for specific cancers in it.

I can't imagine there will be any problems with this summary of climate science

this story is huge and you should share it far and wide

These Israeli academics, artist & intellectuals calling for "crippling sanctions" against Israel have more courage in their little fingers than von der Leyen, Starmer, Merz & countless other invertebrate European "leaders" who bring shame to us all. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

No one is safe, not even "model minorities".

You can’t overstate just how impressive this heat dome is. It covers 2/3 of contig. US, 80% of US population 90+ high temp (~260 mill people) Peak intensity of heat dome record for SE US in late July. Peaked at 3.7 sigma which means this heat dome is extremely rare in our former climate of the 1900s

"Housing policy is about getting all the cool people together and keeping the uncool people out" is such a stupid fucking baby-brained take. I simply loathe hipster discourse on this subject.

Your 'moment of doom' for July 29, 2025 ~ IPCC vs. Actuaries "let me remind you that in a 2°C warmer world, GDP will contract by more than 25%, with 'mass human mortality events resulting in over 2 billion deaths.'" www.meer.com/en/91051-the...

some stupid, utterly avoidable disasters are worse than others. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/u...

The forklift this very happy man 😀 is driving is an ATX-3000 Sidewinder omnidirectional lift truck. It utilizes 'Mecanum wheels', a series of rubber rollers oriented at 45° angles. The net results of this system is that the vehicle doesn't need steering: it can move in any direction by....

“Primate researchers have found that the macaques steal belongings to use as currency to trade with humans for food.Some monkeys can distinguish between objects we highly value (smartphones, prescription glasses, wallets) and those we don’t (hats, flip flops, hair clips) and will barter accordingly”

Aussies and Europeans can get rooftop solar on their homes for a third the price of Americans—and one huge reason why is our crazy local permitting system. (And Congress and the WH can’t keep us from changing this.) www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Population growth or decline will have little impact on climate change - It'll be too slow and too late for the timeframes that we need to decarbonise, says @hannahritchie.bsky.social #climatecrisis www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/population...

If Dems had passed everything in the original BBB -- health care, elder & child care, voting reform, energy reform -- inflation would have been somewhat higher and they would have lost control of government. But they lost control of gov't anyway. So we would have been in the same situation ...

F U Leo DeCraprio

The "CO2 is necessary" denialist talking point is truly one of the stupidest. Lots of things are necessary, but also bad for you in large quantities. Food, for example, is pretty necessary. But too much food is quite bad for your health.

Disgusting to see major Israel arms supplier Keir Starmer treat Palestine’s basic right to exist as a bargaining chip in some macabre geopolitical game. There’s a reckoning coming for all who abetted this Holocaust. Starmer is cynically dusting off his excuses. www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...

The deliberate starvation of Gaza was predicted 18 months ago by the top UN expert on the right to food. This is not unexpected, our political leaders knew this what they were backing @michaelfakhri.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...

The Fort Worth Zoo is one of the few programs to successfully breed Texas horned lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum) in captivity, with the first zoo-reared group hatched in 2005. They've been so successful, they've been able to release them back into the wild to bolster declining wild populations.

To be clear, this is the fossil fuel industry rewriting climate science in the name of profit.

If you are staffer at a big environmental organization, and you are crafting an "official statement" condemning the EPA's attempt to kill the endangerment finding, I have a sincere question for you: What effect do you think the statement will have?

Heat indexes near 105, but no advisory today? 🤔 Readers are asking — and so are we. Given heat is the top weather killer, maybe it's time for more caution… not less from @nws.noaa.gov More at cwg.live Pictured: Forecast heat indexes at 3p

Some wild assertions in the EPA's proposed rollback of the endangerment finding: www.epa.gov/system/files...

does anyone know of a coordinated response? this would take any single person months of work to go through and point out all of the errors, but I think we could have a pretty comprehensive response much sooner if we split up the work.

How things are going:

Major Hurricane #Iona, and right behind it, Tropical Storm #Keli, glide westward across the open waters of the central Pacific Ocean, 600 miles south of Hawaii.

This is why we can't have nice things

They always do this: they suppress the actual science of a phrase & spread its colloquial meaning, if that creates misunderstanding. They did it with "uncertainty," and they're doing it now with "we have avoided the worst-case scenario" & "the worst-case scenario is misleading." 🧵

Some good news for a change! We will keep a critical source of microwave satellite data going for at least another year, or until the satellites, which are already operating 15 years past their expected lifetime, fail.

"Moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans." www.propublica.org/article/wate...

Today, the EPA released a proposal that would gut the 2009 Endangerment Finding. “These actions by Lee Zeldin are anti-science and backed by the fossil fuel industry, said Chitra Kumar, Managing Director, UCS Climate & Energy campaign.

More than $30B in U.S. clean energy manufacturing investment has paused, canceled, or delayed in the six months since Trump took office, according to a new report During the same period, only $3B in new investment has been announced new from me, in @heatmap.news: heatmap.news/economy/trum...

Some truly outrageous stuff on the new "climate" page: www.energy.gov/topics/climate. Apparently we still haven't moved on from the same zombie science myths. Embarrassing!

One Democrat believes that people should have to demonstrate minimal cognitive competence & acuity before they are allowed to serve in office. Others disagree!

I've been asked by reporters to comment on this. I wish I could but I don't want to. What I will say is that I'm relieved to find out that ocean acidification from fossil fuel CO₂ emissions isn't a problem because the ocean was more acidic when life first evolved billions of years ago. 🙄

Just wait until you all hear about the lack of funding for tsunami preparedness and mitigation in the U.S. Until then: www.tsunami.gov

I've come to terms with the fact that I'm never going to witness this man being punched in the face, but I don't like it.

Trump's EPA is trying to destroy the Endangerment Finding -- the solid scientific conclusion that greenhouse gases are dangerously changing the climate. They've published fake, misleading claims from climate deniers. This will devastate efforts to stop climate change. The EPA comment period is open.

as dc broils beneath a record-setting heat dome, the epa is expected to go after the scientific basis for all greenhouse gas regulation www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

Washington coast: La Push 11:35 PM Neah Bay 11:40 PM Long Beach 11:45 PM Moclips 11:50 PM Westport 11:55 PM Port Angeles 12:20 AM Port Townsend 12:45 AM Bellingham 1:10 AM Tacoma 2:00 AM

The Wall Street Journal has published the most anti-science editorial I have ever seen, celebrating a victory against "climate imperialism" - ie. efforts to respond to an accelerating crisis that is endangering hundreds of millions of lives and is on course to end organised civilisation.

This is all 1000% true.

I've been getting a lot of requests for comments on the DOE report "A critical review of the impact of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions on the U.S. climate". Here are some initial thoughts. More will come later.

i feel like every bluesky user needs to watch this video at least once

Councilmember Traci Park asked the state to suspend SB9 for the Palisades because adding duplexes "could lead to an unforeseen explosion of density." Now LA Mayor Karen Bass has issued her own bad-faith statement in agreement arguing SB9 will "drastically further challenge ingress and egress"

Your 'moment of neo-fascist kakistocracy' for today: The US is “abandoning its responsibilities in the midst of a planetary emergency,” www.cnn.com/2025/07/29/c...

Your daily reminder: solar power, just like wind power, isn't going to grow exponentially forever in a dazzling ecomodernist free-market fantasy curve. It gets buffeted by reality just as much as anything else does, and needs continued policy support -> www.solarpowereurope.org/press-releas...

Just a few months ago, I did an entire piece about how the Trump administration is completely gutting our tsunami warning infrastructure and endangering lives… heatmap.news/adaptation/t...

Other thing I wrote this morning (🫠). I tried to give a little more science context than I've seen in other coverage, such as the costs of climate change to the U.S. and the the harm it poses, particularly to younger generations who will feel much more of the impacts in their lifetimes. 🧪

Simulated reconstruction of July #Arctic sea ice thickness since 1901. Large interannual variability & widespread thinning in recent years. Information about this data set is available at doi.org/10.1175/JCLI...

The list of names on the review of climate science presented to the US energy secretary reads like a who's who of paid lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry. Because it is.

I was on the Palmer in 2001 on a research cruise to the Adelie Coast. A lot of science. And penguins.

The patterns of temperature anomalies across the #Arctic region over the last 12 months... Data using @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis with a 1981-2010 reference period.

Israeli settlers continue a long-term trend of illegally destroying or occupying Palestinian #water sources in the West Bank with no intervention (and sometimes actual protection) from the Israeli military or government. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

we need lots more music about climate change that doesn’t suck

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: "Is the necessary zero-carbon transformation to our societies, economies, industries, entertainments and sports likely to happen in time to stop the shit from really hitting the fan? Honestly, no, it’s not likely at all. "

The first sentence here is the most important. Good writers sharing stuff exclusively on Substack is the fuel the company is using to help push a nasty, slimy little racist agenda.

Fossil fuels and forever chemicals are big winners in Trump’s AI plan www.theverge.com/climate-chan...

This is bad. Very very bad. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Excellent @hausfath.bsky.social -- many thanks. "with long-term warming trending strongly upward and, potentially, accelerating, the world is expected to firmly pass the Paris Agreement 1.5C target ... in the next five years." www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the...

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Tsunami alert here in Santa Barbara. My home is at 200+ meters, safe, but we'll see what happens along the coast. The Climate 8-ball apologizes for not predicting this in advance. www.ksby.com/news/local-n...

Israel is attempting to extinguish an entire group of people by starving them to death

Go Scotland!

hanging out up north in grand rapids, minnesota this week as my comadres at fire in the village lead their first summer camp, coherent crow camp they’re teaching kids how to play music, make prints, create zines, paint murals, and use their voice—i’m honored to get to be a part of it

🧵🪡 In 1970, Milton Friedman wrote the now infamous "Friedman doctrine" essay in The New York Times: "The Social Responsibility Of Business Is to Increase Its Profits." Yeah, it's an essay by Friedman, titled "A Friedman doctrine"... ¹/ₙ

Reading this, I wasn’t sure if they detained him because he’s Korean or because he’s researching vaccines. That’s where we are now in this “great” land of ours.

"Ah, but you see, most of the recent global GHG emissions come from outside the United States," said the United States (the largest historical contributor to cumulative CO2 emissions and the second-largest current emitter)

Oak and woodbine leaves, but which is which? The very opposite of what you might think at first glance! Nature is flexible, fluid, and delightfully variable, in total contrast to the often crushing mass conformity of the modern human world.

if you see someone outraged on this site, or ANY site, ask yourself: are they stoking your anger to win engagement and personal benefit or is there a *real* reason to be upset? don’t get sucked into misplaced outrage cycles!

I wanted this to be twice as long.

Important, devastating reporting on the environmental destruction in Gaza: "Experts say the toxic legacy of the war will linger for generations...And, it will inevitably have consequences far beyond Gaza’s borders." www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Tsunami alert in Alaska after a magnitude 8 earthquake in Kamchatka, Russia. Risk to Canadian pacific coast being analyzed. ⚒️🧪 www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...

"Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist and journalist who helped make the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been killed during an attack by Israeli settlers in the south Hebron hills" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Around the 15th century, the English began covering their cart & wagon wheels with malleable iron. These coverings were called "tires", either as a shortening of "attire" or a link to "tie", because they covered & held together the wood underneath. Sometimes this was spelled "tyre".

This, over on Elon Musk's website, is bullshit. Who the hell is meant to be "lying" about this? Variations in wind power resource in a warming world are incredibly well-researched. This is lazy propaganda designed to falsely sell a vision of helplessness and fossil fuel reliance for social clout

🔥 Today’s satellite view shows smoke rising from multiple wildfires burning in Portugal and Spain. Smoke is often more intense in the late afternoon when high temperatures, low humidity, and strong winds cause wildfires to burn more aggressively.

This is some kind of weird surgery or something, no?

Okay, I think I get it… — “We” can’t change the weather — i.e. climate change. — But “they” can change the weather — conspiracy theories. 🙄 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...