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Mangroves, vital for protecting coastlines and storing carbon, are making an unexpected comeback due to increased legal protections and public awareness of their importance. Since 2010, the rate of mangrove loss has slowed down, with more forests being restored than destroyed.

Cuba helped several African countries in their liberation struggles against brutal colonial occupiers, including against the apartheid regime in South Africa which the US backed and supported. That’s what he means by “radical left-wing terrorism”, just to be clear. x.com/SecRubio/sta...

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! Sea-surface temperature records are being shattered daily, and yet this El Nino is just getting started ...

Once again, @brianbeutler.bsky.social is the only one I hear talking about this key dynamic: the more corrupt the GOP & its lackeys on the court get, the more they have to lose if the elections go the wrong way & the more they'll be willing to do to prevent it.

Chickenshits. What an insult to Pelley.

Ugh. I didn’t stop eating meat nearly 40 years ago because I didn’t enjoy it (animals are very tasty). I stopped because the moral cost was simply too high.

My political opinion for the day is that I really fucking hate fascists and right now they are swarming around us, tearing down everything good about our country, and they need to be stopped.

Update: SoFi workers have voted 96% in favor of authorizing a strike, "meaning workers could walk off the job at any moment if their demands are not met." Negotiations continue Monday — but the first World Cup game at SoFi is one week from today

The three year running average for the global surface temperature anomaly is now more than 1.54°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline. With El Nino ahead, expect this to keep rising over the next two years.

For decades fossil fuels meant energy security and renewables meant risk. The Strait of Hormuz flipped that. A fuel supply cut off overnight by a blockade is intermittent too. I spoke to CNBC from the Eurelectric Power Summit in Helsinki on what comes next. www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/i...

🚨 Last month was statistically tied for the warmest May global average sea surface temperature on record... Graphic using NOAA ERSSTv5 data: psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded... 🌊

The new ENSO Euro Plumes were released this morning. Hard to believe, but they are even stronger! Some members are even above 4°C! Remarkable. To be helpful I added color bars to distinguish between strong vs historic events. Almost all members are historical! Now here’s the relative… 1/2

All this latest news reads so much like the final chapter of the mad king story -- isolated, deranged, abandoned even by longtime loyalists -- but ... the dude has got two full years left.

I’m suddenly feeling religious

I have a genAI non-use statement on my site+ make point of making this clear for new clients I cannot state strongly enough how much this benefits me in finding work, and specifically finding GOOD work All the best outlets love it, and all the worst outlets hate it www.cityam.com/there-should...

Psst, could I interest you in a soupçon of good news?

If PM @mark-carney.bsky.social wants to know what I am for, here it is: I want Canada to become a leader in the green energy transition. I want other countries to look at us with envy at how we can not only survive, but thrive on renewables. nationalpost.com/news/we-dont...

"We over-rationalise the past, we dramatise the present and because of this we underestimate the future." This is what Finnish President Alexander Stubb said earlier this week at the Eurelectric Power Summit right before my keynote. My final slide could not have been a better fit.

fuck AI because you can pry my em dash from my cold, dead fingers

and the first democrat to actually do something seriously substantial on data centers is… illinois gov jb pritzker !!!

the key to being a master of language is realizing that communication is the function and that as long as people can understand what you’re saying you are doing it right

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! Mindful that biology has been weaponized against the LGBTQ community by people who don’t know much about biology, I’m making daily, queer, biologically themed posts for #PrideMonth2026 6/5: Clownfish populations are led by trans females.

Odorrana is a genus of true frogs famous for one thing: they stink. Let's meet the ODOROUS FROGS. When stressed or handled, most emit a smell described variously as rotten-garlic, angry-skunk or dead-fish like. This thread brought to you with SMELL-O-VISION™. 👃🐸 (📷: Po-Wei Chi, iNat)

Please do not to do free volunteer PR and marketing for Anthropic

Elephants belong to a taxonomic clade we call 'Tethytheria', with members all having forward looking eye sockets, similar teeth, ear structures & internal testes rather than a scrotum. But what elephant relative has a FOOT that looks like THIS?

Whoever stole our ability to use Microsoft Office, I will find you. You have my Word.

It’s said regularly on here but it’s true: New Yorkers are some of the kindest folks you will ever meet, for real.

I miss the days when adding an “e” to “potato” is disqualifying.

Again: this is marketing slop from Anthropic so they can justify doing deals to actually seriously harm people using fossil fuel plants for data centres. Do not let them do this performance. They are lying so they can sell more fossil-fuelled software subscriptions.

Breaking News! Code Yikes! May 2026 Mauna Loa CO2 data was just posted by NOAA, and a new record high was set for CO2, now at 432.34 ppm. Also, there was a new record for the 36-month annualized rate of growth for CO2, now at 8.28 ppm per 36 months. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

A short video showing the evolution of El Nino plumes, January - June, 2026, care of ECMWF charts. Note the change in scale of the y-axis in both March and April. charts.ecmwf.int/products/sea...

Extraordinary to hear the Minister for Nature, Christopher O'Sullivan, essentially say on the national news this morning that the EU have got it all wrong, and that Ireland's bogs are in fact being protected. The picture is mixed, but overall *not* good.

OMB is run by Project 2025 architect Russell Vought. Did you know that the Director of the OMB can be impeached? Congress has historically supported science—it’s why they keep rejecting Trump’s budget cuts. Vought is trying to do an end-run around Congress. There’s an easy fix for that.

At some point, we're going to have a reckoning about inequality.

A last look at the timing of phenological spring across the contiguous U.S. this year. Red means spring came early for plants. Truly remarkable to see the conditions across the West. Map from @usa-npn.bsky.social: usanpn.org/data/maps/sp... Our study on future projections: doi.org/10.1007/s003...

Bluesky loves fake AI climate sloplutions so much ❤️💖🥰

I'm thrilled to be writing GREEN GIANT for PublicAffairs.

Bad News for Canadian Oil Exports as South Korea Pivots to Renewables Big announcement from SK to reduce oil/LNG imports and grow wind/solar/batteries to 100GW by 2030. Another Asian market rethinking energy security. @ember_energy #southkorea youtu.be/iMPyjLyNPms

Remarkable: The amount of land burned in 2023 in Canada was two times higher than the old record. Smoke from that year’s Canadian fires killed 82,100 people globally — 33,000 in the U.S. — because of PM 2.5 particle pollution.

Immature male Bullock's Oriole. Photo by my friend Gerold Merker yesterday. #birds #bird

Our new paper on the challenges of marine CO₂ removal has a pretty figure. Please admire it. 🌊🧪

“Agriculture takes up half of the river’s flow. And most of that goes to alfalfa. This cow food consumes more water than all the cities, factories and data centers in the basin combined…about 20% of the alfalfa grown is shipped overseas, according to a 2022 University of Arizona study.”

who you actually are is 10000% more interesting and worthwhile than who you think you are supposed to be for someone else

"It's time to fight back," says the magazine that supported Pinochet's campaign of mass murder.

New: US public transit ridership is growing as Iran war-fueled gasoline prices near historic highs. But drivers are loath to give up their wheels & now have ways to avoid driving or paying for gas - work from home, delivery services & switching to an EV. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We can’t solve any of our big problems, including climate change, without doing this.

Mainstream media's choice to focus on the "middle" rather than the "truth" is the main reason for its downfall. Appeasement and pandering ≠ Trust. Choosing truth over convenience does.

Your 'moment of doom' for June 5, 2026 ~ I read the news today, oh boy. "What makes this episode particularly concerning for myself is that it is unfolding on the back of human-driven climate change. We are no longer dealing with El Niño in isolation." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Worth pointing out that NASA designs so well that missions regularly vastly exceed planned lifespan, treated as NBD. From press release: "NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution), has ended after more than 11 years in orbit at Mars and a decade beyond its primary, one-year mission."

Omigod, I'm late for choir practice!

If there was more space between "just how a leader looks and acts in the dominant meta-narrative" and "sadistic controller and abuser" we wouldn't keep ending up in these situations.

Plug-in batteries popping up more & more often on Kickstarter & the like.

coworking with friends and i finally wrote the first chapter of my new book and my friend elisa GAVE ME A STICKER i am a simple girl. will work for stickers.

I somehow managed to get myself emotionally invested in the Spurs at exactly the wrong time.

I have a feeling I'm going to be posting these a lot over the next few months. Which do you prefer? A or B?

Four U.S. military "training exercises" in Pasadena, Long Beach, City of Industry, and Irvine during the last two nights. Only a few hours of notice to residents. Which lucky SoCal city is going to be kept up until 2 a.m. by gunfire and helicopters tonight?

Today on Volts: I talk with Tim Sahay (@70sbachchan.bsky.social) & Kate Mackenzie (@katemac.bsky.social), who run @thepolycrisis.bsky.social newsletter & podcast, about the current oil crisis & the need for US energy wonks to grapple more with international finance & politics. Fun!

So evil. Amazon will let you watch the first five episodes of Fleabag for free and then it it forces you to upgrade/pay to see the season finale.

Friday ice update: Both poles are currently running below the 1981-2010 average for sea ice extent. The Arctic especially stands out, sitting more than 2 standard deviations below average. + More visuals: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... + Data from @nsidc.bsky.social: nsidc.org/data/seaice_...

Today we launched the California Wildland Interface Structural Look Book Dashboard. The Dashboard visually conveys information about wildfire hazard zone classification information for structures throughout California. Link: wuistructurallookbook.stanford.edu

Elected officials who have been wary about supporting a data center moratorium, take note: 61% of Americans now support one. Get more from @jael.bsky.social in THE FIGHT: heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

this is pathetic loser stuff

Households typically pay electricity prices 2-3 times higher than the prices paid by big industrial customers. While *some* discrepancy makes sense - it's cheaper to interconnect one 1 MW customer than a hundred 10 kW customers - many companies have also locked in sweetheart deals with utilities.

UGH. Here's a look at high and low temps over the next 10 days from a blend of models for DC 🔥

Leading my newsletter The Fight today: New @heatmap.news polling finds a clear majority of registered voters — 61% — support a national AI data center moratorium. This is bipartisan: more than half of both Democrats and Republicans support the idea when asked.

fiesta trenzas

I sat down with @kimcobb.bsky.social to ask- what's the latest? Here's what we talked about ⬇️ ❤️ Clean energy growth 😱 Concern over climate tipping points 🤝 How conversations help drive action Watch on Substack or Patreon: www.Talkingclimate.ca/kimcobb www.patreon.com/talkingclimate

did you know that squirrels give each other little kisses? and hugs?

The Trump administration is expected to shut down all USDA Climate Hubs unless Congress acts to protect them. “Shuttering the program will likely end up costing us far more than what we spend on it,” said @julianjonreyes.bsky.social in a statement:

Thrilled to see @carbonbrief.org bagging a Carbon Positive award for "Leadership in climate newsletters" Special congrats to @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org who expertly runs our DeBriefed newsletter, cited in the award What a lovely citation, too (see attached)

MSG will probably be pretty chill for game 3

the populist uprising against data centers in one chart (via @heatmap.news)

lk obsessed with my new spurs shirt it’s so 90’s, it makes me want a crystal pepsi

I grew up in a community with a ton of dairy farms. I had friends who grew up on them. I spent a decent amount of time in corn fields and dairies growing up. Cow tipping and raw milk are espoused only by ignorant suburban cosplayers of agrarian fantasy who have never so much as smelled a cow before.

Great to wake up to find that Saving Ourselves is featured on the @nextbigidea.bsky.social Daily Podcast 🤩 Understanding how we can mobilize the masses to save ourselves from a world of increasing climate shocks is key to our survival. Tune in here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

ok my story on this went up but folks were pretty reticent to chat. still, getting some good feedback behind the scenes! if people start mounting a response or resistance to this, i would love to hear about it

Your 'doom quote' for today: "To raise overpopulation-as-issue and ask such obvious questions is not racist; it is simply acknowledging crucial realities and the associated moral dilemma." substack.com/home/post/p-...

This is another direct, impeachable assault on the Constitution.

Marking World Environment Day, #IPCC’s Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report highlights: Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming. 🔗 www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/s... #NowForClimate

resist.bot/petitions/PT... 🌊 🦑

you don't need all that protein

Insightful take: "Whether by design or ineptitude, it would essentially make the current system of federal science pretty much impossible. Even if one agrees that the system is in need of reform, breaking the system without having a robust, viable alternative would leave our nation very vulnerable."

I was diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago and I'm like 95% sure I'm not autistic but then a customer comes into the Map Center and calls my store a Cavendish Space, cites a website called "Stim Punks," and makes me feel naked and extremely called out. stimpunks.org/glossary/cav...

We've created a world where acknowledging violence is considered worse than the violence itself. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

More SNEC takes from someone who knows more about solar modules than me!

I attended American Diabetes Association conference in Boston in 2014 as a member of the press. Fast forward 12 years and, shockingly, America has fallen to far-right thugs. Like the Nazis they’re modelled on, US fascists target academia & free speech. Resistance is crucial.

Yeah, our autonomous AI robotic future is going great.

📈This just in: Scientists at @ucsandiego.bsky.social's Scripps Oceanography reported that carbon dioxide levels at Mauna Loa Observatory reached 432.00 parts per million (ppm), an increase of 1.8 ppm over May 2025’s measurement of 430.2 ppm. @keelingcurve.bsky.social ⤵️ bit.ly/4uVwI87

Buying SpaceX stocks is funding fascism.

The historian & national treasure @hcrichardson.bsky.social has recently commented on the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) debacle too, while also saying that "the science of oceans & ocean currents is TOTALLY COOL," + vital even if not living on the coast! www.youtube.com/live/kH5oSY7... 🌊 🦑 🧪

They had the chance to print money by making a veggie McRib and extending breakfast to 12PM. But no, they didn’t.

love that i can’t ever get a full night’s sleep because then how could i have caught up on the bricks and minifigs lego drama?

A small step in the right direction

REMINDER: Tens of thousands of absentee ballots were thrown out by the Republican governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, last month. Our right to vote is being taken away.

Though oak can often act as a pioneer in natural succession to woodland, it also takes advantage of the conditions created by other trees. In this case, young birch and willow. Additional woodland components are already moving in too: hazel, holly, violet, wood sorrel... Thus is an ecosystem born.

"A good place to start would be agriculture, which takes up half of the river’s flow. Most of that goes to alfalfa & other water-intensive grass hay. This cow food consumes more water than all cities, factories & data centers in the basin combined...about 20% of alfalfa grown is shipped overseas."

My latest for @science.org: Radar maps of sinking coastlines produced using InSAR can show dramatically different, even constrasting, results. Before this work makes its way to guiding efforts in the real world, a hard look is needed, researchers say.

The social science community lost a good soul this week. Rest well, @raulpachecovega.bsky.social

Fun fact: Norway's latest carbon capture greenwashing project is called 'longship', specifically after the viking ship used in all the pillaging and killing the vikings did ccsnorway.com/the-project/

Love bogs and all things gloriously murky? Love the intersection of creative writing and science? Goodreads is having a giveaway for "Bogland: The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life". Enter to get a free copy! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...