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governor abbott took away our rainbow crosswalks but we replaced them with much more visible rainbow sidewalks, and some businesses have followed suit (one added rainbow exterior stairs)

"This is what you get when you elect Republicans." Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly. Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time. Fucking say it!

The heat dome cometh! Cool now, but starting this weekend and peaking early next week a strong heat dome will build on top of #florida Some will reach the low 90s on the West Coast. Summer is coming! #heat #heatdome

One of my former students took her final project for my field natural history class and turned it into her Honors thesis: a 100% original, hand-drawn field guide to the rocky intertidal! And she got copies printed for her defense!

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! We're now at 17 months in a row for setting a new record high for the 36-month running average for global (60S-60N) Total Column Precipitable Water. In other words, the atmosphere is now holding more water vapor than ever before in recorded history.

Amy Klobuchar is definitely going to win. and that sucks. but instead of putting our collective energy into trying to change that, which we probably can’t, we should put the effort into winning seats in the state legislature. win enough that you make Amy the least powerful part of state gov

Former NASA climate scientist, now Senior Scientist at Project Drawdown, Dr. Kate Marvel, has a fantastic piece in the New York Times today. This is a must-read if you care about science, the planet, and the future. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

Wayne Maddison (waynemaddison.bsky.social), professor emeritus at UBC, captured this video of a nearly transparent jumping spider (tribe Amycini) from Canandé Reserve, Ecuador. Look closely & you'll see the principal eyes moving as it scans the area visually. Let's talk about spider-vision! 🕷️🧪

"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are." One of my favourite quotes, attributed to St Augustine and embodied by @drkatemarine.bsky.social today.

Iran's demands are reasonable and should be implemented. In fact, given the barbarity of the illegal aggression—the assassination of their head of state and civilian leaders, massacre of civilians, destruction of hospitals and schools—the demands are if anything restrained.

Aaliyah is a teen activist from Minnesota whose mother and sister were both deported. This campaign to help her maintain stability has only been able to raise 25% of its goal in the last week. If you can afford to contribute, it is so needed. Read more about her: www.mprnews.org/story/2023/0...

America's oil execs have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, the WSJ reports This cash windfall won’t go primarily toward yachts and private jets, but toward political campaigns and lobbying orgs dedicated to blocking climate policy and fueling authoritarianism

it’s not that voters were duped—it’s that they literally do not care about anything other than themselves, their families, and people like them. this is lizard-brain stuff “protect my genetic descendants.” and we try to combat that with intellectual messages that don’t have the same pull.

I don't know why, out of everything that's going on, I keep coming back to this, but the idea of JD fucking Vance going to Iran to negotiate a peace treaty just makes me laugh every time I think about it.

Burn everything down.

The images of Earth from Artemis are amazing. But if we destroy our ability to understand (and live on) our planet, all they are is pretty pictures www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

I listened to a little bit of "All Things Considered" on NPR in the car today & it was basically, "welp, Trump did it, the war's over, we had our little $4 gasoline scare but things are getting back to normal now, the market's recovering, whew, glad that's behind us." Absolutely surreal.

If they start putting out EVs with 400+ mile range, will people finally STFU about "range anxiety"?

It definitely feels pretty fucking worrying that Trump openly threatened to enact a massive, potentially nuclear genocide and erase an entire civilisation and there hasn't been a loud, unending and universal chorus of unequivocal condemnation and resistance from western leaders

"It’s weird, really it is. We pack a few brave beloveds into a tin can, strap it to an explosion, and hurl them farther away than any other has ever gone. Because." - @rboyle31.bsky.social #ArtemisII 🧪🔭 lastwordonnothing.com/2026/04/08/t...

This is a core question & the right has no answer. Their real answer is simply Wilhoit-ism: we are good & right, therefore anything we do is good & right. They are bad & wrong, thus anything they do is bad & wrong. It's not torture or genocide when we do it, because we're good! QED

"Clark et al. (2016) showed that decisions made in the next few decades will lock in sea level rise, ice sheet loss, and temperature change that persist for thousands of years — well beyond any planning horizon human civilization has ever contemplated."

How you know we are in truly unprecendented, unfathomable and historic times: Germans are buying more EVs than petrol cars Truly uncharted waters here www.cleanenergywire.org/news/electri...

It was a joy to interview @mollycrabapple.bsky.social at the launch her magnificent book "Here Where We Live Is Our Country" last night at the NYPL. Video of our conversation is up now. She was transcendent. www.youtube.com/live/tTEo6wU...

Drought a huge concern this summer. Palmer drought severity index (PDSI) by state for March 2026 had 6 states with their worst drought on record, with 22 others experiencing a top-10 worst drought. Only Michigan had an above-average lack of drought. From: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...

Some part of Trump's humiliating climbdown comes from the fact that institutions and people--of many types--rallied to say his 'end a civilization' spew was grotesque. The reaction scared him--let's hope (though I have my doubts) that the fear lasts a while. Anyway, thanks to all who helped!

1. Relentlessly, ceaselessly focused on pursuing awful shit. 2. Vaguely, generally in support of good shit, but timid & excessively prone to going along with awful shit out of fear. You can argue that neither is good, that you'd prefer another choice, but you can't argue they're the *same*.

"Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be unprecedented in human history."

Really sad it’s come to this. On my way to join my colleagues at the picket line. We deserve a fair contract!

Nations are now waking up to the fact that electrification = national security. Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous country.

Bog witches of the world. It’s time. ♥️

Since 1973, Irish agriculture has received net transfers from the EU of close to €40 BILLION, dragging the entire sector out of poverty. Doubly sickening to see a recipient of this taxpayer largesse lecture anyone on “looking after our own people first”

“If you read that New York Times article on my resignation, some guy I’ve never met who’s calling me “Kate” — I guess we’re on first-name terms, guy I’ve never met — he’s saying it’s all the scientists’ fault.“ 😂

i was on the teen arts council at the walker and we worked with artists in residence Allora and Calzadilla and their projects made me love contemporary art they cast a famous statue of columbus as chalk, and gave them to teachers, to degrade columbus as they taught the real history of Puerto Rico

This remarkable rift valley in Pinglu, Shanxi, China stretches around 10km and drops up to 100m deep. It’s carved into fragile loess soil on the Loess Plateau, where erosion and collapse continue to reshape the landscape.

i genuinely get excited whenever i see @clairewillett.bsky.social talking about the vatican i am not religious and not really even interested in religion i just love nothing more than a subject matter expert getting to put the breadth of their knowledge on display

Industrial heat pumps are one of the most underrated technologies in the energy transition. They work. They scale. And they’re finally moving from demonstration to deployment. Here’s a 95-tonne heat pump component just traveled hundreds of kilometres by river to reach BASF’s Ludwigshafen site.

At the Heartland climate-denial conference yesterday, Lee Zelden claimed that high-emissions scenarios were illegitimate, advanced by a “cabal” of climate scientists trying to use unwarranted fear to seize power. But of course he did! Here’s how you can fight this fossil-fuel propaganda… 🧵

Significant that this post has no likes, no re-posts, but 13 previous quote-posts, every one of which is rightly critical to varying degrees of the bs 'we put the food on the table' narrative. It's time for a mature national conversation about nature loss, climate breakdown, and REAL food security.

NASA plays music to wake up the Artemis II astronauts & have released the songs the crew picked out, and I am delighted to see Pink Pony Club and Bohemian Rhapsody made the cut. Also, how weird must it be to wake up on the far side of the Moon, going 40,000 km/hr?

Today on Volts: more & more (especially young) people are realizing that housing & land use are core decarbonization tools -- that housing policy *is* climate policy. You know who hasn't caught on yet? Green funders & philanthropists. Why is that? I talk with two people in the know.

Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 8, 2026~ Rearview mirror "A decade after the 2015 Paris Agreement articulated the 'stretch goal' of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels, it has become clear that achieving this goal is no longer plausible." www.rff.org/publications...

"Did our abysmal approach to this moral panic throw the door open to fascism?" Waiting for that piece.

Still safer than having supersized pick-up trucks and SUVs in our cities.

Do you feel like summer is getting longer, hotter, worse? Spring and fall are shorter and faster? Science agrees. This is another example of #climatechange. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Lunging for my "this is where 'anti-woke' was always going & the reactionary centrists who played along should feel terrible about their shitty selves" keyboard macro ...

As part of its peace plan, Iran wants to charge $1 for every barrel of oil that passes through the Strait of Hormuz. Is that a … carbon tax? I wrote about it: heatmap.news/energy/trump...

Some 80% of power project developers say that the federal permitting tangle is a serious factor in slowing down or blocking their projects. We badly need permitting reform. Too bad the Trump admin is deliberately derailing it.

I had sort of forgotten that Hawaii's grid is still so reliant on oil. This whole situation is really going to F them over.

In farmland that's rewilding back to natural rainforest, even the base of an old dead blackthorn stem is thickly cloaked in filmy ferns and mosses. The levels of diversity developing here are just astonishing.

The contiguous U.S. averaged precipitation total for 2026 to date is an ominous one: a mere 4.79". That’s the lowest value on record for any January-to-March interval, including such notoriously dry periods as the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. The previous record low was 5.27", set in Jan.-Mar. 1910.

Major flooding in Santo Domingo, Dominican republic this morning...🌊

I think I've said this before, but it is absolutely wild to me how many people will contact me on LinkedIn and not attempt to reach out via any other medium. I go there once every few months & always find old messages. "I'm urgently trying to contact you." Urgently? You're trapped on LinkedIn!

Breaking News! Code Yikes! The data just came in for March "Total Column Precipitable Water," and yet another new record high was set for the 36-month running mean for the TCPW for Northern mid-latitudes, where about 50% of humans live. Very wet times ahead!

Compare this video to the imagery Meta put on their website This is a 1,000 MW project in Lebanon, Indiana, US datacenters.atmeta.com/2026/02/hell... #EddingtonWasADocumentary

i was watching an interview with this astronomer Michelle Thaller and she said that it’s possible that humans will never understand reality like, truly getting it would take brains that were smarter than us as much as we are smarter than a grasshopper kind of blew my mind

Yes everything is horrible and AI is making the world stupider, but this written and hand-illustrated field guide to the intertidal zone of Maine is worth going “cool!” and celebrating. 🙌 🦀🧪

Trump threatens to wipe out entire civlisations; Benjamin Netenyahu is actually trying to do it every single day www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

A pyroclastic flow was recorded at Mount Merapi, indonesia, at 20:03 local time, travelling around 1,100 meters. The event lasted just over two minutes and moved toward the upper Kali Sat Putih river area.

Temperature anomalies (departure from average) around our planet for the last month (left), 3 months (center), and 12 months (right)... Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Amazing fact from today's post from @bhensonweather.bsky.social: the contiguous U.S. was hottest on record for March, and for all intervals (2-month, 3-month, etc.) going all the way back to the 12-month period from April 2025 through March 2026. Also true for the past 18-, 24-, 36-, and 48-months.

Bookstore owners want each other to succeed. We are all working to create a dynamic and diverse culture of literacy that benefits all of us. Those other bookstores are not, in any real way, 'competition.' Happy Black Bookstore Day! Here's to thriving together.

When you cross on a pedestrian crossing in front of a Tesla, you should do it 20% slower than usual. Not so slow that it's too obvious, but slow enough that they notice and start losing their mind with paranoia. Accelerate to normal in their view field 🚶‍➡️

Your 'doom quote' for today: "Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable." 2009-2017.state.gov/p/io/potusun...

This week in Talking Climate, we're talking about faith leaders confronting misinformation, snake risks on the rise, and a competition to cool the Netherlands. Read more at the link below!

Is Danielle Smith an Untrustworthy, Bad Faith Actor? Yes. Yes, she is. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli youtu.be/Z05222PAuLQ

Proud that Kate is a colleague here at Project Drawdown now.

Huge news. Conservationists are celebrating today because two wolf families have been reintroduced into Durango. Do you know the story of Llave? She is a beautiful wolf. Named by schoolchildren, she holds the "key" to Mexican gray wolf recovery. #rewilding www.westernwatersheds.org/2026/04/que-...

At noon yesterday and on Monday, more than a third of UK electricity was from #solar The future could be bright... HT @solarenergyuk.bsky.social www.neso.energy/data-portal/...

Trend in April temperatures across the #Arctic over the last 47 years... The greatest warming is along the Siberian coast and in the Barents Sea, especially near Novaya Zemlya and Severnaya Zemlya. Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5. For more info: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...

Someone needs to chisel this in stone somewhere. Iranian fundamentalism and political repression was proudly birthed and nurtured by those great bastions of empire, the UK and US.

As the news cycle moves aggressively forward, let's not forget that time the President Donald Trump threatened to annihilate 93 million people.

Eating these leftovers now & they still rule so I'm bragging again.

"China’s long-term focus on electrification is making it more resilient to energy price shocks, according to Lombard Odier." 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Giant wood pellet burner #Drax said it would capture the emissions with CCS Now it is walking away, reports @politico.com, and blaming the government HT @carbonbrief.org www.politico.eu/article/ener...

New report from the gov't Nuclear Power Committee out in Norway today - finds nuclear would be expensive here, and would take at least 20 years to get up and running I still think there's a potentially constructive pathway here for community-driven and non-harmful onshore wind instead, though hard

"Gas prices and price of bitcoin could get a little more entangled" Ohhhhhhhhh maaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

gas here is now $4 so I assume that it’s $28 in california and $64 in hawaii?

Seismic shift in energy markets? Here's what international consultants Wood Mackenzie had to say: "Middle East disruption could cut global oil demand 20% and gas 10% by 2050 as energy security drives shift to independence." Asia is electrifying. Get over it, Alberta.

My debut book, Nerve, is six years old this week, and *touches earpiece* I've just been informed that the ebook is on sale across platforms (in North America) for $2.99 U.S. throughout April! That's, what, the price of half a latte?

The Salt River Project (SRP) election in Arizona may turn out to be one of the most important utility elections in America this year. And almost nobody outside Arizona is paying attention. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

So no one agrees on what the ceasefire plan actually includes. Some brilliant plan.

worst part of the bar next door (they are all the worst part): i seriously did not know how many people still listen to drake. so much drake. 5/10 songs, drake.

We are so fortunate to welcome Dr. Kate Marvel back to Project Drawdown! Our commitment to surfacing truth and sharing knowledge has never been stronger. We embrace what science does best: evolving as new discoveries emerge. That spirit of intellectual openness will always have a home here. 🚀🌎

Whatever opinions you might have about global warming potentials, I don't think "different mitigation targets for different gases" gets around the basic problem of having to make a value-based judgment on the exchange rate between CO2 and CH4 (or other short-lived greenhouse gases). Quick 🧵 on why.

Every quote in this piece hits hard. What a devastating assessment. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Another cold night is ahead. 🥶 Freeze warning for suburbs well west/northwest. Frost advisory elsewhere. Near and below freezing in former, a touch above freezing in latter. Frost could develop across the area, primarily outside urban centers. Details at cwg.live

Want durable climate coalitions? Go where people feel it: affordability. Housing + transportation are the biggest monthly bills. Policies that let more people live near jobs/services/transit cut costs *and* emissions. Volts featuring @spears.bsky.social www.volts.wtf/p/why-climat...

ALSO today on Volts: great news for paid subscribers! You know that ad break in the middle of episodes where I beg you to become a paid subscriber? Well, if you're already a paid subscriber, you'll no longer hear it. (It's a small step but literally the most-requested change.)

Look how cold it got this morning around the DMV... many spots below freezing. Officially, dropped at 35 at DCA, 32 at Dulles and 33 at BWI. Our latest forecast and more info at cwg.live

It’s actually not a sign of journalists’ power that they can get corporate executives on the phone and/or be pitched business stories. That’s a sign of journalists being useful — and used.

On Friday, I'm talking with a company called Zero Homes that is trying to remove some of the friction from the whole home retrofit business. They have tools that allow homeowners to create their own 3d model of their house, which can bypass several contractor visits. Got questions?

“These new numbers are extremely concerning and I will say they’re unsustainable” said state Sen. Joan Huffman, chair of the Senate Committee on Finance in an interview with The Texas Tribune. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/08/t...

My monthly #Arctic temperature graphics are now updated for March 2026. Quite warm (relative to average) across the northernmost areas. See: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe.... #DataViz #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData

"if a laptop manufacturer knows the Pentagon buys their laptops, they can declare that line exempt. If a networking company sells a $20 switch to a federal building, they can claim that hardware is critical infrastructure. It’s a blank check for manufacturers to exempt themselves"

Meanwhile, another President had this to say: “Right now, there is chaos worldwide due to energy issues. Frankly, the situation is so serious that I cannot sleep. South Korea must swiftly transition to renewable energy.” www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Labour MP Alex Sobel: “Now they [Drax] are burning the wood from deforestation in America and not capturing that carbon either. It’s time not just to end the [subsidy deal] but to close the most carbon emitting power station in the U.K.”