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if we want to win the midterms, let's turn out the horse girls.

Guess who saw a mf'ing Orca off the side of their ferry this evening?

Anyway read this article where I was among the folks that said that NOAA is cool and good and we should fund it because it belongs to us www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

Mrs. Volts and I have been riding e-bikes around Victoria, BC all day and we are blown away. We already knew that Vancouver is awesome but we didn't have many expectations about Victoria. It is amazing! The bike infrastructure is superb and there is jaw-dropping beauty around every turn. 🚴‍♂️😎

Baffled that none of the spreadsheet people discourse has mentioned this incredible piece of news: windowsreport.com/microsoft-is...

The most important climate action you can take isn’t obsessing over your individual carbon footprint. We need to change the system so the easiest, most affordable choice for everyone is also the best choice. How do we change a system? It starts with your voice!

The average global temperature has been setting new record highs for this time of year well over the last 10 consecutive days. Clearly, we are already seeing some of the extra building warmth from El Niño starting to show its fingerprint. Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

Astra Taylor and I wrote this book together because facing the monsters alone is just too scary. When we face them with friends, however, we don’t just get scared–we get mad, we get motivated, and we get organized.

Reminder: Dale Vince campaigns against heat pumps because his company, Ecotricity, supplies homes with fossil gas. Ecotricity claim they're going to replace fossil gas with gas from grass cuttings, which is something that will never happen at scale.

oh man i can hear katie couric

Watch the changes in 100 years of average January-July temperature anomalies over land areas through 2026... Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.1.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

Say what you will about the tropical Pacific ocean, but the North Atlantic, with its lack of tropical weather and ample amounts of Saharan dust, is nearing record daily highs. Here's a snapshot of August 19th, 1982-2026:

Energy security isn't just about what we build. It's also about what we protect. 🌍🌱🧪 Peatlands cover just 3% of Earth's land but store double the carbon of all global forests. Yet, critical mineral extraction and energy infrastructure are putting them at risk. 1/

The headlines this summer make it easy to feel as if nothing can be done: record heat and wildfires continue, while fossil fuel companies rake in billions. But feeling powerless is exactly the trap, and this week there's new science on how to avoid it. Read on!

We KNOW that rewilding massively reduces flooding and the effects of drought, not to mention reversing nature loss, boosting rural communities and the wider economy, and aiding against climate collapse. Why is the government still ignoring the obvious? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For the life of me I will never understand how e-scooters have won so much support among urban transport advocates. They've brought car culture to pedestrian space: obstructive parking, private companies hoarding benefits, constant pointless danger.

Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 20, 2026 ~ Acid test incoming. "recent data of the amount of heat energy trapped within the Earth system ... indicates that Earth may actually be warming faster, aligned with models that forecast higher temperatures." agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

It's way more annoying that they're stealing the sky from us.

This is a good summary of why riding a bicycle is so dangerous in the US.

Your 'doom quote' for today: “The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_W...

Do you want to write a story about volcanoes that changed history? the editor asked. Why yes. Yes, I do. My piece in @knowablemag.bsky.social on the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days that can transpire after an eruption: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... 🧪🌋

“Until we reduce carbon pollution, these record-breaking headlines will continue, and the impacts on communities and ecosystems around the world will only grow worse." In case you missed our latest #climate science briefing, check out the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOvf...

I really thought my man would get dogpiled for this but no, his aura is so powerful he can do a pro-helmet post on bsky and survive

The centrist think tank The Searchlight Institute told Democrats that talking about climate change would hurt them. One problem with that counsel: it's based on lies. Searchlight's own polling shows👇 & that on climate swing voters want Democrats to fight harder and "do more." 1/2

This is very very good and truly fills me with hope. I wish it was a stricter ban though: teachers and other carers constantly use GenAI to produce sloppy visuals for posters, materials etc and I think it just sets a gross example of behaviour for the students, who should be learning not to steal

The kind of journalism you only get from publications that take no ad revenue. www.consumerreports.org/cars/electri...

you know someone is a truly garbage person when stealing someone's $1,000 pen in broad daylight in a courthouse is like, the least unethical thing they've done

I have similar feelings about 'scientific agents'--the work that they're supposedly going to automate is 1) arguably the more fun parts of science in the first place and 2) the exact sort of work junior researchers need to do to become senior researchers

dave hughes looks like he's 300 years old

Every single AI thing that I leave the door open a crack for the possibility that it might end up net-useful, it just ends up stunningly bad. Text-to-speech and speech-to-text should have both just been breezy wins? How are *ALL* the apps in both of those fields just raw garbage?

States' rights, but only for red states.

A neon-green solar-powered slug that lives underwater is the winner of @theguardian.com Invertebrate of the Year competition! - "It’s very, very beautiful but also very smart too - it builds its own solar panels” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

man, two years until this is a decade ago

This coming Sunday at 6.30pm, the first of the 2-part tv version of An Irish Atlantic Rainforest will air on @rteone.rte.ie. It's a portrait of astonishing beauty, and of the raw joy and hope that rewilding brings into our lives. about.rte.ie/2026/08/18/a...

planning a one-day retreat for work and the cost of meeting rooms has now become comical. $150/hour for nonprofits? In nonprofit spaces? And then all tech is like +$20/hr for a projector, + $20 for a microphone. ugly rooms too! I miss when you could rent the nature center for the day for like $250

seeing the gen zs doing another round of satanic panic and demonizing sexuality

I propose this as a decently material factor underpinning the baffling defense of fossil-fuelled data centres and false, fascist AI within large climate / enviro NGOs Young gen-x / older millennials are managers and bosses now. Perfect marks. ketanjoshi.co/2026/08/14/p...

It was truly only a matter of time - British company Solanity is proposing a gas-fired data centre in Norway, slapping an obviously-not-going-to-happen CCS lie on it to help it get approved energiwatch.no/nyheter/olje...

We live on a pretty cool planet. And I want to keep it that way for the future. How about you? (Photo I took of nesting cormorants on islands of the Saint Croix River in Minnesota, near my home…)

can't even track what's on the not to eat list this week. blueberries, granola, jalapenos still.... maybe I will just eat canned ravioli.

lol my electricity bill this month was nearly $400 laugh cry sob our house is 1100 sq ft.

This also applies to "data centres / AI is only 0.1% of emissions", which has been a remarkable spectacle of climate, energy and tech people just breezily adopting a right-wing climate denier talking point and adapting it to defend their own slop habits

you ever have the day after an illness where it feels like you are better but then ope your illness is like j/k you are still infected you disgusting glob of germs

if you wrote something about AI and climate, pls send it my way

As I recently wrote, there is a huge disconnect between the 'per prompt' numbers and the total changes companies are reporting. This goes part of the way to filling the gap: I think a small % of users heavily use extremely energy hungry systems very frequently ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Fossil fuel companies spent over $100M/year selling the "carbon footprint" idea. Let's replace it, with a new model for collective action: "the carbon wave." Here's a sneak peek into my book, a carbon wave calculator + book tour dates. Would love to see you IRL! electricnotes.news/p/how-big-ca...

Please enjoy my latest essay on Substack: "To put it bluntly, doomers believe we should spend our days lounging in our underwear, smoking a joint and eating pizza, while doomscrolling the inevitability of collapse into oblivion." climatecasino.substack.com/p/what-type-...

When the maid of honor from your wedding 43 years ago shows up on the front page of the Austin American-Statesman protesting Trump's border construction in Big Bend National Park. We're all older, but some of us are heroes. Go, Cathy Crane!

A spectacular buff-tip moth caterpillar feeding on a young oak sapling. When land is released from excessive grazing pressure, not just the trees and plants are able to return, but all the associated life too. A whole *ecosystem*.

"If Irish agriculture wants to look at a model for the future that uses high tech to combine productivity with resilience & efficiency in the face of our fast-changing #climate, then the Netherlands has much to teach us". My report is in today's @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

A reconstruction of July #Arctic sea ice extent since 1850 and compared with 2026... Data provided by doi.org/10.7265/jj4s.... Note the mid-20th century warm period (doi.org/10.1002/wcc....), which remains an active area of research.

This is horrifying. Someone plowed into a college cycling team when they were out riding, killing 2 and injuring 7. When I first opened the story the top comment blamed the cyclists--just for having the audacity to use bikes on a road--but it seems to have been deleted. apnews.com/article/mill...

NEW: Increasingly hot, dry and windy conditions could substantially extend the area affected by wildfires across Europe, according to a new study led by PIK's Maik Billing with contributions from @sgn.one. Read more 👇 www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Threatening thaw: climate professor on heatwave risks to permafrost Prof Gustaf Hugelius warns wildfires could accelerate release of methane and carbon as vast regions approach irreversible thresholds Latest Q&A by me in tipping point series. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The fact that “climate change” is at 1% the same week wildfires, heatwaves and drought are together at 50% says all you need to know.

Paint highways white? It’s like we’ll do everything to deal with climate change, except dealing with climate change . www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

all attempts to turn myself into a gamer have failed

has anyone put this little hunchback's 'work' through plagiarism detection software

The threatening thaw: Prof Gustaf Hugelius on #climatecrisis risks to tipping point of permafrost Q&A with @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I try to share info about big problems and solutions to those problems. The “problem” posts have a tendency to go way more viral than the “solution” posts. And as Ketan notes below, this is esp true if we are honest about how hard the solutions are (rather than “this one weird trick fixes all”).

The Norwegian oil & gas adventure is coming to an end. Even with aggressive exploration in new areas, big finds, & technology development, the most ambitious scenario from the Offshore Directorate has declining production. This is before considering climate! www.sodir.no/en/whats-new... 1/

⚡️The number is in: ~50,000 lightning strikes since yesterday! Most overnight as what felt like a freak lightning storm - as some have said: a war of the God’s - moved southward through #Florida and the #Tampa Bay Area! There’s a reason why we are the #lightning capital of the US! Who was watching?

it’s too damn hot

I'm so happy to say my new book on #water, #war, and #peace is available for pre-order! Bill McKibben kindly says: "We finally have a comprehensive account of the building water crisis... with workable ideas for addressing it. Gleick speaks with utter authority here." thenewpress.org/books/when-t...

Who are the executives, owners, and major shareholders of fossil fuel companies? Who held those roles 20, 50, 80 years ago, and who inherited the money they made off of polluting the atmosphere? Pretty hard questions to answer, but taxing the rich to fund climate action would catch most of them.

so many examples of @brettchristophers.bsky.social' thesis being proven right. Ensuring a long-term, multi-decade build-out of renewable energy to replace fossil fuels takes much much more than just free market capitalism lnkd.in/p/eT_8m7d2

This man should be before the ICC.

How Climate Change Is Messing With Your Blood #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org time.com/article/2026...

Another Hawaii Storm? It’s possible. Just days after #LALA, the models develop #MOKE and move it near/ south of the island putting the mountains 🏔️ in an upslope wind with tropical moisture on Sunday. Too early for details, but the Big Island of #Hawaii esp. should prepare for potential flooding. 1/

The evidence is clear: The authoritarian threat is real...and growing. The NYT Autocracy Tracker just upgraded the threat of the Trump administration manipulating the law to stay in power.

Something worth noting is that a 9 gigawatt "off grid" gas plant still buys obscene volumes of gas: more than any other gas plant in the US. that itself makes gas more expensive for the power plants that are on-grid: raising costs for everyone, albeit less directly

spreadsheets are people, my friend

Like a Lagrangian drifter in a turbulent flow field…

oh you like spreadsheets? Name three excel keyboard shortcuts

i think i am a cilantro super taster but i just like it. i’m a little freaky like that.

Weakening federal truck pollution standards ensures more dirty diesel trucks on our roads, leading to toxic air and worsening health for families near highways & freight hubs for decades. Help us oppose Trump’s EPA attack on clean air. The comment period ends Aug. 29! sc.org/EPA_Diesel_P...

Something interesting to me is how there's a spectrum between explicit fatalism ("we cannot stop impacts") and narrow focus on catastrophe of impacts (the Eliot Jacobson stuff) The latter isn't explicitly fatalist, but when it's the *ONLY* message, it becomes the former by emotional implication

If human creativity weren't a threat to capital then capital wouldn't be threatening human creativity. If mutual care and cooperation weren't a threat to systems of domination, then systems of domination wouldn't be trying to undermine our relationships with each other.

“This fading industry desperately attempts to tighten its grip on the world economy even as clean energy grows cheaper & faster to deploy than anything they can offer. Follow the $ & you will find the truth behind his war on CA’s climate policies: this is a White House run for Big Oil, by Big Oil.”

France's destructive heatwaves see over 7,000 excess deaths #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org $ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

'Investments into fire management could help to a certain limit, but fire management cannot replace climate mitigation' - PIK scientist Maik Billing on his new paper out today in @globalchangebio.bsky.social. Read more in @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Europe burns, governments pour more fuel on the fires. European countries spent €444 billion of fossil fuel subsidies in 2023 alone. That's 3 times as much as in 2016 when they adopted the Paris Agreement.

I love getting post addressed like this! Thanks Brian and Gilly @wildacres.bsky.social! 🙏

Permafrost tipping points are here at local level, with devastating impacts on climate. By @jonathanwatts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Is energy system modeling... science? Unpopular take: It is not. The core of the scientific method is devising theories that make testable predictions, testing them, and rejecting theories whose predictions don't match reality. Most energy modeling doesn't make testable predictions, so the testing..

There are mediocre and lazy thinkers given too-large platforms all the time, but no one matches the mediocre:platform-size ratio of this guy. It's stunning

Why national governments and mayors should do everything in their power to get us ready for Summer 2027 - while most European governments have not even found words for this Summer 2026. There is no greater test of leadership than your climate leadership. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

"The Pentagon also fired Jacqueline Smith, the newspaper’s ombudsman, who was charged with protecting its reporting from political interference." "In June, for instance, reporters were banned from the Defense Department’s press office, which was abruptly designated as a classified area."

Genuinely interesting: The NYT is highlighting free stories on its website.

folks obsessed with thread count: bedsheet people

Spreadsheet people? Bsky core user base probably more into Lotus 1-2-3

Some neighbors replaced the poster about their missing cat with a poster invite to a welcome home party for said cat

Haha all of those other people developing poster’s madness. Not me tho. I’m immune just like the gods.

Many people in places like Gary, Indiana are still without power 2 weeks later after a powerful Derecho blew through the Chicago area on August 11. My breakdown of the science AND the lingering vulnerability challenges with this compound event. www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Israeli politicians continue to spout genocidal speech calling for and inciting the genocide of Palestinians. Still much of the mainstream media continues to publish Israeli state lies and propaganda. Totally indefensible

If you told someone you invented a new transportation system but it would kill more than 40,000 Americans each year, they would look at you like you were crazy. A stark example of status quo bias. Cars and guns. Automobile deaths and mass murder. It doesn't have to be this way.

We have an EV now too, and have also done some pretty long trips. It’s been great!

Never try to tell me Big Oil won't go into a country out of concerns for "democracy," "rule of law," or even stability. They go where the money is. Period. Security issues in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado area, where Exxon’s is based, were “still acute but manageable." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

last ekko shows nyc this saturday (free) dc in one week (ltd tix warning) hope you’re able to join us for a farewell as we move to a new chapter in our lives

Our friends at @noaa.gov are forecasting that the 2026/2027 #ElNiño could be among the strongest on record. What El Niño-related questions do you have for Scripps Oceanography scientists?