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Most of Chinese Camp has burned to the ground, according to Chronicle photojournalist @stephenlamphoto.bsky.social. Some residents of the historic Gold Rush town stayed to fight the blaze, despite evacuation orders. #CAwx #CAfire www.sfchronicle.com/california-w...
Gaming Out Trump Nuclear Option Electoral Scenarios talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/gamin...
How do we even know that is an alleged drug smuggling boat? And where the F is Congress - especially the ranking Democrats in the foreign relations committees both in the House and the Senate? Are they going to do their basic jobs of raising alarm and express concern like Susan Collins or nah?
"How to Report ICE" zines are available for free printable download for these places: California Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area Florida Massachusetts NC Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Zine request form in folder. drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Loser stuff. America belongs to all of us, and only all of us.
Now that the Koch brothers — the Ür-fossil-fuel-villains — have started to fund a campaign for "permitting reform," can we PLEASE come to our senses and stop talking about permitting reform as a climate policy?
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
For example, in some states (although not IL to my knowledge) getting energy assistance funds might require screening by an ICE database. In energy world, in many places this is the only aid available. I will have a fuller analysis out by the end of this year to share.
Trump administration cancels nearly half a billion dollars for Northern California offshore wind project www.mercurynews.com/2025/09/02/t...
Someone asked me what victory against the forces seeking to occupy Chicago looks like. Obviously, those forces being repelled is the goal, but there are layers to what success looks like in these deteriorating conditions. The first is to successfully resist the normalization of military occupation.
This appears to be a straight-up murder.
Since this ridiculousness is making the rounds, here is *actually* how much of the planet we’d need to use in order to meet ALL our ENERGY needs using only renewables. It’s not that large really. A lot of it can be on rooftops and share land with agriculture.
Yep, it will take more than that: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/trump-has-de... 🔌💡
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
Kristi Noem is in charge of America's domestic cybersecurity agency. On a poorly hidden Facebook page, she seemed baffled by how a video of "dogs in leotards" ended up on her feed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-sec...
RealClimate: Climate Scientists response to DOE report www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Trump has sent Texas military personnel to within 20 minutes of my parents as part of a plan to invade Illinois with another state's National Guard. What the literal F.
Sea Level xkcd.com/3135/
![Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidj2tdqhkgoamiqf5reqt7kvbpt26x3cgjxsp4rtwwb46qumcltdq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
INBOX: National Weather Service employees organization files federal lawsuit against President Donald Trump's executive order to ban some federal unions.
the democratic party's bias to normalcy is gonna kill us off. the gop is literally talking about a military junta and the democratic leader is operating like he can just cut a deal with republicans like its normal times.
New paper alert (thread)! "Whitebark pine [WBP] in the United States projected to experience an 80% reduction in climatically suitable area by the mid-21st century" In this paper, we modeled WBP climatic suitability under reference period (1961-1990) and mid-21st century climate 1/6
🚨 SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 18. Millions of Americans took to the streets in June to drown out Trump’s birthday parade. As Trump’s regime escalates his authoritarian power grab, we’re gathering again on 10/18 for a nationwide day of peaceful protests to say NO KINGS: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
This is a very smart campaign. Mamdani level smart.
Oooof :-(
A federal judge has barred soldiers from aiding immigration agents in Southern California. "Why is the National Guard still around?" www.latimes.com/california/s...
Glaciers in Central Asia have long managed to withstand rising temperatures and changing weather patterns. But now, the outlook is worsening. My latest for @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
So what are you doing to reduce the amount of plastic produced, so that we don't need constant cleanup like this?
"It’s a rats’ nest of bad arguments" 🔥
Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out. Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.
Being pro-drowning of children seems like a real are-we-the-baddies moment www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Wow. Until now, Ecuador was my standing example of a government using bogus DMCA notices to make platforms silence truthful reporting and videos. Welcome to the DMCA abuse party, America. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I am so so so proud to have been part of this effort. Climate change is already a major threat to human life, health, and thriving. It is important that we get the most accurate science on the record to delineate that threat, so we can build a better future. www.npr.org/2025/09/02/n...
This kind of litigation to prevent people from speaking up is pretty standard for big polluters. And plastic is a pollution problem with serious human health implications. wapo.st/3HRlFcM
Shot...
@seniorsfcan.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/29/n...
Great article in the NYTimes about our comment to the DOE about their climate report. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/c...
I was the only reporter in the courtroom in Beaumont, Texas recently as lawyers for Exxon, California AG Bonta, the Sierra Club and other nonprofits sparred over dueling lawsuits, free speech and plastics recycling. Read free here: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/c...
“Methane is one of the most actionable levers to slow climate warming,” said Sean Bay, a researcher at Melbourne’s La Trobe University. “Fixing leaks like this should be a top priority.” Just fix it Santos (& SK Innovation E&S, Inpex, Eni, Jera & Tokyo Gas) Now www.broomead.com.au/business/oil...
🚗⚡ EVs win everywhere A new study shows that in every US county, electric vehicles now emit less greenhouse gas than petrol cars, no matter how you drive them. 🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #SciComm #EVs #ClimateAction 🧪
ive got no idea what's going on with Trump's health. But the 'biden precedent' is just so glaring and hilarious. half of 2025 has been taken up with elite press shaming of how no one ever talked abt Biden's age which was actually their main topic in 2024. Ok. Set aside that his party literally ...
I gave Inside Climate News a heck of a kicker quote for this story, but it's been a challenging few months here in the US..... ☹️
speaking of labor ... www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/01/s...
Before any misinformation spreads, we were at the Walter Reed ER from Saturday at 4:30-1:30 am. The first gate Siri routed us to was closed. We had to find one that was open. Standard weekend/holiday schedule. And I have an appt there tomorrow that hasn’t been cancelled.
Way to go San Francisco! www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/l...
Not counted as a heat death: “A 72-year-old Arizona man died days after falling on a sidewalk last year, with the hot surface burning 16% of his body. Cause of death: complications of thermal injuries because of prolonged exposure to elevated environmental temperatures on a hot surface.”
If you're in California and want to avoid the hassle of shopping around, you might be a great fit for the @heatpumped.org group buy! It's a great way to get quality equipment and installations at reasonable, transparent prices. Check it out here: buff.ly/clQKdYv (3/3)
To roll back the fascist Republican takeover of the United States: 1. What would be the most effective allocation of a modest amount of money? and 2. What would be the most effective allocation of a modest amount of time?
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
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More stupid cruelitude wapo.st/4p70Lao
The latest oil propaganda came in my mail this weekend and it's a two page spread about the refineries closing. There is no message about the fossil free or climate future that matches this without radical changes to what and how we deliver EVs, mass transit, and electricity.
This story just got even worse: Firefighters question leaders’ role in Washington immigration raid Wildfire veterans believe top officials on the fire sent their crews into an ambush
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
A pre-dog-walk 🧵 on the pandemic. To me, the lesson of the pandemic is a very familiar one, although as far as I can tell, no one is talking about it or learning it (which is also familiar). It's about the contrast between America's two political parties.
The poor are less able to invest in climate. Now out: first comprehensive analysis of how the economics of #Inequality & the #Environment are interrelated. Co-author Ulrike Kornek (PIK, #UniKiel): “Implications for #climate policy." Story, link to paper: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
EU mulls 10-year tax holiday for jet and shipping fuels, draft shows reut.rs/4p0QxrV
Its kind of amazing how its possible to use the availability of multiple nearby stations to create an accurate temperature anomaly record by automatically identifying stations moves and other changes which systematically alter single-station records www.giss.nasa.gov/pubs/docs/19...
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
It's almost impossible to pull off satire or irony on this; no matter how ridiculous a position, you can find somebody in a position of wealth and power pushing it.
Oil companies worked hard to both create demand and to mislead the public and politicians about the harmful consequences of extracting and burning. Its not "just" a demand problem.
✍️ New article: “Bans on highly toxic pesticides could be a simple way to save lives from suicide” Pesticide poisoning is a common method of suicide in many low- to middle-income countries. Substituting highly toxic pesticides for less fatal ones can save lives.
Solar power is taking off quickly in Hungary ☀️⚡️ Our latest data insight: ourworldindata.org/data-insight...
The same mainstream media who continues to write about Biden’s health months after his presidency ended, and who made Hillary’s cough national news, has been silent on Trump’s health. Meanwhile, here’s an excellent, non-speculative, non-sensationalist post doing the MSM’s job for them.
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Met Office stats confirm summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK. The UK’s mean temp of 16.10°C surpasses the previous record of 15.76°C and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top 5 warmest summers. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Two stories juxtaposed on the BBC website... sigh. Anyone else spot the irony here?
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
From Dan McCarthy: About 27 gigawatts’ worth of coal is slated to retire in the US between now & the end of 2028, says Energy Information Administration, equal to about 15% of the country’s current coal fleet. But Trump is set on stopping these retirements. www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
Excellent research on how newsrooms - at least in the Nordics - seem to suffer from climate technology optimism/bias, by @mbredsdorff.bsky.social, climate editor of Denmark's largest newspaper, @politiken.dk reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/climate-tech... #dkgreen #dkmedier #dkpol
Since the 1960's they have spent billions to refute all evidence, with their investment — despite objective reality — still paying off.
all these media asking democrats 'but crime seems to be down in DC isn't that good' ARMED MILITARY ON THE STREETS IS NEVER FUCKING GOOD
Upper ocean heat content (0 to 700 m depth) also set a new record high with the latest June data update (see my earlier post). Yikes! 🌊 Graphic/data (anomalies) from www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/globa...
A Trump administration proposal to reverse a landmark finding that climate change is dangerous to the public relies heavily on a report from the Department of Energy that dozens of scientists say is flawed. The Associated Press surveyed scientists for their views. Here are some key takeaways:
Between Sept. 6 - 14, join the ‘Find 30 Species’ project on iNaturalist to participate.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
I'm going to be on with @velshi.com at 11 to talk about my article on the small acts of noncompliance that we can take against our dispicable government. I guess Summer is over. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
"oh nothing matters because mr. trump won't let it matter" shut up
The fossil fuel companies really do intend to keep on extracting and burning until they're forced to stop — no matter how much damage they do along the way. Their executives literally Do Not Care. The very definition of evil. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
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Good ICE: glaciers, Antarctica, cocktails. Bad ICE: Trump's gestapo; internal combustion engines.
"As the planet heats up, indoor heat deaths among elderly, sick & low-income people could surge amid deepening financial hardship driven by Trump’s energy policies, trade wars & his administration’s dismantling of the social safety net." @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...
As the sign at the No Kings demo said: MAKE LYING WRONG AGAIN
The Republican Congress is going to try to rewrite the history of RFK Jr.’s confirmation as HHS Secretary. “We didn’t know” “Nobody told us” “He promised he wouldn’t…” This thread will be about the warnings from thousands of scientists and HCW who loudly and publicly opposed his confirmation.
My 2021 article in @plosbiology.org journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
The California Business Roundtable is opposing the EPA's proposed repeal of the endangerment finding then, right? Since they're so concerned about Big Oil being forced to pass on litigation costs to consumers, and the litigation is gonna flow with no federal preemption.
We have the same issue in New Mexico, with a D governor and D legislature (in particular certain key committees) who are far too cozy with O&G to ever take a strong stand on climate. I would love to be proven wrong.
Brandon just signed an executive order saying Chicago police with not collaborate with or aid federal troops if Trump sends them to Chicago. People can bash Brandon all they want, but when fascism arrives, you’ll wish you had someone covering your back. Newsom, Pritzker, and Brandon are doing it.
I don't think that's a bad place to start; things are complicated by the pervasiveness of these ways of thinking and the associated propaganda
A bunch of the more recent work from @johnfocook.bsky.social has been about how you keep people from falling into these myth-based systems. We need more than that at this point though; it's going to take a recruiting pipeline for reality.
regular psa - musk guys are still all over the federal govt in senior roles handed out by trump after the alleged bromance breakup
They should expand it to all nearby crosswalks as well.
What are we even doing?
"How one of the most energy-rich states found itself on the precipice of a gas crisis is in some ways a uniquely Alaskan story," writes @rebeccafelliott.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b... 🔌💡
A federal court in Brazil has reinstated the Amazon soy moratorium, a private-sector antideforestation measure that helps protect the Amazon Rainforest against the expansion of soy farms in the biome.
"the national guard is picking up trash and putting down mulch, not stopping crime" sounds less like clown behavior and more like an actual propaganda effort at winning the hearts & minds of DC residents, so they became habituated to and even fond of the troops' presence
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To our enduring shame, the US wrongfully incarcerated 120,000 people of Japanese descent - more than two-thirds US citizens - between February, 1942 and December, 1945. ICE is already wrongfully incarcerating people 2x faster than that, and the Republican spending bill just tripled ICE's budget.
Less asthma, better food. There really is no excuse. And yeah, induction comes at any price point. The cheapest option used to be the contractor-grade gas stove for $300, now it's the $60 IKEA induction plate. #ClimateTech FTW www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... [gift link]
