Software designer at Sun Micro 20 years, Oracle 10 years. Nature, science, Nordic. Volunteer climate solutions advocate @citizensclimate. Most effective climate policy: #CarbonFeeAndDividend. Pass it on: bit.ly/cfdresources. Tell students: cfdmovement.org.
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A great day in Concord with @rokhanna.bsky.social, @sanders.senate.gov, and 3000 others. I spoke about charging fossil fuel billionaires for their pollution and giving the money to us. Many signed up with CCL to help create political will for Carbon Fee and Dividend legislation. bit.ly/cfdresources!
You have three followers and are asking questions a bot would ask. Do you have any opinions yourself? What are your answers to the questions you have asked me?
There are systemic problems. End dark money, undo Citizens United, create laws that undo giving corporations the rights of people, federal ranked choice voting, end the delegate system, end superPACs and bundling campaign contributions, set age limit of 75 for elected officials. Who will fix it?
Talk climate with candidates. Learn about economists' most well-recommended policy solution (a cash-back carbon fee on fossil fuel production and a CBAM). Join a group that is working to create the political will to enable Congress to pass effective climate legislation. bit.ly/cfdresources
Good news everyone we can all go back to shitting in the drinking water for freedom
Rise up and demand Congress closes the growing US carbon price gap, and does the other things. Not because they are easy, but because we, our children, and life on Earth require it. carboncashback.org/carbon-price-gap
Say you're running a racist, ignorant, Christian nationalist banana republic without using those words...
But it has electrolytes! share.google/NnJIQLz6V1n5...
Blame the fossil fuel billionaires. How 6 Billionaire Families Fund Climate Denial and brought us Project 2025 - desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial
Hoping you'll include something about the threat of the growing US carbon price gap to proper allocation of capital and talent, and global competiveness. carboncashback.org/carbon-price-gap
Trump can go around like a child, renaming things that his loyalists will go along with. The rest of us can ignore him, and when he's out of office this naming foolishness will be forgotten.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Congratulations and thank you. You are bothering the people who need to be bothered (and accused and tried)!
Scientists can help students join groups that are working to create the political will needed to enable Congress to pass effective and powerful climate policies like Carbon Fee and Dividend. cfdmovement.org And work with groups like Citizens Climate Lobby to focus advocates on what needs to be done.
It's time to close the growing US carbon price gap with a cash-back carbon fee on fossil fuel production and a CBAM. carboncashback.org/carbon-price-gap
How 6 Billionaire Families Fund Climate Denial and brought us Project 2025 - desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial
US federal legislation. carboncashback.org/carbon-price-gap
This iteration has confirmed the findings of the original study.
@butterfield81098.bsky.social :l "This is real-life Stanford Experiment"
Oh. So Putin ate him for lunch?
Personal goal: more followers than following. Just 10 away!!! Is this goal conceit, or a strategic in the process of helping create the political will needed to enable Congress to pass effective and fair climate solutions? As far as I can tell, it is the latter. bit.ly/cfdresources
The Hitler playbook is still in play!
Trump slump, 2.0.
It's time we closed the growing US carbon price gap with a steadily rising cash-back carbon polluters fee on fossil fuel production and a CBAM. carboncashback.org/carbon-price-gap
Southern Europe is sweltering under life-threatening heat that could last through Monday, fueling wildfires that have left at least two people dead. In Spain, soldiers have been deployed to battle the fires and hundreds of people have evacuated. nyti.ms/46STog7
The new selection criteria is blind loyalty to big money and big mouth. How 6 Billionaire Families Fund Climate Denial and brought us Project 2025 - desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial
“…interview uncovered by Ben Meiselas/MeidasTouch Network, 2 Live Crew icon ✅Uncle Luke👉wild night/Donald Trump party/Palm Beach early 1990s. Speaking w Mark Thompson/SiriusXM👉Luke: drug use, explicit sex, girls believed underage…turning into something far more unsettling/sexually charged behavior…”
The CHIPS Act set off a manufacturing boom, creating jobs and ensuring the technologies of the future are made here at home. By rolling back this law, Trump is weakening American leadership and letting our adversaries get ahead.
Trump is making decisions that are diminishing our country's future prospects. Putin is lovin' it. But perhaps the biggest loss to our future economic prospects is the growing U.S. carbon price gap. It's time for both parties to take this problem very seriously: carboncashback.org/carbon-price-gap
You'd end up with $70,682, assuming you put the money in a broad market index find and earn 8% on it.
Sure, Juliet, I'd be happy to try to help.
The media & politicians will listen when we make them. For media, let's be creative and create events that attract attention—e.g., hundreds of colleges doing cfdmovement.org. We can talk with candidates (bit.ly/2024-talk-climate-with-candidates) & politicians (carboncashback.org/carbon-price-gap).
I quit my job six years ago to help create the political will needed to enable Congress to pass bipartisan legislation. We need more people to help! Please check out these groups: Citizensclimatelobby.org And cfdmovement.org And carboncashback.org For a few ways anyone can help! Thank you.
This is one year old, but is as relevant as a 2-hour-old podcast: youtu.be/hWwIKCz1F6Y?...
It's time to close the growing global carbon price gap. carboncashback.org/carbon-price-gap
Total estimated Canada #wildfire emissions to end July already marking 2025 as 3rd most extreme year in #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS dataset. Most extreme year for Saskatchewan & Manitoba with no sign of the number of fires reducing across the country. Read our @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social summary ⬇️
We can work together to close the growing U.S. carbon price gap. carboncashback.org/carbon-price-gap
What do we do about a dozen billionaire families who are bullying a whole country around? How 6 Billionaire Families Fund Climate Denial and brought us Project 2025 - desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial
We need legislated term and age limits. 18 year terms for SCOTUS. A new Justice every 2 years. Out of any federal office at 75. SCOTUS ethics rules as other judges have. Address dark money. +Senator Whitehouse has great ideas. +Senator Murphy on guns. + close this: drive.google.com/file/d/1CoXc...
I think Biden was the only one who could have beaten Trump in 2020. His early policy work was great, except he went with subsidies & DEI over Carbon Fee and Dividend for climate, and let Trump torpedo the bipartisan border bill. I think Biden was the only Dem who could have lost to Trump in 2024.
Obviously, Matt Gaetz's approach failed. Anyway, surely you can admit there is a difference between telling an 80-year old who's got public protests against his policies by members of his party that he's too old to run than doing what Gaetz advised.
To a software developer, "hack the system" means that once you understand how the system works, you can use that knowledge to work within the system (or change it) to achieve your desired result. Learning from past mistakes is a key way to get better over time.
I worked to make the defining issue of our time a top-level issue: "Talk Climate with Candidates": share.google/Lk3UVYrBqQVi... The two parties could not be more different on climate policy. If progressive Dems focused less on purity tests and more on family budgets and pollution they'd do better.
My stomach dropped when Biden announced he would run for a second term. It was obvious he was in decline from age and that the public wanted change. I'm not looking for Dem perfection. Just acceptance of reality over hubris. Voters shouldn't have to hold their noses to vote against GOP corruption.
BN was only determined to stay out of jail. Biden was 30 years behind reality. The bipartisan border bill was great, but Trump torpedoed it. Years before, as an interim measure, Biden could have done what he ended up doing after the bill's support collapsed due to the GOP bending the knee to Trump.
Biden lost people on his blind support for Israel, his open border policy (then last-minute action that showed he could have acted earlier), and the whole country was worried that he was too old to lead for another 4 years. The main thing was voters wanted change. He didn't denied Dems that chance.
The path to winning in the future is acceptance & understanding of what went wrong in the past, so we don't repeat it again. It's a standard manufacturing technique called continuous improvement. It works in software development and for airline safety. We need to hack the system. We must do better!
No poll gave Biden any chance of winning. That's what Obama, Pelosi, and many other Dem leaders were trying to convince Biden about. His ego, and advice from Hunter and Jill fooled him. He lost whatever chance he still had by his absolutely incoherent performance in the debate ("We beat Medicare!")
I decided to watch Idiocracy again to brush up on how to fix a dystopian world. It's not much different than watching the evening news this month. youtu.be/0Tv5shB4Gg0?...
Liar-in-Chief.
"the privilege"? Trump was bestie with Epstein for a decade while they shared a "wonderful secret". Release the files.
It's time to close the growing US carbon price gap with a cash-back carbon fee on fossil fuel production and a CBAM. The Growing U.S. Carbon Price Gap - drive.google.com/file/d/1CoXc...
CNN put together a supercut of Pam Bondi being for releasing Epstein files before she suddenly turned against it
The problem with lying so much is the need to remember them all.
If you’d told me on Jan 6th 2021 that the man responsible for that horrific attack would end up returning to the office he tried to steal that day, and that he’d do so after calling the attackers “heroes” & “hostages” he was going to pardon, I’d have thought you were out of your damn mind. And yet…
Joe Biden's fateful decision to run for a second term was also a significant factor in this Trump #47 disaster.
The America First geniuses managed to send hairdressers and soccer players into a gulag and *import* a triple murderer into the US. Nice work. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
Epstein's emails! Epstein laptop! Come on Q, what are you waiting for? Apparently, there's a global cabal of wealthy elite pedophiles that are covering up their deeds. Release the Kracken!
The Daily Beast has been doing an excellent job on it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xggo...
Why isn't investigative journalism having a field day on this? NY Times? WaPo? PBS? Let's go, there's lots of there there. This project was not done by just two people. Who else was running it? Who was using the service? Many people have been severely injured, and justice has not been done.
New bombshell from my investigators on Epstein's sex trafficking operation: the Trump administration has an Epstein file detailing 4,725 wire transfers and almost $1.1 billion flowing through just one of his banks. Hundreds of millions more through others.
It's almost like the people (money?) that control what the NY Times publishes don't want the Epstein information to be made public.
The US democratic experiment is failing. youtu.be/6v42tFncy7w?...
When Trump is out, justice must prevail. How 6 Billionaire Families Fund Climate Denial and brought us Project 2025 - desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial
The Koch Network of fossil fuel billionaires have put their people in place through their front groups. Donald thought they'd be loyal to him, but they are only loyal to the Koch money: The Federalist Society (share.google/jIOIpjGGL0Hg...) and Heritage Foundation (share.google/XL04fwAqDZBk...).
American wants answers. This is not political. We are all fed up with the two-tiered justice system and blind acceptance that the rich get away with things that poor people don't. The Epstein story must come out. People who did terrible things to girls must be held accountable and prosecuted.
Didn't any of that "Happy Days" goodness rub off on him? Apparently not. Actor Scott Baio: America is a 'MAGA country' from its inception | Fox News share.google/t6dvRL00ekU8...
The same one who said he would release his tax filings and never did?
Politics-driven policy is overriding science-based policy, and this doesn't bode well for anyone. Billionaires wanted this, they paid for it, and now we've got it. How 6 Billionaire Families Funded Project 2025 and Climate Pollution Denial - www.desmog.com/2024/10/25/p...
This Senate Floor speech will go down in history as one of the greatest speeches in American history. The Gettysburg Address. We Chose to Go to the Moon. Wake up and Fight. Senator Whitehouse: Time to Wake Up #300: Wake Up and Fight - youtu.be/itcyQ8_wrzI?...
The most significant speech by an elected leader in our time. Senator Whitehouse Delivers 300th Time to Wake Up Speech - www.youtube.com/live/45mTDgu... Thank you, #SenatorWhitehouse
youtu.be/mAplGu1RxPg?...
How 6 Billionaire Families Fund Climate Denial and brought us Project 2025 - desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial
How 6 Billionaire Families Fund Climate Denial and brought us Project 2025 - desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial
As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc
An important message from one of the greatest scientists of our time. "A Formula to Keep the Science Flame Burning": mailchi.mp/caa/a-formul...
Pre-order #ScienceUnderSiege now and get 25% off— July 8 to July 11 only! Use code PREORDER25 at checkout (print, ebook, or audiobook). Must be a @barnesandnoble.com Rewards Member—FREE to join. #BNPreorder www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-un...
The consequences of failing to close the growing US carbon price gap are hitting our economy, global leadership potential, and life on Earth. I look forward to sharing this book to help people understand how we got here and what is needed now. bit.ly/carbon-price-gap-pdf
Wait. She's a decent Republican on many things, willing to compromise with Democrats to get things done. Why not leave the decent ones alone, and direct your wrath at the 30-40 Senators who love the Big Bogus Bill and consistently enable Trump to do his worst?
How many well-off families are getting free money levied from the poor and middle class to offset the cost of sending their kids to Phillips Exeter (endowment $1.6b, billionaires Mark Zuckerberg, Tom Steyer, alums), St. Paul's, other posh NH private schools this year, I wonder?
Don't forget the billionaires who put him there. How 6 Billionaire Families Fund Climate Denial and brought us Project 2025 - desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial
"Atmospheric Warming & Planetary Wave Amplification" | I discuss our (@xuekeli.bsky.social et al) new article in @pnas.org demonstrating for the first time, an increase in incidence of the stuck & wavy jet stream patterns behind persistent summer weather extremes. michaelmann.net/atmospheric-...
Happy 250th anniversary, U.S.A,, from a Trump who knows what our country is all about, and how President Trump stands against it all. youtu.be/KEWkKNH-24Q?... #NoKings
Not his brain dead base. But many others who voted for him. "Our latest round of polling out last month suggests that a significant percentage of these newer GOP voters are far from impressed with Trump’s economic agenda and changes to the federal government." - www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
Thoughts about an industry that knew pollution from its products would change fundamental chemical & physical properties of the Earth resulting in damages & losses to property & life, & ecological destruction, yet misled the public & manipulated politics to maximize its profit? bit.ly/two-faced-game
Dear MAGA: I dare you to watch this whole video. I bet you can't. youtu.be/d94S2O0VdLw?...
How 6 Billionaire Families Fund Climate Denial and brought us Project 2025 - desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial
The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡
Apparently, they are more afraid of death threats from MAGAts than the reaction of their voters, presumably because right-wing media will lie to the masses about who's at fault. Why is there so much lying in right-wing media? About the Kochs & the Wilks, PragerU & DailyWire - youtu.be/7ApjSrB6E1c
Naw, the people that swung the election voted for cheaper eggs and have serious voters' remorse for not paying attention to the whole package. The fossil fuel billionaires made it happen. desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial
Tech neutrality was long gone and we’ve graduated to financial war on renewables. NEW permanent excise taxes on solar and wind installations AND on their manufacturing facilities. Bill also removes 5-year cost recovery. Harsher FEOC too. (Summary below - not mine): docs.google.com/document/u/0...
Next time, instead of subsidies, let's close the growing US carbon price gap with a cash-back carbon fee on fossil fuel production and a CBAM. bit.ly/carbon-price-gap-presentation
How 6 Billionaire Families Fund Climate Denial and brought us Project 2025 - desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial
“These findings suggest climate change might well accelerate in the coming years. Worse still, this worrying imbalance is emerging even as funding uncertainty in the United States threatens our ability to track the flows of heat.” H/t @thinkorswim.bsky.social theconversation.com/earth-is-tra...
The Pentagon is cutting access to a key hurricane forecasting tool as the Atlantic season picks up
Word of the Day: OBLITERATED Which is: What America's airstrike did to Iran's nuclear stockpile OR What POTUS did to America's status in the world
So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?
bit.ly/carbon-price-gap-presentation