What the fuck even is this?

Newsrooms often hear more from those who doubt the science, leading many to believe that climate contrarianism is more prevalent than it is. @amywestervelt.bsky.social @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/envi...

Newsrooms often hear more from those who doubt the science, leading many to believe that climate contrarianism is more prevalent than it is. @amywestervelt.bsky.social @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/envi...

We are geniuses at shifting risks, kicking the can down the road, and monetizing development in unsafe areas. @scrawford.bsky.social susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/what-happe...

One longtime member died last year after being diagnosed at 40 with brain cancer. A former crew leader is being treated for both leukemia and lymphoma diagnosed in his 40s. Another colleague was told that he has the lungs of a lifelong chain-smoker. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The case could become a template for other communities whose water has been contaminated with the chemicals. insideclimatenews.org/news/3010202...

The fossil record shows the same pattern again and again: complexity erodes first, stability falters next, and only then do the last species vanish. By the time a lineage goes extinct, the system that sustained it has already failed. @race2extinct.bsky.social lylel.substack.com/p/later-is-n...

Climate Central revived the federal list of billion-dollar disasters, another example of nonprofits providing data the government deletes. grist.org/extreme-weat...

The amazing research article "The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink" isn't getting enough notice, so I made a little video with the summary of key findings from the paper. If it's too fast at times, just pause and read. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Social media is this guy's entire lifeworld. Terminal brain poisoning.

Just 13% of the newspaper's stories about the Eaton and Palisades fires mentioned climate change in January and February 2025. @sammyroth.bsky.social www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/tough-love...

"Her body temperature was 144 degrees Fahrenheit" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Speaking of overshooting 1.5C, here's the latest from Rupert Read: www.overshootpod.com

No matter how hard Trump tries to distract you, he can never silence Virginia Giuffre's story. We are joined by Virginia Giuffre's family and co-author to ensure her Epstein story is never forgotten. Watch the episode here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJKPTymLsj8

The fight over Charlie Kirk's legacy is getting even uglier. @willsommer.bsky.social with the latest on the Succession-like fight for the TPUSA mantel, only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/civil-war-...

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt ... www.cnn.com/weather/live...

And over here, children, we see the three-year running mean global surface temperature anomaly reaching a new record high. And over there, look children, it's a category 5 hurricane devastating Jamaica.

It ain't rocket science . . .

🫢 😳 😧 🤢 🤮 😡 I have an even worse feeling about THIS:

“Narco-terrorist” isn’t a thing. This is just lawless killing.

“the fraction of the population that will face unaffordable water in the future is likely to increase unless we do something major.” grist.org/cities/droug...

“I personally think this is a dark horse in the conversation right now,” grist.org/cities/droug...

Elkhorn and staghorn coral are now functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any significant role in their ecosystem. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...

The comments tell you everything you need to know about how far we are from every being able to solve for climate change. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Warming made the devastating L.A. wildfires earlier this year twice as likely and 25 times larger, according to a new report on global wildfires. e360.yale.edu/digest/clima...

“Closer than we think” and “sooner than we thought” — the same verse scientists have been singing for three decades. Now the chorus……coral dying. apple.news/AayYagAHLSVK...

"Regardless of what you think of the messages contained therein, No Kings offered visual evidence that huge numbers of people oppose President Trump. This was one vivid expression of a vital truth of our political moment: Most Americans don’t like Trump and don’t like what he’s doing."

Anand Giridharadas to Andrew Cuomo: "First of all, governor, it's 'Mamdani.' This is a very big, diverse city you want to lead. We should get the names right."

Your 'doom quote' for today: "The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth super-highway on which we progress with great speed, but at the end lies disaster." www.goodreads.com/book/show/27...

Taking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac public harnesses faith that markets always rise and housing always recovers. But their MBS include hold loans tied to climate‑vulnerable places, and the public will still be on the hook when things go bad. Post today: open.substack.com/pub/susanpcr...

Where we are as a country:

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

Turning them into publicly traded hybrids won’t reduce that exposure. Investors will take their gains. Then, when climate losses ripple through those mortgages, the public will once again be left covering the downside. @scrawford.bsky.social susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/trumps-pla...

The Republican Supreme Court is about to overturn a Republican ruling the Republicans made only two years ago. That alone should tell you that the law, as it is practiced by the Supreme Court, is utterly useless. @elienyc.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Ms Rachel schools Obama on why he really should stop using dehumanizing language.

Jesus. The aftermath looks like a wasteland. www.newschannel5.com/news/explosi...

This is what it looks like when your community stands up.

Genetic diversity is nature’s insurance policy. Snow leopards have almost none left. As the planet changes, evolution has no time to bail them out. Extinction isn’t a question of if, but when. abcnews.go.com/US/survival-...

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 11, 2025 ~ Everything is fine. "The invisible gas can be seen in streams of bubbles originating on the seafloor of Antarctica's Ross Sea ... describing the mechanism as 'seemingly widespread' throughout the region... " abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Saturday Backyard #2

Your 'moment of neo-fascist kakistocracy' for today: "CDC has no leadership across multiple centers and offices... CDC cannot respond to this threat, which has the potential to kill hundreds of millions of people." rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

If you saw the recent piece in @nytimes.com claiming that "Spraying round-up on crops is fine. Really." Please read our reply. @davechapman.bsky.social @ninaelkadi.com @michaelpollan.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

The FAIR Plan is not supposed to compete with those licensed insurers—it’s supposed to charge much more in order to encourage policyholders to return to the regular market. "We’re becoming the insurer that people are forced ... to come to" @scrawford.bsky.social

There is no arsonist to blame—just deepening, widening uncertainty. The private home insurance market in California is not functioning. "The math doesn’t work,” @scrawford.bsky.social susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/california...

The Surgeon General of Supplements, just what the doctor ordered!!! www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The failure of carbon offsets to cut planet-heating pollution is “not due to a few bad apples”, a review paper has found, but down to deep-seated systemic problems that incremental change will not solve.

Not only was the toilet not properly flushing carbon, but more and more waste was being added to these waters as the heat waves rolled on. grist.org/climate/the-...

Update from the war zone in Portland.

Remember, it was the Washington Post who gave Bondi a thumbs up to be confirmed. Democracy Docket made clear from day one that she was an election denying sycophant. No surprise at their coverage of today. Support independent, pro-democracy media today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

"This order is so atrocious, it’s nearly unbelievable."