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The same @capital_climate you've known and loved since 2010 at The Other Place.
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Texas Climate Office
7 minutes ago
Big news! New Texas Hailstone Record (7.1") Confirmed by NOAA and Partners
www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/new-tex...
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New Texas Hailstone Record Confirmed by NOAA and Partners
New hail record for Texas of 7.1 inches discovered by storm chasers on June 2, 2024.
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/new-texas-hailstone-record-confirmed-noaa-and-partners
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Kraft Heinz CEO Pushes Value: âConsumers Are Literally Running Out of Moneyâ
#GoldenAge
: Build More Ballrooms! Let them eat cake!
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Kraft Heinz CEO Pushes Value: âConsumers Are Literally Running Out of Moneyâ
CEO Steve Cahillane said consumersâ wallets are strained by monthâs end. The food maker is looking to hold down prices while navigating the fallout from the Iran war.
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/kraft-heinz-ceo-pushes-value-consumers-are-literally-running-out-of-money-72b9b50f
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Climatologist49
about 13 hours ago
Through the end of April, the Lower 48 is easily in last place for season-to-date snowfall. đ„”
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David Roberts
1 day ago
Meanwhile the California grid now boasts the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants worth of batteries -- the total cost of which was, I suspect, less than a single nuclear plant.
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Californiaâs Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants. Hereâs Whatâs on the Horizon. - Inside Climate News
An expert in the stateâs energy grid explains how the state is faring amid federal cuts.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05052026/california-battery-power/
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Best of Dying Twitter
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Phil Plait
about 19 hours ago
I wonder what the overlap is with men who think they can score a point off of Serena Williams.
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Cultists gonna cultivate.
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Tornado outbreaks catch forecasters by surprise after National Weather Service cuts (with good comments by
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www.npr.org/2026/05/06/n...
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Tornado outbreaks catch forecasters by surprise after National Weather Service cuts
Staffing cuts forced the National Weather Service to cut early morning weather balloon launches. Then two tornado outbreaks this spring caught forecasters by surprise.
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/06/nx-s1-5805228/tornado-outbreaks-catch-forecasters-by-surprise-after-national-weather-service-cuts
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Climatologist49
2 days ago
The running 12-month average temperature for the Contiguous U.S. continues to be the highest on record. đ„đ„đ„
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Climatologist49
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An amazing article on the Tracy Arm mega-tsunami from last August. If this had happened at several different times during a 24-hour window, it would have resulted in the greatest loss of life in U.S. history. Instead, it is just a scientific curiosity.
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A 481-meter-high landslide-tsunami in a cruise shipâfrequented Alaska fjord
Early in the morning of 10 August 2025, a >64 Ă 106 m3 landslide struck Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska. The landslide was preconditioned by glacial retreat caused by climate change. The resulting 481 m run...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec3187
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Zach Everson
2 days ago
Trump, of course, owns about $1.2 billion in Trump Media stock, while Don Jr. and Eric have gotten involved with several publicly traded companies of late.
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Trumpâs SEC Proposes End to Quarterly Earnings Reporting Requirement
The SEC proposed allowing companies to opt into reporting earnings semiannually instead.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2026/05/05/trumps-sec-proposes-major-change-to-earnings-report-schedule-could-end-quarterly-requirement/
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Grand Oiligarch Party
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SciAm Union
2 days ago
As
@springernature.com
continues to employ tired and costly union-busting tactics, we just wanted to say weâre so grateful to all the subscribers, scientists and journalists whoâve reached out and said theyâll stand with us as we fight to ensure
@sciam.bsky.social
lasts another 180 years. Thank you!
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You. Cannot. Be. F*cking. Serious.
#GOPLOL
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: G.O.P. Proposes $1 Billion for Security Improvements in Ballroom Project
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/05/us/trump-news
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G Elliott Morris
2 days ago
The latest YouGov/Economist poll is picking up a record high in anxiety about the economy for both of Trump's terms, and nearing the high of the 2022-23 inflation panic
yougovamerica.substack.com/p/more-ameri...
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www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...
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Chinaâs Big Bet on Wind Power Is Paying Off
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/business/china-wind-turbines.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gFA.z3Ec.SJvHNMMeGrgg
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Jeff Berardelli
5 days ago
Super interesting and it makes sense. AI models have problems predicting extremes outside of their training /pattern recognition of past events and of course as the Earth heats, extremes get more extremeâŠ
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Hoodlum đșđž
3 days ago
Activists in NYC projected a message on the side of Jeff Bezosâ $120 million penthouse ahead of the Met Gala. âShame on you, Jeff Bezos.â
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Sammy Roth
3 days ago
The last California-oil tanker to pass through the Strait of Hormuz before Trump attacked Iran is now offloading its crude at the Port of Long Beach:
www.latimes.com/environment/...
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California braces for uncertainty as last shipment of Persian Gulf oil arrives in Long Beach
Now California must figure out how to replace some 200,000 barrels of oil a day that will no longer be arriving from the Persian Gulf.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-05-03/californias-last-oil-shipment
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FY27 House budget rejects huge Trump Admin cuts NOAA, NASA, NSF - but still proposes significant reductions
open.substack.com/pub/balanced...
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FY27 House budget rejects huge Trump Admin cuts NOAA, NASA, NSF - but still proposes significant reductions
Colorado Front Range finally looks to get a snowstorm - now that it's May
https://open.substack.com/pub/balancedweather/p/fy27-house-budget-rejects-huge-trump?r=4sf9sc&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Rob
5 days ago
Why wouldnât you want to save $1.4 billion on your electricity bill? Keep burning gas and burning money. Go wind and solar and save up for that kitchen reno.
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$1.4B saved: Massachusetts locks in cheaper offshore wind power
Massachusetts activates Vineyard Wind contracts, locking in lower power prices and $1.4B in savings over 20 years.
https://electrek.co/2026/05/01/1-4b-saved-massachusetts-locks-in-cheaper-offshore-wind-power/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=user/electrek
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He'll try to prove there's no need for a bird flu vaccine.
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Greg Sargent
5 days ago
Democrats need to accept that they're entering a new era of procedural Total War. This includes a big escalation in redistricting, but it's not limited to that. If Republicans don't like it, tough shit: They made this world, and they are the ones inflicting it on us.
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Madison Condon
4 days ago
genuine question: as a significant amount of SpaceX's upcoming valuation seems to rest on this being a feasible idea can someone point me to even an back of the envelope estimate of the solar panel surface area needed to make this happen at scale?
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Ross Macfarlane
4 days ago
Such a coincidence. Analysis of long-shot bets on military actions placed on Polymarket shows that more than half have been successful, showing strong evidence of insider trading by sources within Administration.
@financialtimes.com
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Half of âlong shotâ Polymarket bets on military action are successful
High rate of winning wagers likely to add to concerns that sensitive information can leak on prediction markets
https://www.ft.com/content/989d335e-275b-4cdc-b51d-4b29fd8895b0
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Michael E. Mann
4 days ago
We must come to terms with the fact that anything that Donald Trump or any member of his administrations says is automatically a lie.
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Christopher Mims
4 days ago
Who's going to buy into the gigantic IPOs of companies with no profits and questionable paths to profitability, such as SpaceX and OpenAI? You will, through your employer's retirement plan, writes
@jmackin2.bsky.social
www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
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Stock Indexes Are Contorting Themselves to Include SpaceX and OpenAI
Index funds holding trillions of dollars of 401(k)s and other investments are rushing to change their rules as the IPOs of SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic draw closer.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/stock-indexes-are-contorting-themselves-to-include-spacex-and-openai-92136b13?st=T86Vy6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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M.J. Crockett
5 days ago
Also receiving a NAS award was Ilya Sutskever, cofounder of OpenAI whose new company Safe Superintelligence (currently just a webpage) is valued at $32 billion. The current budget of NSF is $9 billion; Trump wants to cut to $4 billion. Make this math make sense. >>
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Zack Labe
4 days ago
April 2026
#Arctic
sea ice extent was the 2nd lowest on record for the month... This was 1,120,000 kmÂČ below the 1981-2010 average. April ice extent is decreasing at about 2.44% per decade. Data:
@nsidc.bsky.social
at
nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
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Don Moynihan
4 days ago
Your periodic reminder that if you read the Free Press, you would have little idea that Donald Trump is President. It is not a news organization, it is just opinion, and the opinion of the founders. Here are the top pages.
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TX Hill Country investigations show - again - why a national disaster safety board is needed via
@wxmanms1.bsky.social
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TX Hill Country investigations show - again - why a national disaster safety board is needed
Record heat and some severe weather expected in Florida next couple of days
https://open.substack.com/pub/balancedweather/p/tx-hill-country-investigations-show?r=4sf9sc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Too Big to Fail
6 days ago
You remember last year when 500 South Korean battery production experts were kidnapped from a Hyundai plant in Georgia and mass-deported? This single act completely destroyed the willingness of foreign EV experts to work in the US to advance American battery and motor manufacturing. 7/x
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Attorney says detained Korean Hyundai workers had special skills for short-term jobs
An immigration attorney says many South Korean workers detained in a U.S. immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia were brought in for highly specialized work that Americans aren't trained to pe...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/attorney-says-detained-korean-hyundai-workers-had-special-skills-for-short-term-jobs
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Too Big to Fail
6 days ago
Why have the Big 3 failed so utterly in their planned phase out of internal combustion engines? Well, it's two things, really. One is consumer sentiment - I'll get to that in a minute - and the other is government policy. The death of the $7,500 EV tax credit absolutely murdered the EV market. 5/x
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Marshall Shepherd
4 days ago
Stop calling hurricanes, wildfires and tornadoes natural disasters. My thoughts in Forbes dot com
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
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Stop Calling Hurricanes And Tornadoes Natural Disasters â Hereâs Why
Why we should stop using the term "natural disaster" to describe hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, floods, and other natural hazards.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2026/05/03/stop-calling-hurricanes-and-tornadoes-natural-disasters---heres-why/
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Patrick Duplessis
6 days ago
April 2026 was another cold month in most of Canada. Above-normal temps were observed in the Quebec City-Windsor corridor, and BC was overall near normal.
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Sabotage >> streamlining NOAA Administrator Neil Jacobs defended the Presidentâs budget request as an effort to streamline the agency and move research closer to operations. But the math does not work.
scilight.substack.com/p/noaa-budge...
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NOAA Budget Request Is Not Streamlining. Itâs Sabotage.
At this weekâs House Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee hearing on NOAAâs FY2027 budget, the central question should have been simple: How does America maintain world-class weather, ocean, cl...
https://scilight.substack.com/p/noaa-budget-request-is-not-streamlining
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Jeremy Berg
6 days ago
Katrina Declaration signers reinstated!
@standupforscience.net
www.cnn.com/2026/04/30/p...
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FEMA reinstates whistleblowers as Trump administration reverses Noemâs policies | CNN Politics
FEMA has reinstated a group of whistleblowers who signed an open letter to Congress last August warning that the Trump administrationâs dismantling of the federal agency was setting the stage for a di...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/30/politics/fema-whistleblower-dhs-noem-mullin
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Kristian G. Andersen
7 days ago
We have reached the phase where scientists and public servants are removed from their homes by armed agents and thrown in jail - based on phony charges. Yet, where are the Academies, societies, institutions, and scientific leaders? Deafening silence. Which is a choice. History will not forget.
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Michael E. Mann
7 days ago
Then they came for the octogenarian Gmail-using scientists...
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Sorry, you can forget about getting that electric Lamborghini.
www.thetimes.com/business/com...
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Lamborghini scraps electric car plans in favour of hybrids
Lanzador bites the dust as CEO Stephan Winkelmann says EVs risk becoming an âexpensive hobbyâ for the company
https://www.thetimes.com/business/companies-markets/article/lamborghini-scraps-electric-car-plans-in-favour-of-hybrids-lspfbp300
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Dave Itzkoff
8 days ago
The invisible hand of the market strikes again
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RFKJ is folically challenged
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đ Listen Now: Why California wants folic acid in its corn tortillas
On Point With Meghna Chakrabarti from WBUR on NPR One | 34:56
https://one.npr.org/i/fis-510053-44a9051bb12217bb582f261672e676d2:fis-510053-44a9051bb12217bb582f261672e676d2-enclosure-audio
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Climate Watcher
9 days ago
Though solar (& nuclear âąïž) was initially incorrectly blamed for crisis, renewables have helped insulate Spain from gas price rises caused by war in Middle East
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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One year after Spainâs blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on
Though solar was initially incorrectly blamed for crisis, renewables have helped insulate Spain from gas price rises caused by war in Middle East
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/blackout-spain-renewable-energy-grid-solar-wind?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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"Don't be evil!"
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...
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Sergey Brin Moves to the Right, With a âMAGA Girlfriendâ by His Side
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/politics/sergey-brin-gg-soto-trump-california-billionaire-tax.html
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Catherine Rampell
9 days ago
by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis
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George Conway âïžđșđž
9 days ago
@amiiillustrates.bsky.social
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Michael E. Mann
10 days ago
Stalin extensively purged top science advisers, engineers & researchers during the '1930s-50s, particularly targeting biology, physics & technical fields. Thousands were arrested, sent to Gulags, or executed.
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
& I discuss in our sadly prophetic book
#ScienceUnderSiege
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404 Media
10 days ago
ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
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University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop
ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
https://www.404media.co/asu-atomic-ai-modules-arizona-state-university/
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Chris âozoff
10 days ago
An impressive supercell east of Colorado Springs right now!
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10 days ago
The conflict in Iran over the Strait of Hormuz should encourage for Australia to abandon volatile fossil fuel reliance and accelerate towards renewables.
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