People fleeing whichever way they can, emaciated leopards searching for scraps. Send help.

“In this single moment, we got more visual evidence of Trump’s absence of compassion, indeed the indifference to the suffering of another human…What a tragedy that at a time of grave and great challenges a man like this occupies our White House.” www.americaamerica.news/p/will-this-...

Am I doing this right?

Electrify 50% of your industry, save €250bn/year on fossil fuel imports.¹ Relatedly: the EU sends €380bn/year to autocratic regimes for its fossil fuel addiction. ¹ @jamiesmythft.bsky.social's @financialtimes.com Energy Source newsletter

Thoughts and prayers

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Great dissection of where the world stands on climate 10 years after Paris: better than ever; worse than needed. Start here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... But lemme quibble a bit with the CO₂ₑ emissions pathways painted here. A quick 🧵

“The question now is whether this exponential curve of clean-energy innovation can outpace the exponential curve of climate impacts.” Christiana Figueres by invitation @economist.com www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

Happy Mamdani Day, NYC! Checking out socialist Vienna tonight, the cathedral does seem to have a red hue. But the trains run on time, housing is plentiful, and the CEO of the local gas utility is working to get Viennese off gas entirely by 2040, induction stoves, geothermal heat pumps and all.

The 1990s called and asked to get their climate trope back

Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway: "I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons." Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.

Viennese bakery: "Buy a loaf of bread, help set aside 2 m² of soil." Offsets even @lastweektonight.com can get behind.

It is.

You had me at coffee

Crazy rents for leaky apartments but no money for renovations. Maybe there is a hidden solution to this problem.

Holy smokes www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

New York's direct climate impact comes from two sources: 70% is buildings, 30% cars. For buildings, we've had the right laws in place for a while: especially Local Law 97, with -40% CO₂ by 2030 gwagner.com/ll97 What's been lacking is enforcement. That's bound to change under Mamdani.

Trumpian climate moves are bad for US competitiveness, that's for sure. But global CO₂ is mostly a function of climate tech deployment trajectories, and the US has sadly little to say there, which leads immediately back to point 1.

Just sayin'… Austrian trains are next level. Imagine New York trains with freshly ground & brewed espresso. (Yes, I already voted in tomorrow's election 🗳️) My week, starting tomorrow gwagner.com/cces-2025 Wednesday gwagner.com/platon-ki Night train to Amsterdam Thursday gwagner.com/tinbergen-csu

Ignorance isn't bliss, I'm afraid. More like ignorance is cancer

Another solar power spill inconveniencing hard-working, down-to-earth drivers

"The Constitution does not save itself. It survives only through the vigilance of those who live under it. That work is hard, continuous, impermanent, and prone to setbacks." —Duncan Hosie @nybooks.com

Absolutely shameful abuse of state power. Video in link. Protestors were there after ICE picked up a man and two kids on their way to school.

Dancers at Trump’s Halloween party as people begin losing food stamps under his administration

NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more. I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...

What could possibly go wrong? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“A transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers” is, quite literally, the EXACT phenomenon that Hannah Arendt was referring to when she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”

We live in the most horrifying of story lines. Flipping through these @nymag.com pages, wow nymag.com/intelligence...

Back to the mines isn't it www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

12-year-old testing her understanding of Pythagorean Theorem by explaining it to the 14-year-old 🥹

This one belongs on Wikipedia as a textbook example of relativization, banalization, and cherry picking.

And so it begins, Musk's Grokipedia is scraping Wikipedia and re-writing things in Musk's image. The entry for climate change? Let's just say the Wikipedia entry has neither an "Economic and Policy Critiques" section, nor one on the "Role of Media and Advocacy" that accuses both of bias.

5am still life

Bullshit machines for bullshit tasks

On the other hand, the induction stove is prominently featured in the Architectural Digest tour with Zooey Deschanel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKl-...

Three recently renovated $3.5 million homes, and none with the wherewithal to install induction stoves to avoid poisoning their kids with toxic fumes in their kitchen. 🤷 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/r...

One year ago

The word battery appears in the article twice, about 2/3rds down.

The Python Software Foundation was recommended for a $1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation. The terms of the award said PSF could not work on DEI, whether or not the grant funding was used for it. PSF therefore declined the funding. Science suffers, but commitment to core values remains

You've got to love how the one area where Republican policies may only have modestly negative impacts on Republican-voting Iowa: Trump hating on wind… "because the state has already heavily invested in wind energy."

In a wealthy neighborhood in Chicago, immigration agents hopped the fence of a US citizen’s home and tried to pull a construction worker out a 2nd-story window. Homeowner came home to blood all over his house. www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...

The definition of public servant. And yes, time to go back to using that term, and using it proudly

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment. The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult. It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history. Until then, they're all to blame.

To be clear: These donations are bribes, made anonymously to conceal Trump’s corruption.

The German company that built the vehicle used in the Louvre heist just created an advertisement using an actual photo of the one used in the heist. I'm dying here. HUGE props to whoever pitched this.

New York rats, your move!

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

Wells Fargo scammed millions of people by opening fake accounts. The Trump Administration just reduced a former Wells Fargo exec's $10 million fine to $0. Trump is making life more affordable for Wall Street executives — and more expensive for everyone else.

For more on why this is probably not a $60m problem in the real world, we go live to @vfmcneill.bsky.social and @gwagner.com with a paper literally from this week www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Real-world engineering, logistical, and political constraints of SAI—a method proposed to mitigate global warming—could make it far riskier and more expensive than expected, finds a new study by Columbia's Miranda Hack, @vfmcneill.bsky.social, @steingart.bsky.social, @gwagner.com. Via @gizmodo.com.