Rogue One is my favorite movie of all time, thank you for your attention to this matter.

Stop doomscrolling and look at these capybaras.

The problem with the climate regime in one article: With fewer people attending COP30 "one in every 25 participants at this year’s UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist." It is "the largest concentration of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP" and up 12% from COP29 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1) Fossil fuel Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.

To everyone who has been following our puppy fostering adventure, these puppies are now officially up for adoption! If you live in the Bay Area and want to adopt some of the cutest, friendliest, lovely dogs around, now's your chance. Links in the thread 🧵 below to each pup's page!

Why put datacenters in space when there's so much ocean available? 🤔

China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB Photo: Eyevine

- "Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off Target" from @unep.org - latest climate pledges under the Paris Agreement only slightly lower global temperature rise to 2100, leaving the world heading for a serious escalation of climate risks and damages #climatecrisis www.unep.org/resources/em...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hurricane Hunters have spent the past week diving into the eye of Melissa — a storm of historic ferocity — to gather life-saving data. And, with the government shut down, they have done it all without pay. https://cnn.it/47Mqkqt

Happy Halloween, finest of American holidays!

👻BOO‼️ I can't think of anything scarier than this. The greenhouse gases we have added to the atmosphere now force over a billion Hiroshima bombs worth of heat into the Earth system every year.

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

For this reason, the Gates memo presupposes a false dichotomy regarding climate outcomes: The choice we are faced with is not between "good for us" & "the end of the world," but instead how much harm we are willing to tolerate, and endure, in the years to come. [8/n]

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

The world is deeply unserious about dealing with climate change. We need to reduce emissions by 50% in 5 years and we're nowhere near that.

OpenAI put out a press release today addressing mental health concerns. I have many issues with it, but something super troubling: They estimate a WEEKLY prevalence of 560,000 users displaying signs of psychosis or mania and 1.2 MILLION users indicating suicidal plan/intent.

The Trump administration is also refusing to use the SNAP contingency reserves, set aside for this exact purpose.

When I was pregnant, I joined a big public forum with thousands of women who had babies due at the same time as mine. A very frequent topic of discussion was how moms could support their baby and family. Hundreds of threads helping them connect to SNAP and WIC resources.

OK folks. I make a monthly donation to support the San Francisco food bank. Right now they have a matching program, meaning every $1 turns into $2. Would you join me? Let's raise $1200.

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

Some good news about Eastern Australian humpback whales.

Big news out of @climatecentral.org today! We've brought back NOAA's billion dollar disaster dataset! Check out our interactive website and bookmark it because there's more to come! www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

📣 The "U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" data is back today through @climatecentral.org! And more soon! ➡️ Explore our new interactive website at www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv..., which is now updated through the first half of 2025 & totaling over $101 billion from 14 events.

It’s also really great because they have the most amazing technology anyone could ever ask for in the holodeck, they use it, but then they’ll also show up for their robot’s cat poetry night because they realize it’s important to be present with those you love and that technology isn’t a substitute

It's Diwali proper, so I'm going to use this opportunity to port over one of my favorite threads from the Other Place to tell the story of why this holiday matters so much and why i get choked up every time.

As I and others have said many times, doing these sorts of observations require at least a sheen of objectivity and involvement, but truly, I love this stupid fucking country.

This appears to be the current tone and tenor of broad American Liberalism. What I will call the re-cooption of patriotic symbolism is noteworthy and speaks to what anger you find in people at events similar to this one.

This reflects my perspective, as one of that vast majority.

This morning's GFS shows the Northern Hemisphere more than 1.64°C over the 1981-2010 baseline on October 23, which is more than 2.2°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline. The Climate 8-ball is smoking. www.karstenhaustein.com/climate

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

I get the point that's trying to be made here, but it's actually inaccurate. The *MAJORITY* of actual practitioners in the tech industry have a position that is neither of these, it's merely getting drowned out by these two loud positions. The most common belief in the tech industry is simple:

If people tell me they want to homeschool their kid, we are going to have a serious, 90 minute conversation on the inevitable harms this will incur.

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s. It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling. Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

It's pretty shocking to hear that the monthly analysis and summary posts about polar sea ice conditions are ending...

If you can't have a dog full time (you travel, have commitments, etc) but you *could* host a dog for a little while, fostering for as little as a week or two can change the life of a shelter dog! Fostered dogs get adopted more easily and are more successful long term.

Dr Jane Goodall discussing her shit list is funny, but the rest of this is her last words for all of us, which are worth hearing.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Hey, folks, please check out the new Drawdown Explorer. It’s the world’s leading resource for science-backed climate solutions. And now it provides the most up-to-date, localized, actionable intelligence to help scale these solutions out in the world. Drawdown.org/explorer

My kid's middle school has shifted to most writing tasks being performed in class / by hand. It sucks for the dyslexics (including my son) but they're engaged and learning how to do the work, and I love it.

This is why I hate advice about authenticity in leadership. By all means, if you're a decent, high integrity person who cares about people and about your responsibility to others, be authentic. If not, for the love of god - fake it!

As nations struggled during Climate Week to increase their emission-reduction pledges to slow the alarming rate of global warming, Brazil stepped forward to showcase a novel, innovative plan of its own design to incentivize the protection of carbon-absorbing tropical forests around the world.

One of my big questions is whether Chinese solar is as key to its energy vision as EVs are — or whether what’s happening in China is “just” ongoing electrification, and EVs are as happy to run on coal as on solar. Here is how @kingsmillbond.bsky.social replied: heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

Wildland firefighters are national heroes and deserve to be treated as such.

When I say the US has bet its post-pandemic economy on AI while China has bet its on green energy, this is what I mean: Here, AI related companies account for 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT's launch. In China, green tech accounts for one quarter of GDP growth.

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

Many stats surprise me when it comes to the inherent inefficiencies in powering our economies with fossil fuels, but this one stopped me in my tracks: "90% of all upstream investment is used to offset supply losses at existing fields" Talk about good money after bad www.iea.org/news/decline...

🔥 The world’s top climate scientists have found that global warming is accelerating. Oceans are rising faster than ever, and the 1.5°C target is slipping away, but there’s still a narrow path forward. #ClimateAction

ICYMI - News from late last night on the Trump administration seeking to void the permit of a Maryland offshore wind farm. 👇🏼

My provocation: By 2035, methane - not carbon dioxide - will be the main driver of climate change. Absent significant policy intervention, fossil fuel infrastructure will continue to emit methane at high rates even if fossil fuel combustion, and associated carbon dioxide emissions, drop sharply.