Atmospheric CO2 *up* 2.49 ppm year-on-year for August 2025. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

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Excellent read to understand how scientists parse claims and compare them to evidence.

Atmospheric CO2 *up* 2.32 ppm year-on-year for July 2025. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

Atmospheric CO2 *up* 2.7 ppm year-on-year for June 2025. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...

This should be everywhere. Bought a renewed PC mouse and it came from France (I think). It had a small slip of paper in the box with a URL for a product end-of-life advice website. quefairedemesdechets.ademe.fr

Highly recommend this short book based on a lecture series Sen delivered in the mid-1980s. www.thriftbooks.com/w/on-ethics-...

US hotel occupancy showing signs of slowdown. "On a year-to-date basis, the only worse years for occupancy over the last 25 years were pandemic or recession years." www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/07/hote...

This is a good channel for environmental and social sustainability issues at the global level. www.youtube.com/@pbsterra

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOO DENG!!

Inspiring dose of sustainable business realism here, with its recognition that some decarb practices are ROI-positive and some are ROI-negative. www.bain.com/insights/dec...

Atmospheric CO2 *up* 3.61 ppm year-on-year for May 2025. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...

Changes to Canada's business competition law have caused some companies to reverse sustainability commitments due to a lack of an internationally recognized methodology. competition-bureau.canada.ca/en/how-we-fo...

Never forget. 80 years ago this month, Bergen Belsen was liberated by British and Canadian troops. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Good for @historians.org for redoing this important survey, last completed a decade ago. If you're contingent faculty, please consider filling it out.

Update: there are deer.

UK company trying to match green hydrogen buyers and sellers. www.network-hy.com

Worth watching how The Fire’s campus free speech ratings handle Columbia’s submission.

In 2024, in anticipation of the EU deforestation-free supply chains regulation, agribusiness firm ADM offered to pay US soybean farmers an extra $0.20 per bushel to become deforestation-free certified. admadvantage.com/adm-resource...

Republican State Senator argues South Carolina needs more investment in renewables, w/focus on nuclear. Initial investment is substantial, but long-term benefits undeniable: stable, low-cost energy w/o fossils price volatility; zero emissions." www.postandcourier.com/opinion/comm...

US military funding research on using solar power to produce hydrogen fuel from air. Part of military's efforts to reduce dependence on liquid fossil fuels, the movement of which creates logistical risks for forward operating bases and other activities. lailluminator.com/2025/02/25/n...

Coverage of some winners and losers from biodiesel. www.hcn.org/issues/57-3/...

The bill would make it illegal for banks and credit unions to consider greenhouse gas emissions, use of fossil-fuel derived fertilizer, or use of fossil-fuel powered machinery in lending decisions. ncnewsline.com/briefs/bill-...

Duke Energy had already said it would fail to meet the carbon emissions reduction milestone on the way to a 2050 goal of carbon neutrality. ncnewsline.com/briefs/a-bil...

RIP Edward Leamer. These two papers shaped my approach to empirical work. My PhD training occurred when my field was "discovering" what Leamer said 30 years earlier in the 1983 paper. Leamer's 2010 paper was prescient: methods didn't improve, but people learned the magic words to say.

Mauna Loa curve is back up at NOAA. Atmospheric CO2 *up* 2.54 ppm in 12 months from February 2024 to February 2025. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...

First yard flowers of the year

We almost killed off the bald eagle, but conservation efforts led to a robust recovery of the species. defenders.org/blog/2023/01...

Are the economic returns to education undermining democracy? From the 2024 Democracy Index Report www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/...

"The Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth, which recognizes nature as a living entity with legal rights, including the rights to exist and evolve." insideclimatenews.org/news/0603202...

Moving from linear to circular value chains often requires changing consumer behavior. "The utility will also work to educate residents and businesses in El Paso to discourage them from putting chemicals and pharmaceuticals down the drain." insideclimatenews.org/news/0303202...

Who will pay for new data center power supply? A state bill would allow "companies to put a charge to build a new generation plant on customer bills before it is producing power." missouriindependent.com/2025/03/07/m...

NC Senate passes cell phone ban for K-12 schools. Isn't yet law. Still needs to be passed by House and not vetoed by Governor. ncnewsline.com/briefs/nc-se...

Tulips coming up.

AI models also cheat when they calculate they will lose at chess, even when they have been given no instruction to cheat. www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/05/1...

One of my favorite researchers, Tanya Fiedler, saying smart things about translating physical climate model outputs into accounting risk estimates and financial reporting

US proposing a carbon tariff based on the idea that China's coal-based manufacturing would be hurt more than US gas-based manufacturing. Would be good news, though ironic, if the US got a carbon fee this way. www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Persistent, quiet advocacy and choosing language to find common ground. trellis.net/article/ebay...

Oil and gas companies, airlines, and others are lobbying Trump to keep Biden's hydrogen subsidies. www.wsj.com/articles/fos...

Polyester recycling update. www.wired.com/story/reju-p...

"at the time the Clean Air Act of 1970 was passed to regulate lead and other airborne pollutants in the U.S., American children had about 15 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood and an associated 7-point drop in IQ." www.wsj.com/science/envi...

Useful for teaching international business. Widening regulatory and cultural divisions between the US and EU markets present new challenges for businesses that operate in both markets. poetsandquants.com/2025/02/14/w...

Great article for demonstrating voluntary commitments, collective action, supply chain, and emissions scopes. www.eco-business.com/opinion/fast...

Solving one sustainability challenge can worsen another. mailchi.mp/caa/global-w...

“I had a 17-year-old who was dying of an advanced liver cancer,” Dr. Snider said. “She wanted to see whales before she died, and we were able to do it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/w...

How college students justify cheating: -Too much to do, run out of time. -Feel like you’re drowning. Don’t understand assignment. -Don’t know what to do. -Don't think assignment is valuable. -Don’t feel like professor cares. -Helping out a struggling friend. www.chronicle.com/podcast/coll...

Michael Burawoy killed by a hit and run SUV driver. RIP.

"Negotiating online conspiracy theories is a challenge companies like Arla increasingly have to prepare for."

Kering Group's mapping of sustainability challenges onto value chain stages.

US government funding is dependent on oil and gas in many ways, including state funding from taxing gasoline sales. Higher EV registration fees are "an example of how governments are struggling to adjust to technological upheaval in the auto industry." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/b...