Forget shark week -- It's climate solutions week y'all This year the theme is LOCAL solutions - ways that cities and states and neighborhoods are stepping up when the federal government backtracks on climate action. I'll thread the stories here as the week goes on... Here's our intro ⬇️📻🎧

A young girl plays on a seesaw along the Persian Gulf shoreline as distant military facilities burn in the background. #Iran #IranWar

On Iran, see the larger context. Five of the seven countries that the Trump admin has militarily attacked since Jan. 2025 are significant oil producers, even though petrostates are rare. It's not a coincidence. I explain why @goodauth.bsky.social goodauthority.org/news/is-oil-...

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

"have the viruses do the education" is a) bleak and b) maybe not going to work? when in human history have people been like "you know what, we made stupid choices and totally deserve this"

1/15 The Trump administration says it wants to bring manufacturing back to America and reindustrialize the US. But their trade policy does this by making foreign competition more expensive, not by helping American manufacturers compete with AI-powered production elsewhere.

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Something centre-right journalists absolutely love is the "enrages environmentalists" framing It presents climate / enviro folks as irrational, salivating and constantly infuriated idiots, whereas 'centrist' pro-fossil politicians are Very Serious, level-headed Adults In The Room archive.ph/0PsH4

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Hydrology. It’s easy to formulate a hypothesis that hydrology is going to be the snake in the grass of climate change. We establish, agriculture, cities and civilizations where there is enough water, and if rain- or snow-fall patterns move, the adaptation costs become enormous.

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

If we break the biological ocean carbon pumps any further, we're in even bigger trouble than we think ...

So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

A shameful continued destruction of the innovation engine of the United States. For nothing! For no reason!

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

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.

War-ravaged Portland

"At breathtaking speed, the Trump administration is enacting policies that will be difficult to reverse and could disrupt population health for years or decades to come. Time is running out to intervene." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.com

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So very sad, so very wrong. www.syracuse.com/news/2025/09...

Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police. Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack

every birthday message to epstein is like "dear jeff, you're so rich and so handsome but probably the thing about you i love most is that you're a prolific child predator. never change <3"

A Danish TV series about managed retreat. #CliFi It starts out following elites with their wealth locked up in real estate, and what happens when your monopoly land rents become very negative overnight. 🔰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AAP...

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Scoop: The Trump administration is now pushing for national mandatory land use restrictions on all wind projects — including those on private land — by claiming they present a risk to critical communications infrastructure.

I’m sharing this hoping that someone hiking the same route in Norway might see this. Let’s find @alecluhn.bsky.social!

I’m adopted. So I wrote about how an attempt to dismantle birthright citizenship could affect adoptees. It’s also about family, community, and what it means to belong. Read it at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/adoption-bel...

Most likely: things are moving so fast related to this bill; and people inside NOAA are trying to stay focused on keeping the science going despite huge #s of staff lost and tons of contracts delayed. Inside the agencies, people are bailing water as fast as they can and can’t look up.

For those who think evacuating Tehran is possible based on #Israel’s warnings, which are nothing but a performative act. It would take weeks if not months to evacuate Tehran. What’s represented here doesn’t even come close to capturing the full size of #Iran’s capital city.

Imperial boomerang: when tactics of colonial rule exported abroad are imported back home

At #OOSC in Nice this week & am constantly hearing people say there is a global moratorium on #mCDR (or some specific approach like ocean fertilization). I heard the same last week at the Liege colloquium. It’s simply wrong. 🧵

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

Unfortunately, the list of projects cancelled includes a "whos who" of US industrial decarbonization projects: Sublime (cement), Brimstone (cement), Exxon's H2 crackers, Heidelberg (cement), National/Lebec in CA (cement), etc,. Kraft (zero GHG food processing). A disaster. @rebeccawdell.bsky.social

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

In 2023, a Mexican girl with a life-threatening medical condition was allowed to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds. The Trump administration has now ordered her and her parents to leave the country. Her says that if her treatment is interrupted, “this could be fatal within a matter of days.”

Many people think solar and wind won't be able to keep the grid stable because they lack "inertia". I think solar, wind and batteries will do a BETTER job and I think you can explain it thus: - the old grid is a record player - the new grid a digital player 🧵

Three days ago: theonion.com/sean-combs-a...

What does the House Energy & Commerce Committee's draft reconciliation bill mean for IRA funding programs? We @sabincenter.bsky.social estimate that $10 billion in IRA funding (and perhaps much more) is at risk of rescission. Our latest blog has more info: blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...

Our government is full of dedicated people doing amazing work to make our lives better, and most of the time we don’t hear about them. With the current administration, we unfortunately hear about them when they’re gone.

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

As far as I can tell, Saudi Arabia appears to be the most active external mediator (as far as is publicly discernible) between India and Pakistan (and is well-positioned to do so, for a variety of reasons). Saudi FM has been to both countries. x.com/KSAmofaEN/st...

Trump and people like Rubio who enabled him fundamentally thought that the world that wasn't on TV wasn't real, and we're all going to rue living through their education on that point.

And if you're an American taxpayer interested in reading some of their taxpayer-supported work and analysis published prior to April 2025, this is what you'll see at usip.org.

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

This @ichotiner.bsky.social interview with @sushantsingh.bsky.social is worth your time. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...