This is what we've turned summer into.

Two Washington tribes tell the Trump administration you can't save endangered species without saving their habitats. www.kuow.org/environment/...

“The Clean Arctic Alliance is calling on other progressive countries – like Iceland – to support the creation of this new regulation requiring the use of cleaner maritime fuels in order to protect the Arctic”, @sianprior.bsky.social #cruiseships #banscrubbers #climatecrisis #cleanerfuel #Arctic

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🚨The EU needs to quit fossil gas 🚨 With a coalition of over 40 civil society organisations, we are urging the EU for a fossil gas exit strategy, with annual binding gas demand reduction targets of 7-8%, an end to LNG imports, and strong enforcement of the EU methane rules 👉https://l1nq.com/iyvry3r

The two largest reservoirs in the U.S. now have less water in them than all the way back to 1957 when the Glen Canyon Dam was being constructed behind what would become Lake Powell. The Southwest Megadrought is getting scary folks. qanr.usu.edu/coloradorive...

I couldn't resist.

Want to legally challenge airport expansion? ⚖️ Our new toolkit with @opportunitygreen.org maps potential routes in the EU on air quality, biodiversity, climate, and noise - plus examples and resources. Another tool for the fight for #RedLinesForAirports 🙌 ➡️ stay-grounded.org/project/tool...

Marc Hudson (@allouryesterdays.bsky.social) posted on July 1st about scientist Gilbert Plass' article "Carbon Dioxide & Climate Change," published in Scientific American on 1 July 1959. I posted a reply about that era, and Marc asked to interview me. Here's the interview: bsky.app/profile/allo...

The New York Times downplayed and normalized the actions of criminal Donald Trump for years. The Times’ reward: Federal agents showing up on reporters’ doorsteps. Which proves once again that you can’t play nice with fascists. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

Before, during, and after a disaster, the wealthy 🎩 always fare best while those living paycheck to paycheck suffer economically, physically and mentally for years. Here is a pretty revolting example: www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

Football shouldn't be a billboard for climate pollution. FIFA should end partnerships with major polluters and stop allowing the World Cup to drive additional emissions through sponsorship. Read the full briefing. 👇

Our analysis estimates Qatar Airways' FIFA sponsorship could induce around 3.7 MtCO₂e of additional emissions. That's more than many countries emit in an entire year.

Sponsorship is a key marketing tool for increasing sales. For airline sponsors, that means more flights, more fuel burned and more emissions. This is what is meant by “sponsored emissions.”  www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/sportsw...

As wildfires rage, Andy Burnham still won't rule out airport expansion. He still hasn't commited to ending new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. The incoming Prime Minister can't say the climate crisis is an emergency whilst backing policies that make it worse.

"Climate breakdown is not a natural disaster. It is a business model ..."

Literally no reason to do this at all.

This is awesome in the most devastating way possible. The cruise ship garbage and emissions are real and awful. If you want to see what residents of Victoria, BC, Canada put up with, this video is a great start. We live in a beautiful city with a shocking amount of cruise ship pollution and waste.

This is brilliant! A recommended listen, for sure (3 minutes). (Just like the original Broadway score, the words go by fast. But, you can load it in Youtube and slow it down by 20% or so, to better catch it all.)

A screenshot from the page she linked (an addition below the open letter). By "Go" in their "No Means Go" campaign, the people of Klukwan, Haines & Chilkat Valley clearly mean "leave" — NOT "go ahead." The mining company pretends to not understand. Issue: 1 of SE Alaska's few king salmon rivers.

Article by @coxstan.bsky.social in CounterPunch, July 12. Online lede: "Ending the Genocide Calls for Much More Than a Weapons Cutoff" www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/12/t...

Reposting. If it hadn't come from ProPublica, I'd never have believed it.

UK experts say trying to extract the last barrels of domestic oil and gas would have no impact on people’s energy bills and very little effect on energy security. UK newspaper(owner)s want it anyway.

Pretty obvious really - we don't need economists to tell us The UK is especially at risk - almost half of food imported and the 3 worst harvests in the last 5 years - resulting in a loss of a year's worth of bread supply Don't rule out some rationing www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"Mr. Donaire, a professor of tourism studies…and a former member of the regional parliament, wants not merely to check overtourism, but to reverse it. Under his guidance, Barcelona is aiming to restore residential life in neighborhoods hit hardest by tourism’s negative effects. "

This is a really good op-ed from an Alaskan who used to work for and had respect for Dan S Sullivan. Not anymore. Worth a read.

The election-manipulator-In-Chief makes his move.

"Europe’s blistering heat wave is threatening energy security across the continent as [the nuclear] power plants shut down and the risk of rolling blackouts rises. Electric grids are overstressed, and ecosystems are too." oilprice.com/Alternative-...

The cruise lines speed where they shouldn't because they pack too much distance and too many port calls into their highly marketed 7 to 10-day Alaska vacations. They need to adjust their business model and marketing to slower whale-country[*] speeds. [*] Virtually the whole trip, PNW and Alaska.

Online petition: www.change.org/p/tell-alask... Tell all cruise lines operating in Alaska to run no faster than 10 knots in sensitive whale habitat or when whales are present. In essence: TELL ROYAL CARIBBEAN AND ALL ALASKA CRUISE COMPANIES THAT WHALES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THEIR SCHEDULES

All climate scientists think global warming is happening. At the same time, "Americans who think global warming is happening outnumber those who think it is not by a ratio of more than 4 to 1 (68% versus 16%)." Hard to miss the impacts these days. climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

"Erik Svendsen, the former CDC official who oversaw the Vessel Sanitation Program, warned that commissioned officers would be left without the civilian experts who made the program function."

Just call it "Air Force 1/2".

The cruise lines speed where they shouldn't because they pack too much distance and too many port calls into their highly-marketed 7 to 10-day Alaska vacations. They need to adjust their business model and marketing to slower whale-country[*] speeds. [*] Virtually the whole trip, PNW and Alaska.

This report (52 pages) looks really interesting. On my reading list. Any publication with co-author Paul Peeters can be counted on to have gravitas. See my reply post for a snippet from the Introduction. 1/2 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

What kind of "hero" is that? Certainly no climate hero. The opposite—a villain. ( Royal Caribbean has 7 of these world's-largest cruise ships sailing or on order — 7600 passengers [max capacity]. ) "Nero" is more fitting — Fiddling away; climate burns. cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/...

Perfectly put!

Sadly, this is not a joke: "The U.S. Global Change Research Program is now headed by Matthew Wielicki" It's like putting a Flat Earther in charge of NASA. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

"It turns out that firing all your employees, replacing them with extremely expensive software your deluded CEO thinks is magically sentient, and then layering it all on top of very broken and long-neglected [design & manufacturing] systems results in fairly universally bad outcomes. Fancy that."

"…inhabitants of planet Earth are quietly conducting a gigantic environmental experiment. So vast & so sweeping will be the consequences that, were it brought before any responsible council for approval, it would be firmly rejected. Yet it goes on with little interference from any jurisdiction…"

Yes, there was a big promo on ABC last night. We will be talking about it. Then it lasted all of one or two minutes tops. 'It was worse than the media let on'. And that was it. My daughter in law is a marine scientist and says the sea here should be 12C/13C but is 16C

"IT’S AMAZING TO THINK there was a time when God could get one’s attention by setting a single bush on fire… "Now, apparently, it takes the entire planet."

It is a long read — I started on it today. Very interesting, and I will get back to it real soon.

They're pumping up a drug that's ubiquitous underground, directly into the veins of the world's every economy. There is much talk about the petro industry having captured government agencies, even whole governments. Actually what it has captured is very nearly all of society…with decades of lies.

Beginning to turn around the world's ever-worsening climate dilemma should begin with all the people who think its OK to fly around or cruise around like crazy "until [as this saying goes] "hell freezes over." Which it won't. This is a cohort that really matters, for starting needed change.

🚨🚨🚨 I just read this, after drafting my own. It's more succinct than mine, & it's very important, so please read it. Gift 🎁 link. "If there’s a lesson here, it might be about the importance of listening hard to the people telling you what you don’t want to hear." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/o...

This is by an economist all should be paying attention to (I have been for several years). This will be on my order slate at my local independent bookseller, first thing tomorrow.

A criminal enterprise that affects us all. And I don't mean just here in the U.S.