Oh wow

I should be used to it by now, but it's really weird to live in a country run by a gross pig

#A_NewHope ✊

AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

I've stopped asking, "what does the future hold?" I'm more likely to ask, "what can *I* hold, no matter the future?"

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 11, 2025 ~ Everything is fine. "The invisible gas can be seen in streams of bubbles originating on the seafloor of Antarctica's Ross Sea ... describing the mechanism as 'seemingly widespread' throughout the region... " abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

I has been a very long time since I posted this list of 40 consequences of climate change. But, it's important to take note of item number 40. I truly wish things were going to get better, but sadly, it's all just going to get more f&%ked from here. climatecasino.net/2021/10/top-...

Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.

Federal agents charged and knocked down two 84-year-olds (84!) as they peacefully protested on Saturday in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland, just blocks from their home. Psychopaths.

Delighted that Cory is having a moment with "Enshittification," because it's an accurate word for what's happening in tech and he's the right person to describe it. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

Technical data update - Due to the U.S. government shutdown, some climate data visualizations on my website may not be updated as usual. I’ll refresh them as soon as possible. Sorry, and thanks for your patience! Image from nsidc.org/data/g10016/...

Want some simple ways to resist fascism? Wear a mask. Donate to mutual aid. Go to a local library. Support community fridges and food banks. Plant a garden. Deliver groceries. Provide a ride to and from doctors appts. Participate in neighbourhood ICE watch. Show up for others.

Does this help understand today's equinox? The day on which the lengths of day and night across the globe are approximately equal. Because Earth's axis is tilted by ~23.5 degrees, Earth's hemispheres receive an equal amount of irradiation only twice a year:

As a reminder, land areas (where we live) are warming around twice as fast as over the oceans. Subsequently, most of us are 'feeling' temperatures rising faster than the global mean record. Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

Goodbye and farewell to the fair ozone layer. youtu.be/iDaG4zt0NKc?...

If this plays out as forecast, we may see near modern-day record September global temperatures before too long. The latest day (Sept. 12) was 1.4C above the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline. www.karstenhaustein.com/climate

CHICAGO…

A normal country would regulate guns.

Deforestation kills more than trees.

My #Arctic sea-ice thickness and volume graphics are now updated for July 2025: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... #SciComm #DataViz #OpenScience #OpenData

Good morning! Here’s are your 3 minutes of peace and calm. I’m looking forward to painting this one tonight! #OceanDevotion

Every time I open LinkedIn, someone from a science agency shares an unplanned (forced) early retirement or RIF. Lately it’s NASA & EPA. In spring, NOAA. I think people have no idea how deep this loss really is. I don’t know what rebuilding federal science looks like, but it won’t be simple or quick.

I hope NY legislators get this done. And pass NY for All.

The first copy of my new book arrived from the publisher yesterday. Even 20 books in, that's a special moment billmckibben.substack.com/p/shameless-...

Colbert, Keeling Hard to say which cancellation is worse www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/c...

What the news isn't telling you about the US floods:

U.S. Senate advances bill stripping $9B in allocated funding from NPR, PBS, foreign aid via @jennifershutt.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/07/15/r...

Will this be the last Keeling curve upate from NOAA for CO2 at Mauna Loa? June 2025: 429.61 ppm This may be a tragic moment:

Lesson 142: How climate deniers view data showing that we are f&%ked: "Oh look! Temperatures are decreasing faster than ever!"

You must read this thread:

I don’t think 1.5 degrees failed because it was too ambitious. It failed because hardly anyone made a serious effort. Just look at fossil fuel subsidies. Any serious attempt to phase out fossil fuels would have started by immediately stopping all fossil subsidies.

Here's one I haven't updated in nearly a year -- the 180-day running anomaly over the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline. The 180-day is below 1.50°C again. Yay?

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy. It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.' www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

The richest person in the history of our planet is now a Hitler ventriloquist. I'm not completley sure this is all going to work out

The death toll in Central Texas climbed to at least 70 as of midday Sunday, as rescuers searched for people swept away by devastating floods and forecasters warned that downpours would continue in already hard-hit areas. Follow live updates. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

This country had one of the most advanced emergency management systems in the entire world specifically so that we are not helpless in the face of disaster but this fucker and his little buddies decided to dismantle it.

Sipping my coffee ☕️ thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups! Known as Kamares Ware, these luxury ceramics were made during the Bronze Age 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete 📷 by me #Archaeology

We are absolutely in a time when the fossil fuel economy feels emboldened to go on the direct offensive against environment groups www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

LL Cool J said that he will not perform at Wawa Welcome America in Philadelphia on July 4th because of union strike “There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”

The key takeaway from the Global Tipping Points Conference at @exeter.ac.uk, where I've been this week, convening over 500 earth-system & other scientists: Global heating over 1.5C risks setting off tipping points that would destroy the world. The hotter, the more danger. 1/

It’s amazing that it takes so many public meetings, environmental impact assessments, scientific studies to implement Everglades restoration, but they can just put up a concentration camp in the Everglades overnight.

Republicans may lie about what's in their budget bill but the numbers sure don't.

I hope the Trump regime can finally teach the folks who believe in market-based solutions to climate change that petrostates, including our own, tend to intervene in and distort markets (including with disinformation) to manufacture demand for fossil fuels.

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: "Insurance markets may collapse. Coastal property values may crash. Crop failures, mass migration, and cascading economic shocks will ripple through the system. We don’t know exactly what the trigger will be — but we can say with certainty that one will come."

No matter one's opinion of Joe Biden, he's a good person.

Your 'moment of doom' for June 28, 2025 ~ Fountains! "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Heat Strategy, launched just last year to prepare for heat events, has shut down. Most members of an interagency working group on extreme heat have quit."