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Dear Europe 👇 "The evidence overwhelmingly shows the opposite, that Trump will always find a way to support Putin in the end, that his occasional critical tweets about Russia are window-dressing, that he despises European countries and would be happy to see Ukraine fail (and even cease to exist)."

Make no mistake: the House budget bill, as currently written, is effectively a full repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act clean energy measures. This renders all IRA tax credits as-good-as-dead. Goodbye nuclear industry. Goodbye US manufacturing investments. Hello higher energy prices.

Russia is now bombarding Odesa with ballistic missiles. Remember, European leadership pledged that if Russia did not agree to a 30-day unconditional ceasefire by yesterday, they would hit Russia with super new sanctions. Yet, here we are…

My post yesterday, yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/the-..., discussed how 3 of the top-20 deadliest heat waves in history occurred in 2024. The 9,000+ deaths during the summer heat wave in Europe ranked as 2024’s deadliest weather disaster and is the fifth-deadliest heat wave in world history.

And who, you might ask, is putting this pressure on the EU to backtrack on climate goals? Yep, it's ExxonMobil and friends.

Hard to NOT see this is entirely incoherent at best, cynically hypocritical at worse.

Despite the nonsense we saw from Trump yesterday, please know that climate progress is continuing through other channels... This is important to keep in mind, every day.

“we are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.” - carl sagan

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

I think folks think far too intensively about economics and GHG bean counting vs. organizing to build power & alignment for intensified climate action. Put differently, we should stop centering think tanks who theorize about climate action & center folks who actually organize for climate action.

Two things we've seen from Trump in the past week: - Appointing superspreaders of misinformation to high office. - Announcing that social media media platforms will no longer be allowed to act against misinformation. It's going to be quite the ride.