The execution of Alex Pretti is playing so badly because you can look at his actions and life story - his last act was helping, boy scout, athlete, health care worker to veterans - and compare those to the men who killed him and know which you would want to be your son, brother, father, uncle.

Amid all the horrors in MN right now, the fact that Alex Pretti was an interdisciplinary environmental studies graduate from UMN got to me. He was just like my students, who care deeply about both people and nature. Hoping for justice for his family.

Given all that's going on, here's another systemic risk out there: the collapse of food production due to biodiversity loss in key areas of the world. This UK security analysis get it - a key message of the @ipbes.net Nexus Assessment as well. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Please sign letter @agu.org has organized in opposition to the withdrawal of the US from UNFCCC and other global #climate and environmental policy institutions 🧪 agu.quorum.us/campaign/152...

My colleague @bobkopp.net has a nice thread rundown of the many problems and illegal actions of the Dept of Energy Climate Working Group report based on the emails that came out yesterday from @envdefensefund.bsky.social lawsuit: www.edf.org/media/newly-... I would just add a few things re NCA5 1/

In the meantime, the US has decided actual UN agencies and agreements that have helped govern the commons since WW2 are no longer worth being a part of 🙈

"Why don't scientists engage more with public?" people always complain. But our outlets are slow and limited! Case in pt: I wrote editorial immediately after recent Trump admin withdrawal from global enviro science. Rejected from newspaper after waiting several days to hear so lost timeliness 1/2

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...

Must-read reporting by @virginiagewin.bsky.social on how US federal actions are affecting science. By pairing the scale of the damage with the very human, personal stories behind the numbers, she paints a powerful and comprehensive picture of just how thoroughly US science is being hollowed out.

Today marks the official departure of the US from the Paris Agreement. We have withdrawn before (under Trump 1) and we rejoined immediately under a new President. This time may be harder given intention of Trump 2 to withdraw from #UNFCCC as well. But I hope we will be back! 🗼❤️🇺🇸 #climatechange

I'm glad Natl Endowment for Humanities is giving grants again, but a reminder that nearly all grants awarded Jan 2025 got cancelled by DOGE, including mine, & haven't been recovered yet despite federal judge ruling they should be reinstated. Still tied up in court #NEH www.neh.gov/sites/defaul...

Dr. King believed our democracy would only make sense when every child was fed, every mind was educated, and every community had dignity and freedom. That vision is still unfolding. So, on this MLK Day, let us recommit to the work of building the world he dared to imagine.

If you know anything about the Vietnam War, you know why Hmong Americans are here in the US - they were US allies who risked their lives in Laos to aid the US and had to flee at the end of the war when the Pathet Lao won. Infuriating that members of their community are being targeted like this

Good piece highlighting the work of the USAA-IPCC in supporting US climate scientists working on AR7 (more than 70 total scientists- we are still in!) @bobkopp.net

Statement on US Withdrawal from the IPCC by the US Academic Alliance for the IPCC: Yesterday’s announcement that the Trump Administration intends to withdraw the US from participation in the IPCC, along with a host of other global intergovernmental organizations, is disappointing but not surprising

IPCC | \ ˌī-(ˌ)pē-(ˌ)sē-ˈsē \ | verb: 1: to assess and synthesize vast amounts of scientific literature on a complex topic 2: to be a pain in the Trump administration's side just by stating the truth about topics they don't like, through honest assessments and international collaborations.

It is a blow but US climate scientists will stay engaged. We have to.

"Donald Trump may talk tough, but time and again he proves incapable of leading. Withdrawing from the UNFCCC is an abandonment of America’s opportunity to drive the global economy into the future, ceding jobs and economic growth to China and other countries." @sierraclub.org 1/

The federal govt may be burning global cooperation on climate science to the ground, but we can and are pushing back where we can. We have more than 70 US scientists currently on IPCC reports, with more to be selected this month for CDR methods report. The USAA-IPCC coalition is up for this fight.

It's late & it's been a horrific day, but the Trump admin has pulled the US out of all the international environmental institutions I have been deeply involved in: IPCC, IPBES, IUCN and many others (UN Water, UN Oceans, UNREDD, ITTO, etc). And of course UNFCCC too www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Extremely worrying news out of India. Targeting #climate activists with trumped up charges is something #Vietnam has done the past few years. All driven by fears of declining revenue by the fossil fuel industry which has captured the state www.climatechangenews.com/2026/01/07/i...

See ya, sucky 2025 💩: - 2 research grants terminated - cut from my advisory board role at EPA - much time responding to Administration's attempts to gut climate science (dropping IPCC and NCA6, DOE and EPA trying to deregulate GHGs) - countries blocking welcome of global assessment report I co-led

I chaired an amazing panel session at #AGU25 last week on best practices and innovations in climate assessments, from state and local experiences like in CA to the global O3 assessments of the Montreal Protocol. And now we hear today #NCA6 is to be written in just a few weeks by contrarians and AI 😩

It seems inevitable this is the road we were headed down 🥺

Good for the senators from Colorado for fighting for NCAR.

Bravo to the #AGU25 protestor out in front of the entrance to the convention center this am

A crushing blow, coming during the #AGU25 meeting. And singling out the Rising Voices program is infuriating- we need more focus on bringing diverse ppl into climate science, not less!

Looking forward to catching up with folks at #AGU25 - let me know if you are in New Orleans! I am there Mon-Wed and chairing a couple of great sessions on Tuesday on the importance of climate assessments at local, national and global levels, including introducing our new org, USAA-IPCC!

Was very poignant to be welcomed by three different Cabinet secretaries/ministers in France last week. A huge contrast to the current state of US executive branch climate denial.

Really happy to be here in Paris at the first-ever joint working group lead author meeting! Looking forward to productive discussions this week

At least 90 people have died and another 12 are missing after days of heavy rain in Vietnam led to flooding and landslides. The Vietnamese government says 186,000 homes have been damaged across the country, with more than three million livestock swept away.

Now that #COP30 has shown us how urgent action really is, sharing access to a Perspective that came out earlier this fall on managing trade-offs between biodiversity and renewable energy - the IPBES nexus assessment shows that this *can* be done! rdcu.be/eRx3d

Disappointing lack of urgency from #COP30 outcomes. Meanwhile, #Vietnam is getting a battering from extreme rain and floods. These are NOT coastal provinces that are used to hurricanes - these are inland mountainous areas now experiencing landslides and submerged villages www.bbc.com/news/article...

Once upon a time we had a government with multiple levels of scientific review, advisory boards and robust processes so that one political person could not do an end-run around science. An incredibly dangerous moment for public health, climate, AI, etc when actual expertise/evidence is sorely needed

For decades, Republicans have been slow walking progress on clean energy. That isn’t free. Home insurance premiums are through the roof because of their inaction.

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I left my previous job due to 'restructuring' gone awry. Being more interdisciplinary is one thing - giving all your existing departments the heave-ho (with little faculty input) is another.

🎙️ The #COPOut Podcast Episode 3 on the Future of Carbon Governance is LIVE! Tune in to hear from @pammcelwee.bsky.social & @laurengifford.bsky.social as they discuss how the use science to inform climate policymaking and why the regime continues to miss the mark. cece.american.edu/copout-episo...

📢 In a new PLOS Climate Opinion article, the Co-Chairs of the the @ipbes.net Nexus Assessment, @pammcelwee.bsky.social and Paula Harrison, share key lessons for the UNFCCC #COP30 🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

new from me today: not all data centers are created environmentally equal — and building them in states with cleaner grids and more access to water could go a long way in preventing environmental catastrophe

Every new report on the consequences of Trump’s dismantling of USAID is more horrifying than the last. One model estimates it's caused 600K deaths — two-thirds of them children. We can’t give Trump a blank check to keep destroying life-saving programs.

First episode of COPOut airs SUNDAY. Tune in to hear from @laurengifford.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @davidho.bsky.social @magnoliae.bsky.social @pammcelwee.bsky.social @lisaschipper.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social @amywestervelt.bsky.social & more! cece.american.edu/cece-launche...

Today Nov 6 is International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. Given the environmental impacts of recent conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, we clearly need to do better. joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and...

The headwinds are strong at frderal level, but NJ really needs to get offshore wind energy sector developed - 🤞hope newly elected governor Sherrill uses her mandate to push for this www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The UNEP GAP report is not the kind of reading that makes climate scientists smile. But this figure is not all bleak - look at all the emissions curves pointing downwards! The full report: www.unep.org/resources/em...

In reading Bill Gates' recent #climate memo, I'm struck by how much he ignores huge body of research and action around integrated solutions - the whole reason we wrote the @ipbes.net Nexus Assessment on climate, biodiversity, water, food and health! So a few key facts & lessons from our report: 1/

Thank you fellow NJ voters! Turns out being pro-science, pro-infrastructure and pro-democracy is very popular in our grand state!

How can the Global South integrate climate and health policy under increasing neglect by the Trump administration? Join us for a conversation Wednesday at 1 pm ET, moderated by @alexip718.com and featuring experts @joshettinger.bsky.social @finejulia6.bsky.social at @mason4c.bsky.social:

New Jersey, it is the honor of my life to earn your trust to become this great state’s 57th Governor. I promise to listen, lead with courage, and never forget who I serve.