For Charlotte friends who want to prepare, we made our little whistle station with a plastic planter (drainage in the bottom in case it rains), zip ties, and no-heat lamination paper

"Our studies show that increased wood use does not help to reach climate goals within this century, which begs the question of whether the use of wood should rather be reduced." The forestry sector advocates increasing harvesting for bioenergy and plastic substitution. www.syke.fi/en/about-us/...

Just think. If Trump shuffles off his mortal coil, we’re only going to be happy for like five minutes.

Greenhouse gas data is finally rolling in again, and my dashboard is back up-to-date. Unfortunately, the story hasn’t changed... 📈 More climate change indicator graphics at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

It’s almost as if there’s something in net zero (and I don’t mean Telegraph headlines such as “delusion”, “divorced from reality” or “mental illness”). Who’d have thought. www.thetimes.com/article/1f3b...

Dems can't win on affordability unless they say they're willing to close the loopholes and tax the rich.

Puking and crying at the thought of trans people in Ghana getting access to microcredit

CHARLOTTE “Agents parked just outside a closed gate leading to the church parking lot & ran into the yard… The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside at the time…” More 👉 www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power. The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.

NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body." Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

Marcha Global pelo Clima, Funeral dos Combustíveis Fósseis, 70 mil pessoas exigindo justiça climática #COP30

“What happened here is crazy,” said Cristina Santin, a biologist from northwestern Spain who studies fire impacts. “Suddenly you get up one day and your home region is burning on a scale that is completely unprecedented.” #Spain 🇪🇸 #ClimateEmergency www.reuters.com/investigates...

Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence! It gets even darker than that. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2032...

Now that the Sept and Oct data are (belatedly) in, it looks like 2025 will be the second warmest year in the record (~80% probability). The last three years are in a class of their own.

Here is the open access paper by Marella H. Schammel, Samantha J. Gold, and Daniel L. McCurry Metals in Wildfire Suppressants | Environmental Science & Technology Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

A careful look at NYISO data shows that there’s enough electricity supply to meet demand until 2034. Yet pro-gas politicians like @governor.ny.gov are misusing NYISO outlooks to expand fracked gas infrastructure that New Yorkers will have to pay for in their bills www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...

“I’m Hispanic and I’m dark (skinned), so that’s why they picked me up,” Diaz, a U.S. citizen, said. “It feels scary because I’m wearing a target — you know, pick me up because I’m this color. It shouldn’t be like that.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...

It's not just ambition on climate action that's being run down, but nature. Planet Earth is in the fight of its life and, on balance, those of us who are its allies are losing. It's our duty to work out why, and act on it. share.google/N0QU31GX4Znw...

Voor wie nog overtuigd moet worden: Een betere wereld begint bij een reclameverbod www.groene.nl/artikel/een-...

"It’s difficult to imagine how public lands grazing can be made any easier." But the Trump administration is trying, @landdesk.bsky.social writes: www.landdesk.org/p/usda-looks...

This Q&A asks all the important and thoughtful questions about the future of batteries and and energy storage systems, local resistance, and what’s next.. #EnergySky #GreenSky #EnergyTransition 🔋🔌💡 #MossLandingFire

New paper out! We document tornado-strength (98 mph) counter-rotating vortices that developed within California’s 2021 #DixieFire. These fire-generated vortices reshaped the fire front and spread, posing immediate risks to firefighters and civilians. doi.org/10.1175/MWR-...

Human health and ecosystem health are connected - In-depth reporting on amphibian die-off in Central America, and downstream implications for malaria incidence featuring work from my colleague Mike Springborn wapo.st/47Slsij

If you oppose fascism, support transit.

Merrick Garland left a standing impression that no one powerful will ever be held accountable. Democrats should rectify that by saying, loudly and every hour, that people who act on illegal orders will face punishment by the next DOJ.

The Supreme Court is about to rule on whether Trump can use troops against Americans www.vox.com/politics/468...

Although many people are saying it, I do not believe our current president sucked off former president Bill Clinton on camera. I have not seen sufficient evidence that our current president gave the former president a blowie in a way that was memorialized in a photo. That's not something I believe.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce, CA Chamber of Commerce and LA County Business Federation urging Supreme Court to block California climate disclosure laws, claiming they somehow violate the 1st Amendment: www.latimes.com/politics/sto... via @hayleysmith.bsky.social

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

was listening to this NPR piece on insurance and the cost of hailstorms in the US exceeding $150 *billion* just last year alone that's incredible. and it'll get worse w/ climate change. also, operable exterior shutters help address this! www.npr.org/2025/11/13/n...

Biggest climate news nobody's talking about: California is "rethinking" its 2035 electric vehicle mandate. Right while Gavin Newsom saunters around Brazil telling the world to follow CA's lead on climate. More in my newsletter, Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/so-much-fo...

the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance

Every word of this. Policies that will cost consumers more, suffocate nascent industries, leave us dependent on gas for longer, and jeopardise green transition are really not great overall..... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

YES YES YESSSSS!!!!!!! VICTORY!!!! 🤩💪🍾 #Climate #BeyondOil #ClimateLitigation www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

In the Chicago suburbs (near where I grew up) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/c...

👀 Trump "knew about the girls" writes Epstein. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate. Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents. couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

Regardless of how you feel about Gavin Newsom representing the US at COP, he's a reminder that states have many many tools laying around that they can use to fight back against Trump's environmental vandalism Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Net metering caps are stifling municipal efforts to obtain energy freedom and independence (never mind the climate benefits) and exist only because monopoly investor-owned utilities are unwilling to cede control of the electricity system:

“Ten years ago we had a more orderly path for staying away from 1.5 °C, with low or no #overshoot. Now we have failed,” Johan Rockström tells @apnews.com. “Without carbon dioxide removal it is simply impossible to manage the overshoot scenario,” says Ottmar #Edenhofer. ⬇️ apnews.com/article/un-c...

🚨Out in PNAS🚨 Examining news on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices

📍 BREAKING 📍 Canada delegation to COP30 stuffed with fossil fuel representatives, reflecting a new report that shows this year's UN climate talks have the highest number ever of fossil fuel lobbyists. buff.ly/FlNKBmT

Source: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We can't live without nature; we just don't know how. "Then they compared that spread to county-level health records of malaria in humans. They found a striking pattern: a fivefold spike in malaria cases after the fungus arrived and the frogs died." wapo.st/47Slsij

Melting glacier floods are very scary [🎁]

Can the world quit #coal? #COP30 #energy #ActOnClimate #Brazil #China #India @matpaterson.bsky.social @leahstokes.bsky.social theconversation.com/can-the-worl...

So.....did no one else notice that Pennsylvania just dropped RGGI?

"Climate justice resists the disproportionate power of large multinational companies, & prioritises the needs of people & communities. It demands that decarbonisation and emissions reductions are linked to transformative public investments in basic services that every community needs and deserves."