Why I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist. by @tednordhaus.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/08/13/w...

Bracing advice from @tednordhaus.bsky.social on climate philanthropy. www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/dont-set-y...

"Secretary Kennedy reiterated misguided and unscientific ideas that would upend the livelihoods of American farmers, increase food prices for American consumers, and compromise the competitiveness of U.S. agriculture globally" as @tednordhaus.bsky.social told the Hagstrom Report.

This sucks. The Breakthrough Institute’s ag program is terrific, someone needs to fund it. @tednordhaus.bsky.social @danbr.bsky.social

“If confirmed, Kennedy would undermine decades of progress in agricultural productivity, environmental sustainability, and food security.” www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/belt...

Missed this piece from Vijaya Ramachandran and @tednordhaus.bsky.social when it came out. I have some disagreements with it but it's interesting and worth reading for those of us working on development and international climate policy foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/06/t...

“Energy Austerity for thee but not for me.” COP is a bad deal for developing countries says @tednordhaus.bsky.social and they should quit. It’s supposed to be a deal: developing countries leapfrog fossil fuels with aid. But the deal isn’t working. foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/06/t...

"There are, in short, no global energy transitions, only local and national transitions. Skeptics who argue that the world has never undergone an energy transition make the same mistake as proponents who claim that the world is in the midst of one." www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/has-there-...

Courageous essay from @mikegrunwald.bsky.social in NYT. Kudos to Mike for writing it and NYT for publishing it. nytimes.com/2024/12/13/o...

Congrats to Matthew Marzano on confirmation to NRC by vote of 50-45. Manchin yes. Sinema no. Multiple R Senators out. I sincerely hope he is better commissioner than I have feared and will work to advance the far reaching modernization that we need. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Nice David Wallace Wells write up of BTI's @patricktbrown31.bsky.social report on the massive cost of CA wildfires and massive benefits of fuel reduction. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

I KNEW we weren’t getting out of this without a manifesto.

"The groups" are anti-abundance. Alex Trembath on the backlash from progressives and environmentalists against the abundance movement. www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/progressiv...

I'm featured in @gbrumfiel.bsky.social @npr.org All Things Considered this morning talking about nuclear and AI. Long story short, net-zero commitments X 24 hour clean energy matching don't leave many options for firm generation. www.npr.org/2024/12/09/n...

In recent years, there's been a push to do 24/7 matching of demand with clean energy supply. @tednordhaus.bsky.social says that change has forced companies to think about non-GHG sources of energy differently. Solar and wind just aren't running enough to match demand day and night.

Having witnessed aftermath of Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon fire at my family's ranch, I can attest these forests hadn't burned for 120+ years. Fire was intense. Damage extensive. @hannahnordhaus.bsky.social wrote about it in @nationalgeographic.bsky.social. www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

Wait… what???

This is the key tell in the endless debate around the trade offs between mitigating short term forcings like methane and carbon. If the trade off requires use of 20 year warming values to justify, it is not a serious climate mitigation action.

20 year warming value is either appropriate in eyes of climate movement if justifying natural gas phaseouts and bans or inappropriate if justifying mitigation. thebulletin.org/2023/12/mass...

There is no statutory prohibition against @NRCgov "promotion" of nuclear energy. Even were there, accounting for benefits of nuclear to society in mission and regulatory proceedings isn't promotion. Important new whitepaper from @TheBTI @Dr_A_Stein . thebreakthrough.imgix.net/NRC-Mission-...

"Nominating junior Senate staffer who has worked as policymaker for three scant years and has no senior management experience in the industry, is an insult to women in the sector." Brooke Morrison has had enough of the gaslighting from Marzano supporters. www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/gender-equ...

Two good papers in response to my question suggest that calling it a climate crisis or emergency does not increase concern or urgency and leads readers to view news sources as less credible. Thanks @revkin.bsky.social @brossard.bsky.social

According to the ClearSky app, almost 50% of active accounts on Bluesky are blocked by at least one other account and 40% of active accounts block at least one account. Seems remarkable. A function allowing users to block any account that blocked them could be the end of the entire platform...

Left critics of abundance brand it as neoliberal. Right critics brand it as communist. As I wrote a couple of months ago, what is disruptive about abundance movement is it cuts across both party coalitions, comprising upwing factions in both parties. www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/will-the-c...

Wondering if anyone on here is aware of any research that has tested whether use of the term “climate crisis” by scientists, journalists, and other experts leads people to perceive claims that they make as more or less credible?

When folks like @climatebrad.hillheat.com create climate moderation lists blocking veteran climate scholars like @thehonestbroker.bsky.social they are shrinking the climate tent just when it needs to be broadened. (an excerpt from this #sustainwhat chat: revkin.substack.com/p/exploring-...) 1/

As someone who appears on some of these lists, I endorse. If folks want to block me they should by all means do so but creating tools to allow people to blindly block hundreds or thousands of users at once, and anyone who interacts with them, is a choice that this platform has made.

As expected, Tom Carper's zombie NRC confirmation marches on with party line vote in Senate EPW. Hopefully Schumer will allow it to quietly die in full Senate. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024...

"Young companies are now challenging incumbents in classic metal-bashing industries like automobiles, space, and defense." This @amcafee82.bsky.social post should be required reading for nuclear peeps who believe Westinghouse (founded 1886) is future of nuclear. geekway.substack.com/p/the-long-g...

This is a really devastating condemnation of Marzano nomination from Brooke Morrison on LinkedIn. Happy to see more folks in nuclear saying publicly what many more have been asking privately since Matthew Marzano was nominated. www.linkedin.com/posts/brooke...

"The dangers to the future of nuclear energy and the nation’s health, environment, and energy security of going too slow on modernization and reform are far greater than going too fast." Why Senate Democrats should abandon Marzano NRC confirmation. www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/time-for-d...

Also on the board of Oklo.

“The scientific community must also better recognize that it may not be helpful to emphasize consensus in policy reports’ recommendations when the underlying values are not universally shared.” More of this please…

"Even after the shock of the first Trump election, when he had failed to win the popular vote and was still seen as alien even to much of his own party, we all, ultimately, went back to work." Too true, this.

The morning after Trump’s Muslim ban, I walked out of a speech I was giving at World Bank to join protests at White House. But nobody was there. Everyone had gone back to work. My thoughts on what went wrong with the resistance and what to do now. www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/we-have-ne...