Are you coming to climate week nyc? Of course you are. Stop by the Nest climate campus at the Javits, I’m the keynote speaker (?!?) 9am Tuesday www.thenestclimatecampus.com/2025-speakers

Co-author @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social celebrates the launch of "Somebody Should Do Something" at Greenlight Bookstore in NY this Wed., Sept. 17th! Join him and @drkatemarvel.bsky.social for a discussion on the power of individual choices. Link for details: greenlightbookstore.com/event/2025-0...

This is an excerpt from Kate's new book, which is just out in the UK. I've been inspired by Kate's work for a long time, so I'm super-excited to read it. I bet a lot of you will enjoy it too!

I wrote a book! A whole, real, actual book! Ada Limón, genius poet, said nice things about it! As did other absolute heroes! And now it's in libraries and bookstores in several countries! Be careful what you wish for, it might turn out awesome bookshop.org/p/books/huma...

In tough times you NEED to read examples of hope and overcoming tough, complex, global problems.

'We know the planet can be saved from unspeakable horror. We’ve done it before.' Beautiful extract from HUMAN NATURE by @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, published today, in @theguardian.com Long Reads today www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Humans: sometimes bad, sometimes good, capable of great. Me, in today’s @theguardian.com Long Read www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

PROUD (academic) PARENTS

is there life on Mars? maybe. is it puppies? definitely not. Earth forever

To sum up: we have 🪨 A cool rock from #Mars that may or may not hold evidence of ancient life 🛰️ An internal fight over whether NASA should spend its money on science or human exploration, and on what planet 🤔 A totally uncertain future for this amazing rock 🧪

Attn lovers of tasteful draped linen: I’ll be in conversation with Aditi Mayer at Eileen Fisher SoHo Wed Sep 24 6-8 pm www.eventbrite.com/e/eileen-fis...

🚨Hot off the press🔥 LIGHTS OUT How Trump's war on climate science is weakening the US A feature about the White House's "cluster-bomb approach" to dismantling the world's most sophisticated scientific apparatus. By @zhirji.bsky.social @blkahn.bsky.social and me 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

The readers will be the judge of that, National Book Festival

Are you in DC on Saturday? Stop by the Library of Congress National Book Festival and say hi! www.loc.gov/events/2025-...

Fun fact: this would be true if we lived on Pluto

I have never related more to a historical figure

“What’s being undercut isn’t just NASA’s technical ability to carry out missions, although that would be bad enough. It is America’s—and the world’s—capacity to wonder, to believe, to know.“ www.wired.com/story/the-de...

FACTCHECK: We asked dozens of scientists to review Trump's climate report, being used to justify major policy rollbacks. They found "more than 100" false or misleading claims. Click through to read them all: interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...

HUMAN NATURE is the NPR book of the day! www.npr.org/2025/08/14/n...

The report deals with genuine unknowns in climate science by choosing their preferred answer and setting the uncertainty to zero

Remarkably, NASA is looking for partners (wealthy individuals, philanthropic orgs, companies etc.) to keep crucial climate satellite missions like the Orbiting Carbon Observatory going. Whether they make such a deal before $$ runs out remains to be seen... www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/c...

If you'd like to offer comments on the misleading & error-ridden US federal report, "Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate," the link to do so is below. Comments are due by Sept 2. Pls see next post for links to resources that debunk the claims in this report.

I liked it better when “fantasy” meant hobbits/sexy fairies instead of “pretending cancer/climate change/viruses don’t exist”

New Episode! @drkatemarvel.bsky.social joins to discuss her new book Human Nature. We talk about exploring the complexities of the climate crisis and much, much, more. Listen with the links below. iOS: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1WtM... #climatechange

1/ Climate scientist @drkatemarvel.bsky.social says she decided to bring feels into her discussion of our changing planet because lying about emotions is not the way to get people to trust you. Great convo!

Please stop calling us “mainstream” scientists, we’re not boring we’re just right

Read the chapter titled Fertile Air in my book to find out why trees growing faster under conditions of rising atmospheric CO2 can be a bad thing for ecosystems www.bloomsbury.com/us/end-of-ed...

I wrote about this in my book! It blew my mind

Fun fact: modern science is in fact aware of plants and how they work

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.

I love renewable energy tech because it's either "use quantum mechanics and semiconductor physics to leverage the photoelectric effect" or "put three spinny things on a stick"

I hope that we can all give each other the grace of assuming everyone is mad about everything

Most people don't understand this is the case due to constant lies published in the media. Spread the word.

why does coal use she/her pronouns

You Have Never Felt Climate Change Like This Earth scientist Kate Marvel gets personal about climate science nautil.us/you-have-nev...

🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨 Please RT this so as many people see it as possible. forms.gle/BL9xUAfRxA...

The first guy who figured out that hot air holds more water vapor looked like this. We've known that warming temperatures mean heavier downpours for a very long time

- “The future can’t be predicted with perfect certainty” - True! That doesn’t mean we can’t identify to reduce our risk and make the worst outcomes less likely.

- “Adaptation reduce the harms of climate change” - True! And so you’re going to invest a lot in adaptation, right? Right??

- “It’s not just climate! Sinking land is a major contributor to local relative sea level rise in many places!” - Yes, we told you that! And you’re going to invest in adaptation, help get people out of harm’s way, and reduce groundwater and oil & gas extraction in sinking areas, right? Right??

Land sector ones C: “burning biomass is carbon neutral because the plant already absorbed the carbon” R: you just burned it though, which emits relative to not burning C: “biogenic CO2 and methane are ‘better’ than fossil CO2 and methane” R: these sources warm the climate just like fossil-based 1/

Claim: "Water vapor is a greenhouse gas!" Reality: Yes, and there's more of it in a warmer atmosphere -"CO2 is plant food!" -pretty hard to eat when you're on fire -"Climate has changed before!" -We know, we told you that -"Scientists don't know everything!" - doesn't mean we know *nothing*

Hannah Ritchie is brilliant and you should buy her book

"Australia's favourite independent bookshop" is now mine too www.readings.com.au/reviews/huma...

Also a good idea to tell academic authors that you really thei research paper. We maybe don't get enough criticism but we definitely get (and give) far too little praise.

If you loved an author’s book, tell them! They will completely ignore it because they’re fixated forever on the anonymous person who once gave them two stars on goodreads but it’s probably good for your karma

This is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.

Hey! COME WORK HERE Job: Illinois State Lead – Save transit, Build clean energy Team: BEST TEAM IN CLIMATE POLITICS AND POLICY - @michealpodgers.bsky.social @spears.bsky.social and the rest of us at @climateaf.bsky.social Location: Remote but in Illinois Pay: $85-105k Deadline: SOON! August 4!

Talked to Steven Levitt (the Freakonomics guy) and we disagreed on a lot of stuff but it was still a very nice chat podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

I spoke to Texas Public Radio about the summer floods and all the ways to feel about our changing world www.tpr.org/podcast/the-...