“Their rapid surrender to state coercion points to the absolute rot in these elite echelons, filled with people whose commitment to fundamental rights like free speech is utterly superficial.” My favorite part of @adamserwer.bsky.social ‘s latest piece www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“One recent deployment of grid sensors in Indiana and Ohio took only nine months to install, increased capacity by more than 50 percent, and cost just one percent of the price of building new transmission lines.” reader.foreignaffairs.com/2025/09/09/t...

“The study found over half the nationwide smoke mortalities would occur in Eastern states, where population density tends to be higher.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...

I'll host a livestream on Tue, Sep 16 @ 3:30pm PT to discuss potentially (very) active weather week to come in CA--including burst of heat then potentially major (mixed wet/dry) thunderstorm outbreak via remnants from Tropical Storm Mario. #CAwx #CAfire

New Weather West post out on potentially widespread and significant thunderstorm outbreak later this week across much of California thanks to then-former Tropical Storm Mario's remnants. I discuss caveats re: dry lightning and more within... weatherwest.com/arch... #CAwx #CAfire

Whoa, kind of mind-blowing. The rocks above the end-Cretaceous mass extinction look different than the ones below it because of the ways that dinosaurs modified the environment. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

I'm so grateful for Governor Hochul's support in unifying our party, her resolve in standing up to Trump, and her focus on making New York affordable. I look forward to the great work we will accomplish together. Our movement is only growing stronger. Onward to November.

Can't believe they don't want to stay in a place that will put them in chains, parade them in front of cameras, then hold them in dirty overcrowded cells for over a week while threatening them and making racist jokes.

An apology that I hope will somewhat calm my family member’s fears He has a mental illness and was with a relative when he learned about the callous comment and began to spiral. The other family member contacted me and they were able to calm him with distraction. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

One year after dams were torn down, an Indigenous writer sees a healing Klamath River "I used to always say, I want my great-grandmother’s river back. And I feel like I am just getting to know my great-grandmother’s river." www.latimes.com/environment/...

I loved this piece! (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?

Tomorrow seems like a good day to talk about the weather...so let's do it. I'll host a virtual office hour to discuss recent beneficial September showers in northern CA, the unfolding extreme North Pacific marine heatwave, & autumn to come. #CAwx #CAfire

A very appropriate one right now

“ … it’s not entirely clear that it will ever play out as a system-wide financial catastrophe—more likely is that we see more of the same, with intensifying and unevenly distributed social consequences.” Great overview from @katemac.bsky.social and Tim Sahay www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

“I’m not stupid: I knew the exceedingly wealthy crowd, which included many international attendees, wasn’t going to be the one to hold a full-length mirror up to Trump and show him how much he’s loathed by the city of his birth.”

what the hell are you talking about, man

"Slowing GDP growth, a structural shift away from heavy industry, and more proactive policies on air pollution & clean energy have caused China's coal use to peak" www.nature.com/articles/nge... That was written in 2016. Coal has grown strongly since then. 1/

Apparently RFK Jr. is not just opposed to vaccines, he's against germ theory. This makes him less qualified to be HHS secretary than most five-year-olds.

(NB: IMPASSE is available for 50% off on our website for just a few more days: www.sup.org/books/litera...)

The extreme North Pacific marine heatwave continues, as earlier noted, and now extends all the way to the North American West coast nearshore waters (including west of CA, OR, WA, & BC). This will have a couple of different effects in coming days/weeks: [1/2] #CAwx #ORwx #WAwx

I’ve had (plenty) of disagreements with Ezra but this is very good and vastly (and correctly) more critical of Schumer and Jeffries than I expected maybe Dems can’t win a shutdown argument - and if they can’t, after all the time, then those two truly need to go

I'd like to see some reporting on this, I do think it's quite clear they can't be everywhere and doing everything at once and we need to be able to document clear signs of withdrawal from particular fronts, or else it'll feed the perception that they ARE everywhere and doing everything

“One reason that prices have not collapsed is that the actual increases have turned out to be substantially less than the 2.5 million barrels a day announced.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/b...

What would it take for the leaders of the Senate Democrats to talk like this?

I ordered my copy earlier today. Super excited!

Secretary of Energy: “Climate change, for impacting the quality of your life, is not incredibly important. In fact, if it wasn’t in the news, in the media, you wouldn’t know.” The burning West, choking on smoke from worsening wildfires:

The anti-science wingnuttery of RFK Jr is horrifying and destructive, but Energy Secretary Chris Wright is a real contender for doing as much damage in the long run. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...

A fantastic interview! Bonus: having my 21-yo tune in with me. Can’t wait to read the book!

“The first eight months of Donald Trump’s presidency have been more and more damaging for the blue collar fields and heavy industries that he promised to help,” writes @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social heatmap.news/economy/jobs...

Major nocturnal lightning event, featuring widespread t-storms w/only brief/light rainfall, is continuing this AM. Most dry lighting so far has been over San Joaquin Valley & lower adjacent foothills, but activity lifting N/NWward into Sacramento & SF East Bay. #CAwx #CAfire

“Nationwide, one in five of the lowest-income households have no access to air conditioning, while 30% rely solely on window units, according to exclusive analysis by the National Energy Assistance Directors Association (Neada) for the Guardian.”

Like, it's right there out in the open? What do you think "energy dominance" means if not this? They mean it literally. They always mean all of it literally.

Upper ocean heat content (0 to 700 m depth) also set a new record high with the latest June data update (see my earlier post). Yikes! 🌊 Graphic/data (anomalies) from www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/globa...

The failure of political analysts to understand the sheer political power of the oil industry is really puzzling. It isn’t that scientists need to make better arguments it’s that the most powerful industry in history is rigging the system!

“Trump can wave his big stick (which looks a lot like a nine iron) and foreign governments will try to humor him so as not to cause themselves undue trouble. But I’m pretty sure they’re giggling behind his back.”

“They represent a new normal in a nation where more than 60,000 communities are within a wildlife urban interface, a number that, as weather patterns continue to turn increasingly severe, will only grow.” @davidulin.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...

What I love about these office hour sessions is that I can watch them days after the main effects of the weather event have passed and still learn about stuff like heat bursts while being reminded of the true meaning of a monsoon.

“Republicans are going to paint Democrats as far-left extremists no matter what positions they take. So you might as well defend the positions you believe to be principled, moral, and correct.” @radleybalko.bsky.social is always a must-read.

Three of nine regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASCs) across the country will shut down by October if OMB continues to withhold funds to renew their 5-year cooperative agreements - which includes funds already appropriated to the CASCs by Congress for Fiscal Year 2025.

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Because the thing is, this is real but also, it's not real. This image reflects the reality that Trump *wants* a total state in which he is the unquestioned leader, but we do not actually live in that state, at least not yet.

On the new acting CDC director. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New nonprofit climate group forms, aims to resurrect climate.gov, National Climate Assessment and other lost data www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...

The American Meteorological Society's formal response to "foundationally flawed" DOE mis/disinformation report on #ClimateChange is excellent & timely. Frankly, I have been more impressed w/@ametsoc.org's ability to effectively meet the moment this year than other scientific professional societies.

“It may seem strange to say a handful of tech billionaires have decided to help overthrow our system of government, but that is the grim reality.” @gilduran.com At first glance I read that as trash billionaires. Silly me.😳 www.thenerdreich.com/wired-editor...

Reminder that Thiel tried to get Trump to appoint Balaji Srinivasan—the literal Network State guy—as head of the FDA in 2016. It didn't work out, but Thiel is having better luck in the second administration. Thiel wanted Balaji because they both hate the FDA. www.vox.com/2017/1/14/14...

If it is the case that something like 44 percent—or even 40 percent; or 36 percent—of the country approves of where we are now, then is there any realistic prospect of returning to liberalism? www.thebulwark.com/p/fast-times...

PEOPLE ARE FINALLY FEELING SAFE EATING OUTSIDE AGAIN Because the heat index isn’t 108.

Surface water temperatures in the Great Lakes have not only been rising, but having more extreme highs and lows. Tough for marine life to adapt. www.nature.com/articles/s43...