Yes it’s climate change, stop asking

How many people die from extreme temperatures, and how this could change in the future? Think about someone dying from extreme temperatures. You probably pictured someone passing out from heat stroke or dying from hypothermia.

In the US, July 4th is regularly the day with the worst air quality, but this is next level bad. Please take care if you are near this (masks, HEPA filters, etc.).

Did you know? Renewables have just overtaken coal as the world's largest source of electricity 34% – global renewable share, up 2x in 20yrs 48% – EU 37% – China 26% – US 24% – India

If these OMB amendments go through, that will mark the end of US as the world leader in cutting edge tech and science. The best research talent in the world will stop concentrating in the US because of these changes -- and they will go elsewhere or stay home. It is such an avoidable "self-own".

One thing I've learned about paradoxes: often the answer to the riddle of "how can this one thing have such a contradictory set of features and effects?" is "it's not one thing, it's *two* things*." 1/

"In my judgment, that plan was not sustainable over the long term..." As a Canadian environmental scientist focused on climate impacts, I have a very different opinion on what is sustainable over the long term, @mark-carney.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately. Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it. gizmodo.com/heres-why-we...

The Supreme Court today addressed one of the most pressing threats to the nation today: banning this high school sophomore from playing school sports with her friends 🫡🫠🙃

I respect all the folks involved in the propublica story on the “wedges” paper but they are overegging the pudding here. 1) BP funding and contribution was acknowledged in the paper. 2) the key takeaway was the ‘wedges’ concept, not the specifics of any particular wedge.

need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.

Write a critical AI book, and you become everyone's confessor for their AI sins. People in my life keep telling me about their guilty AI pleasures, in search of an explanation, absolution or condemnation: us.macmillan.com/books/978037... 1/

More than a decade ago, a group of young, internet-connected Belarusian dissidents launched a series of increasingly high-stakes, increasingly surreal confrontations with the corrupt, authoritarian government of Alexander Lukashenka, a man who is often called "the last Soviet dictator." 1/

I think they're perfectly aware that they are convincing more people to read *Careless People* (you should read it, it's genuinely excellent): us.macmillan.com/books/978125... 35/

At an ‘AI for science’ event and feeling increasingly salty at the assumptions and implicit values underlying many of the panelists.

Gutted to hear of the passing of V. “Ram” Ramaswamy, who had led NOAA's influential climate lab, GFDL, since 2008. He had a truly American success story and lasting legacy. May his memory be a blessing to his friends and family.

As I wrote earlier, the idea of just letting Lake Powell die to save Mead and the Colorado is gaining traction. But that’s no solution to the river’s bigger problems Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I especially love this diagram.

Occasional in situ ground truthing of sea level rise. Carry on.

Move away from fossil fuels perhaps? Just a thought. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/b...

It's not often that someone on a panel says something that makes my jaw drop, but that's what happened earlier this week when the moderator of a panel I was on in Toronto described jailbreaking an iPhone as "rampant theft of IP." 1/

NEW ANALYSIS: UK sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time What's that you say? Something something demand, something something ZEV mandate? Take a look at the data: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Me on the heatwave www.economist.com/science-and-...

Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."

I could go on and on. Over 500,000 children have already died due to USAID cuts. Hundreds of thousands more children lost their parents. Every one of those children had a name. They had futures, and they were loved

Jennifer Inyaa and her five year old son Evan, got their HIV meds from USAID. After a month without medication, Jennifer got sick and died. A week after losing his mother, Evan died too www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In Kenya, Jane, aged 9 died of malnutrition in a refugee camp because her mother Rovina couldn’t find care and also feed her other eight children hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

In 2025, USAID stopped funding clean water in Goma, DRC. Goma then suffered the worst cholera outbreak in 25 years, with 1,479 deaths, a 361% increase. Every one of those people had a name www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issu...

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Total agreement!

Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

This amount would fund the US National Science Foundation for a decade. 🧪

Hard to overstate just how much of the Brexit campaign was based on lies. Looking back it’s a sad case study of a country voting to immiserate itself due to the mendacity of right-wing politicians and tabloids. But it’s almost never framed that way in UK media. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I always thought that having the COP meetings in (often miserable) NH winters was sub-optimal in terms of PR, but maybe that is better than this?

Art, science and climate change - new PBS documenatry featuring the Peltos www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Starting this summer, talking about attribution of heatwaves (5x more likely etc) should be the norm for every weather caster, journalist, academic, etc. The science is solid and it is a revealing tool to help people understand what is happening to our climate -- and why.

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

A conversation science communicators need to have about AI art 🧪🐙🐡🧵

This isn’t actually funny but I keep cackling to myself when people say we should pursue AI because it will tell us how to solve climate change. Like, we *know* how, we’re just not. ::burns so much fossil fuel to ask:: hey AI, what do? AI: “stop burning fossil fuel”

Studie: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today is #ShowYourStripes day! The warming stripes, created by @edhawkins.org, show how the place where you live has changed over time. Find yours at showyourstripes.info. Download them, share them, and use them to start a conversation today!

"Because faculty no longer control the curriculum, Texas A&M is quickly becoming an institution of dead dogmas." - Martin Peterson His full resignation letter below. Hear from him directly at our next Resistance Salon - June 24 @ 12pm ET. Register 👇 www.resistancestudiesseries.com/salon

Who attacks a turtle sanctuary?

🚨 Help us spread the word! @rshivpriyam.bsky.social and I are hiring a postdoc to work on understanding the drivers of current trends in Earth’s Energy Imbalance and what they mean for future climate. DMs open for questions.

Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring. Gift link: nyti.ms/4oC3U25

Expertise can be useful. Huh, who knew?

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

IF YOU ARE A SCIENTIST IN THE AREA WHO HAS COLLECTED AND ANALYZED THIS WATER, @standupforscience.net would love to work to publicize your results. Info @ standupforscience (dot) net

Fantastic illustration of how batteries have completely overtaken gas in California www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

One thing I can never, ever forgive the MAHA leader RFK Jr for is him peddling the dangerous and deadly lie that women who get the HPV vaccine are at higher risk of cervical cancer He makes 💰💰💰 in law suits against the HPV vaccine maker