Microplastics are released from plastic when exposed to heat, including leaching from tea bags into hot tea and plastic containers releasing nanoplastics when microwaved. While health effects are still unclear, minimizing heating plastic is a simple way to reduce exposure.

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2016...

“Good sir! Are you asking me treat minorities with respect and dignity! I would rather give up my constitutional liberties!”

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The male tendency to view debates as adversarial contests that must be won at all costs is what may help to create a more alarming antiscience dynamic in the manosphere,” writes Adam Frank, a professor of astrophysics.

As far as many people are concerned this is the text of the First Amendment

Here's a gift link opening up access to everybody. (Some fraction seem to be prompted to regisiter) www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Kirk, climate angle, from @Jane Mayer's excellent 2017 article on his organization: 'Turning Point distributed a guide for college students with a foreword by Kirk, titled “10 Ways Fossil Fuels Improve Our Daily Lives.”'

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

"Contrarian climate assessment from U.S. government draws swift pushback -- Researchers say DOE report [yes, #JudithCurry is one of the 5 authors] cherry-picks data to downplay threat of greenhouse gases" via #Science: www.science.org/content/arti... "

Theo Von. by Marc Maron.

The Grateful Resurrected

LaGuardia has had one of the best glow-ups I’ve seen. I also think Boston Logan is underrated.

As Americans swelter in extreme heat and dig out from devastating floods, the Trump administration is moving ahead with destroying the legal backbone of U.S. climate policy. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/08/the-...

That new usual suspects (Curry, Spencer, Christy, McKitrick, Koonin) Trump EPA climate denier report? (www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...)? I asked chatGPT to evaluate it. It had no trouble producing a succinct and convincing refutation:

This is akin to shooting yourself in the foot after blindfolding yourself. Depressing lobbyist-funded attack on science and climate change actions that is another example of the United States rejecting reality and international alliances. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

Why is #GlobalWarming fundamentally a "rate of change" problem? It's happening very fast relative to most natural episodes of climate warming and cooling on Earth, and too quickly for ecosystems & societies to easily adapt. Therein lies the problem. www.youtube.com/watc...

From EPA’s website: “The mission of EPA is to protect human health and the environment.” This action is diabolical.

Science tells the truth, Donald Trump lies. Firing EPA scientists will mean more pollution, higher energy costs, more cancer, and more lies from Lee Zeldin. EPA scientists protect us from toxics and illness and dirty air and water. Stand up for them because they stand up for you.

When I said dig it out I didn’t mean literally

In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.

The Mets tonight

It’s a win-win for republicans, because they like it when people die and they like it when government seems inefficient (it doesn’t matter that the GOP is the cause of both the inefficiencies and the deaths)

"Is climate change causing deadly weather events?" | I spoke with @cathynewman.bsky.social of @channel4news.bsky.social earlier today: www.channel4.com/news/is-clim...

Things are getting very concerning

"The bill includes the most aggressive assault on climate action of any legislation in history. In fact, it represents a profound shift in policy. Trump and Republicans are not just ignoring climate change — they’re actually trying to make it worse." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

talking a lot about race-science shit, like IQ or “human biodiversity” or how bad affirmative action is, *should* be totally discrediting, a sign of lazy and shallow thinking that undermines anything else someone says but there’s so much internalized racism among American elites that it’s not

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

There’s a Race to Power the Future. China Is Pulling Away. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

For no particular reason, thinking about some of the major aspects of NHC operations that came out of the NOAA/OAR research labs and the Cooperative Institutes. I've probably missed some key ones, but the first ones that come to mind are...

Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind. I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why. Please share! This is really important!!! @heatmap.news

What actor’s expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life? static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp...

Plenty of honorable mentions like one of the LOTRs, Gladiator, Departed, Sicario, Ex Machina, Michael Clayton, Social Network.

Everything that is happening and will happen with Iran is a direct consequence of Trump’s first-term decision to shit on American diplomatic credibility by impulsively shredding a hard-won nuclear agreement.

“How Trump’s assault on science is blinding America to climate change” | New article from @eenews.bsky.social by Scott Waldman: www.eenews.net/articles/how...

It is amazing how devoted these people are to making life notably shitter for everyone. There is no benefit, no hidden bonus to the Trump administration. Everyone's life just gets more shit as they break everything.

For years, I've long said that climate.gov's team of remarkable communicators (& their amazing blogs, which were accessible but did not "dumb down" the science!) was NOAA's best (& most cost effective!) public-facing extreme #weather / #climate education effort to date. This will be a huge loss.

Seems like kind of a big deal

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

As we said in the last Common Sense (and as anyone paying attention already knows) POTUS' move in Los Angeles is designed to provoke. He WANTS the federally-controlled show of force & he wants the confrontation (hence the careful use of key words "insurrection" and "rebellion"...

Why is the deficit growing when all we're doing is kneecapping tax revenue...huh wonder why

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

It's remarkable how much of this administration's agenda has been laser focused on simply making life worse for ordinary Americans.

Baseball is romantic

The most important thing you can do about climate change has nothing to do with … what we eat what we drive what we wear or any other aspect of our personal carbon footprint. Our VOICES are the most powerful force we have to change the world. That’s why …

Thanks, I hate it