Evan Starr
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Environmental scientist and sports fan.
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Patrick Cosmos
27 days ago
“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
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The New York Times
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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.
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Opinion | How the Manosphere Hijacks Young Men’s Interest in Science
If these podcasts really wanted to nurture enthusiasm for science, they should celebrate the hard work that goes into finding the right answer.
https://nyti.ms/48fwOis
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Gillian Branstetter
9 days ago
As far as many people are concerned this is the text of the First Amendment
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David Sacerdote
9 days ago
Here's a gift link opening up access to everybody. (Some fraction seem to be prompted to regisiter)
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation
OPINION: “What Trump is really doing is advancing a plan laid down years ago by plutocrats and polluters. And making a mockery of our country as he does so,” Michael E. Mann writes.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/trump-climate-change-un-21067184.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL29waW5pb24vb3BlbmZvcnVtL2FydGljbGUvdHJ1bXAtY2xpbWF0ZS1jaGFuZ2UtdW4tMjEwNjcxODQucGhw&time=MTc1ODg5ODgyMzcyOQ%3D%3D&rid=ZjZmMmQ3YjgtNjRhMy00ZmM1LWFlMmItZTNmNzM5MTExODA5&sharecount=NA%3D%3D
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Rebecca Solnit
21 days ago
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.”'
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Gareth Watkins
16 days ago
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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Michael E. Mann
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"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
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www.science.org/content/arti...
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Contrarian climate assessment from U.S. government draws swift pushback
Researchers say DOE report cherry-picks data to downplay threat of greenhouse gases
https://www.science.org/content/article/contrarian-climate-assessment-u-s-government-draws-swift-pushback
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Evan Shapīro
2 months ago
Theo Von. by Marc Maron.
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The Grateful Resurrected
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LaGuardia has had one of the best glow-ups I’ve seen. I also think Boston Logan is underrated.
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Yale Climate Connections
2 months ago
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-...
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The Republican campaign to stop the U.S. EPA from protecting the climate » Yale Climate Connections
An audacious effort to destroy climate regulations is likely headed for a showdown at the Supreme Court.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/08/the-republican-campaign-to-stop-the-u-s-epa-from-protecting-the-climate/
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Michael E. Mann
2 months ago
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:
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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...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/climate/epa-endangerment-finding-repeal-proposal.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE8.All9.kaHuDte8UCTY&smid=bs-share
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Daniel Swain
2 months ago
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...
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Why is global warming a "rate of change" problem? It's happening too quickly for us to easily adapt.
The main reason why global warming is such a big problem is that it's happening extremely rapidly in a geological context--much faster than most other natural warming and cooling events in Earth history. The climate is now warming so quickly, in fact, that it's becoming increasingly difficult for bo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMm8C0aEC9c
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From EPA’s website: “The mission of EPA is to protect human health and the environment.” This action is diabolical.
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Senator Ed Markey
3 months ago
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.
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E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/climate/epa-firings-scientific-research.html?smid=threads-nytimes
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When I said dig it out I didn’t mean literally
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The New Yorker
3 months ago
In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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The Mets tonight
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Elon Green
3 months ago
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)
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Michael E. Mann
3 months ago
"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...
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Is climate change causing deadly weather events? Experts discuss
To gauge the immediate effects of higher temperatures, scientists have just calculated that an extra 263 Londoners are likely to have died in the recent heatwave.
https://www.channel4.com/news/is-climate-change-causing-deadly-weather-events-experts-discuss
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Things are getting very concerning
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Aaron Rupar
3 months ago
"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
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The Republican budget is a climate horror
Not content to ignore climate change, they decided to make it even worse.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-big-bill-obbb-climate-policy-provisions
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Assistant HR Director of Antifa
3 months ago
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
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
3 months ago
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.
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There’s a Race to Power the Future. China Is Pulling Away.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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China's Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the Future
Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/30/climate/china-clean-energy-power.html?rsrc=flt&smid=bs-share
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James Franklin
3 months ago
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...
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jael holzman
3 months ago
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
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How the Senate GOP’s New Tax on Renewables Could ‘Kill’ the Industry
As bad as previous drafts of the reconciliation bill have been, this one is worse.
https://heatmap.news/politics/big-beautiful-bill-excise-tax
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What actor’s expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?
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Plenty of honorable mentions like one of the LOTRs, Gladiator, Departed, Sicario, Ex Machina, Michael Clayton, Social Network.
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Julian Sanchez
4 months ago
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.
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Michael E. Mann
4 months ago
“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...
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How Trump’s assault on science is blinding America to climate change
Through budget cuts and layoffs, the administration has begun to cripple the government's ability to research global warming.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/how-trumps-assault-on-science-is-blinding-america-to-climate-change/
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Schnorkles O'Bork
4 months ago
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.
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Daniel Swain
4 months ago
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
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jamelle
4 months ago
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!
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Acyn
4 months ago
“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
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Dan Carlin
4 months ago
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"...
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Why is the deficit growing when all we're doing is kneecapping tax revenue...huh wonder why
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Jacquelyn Gill
5 months ago
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.
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Kevin M. Kruse
5 months ago
It's remarkable how much of this administration's agenda has been laser focused on simply making life worse for ordinary Americans.
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Baseball is romantic
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Katharine Hayhoe
5 months ago
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 …
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WIRED
5 months ago
The Trump administration has made clear it wishes to gut NOAA’s research enterprise, which is at the center of climate research globally. After 67 years of battling to keep the program funded and provide the data to other scientists around the world, the program faces its most dire threat ever.
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Dismantling NOAA Threatens the World’s Ability to Monitor Carbon Dioxide Levels
The agency maintains the global backbone of measurements of CO2 and other gases, but these are at risk of being curtailed if the foreshadowed cuts to NOAA are realized.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-the-dismantling-of-noaa-threatens-the-keeling-curve/
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Dave Min
5 months ago
In normal times, any President who tried to yank a college's non-profit status because they wouldn't go along with his political demands would spur investigations and likely impeachment. But House Oversight continues to ignore Trump's misconduct, creating a constitutional crisis.
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Steven Beschloss
5 months ago
He stood there on Jan 20 and falsely mouthed the words to protect and defend our Constitution. Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, “I don’t know.” Translation: No. Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.
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Alondra Nelson
5 months ago
"If you look at a long period of time, a lot of our increase in living standards seems to be coming from public investment in scientific research." The devastating cuts to science funding aren't just academic, they threaten our livelihoods and wellbeing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
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Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows (Gift Article)
Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/business/trump-science-funding-cuts-economy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Dk8.zGJp.yo1JUFY3pewg&smid=url-share
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Michael E. Mann
6 months ago
He's killing your children:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...
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E.P.A. Set to Cancel Grants Aimed at Protecting Children From Toxic Chemicals
The cancellations, set to apply to pending and active grants, also affect research into “forever chemicals” contaminating the food supply.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/climate/epa-cuts-forever-chemicals-grants.html
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