Going backward - not forward, in addressing climate change. Trump is stuck in the early previous century & before when coal was burned, now rightly viewed by as a significant source of carbon pollution. It's all about the money, not the future of our planet. Lost in the past. Not great! Pathetic!

Old-growth western larch (tamarack) is among the rarest forests in North America. Once scattered across Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and into BC, nearly all were logged for their durable wood. What remains are scattered relics.

We live on a finite planet. For life on our planet to be sustainable, we must live within boundaries that are sustainable. Some boundaries may be modified and grow but others may actually decrease. It requires a balancing act.

Almost 200k Americans commented on Trump’s proposal to nuke the policy that protects roadless areas. Over 99% opposed!!! www.outdoorlife.com/conservation...

Don't know where your other response went but the article you referenced in Tree PAC was from 2005 on ADU, was under a previous Chair & was from an individual Board member. It is not the current position of Tree PAC and hasn't been for a long time. We are for increased housing and protecting trees.

Strip mining our forests of large trees providing the most environmental services and climate mitigation is going back to the Robber Baron days. The forests are public forests and should benefit us long term, not just corporate loggers.

Removing environmental protections for rivers and our forests in going backward to an era of unfettered exploitation of our natural resources to benefit the new Robber Barons of the GOP Maga Cult and their self appointed Dictator. Time to support removing them from office in elections this year.

What we get when people under our current administration really don't know what they are doing. Shutting down government to turn more things over to private enterprise or just shutting things down is not the answer. Vote to put Democrats back in charge.

Mt Rainier National Park's Paradise area is without water after a storm and the termination of the park's only plumber as part of the DOGE layoffs. Guests at the Paradise Inn are apparently being given gallon jugs of water to flush their toilets. www.sfgate.com/national-par...

Phasing out coal burning is critical to reducing air pollution, saving lives and reducing climate impacts. Trump and GOP MAGA Cult are pushing the opposite way to increase coal mining and burning. Only idiots keep their pedal on the gas rather than slamming on the brakes as they head toward a cliff.

Trump & his GOP MAGA cult are intent on going back to some imaginary past that does not exist while the world is moving toward a climate tipping point for sustainability. It is pure insanity of blind men focusing on personal profit rather than the scientific reality of an impeding crisis.

Wildfire smoke is spreading pollutants more widely than ever before. @marshallburke.bsky.social spoke with @emilypont.bsky.social of @heatmap.news about what’s driving the increase, and what can be done to prevent and mitigate the risks: ow.ly/5ILx50WIv7w

KFF Health News: At CDC, Worries Mount That Agency Has Taken Anti-Science Turn kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

The power of concentrated money in the hands of a few can overrule the people. In the US it was magnified by the US Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United which said corporations & others could freely send money in elections was free speech. "Citizens United" was really a corporate front group.

President Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ includes a provision to defund the organization. “It’s about abortion. It’s about controlling people and their ability to make decisions and decide when to have a family,” Clegg said.

Shareholders scared of old man Wanna Be Dictator Trump still living in the last century? Seems like it.

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that most of Trump’s sweeping tariffs have no legal basis. Neal Katyal represents the businesses that initiated the tariff lawsuit against Trump.

"Today at least 406 wild bird species and 51 wild mammals globally have been infected. Australia is the only continent to remain free of the virus. ... “What’s emerged is just this really complex picture,” says Brian Millsap, a raptor ecologist at New Mexico State University. ..."

And I am the world's foremost astrophysicist ballerina who invented the piano, aspirin, and appetizers.

Thesis: Trump is ticking off his authoritarian to do list quickly Antithesis: While Trump is *trying* to tick off his authoritarian to do list, he's not fully succeeding Synthesis: Each item on this check list is not a binary but a spectrum, and we're *way* too far down the spectrum for any comfort

We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it. If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.

In case anyone is still wondering why Bolton was raided

A cult of personality. What could go wrong?

If there is a GOD he or she is expecting you to respond and fix things, not just be "praying". That is not action but dereliction of responsibility or accountability for things you can do to help reduce or end things like gun violence or war or starvation or lack of health care or poverty and more.

The Ocean as the Final Judge We can destroy the ocean, not in a single storm, but in many careless acts Every net that strips life from its depths, every pipe that leaks poison, every policy that treats the sea as a dumping ground The verdict is simple: Protect it, or lose the world it sustains

Tune in to this short conversation with the Monterey Bay Aquarium as Donielle Stevens chats with Margaret Spring, our chief conservation and science officer about what the global plastics treaty means for our ocean and our future: mbayaq.co/46jt8cX

The guy has no vision for a sustainable future, only seems bent on revenge or destruction of things he opposes & has little or no connections or understanding of the losses both economically or socially for our country or the world. Support candidates who support science, medicine & our environment

Robert Reich: Five Ways You Can Save Democracy youtu.be/8W-lVRQQGtI?...

“There is one good thing happening that actually has the capacity to help not only with the climate crisis but also with the crisis of inequality and democracy” - @billmckibben.bsky.social on Vermont Conversation @vtdigger.bsky.social vtdigger.org/2025/08/27/v...

Antarctica is experiencing abrupt changes, suggesting regime shifts in a number of critical systems. A recent review paper lays out the evidence and the likely implications for these changes. drtomharris.substack.com/p/antarctica... #Antarctica #climatechange #sealevelrise #icesheet #penguins

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:

As @pkrugman.bsky.social notes, this isn’t about mortgage forms. The attacks on Fed Governor Lisa Cook are about politicizing an institution that must remain independent if our economy is to work for people — not just the powerful.

Years ago, an anti-ESA consultant came up with the clever PR soundbite “the ESA is the ‘Hotel California’ for endangered species.” It’s just more same-same tired old propaganda from The Current Regime & the usual crowd of Repub politicos & anti-GOV/anti-Env/anti-ESA special interests

@rokhanna.bsky.social: “Only 3% of the documents given to the [House] Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the public domain. Less than 1% of files have been released. DOJ is stonewalling.” khanna.house.gov/media/press-...

Reposting this and a few other things for no particular reason today. Maybe I’ll do it tomorrow and the next day, too.

'While many of the restoration projects ... call for ecological restoration efforts aside from logging, those aspects often lag behind — calling into question whether the restoration plans are simply commercial logging under a different name."

#climatechangepost: North American forests have burned more often in the past, but the impacts are now greater www.climatechangepost.com/news/north-a... Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/c...

#climatechangepost: Risk of unprecedented, extreme wildfires is spreading to the north of Europe www.climatechangepost.com/news/risk-of... bbc.com/news/article...

#ClimateChangePost: Wildfire smoke particles can be deadly, and climate change will increase health risk www.climatechangepost.com/news/wildfir... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Some 4.3 million observations of butterflies show that 59 of 136 species have declined in abundance over the past three decades, while no species has increased in abundance. Butterfly declines undoubtedly have large ecological consequences. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Written by James B. Greenberg a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Founding Editor of the Journal of Political Ecology, and past president of the Political Ecology Society. substack.com/home/post/p-...

A word cloud based on Alessandro Ossola's Google Scholar profile. Popular topics: urban, tree, cities.

This is how totalitarian regimes like Russia treat people. This is white nationalism as the color of one skin and ethnicity now matter more than whether you are actually a US citizen or following legal procedures to become one.

And without mentioning their carbon footprint. #climate

It's 9 o'clock photo time! Sunrise, 6 am from Washington State ferry Hyak as it runs along the north end of Lopez Island from Friday Harbor to Anacortes, Orcas Isle on left. Mt Baker in distance. June 10, 2013. Beginning of a new day for a new beginning on a new platform. Old tradition continues.

America's history and culture are now what the Trump Regime says it is.

"In fact, the best estimate is that we’re emitting carbon perhaps 10 times faster than even the mindless, undirected Siberian volcanoes that brought about the worst mass extinction ever." Read that again.

Time to get Stephen Miller out of our government! He was the one who separated children from their parents last time our Dictator was in office and is continuing the same inhuman tactics now in rounding non-white people up & deporting them even as they go through legal processes to become citizens.