Since 2022, no major legislation responding to or tackling the climate crisis has emerged from the General Assembly. The reason for the slowdown? Aggressive opposition to climate legislation from Rhode Island’s main utility company. buff.ly/byb3VrH

feel like today's a big day for realizing how much power (allegedly democratically accountable) pension funds actually have

Nice.

man the problem with trying to explain to people why address level flood scores are so fraught is that i feel like i get backed into a corner where i have to start with like well what is knowledge really

Companies projecting property climate risks don't agree on future, let alone historical risks. Limited (or fundamentally unavailable) validation data, different defensible assumptions, etc., This is exactly the kind of problem we offer a vision to overcome here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Corporate AI-related investments were in the hundreds of billions of dollars in 2025 alone. We appear to be in the midst of yet another society-wrecking “innovation failure.” Imagine if we had collectively decided to build wind turbines and flood gates instead of data centers. Imagine that we could.

Ilmastonmuutosta ei pidä typistää vain veroilla ja hinnoittelulla korjattavaksi. Oikeustieteen apulaisprofessori @madisoncondon.bsky.social haastaa vakuuttavasti kapean markkinakehyksen, ja rohkaisee harkitsemaan tuotannon demokraattista suunnittelua osana täyttä irtautumista fossiiliriippuvuudesta.

re: chris wright being the worst trump appointee for climate... does anyone else remember certain climate personalities on here being huge condescending jerks about how the rest of us need to stop being such downers and embrace someone who gets energy????

Machine Learning (drink!) are unlikely to replace partial differential equation solvers soon. Might help with analyzing model output, or mixing codes. Need to train students in these techniques but *NOT REPLACE THEM* and eliminate the next gen of scientists.

imagine working at the state department and being like i think ill stay

This paper began as a manifesto but (largely thank to @crispapoll.bsky.social's hard work) evolved into an empirically grounded, thoughtful, and nuanced analysis of why transparency is *especially* critical for #climate #climaterisk research and how current standards fall short

Climate risk science's greatest project successes have come in part due to transparency and reusability. We show that at the paper-level, there is plenty of room for growth. We talk about why this matters, what researchers can do, and how the greatest progress requires institutional support

🚨 Publication alert! Very happy to see our paper "Unlocking the benefits of transparent and reusable science for climate risk management" out in PNAS today. With @crispapoll.bsky.social @jdossgollin.bsky.social @bobkopp.net and many others. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

can someone explain to me what yergin means by this "There's no hand-waving about how 'We want to cooperate on climate,'" oil historian and S&P Global vice chairman Dan Yergin said. "It's, 'We're slamming the door on that issue.'" "We've gone from over-indexing it to zero-indexing it."

Whoa

one defense of CBA has always been that it forces admins to be explicit about their values.... "Over the past four decades, Republican and Democratic administrations have used different estimates of the monetary value of a human life... But until now, no administration has counted it as zero."

Early 2025: Trump admin tries to illegally shut down the CFPB, the newest member of the Federal Reserve system. Jay Powell says nothing. Summer 2025: Trump admin tries to illegally fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook. Powell says nothing. 2026: Trump admin comes for Powell. He finally finds his voice.

absolute chaos

#ClimateModels can't match #LongTerm observed changes in the #TropicalPacific zonal #SSTGradient, implying model responses to growing radiative forcing from #GHG is diverging. #ClimateChange #CMIP6 @hannah-byrne.bsky.social @lamont.columbia.edu @climate.columbia.edu www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hey, Rhode Island Crew, there's a lighthouse coming up for sale! @drwormymcwormface.bsky.social @mapcenter.com realestatesales.gov/asset-detail...

there is a full on flight simulator up for auction ($100k) as well as "SAND ART, FEATURING MAN WITH GLASSES" ($300) gsaauctions.gov/auctions/pre...

no i do not want to build a chatgpt course assistant thank you university for trying to get me to aid in my own sad replacement

Climate influencers are not immune from their own form of posters madness which leans extremely conservative. Like talk to your average Sierra Club or 350 or Sunrise person on the street and they are not out here asking for more fossil fuels. Let's keep organizing.

when i was in college i climbed out the window of a baudrillard lecture because it was too hot and i couldn't understand what he was saying and i feel like maybe i would have a better grip rn if i had stayed

Thinking about this right now www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...

The "Lost Science" series from the NYT is an infuriating and heartbreaking must-read. What a security disaster -- more Americans are in harms way because of the loss of programs like this one:

Scientists are supposed to be happy when their predictions are skillful, right? Why do I not feel happy?

The US has already lost 12% of its current income due to climate change. Most studies project future losses, but new research from the University of Arizona has calculated the costs to date. news.arizona.edu/news/climate... #climatechange #economy #income #impacts #supplychains

Apply! Clinical Fellowship - Environmental Justice Law and Advocacy Clinic at Yale Law School. The fellowship is a two-year position with a third-year option, designed for lawyers with at least a couple years of practice experience. More Info here: law.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

Crucial intervention from @azohra.bsky.social and Madiha Tahir lpeproject.org/blog/beginni...

i dunno if i was all about USA being an AI leader you know what I wouldn't do? blow up NCAR

Today, Sandeep Vaheesan concludes our series on Marxism and Antitrust by arguing that antitrust reform can act as a complement to other forms of economic regulation, and, more broadly, as an instrument for democratizing economic life.

no decoupling in the catan universe

I know nothing matters but “weather research good, climate research bad” is the thing currently driving me nuts

There are more men named Kevin than there are women under consideration to be the next Fed chair.

i see Dodd Frank is getting the NEPA treatment in that the right wing has created a boogeyman out of the progressive potential of what those statutes could have been rather than the sad hollowed out state of what they actually are

how to www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Glaciers in the Alps are likely to reach their peak rate of extinction in only 8 years, with more than 100 due to melt away permanently by 2033. Glaciers in the western US and Canada are forecast to reach their peak year of loss less than a decade later, with more than 800 disappearing each year.

Excellent post from @andrewdessler.com . The analysis of how a trend can be hidden in a highly variable environment is fascinating. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/tcb-quick-...

ok just to be a broken record I think journalists are doing a BAD JOB when they fail to mention that FEMA maps are out of date because the Statute written by Congress does not let them model climate change

🚨Today is the final day to register for the Association of Law and Political Economy's inaugural conference🚨 And even if you are unable to attend the conference, you can still join @a-lpe.bsky.social as a member and vote in the spring elections! Links to both can be found in the post below!

academia is p weird because after working in a place for five+ years all your colleagues get in a room together to vote on whether you keep your job mine said yes yesterday :)

"We looked out into the future, and [100th Meridian] continues moving eastward because of human-driven climate change. Climate change in the central US is of enormous importance to food security across the world,” says LDEO climate scientist Richard Seager. Via Marketplace. https://bit.ly/4rRBHFN

ok from here on out this website has to be less permitting reform and more court reform

stop trying to make the nondelegation doctrine happen gorsuch

as the popular press starts to pick up on the cost of climate change... i dont think everyone quite gets the scale we are talking about here

got a lot of feelings about this

It's 2025 and people are calling for a National Climate Service It's 2020 and people are calling for a National Climate Service It's 2011 and people are calling for a National Climate Service It's 1978 and people are calling for a National Climate Service papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

time to unearth this excellent paper by legal scholar @madisoncondon.bsky.social (see below), which "argues that actionable and transparent information about our climate-changed future is a public good that the private sector cannot be depended upon to provide equitably or reliably."