We know this isn’t much notice, but we are organizing a Candlelight Vigil for Tuesday Evening. We know we’re in the middle of what is the coldest part of an Iowa winter. But we know we need this

Climate scientists are also obsessed with Greenland, not because of the Mercator projection, but because the melting of the Greenland ice sheet is going to raise sea levels significantly, change ocean circulation, and be generally very bad for humanity.

Downball. The game is measured in downs, the touchdown is the biggest score, players are downed to stop a play. Call it downball.

Sorry, decent USA folk, but your "president" is making an enemy of many Europeans, with the course he is choosing. And it is you who are going to suffer, not him...

Not just fuels. Everything! International cooperation, rules of war, women's rights, civil rights, universal education, ... If it was part of the humanism project of the 20th century it's being undone.

📈 It's official from NOAA. 2025 was the fourth-hottest year on record (since 1895) for the contiguous U.S. 🔥 Average temperatures for the contiguous U.S. in 2025 were 2.6°F (1.4°C) warmer than the 20th century (1901-2000) average. 🧵 Let's dig in a little deeper.

The World Cup should not be held in the United States.

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Registration for our 2026 Called to Climate Action conference opens soon! Our planning team met today to finalize lots of details which we'll post soon. Just 200 spots are available, so be sure you have the date reserved, a reminder in your to-do list, & a friend to join you!

Where do we put the odds that the CONMEBOL teams sit out the World Cup in protest of the occupation of a member country? What about UEFA in solidarity? CONCACAF?

Winter teaches us that not all growth is visible. Where do you see quiet resilience in the natural world right now—and how might that patience shape the way you think about climate hope? #adventcalendar #climateaction

Climate migration will be one of the most challenging issues we face in the not-too-distant future. How do you think faith communities should and will respond? Learn more about the topic at www.migrationpolicy..... #adventcalendar #climateaction #migration

An absolute freak show of record high temperatures will take place this coming week in the US. On Christmas day, large parts of the central US will see temperatures more than 22°C (40°F) above average. Source: www.tropicaltidbits.com

For so many of us, it's our daily habit & rhythm to plop ourselves down each evening for an hour (or 2? 5?) of TV, gaming, &/or social media. But Sabbath time is also part of the rhythm of a healthy life. It is indeed both a gift to us & a gift to the world. #adventcalendar #climateaction #sabbath

"Zillow, the US’s largest real estate listing site, has removed a feature that allowed people to view a property’s exposure to the climate crisis, following complaints from the industry and some homeowners that it was hurting sales." (The Guardian) #lolz #collapse

"Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims."

The attached screen grab should make everybody who programs AI systems pay attention. As programmers, we should never forget that so-called AI is just numbers and probabilities. 1/10

Remember - if you're financially in a position to do so, skip the #BlackFriday deals online from big companies and shop instead from small and local businesses. The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

This graphic predicts future temperatures, based on continued accelerated warming: 1.50°C by 2026 2.00°C by 2036 2.50°C by 2045 2.85°C by 2050 Of course, a lot of non-linearities are possible before 2050. Like a net-zero, carbon-free, sustainable vegan utopia. Or the other ...

I plan on doing it with my family.

Would you rather keep a monster in a basement, or send it to the graveyard where it belongs? Heat pumps do the same thing that your stinky old furnace does, while making your home safer, quieter, more efficient, and more comfortable at the same time. Ditch your monsters. Electrify!

I mean...if they had stayed in the country, labor costs would have been lower, but now those sectors have a hard time finding workers, increasing costs. Now who wanted them to leave?

TEN MONTHS IN: The national debt is higher. The trade deficit is wider. The inflation rate has worsened. The unemployment rate is up.

Read this interview with @peterthorne.bsky.social to understand how dire the situation is with respect to US science funding. The US has played an outsized role in Earth observations and global coordination, and even if other nations decide to step in, it would take at least a decade to recover.

We can map the world's existing forests with incredible accuracy now, but clearly we cannot (or will not) stop them from disappearing at rapid rates almost everywhere. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎

I'm running generative AI on my own computer so I feel the pain of asking an LLM a question or generating an image.

If you are writing an opinion piece about higher education and the three example institutions you use are Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, please just throw your writing in the trash. You are not writing about higher ed, you are writing about a tiny elitist unrepresentative sliver of higher ed.

Oh look, by the end of this accursed century, methane emissions from lakes and reservoirs will increase by 24% under a low-emissions scenario, or up to 91% under a very-high emissions scenario, according to a new study published in Nature Water. #collapse

The US has abdicated any role in fighting the most urgent threat to human welfare in history, so other countries need to step up and figure out how to do it without us.

Well, yeah. The US will lose its measles elimination status because measles is now endemic, here - that's when there's uninterrupted transmission from an outbreak that goes on for at least 12 months. & watch out, Canadian friends 🇨🇦 - you're on our heels. www.scientificamerican.com/article/meas...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Exciting news! Our upcoming Climate Action Advent Calendar is a fantastic resource for congregations looking to involve their members in easy climate actions. It's customizable & includes various usage ideas. Stay tuned for the big reveal in just a few days! #ClimateAction #Advent

Side note: Threats of military action notwithstanding, worth noting that any Christians fleeing religious persecution in Nigeria could not, at present, enter the U.S. as refugees, as the U.S. refugee program has been almost entirely frozen by Trump for months — save for Afrikaners from South Africa.

Oh: Episcopal Diocese of TX says one of its priests, a “legally employed Kenyan clergy member who works for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice,” was detained by ICE this week while returning home from work and “calls on our representatives in power to assist.” www.epicenter.org/the-episcopa...

OCTOBER 2025 WORLDWIDE EXTREME TEMPERATURES Northern Hemisphere Highest:46.7C Shabankareh (Iran) 1 October NH Lowest:-50.0C Summit (Greenland) 29 October Southern Hemisphere Highest:46.1C Birdsville (Australia) 21 October SH Lowest:-67.6C Dome Fuji (Antarctica) 12 October

I had hoped we'd start to plan annual circuit breaker weeks when seasonal diseases were ramping where every household isolated as best as possible and if anyone had symptoms during that time the household would isolate until symptoms were under control. But alas that may never come to pass.

Kristi Noem swears that ICE is not detaining or arresting US citizens. This couldn't be further from the truth. Our friends at @propublica.org found that more than 170 citizens have been held by immigration agents during the first nine months of Trump's second administration.

And over here, children, we see the three-year running mean global surface temperature anomaly reaching a new record high. And over there, look children, it's a category 5 hurricane devastating Jamaica.

Here's a water-cooler fun fact: The 3-year running mean for the Global surface temperature anomaly above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline is now at 1.495°C. Given the current global temperature forecast, the 3-year mean should cross 1.50°C within the next 30 days.

Thinking a lot today about my immigrant and refugee neighbors who have experienced unspeakable horrors before getting here and are now having horrors visited upon them. God forgive us

Permanent Standard Time would let us sleep naturally past dawn. Daylight Saving Time makes us wake by alarm in darkness. Tell lawmakers to ditch DST! 🔗👇

Trump’s EPA canceled a $20M flood protection grant for the area in May, calling it “wasteful DEI spending.”

To put it plainly: The US successfully kills international effort that was one step towards leaving a hospitable planet for future generations. A jarring read (and good reporting) from @akshatrathi.bsky.social and @daniellebochove.bsky.social Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Record (or near record) dry grass/ soil moisture in North/ NW FL. In the future this will become more common. Not for lack of rain. Instead due to warmer - more thirsty air - stripping the ground of moisture. In decades climate projections show the air could be 50% more thirsty over FL!

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

ICE agents kidnapped a US citizen in Chicago because she didn’t “look” American to them. She even had her US passport on her. 🤬

At least some countries have advisory bodies that will tell them it's going to get worse. Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050 - BBC News share.google/N11EiXxBQUjS...