Colleagues: Bring forth your best climate journalism!

I’ve argued this many times here: there’s a lot of problems w “the media” but often the criticism is a cover for not doing anything themselves. The media reports. It doesn’t cause change. That’s on people & their institutions.

4 years into Russia's full-scale brutal invasion and bombing of Ukraine today. The way to shorten it is to double our support to Ukraine.

Great watchdogging on Carbon Carney from @geoffdembicki.bsky.social @desmog.com

Mountain View “allowed hundreds of unauthorized law enforcement agencies to search information captured by the city’s license plate cameras for more than a year.” Particularly important amid immigration enforcement. www.mv-voice.com/police/2026/...

Great to see so many people say if Netflix fires Susan Rice to make Trump happy, they will cancel their Netflix account. I pledge to do the same. That is our power!!

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Call it the year of the heat pump. In 2025, the number of heat pumps installed in the service areas of five major Colorado utilities more than doubled to 14,225, marking a twelvefold increase in three years," reports @bymarkjaffe.bsky.social: coloradosun.com/2026/02/19/h... 🔌💡

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says wind and solar were "a cost center" and "not actually helpful" for the East Coast grid during Winter Storm Fern. He ignored renewables' year-round value, the Texas solar-battery boom, and winter risks to fossil fuels: www.canarymedia.com/articles/tra... #energysky

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Simple test for Republicans. Replace Somali with any (of your favored) ethnic/national/religious group. If it sounds racist then it is racist.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

"To those who continue to make these sickening decisions: Go home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children." — Portland (OR) mayor Keith Wilson. FYI I got to know Keith covering his work as a progressive player in the trucking industry. He's the real deal.

"To those who continue to make these sickening decisions: Go home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children." — Portland (OR) mayor Keith Wilson. FYI I got to know Keith covering his work as a progressive player in the trucking industry. He's the real deal.

Updated running list of athletes who have spoken out or taken action as the Trump-Vance admin's masked DHS agents terrorize communities across the US:

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Quite a statement by the Republican governor of Vermont

I rise to assist my friends in Minnesota, our friends, who are fighting the great evil assaulting their communities, our nation and this planet. In Congress, some members are taking a stand freeze the president's ICE shocktroops. They are refusing to fund his Brownshirts. You can help ...

ICE's standards of professional conduct require that its employees be "professional, police, respectful, considerate, helpful and patient in all official activities ... even in the face of considerable provocation." www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/...

Trump said he wants to invade Greenland because he felt snubbed by Norway over the Peace Prize. If anyone else said this they would be escorted to a mental health facility. Sadly, it's just another day in Trump world. #Greenland #Trump #NATO #dictator #Hitler #Poland #Russia #China #EuropeanUnion

This is the week the democracies stopped putting up with it (their people were already there) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The Carney speech is worth reading in full: globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

"Canada prepping response to hypothetical US military invasion for first time in a century, report says" It would be a dereliction of duty not to do so. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

“The only thing that is more popular than light rail is getting it done sooner” — @kirkhovenkotter.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

These are the thugs Trump is giving absolute immunity to terrorize American cities. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Thank you @justingerdes.bsky.social for calling bull and throwing a dart where it belongs: on the tush of the @politico.com non-specialist reporters so easily spun by the White House.

@justingerdes.bsky.social is right - this is terrible reporting from Politico: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/the-trump-ad... #energysky

Stray power on a disused Southern Cal Edison line may have sparked LA's devastating Eaton fire, one year ago last week. Turns out electricity often hops from line to line, and poses an unseen, deadly threat to lineworkers. spectrum.ieee.org/transmission... @spectrum.ieee.org

Back on the 'ditching gas' beat with a deeper dive on geothermal networks for @nature.com Article #4 from 1 @sejorg.bsky.social Fund for Env. Journalism grant, incl. works for @thetyee.ca & @sierramagazine.bsky.social HTs @buildingdecarb.org @zeynebmagavi.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"State governments should also consider ... a “universal constitutional remedies” act that allows individuals to hold federal officials accountable for violating the constitution, and accountability commissions, to document unlawful conduct by federal agents" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Electric vehicles with off-grid solar are competitive with or cheaper than old style petrol/gaslone vehicles in many African countries before 2030; and cheaper in all countries by 2040 - often by a wide margin. That's even allowing for (high) financing costs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If these conductive suits were available to all power line workers, many lives could be saved. Here's the story of one dad who started distributing them after his 32-year-old son was killed on the job by rogue current.

Stray power on a disused Southern Cal Edison line may have sparked LA's devastating Eaton fire, one year ago last week. Turns out electricity often hops from line to line, and poses an unseen, deadly threat to lineworkers. spectrum.ieee.org/transmission... @spectrum.ieee.org

The rule of law isn't only under attack south of the border. BC Premier David Eby's getting in on the action, with rhetoric that even the Canadian Bar Association felt called to sanction. Deets below, where @amandafollett.bsky.social nails it again for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Also, its illegal to discuss gender in some American universities now.

January 7th 2026: They murdered a poet with stuffed animals in her glove compartment and accused her of being a domestic terrorist.

@harjeet11.bsky.social has apparently been raided by the Indian government for opposition to fossil fuels. www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/m...

“You cannot credibly argue that drug trafficking charges demand invasion in one case, while issuing a pardon in another" -- Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

"no one gives their lives for journalism — it is taken from them; journalists do not just die — they are killed” Thibaut Bruttin RSF Director General rsf.org/en/2025-dead...

it is not the vilification of israel that endangers me as a jew, it is the impunity of israel

In news that should surprise no one…

Insightful interview with Allison Considine @buildingdecarb.org showing how the energy extraction by data centers and crypto mining undermine progress on decarbonization. #EnergySky spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/capital-...

“Will you ask New Yorkers who voted for you to give Zohran Mamdani a chance?” Sliwa: “Absolutely. He won a majority. He has a mandate. The Masters of the Universe, the billionaires, did everything they could to make sure he wasn’t the mayor. It didn’t work. He’s a great organizer.”

One way to quantify the GOP's attack on free and fair elections: My law firm is litigating 78 voting and election cases in 39 states. This is, by far, the largest caseload we have carried in a non-election year and close to our peak in 2024. The question is how many more can a small firm handle.

French President Macron slams U.S. visa ban on Thierry Breton and others reut.rs/3KYg85N

In a major escalation against the EU, alongside civil society representatives the Trump Administration sanctions former Commissioner Breton for work he did in official capacity ↘️ www.state.gov/releases/off...

Merry Christmas from these three hunks from Christmas past.