WE WON!!! The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system. Read the order here:

Riding the circuit. No clerks. No building. No shadow docket. Nothing, until the Wizards In Robes stop ignoring the law, data, history, precedent, & the plain meaning of words in the Constitution. And there will be 25, with 9 chosen by lottery for any case.

COP30 TEXT: The first draft text on international carbon markets under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement dropped overnight Debates inc: * term limits / transparency for supervisory body * extended deadline for CDM transition * nature-based removals / non-permanence 1/2

Ok apparently this is actually not widely known: Gov. Shapiro withdrew Pennsylvania from RGGI today as part of a deal to pass a now-4month overdue budget.

HELLO. REALLY SPECIAL JOB ALERT at @climatecabinet.org We’re looking for a Senior Development Director. Maybe it is you. Maybe it is someone you know. Details here 👇👇👇

Does burning more wood lead to more forests & help the climate? In a new Nature paper, WRI & Yale researchers show such claims rely on flawed accounting and models, and misinterpret underlying studies. Read the papers: rdcu.be/eNkXX RSVP to a webinar 10/31, 9:30 ET: hub.wri.org/events/2025/...

SF made it easy for residents and business owners to remove car traffic for safe community celebrations. Thanks, Safe Streets for All, for mapping car-free Halloween night celebrations. For your own next block party, see www.sfmta.com/block-party-... www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...

consider this part one of what will be an ongoing series making the case for an imperial congress (gift link)

this is a very impressive analysis of some of the statistical "oddities" in Pielke Jr's analysis that normalized climate impacts are declining. Everyone should read this. economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...

Thanks to everyone who has helped raise $575.80 so far! ICE is being deployed in our city, and we're week from the suspension of SNAP and LIHEAP - two essential, life-saving federal programs affected by the federal shutdown. Every bit is going to help. Could you help get us to $675?

While this federal administration has been busy empowering ICE to become, essentially, an extrajudicial militia allowed to disappear people from our streets, the Bay has been organizing. We will not be beaten down.

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

Important new carbon markets story from @benelgin.bsky.social in Bloomberg: Verra acknowledges it issued too many carbon credits to a controversial forest offset project, but hasn't implemented a remedy — despite backing companies' use of these credits. 🎁 Gift link below.

How Microsoft, Google, Meta and others are depending on trees, plants & waste to meet their climate goals

He deserved to grow old. He deserved the space to be more creative and share more art w/ the world. He deserved to be adorned in praise while he was still able to receive it in the physical. Luckily, music and spirit is eternal. RIP Michael Eugene Archer aka D'ANGELO. 🕊️

If you live in California, please call @gavinnewsom.bsky.social at (916) 445-2841 and urge him to sign SB 79. Here's my post about why the bill is so important: publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

New Good Authority post by me goodauthority.org/news/china-u...

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

We’ve been informed by the Governor’s Department of Finance that it won’t agree before our legislative session ends (on Friday) to finalize a $750M bridge loan to Bay Area transit. This loan was agreed to in our June budget. Without it, BART, Muni, et al will cut service.🧵

Our paper is out today in @nature.com where we assess a Prudent Planetary Limit for Geologic Carbon Storage: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...

While procrastinating on the insurance piece, I made the mistake of checking up on a few headlines I've seen recently about China's green tech manufacturing & exports. Big mistake, huge etc.

I fell while hiking near Folgefonna glacier & broke my femur, pelvis & some vertebrae. I was trapped on the mountain for 6 days & had to drink my urine. Bad calls got me into this. What got me out of it was the love of my wife, family & friends. I’m lucky to get a 2nd chance youtu.be/EM96OFPR6Mc?...

Electricity prices in California's investor-owned utilities (IOUs) and community choice aggregator (CCA) territories have more than doubled in a decade, after accounting for inflation. What are these power providers spending the increased revenues on? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The answer to the many, many stories of shady carbon credits has been verification. Surely if these credits are audited, we can trust them, right? A new study says nope, conflict of interest abounds. @rishpardikar.bsky.social has the story for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/carbon-...

Nations are largely ignoring a growing source of greenhouse gases in their climate commitments & risk assessments: emissions driven by climate change itself, like methane released from warming wetlands. A new research collaboration aims to address that gap in our understanding:

Let me qualify what Josh is saying. It is quite clear that the Constitution requires a census of all persons. It’s quite clear that past Supreme Court cases support this proposition. (For instance, the recent census question case makes no sense if persons doesn’t include immigrants.) /1

thanks @latimes.com for sharing my perspective on the opportunity for California to pull forward clean energy procurement and qualify for rapidly expiring federal tax credits. I hope other states can similarly act quickly to pull forward these savings. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor... #energysky

Another deeply insightful thread from Josh.

why does coal use she/her pronouns

Right then... A quick review of the DOE's new 'critical review' of climate science. Whether it's worth a formal community response - I'm still not sure, but here's my first thoughts /thread/

Land sector ones C: “burning biomass is carbon neutral because the plant already absorbed the carbon” R: you just burned it though, which emits relative to not burning C: “biogenic CO2 and methane are ‘better’ than fossil CO2 and methane” R: these sources warm the climate just like fossil-based 1/

I'm a co-author on a new perspective out today in Nature on forest carbon credits, drawn from a workshop series organized by Bill Anderegg at the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy at the University of Utah. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Next week I'll be joining CDR Policy Scoop with @evetamme.com and @sebastianmanhart.bsky.social to talk about the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism’s draft rules for managing non-permanent carbon storage. Wednesday 30 July 9am PDT 🇺🇸 / noon EDT 🇺🇸 / 6pm CEST 🇪🇺 www.linkedin.com/events/73541...

This graphic alone is like a fucking dissertation. Incredible stuff. Master class. Blows a massive hole in every govt's excuse that their level of gov't has no control over freeway spending.

My new op-ed essay in the @financialtimes.com. on.ft.com/4kKqiTb The growing Brics divide between carbon and electro-states

New paper out today in @iopp-environment.bsky.social with @adamsobel.bsky.social illustrating how a value of information (VOI) framework can be useful for evaluating climate information intended for risk management and adaptation decisions: #climaterisk #EconSky iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

the big questions for american democracy going forward seem to be (1) can the GOP actually build the federal police state they just funded, (2) in time to finish before democratic checks can be established, and (3) whether dems gaining power would actually try to stop/dismantle it

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

It’s one thing to say they want to deport 20 million people, it’s even one thing to go nuts brazenly doing whatever you can as the executive branch to make it happen, but the fact that they’re going to give ICE an additional 45B shows how committed they are to seeing this through.

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

I encourage everyone to actually read the dissent. The description of what this government is doing should shock anyone with a conscience. It is unfathomably cruel, indeed sadistic. And yes, *this* is being enabled by the highest court in the nation.

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