oh good lord "The Trump administration has invited a small group of 'climate contrarians' to help write the next installment of the National Climate Assessment." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene... (and then there's this fresh hell👇)

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The North American temperature anomaly forecast map for around XMas is something to behold!

Hi @mikegrunwald.bsky.social 👋 The point is that the GOAL to stop burning fossil fuels is still up for debate. @petergleick.bsky.social said we need to do it, that's all. So stop pretending the climate movement doesn't do "strategy and prioritization and uncomfortable conversations." It's gross.

Of course: the reality is that new supply of fossil fuels induces demand through both price reductions and political / corporate corruption for profit defence. Check out this statement from *checks notes* one of US' largest gas producers, lol bsky.app/profile/keta...

As @jael.bsky.social pointed out: the context of accelerating demand growth changes the equations here. Specifically: where demand is rising fast, clean energy does NOT replace fossil fuels; it just mutes their growth but they keep growing. Eg: Texas bsky.app/profile/jael...

What is the global ocean overturning circulation, and why does it matter for you? Here’s a great short explainer by the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science. Did you know a slowing ocean overturning circulation could also affect your life? antarctic.org.au/new-aceas-ex...

Stop burning fossil fuels. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

Ah, the world! Oh, the world!

Oil and gas production increased by record amounts under Biden, even though the US was already the world's biggest producer when he took office. So what does "move to the center on domestic oil and gas production" even mean? Stop supporting clean energy entirely? Forego all climate policy? What?

personally getting very irritated by the unbelievable arrogance of the data boys

Hype. No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.

What is the actual evidence for the claim that Harris lost the 2024 election because Biden passed a climate bill? This is a genuine question. I don’t know what the source of that belief is, and I want to see it with my own eyes.

this whole thread. right into my veins.

1. First, let's talk about the elephant in the room that he doesn't mention explicitly but haunts the whole piece: climate change is real, we've overshot the goal and the only way to turn the corner is to leave fossil fuel in the ground. To ignore that is to talk about rocketry and ignore gravity.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

made a graph about the return of psychoanalysis

Merry Christmas! 🔥🎄

Just so everyone is clear: Josh Freed of Third Way Energy is Team Yglesias. (The convo below is about Yglesias’ NYT piece yesterday arguing that Dems should campaign on increasing fossil fuel production.)

I hope Claudine Gay takes at least a small bit of pleasure from this 💅 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

Did you hear about this new study recommending that the Democrats move right on most issues? Well, I just took a moment to dig into their data — and, lo!, it is nonsense. They're testing not voters' opinions about policies, but the parties' MESSAGING about policies — which is very different! 🧵

You know this is correct because we’re not being offered a third choice: it’s only the false choice of DONT BUILD CLEAN ENERGY or BUILD MORE FOSSIL FUELS. Since neither of those will halt global heating, we need a third choice, stat.

It should be no surprise that environmental NGOs are under specific, intensive, & sustained attack by a de facto alliance of right-wing (think Project 2025) & centrist forces (think Abundance).

why stop at oil and gas, let’s support all the stupid ways to generate energy. Unregulated Soviet nuclear plants. Dung. Proton decay. Whatever

Last blog of the year is a bit of a cri de cœur on the urgent need to ensure 2025 marks an end to the current period of 'greenhushing' from businesses, politicians, and campaigners. The public wants climate action - why not give it to them? www.businessgreen.com/news/4523538...

The more I think about it, the more I reckon the 2003 Iraq War began the process that let Trump win. The blatant lies we were told by our governments, the disregard for public opinion and mockery of international law created a rupture that never healed. Trust, consent and cohesion were smashed.🧵 1/3

i do find it funny that yglesias brings up sheinbaum as some kind of gotcha here. like ok Matt do you want to talk about nationalizing the us fossil fuel industry under a socialist presidency?? many climate people would LOVE to chat about that

What an astonishingly dishonest piece of propaganda for the fossil fuel industry, including its citing of Obama's extremely outdated energy policies and its misrepresentation of Norwegian public opinion.

This OpEd is a prime example of the thesis of my book: climate policymaking isn’t actually polarized, but instead unified around a center that dismisses climate science and lies about the economics of fossil fuels.

I know people don't need more reasons to dunk on Matthew Yglesias, but the fact that he describes Mark Carney as representing 'the Left in Canada' is totally hilarious. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Here in Boulder, power is still out due to combination of pre-emptive shut-offs to prevent wildfire ignitions & damage from 90-100 mph wind gusts yesterday, & a similar event is inbound again Fri. I'm doing the best I can amid limited connectivity; thanks for your patience!

In what can only be described as a sick joke, @cantwell.senate.gov prefaced her floor speech endorsing the climate destroyer Isaacman by detailing the climate disaster now unfolding in Washington state.

Every GOP and 16 of 47 Democratic Senators voted to install Jared Isaacman, the billionaire acolyte of neo-Nazi soon-to-be-trillionaire Elon Musk, as NASA Administrator, knowing he plans to dismantle and privatize NASA, in particular its earth science mission. (2 GOP and Coons were absent)

Courtesy of the most influential source of fossil fuel industry propaganda in the U.S.

Really important that folks understand the threat that Yglesias represents to climate progress. Justin explains it well. I'd add Yglesias's shameful attack on @doctorvive.bsky.social for making a critical point about emissions "lock in" from new fossil infrastructure.

So much trash in this Matt Yglesias NYT rant but this specific bit where has has a go at @doctorvive.bsky.social is absurd even for him. Eliminating fossil fuels is basic fundamental science shit, not environmentalist shit archive.ph/02ze4 www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/s...

Matt Yglesias has a "Democrats should support more fossil fuel production" OpEd in the Times today, which criticizes me for saying that energy policy should try to uphold the goals of the Paris Agreement.

This is hilarious! Matt Yglesias comes after me in the New York Times for saying the correct climate science — literally what the @ipcc.bsky.social says about fossil fuels — out loud. 😂

Promising at 90% capture rate at methane power plants is the zombie greenwashing that WILL NOT DIE, no matter how often point-source carbon capture fails in the real world. 🧟‍♂️ At least Exxon still feels the need to lie about their business! That's ... hopeful? 1/2

I went over to see if the folks at the Breakthrough Institute had anything to say about Trump’s closing the National Center for Atmospheric Research — and nope! Not a word. But here’s the BTI Deputy Director amplifying fossil-fuel lobbyist Alex Epstein. 🤔

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

me too

It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.

“If we want to use [Direct Air Capture] to limit overall warming to 1.5C, while emitting enough to reach 2.5C, DAC would need to use something like 30% of all electricity consumed over the next 80 years.”

The most promising “bipartisan” permitting reform deal — the SPEED Act — seems to be falling apart after Mike Johnson added language capitulating to offshore wind opponents American Clean Power has now pulled their support for the bill and moderate Dems seem like they’ll jump ship

Clean energy industry pulls support for SPEED Act after House GOP leaders accede to demands from hard-liners who want more power to kill offshore wind projects. #permittingreform 🔌💡 subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

NCAR is a unique & valuable asset - far more than a climate model, or observations, or technology, or training ground, or gathering space. It covers weather, space weather, data, climate, paleo-climate, and everything in-between. It's building is an icon, but it's iconic status goes far beyond that.

bans of bad things are good

thrilled to see the Dems ignoring the advice not to talk about climate change!

I am buoyed by breaths of once living things, exhaled as air, but water now.