It is infuriating that this is the primary source the Paper of Record consulted to contextualize the disaster of Kate Marvel being driven from NASA by Trump's ideologues. This is pure denial-lite, victim-blaming bullshit

I have a rule that i don't shit talk anyone who is trying to help on climate, even if i very very disagree with their approach. BTI, however, has dropped any pretense of trying to help that they may have ever maintained.

It is important to remember that the 'Breakthough Institute' is run by terrible people with bad ideas and even worse opinions

Climate change is rightly back on the Democrats' agenda. And thank god for that, since making climate change worse is certainly on the Republicans' to-do list! Thank you @whitehouse.senate.gov and @schumer.senate.gov!

🚨 UPDATE Yesterday I posted that NASA’s website was spreading climate disinformation. This is not true. One page on climate change for middle schoolers contains incorrect facts, but the main site and its pages are, as ever, the gold standard. I regret the error! science.nasa.gov/climate-chan...

Folks, this is still up! All is not lost. science.nasa.gov/climate-chan...

UPDATE

1/ Yesterday @wmo-global.bsky.social made Earth's Energy Imbalance a headline #climate indicator for the first time. I think this could be a significant reframing of climate discourse, and it's worth paying close attention to why. 🧵

12/ EEI is a symptom. GHG concentrations are a symptom. Emissions are a symptom. The root is in our economic and political structures. That's where our attention needs to go. The #climate movement should be pulling attention left. Not right.|

The US Government Accountability Office put up a two-pager on solar geoengineering, which seems notable — and hence I am noting it.

A group of 220 economists & legal scholars are calling on President Gustavo to use the 1st International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta next month to initiate a globally coordinated withdrawal from Investor-State Dispute Settlement #ISDS www.bu.edu/gdp/2026/03/...

Seriously one of the most hopeful things you’ll read today.

New York State peeps! Have you called yet? (Talking points in next post...)

the mask's off

oil and gas companies (and the tech bros and the banks) getting what they paid for

I was told this post needed a "before" photo. Ok, here's a before photo showing what this beach used to look like, even just a few years ago...

Beaches on Long Island are already being swallowed by the ocean. The “cliff” at the end of the clip is actually a dune, its guts exposed by wave erosion. You can see in the sand that the whitewater is washing right up to the dune. There used to be 20 meters from the dune to the water. 😭😟

It also fuels profits of oil and gas firms in the US and thus their lobbying power, which further risks US entrenchment on fossil fuels regardless of the party in the White House.

We’re in danger.

just a reminder to editors, please use accurate photos when describing extreme heat. do not use photos of kids frolicking in fountains.

I'm not a political consultant but i feel like dems could probably get a lot of leverage out of pushing for green technologies that would wean the us off being dependent on oil in this particular moment

buried the lede here 😊

To be clear: Hochul is using propaganda about the cost of climate policy to try to justify kneecapping NY’s law. How? With a model run by The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), which fudges the numbers — hugely. 🧵

I should have led with this, but Hochul's opinion that the climate law is too costly, per the NYT headline in the top post, is madness. Fossil energy costs are skyrocketing due to Trump's and Netanyahu's war on Iran. The long-term solutions are clean electricity, electrification, energy efficiency.

The 2019 climate law, passed by an overwhelming majority of NY legislators, assesses CH4's warming impacts over a 20-year horizon. That's a clear policy choice. Now the NY governor is trying to unilaterally change that policy choice to 100 years, softening penalties on oil and natural gas.

New York's governor is trying to undermine the 2019 climate law that the NY legislature passed with overwhelming support. Where the rubber meets the road: Accounting for methane, the main component of natural gas and a fast/potent climate pollutant. 🧵 with some background on methane.

I think we all get how this is all connected, right? Trump is literally sending war ships and U.S. soldiers to "defend" the movement of oil and gas. Fossil fuels are the source of the climate crisis. Undermining media coverage of the climate crisis undermines coverage of fossil fuels... 🧵

To do on Monday — all y’all New Yorkers out there! 👇 It will take ten minutes. And it matters.

Honestly, this historic heat dome across the West is really hard to put into words for me. Temperatures over 110°F (43°C) in March, shattering all-time monthly records on multiple consecutive days, and not just by a little. ➡️ I can confirm this is human-caused climate change. polarwx.com/models/

We have the dubious historical privilege of watching, in real time, the near-total annihilation of US broadcast journalism.

Fossil fuel crises before the 2020s left consumers with three options: 1. Switch fuel if possible 2. Pay more if you can find fuel 3. Cut fuel use Fossil fuel crises after the 2020s give new affordable options: 4. Install cheap solar panels and batteries 5. Buy electricity-consuming devices

This is not some lefty, hippy, environmentalist point of view. It's what investors are saying. www.ft.com/content/4696...

Plot twist: the orange oil boy accidentally motivates the entire world minus Russia to accelerate their transition to renewables. apnews.com/article/midd...

This is the table of contents for The Language of Climate Politics. There’s a reason I have a whole chapter on the fossil-fuel propaganda in the word “cost”! (TL/DR: decarbonization is actually an economic benefit relative to continuing climate change over 1.5C, and it is a WINDFALL for the 99%.)

must listen!

Oh, look! The Abundance Faction's favorite fossil-fuel-friendly, purple-state governor is taking big action on environmental protections. Maybe persuadable voters do care about their health and their world after all. 🤔 1/2

full endorse

This is such a good essay. It really brings home how normal it is, actually, that capital uses the state’s military violence and the media’s pervasive deception (which is to say, advertising) to function…

Even in a world of extremes, some events still stand out to me. This is one. All-time monthly records are being shattered. The size of this ridge across the western U.S. is truly striking for March, and we see a very clear climate change connection. Explore: csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

Under Biden, Vicki Hollub, the CEO of Oxy, was touted by carbon-removal advocates as evidence that oil & gas would transform itself into a “carbon management” industry with the right incentives. (Oxy got $500 million from Biden to build a DAC hub in TX.) Turns out, Hollub fundraised for Trump. 🙄

It’s vital that NYers call their state legislators right now and tell them not to cave to Hochul’s full force push to roll back the state’s climate law. If Hochul succeeds, and they cave, they will raise utility bills across the state. Tell them: say NO! nystateofpolitics.com/state-of-pol...

incredible www.ft.com/content/f6eb...

Burning trees is not a climate solution

folks should subscribe to Brad's newsletter. He's been right for a really long time. hillheat.news/subscribe

"Working the refs" is a longstanding strategy of the Republicans and right-wing groups. It has worked beautifully.

In a preprint, researchers from Princeton, Hong Kong U, & WRI find that the form of carbon removal called "bioenergy w carbon capture & storage," or BECCS, is "likely to produce higher emissions for decades than using natural gas without carbon capture." This is a Big Deal because the IPCC... 1/3

You might have formed the impression that Paul Johnson, former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, knows what he's talking about. The media treats him like the voice of God. But here he is - and not for the first time - talking out of his hat. Let's break it down in a short thread. 🧵

As Antonio Gramsci pointed out, "common sense" is a "chaotic aggregate" of opinion, which is strongly affected by mainstream narratives. It feeds back into those narratives, reinforcing the status quo. He also observed that "The dominant ideas in any society are the ideas of the ruling class".

Next week I’m giving a keynote at the European Climate Accountability Network about the ways that liberals normalize authoritarian (climate) propaganda, and I would like to use this as an example, if that’s ok with @sevier.io! It’s just too perfect.