Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/

The sixth article is out in our special issue, Narrating War. @jarrodhayes.bsky.social and @adamblerner.bsky.social, Chinese cinematic visions: Popular film, strategic ontology, and prospects for conflict: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.

I’d missed this last week but Indiana passed a new law that is leading to the forced elimination of hundreds of majors across their state universities. Apropos of recent events, the eliminated majors include atmospheric science. Sabotage is a word that comes to mind. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Could it have something to do with the lavishly funded, meticulously planned, deliberate, persistent campaign of disinformation waged against science by far right figures who announced their intentions, which was abetted by centrist media platforming it uncritically in the name of “objectivity?”

My latest: For nearly 4 decades, scientists have relied on now aging U.S. military weather satellites to track dwindling sea ice. But the DOD is now "deprioritizing" access to this data.

New details emerge from war against "surprisingly difficult foe," including cost ($1.5 billion in ordnance alone), scale (10% of all surface fleet deployed), evolving Houthi tactics (mixed drones + ballistic missiles in increasingly dense barrages), 12+ Predators lost, delayed carrier maintenance

Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.

"The ocean is one of our greatest allies in the fight against the climate crisis. To argue for using deep-sea mining to solve the climate crisis is like smoking to lower your stress." time.com/7290414/deep...

Tune out the blah blah. This right here is why the climate crisis continues unabated and why we will cross 2ºC Emissions MUST fall by 5.5% THIS year and EVERY year thereafter until 2030 if we are to stand a remote chance of staying below 2ºC - there is ABSOLUTELY no sign of this level of reduction.

Time to tune in.

Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

For those of us who made the poor choice to have our life’s work governed by orbital mechanics, 4 years can change a project from “some really interesting science to do towards the end of my career”into “won’t happen in my lifetime” (Looking at you Uranus orbiter)

Out today in Nature, our paper on the drivers of the record 2023 summer heating of the North Atlantic. Temperatures warmed to record levels in just a few months. The impacts on climate & ecosystems were severe. A thread on how this work came about and what we found.👇👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is very bad Once they start screwing with the data, that’s the whole ballgame

Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Nice to see folks addressing the polycrisis of climate and democratic back-sliding. Looking forward to digging in myself (once these papers are out the door) 👇

Even if "white British" will be a minority in the UK in 40 years - so what? Seriously, so what? What is so terrible about that? Make people spell out their horrors. Make them spell out the things they are supposedly not allowed to say. Make them own it.

I remember a conversation in grad school with a white woman from California who was upset that “minorities would soon be the majority” there. When I asked why that would be so bad she sputtered and left.

We are grateful to Washington Post for giving us their pages for a series of articles over the next several weeks about nuke weapons challenges facing the world. The first article with my colleagues @jonatomic.bsky.social and @mattkorda.bsky.social is below. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

a good thing to ask yourself when pursuing a broad political strategy is “would this have prevented the civil rights movement?”

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign. She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.

Nothing says "Canadian Unity" like a Smokey Sunrise as western wildfire smoke covers Toronto and the rest of eastern Canada in early June while our leaders stump for more oil production in an effort to make it year round. That feeling in your eyes is the itch of climate change.

Let’s talk for a moment about some of the more subtle ways that the press acts as a mouthpiece for law enforcement. Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime. /1

I’ve got a piece in the @nytimes.com this morning on the Supreme Court’s quiet but radical shadow-docket order last week handing Trump yet another tool to eliminate independent expertise & authority and consolidate presidential control over the executive branch www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/o...

HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

If you're curious about what privatizing public lands might actually look like, here's a glimpse: www.sfgate.com/california-p...

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

This is Henry. He brings his emotional support duck to his hydrotherapy sessions. They get along swimmingly. 13/10

This is Mertarvik, Alaska, population 300. It’s a new town. Its residents, the vast majority of whom are Yup’ik, began moving in around 2019. The move was by necessity: The nearby village where many residents previously lived, Newtok, is sinking, its riverbanks eroding. THREAD 🧵

#climatechange #climatecrises #greenenergy #science #globalwarming

Incredible. Reads like a conversation with a complete sociopath who is also really, really lazy. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

White House derogation of CBO incoming at 10:01am ET

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Let’s see if I have this right: Elon Musk made everything less efficient, fired a bunch of dedicated public servants, didn’t save taxpayers much money, killed a lot of people and will kill many more, lost Tesla shareholders value, but he stole a lot of our personal data so it’s all worth it for him.

Tapping the sign

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

Amazing reporting here on how things have backfired on the capitulating law firms and their enabler. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

Trump's offer is a dollar-store-JCPOA. Thread.

again, this staggering idiot — this living monument to gross stupidity — is basically the intellectual guru of the sitting vice president

The endless #corruption of #American #business & #politics www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bleak. But this caught my eye: "investing explicitly in a diverse set of scientists is crucial from a risk-management standpoint. A diverse portfolio of investments can... [advance] human progress in ordinary times and [expand] the capacity to confront emerging challenges."

‘Advertising Doesn’t Work On Me,’ Says Chosen One Who Will Lead Humanity Out Of Dark Age Of Commercialism theonion.com/adverti...

OTD in 1996, as per the Budapest memo guaranteeing their territorial integrity, Ukraine handed their final nuclear warhead to Russia. They also gave heavy bombers (Tu-22) and 1,068 Kh-55 cruise missiles. Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war

It’s Fustilarian Friday again. This week: NSF all but abolished in the President’s proposed budget.

“Fixing climate change is too expensive.” Um no. What’s really expensive is doing nothing. Climate disasters cost billions—and those costs are rising fast. Climate solutions save money and lives, as well as building a better world for us all 🌏💚