Dear Humanity, #ClimateChange threatens our existence. If we don't act soon there'll be catastrophic biodiversity loss & untold amounts of human misery. Time's running out. Yours, 15,000 concerned scientists Act, before action is no longer possible. #ClimateCrisis

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

On this not-fighting-about-climate-change stuff we’ve been seeing, here’s some relevant new polling. 🧵

The conservative justices on the Supreme Court arguing that you can separate race and partisanship got me thinking about these maps. starkeycomics.com/2021/06/11/h...

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The Montana Plan offers a practical, lawful solution to tackle one of the biggest issues underlying everything else we care about: reclaiming democratic control and putting power back in the hands of regular people, not special interests.

Just to put it all in one place 1. Posted a picture of Biden hogtied. 2 Mocked Paul Pelosi 3. Said he was glad Mueller died 4. Threatened the entire Iranian civilisation with being wiped out 5. Fomented an actual coup with extreme violence 6. Is a rapist But the left should tone down the rhetoric

Here's a little spoof of the media segment that every news channel has made lately. Let's talk to drivers about high gas prices! But there's a twist! ⚡⚡ www.youtube.com/shorts/suRnn...

"When I started writing about the climate crisis in the 1980s I was in my 20s, I didn’t fully comprehend that there could be a force...so steeped in greed & power that it would sacrifice the earth & its inhabitants for its own narrow interests. But there is, it’s Big Oil." @billmckibben.bsky.social

America's right-wing in a single exchange. It's perfect.

This is an excellent summary, very skimmable if you just want to get a sense of the highlights. A key distinction of our current energy crisis: "This time the alternative is superior." People - and governments - can walk away from being held hostage by fossil fuels. The freedom feels so good!

"Replacing oil imports for road transport with EVs could save importers over $600 billion a year – the single largest lever any country has to cut its import bill."

Here's a short and sweet public radio spot about my recent article on the ski industry's response to climate change. Of all the pieces I've published in my career. This is the one that has generated the most negative pushback. Fascinating. app.publicnewsservice.org/story/advoca...

Happy Earth month! Yesterday, the EPA published a draft rule to effectively gut federal coal ash regulations. Coal ash is the toxic sludge that power companies have dumped in unlined pits for decades, it's leaking and contaminating water across the country. earthjustice.org/press/2026/e...

Today's average gas price in the U.S. is $4.15 per gallon. Charging an EV at home is much cheaper - as of today it's a 62% savings. Not to mention, it's far less polluting. Win win!

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Let's annotate. 1. Begins with a CLEAR statement laying out WHO the culprit is and what he is doing. 2. Specifically says what he thinks needs to happen next. 3. Calls out his own institution. THIS IS THE BASEMENT in terms of a response & his colleagues are underground. bsky.app/profile/fros...

I went to Sen. Daines (R-MT) office this morning. I read Trump's tweet to them, then told them they are all responsible for letting things become so unhinged and dangerous. They could do something any day now. Like today. Today would be a great day to have the govt actually function as designed.

On average in the US, it's 62% cheaper to charge an EV compared to pumping gas. The winning states: 🏆🏆 Washington: charging an EV is 77% cheaper than gas! 🎉 🏆 Idaho and Nevada: 75% cheaper Click on the link for an interactive version with details for each state. www.datawrapper.de/_/YJS7j/

The US average price to charge an EV at home is equivalent to paying $1.57 per gallon of gas. That's a 62% discount on today's gas price. Explore the savings in all 50 states - interactive map at the link below ⤵️ yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/what... @climateconnections.bsky.social

It's pretty simple, isn't it.

Arctic sea ice has reached its maximum extent for the year, at 14.29 million square kilometers (5.52 million square miles) on March 15, edging just below last year’s record and statistically tying for the lowest maximum in the 48-year satellite record. @cires.colorado.edu https://bit.ly/4sBUe95

@theopennotebook.bsky.social is a tiny nonprofit trying to make it possible for any journalist on any beat to access the tools they need to cover climate change, global health, technology, and other important issues. Can you join us as a monthly donor? Even $5/month would be amazing. 🙏

The original version of this story was slated to run in a ski industry trade magazine. But then, the article got pulled. An act of cowardice. The org that did that: Professional Ski Instructors of America. I guess it's better if the sport's educators keep quiet about climate change?

I'm a professional ski instructor as well as climate journalist. Even as winters become warmer and shorter, the snowsports industry isn't taking a strong stand to protect our jobs. The outdoor industry should form a huge lobby for climate action! yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/the-...

Sea ice is a record low for this time of year in the #Arctic (see zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...). One of the drivers of this is related to an extreme event ongoing in the Sea of Okhotsk, where current conditions are not even close to any other year in our satellite record (similar to May). Yikes! 🌊

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Montana Environmental Information Center Panel Discussion: Data Centers Coming to Montana 145 Mill St - Gallatin Gateway Community Center Bozeman, Montana Monday, March 30 5:30 PM meic.org/events/bozem... Data center resources from MEIC: meic.org/data-centers/ About MAE: mtaffordableenergy.org

if only america had a recent president who spent billions expanding our electric vehicle infrastructure and capacity to build electric cars right here in america. ah well that never happened.

Reminder for everyone to submit your response to the NSF DCL about NCAR by this Friday! Tell your friends. Also call your representatives while you’re at it 😅 agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...

Phew! I'm so relieved that my sunshine managed to slip through the Strait of Hormuz unscathed. In fact, that sunshine went right into my car, without the assistance of an armed flotilla. It's also free, so there's that. ☀️ 🔌 🚗

"In the United States, the fossil fuel industry budget for Communications and Public Affairs is $4 billion a year. The entire renewable energy industry is $150 million... and so we have a lot of work just to get the message out about the basic facts."

Corporate broadcast coverage of climate change fell 35% in the last year, even as Trump systemically dismantled climate policy and billion-dollar disasters rose The gradual deprioritization led NBC climate reporter Chase Cain to hit a breaking point, and he quit last week Here's our interview:

Data centers are becoming *really* unpopular, and one thing that's def not helping them is that they make secret deals with public utilities. Want to know the prices they pay? The details of their deal with your utility? Well too bad! It's redacted. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/is-y...

New data centers could double one utility’s electricity load – with power from coal. But key details are blacked out. Should ratepayers be worried?

Trump to SCOTUS: ‘You better not take away my tariffs…’ SCOTUS:

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

I'm so proud of my colleagues at @apha.org for suing the Trump administration to protect our health and our climate. The entire basis of the Endangerment Finding, upheld by the SCOTUS, was climate pollution harms the health of Americans. The EPA can say it doesn't, but a lie doesn't change reality.

It could not be any more clear that our government works for Big Oil. This will hurt people, shorten lifespans, and cause billions of dollars in health care costs. It will also cost several more billions in environmental and property damage. Big Oil gets even richer, while you pay the price.

A new all-electric double-decker Climate Stripes bus has started taking passengers around Reading today. The bus shows the warming stripes for Reading back to the 1860s and will hopefully help start climate conversations amongst passengers. #ShowYourStripes

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Opportunity for women students in paleontology! The Winifred Goldring Award will be presented to three women graduate students and the AWG Undergraduate Paleontology Award will be presented to a student pursuing a career in paleontology. Due April 30th. More information here: tinyurl.com/msdc3m68

goes without saying, but every Republican member of congress should be asked about that disgusting video and their support for that man every single day until they are forced to give a response

A survey by the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) shows Canadians overwhelmingly love winter sports and many want fossil fuel companies removed from Olympic sponsorship because of climate change concerns. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/03/n...

#BlackHistoryMonth | Today, we celebrate George Washington Carver, a botanist & inventor, who in 1944 published the first of 44 practical bulletins to help farmers grow alternatives to cotton & prevent soil depletion. ➡️More achievements in the life sciences made by Black scientists: bit.ly/415kqNR.

Who Wants to Turn Thiel into a Thousandaire? A game show in which contestants try to win by devising a package of laws and policies that will most quickly reduce the number of billionaires in the US

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Excited to see the data I crunched for @climateconnections.bsky.social was used in a Washington Post story on the same topic. It's jut wild that as data centers burn up more and more energy, their bills don't go up. But ours do. Key graphic below. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...