I share this every Thanksgiving as the best expression I've seen of what the spirit of the day should be. youtu.be/gXDMoiEkyuQ?...

Homes collapsing into the sea, saltwater inundation of community fresh water systems, land sinking, sunny day flooding at high tide, home values dropping, property becoming uninsurable... These things may not be happening where you are yet, but all of them are happening somewhere now.

How quickly we forget. How little we seem to learn. And how seldom we see the warning signs. Even after the costliest climate and weather disaster in our history, America struggles to muster the leadership to respond. Important work from @justinworland.com in Time.

"A system built on disposability makes businesses profitable in the short term, but it offloads waste and climate hazards onto the future and increases our energy demand." We accept the truism, but @andrewdessler.com offers a useful way to quantify the waste. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/you-have-1...

This is why I annoy my friends by talking so much about #climatechange. Because those who should be doing that are not. Good read from @dfenton.bsky.social about the dangers of #climatehushing. It's been going on for a long time.

In a complex and chaotic world, progress can be nearly impossible to see. But it is always there. Keep the faith. Work hard. Do your best. It's all that you have, and it is also almost always enough.

Three new studies published this week all dispel the notion that #climateaction & #economicgrowth are somehow at odds. Indeed, robust climate action NOW is the only way to stave off dangerous negative economic growth by 2050 (-2.9% GDP, $3T/year losses). Climate policy is #economicpolicy.

"The Trump administration has made clear its opposition toward global climate policies that it believes harm fossil fuel interests. Promoting the sale of U.S.-produced oil, gas and coal is a top administration priority." Protecting #fossilfuel interests, not you. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...

As politicians, bureaucrats, & billionaires say a few degrees of #globalwarming never hurt anybody, conditions on the ground say otherwise. Health impacts of 1.5°C of warming don't bode well for double that this century. @grist.org reports on the latest report from @thelancet.com:

A big reason things are so screwed up is too many people listen to billionaires -- especially those with very wrong, out-of-touch views of what's really happening with #climate & what we need to do about it. If you read the #BillGates letter, read this response from @billmckibben.bsky.social.

Hope & despair are always swirling around us & neither is an irrational choice. Like the Tao ☯️, there is light in the darkest moments & darkness is never far in the brightest of times. How we net it out is by the focus we choose. Consider the decade since the #ParisAgreement eciu.net/analysis/inf...

The tragedy unfolding in the Caribbean this week with #melissa is a harbinger of the world Trump and his oil-soaked administration are willing to accept to line their own pockets. There will eventually be no place to hide, but for now they gleefully put profit over people or planet.

As a #climateactivist in GA, I'm proud of our progress on #greenhousegas #emissions. Despite political headwinds & an influx of people & industry, we're moving in the right direction. Data centers are a big threat -- & transportation remains stubborn. But we can do it. www.wabe.org/georgia-make...

#EnvironmentalProtectionAgency? Nope. It's now Environmental Plundering Agency. Seriously. Look at the recent hires at #EPA. Democrat, Republican, or Independent, how is anyone OK with this level of #grift on behalf of #polluters at the expense of American families? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/c...

We make life needlessly fragile by building places where car-free living is impossible. When necessities like a job, groceries, healthcare, etc. are reachable by bike or foot, losing a car is inconvenient, not a catastrophe. Streets that are dangerous outside an automobile aren't built for everyone.

It need not be a cliff. I was disappointed to see the #evtaxcredit go, but it's not the end of the world. I bought my Audi e-Tron in 2023 without a tax credit, & I'm extremely glad I did. I'll do just about anything to avoid driving an ICE vehicle now. Let's focus on the positive:

All true -- mine is usually the only bike at my coffee shop, unless I've invited a friend to meet me.

"Renewables, [Energy Secretary Chris] Wright said, should compete w traditional forms of energy on a level playing field." That's not happening, & he knows it, coming from the #fracking industry! #oilandgas collect between $16B & $34B a year in #subsidies. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/c...

Writing in @theatlantic.com, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social holds up a mirror Americans will do anything to avoid looking into. For as long as we've been living through this decline, it's still shocking how swiftly our ideals and values have fallen.

Trump's "energy dominance" is the 21st Century equivalent of cornering the market on hay for horses 100 years ago. He's making the #fossilfuel interests richer, for now, but he's also digging a hole America won't soon climb out of.

Fleecing consumers out of $6B/year & forcing them to suffer the ill effects of air, water, and climate pollution from the dirtiest of the dirtiest #fossilfuels. Even a 3rd grader knows this #coal boondoggle is incredibly dumb & brazenly corrupt.

"Over the past 15 years, electricity rates in [West Virginia] have risen almost twice as fast as the national average." Coal ain't cheap. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/b...

The latest in a very long line of scams from the #fossilfuel industry -- #CCSS (Carbon Capture & Storage Systems). Just another way for #BigOil and #CleanBeautifyCoal to keep polluting the planet and raking in even more subsidies from US taxpayers. #JustHaveaThink youtu.be/VcNhRqEIrec?...

With a president who blows hot air as steadily and strongly as this one, we should double or triple US #windmill installations. Not a true word in anything he said. Such an embarrassment on the global stage, and a disaster here at home. abcnews.go.com/Politics/fac...

Pro-life? This administration devalues human life at every turn, on every front. #BigOil over climate-vulnerable people, #polluters over children & the elderly, high-speed, gas-guzzling vehicles over children & adults on streets. It's insane people let this happen. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"The evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused greenhouse gases is beyond scientific dispute," says the National Academy of Sciences." www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/09...

Scientists can show #climatepollution from a handful of super-emitters causes much of the #extremeheat globally. Temps impossible without human-cased #climatechange. It's why those companies are pressuring the US government to erase data to hold them accountable. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It is a "long read," but that's because #climatescientist @drkatemarvel.bsky.social covers so much ground here. Her quick history of environmental threats & human (sometimes superhuman) efforts to overcome them is perfect for this moment. I highly recommend reading for the lessons we should relearn.

Heartfelt & heartbreaking. @renewdemocracy.bsky.social CEO Uriel Epshtein weaves together the personal tragedy inflicted on the Kirk family with the national horror of our descent into whatever place this is where we find ourselves. www.thenextmove.org/p/charlie-ki...

With the US embracing #warcrimes as foreign policy, fast-food execs may want to avoid traveling in international waters, given this in The Lancet: "We estimated that excess weight was responsible for more than 1300 excess deaths per day (nearly 500,000 per year)..." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

Not just #climatescience. It's all #science. "Michael Gerrard, faculty director of Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, described the administration’s strategy as 'a cluster-bomb approach.'" www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

You need not dig far into any #Trump executive order to realize it's NEVER about policy, but ALWAYS about retribution for long-festering petty grievances. So it is with #windmills. But, though the grievances are petty, the retribution is often substantially harmful. atmos.earth/trumps-block...

#BigOil trashes the planet to extract every last penny of profit, then points to #CCSS to imply they're solving the #climatecrisis. It's like a domestic abuser who offers his victim a BandAid after a beating. Only you pay for the BandAids & they don't work. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Nice article about the DOE report and how the scientific community is responding www.newsweek.com/why-trumps-m...

You probably didn't (& may still not) think you need to know how to distinguish real science from a sham. But that sham is meant to unshackle the polluters & rob you & your family of the last environmental protections you have. From @andrewdessler.com: The fix is in open.substack.com/pub/theclima...

As someone who spent college years watching Ted Koppel report nightly on Americans taken hostage by the Iranian Islamic Revolution, I couldn't imagine a right-wing, regressive #theocracy would take over my own country. But the parallels are impossible to ignore for anyone not under the #MAGA spell.

It's us. It's #fossilfuels. Trump didn't just sell out America when he made his election deal with #BigOil, he sold out the world. Fossil fuel operations drove 1H25 #co2emissions increase & the US accounted for more than half w/ +1.4%. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Cleanview's @michael-thomas.bsky.social has an excellent piece in his #Distilled blog dispelling myths about a US shift from #renewablenenergy to #fossilgas. There's a reason places like Texas are meeting demand primarily with solar, wind, and batteries. Not gas. www.distilled.earth/p/america-is...

In the name of #trafficcalming, the town of Covington, GA, where I live, turned a nice residential thoroughfare into a deathtrap for #bicyclists by installing eight traffic islands that obliterated the meager #bikelanes we used to have. So much for #activetransportation or #completestreets. 😡

"...the power industry is building more solar than any other type of power plant, which has been the case for several years running. Roughly 12 gigawatts of new solar capacity joined the grid in the first half of the year, and 21 gigawatts more are slated for completion by the end of the year."

The urgency of #fossilfuel interests & allied governments working to reverse the #cleanenergy transition is proportional to how much #solarenergy & #windpower are winning in the market. Cleaner, faster, & cheaper is a winning formula. See @electrek.co's full reporting at electrek.co/2025/08/21/f...

Don't let political dysfunction obscure your view of the amazing things happening in #cleanenergy & #renewables. Give a listen to @billmckibben.bsky.social talking about his new book "Here Comes the Sun" with @douglewin.bsky.social on his Energy Capital podcast. www.douglewin.com/p/here-comes...

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Stupid is as stupid does, and stupid has been very busy. Raising #electricityprices and perpetuating #dirtyenergy for the sake of helping #BigOil is a poor way to serve the American people.

There is really no difference between the evil of those who participated as oppressors in the practice of chattel slavery in our past & the evil of those who seek today to erase the grotesque truth about what happened. Excellent must-read piece from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com.

Perhaps digitizing our entire lives and handing that over to our Tech Overlords was not the best idea after all? 🤔 #AI #bigtech #privacyrights #copyright www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Look at vehicle sales for all countries, not just the richest, & you understand why #BigOil made a desperate move on Trump 2.0. They bought time in the US, but the world is leaving them & us behind. #electrification is unstoppable, & #fossilfuel is in decline. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

How you know the GOP's Washington, DC stunt has nothing to do with crime.

Republicans were once free-market capitalists, but Trump is out of step as he tries to block #cleanenergy & revive a dying #fossilfuel industry. #BigOil is no longer the safe bet. #Renewables are the cheapest electricity, quickest to deploy, & also the cleanest. cleantechnica.com/2025/08/11/u...