TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

The National Academies is inviting nominations for experts to review the draft United by Nature assessment. Ecology, climate, conservation, social science, sci-comm + more. If someone comes to mind—maybe you—please nominate & please the word! www.nationalacademies.org/projects/DEL...

thank god we've been liberated from the woke oppression of [checks notes] Gerald Ford. Worth noting that not only is NREL's name specified by statute - and that the name NREL is already more all-of-the-above than its original name: The Solar Energy Research Institute.

Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.) RTs appreciated.

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.

In a new phase 3 trial, people randomly assigned to receive a flu shot made with modified mRNA were 34.5% less likely to be diagnosed with an influenza-like illness than people given a standard flu shot made with inactivated virus. We need to stop the anti-science attacks against mRNA vaccines!

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

"The obstacles to limiting warming to below ever-more-dangerous levels remain political, rather than physical or technological." But it won't be done with CO₂ removal (CDR) technologies because the obstacles to scaling CDR are political, social, financial, physical, and technological.

Shout out to @motherjones.com for republishing this and adding the alt title. Trump Team’s Plans to Exploit Public Lands Follow the Blueprint of Reagan’s Interior Secretary. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The people at CBECI were kind enough to send me a copy of their updated Bitcoin power consumption data At the end of 2024, Bitcoin's total consumption for 2024 *did* end up matching that of Pakistan. 2024 saw the biggest jump in power consumption ever. Absolutely wild stuff -> ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci

"Accounting for these increased methane emissions removes over two-thirds of the apparent post-2005 decline in United States net greenhouse gas emissions." Essential paper by @kevinjkircher.com. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

fantastic thread on global carbon budget! • global CO₂ emissions are still increasing, driven mostly by fossil fuels • land and ocean CO₂ sinks are shrinking as a result of climate change • at 2025 emissions levels we have 4 years to stay within +1.5˚C, 12 yrs for +1.7˚C, and 25 yrs for +2˚C

NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state. José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time: “I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"

Today, water users in the West did not meet the Interior Department deadline to establish a new Colorado River compact. 🧵

Important finding from our systematic review: For adults 65+, choosing the right flu vaccine makes a huge difference. A Danish study from the 2024/25 season found a 17 percentage point gap between high-dose and standard flu vaccines in preventing hospitalization. 🧵 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

The claim that “emissions have come down” in this @nytimes.com @sominisengupta.bsky.social article on where we are ten years post-Paris is FALSE. Global emissions were at an all-time high in 2024. As it stands this claim is misinformation. They need to issue a correction!

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

In reading Bill Gates' recent #climate memo, I'm struck by how much he ignores huge body of research and action around integrated solutions - the whole reason we wrote the @ipbes.net Nexus Assessment on climate, biodiversity, water, food and health! So a few key facts & lessons from our report: 1/

“In the six months after the deal was announced, California’s three largest insurance groups informed the state of their plans to dump nearly 50,000 existing policies, five times the number filed by those companies in the 20 months preceding the deal.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

Following today's light (to locally moderate) rainfall in northern California, a strong and persistent ridge appears likely to build across the American West and to linger for some time to come--bringing dry and much warmer than average conditions well into November. #CAwx #CAfire

“For a split second we stood there, like what do we do now?” she said. “And then all at the same moment we looked at each other and sprinted up this hill as fast as we could and full-on jumped into the ocean.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Border patrol agents are heading today to the Bay Area for an immigration enforcement operation. They will stage at the coast guard base in Alameda. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

BYONCE!

So No Kings 2 protests were: 75x as big as initial Tea Party rally in Philly About 200x in DC 200x in Boston 20x in Austin 7x in Houston

To quote @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down

"No IRB in the world would approve it." That's what every researcher has told me about saline placebo trials to test vaccines we already have. The CDC just got rid of its entire IRB. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Real-world emissions are going up, while official emissions are going down” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A brand new must-listen podcast mini series, called «Overshoot», by @planetbproductions.bsky.social . Meet @amywestervelt.bsky.social, @ketanjoshi.co, @davidho.bsky.social, @glenpeters.bsky.social, @rahmstorf.bsky.social and plenty other excellent climate and nature communicators. Just do it!

Today happened to be our Marine Mammal Protection Act lecture in Environmental Law, so I revisited case law / key issues. There are at least three major industries that benefit from undermining the MMPA: commercial fishing and seafood, maritime transport and shipping, and the oil and gas industries.

I am really glad that @jeremymberg.bsky.social wrote this. Everybody who cares about science, and about knowledge generation and civil society generally, should read and share with their favorite administrator. Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

It's not your imagination: Wildfire smoke in the U.S. has dramatically worsened since 2019. According to a new study, it's already killing 41,000 people a year - and it's poised to get much worse. new from me @johnmuyskens.bsky.social and @sadbumblebee.buzz www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

A new Nature study projects wildfire smoke will cause 71,000 excess deaths annually in the U.S. by 2050, representing $608 billion in damages that exceed all other estimated climate costs combined.

“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent.”

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

“Students of political theory sometimes define the state as the entity that exercises a monopoly on violence; under Trump, the state seems to want to claim a monopoly on anonymity, too.”

ICE has been pulling guns on civilians, spraying tear gas in the face of protestors who film them, shooting priests with pepper spray and pellets—and, increasingly it seems, targeting journalists and others trying to document their activities. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Every word, every sentence with every dot. Greta not only speaks the important truth and has the courage to act throughout. She shows us. “This genocide is being enabled and fuelled by our own governments, our institutions, our media and companies. It is our responsibility to end that complicity.”

“How is it that the country committing genocide is granted any say in the future of the people against whom it has committed genocide?” www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

The logic of killing civilians by declaring them terrorists is not new. The Wehrmacht taught its officers during Operation Barbarossa „Wherever the partisan is, there is the Jew and wherever the Jew is there is the Partisan.“ thereby justifying extermination campaigns as anti-Partisan operations.

This ebike fights fascists

“Their demise is unconnected to a possible federal shutdown: Instead, employees say, Interior Department officials have not approved paperwork that would help fund them for another five years.”

Yes, the war in Gaza is a genocide. I hope you’ll take a moment to read my op-ed here:

15 MINUTES until former CDC Director Susan Monarez testifies in front of Congress about her firing and turmoil in the agency under RFK Jr. We will be watching LIVE and giving updates and reactions! www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...