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Climate change+proposed changes to municipal bond tax rules are a huge threat to cities. “If Congress repeals the tax-exempt status, it would drive up borrowing costs for Houston by 15 to 20 percent, at a time when one out of every six general fund dollars already goes to debt service.”

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87 years ago. In April 1938, Guy Callendar published the first evidence from thermometer observations that the world’s land areas were warming. He also linked the observed warming to the increase in atmospheric CO₂ from burning coal. 87 years ago. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Given that habitat loss is demonstrably the single biggest threat to endangered species, this move effectively ends protection for most species, and a lot of things will go extinct.

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Excellent stuff here, especially the remarkable story of how Texas -- the oil and gas capital of America -- became a leader in wind and solar and battery storage. And how the MAGA-drunk Texas legislature is now trying to stop it.

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Lotta things to unpack but the idea that Greenland, a place with some of the harshest conditions on the planet covered in rapidly melting ice and with a population of 56,000 people, is an ideal to build high-speed rail and launch rockets is truly the poster child for Silicon Valley ideas

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“It’s not a question of left versus center, which is the question that has dominated the discourse. It really is a question of, ‘Are you going to fight for me, or are you going to fold and capitulate?’” 🔥 from @tessastuart.bsky.social

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NEW from me: RFK Jr. made it clear at a press conference that he'd promote "environmental factors" (read: vaccines) as a cause of autism, and trotted out a new phrase, "epidemic denial," to label people who disagree with his interpretation of data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The fight over accountability for the Maui fires continues. Hawaiian Electric, which was found to have started the Maui fires, wants a limit on future liability for wildfires. Of course. www.civilbeat.org/2025/04/lawm...

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In 2006, I published a book called Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America' Energy Future. It was a provocative title and one that I hoped described a future that would, in fact, never come to pass.

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The Great Barrier Reef is rapidly becoming a ghost from a lost world.

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I’ll say more soon about Trump cancelling Biden’s “climate-smart” agriculture program. (It did have a lot of flaws!) But for now, notice that USDA publicly defines a successful farm program as a program where farmers get lots of money. It’s the only metric for success. www.aol.com/news/trump-a...

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I gotta say, “women are going to space” sounds a lot nicer than “the ultra rich are taking hyper-polluting joyrides to space while the planet descends into climate chaos”

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

This is a very good point. About a very feeble excuse.

submitted 3 days ago • 118 comments

What is really terrible is that Trump, Miller and the entire cabinet - including the Secretary of State and the Attorney General - are proud of the fact that they have taken a hard-working family man off the street and sent him to be tortured in a brutal prison in El Salvador.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Scenes from a fossil fuel romance.

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I have zero patience for “do climate work but just don’t call it that”. I am not talking in code about an existential threat bc a handful of Americans like profiting off oil and gas & have managed to brainwashed another handful of Americans. Don’t capitulate. They’ll take your funding anyway.

submitted 5 days ago • 39 comments

😊 outside the great female/trans owned @mtbookco.bsky.social

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“This is about animal engineering; it’s not about resuscitating ancient species,” says @neilshubin.bsky.social. “The conversation is not, ‘Do we bring old species back?’ The conversation is, ‘We’re creating new kinds of creatures. We are modifying creatures in new ways. Should we be doing it?’"

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"What little capacity the international system has for collective action has been gobbled up by a crisis that was not born of natural disaster or pandemic, but the caprice and vanity of one man."

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“The victims, all from the country’s east, died on a grueling three-hour walk in scorching heat as they tried to reach the nearest remaining health facility, the agency said in a statement.”

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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

submitted 6 days ago • 876 comments

The only thing Trump understands about science is that it won’t kiss his ass.

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Got a tough question while visiting my mom, who is 85 years-old and in a wheelchair, over coffee this morning: "I still can't get it through my head how Donald Trump got elected a second time. Can you please explain it to me? Are there that many stupid people?"

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"The woman I was with at the time was like, “Who the fuck are you talking to about books at five in the morning?” There are certain friends you would never pick up the phone for after midnight. I would for Warren. Because I knew it wasn’t trouble. It was always his thoughts, which were good."

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The heat beast, growling at the gates of the city, demanding entrance.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Writing this felt like writing a John Oliver episode except not very funny heated.world/p/predicting...

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If we unplug a patient’s heart rate monitor, we won’t know if she’s dead. Immortality achieved!

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John Muir’s writing desk. Martinez, CA View out the window during his time: acres and acres of fruit trees. View today: a 7-Eleven.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Ah, probably nothing. Needs more research, and in any case, did you hear that lithium-ion batteries contain lithium. Probably a wash. www.texasstandard.org/stories/oil-...

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Show this chart to any person, Wyoming senator or authoritarian president in your life who tries to tell you burning coal is a good, cheap fuel source. It is not. Power generation from new-build coal plants is more than 2x the cost from cleaner sources such as solar or wind, per BloombergNEF

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The Texas Senate has passed a bill banning one of most common native trees, the Texas mountain laurel, which grows abundantly wild around Austin and is among the most common landscape trees.

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

Read the great Deborah Blum on why it's incredibly stupid to weaken the food safety system we've built www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

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If you're an American, your personal exposure to climate risk (and its economic fallout) is skyrocketing right now. This will not end pretty.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

At our morning meeting today, my friends celebrated the soon-to-skyrocket cost of cars and trucks (“Thank you President Trump!”) and foresee a bright future for themselves in recreation, transportation, and agricultural work.

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Recommend reading @jeffgoodell.bsky.social The Heat Will Kill You First

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

If it wasn’t already abundantly apparent, there are no magic words that change how people feel about climate change.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Trump demonstrates his love and respect for coal miners by cutting safety and health funding and making it more likely they will live shorter, more brutal and more impoverished lives.

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The cosplay administration

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Trump's economic suicide is screwing over all sectors of the economy — including the fossil fuel industry. So much for "energy dominance" and "drill baby drill." This man may just bankrupt some oil companies. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

When you throw a 200-year-long fossil-fuel-burning party, shit happens. Just as scientists have been telling us for decades it would.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

I have been running a trade deficit with the grocery store for years. As much as I buy from them, they refuse to publish any of my columns.

submitted 10 days ago • 64 comments

Maybe it's time for a different approach.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

One of the most important things is that the people getting out in the streets are making space for their reps to be bolder. And it's a positive feedback loop. Lots of signs quoting Cory Booker today

submitted 12 days ago • 32 comments

Read this interview of @frediotto.bsky.social by @jeffgoodell.bsky.social about climate change. Two smart people, one asking good questions and the other giving interesting answers. I’m proud to call both of them friends.

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

"Emissions from cycling can be more than 30x lower for each trip than driving a fossil fuel car, and about 10x lower than driving an electric one."

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I've never seen such a crass climate change signal. A heatwave up to 10C hotter because of our burning of fossil fuels hit Central Asia last month. And this is only now, with just under 1.5C global warming. www.worldweatherattribution.org/extraordinar...

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