Gavin Schmidt

This is pretty grossly misleading. 90-95% of this footprint is associated w/life cycle emissions of manufacturing - and almost nothing from the use of the inhalers (see the Supp Info linked below). Should manufacturing in general reduce it's emissions? Sure, but that isn't specific to asthmatics.

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

“Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world,” writes @sivav.bsky.social in this brilliantly belittling essay. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse

US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller

Techmeme front page:

ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...

And now @acls1919.bsky.social speaks out. Just. Say. No. To Trump's compact on higher ed. It's extortion plain and simple. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...

A month long trip…

Nice!

A heavily laden e-cargo bike on a ferry. Island in the distance.

Entry into the carry-s%%t Olympics…

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

This is the moment we passed 5555 miles on the @ternbicycles.com GSD. It’s been critical infrastructure for us for just over 3 years.

We’ve done ~10,000 miles on ours over the last 6 years. Absolutely game changing.

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

The 1.5ºC scenarios need ~8 GtCO2e by 2050, and more if there is overshoot. If actual potential is on the low side, there is a huge gap.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Still wouldn't have been a prediction that any of these things are viable. It's basically just a residual that they could have called anything.

I think this is backwards. Projections are tasked w/coming up with pathways that meet a temperature target given various constraints. They find a huge amount of BECCS would be required to meet those targets (given imposed constraints). They are not predictions that this amount of BECCS is viable.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Wow, they did all that and got *two* suspected gang members? Suspected? Wow. And two of them? Wow.

Plus a guy with a previous charge of marihuana possession? Wow.

Wow, that is impressive. Wow, when are we throwing these heroes a parade? Wow.

Universities are in a tough spot. On the one hand, universities that sign away their futures for the possibility of some short-term gains deserve nothing but contempt, ridicule, and reputational destruction. There is no other hand here.

This is so massively fucked up.

@warren.senate.gov and @edmarkey.bsky.social please tell me you're on this.

Opinion | Why Young Men Are Losing Faith in Science

Interesting opinion piece from @adamfrank4.bsky.social on trying to link ‘manosphere’ virtues to real science. Unusually, the comments are also worth perusing!

🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

ICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

Speaking for all physicians and healthcare providers here. When we see patients in need of care especially in an emergency room we do not leave them for dead. We do not care about their immigration status, we treat them because that is what we took an oath to do and is also basic human decency.

It's irrelevant. The report used impacts tied to global warming levels (1.5ºC, 2ºC, 3ºC). Since SSP245 doesn't reach 3ºC in most models, they used higher scenarios to estimate 3ºC impacts. But the specific trajectory in any scenario that goes to (and beyond) 3ºC (to first order) just doesn't matter.

BREAKING🚨 Journalist Mario Guevara has officially been deported Friday from the United States back to his native El Salvador. This is a shameful erosion of press freedom in the U.S. — the first time that CPJ has documented this type of retaliation related to reporting.
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Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.

NEW! Dept of Education workers say their OOO replies were forcibly changed to blame Democrats for shutdown. When employees changed their responses back to the more neutral language, it changed yet again to the partisan response.

@wired.com @leahfeiger.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/govern...

Congres tolerating serial violations of the Hatch Act in 2019 undermined the rule of law in the USA: e-pluribusunum.org/2019/07/22/t...