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Climate, water, birds, bluegrass mandolin. Member US National Academy of Sciences, MacArthur Fellow, Carl Sagan Prize, author of The Three Ages of Water (2023). Also on Mastodon. @petergleick@fediscience.org. Email me at pgleick (at) gmail.
Just a reminder that once-upon-a-time when entertainment streaming services began, the idea was by paying a monthly fee, you could get ad-free streaming.
No longer: We've been Trojan-horsed. Now you pay a monthly fee but still have to watch ads, or you have to pay ANOTHER monthly fee to avoid them.
It's a water crime under US law and the military code as well.
A reminder that the International Criminal Court arrest warrants for Netanyahu were based in part on statements he made himself about Israeli actions in Gaza.
These statements by Hegseth will be remembered.
Says the guy who wore a political baseball cap to an honor guard ceremony for dead American soldiers.
Trump: "When oil prices go up, we make a lot of money."
What does Tonto say about "we"?
Trump, Russia,and his oil company cronies are the "we."
Not anyone else.
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Department of War Crimes
US gasoline prices over the past year.
But Donald Trump says it's great when oil prices go up. "We make a lot of money" he says.
"We"?
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You know what else gets more expensive when the price of oil goes up? Plastic, and everything that uses it. Which is almost everything.
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Just a reminder that once-upon-a-time when entertainment streaming services began, the idea was by paying a monthly fee, you could get ad-free streaming.
No longer: We've been Trojan-horsed. Now you pay a monthly fee but still have to watch ads, or you have to pay ANOTHER monthly fee to avoid them.
This is a specious question: strawman argument with built in fallacies.
Trump: “when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money.”
Translation: “We” = Trump’s big fossil fuel donors.
In a Trump administration with an already stunning track record of deep incompetence, this takes the cake.
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I'm sorry but when I post about the importance of making a rapid transition to electric vehicles and you comment that the real issue is eliminating cars completely, you're not helping.
We're racing toward the key April 1 California snowpack measurement and it's going to be disastrously low -- my estimate is far less than half of normal.
#california
#water
#climatechange
I can hear the cheering in China from here.
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Odd to see Republican hawks calling for an escalation of the war in Iran "like we did in Vietnam" while forgetting that we lost that war.
"A dangerous precedent is being set in Trump’s new Middle East war: targeting critical and highly vulnerable desalination plants that provide vital freshwater resources for the region" by
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This might make short-term economic and political sense to Honda but it's a serious long-term mistake.
#ev
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Going to war with no clear objective or rationale and with outdated Intel is so on brand for Trump, Hegseth, and his minions. And it leads to war crimes.
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Great. That just means somewhere else is far below average. That's how averages work.
California has had about the average amount of rain expected for this time of year, but snowpack is half of normal and melting fast.
This is absolutely evidence of #climatechange.
There are few organizations that have failed to live up to the present crises as badly as the ADL.
Meanwhile, Iranian drone boats hit two oil tanker laden with 400.00 barrels of fuel at the coast of Iraq, almost twice as much as the Exxon Valdez.
What is happening with California snowpack this year is an example of #climatechange: more extreme storms that bring rain and snow; too little snow compared to rain; and rapid loss of snowpack due to rising temperatures. Snowpack is just half of normal & melting far more quickly than average.
#water
The US intelligence community long ago gamed out all the risks surrounding a conflict with Iran, including the possibility Iran would close the Straits of Hormuz.
If the Trump administration and Hegseth are surprised now, it's because they've never listened to, and sidelined, the experts.
California's already poor snowpack is going to further shrink in the coming week as an unprecedented heat wave strikes the state.
Remember how to use #water carefully.
#climatechange
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California's already poor snowpack is going to further shrink in the coming week as an unprecedented heat wave strikes the state.
Remember how to use #water carefully.
#climatechange
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High oil prices aren't going to bring down the Trump administration. They're just going to wring more money from the American people and give it to the oil companies.
Just as the war is going to give more money to the weapons manufacturers.
Check whose stock prices are going up.
Do you all remember that the International Criminal Court has already issued arrest warrants for war crimes for Netanyahu and Gallant?
Seems like similar charges could be drafted for Trump and Hegseth.
www.npr.org/2026/03/08/n...
