Eric Roston

‘Unprecedented’ Ocean Heat Waves in 2023 Suggest Climate Tipping Point Marine heat waves that year were unusually intense and lasted much longer than average, posing a threat to ecosystems, researchers say.

In 2023, marine heat waves affected 96% of the surface of the world's oceans and helped push overall ocean temperatures to new records. Chinese researchers who led the new study fear it may herald a climate tipping point. @bloomberglp.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A tabby cat with brown/black stripes and white mask and white feet steps over newspapers strewn about a white table.

🎁🔗 to story posted below by @whitehouse.senate.gov
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🔔🔔🔔!!!
🏆
🏅

😂
🔔🔔🔔

🙌
🏆
😭

The two most beautiful words in the English language are Emiliana huxleyi

A chart, stripped of explanatory hed and dek, showing four data sets in decline. A black line falls precipitously after April 15, 2025. Others, in red, blue and yellow, decline gradually then decline precipitously, by up to 60%, in mid July.

What is this chart showing?

It will be interesting to compare it with whatever the last one is.

How Trump and MAGA Fans Are Talking About the Epstein Case (Gift Article) Their actions range from pressuring the administration to release more information to spinning additional conspiracy theories about the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender.

Trump calls the Epstein case a "hoax." His MAGA base disagrees. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

‘The Studio’ Breaks ‘Ted Lasso’ Emmy Record for Most Nominations for a Freshman Comedy Series, Ties ‘The Bear’ for Most in History "The Studio" broke the Emmy record for most nominations for a Season 1 comedy series, previously set by "Ted Lasso"

TV show awards award most noms ever to TV show about TV show and awards.
variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Oh that wasn't for me, phew

Oh sh¡t where my gravestone? My fam should know in case anything happens to me

🙌

I am crediting you now and into infinity.

What's that from?!

ERIC [On train. Closes eyes. Conjures 1940s-era-movie spinning-newspaper headlines of every climate change story ever.]: Sigh.

Senator Raises Climate Warning Amid Texas Floods and Trump’s Tax Bill Sheldon Whitehouse will give his 300th floor speech on climate on Wednesday, less than a week after Congress rolled back clean energy incentives.

Beautiful Spending Bill That Makes Climate Change Worse Protects Chickens From Climate Change
🐔🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

David for New York 2029

Screenshot of successive bluesky tweets. Top is Adam Sternbergh saying "if you like superpowered beings but you're worried Superman has gone too woke, you're going to love a superhero called Homelander." Second is Patton Oswalt: ""Superman is too woke!" Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:" Photo below PO post shows Superman's earliest incarnation with caption: "Superman! CHAMPION OF THE OPPRESSED THE PHYSICAL MARVEL WHO HAD SWORN TO DEVOTE EXISTENCE TO HELPING IN THOSE NEED!"

hey, can I introduce you two, @sternbergh.bsky.social @pattonoswalt.bsky.social

🌊The tragic stories coming out of Texas suggest we all need to be aware of extreme weather risks—and have systems in place to save lives if the worst comes

Part of that calculation is flood insurance. In Kerr County, where at least 90 people died, only 2% had it
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Senator Raises Climate Warning Amid Texas Floods and Trump’s Tax Bill Sheldon Whitehouse will give his 300th floor speech on climate on Wednesday, less than a week after Congress rolled back clean energy incentives.

🐔The One Big Beautiful Bill cuts US clean-energy support. The US will pollute more, making extreme weather worse.

Not to worry➡️ The law also provides insurance when chickens die in extreme weather.

(It's not that they don't need it—everybody else does, too.)
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How Hot Can It Get? Scientists Are Struggling to Find an Answer Figuring out how anomalously high temperatures can rise is taking on added importance as the planet warms.

🥵 A June 2021 N American heat wave broke scientists' models. Given what they knew, what they saw happen couldn't have occurred.

They've spent four years trying to unpack the event. Here are the results (🎁🔗): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Here are three new stories that you may have no interest in:
🧵

Photo of a train window from inside. It's so filthy and filled with decades of micro-scratches that you only tell that the top half is light and the bottom half dark.

People complain about NJ Transit but truly the window view as you explode from the tunnel onto the vast marshy plain is just exquisite.

Opinion | Trolling Democracy

cf www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...

Climate Change Worsens Deadly Extreme Heat in Spain, France, Italy, Greece Spain and Greece have for years restricted outdoor work on very hot days, while Italy and France have started this summer.

Montse Aguilar was a healthy 51-year-old woman when she started her shift cleaning streets in Barcelona at around 2:30 p.m. on June 28. Some time before 11 p.m., Aguilar dropped dead in her apartment.

Free read via @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Few Texas Homeowners Hit by Extreme Rains Have Flood Insurance The lack of coverage is becoming more problematic as climate change intensifies storms.

The Central Texas areas pummeled by recent storms have long earned the reputation as the “Flash Flood Alley.” Yet only a fraction of homeowners there have flood #insurance. Here's why. My latest for @bloomberg.com w @eroston.bsky.social and Kyle Stock #Texasflood www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Senator Raises Climate Warning Amid Texas Floods and Trump’s Tax Bill Sheldon Whitehouse will give his 300th floor speech on climate on Wednesday, less than a week after Congress rolled back clean energy incentives.

You heard it here first: 🐔
The new tax bill is actually a climate bill but only for chickens:
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...