Bob Berwyn

Natural Disasters Are a Rising Burden for the National Guard - Inside Climate News New Pentagon data show climate impacts shaping reservists’ mission, in potential conflict with Trump’s drive to use them for law enforcement.

While Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vows to erase climate change from the military agenda, new Pentagon data show the impacts of warming are shaping the National Guard’s mission.

Aerial view of part of the coast of Greenland, showing glaciers flowing through mountains and into a blue sea flecked with big and small icebergs.

Cold freshwater pouring off Greenland's melting ice cap and glaciers is messing with key ocean currents that help modulate the entire global climate ... Scientists say it's not a good thing.

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Looking straight up the illuminated Eiffel Tower from its base at night.

A screenshot of Humphrey Bogart telling Lauren Bacall that "We'll always have Paris."

We'll always have Paris ...

It's been nearly 10 years since the Paris Agreement at COP21. So how are we doing?

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New Report Marks a Decade of Progress, Challenges on Global Decarbonization - Inside Climate News Extreme shifts in federal climate policy will make it hard for the U.S. to reach the Paris Agreement targets, but action by states, cities and businesses could still deliver significant emissions cuts...

10 years after the Paris Agreement, a new report says the global climate policy glass is half-empty or half-full, depending how you look at it.

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

Has anyone else been dealing with some serious headline whiplash recently?

Even for those of us who follow #climate and #energy matters closely, it can be hard to know what the hell is going on!

So here's a thread to help climate communicators get a grip on how to deal with this 🧵

A panoramic view of a green-blue ocean wave breaking into a vertical white spray, with beach in the foreground and a clear light blue sky behind.

Melting ice in the Arctic is changing important global ocean currents, and the consequences will widespread and serious.
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I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

A blue shallow bowl full of 1-inch-long cucumbers patterned like watermelons.

Penultimate cucamelon harvest …

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.

"Desinformation ist größte Gefahr für Demokratie" STANDARD und ORF starten eine gemeinsame Offensive für Medienkompetenz an Schulen nach dem Motto #FaktenbrauchenVerbündete

Kollege Sebastian Prokop und ich erzählen, warum @derstandard.at und ORF gemeinsam eine große Medienkompetenz-Initiative starten.

Unser Ansatz: bei den Lehrer:innen beginnen, die Multiplikatoren für eine ganze Generation sind.
#FaktenbrauchenVerbündete

New Study Shows Disruption of Ocean Currents That Stabilize the Global Climate - Inside Climate News Clam shell growth rings contain clues about the looming potential for a tipping point into climate collapse.

The ocean south of Greenland is a global climate mixing cauldron, but human-caused warming is causing big problems there, potentially with global consequences.

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It's pretty simple, really.

If you're not anti-fascist, you're fascist.

New Study Shows Disruption of Ocean Currents That Stabilize the Global Climate - Inside Climate News Clam shell growth rings contain clues about the looming potential for a tipping point into climate collapse.

Growth rings in the shells of long-lived clams help pinpoint ocean current tipping points that could trigger even more dangerous heatwaves, rapid sea level rise and other dangerous extremes.
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Two-thirds Moon! 67.3% waxing gibbous looking superb this evening!
#astrophotography #astronomy @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Landscape view of a tree-covered hillside topped by a twin-towered church under a backdrop of gray-pink cloudy skies.

Soft morning light on the local hills recently …

World’s Researchers Say They Will Resist Attacks on Science and Support Beleaguered U.S. Colleagues - Inside Climate News More than 800 American scientists attended the European Geophysical Union’s conference in Austria to present new research on climate change, pollution and other urgent environmental topics.

Science is global, and there were about 800 U.S. scientists at the EGU conference in Vienna, where researchers around the world expressed solidarity and determination to stand up for facts and science-based governance.

New Handbook Aims to Protect Scientists From Autocratic Threats - Inside Climate News Scientists, experts say, need to help protect democracy, “the system of government in which science, health and humanity are most likely to thrive.”

Another group of scientists is working specifically on a project about how to safeguard science from growing authoritarian threats.

Despite Lack of Federal Support, US Scientists Continue Work on Key Global Climate Reports - Inside Climate News Amid rising repression of climate science domestically, researchers from universities around the country are lending their expertise to an international effort.

About 70 U.S. scientists are also continuing the tradition of bringing groundbreaking climate research and experience to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change newest round of reports.

Despite the Trump Administration’s Best Efforts to Suppress It, Climate Science Is Alive and Well Online - Inside Climate News Hundreds of scientists worldwide are collaborating to combat misinformation by making accurate climate information widely available to the public.

Despite what some want you to believe, the U.S. science enterprise is far from defunct. New projects that could make make important data and reports more accessible than ever are in progress ...

There is a lot of scary stuff happening right now: political violence, constitutional violations, abuse of power.

But I am going to stay focused on posting about clean energy and climate change. Americans need reminders that climate change is *still* accelerating and we can do something about it.

Despite the Trump Administration’s Best Efforts to Suppress It, Climate Science Is Alive and Well Online - Inside Climate News Hundreds of scientists worldwide are collaborating to combat misinformation by making accurate climate information widely available to the public.

Trying to hide or purge climate science like the current U.S.regime is illegally doing is totally laughable in the age of global monitoring and the internet, like a toddler closing his eyes to pretend he doesn't see the milk he spilled.

Wir alle sollten Warnungen von Frauen wie @ardenthistorian.bsky.social und @nataschastrobl.bsky.social ("Radikalisierter Konservatismus") einfach viel ernster nehmen

(und ja, ich selbst zähle mich auch dazu, ich konnte mir das damals auch nicht vorstellen)

Love the little section on cultural and travel writing. Sounds like AI cribbed its style from the really bad travel mags from back in the day. Cliche-ism is a very infectious travel writing disease.

Yep, the inability of U.S. journalists to use accurate language will be writ large in this era’s history as a colossal moral and professional failure.

A view from the ground straight up the Eiffel Tower at night, with the tip disappearing in fog. Above the lowest arch an led sign says ACTION NOW.

I want to do a little crowd-sourcing in a very broad way to start out.

How would you say climate science has changed since the Paris Agreement was signed? What are new, significant scientific findings or conclusions that are relevant to to how we see the agreement 10 years on?

YouTube video by Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Topic Where Do The Children Play? (Remastered 2020)

1970 - Where do the Children Play?

"Well, you roll on roads over fresh green grass
For your lorry loads pumping petrol gas
And you make them long, and you make them tough
But they just go on and on, and it seems that you can't get off ..."

Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Massive Sea Star Die-Offs, and Suspect a Link to Global Warming  - Inside Climate News Outbreaks from ocean pathogens that can be deadly to marine life and even threaten humans are more frequent in overheated waters.

ICYMI
Now we know why 6 billion sea stars in the Pacific turned to slime, and, as one can surmise, it's likely that global warming and ocean heatwaves played a big role. If we kill the oceans, things will NOT go well for us.

Vertical image, with buckets of green plants on a balcony deck in the bottom and left side of the picture and an orange-pink sunset sky with ruffled clouds in the distance.

Balcony vibes last night ...