@profbobhowarth.bsky.social
Professor at Cornell University, Earth system scientist, co-EiC Land-Ocean-Atmosphere Research
🚨 NEW: A majority of Americans now support Medicare for All even if it ends private insurance and raises taxes. The tipping point is here because the ACA is failing to keep health care affordable. New polling shows a 50-point shift in just six years.
03.12.2025 22:46 — 👍 674 🔁 189 💬 21 📌 23
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
05.12.2025 04:10 — 👍 1695 🔁 987 💬 165 📌 322"In his final drive for power Hitler had considerable financial backing from a fairly large chunk of the German business world...What good [that] eventually did these politically childish men of the business world will be seen later in this narrative."
-The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 242
Putin's war in Ukraine shows where authoritarianism can lead: ~1.4 million casualties. An entire generation sacrificed for one man's imperialist delusions.
We must not let any president drag us into war without congressional approval.
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere.
It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
The LNG boom is out of control — but now there’s a way to track it.
🟡 279 new LNG terminals planned
🟡 $174B in bank financing since 2021
🟡 Emissions equal to the U.S. + EU combined by 2030
Banks are driving this crisis. Communities are paying the price.
Explore the data:
➡️ ExitLNG.org
🧪 “A 2024 meta-analysis examining some 2,300 offset projects — amounting to around one-fifth of all issued credits — found that less than 16% achieved the emissions reductions claimed by developers.”
Ditch the fossil fuels.
Sharon and Justin were on a webinar in the EU this year talking about the need for the EU to keep strong methane regulations because, for one thing, the US has no real methane regs and the EU is buying a lot of our methane [LNG].
This is unsurprising but still good to have the details.
Kudos to @markgongloff.bsky.social @bloomberg.com for slamming Zillow for its cowardly decision to remove climate risk ratings from its home listings. "We live in a golden age of magical thinking, and I’m not just talking about the trillions of dollars being burned on artificial intelligence." 1/
02.12.2025 22:14 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social
05.12.2025 07:15 — 👍 621 🔁 199 💬 9 📌 15
‘Divide and Conquer’: Inside the Oil and Gas Strategy to Thwart EU Green Laws
www.desmog.com/2025/12/04/d...
Let's do this in NY!
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
@doreenharris.bsky.social @governor.ny.gov
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Sen Bill Cassidy, a liver-disease MD, complains about this ruling, as I am doing.
Here's the difference: He, personally, could have prevented all the resulting casualties, by casting the swing vote against RFK Jr. That's a power the other 330+ million of us lacked.
Don't let him forget it.
Our kids were little, and we lived in Malaysia, when current HepB vax approved in 1986. Our doctor in KL told us how great it was for our kids to get this protection so early in life. I got my shot too. Deb was then very sick w HepA, from trip through China. Got her shot later
This ruling is evil
Batteries bring more reliability, more solar & wind, more efficient grids & get cheaper!
US utility-scale battery storage is on track to quadruple from 16 GW in December 2023 to 64 GW in December 2026!
12/2026: 64.8 GW
12/2025: 45.5 GW
12/2024: 27 GW
12/2023: 16 GW
#energysky
The Permian Basin's fossil fuels are a climate bomb that's turned the landscape into a desolate wasteland pockmarked with O&G wells. This image is from just one small square of development that extends across millions of acres of land.
This is the reality "all of the above" energy policy.
Breaking news, former dirty energy executive loves dirty energy.
02.12.2025 18:49 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Check out our video!🥳Transformer-Based Hierarchical Multiscale Feature Fusion Internal Wave Detection and Dataset
@olarjournal.bsky.social
spj.science.org/doi/10.34133...
Bragging about record LNG exports as we head into heating season is certainly a choice with affordability being the watch word of the day.
h/t @athada.bsky.social
More gas shipped overseas means higher prices at home
03.12.2025 17:08 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
When Admiral Alvin Holsey abruptly resigned in October, everyone suspected it was a purge. Now we know why: Hegseth had asked the top Admiral to resign after months of discord over the legality of the boat strikes in the Caribbean. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
04.12.2025 00:47 — 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 3I hope people take two minutes to listen to this shocking display of bigotry. It brings clarity to what we are fighting against. We should all be sick to hear such un-American drivel from the President of the United States.
03.12.2025 21:53 — 👍 1331 🔁 360 💬 64 📌 20
The study location and profiles of water column properties collected from 2005–2024
Nares Strait is a gateway for the export of Arctic waters to the North Atlantic. Yet the long-term evolution of its water masses is poorly characterized. Barut et al., use data from 2006–2024 to resolve temporal variability in key mass properties 🐻❄️ 🌊
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Admiral Holsey, the commander overseeing operations in the Caribbean resigned his command the same day that Hegseth issued his "kill everybody" command.
#ProudBlue
03.12.2025 23:56 — 👍 1411 🔁 584 💬 108 📌 80
Netanyahu continues to starve and kill the people of Gaza. Putin is pretending to negotiate peace while attacking Ukraine. Trump is randomly killing Venezuelan's. They have no desire for peace. It is how they stay in power. Netanyahu, Trump and Putin are now the leaders of the new axis of evil.
03.12.2025 10:07 — 👍 1216 🔁 465 💬 39 📌 20Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
04.12.2025 01:14 — 👍 4017 🔁 910 💬 84 📌 53
Take a look at our new paper on measuring decreasing nitrogen inputs to a seagrass-dominated estuary on Cape Cod (MA, USA). This is part of the PhD thesis of the first author, Dr. Melanie Hayn.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Remember those halcyon pre-Hague-worthy-extrajudicial-killing days when incompetence and hypocrisy were the thing to fret about?
03.12.2025 19:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
