RadReduction (Larry Edwards)

If you have concerns about cruise ship water pollution in your port community's harbor, this 1-hr 23-min video recording is a must watch.

It includes concerns of a tribal organization, Southeast Alaska's commercial fishing industry, and environmentalists. Q&A at the end.

This is the way. #Cascadia
Well done, governor.

Opinion piece in Portland Press Herald, gifted by the author, on the giant floating city blocks that visit Portland, polluting ocean and air.

She encourages Mainers to contact city councilors in advance of their Nov 12 meeting, at which discussion of cruise ship's scrubber wash will take place.

Michael Mann on Bill Gates:

"Gates’ dismissiveness in this case wasn’t a one-off. It was part of a consistent pattern of downplaying clean energy while promoting dubious and potentially dangerous technofixes in which he is often personally invested."

thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...

You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.

Climate scientist Michael Mann on @billgates.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social

The United States is not an autocracy today. It still has a mostly free press and independent judiciary, and millions of Americans recently attended the “No Kings” protests. But it has started down an anti-democratic path, and many Americans — including people in positions of power — remain far too complacent about the threat.

A New York Times editorial says “many Americans — including people in positions of power — remain far too complacent about the threat” to our democracy.
Attention, NYT: Some of those people in positions of power who are far too complacent about the threat are working in your own newsroom. 🧵 1/3

Humanity is on path toward 'climate chaos,' scientists warn Global use of fossil fuels rose to a new record last year, releasing even more greenhouse gases. Humanity is 'hurtling toward climate chaos,' scientists warn.

Just when Bill Gates is saying we shouldn't be aggressively dealing with climate change, scientists release a new assessment saying we're heading for ‘climate chaos.' Bad timing, Bill.

www.latimes.com/environment/...

All operational US liquefied natural gas terminals have violated pollution limits, says report Analysis of public records comes as Trump administration aims to fast-track approval of new LNG export terminals

"Despite this evidence, managers of three of the worst-offending LNG terminals are seeking authorization for major expansions in the coming years." #energy #pollution #naturalgas #oilandgas

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Guardian article, by Abené Clayton, Pjotr Sauer and Helen Davidson Thu 30 Oct 2025 09.58 CET Title: Trump directs Pentagon to match Russia and China in nuclear weapons testing. Picture: missile capable of carrying nuclear warhead launched from US submarine in 2018 (Reuters). US president makes threat after Russian nuclear-powered weapons tests and shortly before meeting with Chinese leader Trump meets Xi in South Korea – latest updates Donald Trump has instructed the Pentagon to immediately start matching other nuclear powers in their testing of nuclear weapons, specifically citing Russia and China.

While communities face fires and floods, the powerful flirt with nuclear escalation.

With COP30 on the horizon, the world must choose cooperation over chaos.

No billionaire bunkers. No nuclear winter. A liveable planet for all.

The Growing Movement to End the Surveillance Economy - The American Prospect A new coalition has formed against digital platforms’ dangerous business model of collecting voluminous user data and using it to serve up ads.

anyway surveillance advertising is one of the worst inventions in human history, it should be banned immediately prospect.org/2021/03/24/g...

For those following global surface temperature anomalies, October 2025 is going to finish 1.50C above the pre-industrial baseline and 3rd hottest on record since 1940.

Which also means that October, 2025, is likely the 3rd hottest October in the last 120,000 years.

Ireland's richest 10% produce almost as much carbon as 50% of lowest earners Oxfam Ireland is calling on the Government to increase taxes on the rich.

The report found that Ireland’s richest 10% emit almost as much carbon as the bottom 50% of the population combined, while someone in Ireland’s richest 1% emits 14 times more carbon than someone in the bottom half of earners.

Pro-business mainstream media carries a heavy weight here, too. And I wouldn’t describe that as centrist, but as anti-environmental , or even more accurately, anti-life.

Updated image to include Andrew and two others. I inadvertendly left out A and B's when I added the database in. Doesn't change the message BUT I am sorry about that. Very annoyed at myself!

The window to act on climate is rapidly closing. Our new 2025 State of the Climate report is just out. Read the full report here: doi.org/10.1093/bios... @michaelemann.bsky.social @dwallacewells.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @ecowarriorss.bsky.social

State of Climate Action 2025 The State of Climate Action 2025 provides the most comprehensive roadmap yet for closing the global gap in climate action to help keep the Paris Agreement goal within reach, as well as grades collecti...

The State of Climate Action 2025 report finds that global efforts to combat climate change are “well off track” and require significant acceleration to meet the 1.5°C limit. Deforestation, coal phase-out, and climate finance are particularly concerning areas where progress is lacking.

Resist this aggression; no time to lose:

"The 8 October memo says the Pentagon will deploy military trainers to every state & US territories as far away as Guam with the goal of making the quick reaction forces 'operational' by 1 January 2026."
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"Each state is to report monthly on its progress."

"Though rare, glacier detachments appear to be more frequent than commonly thought and disclose - despite local differences in conditions and precursory evolutions - the fundamental and critical potential of low-angle soft glacier beds to fail catastrophically."

It's not a coincidence, it's a crime.

Fossil fuel companies have known since 1954 that their pollution would cause mass catastrophe and mass casualty. But they lied, and lied, and lied to keep polluting.

In the present period, "where only bold, coordinated action and prevent catastrophic outcomes."

What's needed is policy capable of rapidly and fairly cutting emissions, with certainty — if enough people can come to accept its necessity.

An example: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

A short 🧵 with 3 quotes from the report.

Please read them all 👇, and download the report (open access).

Worried about shutdown of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC? The collapse of the subpolar gyre is a likely step on the way to that and could happen a lot sooner. Not quite as bad as full AMOC shutdown, but could bring major impacts already in 10-20 years. Important study on the mechanism ⬇️!

The carbon footprint of construction will double by 2050 and blow the carbon budget. A new study advocates for a material revolution, but we are held back by structural inertia.

A new study concludes that the construction industry alone will blow through the carbon budget ceilings even if every other source of emissions were reduced to zero. " If current trends continue, the sector can exceed the 2°C per annum carbon budget earliest by 2040.”

yiff.life/@erkhyan/115...

A regular reminder that congressional Republicans can put country over party anytime they want but choose not to.

"If Europe’s institutions allow this shift to continue, they will not just lose civil society, they will privatise accountability itself, and with it, the credibility of European democracy and governing capacity.

Democracies rarely fall by force; they erode through complacency."

Faster sea level rise threatens China’s coastal megacities | Climate & Capitalism Thermal expansion and melting glaciers endanger some of the world’s largest urban centers…

Faster sea level rise threatens China’s coastal megacities climateandcapitalism.com/2025/10/28/f...

Simon's talk was edited for print publication by bsky.app/profile/marc..., in coordination with Simons.

Nice work!

The outlet (Reporters Online) is on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/repo...

This concise article (the text of @leonsimons.bsky.social's 10/21 talk) deserves your full attention.

It heightens my long-standing frustration, as an engineer, that the world's national & global governments refuse to build climate policy around a factor-of-safety and the precautionary principle.

Roger Pielke Jr.’s Appallingly Bad Analysis of Billion Dollar Disasters – Economics from the Top Down In a recent paper called Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters”, Roger Pielke Jr. published a chart that's so bad I've devoted a whole essay to debunking it.

this is a very impressive analysis of some of the statistical "oddities" in Pielke Jr's analysis that normalized climate impacts are declining. Everyone should read this.
economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...