Mike Badzmierowski

A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.

COP30’s biofuel gamble could cost the global food supply — and the planet What was once considered a climate holy grail comes with serious tradeoffs. The world wants more of it anyway.

COP30’s biofuel gamble could cost the global food supply — and the planet

"There is little evidence that removing dead trees en masse is an effective strategy to contain fast fires. In fact, a substantial body of evidence shows that such large-scale tree removals will have cumulative and mostly negative ecosystem and climate consequences." 🌎

It’s not just that expenditures are up, it’s the MASSIVE loss of services on top of the increased expenditures

A bar chart showing how climate-related extremes spiked the costs of cocoa, vegetables, coffee, and more.

An infographic showing how heat, flood and drought affect all aspects of the food supply chain.

Many people don't realise how climate change is already - not in the future - affecting our lives. And it's doing so in ways that, once our eyes are opened, we can notice!

For example, food. h/t @climatecentral.org

⚠️ When “technology will save us” becomes a climate risk!

A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action.
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This is what climate change looks like. What used to be snow is now rain, and when the rain falls it's heavier so more goes to runoff.

The result is drier conditions, even during wet years.

Assuming that their numbers are even true.

Also, that’s less than 0.5% of people on SNAP

Mark Walter now officially owns the Lakers and the Dodgers.

Just remember that a subsidiary of Walter's Guggenheim Partners owns a stake in GEO, Trump's private prison and ICE detention contractor.

Walter is profiting off the surveillance, detention, and kidnapping of immigrants and US citizens.

I stopped listening to Bill Gates years ago. You should stop too.

Instead, I would listen to *real* experts who know about *real* climate solutions — not tech fantasies.

You would then quickly see how these solutions can improve lives and help vulnerable communities thrive across the world.

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

It’s The best city in the U.S. and firmly believe the best way to experience it is living here

The cost of holding down ACA premiums for a year is less than this…

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

Calling all scientists and science supporters! You can help make Saturday's No Kings the biggest day of protest in modern American history. Find an event near you and raise your voice for the facts, evidence, and truth we need to protect our democracy. #NoKings

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Scientists seek to turbocharge a natural process that cools the Earth — The Washington Post Terradot, a carbon removal company, is using “enhanced rock weathering” to sequester carbon by spreading crushed volcanic rock over farmland.

Maybe crushed rock will pull carbon from the air. Maybe it’ll poison the soil, the lungs, or both. Desperation is being cloaked as “climate innovation.” Hubris and haste are starting to rhyme.
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Trump got his COVID and flu vaccines and so should you

Do NOT CAVE DEMS! Hold the line! @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Ok, this is just funny.

isportlandburning.com

A preliminary injunction hearing may follow later this month and the facts on the ground matter.

If a right wing influencer with a camera is trying to goad you into a fight, there is a reason for that, and the reason is we could lose our legal standing to stop the feds from coming in.

Just horrible

Just a reminder, Portland is the best U.S. city to live in. Just my biased FACT

NASA missions at risk under the Trump administration The Trump administration has proposed cancelling more than 40 NASA missions, including at least 14 Earth science missions.

In the budget proposal for NASA submitted earlier this year, the Trump admin proposed cancelling more than 40 missions, including 14 Earth science missions.

Agency employees have already been instructed to do the preparatory work for ending these satellite and instrument programs

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

Importantly, Portlanders, avoid violence!

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”

-Declaration of Independence

IMPEACH THIS WANNABE DICTATOR (and keep the troops out of my city)