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Solar Balconies Are Booming in Germany and You Can Plug in and Install Them Yourself Easy to install—such that many do it themselves, the technology makes every bit of sense as rooftop PV solar panels.

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Solar Balconies Are Booming in Germany and You Can Plug in and Install Them Yourself

There is #hope, because we have the solutions 🛠️⚖️🔍to take #ClimateAction.

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No Kings Protest, San Mateo, CA.

Well deserved!

EV road trips have gotten so, so much easier in the past couple years

Rivers are heating up faster than the air. That's a problem for aquatic life and people When you think about heat waves, you might picture sweltering cities, shimmering asphalt and unbearable summer afternoons. These heat waves dominate the headlines because we feel them directly.

Rivers are heating up faster than the air. That's a problem for aquatic life and people
Cold-water fish such as trout and salmon are especially vulnerable:
Warmer water also holds less oxygen, potentially suffocating aquatic life.

phys.org/news/2025-09...

Surfing is a great way to build skills in resilience, patience, and humility. If you become President, please make it a requirement for every American to learn.

Riding public transit to and from LAX is possible and easier now that the Metro Transit Center is open. Much less stressful than sitting in traffic.

The heat increases indoors quickly. Our SF homes are not suited for higher temperatures.

It was an honor to collaborate on this important paper.

Not really in the same genre (more trad folk) but if you're not listening to Jesse Welles you're missing some of the most important music being made right now

@jwellesmusic.bsky.social listen to his music on instagram, tours (all sold out), or wherever you can.

YouTube video by JRE Clips Discussing Jesse Welles' Viral United Health Song

Jesse Welles is one of the greatest communicators of challenging issues of today. He explains his process to research and writing folk songs to Joe Rogan.
youtu.be/C-KM_WNwDQM

Boiling Britain: How air conditioning could become a political priority in the UK Politicians blowing hot air won’t solve Britain’s record-breaking hot summers.

fascinating that so much of the pro-AC push comes specifically from right-wing groups (centre-right to far-right)

Doesn't mean AC is a bad idea, to be clear. Should at least inspire some caution on the shape policy takes to ensure fair and beneficial outcomes (which the right do not like)

Energy secretary says Trump administration may alter past National Climate Assessments Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright indicated on CNN that the administration could alter previously published federal climate reports.

www.latimes.com/environment/...

It’s odd to me that it’s in their front yard, by a busy sidewalk. I’m wondering if there is a hobby market for this? Anyone could easily walk away with a plant or tear some leaves off.

That’s what I figured. Are they selling the plants or cultivating to dry the leaves themselves?

A neighbor is cultivating some interesting fast growing plants in this urban neighborhood. Can someone explain what is going on here?

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

"Challenging car dominance is never simply a technical decision about street layouts or emissions levels. It is a challenge to a deeply embedded status quo" - Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo.

Update for folks: Following a very large (M 8.7) and relatively shallow undersea subduction zone quake in the West Pacific east of Kamchatka, Russia, there is a considerable threat of a damaging basin-wide #tsunami. For late-breaking details, visit: https://tsunami.gov

“If you look at Ionna, Mercedes-Benz, BP Pulse, Walmart, these big companies have all been very public about their plans to open thousands of fast charging stations between now and 2030,” McDonald told InsideEVs.

Thanks for sharing. It makes a mom proud. I’m so inspired by the enthusiasm and quality of my daughter and her cohort of young journalists.

Park Service Forced to Report Information on Slavery, Climate Change, For Potential Erasure from National Parks If some of these changes are made, visitors may miss out on the full picture of history and nature that they deserve at our parks. Americans count on our parks to tell truthful stories and accurate in...

Park Service Forced to Report Information on Slavery, Climate Change, For Potential Erasure from National Parks - National Parks Magazine www.npca.org/articles/994...

Congratulations! Looking forward to seeing it.

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Cuts to science grants force San Jose researchers, student to scramble Federal agencies lose billions in research funding as Trump directives target DEI in part to cut cut taxes.

My daughter is a high school journalist. I’m super proud of her work this summer. Here’s her 2nd published article in the Mercury News. Interviewees include @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social

www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/19/c...

The discourse surrounding precipitation changes in a warming climate (both public discussion and even scientific one at times) is complicated by widespread conflation of changes in averages vs extremes (and also actual vs *potential* evaporation/evaporative demand). [Thread]

True! The storm drain infrastructure in Japan is very efficient in the area where my in-laws live. I’ve been there during intense storms and it works well.

How extraordinary rainfall caught Texas by surprise There was little indication of how torrential the Texas downpours would become before dawn. At least 27 people were killed, many of them children at Camp Mystic.

For every 1°C rise in temperature, the atmosphere holds ~7% more water vapor, which heightens the risk of extreme rainfall. But warming also make soils dry out, harden, and lose their ability to absorb water, making flooding more likely when heavy rains come.

www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

Countries must protect human right to a stable climate, court rules Costa Rica-based inter-American court of human rights says states have obligation to respond to climate change

Symbolic perhaps, but a victory nevertheless. The court ruled that a stable climate is a human right.

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