there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran
Chat is it bad when its 106 degrees in February? weather.com/news/weather...
The Trump administration literally canceled $450 million in grid resilience grants to Puerto Rico last month but sure the halftime show was absolutely apolitical
Compared with the 1st year of previous admins, including Trump’s 1st term, the current admin has taken fewer polluters to court & settled fewer existing court cases, per a new review of federal court records by the nonprofit EIP.
Story @bloomberg.com w/gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts
somehow the full post is even worse. it makes American Canto read like Didion
Data center energy and water use have gotten a lot of (rightful) attention. But there's another issue that's getting less attention than it should: The immense amount of carbon-intensive concrete needed to build them 🎁🔗
Jennifer Granholm's advice for Democrats: Implement their agenda as aggressively as Trump and tie building renewables to lowering energy bills.
Oh, and don't mention climate: “On Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs, climate does not rise as much as how much I'm paying for my electricity bill" 🎁🔗
Not the just White House. Also extremely unclear what penguins and MAHA have to do with each other
Local news remains undefeated in creating new weather metrics
The fossil fuel industry has a long history of mascots. One of my favs is Captain Coal, who is featured in coloring books and other materials the Lignite Council gives out for free to teachers
Chaser: The administration has paused or canceled renewables projects on public lands that would be big enough to power 16.5 million homes
Shot: The Trump administration is pushing the biggest US grid operator to hold an emergency wholesale electricity auction later this year to accelerate new power coming on the grid and bring down costs 🎁🔗
The US rare earth industry saw record venture funding in 2025 as the US looks to build out a supply chain of elements crucial to the defense and energy sectors. My latest for @bloomberg.com w/ Emily Forgash www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #rareearths #climatetech #investment
Heat and greenhouse gas pollution rise in lock-step — until 2023, when the thermostat goes bonkers.
🎁🔗 The 2025 climate numbers are in.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
the world’s saddest man cave
Safe from a nuclear bomb, but unsafe from fossil fuels.
The offshore wind farm Trump paused because of national security concerns can continue after a judge said "I'm not persuaded any emergency exists in this case" to stop work on a project that is 90% complete
Scoop: The EPA will no longer estimate the lives saved by reducing air pollution when writing clean-air regulations, according to documents reviewed by @nytimes.com.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
Trump: "All you have to do is say to China, how many windmill areas do you have in China? So far they're not able to find any."
China:
Another, underreported problem with Venezuela's dirty oil? The industry's methane emissions are the worst in the world and 10 times higher than the global average due to busted (or in some cases nonexistent) infrastructure 🎁🔗
Nothing says freedom in a foreign country like huge US flags, chain stores and endless parking spaces filled with SUVs
Related news: The panel recommending everyone eat more meat had members who have worked with or had research funded by beef, dairy and pork industry trade groups
“You had to look hard and almost knowingly to find any hint of plant protein source in that graphic." RFK Jr's new food pyramid is a secret carbon time bomb by overemphasizing meat 🎁🔗
After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up.
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
People are already in the streets after an ICE agent shot a woman in her vehicle in Minneapolis today. Here are some @wired.com tips for protecting yourself from your government. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
v helpful thread laying out some of the other orgs and treaties Trump just exited and what they do bsky.app/profile/joeu...
We're the only country on earth to not sign the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The climate stuff is all really notable but also don't want it to get lost that these are some of the other institutions that were deemed "contrary to the interests of the United States"
