Mark Lubell

Inside the viral lies that spread climate confusion » Yale Climate Connections False WhatsApp chains and political sound bites aren’t just nonsense – they’re putting Latino communities in danger during floods, fires, and storms.

Inside the viral lies that spread climate confusion yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/insi...

UN International Court of Justice says countries have a legal obligation to reduce pollution » Yale Climate Connections Although the ruling is not enforceable, it may influence other international and domestic courts.

UN International Court of Justice says countries have a legal obligation to reduce pollution yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/un-i...

The surging price tag of wildfires, in one chart Wildfires are getting worse — and a lot more expensive for the rest of us.

Wildfires aren’t just getting bigger. They’re getting massively more expensive.

A new study shows the most destructive fires are happening more often, fueled by climate change, urban sprawl, and decades of fire suppression.

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Why scientists are using corals from other countries to help save Florida's reefs The past three summers have been the worst on record for Florida's coral reefs. To try to restore them, scientists are breeding corals that can handle heat better, using coral from other countries.

Why scientists are using corals from other countries to help save Florida's reefs www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n... 🧪🦑🌎

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Climate action can't wait NYC Climate Week: The world leans in, the U.S. checks out, and how to SHIFT into action

At Climate Week NYC, the message was clear: progress is underway. While none of us can do this alone, the number of people who are committed to tackling climate together is growing every day.

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This Year’s Most Anticipated Video Game Is an Homage—and Elegy—to Nature | Atmos Nature in Ghost of Yōtei is more than a backdrop. This rugged and beautiful scenery is a character with its own powerful story.

this game-of-the-year contender doesn't take nature lightly

Ghost of Yōtei, out today, tells the story of a land and its people resisting 17th-century colonization—a surprisingly modern environmental tale

@lewisgordon.bsky.social takes @atmosmag.bsky.social behind the scenes into its making 🌎🧪

Example of the new climate tool from Climate Central. This is showing climate change in Pennsylvania which is seeing annually a change in precipitation of 3.2 inches since 1970 and a warming of 3.2°F. Fall threats include heat, heavy rainfall, and sea level rise. This is associated with impacts like increased cooling demand, more extreme rainfall, and changes to fall foliage.

📣 Check it out! Explore the new data viz on our homepage: www.climatecentral.org

@climatecentral.org just released a new tool to explore climate impacts in U.S. cities and states - making complex data easier to understand for your community.

🚨 What’s the biggest Fall climate threat where you live?

💦📈Read in #ERW how #waterquality modelling can be used to project total #phosphorus loading into #lakes and #reservoirs over the next 75 years and why this is a threat to aquatic #ecosystems 🪱🐟

🔗https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/3033-4942/adead8

#Environment #water #sustainability

Executive Summary of DoD 2024-2027 Climate Adaptation Plan

Re: "Climate Change Worship," ironically the DoD has long one of the most forward looking parts of government when it comes to climate. Climate change is a security risk around the world.

Department of Defense Climate Adaptation Plan 2024-2027 share.google/HuF25G2aZnbg...

Our military takes climate change seriously because generals care about factual guidance to ensure troop safety rather than political dogma. It matters to ship safety if storms are stronger or if bases are in danger of flooding. It's good strategy to anticipate future wars due to water scarcity.

Among the many reasons why the military brass cares about climate change are because some of its most critical facilities (like Norfolk Naval Shipyard and NAS Oceana, where much of the Navy’s Atlantic fleet is located) are already experiencing impacts from sea level rise and more extreme storms.

That does not sound good on multiple levels. Sorry that happened to you. 26 key informant interviews is a lot of work and probably sufficient for a specific case to reach “saturation” of info

Guess what we found on our front yard lemon tree in Davis!

This is how we design sustainable cities - by prioritizing parks, pedestrians, and pedals. Both human and planet health improve when local leaders step up like this! 💪🌎 #cities #climatepolicy #sustainability #adaptation #RunOnClimate

In academia this is also known as the environmental humanities tbh (no shade intended).

Slowing Global Warming Does Address Affordability Solar, wind, and batteries are now the cheapest energy, but Trump’s fossil fuel agenda could raise US power costs.

The longer this goes, the more cost, and not climate, will be the issue. That favors, increasingly, diversification. 💡🔌
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The world in 2050 is already here Dr Mike Gilligan has reminded us that Australia’s defence and foreign policies are pulling in opposite directions: we preach “equilibrium” in the Pacific while binding ourselves ever more tightly to W...

"Every billion funnelled to nuclear submarines is a billion not invested in climate adaptation, housing, or the value-adding industries that could place Australia in the high-skill, high-wage core of the world economy. The opportunity cost is staggering."

Smartphone location data show park use patterns in extreme heat (Los Angeles, California, USA) Climate change, combined with the Urban Heat Island effect, will generate more frequent, intense extreme heat events. These events can induce heat str…

🔥 New Paper Alert 🔥 -- from the incomparable @ioes.ucla.edu Senior Practicum in Environmental Science with the paper led by new alums Sammy Fruman and Bethany Woo --> anonymized smartphone data show park use in extreme heat 1/ #heat #hazards #mobility #cities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interior says offshore wind turbines imperil search and rescue The legal argument surfaced as the Trump administration seeks to prevent the Maryland Offshore Wind Project from being built.

Grasping for straws. The real reason this administration wants to stop offshore wind is simple: it competes with oil and gas, and oil and gas bankrolled the Trump campaign.
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Climate action costs continue to hit New York utility bills An analysis by New York’s utility regulators forecasts growing costs on electric bills from programs to support the state’s climate goals.

The problem isn't the costs of climate action, it's who pays for them. Always ratepayers, never monopoly utilities. (1/2)
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carbon bros are as toxic as it gets

NEW:🌎Half of global emissions covered by 2035 climate pledges after UN summit in New York🌎

China, Russia, Turkey and 8 other nations announced new pledges at the UN climate summit

But two-thirds of countries are still to announce their new NDCs

Analysis⬇️

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Is there a public mandate for restricting advertising of high-carbon products and services?: Citizens’ jury and public polling evidence from the UK Meeting internationally-agreed climate targets requires changes to patterns of consumption of goods and services which result in high levels of greenhouse gas emissions, such as petrol and diesel cars...

📢 High-carbon ads and public opinion

UK citizens’ jury and polling show majority support for restricting advertising of high-carbon products. Labelling systems were favoured, outright bans least popular.

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#SciComm #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction 🧪

Hurricane Helene's Massive Destruction Was Supercharged by Climate Change, Here's How You Can Help There is so much more we need to do to keep the people and places we love safe.

It has been one year since Hurricane Helene, a climate change-supercharged storm, tore an 800-mile path of destruction across Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky.

Mr. Wright falsely claimed that critics of an Energy Department report — written by five researchers who reject the established scientific consensus that the burning of oil, gas and coal is dangerously heating the planet — did not dispute any of the report’s data or facts. “They just didn’t like that the conclusion of our report was, climate change is a real physical phenomenon that’s unfolding, it’s just not the crisis it’s often sold to be.” In fact, 85 scientists submitted a sweeping critique of the report detailing a litany of inaccuracies, including claims that sea level rise is not accelerating; that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will help plants grow; and that computer models exaggerate future temperature increases. The American Meteorological Society, a leading science organization, also outlined what it called “foundational flaws” in the report. And the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the nation’s leading scientific advisory body, also contradicted the Energy Department report, saying the evidence that greenhouse gases threaten human health has only grown over time.

this is sooooooo f'ing sweet. every time Sec. Chris Wright lies about the DOE Climate Working Group report, reporters cite our response.

Old news I know but I can confirm that this talk, part of the NIH Climate and Health Scholar program, was canceled because it was deemed "too political." Anyway.

Drawdown® Explorer We know what we need to do: stop climate change as quickly as possible. Now, with the Drawdown Explorer, we know how to do it.

So this is a cool climate change website that's big on positive developments. Basically a review site for evaluating high/low tech things that might help reduce #ClimateChange. And there are a lot of them that seem pretty good ... plus some shady 🌊 ones I've worked on that get a deserved kicking.

Fifth National Climate Assessment The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the…

In case you missed the big news earlier this week...

We've brought the website of the Fifth National Climate Assessment back online. Explore it at nca5.climate.us

The assessment, which was released by the U.S. Global Change Research Program in 2023, is the most recent state of the science...
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Friends in the UK pointed me to these perfect comments by scientists in response to Trump’s UN speech www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...