Steve Harrell

Global Energy Transition Investment Grew in 2025 Despite Major Obstacles; Here Are the Numbers - Inside Climate News Clean transportation led the way while renewable energy spending decreased.

Interesting that the goon administration has been able to slow, but not stop, growth in US green energy investment. Of course, it's growing fast everywhere else.

insideclimatenews.org/news/2901202...

Senate Passes Deal to Fund Government and Negotiate ICE Limits

Hm, they've managed to kick the can about 8 inches down the road..

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

The Trump Administration Is Now Delaying Renewable Projects It Thinks Are Ugly The Army Corps of Engineers is out to protect “the beauty of the Nation’s natural landscape.”

You knew it would come to this: Now the administration is invoking wetland protection--something the Right has long associated with 'radical left" environmentalists, to oppose renewable power development. Sigh

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The Logical End Point of Trump Saying He Could Shoot Somebody on Fifth Avenue His administration is trying to distort the reality of Alex Pretti’s killing.

Everyone else has probably already realized this.

"The administration’s immediate use of the terrorist label should be understood not just as a hyperbolic accusation of intent but as an umbrella term it applies to political opposition generally."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

To many city residents I talked to, the message of it all was clear enough: Nobody could help them. They were on their own."

These were pictures of the state deploying violence confidently and with open disinterest for the niceties of process or protocol — the expression of power as an end to itself. To some, it was horrifying; to others, it was exhilarating.

Nor did people on either side of the country’s chasmic ideological divide seem to disagree all that much about what they were seeing in the images of immigrants being marched away from their cars in subzero temperatures and demonstrators pepper-sprayed at point-blank range.

when you watched videos like this as well as their public digestion on various social media platforms, was that they did not differ dramatically from the videos that the Trump administration disseminated itself.

Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis

I've read plenty of good, saddening, enraging reportage on the shredding of the social contract in Minneapolis. But this paragraph seemed to go beyond the outrage to point out the basic problem in the US today:

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/m...

"What was striking, and not a little chilling,

We're all Minnesotans now.

New York’s Empire Wind Project May Resume Construction, Judge Says The decision marks the Trump administration’s second offshore wind defeat this week.

But there's some good news along with the bad on the energy front: Probably the judge's decision has little to do with slowing global warming or mitigating air pollution, but rather with keeping a huge corporation form losing money. But whatever. It'll get built.

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It's the "Ge-" in Gestapo--Geheim [secret] that clinches the comparison. Unlike regular cops, they cover their faces and have no badges or name tags or other means of identification. Nobody knew who Ross was until along time after he killed Good.

America's Gestapo What you can do to stop ICE's mayhem

The armed services do a pretty decent job of screening out the fourth group, but that group is now the prime recruitment pool for ICE.

robertreich.substack.com/p/americas-g...

Oh, and this:
"There are four kinds of people who join the armed forces: those from a traditional military family, true patriots who want to serve their country, those with no other prospects who need a job, and psychotics who just want to kill people.

Why Renee Good Was, and Is, So Dangerous to Trump There are many ways to define an enemy. One is someone who isn’t afraid of you.

This kind of sums it up:
"the administration realized they needed a different lie for a white lady than for all the other innocent people DHS has killed."

www.thebulwark.com/p/why-renee-...

Robert Frost once wrote

Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice.

May turn out to be the same thing, whether ICE is immigration goons or Internal Combustion Engines.

Enough to make one swear off of ice cream, ice tea...

Opinion | $25 Billion. That’s What Trump Cost Detroit.

We tend to forget that it's not just about GHGasses. ICE vehicles (even those not driven by immigration goons) also cause air pollution and associated diseases.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/o...

US federal court grants preliminary injunction allowing Revolution Wind construction to resume

Can they get it up and running before the almost inevitable appeals court reversal of the district court judge's preliminary injunction? Race against time. The legal strategy for Orsted is delay, delay, delay until the turbines start to spin.

orsted.com/en/media/new...

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

Now it's not just greenhouse gases. They also want to promote air pollution. While taking away the healthcare subsidies that would pay for treatment of pollution-caused diseases.

Might actually spur some backlash among those who think climate change is a hoax.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

America Has Entered Late-Stage Protein This has gone too far.

I love anything that makes fun of food fads. This one is great!

"It is depressing to look at a pile of roasted vegetables, arranged elegantly over couscous, and think: I will try harder tomorrow. I know, because I do it."

www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

But we do live in the general vicinity of the Chuckanut Mountains.

This is actually in our restored habitat in our yard, bought from a nursery.

Anyone else old enough to remember the Dulles brothers?

Some quick initial impressions
MAGA like go bang! BANG!!
US's Overthrowing governments hasn't worked out too well in the recent past.
How does Trump's proposed occupation fit with Corina Machado's proclamation of liberation??

Islands and fog (and a ship) from the Fragrance Lake trail viewpoint today:

Squalicum Harbor on a bright last day of 2025:

Your Wait for These Space Events Is About to Pay Off

Nice roundup, but it occurs to me that putting moon landings and galaxy surveys in the same "space" category is like putting birdie putts and horse collar tackles in the same "sports" category. Yes, but...

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/s...

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, LAST DAY:

Forests through the seasons: Fungi, January and October

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, LAST DAY:

Forests through the seasons: Pearly Everlasting, July and December.

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, LAST DAY:

Forests through the seasons: Whatcom Falls, August and December