The hot in the west was hotter than the cold in the east was cold.
#climatechange
The hot in the west was hotter than the cold in the east was cold.
#climatechange
The public and commentators need to stop thinking about "wars for oil" as about securing oil for the U.S., it's been decades since that was a motivator. "Wars for oil" are instead about securing oil for oil companies, securing a fossil fueled global economy, and denying oil's wealth to "enemies."
01.03.2026 01:06 — 👍 222 🔁 72 💬 10 📌 8
"A decadent people elected a bunch of decadent congressmen and congresswomen and then layered a decadent, corrupt, and unserious game show host on top of all that, and now we reap the whirlwind."
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“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Insane potential desecration of a national treasure. www.marfapublicradio.org/news/2026-02...
27.02.2026 23:58 — 👍 43 🔁 31 💬 2 📌 1
My writing partner, looking in through my office window this morning, checking to see how the new pages are coming along.
27.02.2026 18:18 — 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The cover of this week's Lancet, featuring RFK Jr:
27.02.2026 15:14 — 👍 85 🔁 37 💬 1 📌 1
In Norway, wealth funds are confronting climate risks and dropping companies that don't manage them well.
In the US, financial giants like Blackrock and Vanguard are capitulating to RAGA intimidation to stay silent on climate risks.
If you have a 401K, Trumpers are stealing your future.
"We might need to reframe 'American exceptionalism.' Instead of a New Deal, we have a Great Society for white-collar crime, a New Frontier of executive lawbreaking, a No Rich Crook Left Behind."
27.02.2026 13:40 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
The number of birds in the US and Canada has fallen by 2.9 billion, or 29 percent, since 1970.
Forest-dwelling birds are doing OK. The big losses correlated with hot places: Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona.
Here's alt text for this image: **Alt text:** A two-panel comparison graphic. The top panel is titled "Tobacco companies trying to mislead the public" and shows a scanned excerpt from an internal tobacco industry document stating "Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the mind of the general public" — a strategy of manufacturing public controversy despite internal acknowledgment that cigarettes are harmful. The bottom panel is titled "Climate Working Group emails" and shows a text excerpt stating "About all I can hope is that what we write will provide sufficient 'reasonable scientific doubt' regarding the science claims in the 2009 TSD, based upon almost 2 decades of new science, to call into question the original reasoning for the EPA Administrator's decision that CO2 presents a threat to human health and welfare." The juxtaposition draws a parallel between tobacco industry disinformation tactics and the climate denial strategy reflected in the DOE Climate Working Group communications.
spot the difference
26.02.2026 01:47 — 👍 102 🔁 39 💬 7 📌 1
We're heading for a world where the Supreme Court decrees fossil fuels can't be regulated, but they can't be sued either. That would leave you paying every cent of the tab for climate damages
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
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Ann Godoff snatched me off the streets as a young hack and turned me into a book writer. She was brilliant and she was tough and knew what mattered on the page.
26.02.2026 00:31 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Wow and I always thought the most damning citation of Larry Summers was the epigraph from *Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor* (2011)
12.11.2025 19:02 — 👍 710 🔁 256 💬 29 📌 39
The State of the Climate.
25.02.2026 14:08 — 👍 37 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 3This is true in rougly the same sense that a guy on the subway reeking of urine, screaming, and waving a knife around is “feared.”
24.02.2026 17:27 — 👍 5229 🔁 997 💬 27 📌 47
I'm thrilled to say Plastic Inc is out today, shifting the lens on plastic from where it ends up to where it comes from — the fossil fuel industry. "Deeply researched, sharply written & totally compelling," says @elizkolbert.bsky.social "Breath-taking & revelatory"—
@christopherleonard.bsky.social
Congrats on book pub! Gonna buy a copy today.
24.02.2026 17:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
As buildings crack under record heat, architects are rediscovering ancient technologies—windcatchers, clay walls, and shaded courtyards—that kept cities habitable long before air-conditioning.
Read about the past and future of cooling our buildings by Yasmin Alrabiei below:
"The push for plastic reflects both the [oil] industry’s modus operandi—more production means more money—and a growing anxiety about a future in which demand for fossil fuels as fuel may flatten and eventually decline."
Plastic is the future of oil. Read
@bethgardiner.bsky.social PLASTIC INC.
Deluge forecast to raise food prices in Europe Winter ‘pantry’ depleted as rains devastate crops across Mediterranean countries
#Fossilflation European food price edition
24.02.2026 12:21 — 👍 21 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 1
“Now is a great time for the V-8 engine" the car guys chanted, high on the smell of gasoline, as they dug their graves in an abandoned car dealership outside of Detroit. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
24.02.2026 13:11 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
RFK Jr spent years denouncing mercury pollution from power plants. He was one of Trump's most public opponents when he tried to roll back mercury limits in 2017. He himself actually got mercury poisoning (eating too much fish). On Friday, Trump's EPA weakened mercury rules. RFK Jr said nothing.
22.02.2026 16:14 — 👍 36 🔁 13 💬 7 📌 4"Here's a very simple rule of thumb: If you're going to institute a policy that's going to upend your own economy, the global economy, foreign relations and change our position in the world... It's probably best to check that it's constitutional first. "
22.02.2026 12:52 — 👍 2211 🔁 723 💬 74 📌 43Huge respect for George Saunders' new novel VIGIL, not because it's flawless, but because he found a way to write a bestselling novel about a Big Oil CEO who is tormented on his deathbed by ghosts for his climate crimes.
21.02.2026 23:53 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The National Science Foundation’s entire budget is $10 billion.
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“This door knock marks a significant escalation,” said Ronald L. Kuby, the man’s lawyer, who represents several climate activists.
“The fact that they went to the wrong address of a member who has not been active suggests that they are starting an investigation. They are digging.”
Some excellent writing right here about lakes and mussels and humans who are learning that there are better ways to protect yourself from big waves than building a fortress of rocks along the beach.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/s...
The better the science gets, the more dangerous the endangerment becomes.
19.02.2026 19:10 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0