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We're in the Orbanization of our media system now. It's happening.

CNN's Brian Stelter drew this assessment from Gábor Scheiring, "who experienced Viktor Orbán's autocratic power plays in Hungary firsthand as a member of the Hungarian parliament." view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...

RealClimate: National Climate Assessment links RealClimate: For some reason, it has become hard to locate the various National Climate Assessments (NCAs) that have been produced by the USGCRP over the decades (and it's pretty hard to find the USGR...

If you are having trouble finding National Climate Assessment reports, they are here.

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The monitoring station on Mauna Loa provides the longest direct measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Trump wants to shut it down, which is like taking the batteries out of your screaming smoke alarm and pretending the house isn't on fire. #climatechange

This is not normal
Canada has already seen over 7.8 million acres burned by wildfires in 2025
Global warming with longer summers, less snow, warming temperatures has turned country’s boreal forests into tinderboxes and smoke traveling as far as Europe

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Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."

Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!

What will you do when authoritarianism comes to America? Because it's here. Right now.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Proposed bill would revamp Pennsylvania’s energy plan for the future HARRISBURG, Pa. (WTAJ) – New legislation is looking to revamp Pennsylvania’s energy plan moving forward, but not everyone is fully on board. Gov. Shapiro’s administration wants to chang…

“In a matter of weeks, many Pennsylvanians will see their bills increased by as much as 15%. This is due in large part to our overreliance on fracked gas for more than half of our energy production,” Patrick McDonnell, CEO of PennFuture.

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From Protect PT- Last call to sign on! bit.ly/puc-letter

Express your concerns about data centers and tell the PUC to put PA residents first!

And who funded this work…? NSF funded all the US Antarctic ice cores (💚🩵) & NOAA funds Mauna Loa (🖤). Antarctic ice is the only archive clean enough to preserve unaltered air in bubbles in the ice.

In the 1980s, the US experienced one billion-plus dollar extreme weather disaster on average every 4 months.

Today? There’s one every 2 weeks, and 9 in 10 Americans say they’ve felt the impacts.

Clearly, this is the record to cut—if you don’t want to show how climate change is hitting home.

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Here's the full recording of my Tues May 6 talk "Beyond The Hockey Stick: Climate Lessons from The Common Era” at the @unisouthampton.bsky.social: southampton.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

Energy is not the only sector now creating more carbon costs than the value of the companies.

This seems totally insane until you consider that continually increasing temperatures will collapse food, housing, human society and of course our economic system.

It's the definition of "unsustainable."

THE ECONOMIC COST OF BIG OIL COMPANIES' POLLUTION IS 20 TIMES MORE THAN THE ACTUAL *MARKET VALUE* OF THOSE COMPANIES.

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Senate votes to overturn EPA rule that limits 7 hazardous air pollutants The party-line vote marked the first time in the 55-year history of the Clean Air Act that Congress has moved to weaken the power of the landmark environmental law.

Since you breathe air, making sure you saw that 52 Republican Senators voted yesterday to put more toxic chemicals in it. The first time congress has voted to weaken the Clean Air Act in its 55 year history.

OTOH, it's good news for all the people who don't breath air. You know: Corporations.

Let’s be clear — Trump is nothing more than a shill for the oil industry.

He says he’s for energy independence, but he’s not. He’s for oil dependence. And killing off any alternative.

During Trump 1.0, California led the fight to protect our environment.

And we’re going to again.

Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done He’s using the White House to get rich from anonymous investors—and it’s hardly even a news story.

This doesn’t create the “appearance” of corruption or set up the “potential” for conflict of interest. It is corruption, and it’s a standing conflict of interest. Patently, and historically.

Trump May Target Environmental Nonprofits in Executive Orders - Inside Climate News Environmental groups say they are preparing for the worst—and preparing to fight back.

Next in Trump's crosshairs: The non-profit status of climate groups.

Expect to hear some bullshit about "energy," "security," or "politics" but you know what this really is:

Trump's fossil fuel bosses are losing marketshare to clean energy because their product is inferior... and also killing us.

An example of a hidden subsidy to the fossil fuel industry, which loves to socialize costs and privatize profits. Stop them!

On Earth Day, join @theNAMedicine second annual Climate and Health Summit. #ClimateActionforHealth Don't miss this opportunity to engage in critical conversations!
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The wrong ICE is melting The wrong Amazon is burning

Sign of the day…

Too many "you're doing it wrong" / false accusations / doxxing of comrades / silencing people on your side through bullying and harassment etc etc destroys the movement. The old "united we stand, divided we fall" is ever more important to remember.

A petrochemical 'ecosystem' Pennsylvania's extensive fracking network hiding in plain sight

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In Japan, an Iceless Lake and an Absent God Sound an Ancient Warning (Gift Article) For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its disappearance as a bad omen.

"For at least 600 yrs, residents marked the depth of winter by celebrating a natural phenomenon revered as the trail of a wandering god. But ...for the past 7 winters, the Miwatari has failed to appear because the lake didn’t freeze. This has happened only once before, half a millennium ago."

Climate TRACE Climate TRACE makes climate action faster and easier by mobilizing the global tech community to track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

The nonprofit organization Climate Trace monitors 300 satellites and 30,000 sensors to identify “the specific amounts of pollution coming from every significant greenhouse gas emissions source in the world
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Climate Community Joins Congressional Leaders to Oppose Zeldin’s Polluter First Agenda - Climate Action Campaign 37

The climate community has joined with Congressional leaders to oppose Lee Zeldin's "Polluter First" agenda, which threatens air, water, and public health protections. Over 190 environmental and health organizations have raised concerns about its impact, especially on vulnerable communities.

White House ends funding for key US climate body: ‘No coming back from this’ Nasa cuts contract that convened USGCRP, which released assessments impacting environmental decision-making

“White House ends funding for key US climate body: ‘No coming back from this’ ” by Dharna Noor and @gabriellecanon.bsky.social for @theguardian.com:

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Trump administration fires staff for flagship U.S. climate assessment Move could open the door to using high-profile report to attack climate science

@science.org confirms that yesterday the Trump admin wiped out the technical staff of the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the Global Change Research Program. When USGCRP's acting director, who is on a time-limited contract, leaves, it will leave the congressionally mandated office empty.

NOAA Staffing Cuts Threaten Years of Salmon Harvests (Gift Article) In Washington, where salmon is a multibillion dollar industry, government staff terminations and budget freezes may put salmon production at risk.

Almost a dozen hatcheries in Puget Sound are in limbo because a single NOAA employee was terminated by DOGE in February.

That employee was Krista Finlay and her job at NOAA was to ensure hatcheries complied with the Endangered Species Act before the fish were released into Puget Sound.

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Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.

A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀

Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯

A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛

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