Patrick Bigger

Trump’s $1tn for Pentagon to add huge planet-heating emissions, study shows Exclusive: 17% increase in military spending will add emissions equivalent to those of some entire countries

Bravo to @theguardian.com's @ninalakhani.bsky.social for highlighting @cplusc.bsky.social research exposing the climate madness of the US military budget amid cuts to weather and emergency services. Journalists wanting to follow up can contact @CoveringClimate...

A Guerra no Século XXI: Indústria bélica e conflitos armados agravam crise climática com emissões militares fora do radar Conflitos como o em Gaza e a guerra na Ucrânia mostram que impactos ambientais de guerras não cessam com os ataques, podendo se prolongar por décadas, da limpeza à reconstrução

Very good feature in O Globo over the weekend summarizing some of the high level problems at the intersection of militaries and the climate crisis for any Portuguese readers out there (but linked here machine-translated)

This thread neatly summarizes the main divide I see in the energy and climate community. Do you think we need political intervention to intentionally wind down fossil fuels, or do you think if we make clean alternatives cheap enough then companies will voluntarily wind down fossil fuels?

Nothing says "you are a commodity and I don't respect you" quite like an email from Routledge giving you 5 days to do revisions on a handbook chapter you submitted so long ago you don't remember writing it. Academic publishing is fucked and the for profit publishers can get fucked.

Read a new article in the Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy 4.1 to explore the challenges and barriers to #ClimateAdaptation faced by cities in the Global South. Read the full article online: bit.ly/jccpe41-e @pmbigger.bsky.social @cplusc.bsky.social

An Egyptian dude figured out that if you partially filled a plastic bottle with rice and other grains and threw it into the ocean from Egypt at the correct place given currents the bottles would wash ashore in Gaza within 96 hours so ordinary Egyptians are doing it and... it's worked?

Dave is right- I mean, I do work here, but I'm still blown away by all of the stuff my incredible colleagues put together

Trump’s $1tn for Pentagon to add huge planet-heating emissions, study shows Exclusive: 17% increase in military spending will add emissions equivalent to those of some entire countries

The 17% rise in US pentagon spending since 2023 will result in an additional 26,000,000 tons of Co2 emissions. These emissions will cause ~$47 billion in damages when the US is already spending $1 trillion/year on disaster recovery. Our new
@cplusc.bsky.social research covered in @theguardian.com

ICE budget set to triple to $30 billion in 2026. Trump request: $11 billion, plus estimated $19 billion from reconciliation bill. The red line chart shows gradual increase in the ICE budget from 2016 to 2025, before skyrocketing to a projected $30 billion in 2026. 2026 estimate based on Trump's budget request and White House documents stating that 25% of reconciliation homeland security funding is for 2026.

ICE funding will likely triple next year to $30 billion, more than Poland spent on its military last year.

Compared to the world’s largest military budgets, ICE’s 2026 budget would rank in the top 15
www.stephensemler.com/p/ice-budget...

The growing Brics divide between carbon and electro-states Energy systems can shape political institutions and make some nations more vulnerable to trade wars than others

My new op-ed essay in the @financialtimes.com.

on.ft.com/4kKqiTb

The growing Brics divide between carbon and electro-states

My open access interview with Fayola Jacobs and Manny de Vera on the structural barriers that Majority World cities face for accessing climate finance, and the dual financial and physical risks those cities are contending with, is this in cool collection on 'Urban Riskscapes'

🌍 As inequality & climate chaos grow, we need real solutions not broken promises

Join A Climate for Change, uniting #TaxJustice & #ClimateJustice for fair finance & a just transition

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This is exactly right- the road to climate apartheid is paved with genocidal experiments, including ethnic cleansing in Gaza, as well as the US and EU's border regimes and skyrocketing NATO military budgets. We wrote about this exact process back in 2023 at @cplusc.bsky.social

A New Wave of Air Toxics Demands Real Enforcement – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative This is the first installment of our State of Environmental Protection series. This series utilizes public data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to evaluate the current state of our e...

Trump’s enviro agenda is based on 3 ideas:

1️⃣ We’ve made enough progress on 📉ing pollution
2️⃣ Indigenous & communities of color aren’t overburdened by pollution
3️⃣ Polluters can be trusted to comply w/ laws

Each is wrong & we draw on EPA’s data to show it: envirodatagov.org/a-new-wave-o... (🧵 1/3):

see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them

Brightline death toll surpasses 180, but safeguards are still lacking Brightline trains have killed 182 people, significantly more than publicly known, an investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN has found.

Florida's privately owned Brightline train has killed 182 people since 2017 www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

Trump’s $1tn for Pentagon to add huge planet-heating emissions, study shows Exclusive: 17% increase in military spending will add emissions equivalent to those of some entire countries

The US Deptartment of Defense budget is set to rise to $1tn. New analysis by @cplusc.bsky.social shows that this will push the Pentagon’s total greenhouse emissions to a staggering 178 Mt of CO2e, resulting in an estimated $47bn in economic damages globally.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This sounds extremely like the Brazilian version of 'Abundance', and it's extremely bad!

Climate Crisis Demands a More Humane Alternative to Mass Deportation   - CIP We can mitigate the effects of climate change and bring an end to the era of fossil fuels, by orienting our national security, foreign, and immigration policies on shared values of human rights and di...

Pleased to publish Kelsey Coolidge at the @cipolicy.bsky.social, looking seriously at how attempts to "securitize" the climate debate dehumanized our neighbors while giving rhetorical ammunition to anti-migrant forces. Militarization will not save us. internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Trump’s $1tn for Pentagon to add huge planet-heating emissions, study shows Exclusive: 17% increase in military spending will add emissions equivalent to those of some entire countries

The 17% rise in US pentagon spending since 2023 will result in an additional 26,000,000 tons of Co2 emissions. These emissions will cause ~$47 billion in damages when the US is already spending $1 trillion/year on disaster recovery. Our new
@cplusc.bsky.social research covered in @theguardian.com

Trump’s $1tn for Pentagon to add huge planet-heating emissions, study shows Exclusive: 17% increase in military spending will add emissions equivalent to those of some entire countries

By me: Trump’s spending bonanza for the Pentagon will produce an additional 26 megatons of planet-heating gases – on a par with the annual emissions generated by 68 gas power plants or the entire country of Croatia, new analysis by @cplusc.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The sagebrush rebel revival Dustin Mulvaney traces the current deregulatory bonanza that the Trump administration has unleashed on public lands and waters to the Wise Use movement of the 1980s and the Sagebrush Rebellion that pr...

In his latest @thebulletin.org, @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social connects the Trump administration's approach to public lands (energy dominance! drill, baby, drill! abundant mining, logging, and development!) back to the Wise Use Agenda and the earlier Sagebrush Rebellion

thebulletin.org/2025/07/the-...

Again: this is the first real substantial internal division we've seen on the right in a while & a capable left would be exploiting it ruthlessly. Any Dem or Dem operative who isn't doing their level best to keep Epstein in the headlines should be fired.

this was a fun @moreperfectunion.bsky.social video to be a part of

Remember when Madison Cawthrone said he was invited to republican "sex" parties and then they dropped like 20 embarrassing stories on him within a week and now he's gone

New from @KennyStancil.bsky.social and @RevolvingDoorDC.bsky.social: Property and casualty insurers doubled their profits last year while they continue denying disaster victims’ claims and pushing for rate hikes across the country.

When I post that #AI destroys everything I am not getting all hyperbolic and shit

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delayed FEMA search and rescue by 72 hours.

Approving that shouldn’t take longer than 72 seconds.

Texans deserve answers.

Every single story you are hearing from the Everglades Concentration Camp has been and is already taking place in hundreds of prisons and jails in the U.S. That's what PIC abolitionists have been trying to get the public to understand for decades.

How much Trump's 'big beautiful' bill could raise electricity costs in every U.S. state over the next 10 years President Donald Trump's 'big beautiful' bill could raise household electricity costs by $600 a year over the next decade, analysis finds.

Yup. Who doesn’t love both higher energy prices AND it being more polluting!? “How much Trump's 'big beautiful' bill could raise electricity costs in every state”. For us in GA, estimated to be an increase of $270 www.cnbc.com/2025/07/14/h...