Capital Climate

Expecting Snoqualmie Falls to look quite a bit different tomorrow morning as the first phase of this potential category 5 atmospheric river moves through

The Snoqualmie River is one of NINE rivers that are expected to hit major flood stage over the next couple of days #wawx

Over a third of animals impacted in deep sea mining test - scientists The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.

🚨#BREAKING: A deep-sea mining test wiped out over a THIRD of seabed animals in the machine’s tracks.

If tests alone cause this much damage, full-scale mining could be disastrous.

The deep sea must be protected, not exploited.
https://bit.ly/3KEo7EI

Trump ban on wind power projects overturned by federal judge Seventeen states led by New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Trump in May to overturn the president's ban.

Trump ban on wind power projects overturned by federal judge

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One winter night in the Netherlands, 2025...
Temperature here in Utrecht, at 9 p.m.: +13.8°C (57F).

Atmospheric river could rank as high-end event, threatens flood, travel impacts - The Weather Network A significant stream of moisture, courtesy of a potent atmospheric river, will soon inundate B.C. with consecutive rounds of heavy rainfall and alpine snow

A significant stream of moisture, courtesy of a potent atmospheric river, will soon inundate B.C. with consecutive rounds of heavy rainfall and alpine snow. #BCstorm #BCwx
https://ow.ly/s1nt50XF6YQ

Palmer, AK, wind gust up to 94 mph. @alaskawx.bsky.social

And now we know that the volume of #Arctic sea ice also dropped to a record low in October (zacklabe.com/archive-2025/).

It's been a historic fall in the #Arctic, which is already a season of rapid climate change. Not good.

Citizen Ceremonies Canceled Dutchess, Putnam clerks say they have new dates for next year 

Routine naturalization ceremonies scheduled for this month in Putnam, Dutchess and Ulster counties to welcome new U.S. citizens were abruptly canceled last week by the federal government, surprising local officials.   buff.ly/8emFeDU

If the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t real then Section 3 isn’t real either and the justices are suddenly just people in funny clothes.

The Keeling Curve The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

426.75 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 04-Dec-2025
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Hagueseth

Because he's a useless, bloated entity.

Let's check in on Mt. Washington tonight...

Vaccines cause chicken autism.

Kiss Detroit goodbye. China FTW.

34 mpg by 2031
Say goodbye to Detroit.

CAC: Trump's Fuel Economy Standards Rollback is Another Costly Giveaway to Polluters - Climate Action Campaign 4

“Rolling back fuel efficiency standards isn’t pro-consumer — it’s pro-polluter. It saddles Americans with worse climate change impacts and forces them to pay more for fuel at the pump at a time that they can least afford it.”

www.actonclimate.com/post/cac-tru...

'I don't believe tariffs are a tax,' says Treasury Secretary Bessent CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin sits down with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to discuss tariffs, taxes and inflation at the New York Times' DealBook Summit.

Do you need a lobotomy to be a billionaire?

'I don't believe tariffs are a tax,' says Treasury Secretary Bessent

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Erasing a Home’s Risks on Zillow Doesn’t Make Them Go Away We live in a golden age of magical thinking, and I’m not just talking about the trillions of dollars being burned on artificial intelligence. When it comes to our rapidly heating planet and its effect...

People trying to sell you houses at high prices don't want you to know about their climate risks (or other inconvenient numbers). Buyer beware.

Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com

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What happens when ChatGPT cites to a real case but misstates what the case stands for? That doesn't fly for Judge Behm in Michigan. The court says that while a litigant could make the same error based on faulty reasoning, LLMs can't, because they can't reason.

And while a litigant might get away with similar overstatements because they could, perhaps, reason their way to showing how a case's stated holding might extend to novel situations, an LLM does not reason in the way a litigant must. To put it in a slightly different way, LLMs do not perform the metacognitive processes that are necessary to comply with Rule 11. When an LLM overstates a holding of a case, it is just piecing together a plausible-looking sentence

h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social

holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content

Second warmest December minimum since data began 1949.
#Bermuda

Trump sons’ bitcoin venture sheds almost 40% of its value in crypto turmoil Company’s shares plummet as investors cash out at end of lock-up period

that's a shame www.ft.com/content/18e3...

Trump to Disaster Victims: Drop Dead Sorry, but we don’t help the little people

Trump to Disaster Victims: Drop Dead
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It’s time to talk about Donald Trump’s health (again) The most consequential topic in the world is the simple question: Is the President mentally fit to serve?

Donald Trump spent last night having some bizarre social media fever dream. It’s long past time for the president's mental fitness to be a sustained front-page story. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...

He did the same thing when SS Secretary Hagueseth was spewing.

Hundreds of millions of lies.

Death toll from Indonesia floods and landslides passes 700 - The Weather Network Environmental experts and local officials have said deforestation on Sumatra has led to a disproportionately deadly toll.

The number of people killed by floods and landslides on Indonesia's Sumatra island rose to 708 on Tuesday, the disaster agency said, as authorities rushed to repair infrastructure and deliver aid to cut-off areas. www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weat...

Alt5 Sigma Told It’s ’Noncompliant’ by Nasdaq After Failing To File Earnings Report A fintech firm that routed $500 million to an entity affiliated with President Trump is yet to file its report for the third quarter, which ended in September.

New: "Nasdaq Tells Trump Crypto Partner Alt5 Sigma It ‘No Longer Meets’ Listing Requirements After Missed Report"

me, for @forbes.com

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The wealth of the top 1% reaches a record $52 trillion All wealth groups saw gains over the past year, according to recent Fed data. But the growth has been fastest for those at the very top.

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