Leah Stokes

I have like 5 more. It's California.

Yes very depressing.

They are mini ones. Maybe honeynut?

Today's garden haul. 🌱

Covering Climate: A Q&A With Policy Expert Leah Stokes A climate policy expert reacts to the "One Big Beautiful Bill" and America's changing political landscape

Get inspired for the fight by @leahstokes.bsky.social: “The Trump administration and fossil fuel industry are coming so hard for the clean energy industry because the fact is: we are winning…We are in the middle of a battle here, and are still going to win the war” open.substack.com/pub/thepower...

Covering Climate: A Q&A With Policy Expert Leah Stokes A climate policy expert reacts to the "One Big Beautiful Bill" and America's changing political landscape

🔌💡 @silviomarcacci.bsky.social interviewed @leahstokes.bsky.social to weigh in on what Congress’ IRA repeal means for clean #energy, lessons for policymakers, and what consumers can do to protect themselves from fossil fueled cost spikes.
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Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

Averaged out, a journalist has been killed every 3 days since the conflict began.

Steel plant in Vance’s hometown trades clean future for more coal The Middletown, Ohio, plant was set to receive $500 million to make "green" steel. Then its CEO embraced President Donald Trump.

“Clean steel is the future, everyone knows that, and to pretend otherwise is sticking your head in the sand,” said @leahstokes.bsky.social. ”We can either lead globally and claim a big part of the future of clean industries or we can be laggards and continue to lose to countries like China.”

This is a really crazy thing to do.

Yesterday, I spoke with CCN about why the renewable energy industry matters now more than ever for both our economy and our planet. With climate change accelerating and electricity demand on the rise, solar, wind, and batteries are the future.

Thanks Evan!

I'm all hepped up on goofballs over this report. Very very excited about this as a source of clean heat for industry. Lots of union jobs here. Great transition strategy. Terrific work by the 2035 team, Leah!

Next-gen geothermal is still an emerging area so there aren't great case studies outside the electricity sector yet -- but hopefully more soon!

Our new report with Project Innerspace show how geothermal can decarbonize the industrial sector. We examine sectors that are good candidates for geothermal, case studies of existing sites, and strategies to scale geothermal heat.

Read the full report: www.2035initiative.com/unlocking-ne...

Next-gen geothermal can be a game changer for industrial facilities. It offers clean, reliable, around-the-clock heat that does not rely on large amounts of electricity. This lowers exposure to fuel price spikes, reduces grid strain, and bolsters resilience.
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Conventional geothermal systems only work in places where heat is near the surface. But next-generation technologies can drill deeper to access heat almost anywhere. This means industrial plants don’t have to be located near rare hydrothermal reservoirs to replace fossil fuels with geothermal.

YouTube video by EnergyNewsNZ EEA 2021 - Large Energy User - Oji Fibre

Geothermal systems use underground heat for manufacturing. For example, a pulp and paper plant in New Zealand switched out their coal boiler for geothermal in 2021, saving the company $4 million in energy costs annually + cutting 10,000 tons of carbon pollution.
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The industrial sector emits almost 1/4 of US climate pollution, mostly from using fossil fuels for heat. But there is a virtually unlimited source of clean heat right beneath our feet... geothermal! THREAD on our new report on geothermal for industrial decarb.
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Dave Eggers book - The Eyes and The Impossible.

Raid at a Home Depot in Hollywood shatters an immigrant refuge Immigration agents arrest dozens around Home Depot in Hollywood, shattering the lives of the vendors and their families who created a makeshift community there.

“Job Garcia, a doctoral student, was picking up an order at Home Depot. He texted his brother Elias Garcia: ‘Hey Elias me agarro ICE,’ it read. ICE got me.

“Elias has not been able to talk to his brother to find out why he was arrested.

“Job is a U.S. citizen.”

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Shocker!

RNC Summer Retreat 2025 flyer

It’s so on brand Trump Republicans claim CA is under siege WHILE the RNC hosts its Summer Retreat…IN L.A. 🤣 Rumored to be at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons Hotel. It’s all so ridiculous. L.A…Safe enough for the RNC but not Angelenos 🤣🤷‍♀️ At least it’s not at a landscaping company this time

I know @bradlander.bsky.social. He's a climate champion, a person with high integrity, and a pragmatist who wants to deliver for everyday people. He's definitely worth ranking near the top of your ballot if you live in NYC! I would vote for him if I could.

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639576; Smith et al., 2025a) to produce updated estimates for key indicators of the state of the climate system: net emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. This year, we additionally include indicators for sea-level rise and land precipitation change. We follow methods as closely as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One report. The indicators show that human activities are increasing the Earth's energy imbalance and driving faster sea-level rise compared to the AR6 assessment. For the 2015–2024 decade average, observed warming relative to 1850–1900 was 1.24 [1.11 to 1.35] °C, of which 1.22 [1.0 to 1.5] °C was human-induced. The 2024-observed best estimate of global surface temperature (1.52 °C) is well above the best estimate of human-caused warming (1.36 °C). However, the 2024 observed warming can still be regarded as a typical year, considering the human-induced warming level and the state of internal variability associated with the phase of El Niño and Atlantic variability. Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024. This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being at an all-time high of 53.6±5.2 Gt CO2e yr−1 over the last decade (2014–2023), as well as reductions in the strength of aerosol cooling. Despite this, there is evidence that the rate of increase in CO2 emissions over the last decade has slowed compared to the 2000s, and depending on societal choices, a continued series of these annual updates over the critical 2020s decade could track decreases or increases in the rate of the climatic changes presented here.

Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim:

⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C
⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade
⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance
⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2

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You are the best! Everyone should read this brilliant, beautiful book! ♥️

Senate Bill Gives Giant Tax Break to Big Oil A provision inserted by Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) would exempt many domestic oil and gas drillers from having to pay any corporate taxes.

NEWS: A one-page insert buried in the Senate Finance Committee's text of the budget bill would make many domestic oil and gas drillers exempt from the corporate minimum tax. It was written by Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma and will mostly benefit Oklahoma companies.
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Darnella Frazier was 17 when she had the presence of mind to document what was happening to George Floyd.

These ICE abduction videos differ but also convey an out-of-control state abusing its power.

Sometimes bearing witness is among the most important forms of civil resistance.

Georgia Power is a monopoly with captive customers. It does not need to redact filings like it’s running a CIA operation. It's just hiding bad decisions.

Props to the Southern Environmental Law Center and Georgia Interfaith Power & Light for pushing back.

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Agreed.