Emily Cassidy

😍 Nice ferns too.

Alternative Proteins May Be Our Best Bet to Curb Food Emissions New research argues tackling food-related climate emissions is more urgent than you think.

“If you want to reduce climate change in the short term, it’s really important for us to focus on short-lived climate pollutants, which include methane. It’s also important for us to focus on protecting natural ecosystems,” - Emily Cassidy, PD Fellow @enviroem.bsky.social @sentientmedia.org

It's been a stormy and steamy summer across the U.S. so far in 2025 It's been a very humid and very wet summer for much of the U.S. so far this year

The NWS has issued 3,100+ flash flood warnings so far this year—that's more than the 2,874 flash flood warnings issued during the entire year of 2020.

was just thinking that

heat -> grumpiness -> ill-informed political decisions

which is almost certainly not incorporated into climate models

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

"Reich citizenship will not be laid in the cradle of every one born in Germany, but will be ceremoniously conferred on him after he has shown himself worthy of it through special accomplishments, through loyal services to the State." NY Times, July 6, 1933.

A bunch of the dipshit thugs standing in a line across a road, with a car sorta haphazardly parked on one side

HOLD THE LINE. AGAINST THE PEOPLE WHO PICK STRAWBERRIES.

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Looking for hopeful news in dark times? Read this excerpt from @billmckibben.bsky.social's powerful new book:

The passage of the big __😮‍💨__ bill is not going to stop climate progress in the US. While it does mean we have a bigger hill to climb, the long term future of energy will inevitably be green.
@sfchronicle.com
@globalecoguy.bsky.social reminds us it’s not game over, it’s game on.

Screenshot showing a variability of different climate-related graphics for different United States climate change indicators

I'd like to introduce a new page on my website: U.S. climate indicator visuals (zacklabe.com/united-state...).

I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Just recorded a pod on solar+storage and holy shit y'all, if you are not tracking this market on a daily basis, you have no idea how wild it is. The global average price of a battery pack fell 40% *from 2023 to 2024*. That dropped the LCOE of a solar+storage plant by 22%. In a year!

The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.

Where we are as a country:

"The funding in the bill will make ICE the largest jailer in the world, with $200 billion at their disposal."

newrepublic.com/article/1975...

YouTube video by Rep. Jeffries House Democrats Reject Republican Efforts to Cut Medicaid and Food Assistance

Meanwhile, the Democrats who have already voted are live on the Capitol steps railing against the #BigUglyBill

i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan

Good news! #USAID FEWS NET is back up fews.net

The continuous monitoring of acute food insecurity is critical if we are to understand the stability of food systems in our ever more turbulent world. Increasingly frequent conflict, climate, and price shocks make FEWS NET more important than ever

Although the appointees to ACIP have scientific credentials, many do not have significant experience studying microbiology, epidemiology or immunology. In particular, some lack experience studying new technologies such as mRNA vaccines, and may even have a preconceived bias against them. Robust and transparent scientific discussion is important, so long as it is rooted in evidence and understanding. Wednesday's meeting should not proceed with a relatively small panel, and no CDC Director in place to approve the panel's recommendations. The meeting should be delayed until the panel is fully staffed with more robust and balanced representation—as required by law—including those with more direct relevant expertise. Otherwise, ACIP’s recommendations could be viewed with skepticism, which will work against the success of this Administration's efforts.

Area physician expresses surprise that the anti-vax nutjob he supported to run HHS is anti-vax

Neat image released @esa.int shows a glacier flowing into Ross Ice Shelf. The new Biomass mission's P-band radar is designed to penetrate the forest canopy, but it can also penetrate into ice and is less affected by surface characteristics that can skew measurements. www.esa.int/Applications...

Very sincerely, every bit of travel we do in an EV, on a train, on a bus, on a bike/e-bike, by walking or rolling, or by other active transport, helps the climate, helps air quality, and helps national & economic security. We should fund these as national security infrastructure.

I can imagine an academic version in which you are thrown into writing a paper with a random person but don’t know each others names, expertise, or H-index 😱

Even esteemed climate scientists watch bad television? 😮

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

This could be awful for everyone, especially Indigenous communities.
I also wonder how much carbon is in these forests and wilderness areas 🌳

New research from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies finds that the contraction of the world's storm-cloud zones may be a big contributor to the increase in Earth's sunlight absorption.
Great coverage by @avoiland.bsky.social at Earth Observatory: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15444...

Earth’s Clouds on the Move Marine storm cloud zones have shifted poleward and narrowed, and the changes are contributing to our planet’s growing energy imbalance.

Great NASA EO piece today:

earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15444...

Is it just me or is “desert-grown” an odd thing to brag about?

Here in Washington state, 3,866,398 acres are on the line. This includes some of the most carbon-dense forest in the world, with immeasurable value for climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, and human health and well-being.

No Kings protest at the Minnesota State Capitol

No Kings protest at the Minnesota State Capitol

No Kings protest at the Minnesota State Capitol

No Kings protest at the Minnesota State Capitol

Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )