Dr. Shaina Sadai

Global wind and solar 2025: The G7 gap Global prospective wind and solar reaches almost 5 TW, but the wealthiest nations account for one-tenth of the capacity Key points Prospective wind and utility-scale solar pipeline reached almost 5 TW...

🚨 NEW REPORT & DATA RELEASE 🚨

GEM's (@globalenergymon.bsky.social) data shows a major surge in the global clean power pipeline in 2025! ☀️💨🔌💡🧪

#energy #renewables #solar #wind #opendata

Read our latest report here: globalenergymonitor.org/report/globa...

A short 🧵 with main findings below!

It is VERY important to get your electeds to publish state "abolish" as it moves the needle of what will be a midterm platform point. If you want Dems to abolish when they have legislative levers, it has to be publicly acceptable discourse RIGHT NOW.

Terrorizing and traumatizing children as U.S. government policy.

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

Note that this is local police not ICE or CPD attacking these young people. Local police are working overtime to distance themselves from ICE/CPD. Don't buy the hype.

Slowly making my way through the various climate mentions in the #epsteinfiles. It's a pretty interesting/disturbing window into the tech-finance-power broker universe of climate skepticism. Exhibit A:
www.instagram.com/p/DUZq04EEQG...

Training, Contingency, and Academics in Graduate Student Labor Graduate student labor confounds the assumptions of meritocratic professionalism.

"This separation has facilitated the positioning of graduate labor at the end of value-creation inside academia—that is, as a more efficient way for the university to extract teaching and research labor while pay and benefits are considerably lower."

Faculty, students push University of Minnesota to denounce ICE and killing of alumnus Alex Pretti It illustrates the complex balancing act for colleges and universities in responding to ICE actions.

“It seems our university leaders cannot even say that it is wrong to murder a former student in broad daylight because some people might disagree,” geography professor Kate Derickson

Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

Among the other outrages in today's news from the @washingtonpost.com, management has gutted the Pulitzer-winning climate team, according to @sammyroth.bsky.social. Their work has been so important — one more reason to be heartbroken today. And pissed. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

The book cover shows, in the foreground, a line of utility trucks with orange safety cones is parked along a snow-dusted road. Tall electrical transmission towers and power lines recede into the distance, filling the background. The title, “Disabled Power,” appears in large, bold orange letters centered across the upper-middle of the cover. Above it, in smaller black text, is the subtitle: “A Storm, a Grid, and Embodied Harm in the Age of Disaster.” At the bottom, the author’s name, Angela Frederick, appears in black capital letters.

Join Feb 6, 1 PM ET for Disabled Infrastructure, Disability Resilience, a conversation with Angela Frederick on her book Disabled Power and lessons from Winter Storm Uri and the 2021 Texas power crisis.

Register here: occidental.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Democracy dies in broad daylight under billionaire ownership

We need more worker-governed news collectives NOW.

I WANT an editor.
I WANT a fact checker.
I NEED an attorney to defend my reporting against the fascist regime.

Freelancing is a nightmare right now, y’all. I can’t make enough to survive and I could have published 3X the news were I on staff.

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

Proud to co-publish this with The Guardian. Read our version of the report, with more details about timeline and process, here: jewishcurrents.org/researchers-...

Toxins beneath the rubble of Gaza: electronic waste is a silent bomb threatening people's lives Gaza’s war rubble hides a deadly threat: thousands of tonnes of toxic electronic waste poisoning land, water, and bodies

Toxins beneath the rubble of Gaza: electronic waste is a silent bomb threatening people’s lives www.thecanary.co/global/world...

NOAA CSL: 2025 News & Events: Within 15 years, plummeting satellites could release enough aluminum to alter winds, temps in the stratosphere NOAA CSL 2025 News & Events: Archives of news, features, highlights, meetings, events, workshops, symposiums

And the planet by extension

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

From: Steven Koonin <steven.koonin@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, August 4, 2025 10:53 AM To: climateman60@gmail.com; roy.spencer@nsstc.uah.edu; ross.mckitrick@gmail.com; 'Judith Curry' <curry.judith@gmail.com> Subject: keeping it to ourselves Importance: High We should be mindful that our email communications that go to DOE addresses are subject to FOIA. While I don't think we've been saying anything untoward in our recent group exchanges, one never knows how they might be twisted by those of nefarious intent. I'd therefore urge that we keep our future email communications restricted to the authors (except, of course, for matters that directly involve the DOE - like the recent Al query from the New Yorker). Steve Koonin PS Roy- is there are gmail address we can use for you, rather than the UAH address (which may itself be subject to FOIA)?

This is some shady sh*t: using gmail to avoid FOIA requests.

Also, not very successful since you're reading the email right now.

to clarify, I did not reject the report b/c of their names. I read the report and concluded it was incompetent and biased, and rejected it for that reason.

See this for the receipts: essopenarchive.org/users/260056...

I don't know how to do this But I'm going to keep doing it anyway.

Wrote myself a pep talk to get back to work tomorrow. It helped me. Hope it helps you.

"In both Israel & the US, the full force of the government has been engaged in pushing the alternative narrative & denying reality...They refuse to investigate the killings as they deflect & deny all evidence & pressure, signaling through this obstinance that their agents will enjoy full impunity"

Stella Carlson said that before the shooting, the man was helping vehicle traffic get around the area where ICE agents and observers had started to gather. "The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. The ICE agents approached us, told us to back up, back up. I'm not even sure why we were helping them, if anything. And I got on the snow bank, and next thing I knew, they shot him," Carlson said.

"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ...

"Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Pine siskin in Sherborn, Massachusetts. Stock photo.

Climate-driven changes in pine cone availability trigger mass movements of pine siskins known as irruptions, which can predict outbreaks of salmonellosis, a bacterial infection that can lead to severe illness in humans and other animals. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/w7ju50XWUyl

Thanks for writing, @juliametraux.bsky.social, in honour of Alice.

Crips for eSims for Gaza is in the red again, but you can donate here:

bit.ly/eSimsRUs

#ConnectingGaza

The 16-year-old was dragged away and arrested by Worcester PD because she kicked the car ICE was holding her mother in as her mom was taken away. The day earlier, ICE had taken her dad as well.

Bar graph showing global ocean heat content change in the upper 2000 m from the late 1950s through 2025. There is a long-term warming in the time series, which is using IAP/CAS data.

2025 was the hottest year on record for ocean heat content. Unfortunately, we now say this every year. 🥹

"In addition to setting a new record in 2025, the global
ocean continues to show sustained and intensified warming."

+ #OpenAccess Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003...
+ Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn

As someone who has reported on deepfakes for years now, I’ve had a few moments while reporting on Grok where I feel sick to my stomach thinking about the continued escalation of sexual abuse with this technology and where it’s going. We’re not ready for this. And it didn’t have to be this way.

Why isn't there a bigger Grok boycott? Advertisers, politicians, and investors are still all-in on X, despite a sexual abuse crisis.

I reached out to more than three dozen X advertisers, xAI investors, politicians, and government agencies about the growing library of sexualized deepfakes generated with Grok—now including Renee Good. I only heard back from four, with three declining to comment.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...

Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Sarees A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing.

New from @kattenbarge.bsky.social: X influencers are using Grok to unveil Muslim women in hijabs and show them being beaten by men. Women in sarees are also being stripped: www.wired.com/story/grok-i...