Phaedra C. Pezzullo

No crypto in Canton: Town blocks data centers and crypto mining operations Canton’s makeshift town hall in a tiny trailer was bursting at the seams Wednesday night with citizens united against data centers and cryptocurrency mining.

For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now.

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There is No Scientific Justification to Revoke the Endangerment Finding The U.S. EPA's decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding will limit the government's ability to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

For those who don't know, this is a finding from 2009 by the EPA which stated greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane are heating the Earth and that warming threatens public health and welfare

The Fight Over US Climate Rules Is Just Beginning As the EPA moves to roll back the endangerment finding, which allows it to regulate greenhouse gases, experts predict uncertainty for business and a protracted legal fight.

The Trump administration has revoked the key rule allowing the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. What's next? A big, stupid mess, reports @mollytaft.com:

National Lab of the Rockies, formerly NREL, lays off more than 130 employees The cuts impacted staffers engaged in both research and operations at the lab.

#trumprecession
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Like, yeah, we’re gonna win and whatever but holy shit everything is so bad.

The Fed Is Heading for an F on a $7 Trillion Test The people whom President Donald Trump has picked to protect America’s money keep insisting a heating planet won’t set that money on fire. But it’s already burned trillions of dollars and threatens to...

Trump's would-be protectors of America’s money pretend a heating planet won’t set that money on fire. But it’s already burned trillions, losses that will increasingly be permanent. It's financial malpractice

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

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Data centres are critical infrastructure powering the modern digital economy. With the right policy settings and renewable generation, Australia can position itself as a leader in clean digital infrastructure - creating jobs, improving grid resilience, and driving innovation across the energy system. Julia Hinwood Head of Infrastructure, CEFC

Just so its clear: data centres are not "critical infrastructure".

They are Mystery Factories that can perform inscrutable computation for any digital output, from crypto scams to child abuse material to hospital databases. The broad label just becomes a wide door for harm to run through.

Catalina M. de Onís Visit the post for more.

For a doc, children books & more on PR energy: catalinadeonis.wordpress.com

Energy Islands by Catalina de Onís - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Recommended book on energy & Puerto Rico www.ucpress.edu/books/energy...

Catalina M. de Onís Visit the post for more.

For a doc, children books & more on PR energy: catalinadeonis.wordpress.com

Energy Islands by Catalina de Onís - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Recommended book on energy & Puerto Rico www.ucpress.edu/books/energy...

Science Moms We are a group of climate scientists and mothers who care deeply about the planet that our children will inherit. Together, we aim to demystify climate change, talk honestly about how it will affect o...

Find solutions at sciencemoms.com

Super Bowl ad drives home the critical point: When it comes to acting on climate change #lateristoolate.

But SOLUTIONS EXIST. If we act now, we can help protect the people and places we love.

Bravo Science Moms & Potential Energy Coalition 🌏🏈

This environmental injustice was underreported 👀

5 Environmental Songs by Grammy-Winner Bad Bunny Listen to these Bad Bunny songs that put Puerto Rican struggles on display and center environmental justice.

🐰🎵What Grammy-Winner Bad Bunny Wants You to Know About Environmental Justice in 5 Songs
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#BadBunny #GRAMMY #GRAMMYs2026 @momscleanairforce.org @ecomadres.bsky.social

Warnock to Bessent: "Manufacturers shed workers in each of the eight months after President Trump unveiled his tariffs on 'liberation day.' I would submit it's a strange liberation and a curious freedom that leaves you unemployed."

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example | Fortune The Gen Z Swedish climate activist is a legionnaire of the Antichrist, Thiel claims, a “Luddite” who wants to halt technological progress in its tracks.

We shouldn't write off Peter Thiel comparing Greta Thunberg to the Antichrist because targeting climate scientists and activists will likely be in the upcoming chapters of this fascist regime. We stand in direct opposition to their plays to ramp up fossil fuel and beef production.

‘It’s sick’: Trump administration uses mascot called ‘Coalie’ to push dirtiest fossil fuel Cartoon lump of coal with giant eyes was spotlighted by US interior secretary in X post saying: ‘Mine, Baby, Mine!’

‘It’s sick’: Trump administration uses mascot called ‘Coalie’ to push dirtiest fossil fuel | Trump administration | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Right-wing media figures are furious at activists for using whistles during ICE activity Right-wing media figures are lashing out at community members in Minnesota for using whistles to alert others of federal immigration enforcement in the area, asserting that whistles should be “conside...

LOL. Who needs whistles for their community groups, their PTAs, those Magic: The Gathering nights at the game store, their church organizations, outreach programs, whatever. The roving band of whistle goblins will get you whistles, for free, 100-1000. Drop a line: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

ICE is afraid of children protesting “Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

When you build an unprecedented amount of renewable energy but it gets used to meet new data centre demand instead of replacing fossil fuels

Nixon's idea of "slow violence" was inspired by what Nigerian poet-activist Ken Saro-Wiwa called "slow genocide" . It's important we ask ourselves why dominant academic culture is so quick to cite the former and not the latter, both due to the identity of the theorists & the shift in terms.

What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack

Everything moves so fast now. It's impossible to give every event the care and attention it deserves, especially when the bar is "at least no one died."

But what happened in Portland outside the ICE building was evidence of yet another escalation—and a terrifying harbinger of things to come.

Rep. Joe Neguse urges residents to send comments to NSF in support of NCAR U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, a Lafayette Democrat, is urging all Boulder and Colorado residents to submit written comments to the National Science Foundation in support of the National Center for Atmosphe…

Our fight against Trump’s reckless threat to dismantle NCAR continues, and we are building a bipartisan coalition to stop it.

I urge all Coloradans to make their voices heard during the NSF's public comment period.

See the Daily Camera’s reporting 👇🏽

BREAKING: Judge Cobb has barred DHS from preventing members of Congress from visiting immigration detention facilities without notice, saying the administration's policy likely violated the law requiring their unfettered access. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🚨BREAKING: The Court just granted a restraining order against the Trump administration in my lawsuit, Neguse et al. v. ICE et al.

The decision is a victory for accountability, congressional oversight and for the American people.

I’ll keep fighting to ensure the rule of law prevails.

I edited a @thexylom.com story which cited research that found the tear gas concentration in Portland during George Floyd protests was high enough to cause severe and irreversible health effects, including asthma, shortness of breath, and panic.

And in Nepal, hospitalizations more than doubled:

Just to close the loop here. A cozy club of just the very worst people.

!e Pros 115 and climate scientists. Truth and consistency matter little to him. !at’s why one week he’s on Fox News insisting that President Joe Biden is “failing to ful#ll his green agenda,”15 while just weeks later he’s lambasting Biden for his climate- forward actions, which include “forcing” an energy transition16 and “halting” lique#ed natural gas.17 In his recent Fox News appearances, Morano has insisted that universities are trying to scare young people about climate change, that climate policy— rather than climate impacts— poses the real risk to society, that phasing out fossil fuels is an “insane goal,” and that renewable energy isn’t necessary and doesn’t work. All in a day’s work! Bjorn Lomborg Bjorn Lomborg calls himself the “skeptical environmentalist.” Of course, he’s neither. A true skeptic subjects both sides of a proposition to scrutiny without favor, critically evaluating and weighing the evidence, rather than indiscriminately rejecting #ndings that don’t comport with their ideologically driven preconceptions. And brandishing a Greenpeace T- shirt, as he’s wont to do, hardly establishes your environmental bona #des when you’re penning commentaries for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and USA Today dismissing the impacts of climate change, downplaying the role of renewable energy, and promoting the supposed virtues of fossil fuels. Lomborg’s “Copenhagen Consensus Center” does not disclose its funding or that its address is a parcel service based in Lowell, Massachusetts (in other words a virtual entity). Lomborg perfectly re%ects an insidious new form of climate denialism that has taken precedence as the reality of human- caused warming becomes clear to the person on the street and very di"cult to assail. He doesn’t dismiss human- caused climate change outright. Instead, he denies the seriousness of the threat and the need to take meaningful action. As Mike puts it: “With a smile and a professed

Science Under Siege 116 concern for the environment and the poor, he scolds those who would misguidedly wean us o$ fossil fuels and promote clean energy.”18 His claims might seem credible, but he understates climate projections and potential impacts, damages, and costs. In an opinion piece for Project Syndicate, he insisted that “a 20- foot rise in sea levels&.&.&. would inundate about 16,000 square miles of coastline, where more than 400 million people live. !at’s a lot of people, to be sure, but hardly all of mankind. In fact, it amounts to less than 6% of the world’s population— which is to say that 94% of the population would not be inundated.”19 !e plight of four hundred million people, after all, is minuscule compared to the potential billions of dollars in lost fossil fuel– industry pro#ts. On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world. — Bjorn Lomborg A classic example of Lomborg’s modus operandi relates to the Canadian wild#res of summer 2023 that blanketed major East Coast cities with smoke, including Mike’s home city of Philadelphia, which had the worst air quality in the world for several days. !e wild#res were part of a trend toward more widespread, dangerous, and deadly wild#res in North America tied to warming and drying. Have no fear, Lomborg was quick to announce to Wall Street Journal readers in a full- length commentary on August 1 that climate change had nothing to do with it. Mike published a letter of response in the Journal

Since #BjornLomborg is back in the news, an excerpt from #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly: