Ross Macfarlane

Turning Our Back on Clean Energy Why does MAGA hate the planet?

Why does MAGA hate the planet? @pkrugman.bsky.social

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Lot to like in this piece -- whether you are a moderate or a progressive, you should be triangulating less based on the advice of pollsters and experimenting more. Voters want authenticity, not pablum.

COVERUP

"Just making s**t up" — David Roberts sounds off on the EPA "To say members of Congress didn’t anticipate a specific pollutant is just f**king comical."

Fun to let @drvolt.bsky.social cook on the madness of Trump's EPA repealing the Endangerment Finding for climate pollutants. @aaronruparpvt001.bsky.social @thorbenson.bsky.social

Me as well: With snow, you get "the extraordinary bonus of being able to slide across the surface of the earth. If you think about it in slightly different terms, winter is not the season when it gets colder, it’s the season when friction releases its tight grip on the planet."

The @washingtonpost.com editorial board under Jeff Bezos is now indistinguishable from the Wall Street Journal.

My question is related: aviation fuel (kerosene) is generally a relatively low value distillate that is produced along with other lucrative products. What will happen to the production chain when ground transportation becomes increasingly electrified? Will this encourage use of alternative fuels?

Another "Cavanaugh stop"

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.

Important for the Trump Administration to get to the bottom of some of the true scientific mysteries of our age. @petridishes.bsky.social @theatlantic.com

Trump calls climate change threat to public health 'a scam' but scientific findings show otherwise The decision from the administration on Thursday reverses a 2009 finding that says warming endangers Americans' lives and health.

"It boggles the mind that the administration is rescinding the endangerment finding; it's akin to insisting that the world is flat or denying that gravity is a thing," @howardfrumkin.bsky.social

Boycott billionaires not journalists.

Just watched our Secretary of State laud the Scientific Revolution and deride climate science as a “cult,” almost in same breath.

The distorting effect of fossil fuel’s corrupt influence is astounding, like a warped fun-house mirror.

The 3 Arguments Trump Used to Gut Greenhouse Gas Regulations Whether any of them will hold up in court is now the big question.

Everything old is new again: environmental lawyers are facing Deja Vu with EPA's arguments to repeal the Endangerment Finding, which essentially reopen issues folks thought the Supreme Court had settled in 2007. @emilypont.bsky.social @heatmap.news
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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.

“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.”

Sounds accurate to me.

I have to disagree with you on this. Boycott Amazon, Amazon Web Services or something else that actually touches Bezos' bottom line. There are still great journalists who work for the @washingtonpost.com, including @shannonosaka.bsky.social & @johnmuyskens.bsky.social who co-wrote this piece.

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

Seattle: A Model for Low-Sprawl Urban Growth | Sightline Institute As the housing shortage stretches into every corner of the United States, it’s clear that some cities and states have more abundant housing than others. But it’s harder to tease out which fast-growing...

Hey, here's a reason to be proud of my hometown (and my hometown sustainability thinktank @sightline.org). #Seattle is tops in the country in adding new residents to existing neighborhoods! Let's grow up, not out.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference - United States Department of State SECRETARY RUBIO:  Thank you very much.  We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world.  When this conference began in 1963, it was in a nation – ...

Full text of speech here. I also find it remarkable that he lectures the Europeans about capturing the "areas that will define the 21st century," since the Trump Admin has effectively ceded leadership in those areas to the Chinese. 2/

US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, manages to praise the scientific revolution in the same speech where he calls concern about climate change a "cult". Pardon me while I beat my head into a wall. @thehill.com 1/
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WMO confirms 2025 was one of warmest years on record

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Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data.

Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:

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The GOP’s “Save America Act” (previously just “SAVE”) requires that states implement voter purge programs using programs such as the “SAVE” system, which had an error rate of at least 14% in one of the counties that used it, per the Texas Tribune & ProPublica. 14%! #NoOnSAVE 1/

SkyNRG reaches financial close for Dutch 100,000-tonne SAF facility Sustainable aviation fuel pioneer SkyNRG has reached financial close on its DSL-01 SAF production plant in the Netherlands and has now started construction work at the Delfzijl chemical plant location...

Another major milestone for production of sustainable aviation fuels as Dutch producer SkyNRG reaches financial close on its DSL 1 facility in the Netherlands. The company is also working on a plant in Eastern Washington State.

The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory Earth’s climate is now departing from the stable conditions that supported human civilization for millennia. Crossing critical temperature thresholds may trigger self-reinforcing feedbacks and tipping...

The underlying paper states: "Earth’s climate is now departing from the stable conditions that supported human civilization for millennia." Crossing these tipping points "could commit the planet to a hothouse trajectory with long-lasting and potentially irreversible consequences." 2/

Accelerated Global Warming Could Lock Earth Into a Hothouse Future - Inside Climate News Scientists say warming is increasing faster than at any time in at least 3 million years. There is no guide for what comes next.

While the Trump Admin is demolishing climate policy and promoting fossil fuels, scientists are issuing new warnings that the earth is approaching tipping points that could lock us into a "Hothouse" future. @insideclimatenews.org 1/
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lol 2/3 pollsters finding voters now think Biden did better as president are from pro-Trump house organs, Mark Penn's "harris poll" and raz

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change

"Recent research has found that if the planet continues to warm at its current rate, exposure to wildfire smoke would kill an estimated 70,000 Americans each year by 2050...Another study found that deaths from extreme heat in the United States have more than doubled in recent decades."

‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters

New reporting shows Elon Musk continues to flout air pollution laws using unpermitted gas turbines to power his massive Colossus AI supercomputers in poor Memphis neighborhoods. All so Grok can undress teenagers and heap praise on Elon and Hitler. @selc.bsky.social @theguardian.com