Timmons Roberts

I think you're right. "A resurgent nationalism, concerns about competitiveness and security, and regional conflicts push countries to increasingly focus on domestic or, at most, regional issues. "

That's the recipe for 4 degrees C of warming. Unrelenting emissions.

Trump Cracks Down on Bird Deaths, but Only From Wind Turbines

Make no mistake:

"wind turbines cause significantly fewer bird deaths than buildings, cats or oil pits. The Audubon Society says that climate change poses a bigger threat to birds than wind power."

Good reporting @lisafriedman.bsky.social

Explore gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/c...

Illustration showing the climate feedback loop caused by fires. It begins with increased carbon emissions fueling climate change, leading to hotter, drier conditions. These conditions dry out forests, making them more prone to fires. As fires become more frequent and intense, larger areas burn, releasing more carbon emissions, which further fuels climate change.

The Republican Party in America as well as Canada's supposed "Conservatives" marched in lockstep with the world's oil companies in denying the science of human-caused #ClimateChange & slow-walking if not outright outlawing the solutions, profiting mightily the whole time.

You lit the match /2

Scientists decry Trump energy chief’s plan to ‘update’ climate reports: ‘Exactly what Stalin did’ Ex-fossil fuel executive Chris Wright said administration is reviewing national assessments made by past governments

“People across the country are already reeling from climate-fueled worsening heatwaves, floods, wildfires and storms. Lying about that reality doesn’t change it; it just leaves people in harm’s way. We urge Congress to intervene...”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"The slowdown in enforcement has let some polluters off the hook and left communities more exposed to hazardous pollution, former officials, environmental lawyers and activists say."

MAGA. Please.

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this is such a great product and initiative.

so stupid the administration cut it, just epic stupidity.

and mean-spirited.

(Also, PlumpyNut is from Rhode Island)

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Three years -- even more relevant today.
Follow the money, fight for the money -- at the federal, state, and campus level.
Don't wait to bicker over the crumbs of department allocations.
Fight bigger.
@aaup.org
@higheredlabor.bsky.social
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I completely agree, and have also been saying it for years. In the US, Democrats even in blue states are ok with supporting renewables, but won't address fossil fuel incumbents.

That's the interesting politics...and the necessary politics. The Earth needs that strategy to be developed and taken up

And the big picture is that even now this is a small percent of federal revenue.

Will ‘The Power Bill Reduction Act’ Make Electric Bills Go Down or Up in N.C.? - Inside Climate News The legislature overrode the governor’s veto, canceling Duke Energy’s interim carbon reduction goal of 70 percent by 2030. Proponents say it will lower energy costs, but volatile gas prices and escala...

This bill guts climate action; it locks in volatile "natural" gas dependency.

"The new law was introduced..by Republican Sen. Paul Newton, a former Duke Energy executive. (Newton resigned to accept a job..[at].. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.) "

insideclimatenews.org/news/2907202...

‘Classic tinpot dictator’: Trump exports his assault on democracy to Brazil US president seems to be weaponizing tariffs to punish Brazil for its coup trial against his ally Bolsonaro

I with Levitsky in this diagnosis. Hideous effort to undermine another democracy like his is our own.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Senate launches inquiry into who is funding fake astroturf anti-renewables groups The Senate has launched an inquiry into the dark money funding anti-renewables astroturfing groups, and deliberately misleading anti-climate campaigns.

reneweconomy.com.au/senate-launc...

Red alert.

thehill.com/policy/energ...

Make no mistake on why this extortion was undertaken.

"This is a monumental victory for conservatives"

--United States Secretary of Education

First, academic freedom is not maintained.

Read the agreement between Columbia and the USA. Despite the claims of the president of the university, this was extortion, and the hostage gave up its freedom to operate.

This thread gets at several of the bad points, but there are many.

Grilling international students, and keeping it white...

Per the warden’s report at tonight’s meeting of the Central Falls Detention Facility Corporation, there are currently 116 ICE detainees at the Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, R.I. (112 men and 4 women.)

Great piece Ben. What about India?

@guywhedwards.bsky.social

IBES affiliate @maratimes.bsky.social, an assistant professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, lost her first federally funded grant from NASA earlier this year.

“One of my big concerns is that the trust in science and in scientists is broken,” she told @virginiagewin.bsky.social.

No clue.

How to Get AI Out of Your Google Search Results • The Revelator Three simple keystrokes will deliver search results that consume less energy and water — and probably contain better information.

Searches using AI use 4-5 times more energy

therevelator.org/how-to-get-a...

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.

The only group that came even remotely close to getting the growth of solar right back in 2009 was not the IEA or J. P. Morgan Chase or Dow Jones or BlackRock. It was Greenpeace. And even they were way too pessimistic.

State Department memo says Rümeysa Öztürk has no association to antisemitism or terrorism - The Boston Globe John Armstrong, a top official in the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs, testified that he made the decision to revoke Öztürk’s visa.

“Rümeysa’s case has never been about immigration enforcement or protecting America and has always been about retaliation and punishment on protected speech”.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/18/m...

Summer reads from IBES scholars Recent titles that inform and inspire fresh ways of thinking about people and the planet.

Looking for your next summer read? Check out this list of new and notable titles by IBES scholars! From exploring environmental history to modeling climate futures, each book invites readers to reflect on the world around them and their role in shaping it.

Stumbling like a character in a cli-fi book onto this page...

"Mapping Cli-Fi Scenarios: Book Covers With Landscapes, Issues, And Personal Narratives"

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A heat wave hit New England's grid. Clean energy saved the day. On the hottest day this year, behind-the-meter solar panels and a growing network of batteries helped prevent blackouts and saved consumers millions of…

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For decades we've been point to this injustice. After all this, what's being delivered in addressing the damages the global North has created? 0.03% of what's needed.

Boston is on pace for one of the most humid summers on record. Here’s why it alarms our meteorologist. - The Boston Globe Learn the science behind how humidity can lead to extreme weather so you can be prepared.

Hunch verified.

"Boston used to see only about 20 days during summer when the dew point reached 70 degrees, but since the mid ’80s, the trend has been much closer to 40.

...Boston will continue feeling more like Washington D.C. and Baltimore this season."

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/14/m...

Scientists hail rapid estimate of climate change's role in heat deaths Researchers pinpoint the death toll from last month's heatwave in Europe, linking two-thirds of the deaths to climate change

Ten days of extreme heat killed 2,305 people in a sample of 12 European cities last month, with almost two-thirds of those deaths caused by climate change’s intensifying effect on heatwaves.