Logan Mitchell PhD

Fung-wong: Super typhoon hits Philippines as nearly a million evacuate Typhoon Fung-wong, with sustained winds of 185 km/h (115mph), made landfall on Sunday evening local time.

Yet another record breaking storm supersized by a warming world 😢

Climate change doesn’t create these storms: it makes them worse. They intensify faster, reach higher strengths and dump more rain.

That’s why climate action isn’t just about saving the planet: it’s quite literally about saving US.

Exxon to ‘pace’ low-carbon spending blaming weak demand and bad policies CEO Darren Woods says rules reminiscent of ‘centrally planned economies’ have failed to support green products

Headline: ExxonMobil doesn't care about people and the climate because oil is simply too profitable.

Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.

"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."

Not sure if these are the Page One headlines WH was going for.

@wsj.com

China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

text on a blue background: “Our neighbors are being kidnapped from their homes, on their way to picking up their children from child care, not because they broke the law or because they are criminals but because they look different. This is not immigration enforcement. This is racial terror. This is state-sanctioned violence. This is the face of fascism. Not in some far off land but in our backyard.” — Marchel Kaleikini, Hillsboro resident

Hundreds of people packed the Hillsboro City Council auditorium to decry the escalation in immigration enforcement in the community, following weeks of reports of federal agents in unmarked vehicles detaining residents and dragging people out of cars.

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Bill Gates defends contentious climate shift "I'm glad people are listening," he said, before adding that it was hard to convey "nuanced positions nowadays."

As I am one of the climate scientists he is referring to here - and I am a scientist who decided to dedicate her life to working on climate precisely because of how unjustly it disproportionately impacts the poor and vulnerable - let me clarify my rationale and thoughts below. 🧵

"It's the classic way that military coups happen. They say, 'these revolutionaries are about to take over the government, so *we* had to take over the government!'"

@gtconway.bsky.social joins @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social in the latest episode of Sarah Longwell Explains It All:

I think Clinton and Obama got this. I think it's a feature of a successful campaign.

New study in Nature by Lin et al shows how the sea-level rise from the melting Ice Age ice (a total of 120 meters rise) ended thousands of years ago.
Until our fossil fuel use started a new phase of rising seas.
Graph shows the global mean rate of sea level rise.
🌊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yes, absolutely 💯

It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars:

1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…

Ban gas leaf blowers. Electric ones are better and quieter.

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SCOOP: Immigration Groups Weigh Boycott of Home Depot As ICE raids target the home-improvement chain, what does the company owe its customers and the immigrants who do work for them?

"'It’s killing the business,' the manager said. The manager noted that Home Depot is emphasizing “free delivery for contractors so they don’t have to risk themselves”—a sign of how the company has had to adjust."

Where in Fiji? Astrolabe or...? Which local tourism operators?

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

The fall of the CBS News climate team David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

Great coverage from @emorwee.bsky.social of the first entire unit to be let go at CBS News under new management: the climate team 🙃 heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

Domestic Solar Manufacturing Booms During Trump Administration with Entire Solar Supply Chain Reshored – SEIA The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is leading the transformation to a clean energy economy. Learn more at seia.org

Good news from @solarindustry.bsky.social:
seia.org/news/domesti...

Solar and storage have made up 82% of new energy capacity so far this year.

Without it, America will lose the AI race.

I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet.

Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times.

Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀

#PublicHealth

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Trump Calls on Republicans to End Filibuster in Shutdown Fight

🔥Hot take: I agree with Trump that we should get rid of the filibuster. It's anti-democratic. Right now Dems are preventing Rs from owning the full chaos they're supporting. Let the public feel the consequences of R policies. Short term pain, long term necessity. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

Too many Americans either didn’t care or didn’t believe. Hopefully they do now.👇

Every country in the world has figured out that all they have to do is give Trump some amazing sounding false promise to announce so he can take credit for a “win” and they can get whatever they want in return. He craves personal credit and fluffery - substance is irrelevant.

The President wants to use the military to crack down on Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to oppose him. I can’t think of a better reason to insist on exercising those rights.

Great job opportunity at Utah Clean Energy:
utahcleanenergy.org/join-our-team/

Deseret News poll showing 69% of Utahns aren't paying attention to the redistricting process that affects how representative our government is

“A republic, if you can keep it.”
--Benjamin Franklin

(not promising that 69% of Utahns aren't paying attention to the redistricting process that affects how representative our government is)
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