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Equinor pulling back CCS spending until market improves Norwegian company is a CCS pioneer but markets are developing slower than expected

Who could have seen this coming?

Carbon capture was never the plan, it was the comfort blanket: “Don’t worry, we’ll fix it later".

A story to delay real cuts while drilling rolls on.

When the industry feels powerful & secure, the fairy tale goes back on the shelf.

Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying

I’d assumed wildfire fighters all wore respirators. I’m shocked. The Forest Service needs to make this right.

“Internal records, studies and interviews with current and former agency officials reveal another motivation: Embracing masks would mean admitting how dangerous wildfire smoke really is.”

I present to you, with no context whatsoever:

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It’s Time To Give Up Hope For A Better Climate & Get Heroic | NOEMA For humanity’s fight against climate change to gain real momentum, we need to find the selfless courage that comes when our time is inevitably nigh.

I’m really curious if you’ve ran into this essay and what your thoughts are!

University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted

this is one of those incredible pieces of reporting where the headline is already crazy but then the story is full of the wildest fucking details www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The history of the ocean, as told by tiny beautiful fossils Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too.

Pretty cool to get interviewed for this with a bunch of people I respect:

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200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue.

It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

Totally agree. But it’s what most scientists I know are most scared of. I’ve looked at agriculture projections for the Midwest, and while the uncertainty is massive, people deserve to know that even the lower range (of crop losses) would be scary. Issues with uncertainty shouldn’t mean we avoid it.

I rarely see public communications about projections for water/food scarcity in specific regions. Maybe because it’s deemed too scary or uncertain by news outlets. But, I have an inkling that showing projected ranges of loss would inspire more passion/action than pretty much anything else.

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed

"Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, by far the majority could unlock a social tipping point and push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed."

It's not weird if you want to stop the pollution torching all life on Earth. It's weird if you don't! Let's act like it

NEW: Incredible scenes in Washington DC now.

Tens of thousands on the National Mall for the #HandsOff protest against Trump & Musk.

There must be over a million people protesting across every US state today.

#FiftyFiftyOne #HandsOff2025

(🎥 Alejandro Alvarez)

Boston on the rain.

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

This is just the beginning

Mediterranean zooplankton from Pula.

Statement begins: The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others). Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

🚨Academic scientist friends who are members-ideally leaders- of scientific professional societies, I need your help. 🚨

There is a sign-letter being prepared that will speak out against recent politicization of scientific funding and demonization of scientific researchers.

🧪🌎🦑

Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism

van Eck, C. W., Messling, L., & Hayhoe, K. (2024). Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism. Npj Climate Action, 3(1), 81. Abstract We argue that Büntgen’s (2024) claim that climate science must be separated…

With Ready Orders and an Energy Czar, Trump Plots Pivot to Fossil Fuels President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team for climate and the environment is considering relocating the E.P.A. out of Washington and other drastic changes.

Grim: Trump’s executive orders will include withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement (again!), eliminating every office in every federal agency working to end the pollution that disproportionately affects poor communities, and allowing more drilling and mining on public lands.

I’d like to clarify it was about direct air capture. That was the first time I heard the 70% figure for captured carbon being used to extract more oil!

I saw Mark Jacobson, a professor at Stanford, give a great talk about the illegitimacy of carbon capture at AGU. The conversation around net zero and the use of carbon capture got pretty heated, and he was very adamant that it was all greenwashing. Maybe another good person to talk to!

The only protests that anyone remembers and that accomplished anything important took place in designated first amendment areas and had all the proper permits in place, oh wait sorry it's the complete opposite of that

= COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Morningside Campus/Limited Access Effective immediately, access to the Morningside campus has been limited to students residing in residential buildings on campus (Carman, Furnald, John Jay, Hartley, Wallach, East Campus and Wien) and employees who provide essential services to campus buildings, labs and residential student life (for example, Dining, Public Safety, and building maintenance staff) Read more. COLUMBIA NEWS Home A New Perspective on 1968

Columbia is a far different place today than it was in the spring of 1968 when protesters took over University buildings amid discontent about the Vietnam War, racism and the University's proposed expansion into Morningside Park. After a weeklong standoff, New York City Police stormed the campus and arrested more than 700 people. The fallout dogged Columbia for years.

It took decades for the University to recover from those turbulent times. Columbia now has one of the most socio-economically diverse student bodies among its peer institutions. It has added a new campus designed to be open to the community and pursues fields of inquiry unheard of a half-century ago. Columbia is commemorating the 50th anniversary of those long-ago events with a deep dive of scholarship and exhibits chronicling what happened then and its effects today.

Columbia’s page regretting its decisions in 1968 bears a banner reflecting some of the decisions it is making now. news.columbia.edu/content/new-...

62 years after the publication of Silent Spring we are still relying on “industry backed” tests to determine exactly how much poison to spray over the foods we eat.

Human rights violated by Switzerland inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case Court finds in favour of group of older Swiss women who claimed weak policies put them at greater risk of death from heatwaves

"The court ruled that Swiss authorities had not acted in time to come up with a good enough strategy to cut emissions."

"The Swiss verdict opens up all 46 members of the Council of Europe to similar cases in national courts that they are likely to lose."

Suicide Mission What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

Incredible post from the best writer on Boeing that we've got. The level of willful negligence from executives on something that carries human beings through the sky is astonishing and should be a crime. Sorry I forgot to make a joke. prospect.org/infrastructu...

World's oceans complete full year of being warmer - often a LOT warmer - than any pervious measurement

Head of US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the warming would have “rather dramatic impacts on major storms, on ecosystems”

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US energy industry methane emissions are triple what government thinks, study finds A new study calculates that U.S. oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the government thinks

A study has found that US fossil-energy methane emissions are fully triple those assumed by the government.

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