Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)

#EndClimateSilence

Erasing a Home’s Risks on Zillow Doesn’t Make Them Go Away We live in a golden age of magical thinking, and I’m not just talking about the trillions of dollars being burned on artificial intelligence. When it comes to our rapidly heating planet and its effect...

People trying to sell you houses at high prices don't want you to know about their climate risks (or other inconvenient numbers). Buyer beware.

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

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Indeed. It suggests mental illness, at least to me. All the more reason to just stick to procedural issues in the feedback.

Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth For your Christmas wish list... [a fake children’s book cover] A Classic Franklin Story Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists [a drawing of a turtle in infantry gear standing in an open, flying helicopter shooting a shell at a boat filled with people and drugs]

The pleasure these freaks take in killing people is really disturbing.

How cyclones and monsoon rains combined to devastate parts of Asia – visual guide Extreme weather has killed nearly 1,000 people across southern and south-eastern Asia as cyclones turbocharged rain systems across the region

Extreme weather has killed nearly 1,000 people across southern and south-eastern Asia as cyclones turbocharged rain systems across the region www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Future Climate in Norway: More Floods, Droughts, and Less Snow - Norce The climate in Norway has already changed significantly, and the effects are expected to grow stronger in the coming years. We will experience more precipitation, more frequent droughts, and less snow...

We had the lighting of our street's christmas tree y'day: 5 degrees C, pouring rain, no snow

I wish there were a socially acceptable way to point out that 3 decades ago, it would've almost certainly been snowy, lovely and <0C. Lots of older folks there: I think on some level they know it

AI enters the classroom: China’s Hangzhou makes lessons compulsory in schools Local governments are beginning to take action after Beijing said it wants all primary and secondary students to study the advanced tech.

Does anyone know how China is dealing with AI in the classroom?

The most credible reporting I could find suggests they’re putting classes on LLMs into the curriculum but not using them for schoolwork. But it would be interesting to know more…

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ANNIVERST FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS: A CENTENARY ISSUE DECEMBER 1, 2025 10 GOINGS ON 19 THE TALK OF THE TOWN Ruth Marcus on the D.O.J.'s subservience to Trump; the breaks; a light trance; in accord; Tomorrowland. ANNALS OF IMMIGRATION Sarah Stillman 28 Disappeared The people sent by ICE into detention abroad. SHOUTS & MURMURS Jennifer Kim 35 Weak Female Lead THE ANCIENT WORLD Alex Ross 36 Writter in Stone Scotland's Neolithic past can feel palpably present. BRAVE NEW WORLD DEPT. Zach Helfand 43 The Lounge Wars An exploration of status and stasis at the airport. LETTER FROM GREENLAND Ben Taub 48 The Big Ice Is Sick Challenges abound in an Inuit community on the i: A REPORTER AT LARGE n Lee Anderson 60 Dangerous Neighbors A long-running conflict festers on Congo's eastern TAKES widge Danticat Ariel Levy 41 Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl." 95 Emily Hahn's "The Big Smoke." FICTION

Back to back in this week’s New Yorker: an exposé of luxury airport lounges and a story about vanishing ice on Greenland. A snapshot of our species insanity.

agree w all of this

I hope you find it useful!

If your library cannot order it, for whoever reason, circle back and I’ll send you a PDF. Don’t tell my editor or my agent 🤣

I would end up w a broken back if I went to one of their shows now. But I loooooved them when I was in my 20s

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.

Don't look up!

Because they’re crazy? Isn’t part of the question what the national leadership is saying / doing?

i am unfortunately tired of keeping my mouth shut on this need to deal with our country’s antiquated laws

because saying so leads many to presume i support “solutions” preferred by politicians

many of which would benefit fossil moreso under this govt while eroding environmental protections

there are reforms that would be on net potentially bad for the environment

anything that makes it easier to build solar and wind in biodiverse areas holds a higher risk of permanently damaging the places many claim are most important to protect from climate change, pollution

this can be true too

instead we have a system where the only gains to be made at the national level are ones that also more easily benefit fossil and thusly trigger opposition from groups that are on the frontlines of litigation against fossil projects

many of the reforms we need aren’t being discussed by national politicians

the true reforms that would quickly advance an energy transition would include subsuming local energy siting decisions

nationalizing that process

& it would maybe never become law, fail court challenges

Maybe this is why business and tech friendly climate advocates so often sound like lukewarmers. Their identities are more aligned w those of people like Gates or even Daren Woods than w that of, say, Greta Thunberg.

The problem is not what it means, it’s what (else) it makes you imagine.

Actually “we’ve got your back and the sky’s the limit” is a MUCH better slogan than “strong floor (pelvic floor?), no ceiling (rain comes in).”

What students are not allowed to do is use personal beliefs as evidence, because those beliefs are evidence of nothing except their own existence. Then there is the repetitiveness, lack of paragraph structure, and other mechanical issues.

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As a former English professor I think this is a shall we say unskilled response to such a paper. Saying that the paper was docked for being “offensive” is a rookie mistake. Students are allowed to be offensive. They are even allowed to insult people. 1/2

that's an excellent example of the kind of dynamic I'm talking about

classic

it's all one big toxic stew

I'm actually amazed that Crash Worship was allowed to perform anywhere lol

neat!

Fantastic! I hope you enjoy reading it — as much as you can enjoy any book on climate change 😅 — and that you find it useful...