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More than $6 Million in Support of Climate Journalism

GOOD NEWS! The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today announced more than $6 million in grants to support the growing field of climate journalism in the United States. www.macfound.org/press/press-...

Green transition should benefit ordinary Londoners, says deputy mayor Mete Coban, 32, says climate policy will bring ‘social, economic and racial justice’ to deprived communities

Green transition should benefit ordinary Londoners, says deputy mayor #Climate

Shell dominates carbon credit market as clean energy spending scaled back Oil and gas groups rely more heavily on offsets to reach climate targets than any other sector

Shell dominates carbon credit market as clean energy spending scaled back

https://www.ft.com/content/b604eb15-56bf-4b03-b098-65a0e7bdbb9e

Texas grocer forms its first union The grocery store's employees voted 130 to 100 in favor of organizing at a store in Philadelphia.

Texas-based Whole Foods now has its first ever union after workers at a Philadelphia store overcame union-busting tactics to join United Food and Commercial Workers.

www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Here is a moment of peace for your timeline.

Little River, Great Smoky Mountains National Park

BREAKING NEWS ALERT EPA fires science advisers 01/28/2025 07:24 PM EST Acting EPA Administrator James Payne has ousted all members of two of the agency's most influential science advisory panels, giving President Donald Trump's administration the opportunity to reshape them with its own appointees. In an obliquely worded email sent late Tuesday afternoon, Payne said a decision had been made to "reset" the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and Science Advisory Board "to ensure that the agency receives scientific advice consistent with its legal obligations to advance our core mission." EPA will seek nominations in the coming weeks, Payne added, with all members encouraged to reapply.

BREAKING: Acting @EPA Administrator James Payne has fired the agency's science advisors.

They will be replaced in order to, he says, "ensure that the agency receives scientific advice consistent with its legal obligations to advance our core mission," whatever that means.

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Candles and body spray, here I come!

In the Face of Climate Change, We Must Act So That We Can Feel Hopeful—Not the Other Way Around Some of the impacts of climate change are already here today. But the worst can still be avoided. Our future is in our hands.

The world has changed before and, when it did, it wasn’t because a president, a prime minister, a CEO or a celebrity decided it had to.

It began when ordinary people – people of no particular power, wealth, or fame – decided that the world could and should be different.

Extreme heat will kill millions of people in Europe without rapid action Climate models predict that the number of heat-related deaths could soar in cities over the coming century, even when efforts are made to keep people safe.

"An extra 2.3 million people in European cities could die as a result of extreme temperatures — both hot and cold — by the end of the century if countries do not take action to mitigate climate change, according to a study that modelled the effects of rising temperatures."

#ClimateCrisis #GreenSky

I don't know who needs to hear this,

but "scientists don't know everything and have been wrong before"

does not mean that a random-ass conspiracy theory with no evidence

should be given the same respect as the overwhelming weight of scientific evidence and expert consensus.

The head of the next global climate summit says China can easily substitute the US’ withdrawn leadership on climate action.

So perhaps all the center-left pundit types who joined in the DEI pile-on were not in fact responding to public opinion, but were merely laundering their own reactionary instincts in a way that resolved cognitive dissonance?

As I think about the shock waves & rush to protect those at immediate risk, I also think about the longer need to build social fabric for climate action. Climate change amplifies & intersects w so much: risk from extreme heat/floods/hurricanes, health, food, water, housing affordability, conflict.

The Rent Brigade now has a website: www.rentbrigade.org

An Instagram account: www.instagram.com/therentbriga...

And a report on their findings to date: www.rentbrigade.org/report

Bear Lake blues

Afternoon, Bluesky!

Is Climate Change Causing Sharks To Bite Humans? Metro Thinks So Taking public transit reduces greenhouse gas emissions. But does it change shark behavior? Scientists are dubious.

When I moved to DC in 2019, there were ads touting the climate change benefits of taking public transit.

One, which I had to walk by every day, claimed climate change made sharks bite people more. That's nonsense. I investigated.

It turns out this ad was misquoting some of *MY* research!

‘Mind-blowing’ cuts in greenhouse gases needed for Ireland to meet climate pledges, scientist warns Ireland has under-counted the cuts in greenhouse gas emissions needed to comply with climate obligations, a leading scientist has said.

Professor Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social said the true scale of cuts needed were “mind-blowing” and #Ireland had just two years left before overshooting the target. #ClimateAction #ClimateChange www.independent.ie/irish-news/m...

Aww, the large boulder the size of a small boulder has a new home and is thriving! So proud of her! ❤️

Welcome, new BlueSky users! Here are a few key differences between here and X:
- Using alt text is strongly encouraged
- Blocking actually works on here
- Instead of Grok, we have Alf. To use HOG - the latest version of the model - just put the prompt "Alf hog" in the search bar

In a new paper, we look at how we can allocate the global warming space instead of carbon budgets and translate it to warming-equivalent emissions budgets.

Noteworthy, many developed and advanced developing countries have already by far exhausted their fair warming budget. (1/2)

Miliband tells MPs UK needs to ‘speed up, not slow down’ in net zero drive – UK politics live Miliband tells MPs UK needs to ‘speed up, not slow down’ in net zero drive – UK politics live: Energy secretary insists there is ‘no contradiction between net zero and economic growth’ in hearing at Commons committee The hearing has stopped for a short break. Heather Hallett, the chair, t...

Miliband tells MPs UK needs to ‘speed up, not slow down’ in net zero drive – UK politics live: Energy secretary insists there is ‘no contradiction between net zero and economic growth’ in hearing at Commons committee The hearing has stopped for a short break. Heather Hallett, the chair, t...

We’ve spent 46 years fighting for a more just world for ALL and year 47 will be no different. Your voice matters more now than ever. Sign up to join the movement and take action with us and our partne... TikTok video by benandjerrys

Thank you, @benandjerrys.bsky.social 🙏🏼

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Stumbling across amazing new people, and being inspired by their gentle or overt insistence on a better future, can occasionally make it worthwhile! But also a healthy 1:1 ratio of naps to refreshes helps, too.

We don’t generally start campaigns with disruptive direct action.

That can get a lot of attention, but we usually try to talk to the politician who decides the issue, first.

Then, if they don’t listen, start to do things like leafleting and petitions and small protests. Then bigger events.

If you’d like to know more about the extremely valid philosophical basis for this admonition, well… that’s exactly what my last publication was about. Give it a read!

Not a perfect analogy, but in one sense I think DeepSeek may be the solar power of computing: relatively cheap, relatively simple, and effective--and thus a huge threat to the people making huge money from the status quo.
OpenAI and Meta as Exxon and Chevron.

Climate Change Could Cut the Economy in Half. We’re Not Ready for It. A new study suggests global warming’s effect on GDP has been vastly underestimated. Will it finally break through the religion of infinite growth?

"The last time there was this much CO2 in the atmosphere, the oceans were so much higher that the eastern coastline of what would become North America ended about one hundred miles west of where it is currently."
Dr Genevieve Guenther
@doctorvive.bsky.social
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I am begging otherwise-smart people to realize that often the answer to “I just saw something enraging on social media, why have I never heard about it before” is “because it’s not true.”