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Dustin Mulvaney
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Professor, Environmental Studies🌎
San José State University @CalState.Bsky.social
Fellow, Payne Institute @ Colorado School of Mines, Climate & Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social, Switzer Network. www.dustinmulvaney.com
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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · Oct 8
Shout out to @motherjones.com for republishing this and adding the alt title.

Trump Team’s Plans to Exploit Public Lands Follow the Blueprint of Reagan’s Interior Secretary. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Trump Team's plans to exploit public lands follow the blueprint of Reagan's Interior secretary
James Watt led a similar effort to privatize natural resources for mining, energy development, logging, and sprawl.
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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 7h
Eagle rock ALERT cam tonight, Santa Cruz Mountains, the aurora substorm burst of activity happened between about 8:30 and 9:30.. fog rolled in at 9:40.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 7h
Oh, they saw this one in Mexico.
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dustinmulvaney.bsky.social Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 11h
Imperial Irrigation District’s camera on the Salton Sea near Niland, California, exploding with Aurora color.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 7h
This is what the Eagle Rock camera looks like now. Caught the Aurora only moments before it was eaten by the fog.
🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️
#auroraborealis #stratus

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 7h
I’m guessing that’s an airplane.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 7h
Fog and light pollution are the biggest obstacles to seeing the rare auroras in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Have to go pretty far west to get around the Silicon Valley light pollution , and the fog takes out the coastal spots; tonight’s fog took away nearly all the mountain views too.
dustinmulvaney.bsky.social Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 8h
Aurora borealis above the fog, at the top of Ben Lomond Mountain, Santa Cruz Mountains. #auroraborealis

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 8h
Aurora borealis above the fog, at the top of Ben Lomond Mountain, Santa Cruz Mountains. #auroraborealis

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 8h
The tippy top of Ben Lomond Mountain and Eagle rock were the only things sticking out of the extremely dense fog, and this scene was eveloped in fog before I could get a tripod out. #CAwx
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Aurora borealis over Eagle rock, Santa Cruz Mountains. #AuroraWatch

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Westernlens @westernlens.bsky.social · 8h
We had a good show in Marin tonight.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 8h
Aurora borealis over Eagle rock, Santa Cruz Mountains. #AuroraWatch

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Kent Porter @kpphotos.bsky.social · 8h
The brightest aurora I’ve seen in NorCal. Photograph made along Dry Creek Rd. in Healdsburg, with the iconic Timber Crest Farms barn. #kentporterphotography @pressdemo.bsky.social #substorm #Auroraborealis #northernlights #CME

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 9h
Hmmmm. Eagle rock, Santa Cruz Mountains.. that looks like aurora borealis.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 10h
Truly spectacular aurora colors over the Salton Sea, from imperial irrigation district’s west shore cam looking towards Joshua Tree National Park and Chuckwalla National Monument. #AuroraWatch #SaltonSea

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 10h
Here is the link.. #auroraborealis still going string near the US Mexico border. iid.roundshot.com/salton-south...

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 11h
Imperial Irrigation District’s camera on the Salton Sea near Niland, California, exploding with Aurora color.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 11h
The #aurora reached at least as far south as here in El Centro, California, a few miles north of the Mexican border! So cool!
Pink sky with a little bit of yellowish green as seen from the desert.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 11h
Willow Creek’s latitude is at about San Francisco, or a little over a degree north of Santa Cruz. #AuroraWatch
dustinmulvaney.bsky.social Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 11h
Aurora in the Sierra foothills! This is Willow Creek’s ALERT camera, a bit south east of Sacramento. #AuroraWatch cameras.alertcalifornia.org?pos=38.7069_...
Pink sky from Aurora visible on the fire cam

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 11h
Aurora in the Sierra foothills! This is Willow Creek’s ALERT camera, a bit south east of Sacramento. #AuroraWatch cameras.alertcalifornia.org?pos=38.7069_...
Pink sky from Aurora visible on the fire cam

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 12h
Orographic lift is how terrain can cause rainfall in the Santa Cruz Mountains. When moist air rises up a mountain slope, it expands causing it to cool adiabatically. Cool air can’t hold as much moisture, so water vapor condenses, forming clouds, fog, and rain; the reverse of adiabatic compression.🧪

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Marianne Denton @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 12h
Reno, Nevada
6:31 PDT
39.4° N, 119.8° W

#Aurora
The aurora through the clouds with some landscaping trees

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 13h
Will be enjoying auroras vicariously through others as June gloom showed up and fogged us out.
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Fog rolling into the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 13h
Aurora in Imperial, California! #SaltonSea
vincentledvina.bsky.social Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 13h
Here is the current view from Imperial, CA looing north! This is literally mere miles from the U.S./Mexico border. ALL U.S. STATES (possibly excluding Hawaii) CAN SEE AURORA RIGHT NOW if clear!

theauroraguy.com/pages/webcams

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 13h
Here is the current view from Imperial, CA looing north! This is literally mere miles from the U.S./Mexico border. ALL U.S. STATES (possibly excluding Hawaii) CAN SEE AURORA RIGHT NOW if clear!

theauroraguy.com/pages/webcams

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MyRadar @myradar.bsky.social · 13h
A SEVERE geomagnetic storm (G4) is UNDERWAY!

Reports of visible aurora from Massachusetts, Omaha, Michigan, Minnesota, Maryland, Missouri, Alabama, Iowa, Indiana, etc.

LOOK NORTH NOW! And tag/text your family ASAP so they see too! 😍

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 13h
G4/SEVERE Geomagnetic Storm conditions have now been observed. It is possible we will see G5 conditions tonight...

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 15h
This moisture flow will turn to rain once the hills work their orographic magic overnight, ahead of the pineapple express later tomorrow. #CAwx
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Fog rolling up a gulch in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 15h
Fog rolling up a gulch in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 15h
Fog rolling into the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19h
Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!!

It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms 😱

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a slop generated baby hippo swimming in water In 2021, every active Meta user cost around one kilogram of carbon dioxide equivalent, or CO2e—a way of measuring greenhouse gases—in terms of direct and unadjusted power grid emissions. By 2024, that had risen to 1.8 kilograms of CO2e. Similarly, every $1 million of revenue caused about 26 tonnes of CO2e in 2021. That’s now 36 tonnes. Meta did not respond to a request for comment for this story. Meta’s push to force-feed advertising slop into every single corner of the massive digital space it controls could not have worse timing. The country it’s headquartered in is pouring cash into resuscitating coal and accelerating gas. The United States just saw the first two half-year periods with an increase in coal generation for at least half a decade (probably longer), as the Trump administration sets about pouring millions into keeping coal on life support. meta's emissions rising fast

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 19h
Calm before the storm, Monterey Bay.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 19h
Also, note that appropriately named “worst-case scenario engineer” literally works on the worst-case of our sun cooking our electricity infrastructure.
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worstcaseeng.bsky.social worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 20h
I'll be watching the protection systems but having done a bunch of work on this some years ago the requirements for GMD to cause real issues on the grid are *very* specific, you need long lines going in the right direction across the right geological strata...