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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 4d
This is insane. 🤦‍♂️

Why do tech giants like Elon Musk and Bill Gates keep on saying such dumb things about climate change?

They have access to the best possible experts, who could actually teach them something, if they would only ask and listen…

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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · 20d
I guess we’re on to the “just give me all your money” stage of this presidency.

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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · 20d
Windows of opportunity arise when forecast models provide strikingly accurate guidance on seasonal timescales. Why do they occur when they do? Do they have recognizable precursors? Does predictability depend on the quantity? eos.org/opinions/sci...
Scientists Must Join Forces to Solve Forecasting’s Predictability Desert - Eos
To strengthen societal resilience to worsening natural hazards, siloed Earth system science communities must collaborate to understand conditions that favor skillful subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasts.
eos.org

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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · Oct 9
"By most metrics, 2025 has been the worst year for the American scientific enterprise in modern history". The result - we are "essentially ending America’s longstanding role as the world leader in science and innovation,” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...
Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows
www.nytimes.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Oct 2
"God will ask us if we have cultivated and cared for the world that he created for the benefit of all and for future generations, and if we have taken care of our brothers and sisters - what will be our answer, my dear friends?"
Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming
In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.
www.bbc.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Oct 2
You don't fucking say.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Oct 2
The main reason climate policy has failed is that it's opposed by an international coalition of fossil fuel incumbents, authoritarian governments, & oligarch-owned media.

That's it. It's the people who killed it who are responsible for killing it! Not the people who supported it! FFS.

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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · Oct 2
NEW! Dept of Education workers say their OOO replies were forcibly changed to blame Democrats for shutdown. When employees changed their responses back to the more neutral language, it changed yet again to the partisan response.

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Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown
Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · Oct 2
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire.

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EV Curve Futurist @evcurvefuturist.com · Sep 28
California made history in 2025. 🌞⚡ Solar is now the state’s #1 electricity source, overtaking gas (83.1 vs 81.6 TWh). In under a decade, solar surged from marginal to dominant. Big kudos to California—proof the clean energy future is not capacity, it’s generation. More to come! #EnergyTransition

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · Sep 28
"The current war on science, and who’s behind it -- A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar/write a book" | A nice review of #ScienceUnderSiege by Diana Gitig for @arstechnica.com: arstechnica.com/science/2025...
The current war on science, and who’s behind it
A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar write a book.
arstechnica.com

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Sep 26
this is sooooooo f'ing sweet. every time Sec. Chris Wright lies about the DOE Climate Working Group report, reporters cite our response.
Mr. Wright falsely claimed that critics of an Energy Department report — written by five researchers who reject the established scientific consensus that the burning of oil, gas and coal is dangerously heating the planet — did not dispute any of the report’s data or facts. “They just didn’t like that the conclusion of our report was, climate change is a real physical phenomenon that’s unfolding, it’s just not the crisis it’s often sold to be.” In fact, 85 scientists submitted a sweeping critique of the report detailing a litany of inaccuracies, including claims that sea level rise is not accelerating; that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will help plants grow; and that computer models exaggerate future temperature increases. The American Meteorological Society, a leading science organization, also outlined what it called “foundational flaws” in the report. And the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the nation’s leading scientific advisory body, also contradicted the Energy Department report, saying the evidence that greenhouse gases threaten human health has only grown over time.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Sep 25
This is Washpost Opinion's takeaway from Trump's speech at the Charlie Kirk funeral.

No mention of him saying, "I hate my opponent." No mention of Trump's role in fomenting the January 6 riot.

Just unbelievable how bad that editorial board has become.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
President Donald Trump correctly pointed out during his eulogy for Kirk on Sunday in Phoenix that “no side in American politics has a monopoly on disturbed or misguided people.” He also criticized the absurd view that became fashionable among some liberal academics during the late 2010s that certain forms of speech can be considered violent because they cause stress. “If speech is violence, then some are bound to conclude that violence is justified to stop speech,” Trump said. “And we’re not going to let that be justified.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 25
KILMEADE: The president says climate change is a hoax, it's a con job. Where do you fall on this?

EPA ADMINISTRATION LEE ZELDIN: The president is absolutely right

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Sep 23
Its worth noting that when the first modern climate models were published in 1970 it was hardly clear that there was a warming trend; if anything there had been flat or slightly cooling global temperatures for the past three decades:

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Sep 23
In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".

Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · Sep 22
"there is now even stronger evidence that rising greenhouse gas levels can threaten public health and well-being" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/c...
Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger
www.nytimes.com

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Sep 17
A new report by the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences concludes that the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding was accurate, has stood the test of time, and is now reinforced by even stronger evidence:
Effects of Human-Caused Greenhouse Gas Emissions on U.S. Climate, Health, and Welfare | The National Academies Press
Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.
nap.nationalacademies.org

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · Sep 5
Despite the headline there is no new normal until our emissions stop. Until then we are just passing through current conditions on our way to something worse. www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
This is our second-worst wildfire season on record — and could be the new normal | CBC News
This year's wildfire season is already the second-worst on record in Canada, and experts are warning that this might be the new normal.
www.cbc.ca