Charlotte Ward
@charlotteward.bsky.social
💚 Climate solutions cheerleader
📣 Calls to action
✍🏻 Writer and climate comms
📍Greenville SC 🇺🇸🇬🇧
📣 Calls to action
✍🏻 Writer and climate comms
📍Greenville SC 🇺🇸🇬🇧
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Charlotte Ward
@charlotteward.bsky.social
· Mar 18
Commentary: US Weather Service saved SC lives. Now their jobs are in danger.
Supporters of smaller government may be celebrating the recent firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, but the safety of South Carolinians has just been compromised.
www.postandcourier.com
Parts of South Carolina were on high alert over the weekend as dangerous storms rolled in.
I wrote an opinion column for the Post and Courier about how life-saving NOAA’s National Weather Service is - and how we must protect it.
www.postandcourier.com/greenville/o...
I wrote an opinion column for the Post and Courier about how life-saving NOAA’s National Weather Service is - and how we must protect it.
www.postandcourier.com/greenville/o...
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Regardless of where we live or how we vote, extreme weather puts us all at risk: and we know, without a shadow of a doubt, climate change is making it worse.
To build resilience, we need more data, more expertise, more preparation, more communication to keep people safe—NOT LESS!
More from me:
To build resilience, we need more data, more expertise, more preparation, more communication to keep people safe—NOT LESS!
More from me:
What the Floods in Texas Tell Us About Climate Change
“Regardless of where we live or how we vote, extreme weather puts us all at risk," writes Katharine Hayhoe.
time.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Regardless of where we live or how we vote, extreme weather puts us all at risk: and we know, without a shadow of a doubt, climate change is making it worse.
To build resilience, we need more data, more expertise, more preparation, more communication to keep people safe—NOT LESS!
More from me:
To build resilience, we need more data, more expertise, more preparation, more communication to keep people safe—NOT LESS!
More from me:
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After this weekend’s deadly Texas floods, many are asking: what made this storm so extreme — and what role did climate change play?
Join climate & weather experts as we unpack the science and answer your questions.
📅Tuesday, July 8 | 11am ET
Register 🔗 climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join climate & weather experts as we unpack the science and answer your questions.
📅Tuesday, July 8 | 11am ET
Register 🔗 climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
July 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
After this weekend’s deadly Texas floods, many are asking: what made this storm so extreme — and what role did climate change play?
Join climate & weather experts as we unpack the science and answer your questions.
📅Tuesday, July 8 | 11am ET
Register 🔗 climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join climate & weather experts as we unpack the science and answer your questions.
📅Tuesday, July 8 | 11am ET
Register 🔗 climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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The Senate passed its version of the budget reconciliation bill today. While this version of the text does remove the tax on future wind and solar projects, it still features harmful weakening of clean energy tax credits.
Now, the bill moves to the House. Tell your Rep to vote no!
Now, the bill moves to the House. Tell your Rep to vote no!
Tell Congress to protect the clean energy tax credits
Tell Congress we want this investment in American jobs and affordable clean energy.
citizensclimatelobby.org
July 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The Senate passed its version of the budget reconciliation bill today. While this version of the text does remove the tax on future wind and solar projects, it still features harmful weakening of clean energy tax credits.
Now, the bill moves to the House. Tell your Rep to vote no!
Now, the bill moves to the House. Tell your Rep to vote no!
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This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
July 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
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I've had the BBC on an hour and I've already heard the anchors discuss climate change twice — once in a whole explainer connected to the heat wave currently pounding the UK and EU and once in the coverage of the private jets flying to the Sanchez-Bezos wedding.
Why can't we have this in the US? 😭
Why can't we have this in the US? 😭
June 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I've had the BBC on an hour and I've already heard the anchors discuss climate change twice — once in a whole explainer connected to the heat wave currently pounding the UK and EU and once in the coverage of the private jets flying to the Sanchez-Bezos wedding.
Why can't we have this in the US? 😭
Why can't we have this in the US? 😭
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The Senate is scheduled to begin voting on the final budget reconciliation bill tomorrow — including a phaseout of America’s clean energy tax credits. We need to flood the Senate with calls now urging a “NO” vote.
Click here to call ➡️ cclusa.org/iradefense
Click here to call ➡️ cclusa.org/iradefense
Tell Congress to protect the clean energy tax credits
Tell Congress we want this investment in American jobs and affordable clean energy.
cclusa.org
June 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The Senate is scheduled to begin voting on the final budget reconciliation bill tomorrow — including a phaseout of America’s clean energy tax credits. We need to flood the Senate with calls now urging a “NO” vote.
Click here to call ➡️ cclusa.org/iradefense
Click here to call ➡️ cclusa.org/iradefense
Will Congress extinguish SC’s bright solar future? scdailygazette.com/2025/06/27/w...
Will Congress extinguish SC's bright solar future? • SC Daily Gazette
Commentary from the leaders of solar energy companies in South Carolina, who advocate or keeping residential solar investment tax credits.
scdailygazette.com
June 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Will Congress extinguish SC’s bright solar future? scdailygazette.com/2025/06/27/w...
So many beautiful souls lost. Absolutely heartbreaking for India and the UK 🇮🇳🇬🇧
‘They were my everything’: tributes paid as names of more British Air India crash victims emerge
‘They were my everything’: tributes paid as names of more British Air India crash victims emerge
Fifty-three Britons were onboard, among them young families, students and business people on their way home
Tributes are being made to the passengers who died on the Air India flight bound for London Gatwick airport that crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad in western India.
There were 242 passengers and crew onboard the plane, including 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
So many beautiful souls lost. Absolutely heartbreaking for India and the UK 🇮🇳🇬🇧
If my husband and I start to get irritated with each other, my six-year-old darts to the light switch, flickers it on and off and announces: “The ghost doesn’t like it when you fight.”
June 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
If my husband and I start to get irritated with each other, my six-year-old darts to the light switch, flickers it on and off and announces: “The ghost doesn’t like it when you fight.”
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The UK is on course for another very poor harvest thanks to hot, dry conditions. When I ask climate researchers what they fear most, the invariable answer is "multiple harvest failures".
Farmers could be facing another terrible harvest after the hottest spring on record and the driest conditions in decades, finds @eciu.net analysis:
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
‘On a knife edge’ – hot dry spring threatens arable harvest
Analysis suggests the harvest could be one of the worst in records stretching back to the 1980s.
www.independent.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The UK is on course for another very poor harvest thanks to hot, dry conditions. When I ask climate researchers what they fear most, the invariable answer is "multiple harvest failures".
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Misinformation: A Telegraph guide
1️⃣Find apparently shocking stat: EV fires "up 77%" 😱
2️⃣Always round up ("nearly double")🤔
3️⃣Downplay context: There are 105% more EVs🙉
4️⃣Sideline wider truth: EV fires 5-6x *less* likely🙊
5️⃣Add quote to cover yourself🙈
1️⃣Find apparently shocking stat: EV fires "up 77%" 😱
2️⃣Always round up ("nearly double")🤔
3️⃣Downplay context: There are 105% more EVs🙉
4️⃣Sideline wider truth: EV fires 5-6x *less* likely🙊
5️⃣Add quote to cover yourself🙈
May 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Misinformation: A Telegraph guide
1️⃣Find apparently shocking stat: EV fires "up 77%" 😱
2️⃣Always round up ("nearly double")🤔
3️⃣Downplay context: There are 105% more EVs🙉
4️⃣Sideline wider truth: EV fires 5-6x *less* likely🙊
5️⃣Add quote to cover yourself🙈
1️⃣Find apparently shocking stat: EV fires "up 77%" 😱
2️⃣Always round up ("nearly double")🤔
3️⃣Downplay context: There are 105% more EVs🙉
4️⃣Sideline wider truth: EV fires 5-6x *less* likely🙊
5️⃣Add quote to cover yourself🙈
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Extremely powerful from @natashadevon.bsky.social. In the UK, far more women are joining the Green party than men are joining Reform. Yet the media narrative is that it is Reform that is ascendant.
New Substack - gen z women are being written out of the story of their generation. Why? substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Gen Z Women are Being Written Out of the Story of Their Generation...
...Why?
substack.com
May 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Extremely powerful from @natashadevon.bsky.social. In the UK, far more women are joining the Green party than men are joining Reform. Yet the media narrative is that it is Reform that is ascendant.
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“The data center industry is booming all over,” and utilities across the country are polluting more to meet data center energy demands, all when scientists agree that cutting fossil fuel emissions is more urgent than ever.
Georgia was about to retire coal plants. Then came the data centers.
Georgia was going to retire its coal plants, but then the data centers arrived. AI is pushing energy providers back to fossil fuels.
grist.org
May 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
“The data center industry is booming all over,” and utilities across the country are polluting more to meet data center energy demands, all when scientists agree that cutting fossil fuel emissions is more urgent than ever.
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typical corrupt science
May 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
typical corrupt science
My beautiful old St Louis neighborhood and the park where my husband proposed to me got hit hard by a tornado 💔 Scary how so many of us are seeing places we love devastated by weather extremes. Thinking of all impacted in #STL
Dozens of firefighters and rescue workers are conducting a methodical sweep in St. Louis after Friday's tornado.
Rescuers search St. Louis rubble, crews work to clear streets after tornado
Dozens of firefighters and rescue workers are conducting a methodical sweep in St. Louis after Friday's tornado.
www.stltoday.com
May 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
My beautiful old St Louis neighborhood and the park where my husband proposed to me got hit hard by a tornado 💔 Scary how so many of us are seeing places we love devastated by weather extremes. Thinking of all impacted in #STL
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This video of this amazing speech can be seen on YouTube.
Thank you, @matthewthall.bsky.social for the article. I live in Greenwood and I wouldn't have known this occurred if it weren't for reading your piece in @thestate.com.
www.youtube.com/live/8AwL0Ov...
Thank you, @matthewthall.bsky.social for the article. I live in Greenwood and I wouldn't have known this occurred if it weren't for reading your piece in @thestate.com.
www.youtube.com/live/8AwL0Ov...
May 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This video of this amazing speech can be seen on YouTube.
Thank you, @matthewthall.bsky.social for the article. I live in Greenwood and I wouldn't have known this occurred if it weren't for reading your piece in @thestate.com.
www.youtube.com/live/8AwL0Ov...
Thank you, @matthewthall.bsky.social for the article. I live in Greenwood and I wouldn't have known this occurred if it weren't for reading your piece in @thestate.com.
www.youtube.com/live/8AwL0Ov...
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Announced yesterday: "Federal scientists will no longer update a list of weather disasters that cause billions of dollars in damage."
Ignoring the problem doesn't solve it.
Even without a formal list, the impacts of these disasters will still be devastating. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
Ignoring the problem doesn't solve it.
Even without a formal list, the impacts of these disasters will still be devastating. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
NOAA will stop updating database tracking costliest weather disasters
The billion-dollar disaster tracker is on a growing list of datasets NOAA says that either scientists will no longer update or the administration will decommission entirely.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Announced yesterday: "Federal scientists will no longer update a list of weather disasters that cause billions of dollars in damage."
Ignoring the problem doesn't solve it.
Even without a formal list, the impacts of these disasters will still be devastating. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
Ignoring the problem doesn't solve it.
Even without a formal list, the impacts of these disasters will still be devastating. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
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not just a climate pope, but an all caps petition sharing climate pope
May 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
not just a climate pope, but an all caps petition sharing climate pope
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"Like Francis, Prevost has repeatedly spoken in favour of decisive action against climate change" collegeofcardinalsreport.com/evidence/car... #catholic #climate via #modernghanaweb
Cardinal Prevost on Focusing on Climate Change
Prevost is outspoken about the need for urgent action on climate change. He recently stressed that the Church must move “from words to action,” warning against the “harmful” consequences of unchecked…
collegeofcardinalsreport.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"Like Francis, Prevost has repeatedly spoken in favour of decisive action against climate change" collegeofcardinalsreport.com/evidence/car... #catholic #climate via #modernghanaweb
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Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
May 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
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It's bad enough to ignore the problem of climate change.
It's also bad to disrupt work on a report *required by Congress.*
It may still come out, but it's unclear “whether it is going to reflect credible science & be of real use to [...] prepare for climate change.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...
It's also bad to disrupt work on a report *required by Congress.*
It may still come out, but it's unclear “whether it is going to reflect credible science & be of real use to [...] prepare for climate change.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...
National Climate Assessment Authors Are Dismissed by Trump Administration
The Trump administration told researchers it was “releasing” them from their roles. It puts the future of the assessment, which is required by Congress, in doubt.
www.nytimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It's bad enough to ignore the problem of climate change.
It's also bad to disrupt work on a report *required by Congress.*
It may still come out, but it's unclear “whether it is going to reflect credible science & be of real use to [...] prepare for climate change.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...
It's also bad to disrupt work on a report *required by Congress.*
It may still come out, but it's unclear “whether it is going to reflect credible science & be of real use to [...] prepare for climate change.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...
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News media loves covering offshore wind protests.
Yesterday I covered a 100-person rally *supporting* offshore wind in NYC.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
Attendees: electricians, retirees, college grads, charter boat captions, and a whale biologist.
The local CBS affiliate was there too👇
Yesterday I covered a 100-person rally *supporting* offshore wind in NYC.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
Attendees: electricians, retirees, college grads, charter boat captions, and a whale biologist.
The local CBS affiliate was there too👇
Wind farm supporters hold rally on Long Island after project halted
YouTube video by CBS New York
www.youtube.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
News media loves covering offshore wind protests.
Yesterday I covered a 100-person rally *supporting* offshore wind in NYC.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
Attendees: electricians, retirees, college grads, charter boat captions, and a whale biologist.
The local CBS affiliate was there too👇
Yesterday I covered a 100-person rally *supporting* offshore wind in NYC.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
Attendees: electricians, retirees, college grads, charter boat captions, and a whale biologist.
The local CBS affiliate was there too👇
Happy Earth Day. This year’s theme is resilience 🪺
April 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Happy Earth Day. This year’s theme is resilience 🪺
