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David Moorfield Frank
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Interdisciplinary environmental philosopher 🌳🌹🌎🌞🦝 Values in/and Environmental Science/Research Ethics, Environmental Utopias, posting nuance, jokes 🫠 for/as myself only
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jrfhanger.bsky.social
Good morning with good news: Global solar grew by 498 TWh (+31%) in Q1-Q3 2025, compared to 2024, "the largest increase ever over a nine-month period."

Global solar output in first 3 quarters of 2025 already surpassed total output in all of 2024.

ember-energy.org/latest-insig... #energysky
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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noamchompers.bsky.social
Two kinds of public philosophy: 1. Op-ed you can reference at dinner parties and people will go ‘oh that’s interesting’; 2. Going ‘that op-ed sucks actually’
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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shannonosaka.bsky.social
The Post (me and @kcrowebasspro.bsky.social) analyzed the social media posts and appearances of prominent politicians across the country.

We found that no one is talking about climate change anymore. In 2025, mentions are 60% lower than in 2024.

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
This bar chart shows a decrease in mentions of 'climate' since a peak in August 2022, when Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act.
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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jweisber.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
it’s crazy because no one knows what the aim of science is
November 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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dennycarter.bsky.social
Richest nation in human history
In New Jersey, a single mother struggled to figure out how to feed her two young sons with $50. In Oklahoma, a 61-year-old woman questioned whether driving to a food pantry was worth the gas money. And in Colorado, a woman grabbed food from a Walmart dumpster.
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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costasamaras.com
Public Utilities Commissioners are climate policymakers and we finally started acting like it
climatecabinet.org Climate Cabinet Action @climatecabinet.org · 11d
🎉 Peter Hubbard just scored a home run with his win for Georgia PSC! ⚡️Time to knock affordable energy and good jobs investment out of the park! 🌟
Climate Cabinet endorsed Peter Hubbard has won his Georgia Public Service Commission race. This is a victory graphic celebrating his win.
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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lauraeccott.bsky.social
“a person from the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than the poorest 50% emit all year”
A stark visual from ‘Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster’ by @oxfaminternational.bsky.social

policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...
SHARE OF GLOBAL POPULATION BY INCOME VS SHARE OF CONSUMPTION-BASED CO2 EMISSIONS, 2023 TOP 10% (TOP 1% WITHIN) The richest 10% are responsible for 48% of emissions MIDDLE 40% The middle 40% are responsible for 44% of emissions 50% BOTTOM (10% WITHIN) The poorest 50% are responsible for 8% of emissions Source: Oxfam
November 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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jandutkiewicz.bsky.social
Myths about our ancestors' meaty diets animate modern politics and culture wars about food and identity. But the history of human diets tells a different story about food's past and lets us be more rational about its future.

@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I for @vox.com

www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The myth of the carnivore caveman
You are not going to like where our ancestors got their protein.
www.vox.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Known as the Battle of Blair Mountain, this was the largest labor uprising in US history and the largest armed uprising since the Civil War. For a month, 10,000 coal miners confronted some 3,000 company guards, state soldiers, and strikebreakers. Nearly a million rounds were shot.
Washington Times headline reads: Air Fleet Ordered to W VA Battlefield. A West Virginian coal miner holding a gun.
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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drkatemarvel.bsky.social
Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane:

STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food

RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor

SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise

PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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waiterich.bsky.social
My feed is like:
- Record breaking hurricane hits Jamaica, fueled in part by warm ocean waters linked to climate change
- UN head blasts countries for low climate ambition, saying breaching 1.5C of warming is now inevitable
- US CDC has been directed to study the alleged harms of offshore wind farms
October 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
dmf84.bsky.social
Chart showing climate disaster spending is a growing share of US economy
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR

supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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parismarx.com
stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude
How would you describe that worldview? My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: “Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.” It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it. In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people.
October 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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bobkopp.net
This gets at what I think is a fundamental problem with most well-intentioned, public minded SRM work — the governance requirements for ethical SRM would seem to be a subset of the governance requirements that would allow any plausible need for SRM to be avoided.
danvisioni.bsky.social Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 22d
One needs to go back to Crutzen 2006 to find the same message I have: in order for SRM to work, public trust and public buy-in will always be necessary. Stardust’s methods go in the diametrically opposite direction. Their investors might tell themselves they’re concerned with climate change, but…
October 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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evanbernick.bsky.social
“Coverage of this mass sports gambling arrest is brought to you by DraftKings“
October 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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70sbachchan.bsky.social
Excuse me

” In a US buffeted by extreme weather, disaster spending is becoming a key driver of the economy.”
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
October 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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waiterich.bsky.social
You call it a “rake” I call it an “avoided leaf blower”
October 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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timmonsroberts.bsky.social
It's finally over--the age of coal generation in New England.

insideclimatenews.org/news/2110202...
New England Says Goodbye to Coal as Merrimack Station Powers Down - Inside Climate News
After decades of operation, Merrimack Station’s closure marks the region’s final exit from coal—and the start of a new chapter in renewable energy development.
insideclimatenews.org
October 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
dmf84.bsky.social
Chat is it good leadership to waste your workers’ time with fake meetings and call them fat
October 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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greenprofgreen.bsky.social
There's a whole chapter of my book, Existential Politics, that explains how GHG accounting works and the fundamental conceptual problems with measuring GHGs at the firm level. This change is a drop in the bucket in addressing the issues w carbon accounting. 1/
October 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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tabouchadi.bsky.social
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM