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Henry Carnell
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climate, science, health, gender journalist @motherjones.com & @climatedesk.org
MLIS student @ischool.uw.edu

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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · Sep 18
We have been working hard on getting this ready in time for NYC Climate Week. Sign up and expect stellar climate reporting in your inbox every Sunday :)
climatedesk.org Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · Sep 18
This Sunday, we are launching “Climate Desk Weekly.” This free dispatch will act as Mother Jones' Sunday newsletter and share the week’s need-to-know climate news right in your inbox from our collaboration of 15 award-winning media outlets.

Sign up at: www.motherjones.com/newsletters/
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climatedesk.org
In our latest newsletter, @grist.org senior staff writer @zteirstein.bsky.social shares about the "Vital Signs" series about how climate change is threatening human health.

Read the full newsletter here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...
Climate Desk Newsletter STORIES FROM MOTHER JONES AND ITS PARTNERS Public health has improved over the past few decades in almost every country on Earth, thanks largely to better access to antibiotics, vaccines, and other interventions that keep diseases at bay. Well-being, life expectancy, maternal health, and other metrics of progress have gotten better. So why is the World Health Organization warning that humanity is on the precipice of a health crisis? The answer is that our public health innovations are predicated on the assumption that our environment will continue to function largely as it has since the end of the last Ice Age. But this fails to account for a century-plus of rampant fossil fuel use. I’m Zoya Teirstein, senior staff writer at Grist, where we recently launched an ambitious new series called “Vital Signs.” Over the next seven months, we'll take readers around the world to explore how climate change is threatening human health in ways that transcend borders. These changes, building slowly for decades, have only begun to spill into plain view: record outbreaks of dengue fever in Latin America last year, widespread drought-driven malnutrition in the Horn of Africa, wildfire smoke and impaired cognitive development in Australia, deadly waterborne bacteria moving up our own Atlantic Coast. We have tools to tackle these problems. The question is: Will humanity acknowledge the baseline shift in time to deploy them?
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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jackmirkinson.bsky.social
Today in @thenation.com: thrilled to have @gbbranstetter.bsky.social on how this week's elections should bury once and for all the toxic myth that trans people are to blame for the Democratic Party's political failures www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Democrats Can't Blame Trans People for Their Own Failures
Despite the attempts by so many in the party's establishment to paint trans rights as a toxic issue, transphobia was soundly rejected across the country this week.
www.thenation.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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jael.bsky.social
my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics…

…and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here.

read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!
The Data Center Backlash Is Swallowing American Politics
Activists on both the left and the right are pushing back against rampant AI development.
heatmap.news
November 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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climatedesk.org
🚨 COP 30 Thread 🚨

The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Belém, Brazil, from November 10 to 21th. This will be our thread to keep up with what is going on ⬇️
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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amywestervelt.bsky.social
I know I've said this before, but from advertorials to false equivalence the media really needs to own up to its role in warping the climate issue. www.thenation.com/article/envi...
The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion
The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.
www.thenation.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
hencarnell.bsky.social
Genuinely super handy resource!!
jakebolster.bsky.social Jake Bolster @jakebolster.bsky.social · 5d
At @insideclimatenews.org, we're keeping track of environmental lawsuits involving the Trump administration thanks to great work by my colleagues @peteraldhous.com and @mlavelle.bsky.social. Keep this one handy: insideclimatenews.org/news/0411202...
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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climatedesk.org
🚨Election Thread🚨

What do yesterday's elections mean for climate change, clean energy, and other environmental questions? Our partner reporters have answers.

Starting with @fieseler.bsky.social on New Jersey:
In a boost for offshore wind, New Jersey elects Mikie Sherrill
The pro-renewables Democrat won the gubernatorial race against a rival who vowed to ban turbine construction off the state’s coast.
www.canarymedia.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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jacobrosenberg.bsky.social
In 2021, @nlanard.bsky.social came back from a hunger strike of taxi drivers and told me that a politician who had just turned 30 might be the future of politics in NYC. Here's a look back at a pivotal moment in Mamdani's rise

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The moment that made Mamdani
How a 15-day hunger strike foreshadowed his campaign.
www.motherjones.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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climatedesk.org
Missed Sunday's newsletter? It is all about the rebirth of the Klamath River. Read it here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...
Climate Desk Newsletter STORIES FROM MOTHER JONES AND ITS PARTNERS As a former Mother Jones fellow turned senior climate reporter and extreme-weather correspondent for the Guardian, I’ve grown accustomed to being the bearer of bad news. But amid the endless cycle of missed emissions targets, compounding disasters, and attempts to gut climate protections, inspiring stories occasionally pop up to remind us there are still solutions—and people willing to fight for them. That’s how I got to bear witness to the rebirth of the Klamath River. After the last of four major hydroelectric dams was removed late last year—the largest such project in US history—the mighty waterway that straddles the Oregon–California border, a river at the heart of Indigenous culture, has undergone a recovery that has astounded scientists and casual observers alike. Wildlife (bald eagles, beavers, bears, salmon, etc.) is rebounding, along with, as I write in the piece, the “insects, algae, and microscopic features of the flourishing systems that feed this ecosystem.” One year into this grand experiment, we’ve also gotten to see how the Indigenous leaders who spearheaded the work are ensuring the story doesn’t end there.
November 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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maggieastor.bsky.social
I would love to see a breakdown of how much it costs to increase police patrols in grocery stores versus how much it would cost to compensate stores to give SNAP recipients free food while benefits are suspended
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12d
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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sammyroth.bsky.social
NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.

I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
CBS News just gutted its climate team
Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:55 AM
hencarnell.bsky.social
**not traditionally peer reviewed**

I am a journalist and I like being accurate: they said they did a pre-publication peer review and were keeping it anonymous for a post-publication peer review. There are limited details and lots of questions on both
hencarnell.bsky.social Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 11d
I have a bad cold so sorry if this is blunt/not clear:

If you are going to mention the HHS Report, you have to contextualize it properly for the reader: that it was anonymous, not peer reviewed (not normal practice), widely criticized, etc. Readers don't know the quality of research unless you say!
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 11d
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
October 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
hencarnell.bsky.social
I have a bad cold so sorry if this is blunt/not clear:

If you are going to mention the HHS Report, you have to contextualize it properly for the reader: that it was anonymous, not peer reviewed (not normal practice), widely criticized, etc. Readers don't know the quality of research unless you say!
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 11d
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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climatedesk.org
Missed Sunday's newsletter? It was all about @vox.com's investigation into biodiversity loss in Madagascar.

Read it here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...
Climate Desk Newsletter STORIES FROM MOTHER JONES AND ITS PARTNERS When people think of Madagascar, the island nation off Africa’s east coast and setting of that silly 2005 animated film from DreamWorks, we tend to picture abundance: lemurs leaping through lush forests, chameleons blending into trees, coral reefs teeming with life. But that’s just not the reality anymore. Nearly all lemur species are now threatened with extinction, reef ecosystems are collapsing, and forests are shrinking at alarming rates. I’m Paige Vega, climate editor at Vox, where we’ve been digging into one of the biggest stories shaping our planet’s future: how the loss of biodiversity is unfolding in real time, even in places people think of as wild and untouched. In an ambitious new project led by Vox senior environmental correspondent Benji Jones, we explore what biodiversity loss looks like in a place that’s synonymous with wildlife—and what it will take to turn things around. Because in Madagascar, saving nature isn’t just about protecting animals, it’s about giving people a way to live.
October 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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motherjones.com
“When you get a storm like this that is approaching the higher echelons of what we have observed, it’s harrowing," one scientist told @mrmattsimon.bsky.social. And rapid intensification caused by warm water makes a storm like this incredibly more dangerous. Story via @grist.org / @climatedesk.org
Jamaica cowers as Category 5 Melissa bears down, supercharged by warming seas
That climate change is making this and other major hurricanes far more dangerous is "undeniable."
www.motherjones.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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samveep.bsky.social
I’m currently at the entrance to Coast Guard Island where National Guard troops and ICE agents are being housed prior to their deployment on the Bay Area. Couple hundred people are here blocking access in and out. Lots of faith leaders here who are praying at the edge of the property line.
October 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
hencarnell.bsky.social
It should genuinely concern more journalists that a single non-profit is doing the brunt of our archival work.

I love the Internet Archive but does this profession not feel any ethical obligation to make stronger publicly available archives of our work?
October 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
hencarnell.bsky.social
Generally when I stage @climatedesk.org stories for republication, my read of them is pretty cursory

But I really took my time reading this excellent featured by @benjij.bsky.social in @vox.com today.
Scientists are testing a surprising approach to fighting hunger in one of the poorest places on Earth
Madagascar is reeling from political unrest. But there’s another problem that no one’s talking about.
www.vox.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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climatedesk.org
Congress created the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) four years ago to solve a “chicken-and-egg situation” for climate solutions. So what did the Trump Administration do?

Find out in our latest newsletter here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...
Climate Desk Newsletter STORIES FROM MOTHER JONES AND ITS PARTNERS Hello! I’m Maria Gallucci, a senior reporter at Canary Media, the newest member of the Climate Desk collaboration. Canary Media is a nonprofit newsroom covering the clean energy transition, and this week I’ve got a story on the hollowing-out of a little-known federal office that was helping make that transition happen. Congress created the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) four years ago to solve a “chicken-and-egg situation” for climate solutions, Zahava Urecki at the Bipartisan Policy Center told me. Emerging technologies that could unlock major environmental and climate benefits need serious capital to scale up and prove themselves, and investors are often unwilling to shoulder those financial risks alone. That’s where the OCED comes in. During the Biden administration, Congress gave the office about $27 billion to back projects that could drastically reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from heavy industries such as steel manufacturing—including at a plant in JD Vance’s hometown—along with more controversial initiatives like hubs for hydrogen production and direct air capture. These subsidies, contingent on private investment, act as a force multiplier such that “a relatively small investment from taxpayers,” notes one expert, is expected to yield “an enormous benefit.”
October 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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theabigailthorn.bsky.social
I wrote a little essay about “designer vaginas” and the celeb-ification of transness

transwrites.world/who-are-the-...
Who are the dolls which must be protected? - Trans Writes
Ari Drennen, journalist and LGBTQ+ director at Media Matters, tweeted the above on 14/10/25. There are three ways I can think of to analyse her comments:
transwrites.world
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
hencarnell.bsky.social
"He's orange!!!"
motherjones.com Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23d
Donald Trump is “making fun of people for being Hispanic or dark-skinned or different colors,” says 10 year old, August. "Why is he talking to other people if he's orange?!”

Hear from the kids at the No Kings protests—and from the parents who decided to bring them.
October 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
hencarnell.bsky.social
One of my favorite parts of journalism is you just get to ask everyday people what they think about something and share that.

Happy to be the video guy behind stitching these responses my colleagues gathered ⬇️
motherjones.com Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23d
Republicans have been calling the “No Kings” protests a “Hate America rally.” So, we asked protestors what they thought about it. Here are their responses.
October 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?
19thnews.org 19thnews @19thnews.org · 23d
Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.
Gen Z women are the most liberal group in the country
On issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average.
19thnews.org
October 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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michaelmechanic.bsky.social
Great context for today's #NoKings protests from the inimitable @timothypmurphy.bsky.social. cc @motherjones.com
They’re teachers, nurses, Mennonites, and Marines. The Trump administration calls them antifa.
The No King protests represent a broad popular front. That's exactly why the president's allies are demonizing the organizers.
www.motherjones.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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jamespwest.bsky.social
Trump’s people are calling this a hate rally. Here’s a live shot from the hate rally.
October 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM