Ed Maibach
@maibached.bsky.social
I'm a health professional who’s all in on using the science of science communication to fight climate change. My message: The end of fossil fuels will be a new beginning for health. #Resist
The loss of this bio repository would be a disaster. Hey @invam.bsky.social, how much funding do you need per year to remain fully operational?
Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing
These fungi boost plant growth and restore depleted ecosystems, but federal funding for a library housing them has been cut – and it may be forced to close
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The loss of this bio repository would be a disaster. Hey @invam.bsky.social, how much funding do you need per year to remain fully operational?
Thank you. Keep trying!
I’ve spent decades trying to discourage my well meaning eco-conscious neighbors to stop this practice in Baltimore
December 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Thank you. Keep trying!
Politicians and public utilities commissioner who are serious about making America great again should listen to or read this episode of @volts.wtf to see how Australia is doing it. We can do it too, but we need to tweak in our policies. 100% electric is the best path to America the Beautiful.
What's the real story with Australian rooftop solar?
Saul Griffith joins me to debunk the myths surrounding Australia's massive influx of solar energy.
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Politicians and public utilities commissioner who are serious about making America great again should listen to or read this episode of @volts.wtf to see how Australia is doing it. We can do it too, but we need to tweak in our policies. 100% electric is the best path to America the Beautiful.
Londoners (and others) still buy wood-burning stoves?
Call me gobsmacked!
Seriously, they might as well burn coal. Ok, not really, but it’s almost as bad for their health and the health of our climate.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social
@ukhealthclimate.bsky.social
Call me gobsmacked!
Seriously, they might as well burn coal. Ok, not really, but it’s almost as bad for their health and the health of our climate.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social
@ukhealthclimate.bsky.social
London’s Love of Wood-Burning Stoves Sparks a Pollution Debate
Once seen as a sustainable and charming upgrade, wood-burning stoves are now under scrutiny for what they add to London’s polluted winter air.
www.bloomberg.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Londoners (and others) still buy wood-burning stoves?
Call me gobsmacked!
Seriously, they might as well burn coal. Ok, not really, but it’s almost as bad for their health and the health of our climate.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social
@ukhealthclimate.bsky.social
Call me gobsmacked!
Seriously, they might as well burn coal. Ok, not really, but it’s almost as bad for their health and the health of our climate.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social
@ukhealthclimate.bsky.social
Agreed! Well done, China.
The whole developed world is doing this with many of our innovations, such as now also with #Passivhaus and #zetzeroenergy buildings. But "selber Schuld-kein Mitleid" as the Germans say. Well deserved on both sides - just disappointing to sit on the loser side. Well done, China, though!
December 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Agreed! Well done, China.
No need for me to look it up. I remember standing in a long line at a local elementary school in 1963 (?) to get my polio vax. I was pleased when they popped a sugar cube in my mouth. A beer sounds good now, though. Imagine: Trivia night at the local pub...brews, boosters, and boisterousness.
The old polio vax? On a sugar cube, then a pink liquid?
Finally we got the injection version ?
What.. look it up or trust me?
Finally we got the injection version ?
What.. look it up or trust me?
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
No need for me to look it up. I remember standing in a long line at a local elementary school in 1963 (?) to get my polio vax. I was pleased when they popped a sugar cube in my mouth. A beer sounds good now, though. Imagine: Trivia night at the local pub...brews, boosters, and boisterousness.
I love to see New Jersey leading the nation on a program that buys homes and other properties that will eventually be lost to flooding. Some climate folk call this "managed retreat." I call it "climate smart community planning."
A New Jersey Buyout Program for Flood-Prone Homes Is a National Model - Inside Climate News
In a state beset by sea level rise and flooding, the Blue Acres program has bought out and demolished 1,200 properties that were repeatedly inundated, turning the properties into buffer zones and open...
insideclimatenews.org
December 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I love to see New Jersey leading the nation on a program that buys homes and other properties that will eventually be lost to flooding. Some climate folk call this "managed retreat." I call it "climate smart community planning."
I vigorously agree with my friend & colleague David Hart. American science & tech did all of the heavy lifting to make EVs possible. To let the Chinese now eat our lunch by not even showing up at the buffet is ludicrous.
Enjoying this report by David Hart who argues that the smarter strategy for the US is to compete with China in the EV space. Electric vehicles are a superior technology & will eventually displace ICE vehicles. Abandoning the contest will leave the US behind. www.cfr.org/report/compe...
Compete, Don’t Retreat
The primary U.S. response to China’s first-mover advantages in emerging auto technologies has been protection. A smarter strategy would seek to compete by supporting producers and collaborating with …
www.cfr.org
December 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I vigorously agree with my friend & colleague David Hart. American science & tech did all of the heavy lifting to make EVs possible. To let the Chinese now eat our lunch by not even showing up at the buffet is ludicrous.
Research by James Painter (@ecioxford.bsky.social) shows "a growing proportion of articles (in UK news outlets) are decoupling net zero from climate change.” Honestly, I'm not sure that's a bad thing. "Net zero" is such a lousy name for "ending carbon pollution".
@mason4c.bsky.social
@mason4c.bsky.social
We analysed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing ‘climate change’ from net zero
Articles on net zero used to always explain the scientific background. But not anymore.
theconversation.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Research by James Painter (@ecioxford.bsky.social) shows "a growing proportion of articles (in UK news outlets) are decoupling net zero from climate change.” Honestly, I'm not sure that's a bad thing. "Net zero" is such a lousy name for "ending carbon pollution".
@mason4c.bsky.social
@mason4c.bsky.social
This is an amazing science story on so many levels. I’m not sure where I net out on Dr. Buck’s approach, but I’d love to have a beer with him.
He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing
An NIH scientist’s maverick approach reveals legal, ethical, moral, scientific and social challenges to developing potentially life-saving vaccines.
www.sciencenews.org
December 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This is an amazing science story on so many levels. I’m not sure where I net out on Dr. Buck’s approach, but I’d love to have a beer with him.
Instead of the most common sensical principle ever devised, “polluters pay”, the GOP Congress seems to be more intimately paying polluters.
Republicans aim to exempt major polluters from Pfas cleanup costs
Water treatment and landfill companies given chance to make case that EPA rules should not apply to them
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Instead of the most common sensical principle ever devised, “polluters pay”, the GOP Congress seems to be more intimately paying polluters.
I see it too.
I was prepared for the fascism, but I wasn't prepared for so many of my friends, family, and neighbors to think I'm crazy and overreacting about said fascism.
The only people who seem to truly recognize the danger we're in are my husband, two best friends, and my incredibly Appalachian granddaddy.
The only people who seem to truly recognize the danger we're in are my husband, two best friends, and my incredibly Appalachian granddaddy.
December 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I see it too.
How could I NOT share this wonderful silliness? It made me cry.
December 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
How could I NOT share this wonderful silliness? It made me cry.
Reposted by Ed Maibach
May his memory be a blessing—and a motivation to prevent needless causes of premature death, illness, and disability.
The pollution associated with fossil fuels is a great example.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social
@apha.org
The pollution associated with fossil fuels is a great example.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social
@apha.org
December 22nd
Why many deaths we call inevitable are preventable
open.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
May his memory be a blessing—and a motivation to prevent needless causes of premature death, illness, and disability.
The pollution associated with fossil fuels is a great example.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social
@apha.org
The pollution associated with fossil fuels is a great example.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social
@apha.org
When you’re in hell, keep going.
— WC
— WC
His advice is to look beyond the now:
"If you have political will that is designed to destroy and they have the power to destroy, it is almost futile to try to push against the destruction. Instead, you have to get through the dark age by sort of deciding what the Renaissance is going to look like"
"If you have political will that is designed to destroy and they have the power to destroy, it is almost futile to try to push against the destruction. Instead, you have to get through the dark age by sort of deciding what the Renaissance is going to look like"
December 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
When you’re in hell, keep going.
— WC
— WC
💯! Another great rebuttal to MY’s wrongheaded op-Ed was posted yesterday by Dem Congressman @seancasten.bsky.social as a 49-part Bluesky missive. I urge everyone to read it.
Oil, gas & plastic pollution is poisoning the planet & people. The end of fossil fuels offers a new beginning for health.
Oil, gas & plastic pollution is poisoning the planet & people. The end of fossil fuels offers a new beginning for health.
Matthew Yglesias did it again
No, Democrats shouldn't embrace oil and gas.
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
💯! Another great rebuttal to MY’s wrongheaded op-Ed was posted yesterday by Dem Congressman @seancasten.bsky.social as a 49-part Bluesky missive. I urge everyone to read it.
Oil, gas & plastic pollution is poisoning the planet & people. The end of fossil fuels offers a new beginning for health.
Oil, gas & plastic pollution is poisoning the planet & people. The end of fossil fuels offers a new beginning for health.
Power to the people! 😂😂😂
Indeed - and the next step is local energy cooperatives where homes trade solar electricity on a local grid, with local storage and the infrastructure to facilitate this. Of course we know the battles ahead to get this working, but it has to be done! ✊
December 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Power to the people! 😂😂😂
Hazzah! I see a better America emerging from this kind of small business innovation.
I guess it might be more of a energy coop versus a sustainability coop? 'Sustainergy Cooperative is a worker-owned solar and energy efficiency company committed to sustainability and social justice.' www.sustainergy.coop/our-story
Our Story | Greater Cincinnati | Sustainergy
Read Sustainergy Cooperative's story and find out how we became a worker-owned cooperative dedicated to promoting sustainable energy solutions. Learn about our mission, our team, and our commitment to...
www.sustainergy.coop
December 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Hazzah! I see a better America emerging from this kind of small business innovation.
The emperor has no clothes.
President Trump Wants to Be Everywhere, All the Time
President Trump dominates our collective consciousness. The Times broke down how he has relentlessly pursued attention in the first 329 days of his second term.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The emperor has no clothes.
A local sustainability coop is a great idea I hadn’t previously heard of. Care to give them a shout out here, BikeDude?
I wonder if there is an association of such cooperatives?
I preach the importance of making sustainability innovations “easy, fun, & popular. Coops can help do that.
I wonder if there is an association of such cooperatives?
I preach the importance of making sustainability innovations “easy, fun, & popular. Coops can help do that.
We worked with a local employee run sustainability coop to get our solar panels installed. They handled the process with the energy company that went seamlessly. Install went great. App for monitoring still needs some work, and 1.2 MWh produced over past 2 months.
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A local sustainability coop is a great idea I hadn’t previously heard of. Care to give them a shout out here, BikeDude?
I wonder if there is an association of such cooperatives?
I preach the importance of making sustainability innovations “easy, fun, & popular. Coops can help do that.
I wonder if there is an association of such cooperatives?
I preach the importance of making sustainability innovations “easy, fun, & popular. Coops can help do that.
What role would we expect from “the fossil fuel media” other than to support the supremacy of the fossil fuel industry?
The willful ignorance by the fossil fuel media is impressive. They can't ignore that China isn't buying LNG like they told us but they have a really interesting reason - SMRs.
Ok.
Meanwhile the article doesn't mention china's solar growth or electric trucking.
Ok.
Meanwhile the article doesn't mention china's solar growth or electric trucking.
LNG Supply Expands Faster Than China’s Demand Growth | OilPrice.com
China’s LNG demand is weakening for a second year, just as a massive wave of new U.S. and Qatari export capacity hits the market.
oilprice.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
What role would we expect from “the fossil fuel media” other than to support the supremacy of the fossil fuel industry?
Rates of solar installation are much higher in Australia than in US largely because the AU govt created policies that entrust licensed installers & remove bureaucratic restrictions & reviews, reducing the “soft cost” by more than half and making home solar “easy, fun, and popular”. 🤔
Meanwhile, Southern California Edison keeps sending my application for a solar panel system back for corrections on the application and they don't have a phone number to call to discuss. This is if they don't want me to put a system in, especially when that might generate more energy than I need.
December 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Rates of solar installation are much higher in Australia than in US largely because the AU govt created policies that entrust licensed installers & remove bureaucratic restrictions & reviews, reducing the “soft cost” by more than half and making home solar “easy, fun, and popular”. 🤔
Worth repeating: In 2025, California met 67% or more of its energy needs with clean energy on 90% of days. What state wouldn’t want these bragging rights?
‘The biggest transformation in a century’: how California remade itself as a clean energy powerhouse
The Golden State’s clean energy use hit new highs in 2025. As the Trump administration abandons US climate initiatives, can California fill the void?
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Worth repeating: In 2025, California met 67% or more of its energy needs with clean energy on 90% of days. What state wouldn’t want these bragging rights?
The Democrats should be handing out millions of blue baseball caps saying Make America Affordable Again. Every Dem candidate should be wearing one.
How Democrats Used One Word to Turn the Tide Against Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The Democrats should be handing out millions of blue baseball caps saying Make America Affordable Again. Every Dem candidate should be wearing one.