Prof. Bob Howarth
@profbobhowarth.bsky.social
Professor at Cornell University, Earth system scientist, co-EiC Land-Ocean-Atmosphere Research
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One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power.
The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever.
But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever.
But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
December 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power.
The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever.
But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever.
But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
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Standing in front of cameras, and next to President Zelinskyy, Trump actually declared that “Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed.”
What's your explanation for Trump?
A) Senile delusions?
B) Delivering Putin's talking point?
C) Trying out as a comedian?
D) He really is that stupid and gullible?
What's your explanation for Trump?
A) Senile delusions?
B) Delivering Putin's talking point?
C) Trying out as a comedian?
D) He really is that stupid and gullible?
December 29, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Standing in front of cameras, and next to President Zelinskyy, Trump actually declared that “Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed.”
What's your explanation for Trump?
A) Senile delusions?
B) Delivering Putin's talking point?
C) Trying out as a comedian?
D) He really is that stupid and gullible?
What's your explanation for Trump?
A) Senile delusions?
B) Delivering Putin's talking point?
C) Trying out as a comedian?
D) He really is that stupid and gullible?
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Since 1975, $79 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1% — a 1% that now owns more wealth than the bottom 93%.
We can respect innovation & entrepreneurship, but we cannot respect the extraordinary greed that now exists.
We need a wealth tax.
We can respect innovation & entrepreneurship, but we cannot respect the extraordinary greed that now exists.
We need a wealth tax.
December 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Since 1975, $79 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1% — a 1% that now owns more wealth than the bottom 93%.
We can respect innovation & entrepreneurship, but we cannot respect the extraordinary greed that now exists.
We need a wealth tax.
We can respect innovation & entrepreneurship, but we cannot respect the extraordinary greed that now exists.
We need a wealth tax.
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Good morning. How about 2000 words about the state of the US oil industry?
"Hamm admitted the Bakken is 'tapped out.' The reason he is buying shale assets in other countries is because the reality is that the U.S. oil industry is tapped out."
"Hamm admitted the Bakken is 'tapped out.' The reason he is buying shale assets in other countries is because the reality is that the U.S. oil industry is tapped out."
Lessons from the Bakken
The New York Times recently profiled Harold Hamm, Continental CEO Resources chairman emeritus and noted how Hamm is advising Trump to go all in on fossil fuels. This should surprise no one as Harold H...
powering-the-planet.ghost.io
December 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Good morning. How about 2000 words about the state of the US oil industry?
"Hamm admitted the Bakken is 'tapped out.' The reason he is buying shale assets in other countries is because the reality is that the U.S. oil industry is tapped out."
"Hamm admitted the Bakken is 'tapped out.' The reason he is buying shale assets in other countries is because the reality is that the U.S. oil industry is tapped out."
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The J6 Pipe Bomber stated that the reason he placed the pipe bombs at the DNC & RNC because he believed that the 2020 election was stolen, & no one in Congress was taking it seriously.
Now who was the one that kept on saying that the election was stolen??
youtu.be/4xgayuaun2U?...
Now who was the one that kept on saying that the election was stolen??
youtu.be/4xgayuaun2U?...
BREAKING: Justice Department makes BOMBSHELL announcement
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
youtu.be
December 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The J6 Pipe Bomber stated that the reason he placed the pipe bombs at the DNC & RNC because he believed that the 2020 election was stolen, & no one in Congress was taking it seriously.
Now who was the one that kept on saying that the election was stolen??
youtu.be/4xgayuaun2U?...
Now who was the one that kept on saying that the election was stolen??
youtu.be/4xgayuaun2U?...
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How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
December 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
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🧵For those who missed it, another familiar name appears in the latest tranche of Epstein files.
Nicholas Tartaglione--the former NY cop sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of 4 men.
The same dirty ex-cop who was put in Epstein's cell with him at the Metropolitan Correctional Center
Nicholas Tartaglione--the former NY cop sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of 4 men.
The same dirty ex-cop who was put in Epstein's cell with him at the Metropolitan Correctional Center
December 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🧵For those who missed it, another familiar name appears in the latest tranche of Epstein files.
Nicholas Tartaglione--the former NY cop sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of 4 men.
The same dirty ex-cop who was put in Epstein's cell with him at the Metropolitan Correctional Center
Nicholas Tartaglione--the former NY cop sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of 4 men.
The same dirty ex-cop who was put in Epstein's cell with him at the Metropolitan Correctional Center
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"Excess fuel supplies, a hardware backlog and a more competitive alternative bode ill for LNG market incumbents. A crash is looming."
I'm used to making forecasts a few years ahead. But things are moving fast now. I wrote this story in Sept and now Reuters is running with the same message
I'm used to making forecasts a few years ahead. But things are moving fast now. I wrote this story in Sept and now Reuters is running with the same message
Breakingviews - Renewables turn LNG glut into a sinkhole
Drillers from Exxon to Shell aim to boost global supply of the fossil fuel by 50% by 2030. Yet demand in key markets like China is falling. And hopes of gas replacing coal power look misplaced as sola...
www.reuters.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"Excess fuel supplies, a hardware backlog and a more competitive alternative bode ill for LNG market incumbents. A crash is looming."
I'm used to making forecasts a few years ahead. But things are moving fast now. I wrote this story in Sept and now Reuters is running with the same message
I'm used to making forecasts a few years ahead. But things are moving fast now. I wrote this story in Sept and now Reuters is running with the same message
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AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt. Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt."
December 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt. Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt."
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Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
December 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
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A paper published in Nature in September suggests a quarter of heatwave events from 2000-23 would have been near impossible without anthropogenic climate change. The paper also indicates that major carbon emitters are responsible for around 50% of the increase in intensity of these events. ⚒️ 🧪
Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature
Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.
go.nature.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
A paper published in Nature in September suggests a quarter of heatwave events from 2000-23 would have been near impossible without anthropogenic climate change. The paper also indicates that major carbon emitters are responsible for around 50% of the increase in intensity of these events. ⚒️ 🧪
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Millions of Americans remain at jobs they hate for one reason: the health insurance they receive. That’s absurd.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
December 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Millions of Americans remain at jobs they hate for one reason: the health insurance they receive. That’s absurd.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
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Let me be explicit. If you hear anyone say replacing fossil fuels with renewables is going to be expensive, they're either misinformed, uninformed, or lying to you.
Even leaving out the massive economic costs of #climate changes caused by burning fossil fuels, #renewables are cheaper now.
Even leaving out the massive economic costs of #climate changes caused by burning fossil fuels, #renewables are cheaper now.
December 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Let me be explicit. If you hear anyone say replacing fossil fuels with renewables is going to be expensive, they're either misinformed, uninformed, or lying to you.
Even leaving out the massive economic costs of #climate changes caused by burning fossil fuels, #renewables are cheaper now.
Even leaving out the massive economic costs of #climate changes caused by burning fossil fuels, #renewables are cheaper now.
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There is no private insurance market willing to underwrite #nuclear risk in full. Not accidents, not waste, not abandonment, not war, not institutional failure, not the passage of centuries.
December 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
There is no private insurance market willing to underwrite #nuclear risk in full. Not accidents, not waste, not abandonment, not war, not institutional failure, not the passage of centuries.
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Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
December 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
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Grid investment is set to rise from about USD 300bn in 2020 to nearly USD 580bn by 2027 as renewables and electrification expand. The US and China dominate spending.
But grids are not the only answer: flexibility, energy efficiency and storage can reduce and defer upgrades.
But grids are not the only answer: flexibility, energy efficiency and storage can reduce and defer upgrades.
December 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Grid investment is set to rise from about USD 300bn in 2020 to nearly USD 580bn by 2027 as renewables and electrification expand. The US and China dominate spending.
But grids are not the only answer: flexibility, energy efficiency and storage can reduce and defer upgrades.
But grids are not the only answer: flexibility, energy efficiency and storage can reduce and defer upgrades.
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Imagine what we can do in 2026 if we don’t capitulate to the centrist pragmatists! When the going gets tough, the tough municipalize their local utility and demand emissions free power and community solar.
December 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Imagine what we can do in 2026 if we don’t capitulate to the centrist pragmatists! When the going gets tough, the tough municipalize their local utility and demand emissions free power and community solar.
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Anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention could see that was happening.
December 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention could see that was happening.
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"I spent 50 years in the #nuclear industry, advancing to senior vice president and managing projects at 70 nuclear power plants. I once believed the dream. The nuclear industry’s latest pitch is an expensive distraction from real #climate solutions."
www.theenergymix.com/the-nuclear-...
www.theenergymix.com/the-nuclear-...
#Encore: The Nuclear Mirage: Why Small Modular Reactors Won’t Save Nuclear Power
Don’t believe the hype around SMRs, says 50-year industry veteran Arnie Gundersen, calling them an expensive distraction from real climate solutions.
www.theenergymix.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"I spent 50 years in the #nuclear industry, advancing to senior vice president and managing projects at 70 nuclear power plants. I once believed the dream. The nuclear industry’s latest pitch is an expensive distraction from real #climate solutions."
www.theenergymix.com/the-nuclear-...
www.theenergymix.com/the-nuclear-...
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Trump's corruption is unlike anything I've ever seen: completely centered on one man's narcissitic bloviation.
December 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Trump's corruption is unlike anything I've ever seen: completely centered on one man's narcissitic bloviation.
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Not a fully formed thought, but it seems that part of the disconnect is basically "popularity with who?" If we accept as inevitable that some people matter more in US politics - rich people who fund campaigns, for example, or likely voters in swing states - then it's easy to ignore these polls.
December 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Not a fully formed thought, but it seems that part of the disconnect is basically "popularity with who?" If we accept as inevitable that some people matter more in US politics - rich people who fund campaigns, for example, or likely voters in swing states - then it's easy to ignore these polls.
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Here’s yet another poll, this time out of the U of Chicago, showing that the majority of Americans oppose expanding fossil fuel production.
Yet this is the policy recommended by @mattyglesias.bsky.social & @jessedjenkins.com due to its supposed political popularity?
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Yet this is the policy recommended by @mattyglesias.bsky.social & @jessedjenkins.com due to its supposed political popularity?
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December 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Here’s yet another poll, this time out of the U of Chicago, showing that the majority of Americans oppose expanding fossil fuel production.
Yet this is the policy recommended by @mattyglesias.bsky.social & @jessedjenkins.com due to its supposed political popularity?
🤔
Yet this is the policy recommended by @mattyglesias.bsky.social & @jessedjenkins.com due to its supposed political popularity?
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