Ryan Bartlett
@ryancbartlett.bsky.social
Doing whatever I can to avoid the climate apocalypse. Mostly failing. Nature and climate resilience, infrastructure planning. Opinions my own.
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A Dutch company dredged through a highly sensitive coral area for TotalEnergies’ liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique.
Environmental groups warn that the environmental impact assessments for TotalEnergies’ project and three others in the same waters are inadequate.
Environmental groups warn that the environmental impact assessments for TotalEnergies’ project and three others in the same waters are inadequate.
Construction of TotalEnergies pipeline cuts through coral reefs in Mozambique
Over the past year, a dredger operated by Dutch company Van Oord cut through a coral reef off the coast of northern Mozambique, part of the construction of French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies’…
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November 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A Dutch company dredged through a highly sensitive coral area for TotalEnergies’ liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique.
Environmental groups warn that the environmental impact assessments for TotalEnergies’ project and three others in the same waters are inadequate.
Environmental groups warn that the environmental impact assessments for TotalEnergies’ project and three others in the same waters are inadequate.
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The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.
February 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.
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DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital
February 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital
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We are a day or two away from the United States Constitution being a dead letter. This is not hyperbole. This is not me be being a doomer. This is a basic legal and political fact. The math, as I see it. 🧵
February 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
We are a day or two away from the United States Constitution being a dead letter. This is not hyperbole. This is not me be being a doomer. This is a basic legal and political fact. The math, as I see it. 🧵
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in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
February 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
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Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
February 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
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Reading all of the anti-trans EOs this week, I am reminded of how much harder it is to litigate against incompetent opposing counsel (as opposed to competent lawyers). You have to start by essentially constructing their argument for them in order to know what to counter. I suspect that is the point.
January 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Reading all of the anti-trans EOs this week, I am reminded of how much harder it is to litigate against incompetent opposing counsel (as opposed to competent lawyers). You have to start by essentially constructing their argument for them in order to know what to counter. I suspect that is the point.
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I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.
January 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.
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Not a landslide
Smallest popular vote margin since Bush v Gore in 2000:
New CookPolitical: over 154M votes now counted, Trump's popular vote lead down to 1.65%:
Trump 76,831,007 (49.89%)
Harris 74,296,538 (48.24%)
www.cookpolitical.com/vote-tracker...
Smallest popular vote margin since Bush v Gore in 2000:
New CookPolitical: over 154M votes now counted, Trump's popular vote lead down to 1.65%:
Trump 76,831,007 (49.89%)
Harris 74,296,538 (48.24%)
www.cookpolitical.com/vote-tracker...
November 20, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Not a landslide
Smallest popular vote margin since Bush v Gore in 2000:
New CookPolitical: over 154M votes now counted, Trump's popular vote lead down to 1.65%:
Trump 76,831,007 (49.89%)
Harris 74,296,538 (48.24%)
www.cookpolitical.com/vote-tracker...
Smallest popular vote margin since Bush v Gore in 2000:
New CookPolitical: over 154M votes now counted, Trump's popular vote lead down to 1.65%:
Trump 76,831,007 (49.89%)
Harris 74,296,538 (48.24%)
www.cookpolitical.com/vote-tracker...
Nancy Mace is so outraged by concepts of biological sex foreign to her she’s demanding transparency on secret military alien autopsies. Frankly that’s the kind of ideological consistency we could use more of.
November 20, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Nancy Mace is so outraged by concepts of biological sex foreign to her she’s demanding transparency on secret military alien autopsies. Frankly that’s the kind of ideological consistency we could use more of.
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One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
November 20, 2024 at 2:10 AM
One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
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Today, @carbonbrief.org has published the latest, and most comprehensive, update to our interactive map of extreme weather attribution.
The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...
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The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies.
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Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world - Carbon Brief
Attribution studies calculate whether, and by how much, climate change affected the intensity, frequency or impact of extremes – Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has...
interactive.carbonbrief.org
November 18, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Today, @carbonbrief.org has published the latest, and most comprehensive, update to our interactive map of extreme weather attribution.
The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...
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The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...
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The goal of preventing temperatures from exceeding 1.5C is “deader than a doornail” as I told the Guardian (quoting James Hansen). We’ve simply waited too long to reduce global emissions, and now will firmly pass 1.5C in the next decade www.theguardian.com/...
World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say
Scientists say goal to keep world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is not going to happen despite talks at Cop29 in Baku
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:43 PM
The goal of preventing temperatures from exceeding 1.5C is “deader than a doornail” as I told the Guardian (quoting James Hansen). We’ve simply waited too long to reduce global emissions, and now will firmly pass 1.5C in the next decade www.theguardian.com/...
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incompetent loyalists who will behave in lawless ways as they try to fulfill the bosses' demands
Matt Gaetz. Matt Gaetz? MATT GAETZ FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL????
a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine
Alt: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine
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November 13, 2024 at 8:43 PM
incompetent loyalists who will behave in lawless ways as they try to fulfill the bosses' demands
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If you learn anything today, it should be this:
We're burning more fossil fuels and releasing more fossil fuel CO₂ than ever. Despite what people had hoped, anthropogenic CO₂ emissions have not peaked.
To stay below +1.5°C of global warming, we're supposed to cut emissions by 50% by 2030. 🥲
We're burning more fossil fuels and releasing more fossil fuel CO₂ than ever. Despite what people had hoped, anthropogenic CO₂ emissions have not peaked.
To stay below +1.5°C of global warming, we're supposed to cut emissions by 50% by 2030. 🥲
Combining the slower growth in fossil CO2 emissions & slow decline in LUC emissions, means that total CO2 emissions are close to a plateau over the last decade.
Though, with a rise in fossil emissions & forest fires partly fuelled by El Niño, total emissions are estimated to rise 2% in 2024.
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Though, with a rise in fossil emissions & forest fires partly fuelled by El Niño, total emissions are estimated to rise 2% in 2024.
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November 13, 2024 at 12:45 PM
If you learn anything today, it should be this:
We're burning more fossil fuels and releasing more fossil fuel CO₂ than ever. Despite what people had hoped, anthropogenic CO₂ emissions have not peaked.
To stay below +1.5°C of global warming, we're supposed to cut emissions by 50% by 2030. 🥲
We're burning more fossil fuels and releasing more fossil fuel CO₂ than ever. Despite what people had hoped, anthropogenic CO₂ emissions have not peaked.
To stay below +1.5°C of global warming, we're supposed to cut emissions by 50% by 2030. 🥲
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"I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how."
By @laurahazardowen.bsky.social
Including, "I’ll read news, not other people’s reactions to news." And: "I’m researching new ways to teach kids about news."
Recommended. www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a...
By @laurahazardowen.bsky.social
Including, "I’ll read news, not other people’s reactions to news." And: "I’m researching new ways to teach kids about news."
Recommended. www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a...
I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how.
Sometimes it's healthy to do something you love less, and differently.
www.niemanlab.org
November 13, 2024 at 12:05 AM
"I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how."
By @laurahazardowen.bsky.social
Including, "I’ll read news, not other people’s reactions to news." And: "I’m researching new ways to teach kids about news."
Recommended. www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a...
By @laurahazardowen.bsky.social
Including, "I’ll read news, not other people’s reactions to news." And: "I’m researching new ways to teach kids about news."
Recommended. www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a...
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The Journal of Trial and Error is a scientific publication that only publishes papers with negative or unexpected results.
The team behind it wants to change how the scientific community thinks about failure in order to improve science.
The team behind it wants to change how the scientific community thinks about failure in order to improve science.
What To Do When Your Hypothesis Is Wrong? Publish!
In an effort to learn from scientific failure, The Journal of Trial Error only publishes “negative” results.
www.sciencefriday.com
November 13, 2024 at 2:21 PM
The Journal of Trial and Error is a scientific publication that only publishes papers with negative or unexpected results.
The team behind it wants to change how the scientific community thinks about failure in order to improve science.
The team behind it wants to change how the scientific community thinks about failure in order to improve science.
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New article by Zhuang et al in Science Advances, showing how droughts in the western USA are increasingly dominated by evaporative demand rather than lack of precipitation. With ongoing warming, this effect is expected to increase such that droughts that were rare become much more likely. #climate 🧪
Anthropogenic warming has ushered in an era of temperature-dominated droughts in the western United States
Since 2000, warming-induced high evaporative demand has surpassed rain deficit as the primary drought driver in the western US.
www.science.org
November 10, 2024 at 3:10 PM
New article by Zhuang et al in Science Advances, showing how droughts in the western USA are increasingly dominated by evaporative demand rather than lack of precipitation. With ongoing warming, this effect is expected to increase such that droughts that were rare become much more likely. #climate 🧪
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If anyone wants to read some good blog posts from today, I've curated a list.
1. The great @tomscocca.bsky.social defector.com/last-time-wa...
1. The great @tomscocca.bsky.social defector.com/last-time-wa...
Last Time Was Lucky | Defector
Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics and coverage of Campaign 2024. On the last day of vamping about op...
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November 6, 2024 at 11:33 PM
If anyone wants to read some good blog posts from today, I've curated a list.
1. The great @tomscocca.bsky.social defector.com/last-time-wa...
1. The great @tomscocca.bsky.social defector.com/last-time-wa...
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The equity vs speed trade-offs of the global energy transition continue to be massive. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
October 22, 2024 at 2:59 PM
The equity vs speed trade-offs of the global energy transition continue to be massive. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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I have a joke about carbon offsets but someone else is going to have to tell it to you and a third person is going to have to verify if it is funny while a fourth person argues that the second person was already going to tell the joke anyway
I've been working on a joke about Sisyphus but I haven't figured out the punchline yet. I know I'll get it though
I have a joke about Theseus. But it is not very original.
October 21, 2024 at 1:52 AM
I have a joke about carbon offsets but someone else is going to have to tell it to you and a third person is going to have to verify if it is funny while a fourth person argues that the second person was already going to tell the joke anyway
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Hedge funds are shorting clean energy, going long on fossil fuels 🫠 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The Climate Short: Hedge Funds Pile Up Huge Bets Against Green Future
The $5 trillion industry’s move against clean energy and green technology may prove more damaging than political pushback over “woke” capitalism.
www.bloomberg.com
October 20, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Hedge funds are shorting clean energy, going long on fossil fuels 🫠 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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"The General Staff know exactly why WCK were bombed - because in the Strip, everyone does whatever they like."
April 3, 2024 at 2:03 AM
"The General Staff know exactly why WCK were bombed - because in the Strip, everyone does whatever they like."
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World Central Kitchen has shared the identities of the seven aid workers killed by Israeli forces.
April 2, 2024 at 11:21 PM
World Central Kitchen has shared the identities of the seven aid workers killed by Israeli forces.