Mark Lubell

@envpolicycenter.bsky.social

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Professor Mark Lubell co-directs the UC Davis Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior. Water, agriculture, climate, conservation, social science. Thinkology. Advocate for truth and evidence. https://environmentalpolicy.ucdavis.edu/ .. more

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Clark Evans @clarkevanswx.bsky.social · 5h

Disappointing news out of Nebraska, where the University's Chancellor's Final Budget Reduction Plan continues to call for eliminating the Dept of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences - notably, against the recommendation of the university's Academic Planning Committee.

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Final Budget Reduction Plan | Budget Process | Nebraska

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Paulina Jaramillo @paulijllo.bsky.social · 6h

The 1.5°C target is dead. That makes carbon removal MORE urgent, not less. Climate advocates have rallied for clean energy but stayed silent as Trump canceled CDR projects. Democrats must embrace all climate solutions the climate crisis demands. #Climate #COP30 open.substack.com/pub/paulinaj...

The 1.5°C Dream Is Over. The Case for Carbon Removal Grows Stronger.

Paulina Jaramillo, Ph.D.

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Prof Dan Parsons @bedforms.bsky.social · 6h

🌏 New research led from @lborouniversity shows that sand mining is drastically altering the Mekong system, weakening the Tonle Sap Lake’s vital flood pulse - the heartbeat of one of the world’s most biodiverse freshwater ecosystems.

➡️ Nature Sustainability paper...

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Sand mining reducing the flow of Southeast Asia’s largest lake, new report warns | Dan Parsons

🌏 New research led from Loughborough University has revealed that sand mining is critically disrupting the natural flood pulse of Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake — Tonle Sap in Cambodia. Pub...

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Alaina Kinol @alainakinol.bsky.social · 6h

NYS just committed to violating its own climate law to permit this pipeline instead of investing in clean infrastructure to meet energy demand & reliability.

In 2025, we know building fossil energy=enacting violence against current & future gens. Horrible.

insideclimatenews.org/news/0711202...

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 6h

Looking forward to this event on visualizing environmental change at @au-cece.bsky.social with Megan Martin from @climatecentral.org! If you’re in DC, #JoinUs!

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Giving Green @givinggreen.earth · 7h

📰 Our new report, Unleashing Clean Energy in the U.S., was featured in @insideclimatenews.org!

Read the story to understand why our founder & ED believes this is “not a time for despair and withdrawal," & climate philanthropy can still advance clean energy.

🔗 tinyurl.com/y3u7pu2z

Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 1d

Parks become “open access” resources during gov shut downs www.sfgate.com/national-par...

Joshua Tree National Park now an epicenter of concern, confusion

A history of vandalism during shutdowns makes national park advocates nervous.

www.sfgate.com

Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 2d

Even the possibility of this disgusts me. I love soccer but this “friendship” is keeping me away from World Cup tickets. Not to mention the ridiculous prices. apnews.com

Associated Press News: Breaking News | Latest News Today

Read the latest headlines, breaking news, and videos at APNews.com, the definitive source for independent journalism from every corner of the globe.

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 2d

A decade since the deal was adopted, climate experts say it is working to cut emissions, spur action and reduce the projected temperature rise – but not as fast as we need it to. #COP30

Health check: 10 years of the Paris Agreement

A decade since the deal was adopted, climate experts say it is working to cut emissions, spur action and reduce the projected temperature rise - but not as fast as we need it to

www.climatechangenews.com

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 2d

The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has announced two major steps toward expanding offshore oil and gas leasing under the Trump administration’s energy agenda and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

U.S. advances first offshore lease sales under Trump's OBBBA

worldoil.com

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 2d

Yet more science showing that regenerative grazing is overblown as a climate solution.

A better path? Cut back on beef production altogether, and return grazing lands to nature.

iffs.earth/living-repor...

Living Report: Regenerative Agriculture vs. Rewilding

A comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed evidence on regenerative grazing vs. rewilding through dietary shifts that reduce land use and restore soil, water, climate, and biodiversity

iffs.earth

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 2d

"I wish we could ignore Bill Gates. Unfortunately his economic and political power makes that impossible. But unlike him, we can recognise that this power exists and, when it speaks, it does so on its own behalf."

I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot

Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook

www.theguardian.com

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dr roger cremades @rogercre.bsky.social · 2d

Better early at home, than too late in social media.

Talking to your child about climate change

Ways to engage children on the issue with hope and positivity

www.unicef.org

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Graeme L Scott @glscott.bsky.social · 3d

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Climate policy strengthens globally, despite unprecedented contestation in the US and Europe

As countries meet at COP30 in the Amazon, a new Oxford University study gives the most detailed view yet of how different nations' laws and regulations are aligning—or not—to climate goals. The survey...

phys.org

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Phil Weiser @philweiser.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING--We took Trump’s USDA to court—and we won a ruling, now upheld on appeal. 600,000 Coloradans will get the food assistance they’re owed. Because the rule of law—and human decency—matter and we will keep fighting for them.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 5d

Here's a tease:
Next week we're releasing a major update of the Pacific Institute's Water Conflict Chronology -- the best open-source database on violence over water resources.

The news isn't good.

Any journalists interested in getting embargoed info prior to the release, reach out to me.

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Graeme L Scott @glscott.bsky.social · 9d

phys.org/news/2025-10...

Humanity is on path toward 'climate chaos,' scientists warn

Industries and individuals around the world burned record amounts of oil, gas and coal last year, releasing more greenhouse gases than ever before, a group of leading scientists said in a new report, ...

phys.org

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Gerald Kutney - Politics, Disinformation & Science @geraldkutney.bsky.social · 9d

When the president of the USA believes that climate change is a hoax, they are a disgrace to the nation and are dangerous to the families of their country and the world.

For more on political climate denial read www.routledge.com/Climate-Deni...

#ClimateBrawl

Climate Denial in American Politics: #ClimateBrawl

Climate Denial in American Politics is a detailed examination of the rise within American politics of climate denialism, the counter movement which challenges the accepted science of climate change. O...

www.routledge.com

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 9d

Seems right.

www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Harrison Ford Slams Trump on Climate: 'I Don't Know of a Greater Criminal in History'

Harrison Ford slammed the Trump administration and their lack of policies to combat climate change in a new interview.

www.rollingstone.com

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 10d

Dumb public policy has painful real world consequences—like needlessly costing utility ratepayers $80M while simultaneously polluting their air & water and harming their health.

@docsforclimate.bsky.social

Trump’s Order to Keep Michigan Coal Plant Running Has Cost $80 Million So Far - Inside Climate News

Midwestern electricity ratepayers will pay the still-mounting tab under a plan Consumers Energy reported to regulators and investors.

insideclimatenews.org

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 10d

While I believe that Bill Gates deserves high praise for his sustained commitment to protecting public health, I agree with @michaelemann.bsky.social that he is failing to understand that we must—and can—rapidly quit fossil fuels while addressing illness and poverty. @docsforclimate.bsky.social

You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it

What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.

thebulletin.org

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Mel in Baltimore @mbe19.bsky.social · 10d

As Hurricane Melissa smashed into the Caribbean, Wholf was laid off, along with the majority of the five person team supporting CBS News’s climate coverage

The fall of the CBS News climate team

David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

heated.world

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 10d

Got trolled yesterday on the hellsite by golfer Phil Mickelson, who was whining about California regs on offshore oil and gas and… bwhahahaha… today we know why.

EXCLUSIVE: EXXON SPINOUT SABLE LEAKED KEY INFO TO INVESTORS INCLUDING GOLFER PHIL MICKELSON hntrbrk.com/sable-2/

On Wednesday, an anonymous X account posted a very. short excerpt from the same call with investors obtained by Hunterbrook. Soon thereafter, a member of Mickelson's chat relayed to the group that the company had contacted them claiming that the audio was Al generated, and asking investors to push back against an anticipated Bloomberg News article on Sable's conduct. Within hours, a chorus of Sable investors, including Mickelson, was repeating that message on social media.
In response to questions about this, Sable told Hunterbrook that "based upon information provided to us we believe that the alleged recording was either Al generated or otherwise altered."
The company did not respond to follow up questions regarding what led it to that belief, or what portions of the recording it believed had been altered. At Hunterbrook's request, a leading Al detection company ran the recording through their platform and concluded that it is likely not to be manipulated using generative artificial intelligence in any way. Hunterbrook also asked a senior Al engineer at a top research lab to analyze the recording; he also confirmed that it was highly unlikely to be Al generated or altered. The recording Hunterbrook obtained includes the short excerpt that was posted on X, though the version on X sounds distorted.
Perhaps the most notable part of the call comes toward the end - when Flores lays out his Hail Mary plan to bring his project online: Enlisting President Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to avoid California regulations and secure federal funding for the project.

On a leaked call, Sable Offshore CEO Jim Flores told a select group of investors in October that the company would likely have to raise up to $200 million in equity by the end of 2025. The company had not disclosed this dilutive equity offering publicly.
It's one of several examples of apparently selective disclosure from Sable. The company seems to have shared information only with certain investors, a list that includes golfer Phil Mickelson, according to messages from a group chat leaked to Hunterbrook.
In one of those messages, Mickelson passed on a tip allegedly from the company's CEO in an X group chat that Sable would be issuing an 8-K filing about a material update later that day. Sable did in fact issue a market-moving 8-K shortly thereafter.
"I believe this beyond any doubt: These guys definitely have first hand communication from Jim and they are being fed information from Jim and giving it to other group members," one member of the chat, who previously owned the stock, told Hunterbrook, in reference to some of his fellow group chat members.
Whether that material information was actually worth having is another question. While Sable's stock rose 8% after hours on the day the 8-K was issued, it gave that all back (and then some the following trading day.
Meanwhile, courts, regulators, and activists have so far stopped Sable from utilizing its sole asset - a pipeline that in 2015 erupted into one of the worst oil spills in California history.

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Hugh Millward @hmillward.bsky.social · 11d

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Public comment opens for renewable energy megaproject on Eastern Shore | CBC News

A group that wants to build an industrial plant on the Eastern Shore to produce fuels out of hydrogen and biomass has filed for environmental assessment with the province, kicking off a 40-day period ...

www.cbc.ca

Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 11d

The fed gov shutdown is turning Nat Parks into what Ostrom and other institutional economists would call an "open access" resource, which is most vulnerable to the tragedy of the commons. www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/u...

National Park Service staff & volunteers voice concern over impact of federal shutdown | CNN

CNN’s Bill Weir goes to Yosemite National Park in California to talk with people who are trying to keep the park safe.

www.cnn.com

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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 12d

Inside Climate News: ‘Rapid Explosion’ of Data Centers Causes Planning Struggles in Texas insideclimatenews.org/news/2810202...

‘Rapid Explosion’ of Data Centers Causes Planning Struggles in Texas - Inside Climate News

As companies look to build projects that consume more power than cities, ERCOT is trying to plan transmission.

insideclimatenews.org

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 12d

“Major report warns planet approaching tipping points" | New article by Alan Murphy for @weatheire.bsky.social:

weatheire.com/news/climate...

Major report warns planet approaching tipping points

Earth is approaching climate chaos, with 22 of 34 key planetary indicators now at record levels, according to a major new report published in the journal BioScience.

weatheire.com

Reposted by Mark Lubell, Silvia Secchi, Travis Longcore

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 12d

TIL the National Environmental Policy Act is the only thing preventing Donald Trump from dropping nuclear weapons all over the American West.

SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 12d

Good news everyone.

We have the EIS process to come to the rescue here, since I'm not joking, nuclear testing in the 70s and on was required to proceed an Environmental Impact Statement...

www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0331/...

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Mark Lubell, Anthony Burke

Future Earth @futureearth.bsky.social · 12d

Out now: the 2025/2026 10 New Insights in Climate Science.

A global science synthesis with new findings on extreme warming, ocean heat, disease risks, and the state of carbon markets.

Read the full report: 10insightsclimate.science

#10ClimateInsights

Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 12d

Speaker describing the challenge of multiple permitting agencies in the context of watershed restoration

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