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Alec Luhn
@alecluhn.bsky.social
Pulitzer Center 🌊 reporting fellow | Kavli, Schmidt & Covering Climate Now 🏆 | 2x Emmy nominee | non-beefeater 🐄
40+ glaciologists just published a paper calling geoengineering to save the Arctic & Antarctic a dangerous distraction.
But other scientists argue that with ice melting we at least need to research them.
My report about a sea ice thickening experiment in Nunavut, on CBC www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
October 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Trump’s EPA canceled a $20m grant to fortify the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk against flooding.
Now 121 houses in Kipnuk have been destroyed by flooding, & a total 1,800 people have been evacuated in one of the biggest airlifts in Alaska history. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
72% of Americans: “Global warming is happening”
Trump: Global warming is “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world … & I’m really good at predicting things”
September 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“A shutdown is an attentional event. It’s an effort to turn the diffuse crisis of Trump’s corrupting of the government into an acute crisis that the media, that the public, will actually pay attention to.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
September 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Olivia Campbell-Cavendish announced at @transpridebrighton.bsky.social that the Trans Legal Clinic has raided £70,000 to match JK Rowling’s donation to lawsuit against trans recognition
July 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“Why your big ugly utility bill will get bigger & uglier under President Trump’s big beautiful spending bill”—a beautifully simple explanation here of the cost rises, which will be the biggest in red states @billweircnn.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
In congress: Bill to give billions to ICE, cut billions from
Medicaid & renewables
In the Supreme Court: Decision to limit challenges to Trump’s executive orders
In the media:
June 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Ed Milliband tells the largest ever London Climate Action Week that oil price ups & downs over Iran show “we need to get off the rollercoaster of fossil fuels” for energy security as well as climate #lcaw
June 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Enric Sala, NatGeo explorer & exec producer of David Attenborough's 'Ocean,' calls the UN Ocean Conference "disappointing."
Despite new MPA announcements, only 8-9% of the ocean is protected—& bottom trawling is still allowed in many areas, including by host country France
June 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM