Bob Kopp
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#Climate & sea level science + policy. Rutgers University. All views my own. www.bobkopp.net
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Bob Kopp
@bobkopp.net
· May 7
There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
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The climate crisis is one of the top most severe threats to human existence, alongside nuclear war and a massive asteroid.
It blows my mind how many leaders choose to just whistle past the grave. This isn’t some event on some obscure future date—it’s already happening.
It blows my mind how many leaders choose to just whistle past the grave. This isn’t some event on some obscure future date—it’s already happening.
NEW: Councillors and sources inside the City of Vancouver say the city's mayor, Ken Sim, will put forth a budget Wednesday that will eliminate the city's celebrated climate and sustainability department.
Vancouver mayor plans to eliminate city's climate and sustainability department
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes. Canada's National Observer learned a...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
The climate crisis is one of the top most severe threats to human existence, alongside nuclear war and a massive asteroid.
It blows my mind how many leaders choose to just whistle past the grave. This isn’t some event on some obscure future date—it’s already happening.
It blows my mind how many leaders choose to just whistle past the grave. This isn’t some event on some obscure future date—it’s already happening.
If I were being inaugurated as a university president right now, I’d probably feel compelled to talk about the role of higher ed in preserving democracy, rather than how I want our campuses to climb in rankings
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
If I were being inaugurated as a university president right now, I’d probably feel compelled to talk about the role of higher ed in preserving democracy, rather than how I want our campuses to climb in rankings
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Called @booker.senate.gov @kim.senate.gov to thank them for their No votes and asked them to show they understood the gravity of the problem by calling for new caucus leadership
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Called @booker.senate.gov @kim.senate.gov to thank them for their No votes and asked them to show they understood the gravity of the problem by calling for new caucus leadership
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This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
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I can’t support this bill. It doesn’t meet the urgency of the moment and deliver actual relief that can pass both chambers of Congress.
I’ve been clear that we need real action to stop the devastating health care cost increases that are hurting millions of families. 1/2
I’ve been clear that we need real action to stop the devastating health care cost increases that are hurting millions of families. 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I can’t support this bill. It doesn’t meet the urgency of the moment and deliver actual relief that can pass both chambers of Congress.
I’ve been clear that we need real action to stop the devastating health care cost increases that are hurting millions of families. 1/2
I’ve been clear that we need real action to stop the devastating health care cost increases that are hurting millions of families. 1/2
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The rot at the core of the “tipping point” concept…
What happened when I dug into some of the key studies and ideas quoted in The Tipping Point and its sequel… kucharski.substack.com/p/the-real-r...
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The rot at the core of the “tipping point” concept…
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any policies that impede the uptake of solar impede resilience
"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."
Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
any policies that impede the uptake of solar impede resilience
One thing this Hill article doesn’t mention about US non participation in COP30 is that the State Department already fired all the people who knew anything about UNFCCC
thehill.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
One thing this Hill article doesn’t mention about US non participation in COP30 is that the State Department already fired all the people who knew anything about UNFCCC
I would like to see polling results for New York Jews from a poll that didn’t treat “Jewish” and “None” as mutually exclusive religious identities.
November 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I would like to see polling results for New York Jews from a poll that didn’t treat “Jewish” and “None” as mutually exclusive religious identities.
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I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
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This capitulation will only embolden Trump to target other universities and institutions. This helps no one and only feeds the beast.
We must continue to stand with those who resist Trump’s lawlessness and call out those who don’t. Shame on Cornell.
We must continue to stand with those who resist Trump’s lawlessness and call out those who don’t. Shame on Cornell.
Cornell University to pay $60M in deal with Trump administration to restore federal funding
Cornell University has agreed to pay $60 million and accept the Trump administration’s interpretation of civil rights laws in order to restore federal funding and end investigations into the Ivy Leagu...
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This capitulation will only embolden Trump to target other universities and institutions. This helps no one and only feeds the beast.
We must continue to stand with those who resist Trump’s lawlessness and call out those who don’t. Shame on Cornell.
We must continue to stand with those who resist Trump’s lawlessness and call out those who don’t. Shame on Cornell.
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I understand the pressures, but this is short-sighted.
But they get their grants back (for now).
But they get their grants back (for now).
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I understand the pressures, but this is short-sighted.
But they get their grants back (for now).
But they get their grants back (for now).
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We need to be worried about this. 1st some countries (Saudi Arabia) refused to welcome the 1.5 report, now they (and others) are flat out refusing to set a date for when the AR7 can be approved. Heads in the sand sort of decision-making on climate change is not just foolish it is evil necropolitics.
NEW – Ongoing failure to agree AR7 timeline is ‘unprecedented’ in IPCC history | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/rSMdzNf
Read here: buff.ly/rSMdzNf
Ongoing failure to agree AR7 timeline is ‘unprecedented’ in IPCC history - Carbon Brief
Governments have, once again, failed to agree on a timeline for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) seventh assessment cycle (AR7)
buff.ly
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We need to be worried about this. 1st some countries (Saudi Arabia) refused to welcome the 1.5 report, now they (and others) are flat out refusing to set a date for when the AR7 can be approved. Heads in the sand sort of decision-making on climate change is not just foolish it is evil necropolitics.
I would like to request someone write a law review article on the following:
This administration has been aiming to establish an absolute monarchy within the unamended shell of the US Constitution. How far could a vigorous Congress go to establish a parliamentary republic in the same shell?
This administration has been aiming to establish an absolute monarchy within the unamended shell of the US Constitution. How far could a vigorous Congress go to establish a parliamentary republic in the same shell?
November 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I would like to request someone write a law review article on the following:
This administration has been aiming to establish an absolute monarchy within the unamended shell of the US Constitution. How far could a vigorous Congress go to establish a parliamentary republic in the same shell?
This administration has been aiming to establish an absolute monarchy within the unamended shell of the US Constitution. How far could a vigorous Congress go to establish a parliamentary republic in the same shell?
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Asking again: if agents of a foreign adversary somehow seized control of the highest levels of the US gov’t & wanted to destroy the nation from within, what would they do differently - other than be less open & brazen with their destruction?
Goddard spacecraft engineer: "I think it just kind of speaks to the atmosphere of the agency and the nation, where people are like, 'Well, laws don't matter for the people at the top anymore.'"
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
www.space.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Asking again: if agents of a foreign adversary somehow seized control of the highest levels of the US gov’t & wanted to destroy the nation from within, what would they do differently - other than be less open & brazen with their destruction?
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To understand how Bari Weiss might approach climate coverage at CBS, I read every climate article the Free Press has published.
Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom
Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom
Bari Weiss vs. climate change
At The Free Press, Weiss consistently rebrands tired fossil fuel talking points as courageous, rebellious dissent.
heated.world
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
To understand how Bari Weiss might approach climate coverage at CBS, I read every climate article the Free Press has published.
Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom
Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom
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The Supreme Court just heard oral arguments in the challenge to Trump’s worldwide tariffs. No matter how the Court rules (and I’ll do just a tiny bit of tea leaf-reading here), its decision will have enormous implications for the scope of presidential power. 1/25
November 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The Supreme Court just heard oral arguments in the challenge to Trump’s worldwide tariffs. No matter how the Court rules (and I’ll do just a tiny bit of tea leaf-reading here), its decision will have enormous implications for the scope of presidential power. 1/25
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It has been 60 years, to the day, since LBJ released a report to the public about pollution. I wrote about appendix Y4 of that report.
"The climatic changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings."
"The climatic changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings."
This Whole Thing Really Snuck Up On Us
Looking back, and ahead, on the anniversary of a White House warning.
www.gravityisgone.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
It has been 60 years, to the day, since LBJ released a report to the public about pollution. I wrote about appendix Y4 of that report.
"The climatic changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings."
"The climatic changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings."
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Wrote about the election (at length). An excerpt:
www.pbump.net/o/democracy-...
www.pbump.net/o/democracy-...
November 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Wrote about the election (at length). An excerpt:
www.pbump.net/o/democracy-...
www.pbump.net/o/democracy-...
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In reading Bill Gates' recent #climate memo, I'm struck by how much he ignores huge body of research and action around integrated solutions - the whole reason we wrote the @ipbes.net Nexus Assessment on climate, biodiversity, water, food and health! So a few key facts & lessons from our report: 1/
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
In reading Bill Gates' recent #climate memo, I'm struck by how much he ignores huge body of research and action around integrated solutions - the whole reason we wrote the @ipbes.net Nexus Assessment on climate, biodiversity, water, food and health! So a few key facts & lessons from our report: 1/
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To recap, among young voters…
Prop 50: +58
Sherril: +37
Spanberger: +40
Mamdani: +61
I better see the media start retracting some of those stories saying Gen Z is the most conservative generation.
Prop 50: +58
Sherril: +37
Spanberger: +40
Mamdani: +61
I better see the media start retracting some of those stories saying Gen Z is the most conservative generation.
November 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
To recap, among young voters…
Prop 50: +58
Sherril: +37
Spanberger: +40
Mamdani: +61
I better see the media start retracting some of those stories saying Gen Z is the most conservative generation.
Prop 50: +58
Sherril: +37
Spanberger: +40
Mamdani: +61
I better see the media start retracting some of those stories saying Gen Z is the most conservative generation.