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prof of environmental media @uoregon
livingston award, peabody, murrow award
fmr cnn, harvard/ mit fellow
if you talk to people about climate change you need to know these six key facts. from @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"The announcement indicated that Tonga... could move forward with recognizing whales as legal persons and appointing human guardians to represent them in court."

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Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales - Inside Climate News
At the U.N. Ocean Conference, Tonga’s princess called for recognition of whales’ legal rights. The move is one of several rights of nature initiatives happening at the conference.
insideclimatenews.org
June 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Vital and encouraging news via @revkin.bsky.social and @carbonbrief.org
China's CO2 Flow Drops Despite Growing Electricity Demand
Wind, solar and nuclear growth appears to be driving a big shift (for now).
revkin.substack.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Love this
A potentially game-changing climate story has been hiding in plain sight — until now.

Today marks the launch of #The89Percent Project, a yearlong global journalistic effort to highlight the vast majority of people who care about climate change and want their governments to do something about it.
April 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Reposted by jdsutter
Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury
Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Majorities in almost every state (47 of em) support the transition to 100% clean energy, away from fossil fuels....
Yale Climate Opinion Maps 2024 - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
Explore climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, and policy support at every geographic level in the United States.
climatecommunication.yale.edu
March 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"Meteorologists and computer engineers across NOAA were impacted, including at the Hurricane Research Division... Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, and the division that develops and improves the United States’ weather models."
Trump officials fire 800 employees at weather forecasting and oceans agency | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has its government-shrinking sights set on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where around 800 employees have been tapped for termination, according to two s...
www.cnn.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
ok maybe i'll start actually using this...
February 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"11% of Americans have considered moving to avoid the impacts of global warming." 👀
Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Fall 2024
Two-thirds of Americans think global warming is affecting weather in the U.S.
climatecommunication.yale.edu
February 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Yup, it's that time of the year again, when reporters need to find a scientist to give them a quote for their article. To save time, I've come up with this.
Calls/emails from reporters asking for a comment on last's years temperature are coming earlier than normal this year. Time to dust off my "last year was hot" auto-response.
January 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM