Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"

My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)

The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?

Because Greta is right ..

Home insurance is in crisis, and Big Oil's lies are to blame.

"We’re never going to bend the curve of ever-rising insurance costs without addressing the core driver of higher prices: the worsening climate disasters that Big Oil knowingly made a reality," explains CCI's @iylas.bsky.social.

As I am one of the climate scientists he is referring to here - and I am a scientist who decided to dedicate her life to working on climate precisely because of how unjustly it disproportionately impacts the poor and vulnerable - let me clarify my rationale and thoughts below. 🧵

One of the best things I do for myself is that on every quiz in my Global Environment course I ask students to share what they consider the most important thing they learned and tell me why. The connections they make and their reflections moved me to tears this morning. Grateful tears.

Utilities and fossil fuel companies are raking in profits, while more and more families are choosing electricity or food.

Join me in supporting access to affordable and reliable clean energy! By pushing back against the misinformation standing in its way. share.sierraclub.org/s/EN2uN8Js

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

I feel like I really rocked at teaching this week because after teaching climate control knobs and showing how greenhouse gases are increasing, my students used the national climate assessment to learn about it some of the ways we are experiencing climate change and risks...

Thank you to all who stepped up to pull this together so quickly.

Like AGU's Elizabeth Landau, AGU is urging scientists to speak out.

Scientists: sign AGU’s letter to defend climate science by 12 Sept. ➡️ wkf.ms/4lRodWp

IMLS, the primary source of federal support for U.S. libraries and museums, is one of seven independent agencies that President Donald Trump wants to dismantle because he believes what they do is “unnecessary.” scim.ag/4iryNlY

John Oliver and team did an outstanding segment about how crucial NOAA is and how catastrophic it would be to privatize these services.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn...

Everyone is worse off with a reduced NOAA workforce. EVERYONE.

We literally make daily decisions due to expected weather conditions like grabbing an umbrella or securing furniture ahead of strong winds.

And anyone can access that information because it's already covered by taxpayer dollars.

The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs.
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

Alexandra, thanks for shedding light on the real ppl affected. Hope you’ll consider using your platform to sign/share our declaration to #defendresearch against censorship, resegregation and intimidation. We’re 1K strong and growing. All welcome to sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This morning, the US National Science Foundation fired 168 employees, approximately 10% of its workforce, for no cause other than they were the agency's most recent hires. 🧪

Co-workers are leaving supportive messages before they have to clear out of the building at 5 p.m. Sent to me by a source ⬇️