@rachelruysch.bsky.social
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Any particular “high income country” you can think of, @cnn.com ?
International leaders and philanthropists, including Bill Gates, announced $1.9 billion in funding to advance polio eradication, but a large funding gap remains after high-income countries’ reductions in foreign aid. https://cnn.it/48BfHpK
December 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Any particular “high income country” you can think of, @cnn.com ?
The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers. Experts say this could lead to the fast approval of new types of forever chemicals — with limited oversight.
grist.org/accountabili...
grist.org/accountabili...
The Trump administration’s data center push could open the door for new forever chemicals
The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers. Experts say this could lead to the fast approval of new types of forever chemicals — with limited oversight.
grist.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers. Experts say this could lead to the fast approval of new types of forever chemicals — with limited oversight.
grist.org/accountabili...
grist.org/accountabili...
“We are looking to serve our 300 million member households,” Stewart said “They are as diverse as the biodiversity of a healthy forest. And so you can’t tell one story. You have to tell a multitude.”
Which is exactly right, I think. Tell stories for everybody.
@sammyroth.bsky.social
Which is exactly right, I think. Tell stories for everybody.
@sammyroth.bsky.social
Netflix's 'Train Dreams' is a deeply moving climate drama — sort of
Director Clint Bentley he wanted the film to feel like “a love letter to nature, and to our interconnectedness to the natural world.”
substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“We are looking to serve our 300 million member households,” Stewart said “They are as diverse as the biodiversity of a healthy forest. And so you can’t tell one story. You have to tell a multitude.”
Which is exactly right, I think. Tell stories for everybody.
@sammyroth.bsky.social
Which is exactly right, I think. Tell stories for everybody.
@sammyroth.bsky.social
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“We tell ourselves that because we can model a biosphere, we can manage it. That if we can monitor an extinction, we can reverse it. That if we can measure CO₂ to the tenth of a part per million, we can command its consequences.”
Physics does not favor life; it measures entropy. And evolution is not foresight; it is drift and chance.... Corals do not adapt to the rate of change we’ve unleashed. They bleach, they die, they disappear. @race2extinct.bsky.social
Grok and the Evolution of Reasonable Denial
How techno-optimism became the softest form of ecological dishonesty
substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
“We tell ourselves that because we can model a biosphere, we can manage it. That if we can monitor an extinction, we can reverse it. That if we can measure CO₂ to the tenth of a part per million, we can command its consequences.”
literally ALL OF US want this man FIRED www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...
MAHA Activists Urge Trump to Fire His E.P.A. Administrator
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM
literally ALL OF US want this man FIRED www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...
When owners of brittle assets refuse to acknowledge risks, and badger those who identify risks into silence — as has been going on for years — they sabotage the ability of our governments to plan rationally to ruggedize against those risks.
@alexsteffen.bsky.social
@alexsteffen.bsky.social
Will your next home be a climate lemon?
Efforts to suppress disclosure of grave climate risks in brittle areas cheat buyers and sabotage communities.
alexsteffen.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
When owners of brittle assets refuse to acknowledge risks, and badger those who identify risks into silence — as has been going on for years — they sabotage the ability of our governments to plan rationally to ruggedize against those risks.
@alexsteffen.bsky.social
@alexsteffen.bsky.social
Physics does not favor life; it measures entropy. And evolution is not foresight; it is drift and chance.... Corals do not adapt to the rate of change we’ve unleashed. They bleach, they die, they disappear. @race2extinct.bsky.social
Grok and the Evolution of Reasonable Denial
How techno-optimism became the softest form of ecological dishonesty
substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Physics does not favor life; it measures entropy. And evolution is not foresight; it is drift and chance.... Corals do not adapt to the rate of change we’ve unleashed. They bleach, they die, they disappear. @race2extinct.bsky.social
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If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder
No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted.
www.thenation.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
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When Elie Mystal and George Will have taken the same stand, you know you are in deep trouble. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
When Elie Mystal and George Will have taken the same stand, you know you are in deep trouble. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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I said this would be the Republican justices play. Let Texas use the racist maps now. Later they’ll say it’s “too late” to change them.
Supreme Court Clears the Way for Republican-Friendly Texas Voting Maps
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I said this would be the Republican justices play. Let Texas use the racist maps now. Later they’ll say it’s “too late” to change them.
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Under current and future Supreme Court doctrine, Congress cannot insulate public-health experts from being replaced by an anti-vaccine secretary or president.
The unitary executive theory kills people.
The unitary executive theory kills people.
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Under current and future Supreme Court doctrine, Congress cannot insulate public-health experts from being replaced by an anti-vaccine secretary or president.
The unitary executive theory kills people.
The unitary executive theory kills people.
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Will someone release the video so we can shut down these disgusting excuses?
WELKER: Lawmakers say the 2 men appeared to raise their arms potentially to surrender. Why did Admiral Bradley interpret these actions as anything other than them trying to survive?
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Will someone release the video so we can shut down these disgusting excuses?
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After that, the extra-contaminated water leaves Amazon’s data center, it then gets dumped and sprayed across local farmland in Oregon. From there, the contaminated water soaks straight into the aquifer that 45,000 people drink from.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
December 6, 2025 at 4:15 AM
We need probabilistic, future-conditions, multi-peril mapping data that is public and subject to norms of oversight and transparency.
@scrawford.bsky.social
susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/zillows-cl...
@scrawford.bsky.social
susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/zillows-cl...
Zillow’s climate risk reversal looks like a setback. It’s really a wake‑up call.
When private models sow confusion, it’s a flashing warning sign that Washington needs to fix federal flood maps,
susanpcrawford.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
We need probabilistic, future-conditions, multi-peril mapping data that is public and subject to norms of oversight and transparency.
@scrawford.bsky.social
susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/zillows-cl...
@scrawford.bsky.social
susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/zillows-cl...
When private models sow confusion, it’s a flashing warning sign that Washington needs to fix federal flood maps @scrawford.bsky.social
susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/zillows-cl...
susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/zillows-cl...
Zillow’s climate risk reversal looks like a setback. It’s really a wake‑up call.
When private models sow confusion, it’s a flashing warning sign that Washington needs to fix federal flood maps,
susanpcrawford.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
When private models sow confusion, it’s a flashing warning sign that Washington needs to fix federal flood maps @scrawford.bsky.social
susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/zillows-cl...
susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/zillows-cl...
The federal grazing system, propped up by subsidies and access to 375,000 square miles of the West, disproportionately benefits billionaires, mining companies and large corporate outfits. www.propublica.org/series/free-...
Free Range Archives
The federal grazing system, propped up by subsidies and access to 375,000 square miles of the West, disproportionately benefits billionaires, mining companies and large corporate outfits. Dwindling ov...
www.propublica.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The federal grazing system, propped up by subsidies and access to 375,000 square miles of the West, disproportionately benefits billionaires, mining companies and large corporate outfits. www.propublica.org/series/free-...
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SCOTUS is broken, corrupt, captured and in desperate need of reform.
December 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
SCOTUS is broken, corrupt, captured and in desperate need of reform.
A homeowner in New Orleans said their total home insurance costs, including flood protection, had jumped to about $21,100 a year, up from $3,800 in 2015.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
America’s Home Insurance Affordability Crunch: See What’s Happening Near You.
A climate ‘shock’ in the insurance market has started to affect home prices in areas most exposed to wildfires and hurricanes, new research shows.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
A homeowner in New Orleans said their total home insurance costs, including flood protection, had jumped to about $21,100 a year, up from $3,800 in 2015.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
😭😭😭 The site removed the feature after real estate agents and some homeowners alleged that the scores appear arbitrary and hurt sales.
You know what hurts sales? Wildfires and floods. The ostrich approach won't work FOREVER!!!!
You know what hurts sales? Wildfires and floods. The ostrich approach won't work FOREVER!!!!
Zillow deletes climate risk data from listings after complaints it harms sales
The site removed the feature after real estate agents and some homeowners alleged that the scores appear arbitrary and hurt sales.
grist.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
😭😭😭 The site removed the feature after real estate agents and some homeowners alleged that the scores appear arbitrary and hurt sales.
You know what hurts sales? Wildfires and floods. The ostrich approach won't work FOREVER!!!!
You know what hurts sales? Wildfires and floods. The ostrich approach won't work FOREVER!!!!
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Breaking News!
Code Yikes!
PIOMAS just posted their Arctic sea-ice volume data for September, October and November (catching up after the Gov't shutdown).
Here is the volume data, 1979 - 2025, showing a record low for both October and November:
psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro...
Code Yikes!
PIOMAS just posted their Arctic sea-ice volume data for September, October and November (catching up after the Gov't shutdown).
Here is the volume data, 1979 - 2025, showing a record low for both October and November:
psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro...
December 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Breaking News!
Code Yikes!
PIOMAS just posted their Arctic sea-ice volume data for September, October and November (catching up after the Gov't shutdown).
Here is the volume data, 1979 - 2025, showing a record low for both October and November:
psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro...
Code Yikes!
PIOMAS just posted their Arctic sea-ice volume data for September, October and November (catching up after the Gov't shutdown).
Here is the volume data, 1979 - 2025, showing a record low for both October and November:
psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro...
“You cannot look at just climate change without … talking about population growth, and nobody is talking about population growth,” Keeley said.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: Amid catastrophic loss, the unshakable allure of the San Gabriel Mountains
Majesty and mayhem have lived together in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains through decades of deadly fires and floods. In the push to rebuild after the Eaton fire, I sought out wise voices a...
www.latimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“You cannot look at just climate change without … talking about population growth, and nobody is talking about population growth,” Keeley said.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Yea, because realtors know that the housing market will collapse if people truly understood the risks....
Also, for more info follow @scrawford.bsky.social on all things climate and insurance and housing
Also, for more info follow @scrawford.bsky.social on all things climate and insurance and housing
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Yea, because realtors know that the housing market will collapse if people truly understood the risks....
Also, for more info follow @scrawford.bsky.social on all things climate and insurance and housing
Also, for more info follow @scrawford.bsky.social on all things climate and insurance and housing
"It took decades of unsustainable water consumption for the Great Salt Lake to shrink to its current state, Johnson noted, and it will take decades for it to refill"
Um... the west is aridifying? Where is additional water is going to come from????
grist.org/health/dust-...
Um... the west is aridifying? Where is additional water is going to come from????
grist.org/health/dust-...
A drying Great Salt Lake is spewing toxic dust. It could cost Utah billions.
A new report from two environmental groups says elected officials and scientists aren't taking the problem seriously enough.
grist.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"It took decades of unsustainable water consumption for the Great Salt Lake to shrink to its current state, Johnson noted, and it will take decades for it to refill"
Um... the west is aridifying? Where is additional water is going to come from????
grist.org/health/dust-...
Um... the west is aridifying? Where is additional water is going to come from????
grist.org/health/dust-...
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After that, the extra-contaminated water leaves Amazon’s data center, it then gets dumped and sprayed across local farmland in Oregon. From there, the contaminated water soaks straight into the aquifer that 45,000 people drink from.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
December 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
After that, the extra-contaminated water leaves Amazon’s data center, it then gets dumped and sprayed across local farmland in Oregon. From there, the contaminated water soaks straight into the aquifer that 45,000 people drink from.