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Historian of religions at the University of Wyoming
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The clean energy transition is moving faster than many people realize—but it can also be slowed more easily than most of us expect.
As always, please read and share!
As always, please read and share!
How does change start? By showing up | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe
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January 15, 2026 at 12:07 AM
The clean energy transition is moving faster than many people realize—but it can also be slowed more easily than most of us expect.
As always, please read and share!
As always, please read and share!
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You can judge a person by the size of their moral circle. Trump, for instance, has the smallest possible moral circle, containing only him. Be the opposite: expand your circle. Include, for example, animals currently raised for food. We shut them out of our consciences. It's time to bring them in.
January 11, 2026 at 9:08 AM
You can judge a person by the size of their moral circle. Trump, for instance, has the smallest possible moral circle, containing only him. Be the opposite: expand your circle. Include, for example, animals currently raised for food. We shut them out of our consciences. It's time to bring them in.
I want to see a side by side video with Charlie Chaplin on the left and Steven Miller on the right, switching between their most significant quotes. Could Chaplin illuminate Miller’s shortcomings best?
January 7, 2026 at 8:51 PM
I want to see a side by side video with Charlie Chaplin on the left and Steven Miller on the right, switching between their most significant quotes. Could Chaplin illuminate Miller’s shortcomings best?
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Remember that there is a legitimately elected president of Venezuela: Edmundo Gonzalez. He won the election in 2024.
January 3, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Remember that there is a legitimately elected president of Venezuela: Edmundo Gonzalez. He won the election in 2024.
Listening to Natalie Merchant singing “Which side are you on boys?” I’m thinking a new organizing song might be “Which Earth are you on boys?” And I want 10,000 Peace maniacs to join with and hit every place of violence to make a wedge big enough to give a soldier a space to drop their weapon.
December 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Listening to Natalie Merchant singing “Which side are you on boys?” I’m thinking a new organizing song might be “Which Earth are you on boys?” And I want 10,000 Peace maniacs to join with and hit every place of violence to make a wedge big enough to give a soldier a space to drop their weapon.
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One of the difficult things about the conditions we find ourselves facing now is that they were incredibly predictable… and predicted.
Perpetual reminder: extreme rainfall events increase due to #globalheating. Weather station data show what has been predicted for over 30 years by climate scientists. These extremes are now far outside the historical climate.
Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
One of the difficult things about the conditions we find ourselves facing now is that they were incredibly predictable… and predicted.
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On average, Christmas Day was 15.4F above the 1991-2020 normal. Seems warm. Seems bad.
December 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
On average, Christmas Day was 15.4F above the 1991-2020 normal. Seems warm. Seems bad.
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Check out this great interview with ice-coring legend Lonnie Thompson on @thedailyshow.com. youtu.be/oQoXNtcfwvA
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Lonnie Thompson - “Canary” & Letting Glaciers Tell Their Story | The Daily Show
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December 13, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Check out this great interview with ice-coring legend Lonnie Thompson on @thedailyshow.com. youtu.be/oQoXNtcfwvA
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Important and true. Most people do not want to trash out our home.
A huge 89% majority of global people [56% even in the United States] want stronger action to fight the #ClimateCrisis, but mistakenly believe they’re in a minority.
People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action.
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action.
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Important and true. Most people do not want to trash out our home.
Reading list for long winter nights.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Reading list for long winter nights.
Curious about questions of human agency in relationship to zeitgeist and other kinds of animating energy? www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
The Hammer and the Flute
Women, Power, and Spirit Possession
www.press.jhu.edu
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Curious about questions of human agency in relationship to zeitgeist and other kinds of animating energy? www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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Our govt is adapting to the impacts of climate change. And it's opposite to the transformative adaptation we need.
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
This is a great article from @theconversation.com
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theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
This is a great article from @theconversation.com
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How the rich world is fortifying itself against climate migration
Climate change is already linked to mass deportation – and the worst is still to come.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Strategic response plea:
Roger Pielke Jr. is being advertised as a “highly cited climate, energy and science policy researcher” in a faculty listserve mailing by a Business college near me. Could be trustees promoting him to bus faculty. Is there a fac listserve reply to be made?
Roger Pielke Jr. is being advertised as a “highly cited climate, energy and science policy researcher” in a faculty listserve mailing by a Business college near me. Could be trustees promoting him to bus faculty. Is there a fac listserve reply to be made?
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Strategic response plea:
Roger Pielke Jr. is being advertised as a “highly cited climate, energy and science policy researcher” in a faculty listserve mailing by a Business college near me. Could be trustees promoting him to bus faculty. Is there a fac listserve reply to be made?
Roger Pielke Jr. is being advertised as a “highly cited climate, energy and science policy researcher” in a faculty listserve mailing by a Business college near me. Could be trustees promoting him to bus faculty. Is there a fac listserve reply to be made?
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Meet the coal miner who just started a geothermal drilling business #energysky -- via Canary Media:
Meet the coal miner who just started a geothermal drilling business
A Colorado entrepreneur is going all in on a renewable energy source that will keep him digging — and could be a model for other miners looking beyond…
www.canarymedia.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Meet the coal miner who just started a geothermal drilling business #energysky -- via Canary Media:
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He says his requests for a lawyer, and for a shower to ease the discomforts of tear gas and pepper spray residues, were ignored. After three days... an agent told him the charges against him had been dropped. “What charges?” he recalls asking. Silence.
He says his requests for a lawyer, and for a shower to ease the discomforts of tear gas and pepper spray residues, were ignored. After three days... an agent told him the charges against him had been dropped. “What charges?” he recalls asking. Silence.
Opinion | When ICE came for a U.S. citizen and Army veteran
George Retes is suing the federal government for unconstitutional detention.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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He says his requests for a lawyer, and for a shower to ease the discomforts of tear gas and pepper spray residues, were ignored. After three days... an agent told him the charges against him had been dropped. “What charges?” he recalls asking. Silence.
He says his requests for a lawyer, and for a shower to ease the discomforts of tear gas and pepper spray residues, were ignored. After three days... an agent told him the charges against him had been dropped. “What charges?” he recalls asking. Silence.
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It's an army. Without the discipline and accountability the US Military has (at best).
1. ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal gov't data by Popular Information.
Records reveal ICE has increased spending on “small arms" — a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives — by 700% compared to 2024 levels
Records reveal ICE has increased spending on “small arms" — a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives — by 700% compared to 2024 levels
October 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
It's an army. Without the discipline and accountability the US Military has (at best).
Can anyone tell me why the phrase “aligning with the President’s political priorities” has legal standing for actions the current administration is undertaking? Isn’t the President’s power to faithfully execute the laws? The phrase sounds to me like an invention; akin to tweeting policy.
October 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Can anyone tell me why the phrase “aligning with the President’s political priorities” has legal standing for actions the current administration is undertaking? Isn’t the President’s power to faithfully execute the laws? The phrase sounds to me like an invention; akin to tweeting policy.
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Canada take note. Coal *and gas*
Renewables cut fossil fuel imports in 100+ countries!
“More than 100 countries have cut their dependence on fossil-fuel imports & saved hundreds of billions of $ by continuing to invest in renewables,” reports Carbon Brief, based on data from IEA.
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...
“More than 100 countries have cut their dependence on fossil-fuel imports & saved hundreds of billions of $ by continuing to invest in renewables,” reports Carbon Brief, based on data from IEA.
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...
IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries - Carbon Brief
More than 100 countries have cut their dependence on fossil-fuel imports and saved hundreds of billions of dollars by continuing to invest in renewables
www.carbonbrief.org
October 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Canada take note. Coal *and gas*
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‘“A hundred and fifteen years that they haven’t been here, and they still have that GPS unit inside of them,” said the visibly giddy Klamath Tribal Chair William Ray, Jr. “It’s truly an awesome feat if you think about the gauntlet they had to go through.”’
Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers
Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.
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October 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
‘“A hundred and fifteen years that they haven’t been here, and they still have that GPS unit inside of them,” said the visibly giddy Klamath Tribal Chair William Ray, Jr. “It’s truly an awesome feat if you think about the gauntlet they had to go through.”’
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For so long, fossil fuel projects have said their contribution to climate change is "negligible".
Turns out that's wrong.
Our research in NPJ Climate Action proves it.
Every tonne of CO2 matters.
@21stcenturyweather.bsky.social
@minderoo.bsky.social
#climatechange
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Turns out that's wrong.
Our research in NPJ Climate Action proves it.
Every tonne of CO2 matters.
@21stcenturyweather.bsky.social
@minderoo.bsky.social
#climatechange
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making
www.nature.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
For so long, fossil fuel projects have said their contribution to climate change is "negligible".
Turns out that's wrong.
Our research in NPJ Climate Action proves it.
Every tonne of CO2 matters.
@21stcenturyweather.bsky.social
@minderoo.bsky.social
#climatechange
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Turns out that's wrong.
Our research in NPJ Climate Action proves it.
Every tonne of CO2 matters.
@21stcenturyweather.bsky.social
@minderoo.bsky.social
#climatechange
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Combustion is the past, electricity is the future, pass it on.
October 9, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Combustion is the past, electricity is the future, pass it on.
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The day before Jan 6, the 10 living Secretaries of Defense wrote about the danger of politicizing the military. Their words are essential rereading today. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Pete Hegseth and the Generals
The story of self-styled “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth’s meeting for top military leaders has evolved since the earliest leaks last week.
open.substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
The day before Jan 6, the 10 living Secretaries of Defense wrote about the danger of politicizing the military. Their words are essential rereading today. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Every single DC journalist should be spending this afternoon/evening finding Speaker Johnson & John Thune & asking them why the impeachment/removal has not happened yet, & continuing to hammer them with the same question over & over & over & over again & not accepting the boilerplate non-answers.
The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
September 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Every single DC journalist should be spending this afternoon/evening finding Speaker Johnson & John Thune & asking them why the impeachment/removal has not happened yet, & continuing to hammer them with the same question over & over & over & over again & not accepting the boilerplate non-answers.