Matt Rissler
@risslerm.bsky.social
Dad, PhD in Applied Math, Climate Change mitigator, coder.
Reposted by Matt Rissler
For so many of us, it's our daily habit & rhythm to plop ourselves down each evening for an hour (or 2? 5?) of TV, gaming, &/or social media. But Sabbath time is also part of the rhythm of a healthy life. It is indeed both a gift to us & a gift to the world.
#adventcalendar #climateaction #sabbath
#adventcalendar #climateaction #sabbath
December 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
For so many of us, it's our daily habit & rhythm to plop ourselves down each evening for an hour (or 2? 5?) of TV, gaming, &/or social media. But Sabbath time is also part of the rhythm of a healthy life. It is indeed both a gift to us & a gift to the world.
#adventcalendar #climateaction #sabbath
#adventcalendar #climateaction #sabbath
Reposted by Matt Rissler
Reposted by Matt Rissler
"Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims."
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims."
Reposted by Matt Rissler
The attached screen grab should make everybody who programs AI systems pay attention. As programmers, we should never forget that so-called AI is just numbers and probabilities.
1/10
1/10
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The attached screen grab should make everybody who programs AI systems pay attention. As programmers, we should never forget that so-called AI is just numbers and probabilities.
1/10
1/10
Reposted by Matt Rissler
Remember - if you're financially in a position to do so, skip the #BlackFriday deals online from big companies and shop instead from small and local businesses.
The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.
The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Remember - if you're financially in a position to do so, skip the #BlackFriday deals online from big companies and shop instead from small and local businesses.
The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.
The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.
Reposted by Matt Rissler
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Reposted by Matt Rissler
This graphic predicts future temperatures, based on continued accelerated warming:
1.50°C by 2026
2.00°C by 2036
2.50°C by 2045
2.85°C by 2050
Of course, a lot of non-linearities are possible before 2050. Like a net-zero, carbon-free, sustainable vegan utopia. Or the other ...
1.50°C by 2026
2.00°C by 2036
2.50°C by 2045
2.85°C by 2050
Of course, a lot of non-linearities are possible before 2050. Like a net-zero, carbon-free, sustainable vegan utopia. Or the other ...
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This graphic predicts future temperatures, based on continued accelerated warming:
1.50°C by 2026
2.00°C by 2036
2.50°C by 2045
2.85°C by 2050
Of course, a lot of non-linearities are possible before 2050. Like a net-zero, carbon-free, sustainable vegan utopia. Or the other ...
1.50°C by 2026
2.00°C by 2036
2.50°C by 2045
2.85°C by 2050
Of course, a lot of non-linearities are possible before 2050. Like a net-zero, carbon-free, sustainable vegan utopia. Or the other ...
I plan on doing it with my family.
Join faith communities in Iowa as they embark on a journey of environmental care with our Climate Action Advent Calendar. This free resource ignites discussions, motivates change & fosters spiritual reflection. Get your customizable calendar for personal or church use today!
2025 Climate Action Advent Calendar | Iowa Faith & Climate Network
This calendar provides you with a meaningful way to celebrate the seasons of Advent, Christmas & Epiphany while caring for our climate.
iowafaithandclimate.org
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I plan on doing it with my family.
Reposted by Matt Rissler
Would you rather keep a monster in a basement, or send it to the graveyard where it belongs?
Heat pumps do the same thing that your stinky old furnace does, while making your home safer, quieter, more efficient, and more comfortable at the same time.
Ditch your monsters. Electrify!
Heat pumps do the same thing that your stinky old furnace does, while making your home safer, quieter, more efficient, and more comfortable at the same time.
Ditch your monsters. Electrify!
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Would you rather keep a monster in a basement, or send it to the graveyard where it belongs?
Heat pumps do the same thing that your stinky old furnace does, while making your home safer, quieter, more efficient, and more comfortable at the same time.
Ditch your monsters. Electrify!
Heat pumps do the same thing that your stinky old furnace does, while making your home safer, quieter, more efficient, and more comfortable at the same time.
Ditch your monsters. Electrify!
I mean...if they had stayed in the country, labor costs would have been lower, but now those sectors have a hard time finding workers, increasing costs. Now who wanted them to leave?
The DHS blamed immigrants for a number of problems known to be caused by outside economic factors.
Department Of Homeland Security Blames Immigrants For Grocery Prices And Healthcare Costs
The DHS blamed immigrants for a number of problems known to be caused by outside economic factors.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I mean...if they had stayed in the country, labor costs would have been lower, but now those sectors have a hard time finding workers, increasing costs. Now who wanted them to leave?
Reposted by Matt Rissler
TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
Reposted by Matt Rissler
Read this interview with @peterthorne.bsky.social to understand how dire the situation is with respect to US science funding. The US has played an outsized role in Earth observations and global coordination, and even if other nations decide to step in, it would take at least a decade to recover.
Without US satellites, 'we go dark', climate monitor tells AFP
US budget cuts risk creating blind spots in Earth monitoring systems that would imperil weather forecasting and climate research for years to come, the deputy chair of a key UN-backed climate monitori...
www.france24.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Read this interview with @peterthorne.bsky.social to understand how dire the situation is with respect to US science funding. The US has played an outsized role in Earth observations and global coordination, and even if other nations decide to step in, it would take at least a decade to recover.
Reposted by Matt Rissler
We can map the world's existing forests with incredible accuracy now, but clearly we cannot (or will not) stop them from disappearing at rapid rates almost everywhere. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
Natural forests of the world – a 2020 baseline for deforestation and degradation monitoring - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Natural forests of the world – a 2020 baseline for deforestation and degradation monitoring
www.nature.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
We can map the world's existing forests with incredible accuracy now, but clearly we cannot (or will not) stop them from disappearing at rapid rates almost everywhere. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
I'm running generative AI on my own computer so I feel the pain of asking an LLM a question or generating an image.
November 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I'm running generative AI on my own computer so I feel the pain of asking an LLM a question or generating an image.
Reposted by Matt Rissler
If you are writing an opinion piece about higher education and the three example institutions you use are Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, please just throw your writing in the trash. You are not writing about higher ed, you are writing about a tiny elitist unrepresentative sliver of higher ed.
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
If you are writing an opinion piece about higher education and the three example institutions you use are Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, please just throw your writing in the trash. You are not writing about higher ed, you are writing about a tiny elitist unrepresentative sliver of higher ed.
Reposted by Matt Rissler
Oh look, by the end of this accursed century, methane emissions from lakes and reservoirs will increase by 24% under a low-emissions scenario, or up to 91% under a very-high emissions scenario, according to a new study published in Nature Water.
#collapse
#collapse
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Oh look, by the end of this accursed century, methane emissions from lakes and reservoirs will increase by 24% under a low-emissions scenario, or up to 91% under a very-high emissions scenario, according to a new study published in Nature Water.
#collapse
#collapse
Reposted by Matt Rissler
The US has abdicated any role in fighting the most urgent threat to human welfare in history, so other countries need to step up and figure out how to do it without us.
How to fight climate change without the US: a guide to global action
With the US government absent from the COP30 global climate summit, it will be up to others to avert catastrophe.
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The US has abdicated any role in fighting the most urgent threat to human welfare in history, so other countries need to step up and figure out how to do it without us.
Reposted by Matt Rissler
Well, yeah.
The US will lose its measles elimination status because measles is now endemic, here - that's when there's uninterrupted transmission from an outbreak that goes on for at least 12 months.
& watch out, Canadian friends 🇨🇦 - you're on our heels.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/meas...
The US will lose its measles elimination status because measles is now endemic, here - that's when there's uninterrupted transmission from an outbreak that goes on for at least 12 months.
& watch out, Canadian friends 🇨🇦 - you're on our heels.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/meas...
North America May Soon No Longer Be Officially Measles-Free, Experts Say
A meeting of the Pan American Health Organization this week will address the resurgence of measles in the Americas
www.scientificamerican.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Well, yeah.
The US will lose its measles elimination status because measles is now endemic, here - that's when there's uninterrupted transmission from an outbreak that goes on for at least 12 months.
& watch out, Canadian friends 🇨🇦 - you're on our heels.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/meas...
The US will lose its measles elimination status because measles is now endemic, here - that's when there's uninterrupted transmission from an outbreak that goes on for at least 12 months.
& watch out, Canadian friends 🇨🇦 - you're on our heels.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/meas...
Reposted by Matt Rissler
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
Reposted by Matt Rissler
Exciting news! Our upcoming Climate Action Advent Calendar is a fantastic resource for congregations looking to involve their members in easy climate actions. It's customizable & includes various usage ideas. Stay tuned for the big reveal in just a few days! #ClimateAction #Advent
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Exciting news! Our upcoming Climate Action Advent Calendar is a fantastic resource for congregations looking to involve their members in easy climate actions. It's customizable & includes various usage ideas. Stay tuned for the big reveal in just a few days! #ClimateAction #Advent
Reposted by Matt Rissler
Side note: Threats of military action notwithstanding, worth noting that any Christians fleeing religious persecution in Nigeria could not, at present, enter the U.S. as refugees, as the U.S. refugee program has been almost entirely frozen by Trump for months — save for Afrikaners from South Africa.
Trump threatens US military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians reut.rs/4qBrVXy
Trump threatens US military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has asked the Defense Department to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria if the Nigerian government "continues to allow the killing of Christians."
reut.rs
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Side note: Threats of military action notwithstanding, worth noting that any Christians fleeing religious persecution in Nigeria could not, at present, enter the U.S. as refugees, as the U.S. refugee program has been almost entirely frozen by Trump for months — save for Afrikaners from South Africa.
Reposted by Matt Rissler
Oh: Episcopal Diocese of TX says one of its priests, a “legally employed Kenyan clergy member who works for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice,” was detained by ICE this week while returning home from work and “calls on our representatives in power to assist.” www.epicenter.org/the-episcopa...
The Episcopal Diocese of Texas Calls for Justice After Detention of Clergy Member Employed by the State of Texas - EDOT
Houston, Texas -The Episcopal Diocese of Texas expresses deep concern and calls for action following the detention of one of its priests, a legally employed Kenyan clergy member who works for the Texa...
www.epicenter.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Oh: Episcopal Diocese of TX says one of its priests, a “legally employed Kenyan clergy member who works for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice,” was detained by ICE this week while returning home from work and “calls on our representatives in power to assist.” www.epicenter.org/the-episcopa...
Reposted by Matt Rissler
OCTOBER 2025 WORLDWIDE EXTREME TEMPERATURES
Northern Hemisphere Highest:46.7C Shabankareh (Iran) 1 October
NH Lowest:-50.0C Summit (Greenland) 29 October
Southern Hemisphere Highest:46.1C Birdsville (Australia) 21 October
SH Lowest:-67.6C Dome Fuji (Antarctica) 12 October
Northern Hemisphere Highest:46.7C Shabankareh (Iran) 1 October
NH Lowest:-50.0C Summit (Greenland) 29 October
Southern Hemisphere Highest:46.1C Birdsville (Australia) 21 October
SH Lowest:-67.6C Dome Fuji (Antarctica) 12 October
October 31, 2025 at 10:48 AM
OCTOBER 2025 WORLDWIDE EXTREME TEMPERATURES
Northern Hemisphere Highest:46.7C Shabankareh (Iran) 1 October
NH Lowest:-50.0C Summit (Greenland) 29 October
Southern Hemisphere Highest:46.1C Birdsville (Australia) 21 October
SH Lowest:-67.6C Dome Fuji (Antarctica) 12 October
Northern Hemisphere Highest:46.7C Shabankareh (Iran) 1 October
NH Lowest:-50.0C Summit (Greenland) 29 October
Southern Hemisphere Highest:46.1C Birdsville (Australia) 21 October
SH Lowest:-67.6C Dome Fuji (Antarctica) 12 October
I had hoped we'd start to plan annual circuit breaker weeks when seasonal diseases were ramping where every household isolated as best as possible and if anyone had symptoms during that time the household would isolate until symptoms were under control. But alas that may never come to pass.
The collateral benefits of the Covid pandemic response was a marked decrease in airborne and aerosol-transmitted infections via masking and non-pharmaceutical interventions
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Collateral effects of COVID-19 pandemic control on the US infectious disease landscape
Using data from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) disease surveillance systems, we sought to quantify the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the possibilit...
www.science.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I had hoped we'd start to plan annual circuit breaker weeks when seasonal diseases were ramping where every household isolated as best as possible and if anyone had symptoms during that time the household would isolate until symptoms were under control. But alas that may never come to pass.
Reposted by Matt Rissler
Kristi Noem swears that ICE is not detaining or arresting US citizens. This couldn't be further from the truth.
Our friends at @propublica.org found that more than 170 citizens have been held by immigration agents during the first nine months of Trump's second administration.
Our friends at @propublica.org found that more than 170 citizens have been held by immigration agents during the first nine months of Trump's second administration.
More than 170 US citizens have been held by immigration agents
ProPublica uncovered that Americans have been kicked, dragged, and detained for days.
www.motherjones.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Kristi Noem swears that ICE is not detaining or arresting US citizens. This couldn't be further from the truth.
Our friends at @propublica.org found that more than 170 citizens have been held by immigration agents during the first nine months of Trump's second administration.
Our friends at @propublica.org found that more than 170 citizens have been held by immigration agents during the first nine months of Trump's second administration.