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Published: January 23, 2025 13:31

Renewable energy now makes up nearly half of EU energy generation, up from about a third in 2019, when the European Green Deal became law. Another 24% of its power comes from nuclear, meaning that nearly three-quarters of the EU’s power is now…

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Published: January 23, 2025 13:24

📢 Trump's top-line climate disinformation strategy combines 4 tactics—Sleight-of-Hand, Fossil Fuel as the Main Character, Gaslighting, and Flood the Zone with Shit—to construct the lie that Democrats (not climate disasters) are killing people. Find out…

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Published: January 22, 2025 21:45

Are you tried of my book posts yet? Gah! Well here's one more. (I worked for 6 years on this book. It dismantles disinformation in climate science, economics, geopolitics, technology & more—and, polling shows, it raises support for fossil-fuel phaseout by…

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Published: January 22, 2025 19:20

For what it's worth, Google books has a nearly *hour-long* freebee of my audiobook (read by yours truly) up on YouTube. You'll get the preface, the introduction, and most of Chapter 1, I think! You can check it out here:…

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Published: January 22, 2025 18:08

I loved this talk — the questions were so knowledgable and focused on *practical strategies* for our political situation. Recording to come soon! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 22, 2025 15:38

And let's not forget China's 1+N policies — their all of government, all of society climate policies for decarbonizing energy, industry, the built environment, agriculture and for creating culture and behavior change. [contains quote post or other…

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Published: January 22, 2025 15:32

"Vaclav Havel described hope as 'a dimension of the soul; it’s not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart'." …

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Published: January 22, 2025 12:34

I'm truly not going to be able to keep reading the New York Times if they keep printing these breathless, hot-for-Trump headlines. "Muscular"? "Muscular Vision"? Come on.

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Published: January 22, 2025 12:26

I wonder what happened to the "Major Questions Doctrine." 🤔

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Published: January 22, 2025 12:03

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Published: January 21, 2025 23:16

The problem w the "abundance agenda" in this political moment is that fossil-fuel authoritarianism is all about using the power of the state to enrich your friends. The free market — lowering dirty energy demand through prices — is done. [contains quote…

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Published: January 21, 2025 23:05

One day — maybe even during the second Trump administration, who knows! — everybody who works in climate and energy will stop taking fossil-energy interests' speech (including policy proposals) at face value. That day will be a great day!

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Published: January 21, 2025 15:49

Economists and policymakers underestimate how much our economy relies on "nature" largely leaving us alone.

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Published: January 21, 2025 12:14

Why did Trump suspend energy efficiency and fuel economy rules? @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social explains: to create demand for oil and gas in an already saturated US market.

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Published: January 21, 2025 11:40

We're in deep trouble when Fox News is the only media willing to speak the truth about Nazi influences in the US government. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 21, 2025 11:18

This snapshot of top climate news on @carbonbrief.org really captures global climate politics in this historical moment: full-on denial in the US, ambivalence and greenwashing in the UK, and a new implementation of 1+N, a "zone specific environmental…

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Published: January 21, 2025 02:34

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Published: January 21, 2025 00:59

ok NOW can we agree that Elon Musk is not an ally of the climate movement? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 21, 2025 00:52

Here's Trump signing the order to pull us out of the #ParisAgreement. I'm not much of a Freudian, but I can say that if "the death drive" exists I think we're looking at it.

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Published: January 20, 2025 20:12

What a great review 🧵! My book was useful 🥰 (It's hard to feel like one's efforts matter, on a day like today, so I'm extra grateful for this.) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 20, 2025 20:05

I take some comfort that Trump is old.

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Published: January 20, 2025 17:00

Trump declaring an "energy emergency," aggregating more powers to himself so as to ram through unnecessary & deadly fossil-fuel development, is all the more infuriating becuz the Dems have refused to declare a climate emergency, leaving the space wide open…

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Published: January 19, 2025 12:51

It's like that old-time subway scam, in which one person pretends to steal your wallet and another fights them to get it back while pocketing all the cash that was in it. House Rs are the pretend thief in this allegory; Trump is the false savior, in case…

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Published: January 19, 2025 12:15

Super fascinating climate-communication study making the rounds today, thanks to @katharinehayhoe.com. Skeptics who changed their minds went through a three-step process, which began with a "distancing from their ideological community." 👇 🧵

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Published: January 17, 2025 20:23

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Published: January 17, 2025 14:33

On the same day that Google forced Gemini down my throat and my kid discovered AI in Google docs, the news is released that atmospheric CO2 concentrations are rising faster than ever. Our entire economy runs on climate denial. It's a ponzi scheme where we…

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Published: January 17, 2025 12:26

My kid uses Google docs for writing assignments (that's how his school assigns homework), and now an AI assistant is going to *offer to write his papers for him IN the document*?? Are they fucking serious??

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Published: January 16, 2025 13:52

"The global economy could face 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 from the catastrophic shocks of climate change unless immediate action by political leaders is taken to decarbonise and restore nature." …

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Published: January 16, 2025 13:32

"In a statement, Exxon said: 'At some point, our hope is that political figures around the country come to understand that ideological hatred for us doesn't mean we did anything wrong'." This is textbook gaslighting, turning the criminal into the victim. …

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Published: January 16, 2025 13:25

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Published: January 16, 2025 01:23

Between the LA mayor allowing gas stoves into new home builds and Trump's DOE pick, a fracking executive, getting an easy confirmation hearing, I'd say today offered some stark evidence of the Democrats' comfort with fossil fuels. (Climate change will…

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Published: January 15, 2025 22:12

is this supply-side progressivism? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 15, 2025 22:12

This move is the upshot of political bullying and intimidation. The Republicans are monstrous climate deniers who attack Bass from all sides. Bass is scared that she'll be blamed for people's suffering, and she doesn't know how to defend herself — or go on…

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Published: January 15, 2025 16:09

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Published: January 14, 2025 18:56

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Published: January 14, 2025 14:32

Here's the thing. Our world will heat up, and the climate break down, until after we phase out fossil fuels and create an effective zero-emissions economy. If we give up on that fight when we cross 1.5, or any target, then we give up on saving whatever…

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Published: January 14, 2025 13:01

This past summer the CA Supreme Court removed the prohibition against punishing homeless people for camping if they have nowhere else to go. I fear this is just the beginning of irrecoverable trauma for people and families who cannot afford to pay $8000 in…

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Published: January 14, 2025 02:06

this map is insane

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Published: January 13, 2025 22:16

This is a big deal. The court's decision to allow the Hawaii case to proceed sustains the nearly 40 other climate liability cases in state courts. 🤞 [contains quote post or other embedded content]