“If politicians had listened to scientists decades ago, and worked to gradually rein in fossil fuel pollution, the ocean wouldn’t be so boiling hot—and Hurricane Milton wouldn’t have had the fuel to balloon into such a monster storm,” writes Kathy Baughman McLeod heated.world/p/milton-is-a-…

St. Petersburg has received an insane amount of rain -- over 16" in last 24 hours... but notably: 5.09" fell between 8 and 9p alone, a 1-in-1,000 yr amount Flash flood emergency for Tampa Bay area until 230a. Some of the 24-hour rainfall amounts:

Nearly 7 inches of rain has fallen in 1 hour in St. Petersburg, Florida, a more than 1-in-1,000-year rain event. A month's worth of rain falling in one hour. Catastrophic flooding ongoing.

Peak wind gusts so far. St Pete just gusted to 101! The western side of this storm has much stronger wind and rainfall as forecast. WFLA NEWS

"Energy policies must break the cycle of sacrificing our communities. Instead, we must collectively move forward towards a just and equitable clean energy future.” WE ACT for EJ 's Leslie Fields weact.org/2024/10/over-1…

Climate writer David Wallace-Wells discusses how U.S.-based "climate narcissism" overlooks the devastating impacts of worsening natural disasters around the world despite the U.S.'s outsized role in the global climate crisis.

100s dead, over $100 billion in damages from #Helene. Still discovering the deaths from #Milton, but likely over $60 billion in damages. Both made more likely and super charged by climate change. Anyone saying we can't afford to transition off fossil fuels is lying to you.

Don’t let the spookiness fool you—carbon capture is just a ghostly trick! 👻 It’s a greenwashed illusion designed to distract us from real climate solutions. Let’s lay false solutions to rest and demand real climate action now! #GreenwashingExposed #NoFalseSolutions #NoCCS

Thank you to ⁦⁦The California Coast⁩ for issuing the stop work order for Sable’s Santa Ynez Unit! Please require a CDP for ALL activities in the coastal zone. Restarting this Unit would be a disaster! #EndFossilFuels ⁦Ctr4BioDiv Ocean⁩

This right here. Mary Annaïse Heglar nails it, as usual! teenvogue.com/story/hurrican…

One long-term legacy of large-scale tree blowdown from Helene in the southern Appalachians will likely be increased wildfire risk for some years to come whenever that "coarse woody debris" becomes very dry.

Climate change isn’t just a crisis, it’s a crime. ExxonMobil modeled global warming with “remarkable accuracy” in the 1970s but then ran full page ads in the New York Times questioning the science. It’s time to #MakePollutersPay. commondreams.org/opinion/make-p…

Oil companies have known for **decades** that fossil fuels would cause stronger, deadlier storms—and we have the receipts. We compiled internal documents dating back to 1979: heated.world/p/big-oil-knew…

Radioactive waste from as far away as Europe and Japan has been sent to the White Mesa Mill near the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation community of White Mesa. White Mesa has had enough. Support the community, join the Oct 12 spiritual and protest walk: protectwhitemesa.org

The only thing that needs to move is cash out of Big Oil’s coffers and into everyday people’s pockets. They’re destroying our planet, and our homes are next on the chopping block. We must #MakeThemPay. brnw.ch/21wNGxR

New World Weather Attribution study finds #Milton’s rainfall was made 20-30% more intense by Climate Change, the intensity of rain made 2X more likely. The storm made 10% more intense and storms of a similar intensity now have a 40% greater likelihood of occurring. worldweatherattribution.org/yet-another-hu…

A Letter from 118 U.S. Scientists on the Climate Impacts of the Energy Permitting Reform Act TO: Senate Democrats Senate Republicans House Democrats House Republicans Prof Michael E. Mann 350 dot org Bill McKibben Robert Howarth Rose Abramoff Dr. Aradhna Tripati 🏳️‍🌈 🦋 🐝 (she/hers) Prof. Farhana Sultana Mark Z. Jacobson

"He is committed to remaining non-alarmist, if the conditions warranted that, but the climate grief was wearing on him. 'Us meteorologists & climate scientists especially we feel a little crushed by all that’s going on, knowing that this was all coming'." newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

We are proud to join 100+ scientists warning that the Manchin-Barrasso "Permitting Reform Act" spells climate disaster. Read the letter!

"The U.S. military is the single largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the world. Militarism and war are key drivers of the climate crisis.” 350 dot org's Taylor Smith-Hams truthout.org/articles/us-mi…