Im exhausted but grateful for another opportunity to screen my films & talk to students about climate action today. If you are an educator of history or Earth science hmu I will do it for free. Hope is not an action and the status quo of my parents generation will kill us all.

Speaking personally joining UMAW has been a great way to learn organizing skills that could apply to a lot of other local struggles around here. Do you have your own thoughts or see things that arnt represented in creative communities? Show up to a meeting sometime. Join UMAW.

Good time to revisit the chapter about the Maroon communities in Great Dismal Swamp today.

They've got security fencing around the Jefferson statue.

As of 1pm EST CHO Airport sits at 81° and has tied the record high for the date set back in 1994.

Toronto breaks weather record merely a day after the world superpower elects a science denier who fails to understand that billions will die. Scientists cannot afford to be silent. We must stand united. toronto.citynews.ca/2024/11/06/tor… #ClimateChange

I cant believe the CDC is quietly rolling out a PSA for highly pathogenic H5N1 "Bird Flu" without explaining what an unprecedented & dire situation this is. Just to be clear, if this virus goes sustained human to human spread, it will rival the "Great Influenza" of 1918-21.

NEW – State of the climate: 2024 will be first year above 1.5C of global warming | Zeke Hausfather Read here: buff.ly/3YFkVvv

Chris Hedges "American Anomie" youtu.be/HV0cS1TGve4?si…

Another day, another weather report that goes from 80% chance of isolated showers, to dry and dusty. Heat stress on brassica plants in November is pretty wild.

‘A total waste of time’: why Papua New Guinea pulled out of Cop29 and why climate advocates are worried theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

On this day in 1889, a white mob took 18-year-old Orion “Owen” Anderson from jail in Leesburg, Virginia, and lynched him for allegedly frightening a white girl. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Another California wildfire? Nope, try New Jersey These pictures were all taken yesterday. The state set a new record of over 400 wildfires in October alone. It’s the driest the state has been since record keeping began 120 years ago You should plan for a very different future

As the COP 29 delegates prepare to meet in the oil rich state of Azerbaijan, the United Nations Emissions Gap Report highlights the scale of the challenge in keeping to Paris targets. A short thread 1/7. #COP29Azerbaijan #ClimateCatastrophe

If u like bad air quality & breathing in smoke from fires in Brooklyn & Jersey, lower Manhattan is a good place to be right now. Even if u close windows, the bad air usually gets in apartments. But a MERV13 filter can get the air quality (pm2.5 & pm10) back to normal levels.

Finally made my way over here if anyone wants to connect over there. 🤗 @danielbachman.bsky.social

On this day in 1831, an enslaved Black man named Nat Turner was hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia, after being convicted of leading a revolt against slavery. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…