This feels like when the Riders of Rohan arrived to save Helms Deep

People throw around warming of 2°C or 3°C this century as if it's nothing. The last ice age was about 5°C (10°F) colder than today & it was a completely different planet, w/ ice sheets covering much of N. American & sea level 300 ft lower.

Today I feel suspiciously fine... everything seems okay... for now... I am a bear...

That physical space is finite and once you give it to cars, you can not have nice things (survivable streets, a stable climate) until you take it back.

Yessss Bay Bridge Bus Lane!! 🚌🚌🚌

Video from North Euboea, Greece, on Wednesday 4 August 2021. Evacuation is only possible by boats since the wildfire cannot be controlled. Canadair firefighting aircrafts cannot operate due to high temperatures, locally reaching 45ºC.

work-from-home tip: I like to signal the end my work day by meditating in the backyard. It’s a nice chance to hit reset, get stung by two mosquitos, stress over whether I picked the right meditation app, and listen to my dog bark at UPS delivering a used book I bought drunk

Boulder County is suing the oil giants ExxonMobil and @Suncor for climate mitigation in the face of intensifying wildfire. Via Covering Climate Now 🦋 @coveringclimate.org: hcn.org/articles/clima…

Fire evacs are underway for the Colfax WUI; see Placer Sheriff for details.

PG&E is starting fires and trying to stop people from getting solar. Sign the petition to keep it so people can use solar to protect themselves from PG&E savecaliforniasolar.org/sign-petition

The two month June/July 2021 period was the warmest June/July period in recorded history for the lower 48 states since 1895, at a full 3.00°F above average. We will see if summer 2021 is the hottest summer once August climo is processed in early September. ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/national/r…

Another remarkable PacNW & interior NorCal heatwave (yes, maximally targeting existing fire zones). Slight chance of dry lightning again, with subsequent cooling (but also more wind) after that. All in all, some challenging fire wx ahead. #CAwx #CAfire weatherwest.com/archives/10391

Chris Martz @TeeenTaal Laura Covington The New York Times In practical terms, the problem is there is no such magical carbon switch. So it's going to take time to bring global emissions to zero, for societal reasons. But the primary impediment is *not* the (literal or figurative) inertia of the physical climate system--it's politics.

Our old, comfortable assumptions about how we'll eventually tackle the climate crisis—incrementally, collectively, with an emphasis on continuity and least-cost transitions—are nearly as dangerous to humanity's future as fossil fuel emissions themselves. alexsteffen.substack.com/p/an-orderly-t…

#Afghanistan refugees welcome. 💛 Last week, 3-year-old Juniper joined her parents Kate, an IRC volunteer, and Adrian, both US military veterans, at the Sacramento, CA airport to welcome arriving Afghans. Take action to help make Afghan #RefugeesWelcome: act.rescue.org/yRqHe9p

Put the bill codifying Roe on the Senate floor for a vote every single month from now until November. Remind the voters over and over and over what's at stake. Press the issue relentlessly. The GOP is banking on us forgetting. We won't.

Given ongoing events, I wanted to remind folks that projected snowfall at highest mountain elevations in our #ARkStorm2.0 scenarios is actually considerably *greater* in the "warmer future" scenario vs historical scenario despite an overall decrease in snowpack. Why? [1/2] #CAwx

I don't know why EV enthusiasts & urbanists can't just agree on the obvious "two things are true" here: we need to electrify vehicles *and* do everything possible to reduce VMT. We need cleaner electric driving *and* less driving. We need charging infrastructure *and* density.