Unmasking climate lies: “ExxonMobil wants to be seen as a good corporate citizen…the company has continued to expand oil and gas development and fund climate science denier groups that undermine efforts to address climate change.” Elliott Negin Union of Concerned Scientists blog.ucsusa.org/elliott-negin/…

Ghost #coralreefs , that will soon crumble, is all that's left in some places. Among so many other impacts, it cuts one huge source of sand replenishment, adding to beach loss from sea level rise ... insideclimatenews.org/news/15042024/…

Die Krux an der Geschichte: das sind die Menschen, die von vielen bewundert werden, auch für genau diesen Lebensstil. Wir haben das Unrecht noch nicht im Ansatz verstanden, wollen es gar nicht verstehen weil unbequem.

This is Kaywin Feldman. She just gave highly misleading testimony in the U.S. District Court, demanding a climate activist be sentences to the maximal jail time possible. She reports directly to a Private Equity CEO whose company emits 277,000,000 metric tons of carbon. 🧵

Lovely to see our Inside Climate News story on Aruba's move to recognize the 'rights of nature' receive some bigger reach.

Here is our original reporting:

insideclimatenews.org/news/25032024/…

Here is a really nice opportunity for writers over 50. More people should know about it. That's what is important. Trying to gain clicks and engagement by outrage farming people over a silly graphic image (so what if I'm 73 and not gray - although I do use a cane) is ridiculous.

'I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.'

Rebecca Solnit on walking and the mind: themarginalian.org/2015/06/03/wan…

As Secretary of State, you personally signed off on a 450,000 barrel-per-day tar sands oil pipeline.

I've been obsessed recently with the tensions and contradictions in 'making sense' of things and things that are senseless—and how this relates to Silicon Valley.

From my conversation with Olivia Lazard. Listen to the full episode now: planetcritical.com/p/designing-co…

Actually we know exactly that we are killing the oceans, we know pretty much how, and how to make it stop. What’s “mysterious” is doubting that reality.

Reservoirs on the lower Rio Grande fell below 20% full yesterday

Combined storage is dropping about 0.3 percentage points per day

Officials tell me it’s possible the reservoirs dry up entirely this year - a serious disaster

Just a few of my favorite markets ...

Mer de Glace this morning 😰

It remains a mystery to what extent private companies can be allowed to destroy the common good...🤬
This is the view you now have at one of the Alps' most famous site, disfigured by pylons!

🙏Seb Guillet for the pic

Nixon-era scientists recognized the existential threat of fossil-fueled global warming, and wanted to study it more.

New research has found that recent atmospheric rivers pale in comparison to some of the monster storms that battered ancient California. And global heating is projected to make these deluges even more extreme. ⁦— Grace Toohey⁩ ⁦⁦Los Angeles Times⁩ latimes.com/environment/st…

We've got a new paper in Communications Earth & Environment led by Jan Esper and Jason Smerdon. We argue that the IPCC's focus on a single Common Era temperature reconstruction was an 'insufficient summary of our understanding of temperature variability' and we provide a broader context

The rise of religious ethno-nationalism in a world of nuclear bombs should concern everyone: Who needs a mortal realm when the kingdom of heaven awaits you?

From my conversation on designing collective security with Olivia Lazard. Listen now: planetcritical.com/p/designing-co…

Designing Collective Security

This week, Olivia Lazard unpacks the legacy systems of violence and extraction that are creating a systems rivalry in a world in crisis, impeaching necessary collective action.

Listen to the full episode now: planetcritical.com/p/designing-co…

My friend Brian Brown, owner of the famous China Ranch Date Farm, has an op-ed in Nevada Independent today about his family's history at Ash Meadows and how a mineral withdrawal is needed to protect it from inappropriate mining. Read: thenevadaindependent.com/article/opinio…

'Since their invention, cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people and injured at least 2 billion'

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