The mast just fell off the carbon capture and storage flagship.

In Illinois, a massive taxpayer-funded carbon capture project fails to capture about 90% of plant’s emissions news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/in-illino…

'to solve the climate problem'

see how the lies just slip in?

blocking sunlight doesn't 'solve' anything; it's a band-aid on a cancer

and it may create new and quite horrible problems with agriculture and the hydrological cycle

kill it with fire

'Stationary society, end of capitalism, and abundance are logically consistent.'

Uhm, did Branko Milanovic just defend ... DEGROWTH?

🥳🙌🎉

We might as well cite her...

To escape the heat, these lizards slowly migrated to higher, cooler elevations (aka sky islands).

That worked for a while. But when the sky islands got too hot, they died.

Moral of the story: adaptation has limits -- for lizards, and for humans.

cbsnews.com/news/lizard-po…

In fact, prevalence of Long Covid in children is now significantly higher than a year ago, in March 2023, when it was last reported.

At that time, 62,000 children were suffering from Long Covid…

… and that was UK-wide data whereas today’s new figures are for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 only.

“I am a Holocaust survivor. I experienced as a child every single thing a Gazan child is experiencing on a daily basis. There’s no excuse 4 the slaughter of 15K children. I am proud to be here with you.”

Amazing Jewish solidarity at encampment at GWU #FreePalestine #Occupy4Gaza

Looking at the courage and dedication of college students across the country, I look forward to the day that there is such an uprising for climate. 💚

It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

Apparently here they are arresting Caroline Fohlin, a Professor of Economics at Emory University.

Big Oil is planning a huge network of CO2 pipelines across the US to capitalize off Biden tax incentives.

CO2 leaks have been disastrous for communities, but the industry is trying to limit safety rules so it can speed up the buildout, federal docs show exxonknews.org/p/big-oils-fig…

“They’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.” Howard Zinn 1971

the actual encampment at Columbia—i'm here after teaching my final class of the semester—is downright tranquil, impossibly sweet. there is a 'nut zone' for the safety of kids with allergies.

Justin Nobel's book on the oil industry's radioactive secret is finally out.

You may have read his 20-month Rolling Stone investigation on the topic a few years ago. Now it's a book. Go buy it!

desmog.com/2024/04/24/pet…

“Extractivism is the modality through which capitalism is lived in the periphery.”

I’m featured in the new issue of Granta in a wide ranging interview, with sharp questions from Thomas Meaney on the past, present, and possible futures of extraction. granta.com/the-extracted-…

As I stood linking arms with other peaceful protestors DOZENS of cops were pointing weapons at us. It was one of the scariest experiences of my life...

I was never told to my face why I was being arrested.

BREAKING: Complete MAYHEM at Citibank this morning as climate activists shut down the bank’s HQ for the second day in a row.

Lines of employees outside and NYPD everywhere.

This is what Citibank can expect if it keeps bankrolling fossil fuels.

#CitiDropFossilFuels

Halting global warming at 1.5 (without 'overshoot' that requires many gigatons of carbon removal to 'cool down the planet' later) means...

Net-zero in six to ten years. 😬

🧵I know there’s a lot going on, but I want to remind folks what the govt & media are covering up—the latest sacrifice zone. Jenna is an 18 year old East Palestine OH resident. Before Norfolk Southern unnecessarily detonated toxic cancerous chemicals over EP, she was healthy….