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Every wildfire starts with an ignition – downed powerlines, lightning, arson – and we can do a lot to reduce these. But in California the number of fires has dropped while the area burned has doubled. What has changed is conditions, not ignitions:

"People always ask me, 'After covering climate change for so long, why aren’t you living in your basement drinking a bottle of bourbon and scrolling on the wall with crayons about the lost future for your children?'” cnn.com/2025/01/18/cli…

“The biggest lesson that we need to learn is that we are just plain not prepared for the climate that we have created. Our world is not built for the climate that we live in, and the biggest change is going to require acknowledging that fact.” cnn.com/2025/01/18/cli…

Trump saying he’s going to bring back the Keystone XL pipeline is like a guy at Blockbuster saying he’s going to bring back VHS tapes. That pipeline was a boondoggle 15 years ago and it’s even dumber today.

What Inauguration Day looks like in LA

One astonishing thing about the number of tech billionaires donating $1m to the Trump inauguration is that, for instance, Zuckerberg’s donation is the equivalent of someone worth $200 million donating $1,000.

Trump quits Paris climate agreement and pushes fossil fuels. Musk says the climate crisis is no big deal. I wonder what the owner of this melted Tesla in LA thinks?

Trump's Paris withdrawal sums up this moment: it will damage the planet while rewarding fossil fuel interests who could care less about a MAGA movement that sees climate scientists as more "elite" than oil executives. Meanwhile, China will lead (and profit) on clean energy

After fossil fuel-fired hurricanes 🌀 Helene and 🌀 Milton ransack Southeast US & massive 🔥 🔥 burn down parts of LA, people cheer a fossil fuel president #Trump. Just surreal. 🤯

Here is my summary of the environmental, energy and climate provisions in the executive orders that Trump issued last night. bit.ly/4h1uux3 Bottom line: Doing everything they can to increase both supply of and demand for fossil fuels.

#AcademyAward Nominee: Best Documentary Feature Film. Directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, #SugarcaneFilm unearths the buried legacy of Indian residential schools, confronting North America’s dark past while giving voice to a community’s ongoing fight for justice. Now

Love how Texas grid is moving in exactly the opposite direction of Trump: Wind rising fast, coal falling fast.

"From his jail cell, Mr. Yoon has vowed to fight to regain office." South Korea schools the US in how to deal with a lawless president. nytimes.com/2025/01/26/wor…

"'The results debunked theories that climate change might be a net lifesaver in Europe by reducing the number of people dying from cold,' said Antonio Gasparrini, the paper’s senior author and a professor at LSHTM. "  ft.com/content/3ecf6c…

One good thing about Trump speculating about taking Greenland is that it might inspire more people to think about what's happening in the icy north and to pick up Neil Shubin's ENDS OF THE EARTH. I can't recommend highly enough. It's a cosmic adventure story written in ice.

The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.

NEW: Special Report from the LA Fires. Great writing and reporting from Stephen Rodrick Jeff Goodell, Josh Eells and Tim Dickinson rollingstone.com/p/los-angeles-…

READ Jeff Goodell on Why Los Angeles Burned. As he writes: "We’re in serious trouble." rollingstone.com/culture/cultur… Rolling Stone

“I think the extremely strong desire is to just punish universities however possible,” Kevin Carey says. “It’s not based on any kind of coherent policy agenda. It’s just a desire to inflict pain.”nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opi…

Americans think that because they have AI on their phones and overnight Amazon that they have Mother Nature whipped. Not the case, writes Jeff Goodell. If the Palisades fire proves anything, it's that the Earth (and us on it) are in serious trouble. 🔗 rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…