Nassau County, NY just passed a mask ban and now residents say they are going to take pictures of anyone wearing a mask and send them to police. This is why we need to stop any kind of mask ban legislation. They empower vigilantes to harass and surveil people wearing masks.

Good climate news this week 1 China hits 2030 renewables goal 6 years early 2 Germany hits 2024 solar goal in 1st 6 months 3 EU coal consumption lowest ever in 2023 4 Portugal cuts proportion of electricity from fossil fuels to just 10% so far in 2024 5 Australia approves world's

Unrelated to Covid, the increasing rates of mortality in the United States. Not seen in any other high income country. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… JAMA Steven Woolf "Something systemic to the US is limiting survival."

Synthetic carbon capture and direct air capture are proving to be as useless as science has found they are. Many pundits, policymakers, think tanks, fossil-fuel-funded researchers, and all-of-the-above policy wonks kept pushing this garbage tech to everyone's detriment.

New report of a nasal vaccine booster provides strong, durable #SARSCoV2 cross-variant protection—preventing infection— compared with shots in non-human primates nature.com/articles/s4159… Nature Immunology

Momentous: The UK, home to the world’s first coal power station in 1882, will stop using coal to generate electricity this month, the 1st G7 country to do so Coal supplied 80% of UK electricity in 1990. Remember: they said it couldn't be done ft.com/content/516418… #climate

“The study also warned that levels of extra warming projected to hit Europe by 2035 would amplify food inflation by 30-50%.” carbonbrief.org/five-charts-ho…

Our new research out today in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews reveals how the fossil fuel industry has strategically invested in universities for decades to block transformative climate action. w/ Sofia Hiltner, Emily Eaton Noel Healy Andrew Scerri Geoffrey Supran THREAD

The @NYTimes is platforming Kevin Roberts at their 2024 #ClimateWeek event. I wrote about him recently: thebulletin.org/2024/08/projec…

This is a heartbreaking story. A 16-year old was the only one wearing a mask at school to protect her immunocompromised mother. But she was bullied into unmasking and caught COVID, which infected and killed her mother. archive.ph/2024.09.05-093…

Were there no other issue in this election, the climate crisis alone should be enough to make sure we leave Trumpism behind forever. He is not just wrong, he's dangerous theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

In which YouTube personalities were paid $100,000 per video to generate fake content while I, a real climate scientist, paid for my own Global Weirding PBS YouTube series on real climate content out of my own pocket. You can’t make these things up. cbsnews.com/amp/news/russi…

"Global irreversible solar tipping point may have passed where solar energy gradually comes to dominate global electricity markets, without any further climate policies": Solar + storage about to be the cheapest source of electricity everywhere Just wow nature.com/articles/s4146…

Trump seems to want to talk about anything but the topic he was asked about -- climate change. perhaps that's because his policy agenda -- #Agenda2025 --would prevent the government from either researching or talking about climate change. My commentary: thebulletin.org/2024/08/projec…

Did you know that microplastics are now in our brains? Or that we each eat, drink or breath over 78,000 microplastic particles every year? One of Big Oil's enduring legacies (plastics are 99% oil) will be the global health emergency of plastics debris weforum.org/agenda/2024/09…

World's largest sailing cargo ship delivers 1000 tonnes cognac+champagne to NYC -1st time in 100 y cargo ship crosses Atlantic mostly by wind (uses backup diesel) -Cloth sails controlled by computer simulation -Carbon footprint 1/10th fossil ship marineinsight.com/web-stories/wo…

My mother died of hospital-acquired COVID-19 in an underventilated ward where staff wore loose-fitting surgical masks. Policymakers’ hubris and lack of engagement with the evidence base cost thousands of lives.

Under Trump, EPA scientists say managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage & neurological problems, from their reports — and in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves. propublica.org/article/epa-sc…

BIG UPDATE: we just shut down Max McDaniel as he was getting called up to receive his lifetime achievement award. Max is a senior scientist at the Chevron Phillips Chemical Company. He is a member of the Plastics Hall of Fame. We made him leave the gala thrown in his honor.

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