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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · 18h
"By most metrics, 2025 has been the worst year for the American scientific enterprise in modern history". The result - we are "essentially ending America’s longstanding role as the world leader in science and innovation,” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...
Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows
www.nytimes.com
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7d
"God will ask us if we have cultivated and cared for the world that he created for the benefit of all and for future generations, and if we have taken care of our brothers and sisters - what will be our answer, my dear friends?"
Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming
In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.
www.bbc.com
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7d
You don't fucking say.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7d
The main reason climate policy has failed is that it's opposed by an international coalition of fossil fuel incumbents, authoritarian governments, & oligarch-owned media.

That's it. It's the people who killed it who are responsible for killing it! Not the people who supported it! FFS.
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Reposted by Gavin A. Schmidt, John Fasullo, Greg Linden

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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 7d
NEW! Dept of Education workers say their OOO replies were forcibly changed to blame Democrats for shutdown. When employees changed their responses back to the more neutral language, it changed yet again to the partisan response.

@wired.com @leahfeiger.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/govern...
Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown
Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
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Reposted by John Fasullo, Christopher Wright, Juan Cole

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 7d
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire.
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EV Curve Futurist @evcurvefuturist.com · 12d
California made history in 2025. 🌞⚡ Solar is now the state’s #1 electricity source, overtaking gas (83.1 vs 81.6 TWh). In under a decade, solar surged from marginal to dominant. Big kudos to California—proof the clean energy future is not capacity, it’s generation. More to come! #EnergyTransition
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 12d
"The current war on science, and who’s behind it -- A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar/write a book" | A nice review of #ScienceUnderSiege by Diana Gitig for @arstechnica.com: arstechnica.com/science/2025...
The current war on science, and who’s behind it
A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar write a book.
arstechnica.com
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 14d
this is sooooooo f'ing sweet. every time Sec. Chris Wright lies about the DOE Climate Working Group report, reporters cite our response.
Mr. Wright falsely claimed that critics of an Energy Department report — written by five researchers who reject the established scientific consensus that the burning of oil, gas and coal is dangerously heating the planet — did not dispute any of the report’s data or facts. “They just didn’t like that the conclusion of our report was, climate change is a real physical phenomenon that’s unfolding, it’s just not the crisis it’s often sold to be.” In fact, 85 scientists submitted a sweeping critique of the report detailing a litany of inaccuracies, including claims that sea level rise is not accelerating; that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will help plants grow; and that computer models exaggerate future temperature increases. The American Meteorological Society, a leading science organization, also outlined what it called “foundational flaws” in the report. And the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the nation’s leading scientific advisory body, also contradicted the Energy Department report, saying the evidence that greenhouse gases threaten human health has only grown over time.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14d
This is Washpost Opinion's takeaway from Trump's speech at the Charlie Kirk funeral.

No mention of him saying, "I hate my opponent." No mention of Trump's role in fomenting the January 6 riot.

Just unbelievable how bad that editorial board has become.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
President Donald Trump correctly pointed out during his eulogy for Kirk on Sunday in Phoenix that “no side in American politics has a monopoly on disturbed or misguided people.” He also criticized the absurd view that became fashionable among some liberal academics during the late 2010s that certain forms of speech can be considered violent because they cause stress. “If speech is violence, then some are bound to conclude that violence is justified to stop speech,” Trump said. “And we’re not going to let that be justified.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d
KILMEADE: The president says climate change is a hoax, it's a con job. Where do you fall on this?

EPA ADMINISTRATION LEE ZELDIN: The president is absolutely right
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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 16d
Its worth noting that when the first modern climate models were published in 1970 it was hardly clear that there was a warming trend; if anything there had been flat or slightly cooling global temperatures for the past three decades:
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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 16d
In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".

Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · 17d
"there is now even stronger evidence that rising greenhouse gas levels can threaten public health and well-being" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/c...
Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger
www.nytimes.com
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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 22d
A new report by the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences concludes that the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding was accurate, has stood the test of time, and is now reinforced by even stronger evidence:
Effects of Human-Caused Greenhouse Gas Emissions on U.S. Climate, Health, and Welfare | The National Academies Press
Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.
nap.nationalacademies.org
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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · Sep 5
Despite the headline there is no new normal until our emissions stop. Until then we are just passing through current conditions on our way to something worse. www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
This is our second-worst wildfire season on record — and could be the new normal | CBC News
This year's wildfire season is already the second-worst on record in Canada, and experts are warning that this might be the new normal.
www.cbc.ca
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Sep 2
An article about the scathing peer review (led by @andrewdessler.com, joined by 80+ others) of the DOE report (authored by five climate deniers) used to justify the EPA's proposal to rescind the Endangerment Finding and repeal all greenhouse gas emission standards for vehicles.
Scientists Denounce Trump Administration’s Climate Report
www.nytimes.com
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Reposted by Gavin A. Schmidt, John Fasullo, R. M. Wilson

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Sep 2
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024.

It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness.

They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · Sep 2
The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
DOEresponseSite
On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding...
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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · Sep 2
More than 85 climate scientists filed >400 pages of public comments today pushing back against the findings of the DOE’s Climate Working Group Report. A 🧵
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