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Mark Lubell
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Professor Mark Lubell co-directs the UC Davis Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior. Water, agriculture, climate, conservation, social science. Thinkology. Advocate for truth and evidence. https://environmentalpolicy.ucdavis.edu/ .. more

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Prof. Levent Kurnaz @profleventkurnaz.bsky.social · 8h
Extreme heat doesn’t just feel exhausting — it ages your body.
A new study shows repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking.
Climate change is literally speeding up our biological clock.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking
Long-term study suggests that the more heatwaves people are exposed to, the more it accelerates body ageing.
www.nature.com

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 8h
Of course, the effects of climate-driven disasters on people & nature are far more important

But surely the economic impacts would have financiers & businesses realising they do need to stop paying lip service to climate action, if only for their vested interests
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows
LA wildfires and storms this year cost $101bn, new study by non-profit resurrecting work axed by Trump says
www.theguardian.com

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Prof. Levent Kurnaz @profleventkurnaz.bsky.social · 8h
Lower fertility rates worry economists: fewer workers, slower innovation, and ageing societies. But researchers say resilience matters more than reversal. A smaller population can even bring environmental benefits.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
People are having fewer babies: Is it really the end of the world?
Steep population declines in most countries are expected to have negative impacts over the next several generations, but adaptation is possible.
www.nature.com

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 9h
Recently accepted by Environmental and Resource Economics: As incomes rise, so do economic values for ecosystem services. Moritz A. Drupp, Zachary M. Turk, Ben Groom & Jonas Heckenhahn put some empirical flesh on the theoretical bones. Globally. #EAERE #Econsky
Global Evidence on the Income Elasticity of Willingness to Pay, Relative Price Changes and Public Natural Capital Values - Environmental and Resource Economics
Environmental and Resource Economics - While the global economy continues to grow, ecosystem services tend to stagnate or decline. Economic theory has shown how such shifts in relative scarcities...
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Reposted by Christian Odendahl, A. E. Dessler, Mark Lubell

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 21h
I have a new update to climate model-observation comparisons over at The Climate Brink, covering CMIP3, CMIP5, and CMIP6. Models perform well globally. The latest generation shows too much long-term warming but better reproduces recent trends: www.theclimatebrink....

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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 22h
Two tropical cyclones and a typhoon caused heavy rainfall, widespread flooding and landslides in South and Southeast Asia last week. More than 1,250 people have died in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand alone, with many still missing. By @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social
At least 1,250 people dead: What caused the devastating Asia floods?
Climate advocates say it's time to move to accountability for climate change, as people in Asia are living the evidence.
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 1d
It's over.

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.

www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com

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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 1d
Great to see @timmonsroberts.bsky.social quoted in this New York Times story on climate misinformation: (1/2)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
www.nytimes.com

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Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 1d
This is disgraceful. Makes me even consider fully boycotting the World Cup. Shame on #FIFA but sadly consistent with their corrupt culture encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn...
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Yuxin Zhou @yzhouclimate.bsky.social · 1d
Benthic forams in the news www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...
What Scientists Found When a Deep Sea Mining Company Invited Them In
www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 1d
"Iraq has lost nearly 30% of its productive agricultural land over the past 3 decades due to #climate pressures... Rural provinces such as Nineveh, Babil, & Diyala have reported crop yield reductions of 40–70%, intensifying economic pressures & accelerating migration"

Iraq 🇮🇶
#ClimateCrisis
Iraq burns: Dust, drought ravage the nation's core - Shafaq News
Shafaq News At dawn in Baghdad, the first thing many residents notice isn’t the warmth of the sunrise but the taste of the air — a faint bitterness settling on balconies, market stalls, and palm-line
shafaq.com

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 1d
Like other factory farms, farmed fish or “aquaculture” spreads disease & drives climate change — from the destruction of mangrove ecosystems that sequester carbon to on-farm emissions, fossil fuels & the undermining of local food sovereignty.

www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pop...
Farming the ocean
Last month’s edition of Food X discussed how the fishing industry wreaks havoc on the ocean and on wildlife rebranded as “seafood.” Now let’s take a look at what happens in fish farms.
www.biologicaldiversity.org

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Gerald Kutney - Politics, Disinformation & Science @geraldkutney.bsky.social · 1d
"A fear of mine, though, is that if language, no matter how well designed, gained political traction, a tsunami of propaganda from the fossil fuel industry and the climate denial movement would drown it out."

ncse.ngo/review-langu...
[Review] The Language of Climate Politics | National Center for Science Education
ncse.ngo

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Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 1d
This is getting bonkers. There is no policy or best practices. It is the Wild West. Survival of the fittest…whatever that means in this Context www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 1d
I've started clipping various short segments from some of my live and interactive virtual "weather and climate office hour" sessions. While I always record and publish the full conversations uncut, they can be a bit lengthy. :) Here's the first batch!
Clips from Daniel Swain's live virtual "weather and climate office hours"
Short clips drawn from Daniel Swain's live, virtual, and interactive "weather and climate office hours" on the Weather West channel.
www.youtube.com

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NSF NCAR Computational & Information Systems Laboratory @ncar-cisl.bsky.social · 2d
🌄Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science (SIParCS) applications are now open! Paid, in-person internships will take place onsite in Boulder, Colorado at @ncar-ucar.bsky.social . Learn more and apply: www.cisl.ucar.edu/siparcs
2025 SIParCS Interns in front of Flatiron mountains

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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 6d
But this article from last August strongly suggests that great caution should be exercised with regard to all of them.
The Risky Business of Predicting Where Climate Disaster Will Hit
Climate tech companies can calculate the chances that a flood or wildfire will ravage your home. But what if their odds are all different?
www.bloomberg.com

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Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 6d
Developing better models is a worthy endeavor. But if you don’t like their approach it is better to throw solutions than grenades. Who is doing better?

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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 6d
Home insurance crisis hits New England:
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/s...
Your New England home insurance could vanish. Climate change explains why. - The Boston Globe
From Connecticut to Maine, coastal communities are feeling the pinch of higher home insurance rates and fewer options for coverage.
www.bostonglobe.com

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Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 6d
Measuring and modeling climate risk accurately is important…and difficult. But erroneous models do not change the principle that climate risk should be integrated into economic decisions.

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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 6d
The First Street climate risk "scores" are bogus. Their company exists to market fears generated by their bogus "scores". Indeed the crude bathtub flood model they use was exposed last year as worse than useless by Sanders, Wing & Bates in an article entitled "Flooding is Not Like Filling a Bath".

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Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 7d
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c.... If home sales and prices decline in response to climate risk that is exactly what should happen. Consumers should know this info and the market should not ignore climate risks. The accuracy of risk models is another question
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 7d
"Climate breakdown can be seen in the data"

Large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
#water
#climate

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 7d
Should misleading or obscured information about a property's risk of damage or destruction from extreme weather be a feature of the housing market? And who's going to pay for what happens when homeowners are misled about their risk and experience loss? #climate

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com

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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 9d
While some states are getting cold feet on climate policy, Oregon is doubling down, seeking to reduce bottlenecks and speed deployment:
www.eenews.net/articles/ore...
Oregon governor orders sweeping review of clean energy bottlenecks
Democrat Tina Kotek is directing agencies to coordinate on everything from permitting to investment in a push to achieve net-zero electricity by 2040.
www.eenews.net

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Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 11d
Very cool to see them using quantitative data journalism to conduct this type of analysis and support their advocacy. While inattention to agriculture is indeed troubling, I find this graphic even more troubling:

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 12d
Wow, the Center for Biological Diversity has been analyzing how the media remains nearly silent on the role of meat and animal agriculture in climate change.

"...it appears in just 1.2% of climate journalism..."

www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pop...
www.biologicaldiversity.org

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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 12d
Fossil fuel companies argue that simply being required to disclose their pollution is violating their First Amendment rights (because, of course, corporations are people 🙄). #ClimateInTheCourts
www.eenews.net/articles/cha...
Chamber urges Supreme Court to block California climate laws
Business groups say the laws violate companies' First Amendment rights.
www.eenews.net

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12d
Shark Conservation Advances at International Atlantic Tuna Conference | Fishing nations agree to protect basking and white sharks, cut mako quotas, and improve compliance process sharkleague.org/2025/11/24/s...
ICCAT 2025: New Protections for Sharks Agreed
Fishing nations agree to protect basking and white sharks, cut mako quotas, and improve compliance process.
sharkleague.org

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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 12d
Data centers popping up on Indigenous lands everywhere, but especially perilous to us desert tribes where water availability for crops and for communities have new competition.
The data center boom in the desert
The AI race is transforming northwestern Nevada into one of the world's largest data-center markets—and sparking fears of water strains in the nation’s driest state.
www.technologyreview.com