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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 7h

Wer Frust sät erntet Rechtsextremismus.

Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 6h

If you have a country filled with people who are proud and arrogant about their own ignorance and prejudices, and who live in some weird mythological construct of exceptionalism, there is bound to be trouble at some point ...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 13h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 21h

While Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vows to erase climate change from the military agenda, new Pentagon data show the impacts of warming are shaping the National Guard’s mission.

Natural Disasters Are a Rising Burden for the National Guard - Inside Climate News

New Pentagon data show climate impacts shaping reservists’ mission, in potential conflict with Trump’s drive to use them for law enforcement.

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 21h

Cold freshwater pouring off Greenland's melting ice cap and glaciers is messing with key ocean currents that help modulate the entire global climate ... Scientists say it's not a good thing.

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Aerial view of part of the coast of Greenland, showing glaciers flowing through mountains and into a blue sea flecked with big and small icebergs.

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 22h

We'll always have Paris ...

It's been nearly 10 years since the Paris Agreement at COP21. So how are we doing?

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Looking straight up the illuminated Eiffel Tower from its base at night.

A screenshot of Humphrey Bogart telling Lauren Bacall that "We'll always have Paris."

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 1d

10 years after the Paris Agreement, a new report says the global climate policy glass is half-empty or half-full, depending how you look at it.

New Report Marks a Decade of Progress, Challenges on Global Decarbonization - Inside Climate News

Extreme shifts in federal climate policy will make it hard for the U.S. to reach the Paris Agreement targets, but action by states, cities and businesses could still deliver significant emissions cuts...

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone else been dealing with some serious headline whiplash recently?

Even for those of us who follow #climate and #energy matters closely, it can be hard to know what the hell is going on!

So here's a thread to help climate communicators get a grip on how to deal with this 🧵

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 1d

Melting ice in the Arctic is changing important global ocean currents, and the consequences will widespread and serious.
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A panoramic view of a green-blue ocean wave breaking into a vertical white spray, with beach in the foreground and a clear light blue sky behind.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 3d

Penultimate cucamelon harvest …

A blue shallow bowl full of 1-inch-long cucumbers patterned like watermelons.

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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 3d

Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

www.nytimes.com

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Nana Siebert @nanasiebert.bsky.social · 4d

Kollege Sebastian Prokop und ich erzählen, warum @derstandard.at und ORF gemeinsam eine große Medienkompetenz-Initiative starten.

Unser Ansatz: bei den Lehrer:innen beginnen, die Multiplikatoren für eine ganze Generation sind.
#FaktenbrauchenVerbündete

"Desinformation ist größte Gefahr für Demokratie"

STANDARD und ORF starten eine gemeinsame Offensive für Medienkompetenz an Schulen nach dem Motto #FaktenbrauchenVerbündete

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 4d

The ocean south of Greenland is a global climate mixing cauldron, but human-caused warming is causing big problems there, potentially with global consequences.

insideclimatenews.org/news/0310202...

New Study Shows Disruption of Ocean Currents That Stabilize the Global Climate - Inside Climate News

Clam shell growth rings contain clues about the looming potential for a tipping point into climate collapse.

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 4d

It's pretty simple, really.

If you're not anti-fascist, you're fascist.

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 4d

Growth rings in the shells of long-lived clams help pinpoint ocean current tipping points that could trigger even more dangerous heatwaves, rapid sea level rise and other dangerous extremes.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0310202...

New Study Shows Disruption of Ocean Currents That Stabilize the Global Climate - Inside Climate News

Clam shell growth rings contain clues about the looming potential for a tipping point into climate collapse.

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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 6d

Two-thirds Moon! 67.3% waxing gibbous looking superb this evening!
#astrophotography #astronomy @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 6d

Soft morning light on the local hills recently …

Landscape view of a tree-covered hillside topped by a twin-towered church under a backdrop of gray-pink cloudy skies.

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 6d

Science is global, and there were about 800 U.S. scientists at the EGU conference in Vienna, where researchers around the world expressed solidarity and determination to stand up for facts and science-based governance.

World’s Researchers Say They Will Resist Attacks on Science and Support Beleaguered U.S. Colleagues - Inside Climate News

More than 800 American scientists attended the European Geophysical Union’s conference in Austria to present new research on climate change, pollution and other urgent environmental topics.

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 6d

Another group of scientists is working specifically on a project about how to safeguard science from growing authoritarian threats.

New Handbook Aims to Protect Scientists From Autocratic Threats - Inside Climate News

Scientists, experts say, need to help protect democracy, “the system of government in which science, health and humanity are most likely to thrive.”

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 6d

About 70 U.S. scientists are also continuing the tradition of bringing groundbreaking climate research and experience to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change newest round of reports.

Despite Lack of Federal Support, US Scientists Continue Work on Key Global Climate Reports - Inside Climate News

Amid rising repression of climate science domestically, researchers from universities around the country are lending their expertise to an international effort.

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 6d

Despite what some want you to believe, the U.S. science enterprise is far from defunct. New projects that could make make important data and reports more accessible than ever are in progress ...

Despite the Trump Administration’s Best Efforts to Suppress It, Climate Science Is Alive and Well Online - Inside Climate News

Hundreds of scientists worldwide are collaborating to combat misinformation by making accurate climate information widely available to the public.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 7d

There is a lot of scary stuff happening right now: political violence, constitutional violations, abuse of power.

But I am going to stay focused on posting about clean energy and climate change. Americans need reminders that climate change is *still* accelerating and we can do something about it.

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