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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Scott Doney @scottdoney.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much @costasamaras.com for participating in today’s AI & Environment panel hosted by @uvaenvironment.bsky.social it was a great event with other panelists from @uvaenvisci.bsky.social and UVA @weldoncoopercenter.bsky.social

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💙 Mrs Harrington 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @voter1vote.bsky.social · 1d

Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science

The most excellent @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and @michaelemann.bsky.social have a new book!

PBS @pbsnews.org Newshour
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Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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ClimateDynamics @climatedynamics.bsky.social · 3d

This is apparently what ChatGPT hears when I talk (this is from a transcription).

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ClimateDynamics @climatedynamics.bsky.social · 5d

Workers keep dying from heat. Data from inside their bodies shows why. - The Washington Post. apple.news/AgzyHXvVjTEW...

Workers keep dying from heat. Data from inside their bodies shows why. — The Washington Post

Nearly half of Florida farmworkers’ bodies reached dangerous temperatures in one study — but short breaks pulled them back from the danger zone.

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ClimateDynamics @climatedynamics.bsky.social · 5d

on.ft.com/46EDjIX Europe’s bill for extreme weather damage more than doubles this decade

Europe’s bill for extreme weather damage more than doubles this decade

Average economic losses associated with weather including intense floods have soared, according to European agency

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ClimateDynamics @climatedynamics.bsky.social · 7d

on.ft.com/4pLezaD Solar shines in the rush for power in Africa’s largest petrostate

Solar shines in the rush for power in Africa’s largest petrostate

Nigeria has become a major importer of Chinese panels as buying on the continent begins to boom

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ClimateDynamics @climatedynamics.bsky.social · 9d

FACT CHECK: AP's director of climate news breaks down Trump's remarks at the UN on climate change

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FACT CHECK: AP's director of climate news breaks down Trump's remarks at the UN on climate change

This week, addressing the United Nations, President Donald Trump made several false claims about climate change, including that it didn’t actually exist.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 9d

Delighted the reviews are good. Congratulations @alexwinter.com, and to Mr. Reeves!

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‘Waiting For Godot’ Broadway Review: Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter’s Existential Adventure

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter star in Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot, directed by Jamie Lloyd and opening tonight at Broadway's Hudson Theatre.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 17d

"Some say we can ‘solar-engineer’ ourselves out of the climate crisis. Don’t buy it" [even if it's being sold by the #NewYorkTimes] | My evergreen @theguardian.com commentary with Ray Pierrehumbert: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Some say we can ‘solar-engineer’ ourselves out of the climate crisis. Don’t buy it | Ray Pierrehumbert and Michael E Mann

What could go wrong with this idea? Well, quite a lot

www.theguardian.com

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ClimateDynamics @climatedynamics.bsky.social · 18d

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Clemson U. Touted Free Speech After 3 Employees Posted About Charlie Kirk. Then It Reversed Course.

Republican lawmakers in South Carolina threatened to pull the university’s funding over the weekend. The pressure campaign caught widespread attention, including from President Trump.

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Natalie Oram @nataliejoram.bsky.social · 19d

Proud to share our paper: Drought intensity shapes soil legacy effects on grassland plant and soil microbial communities and their responses to future drought, out now in @globalchangebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... (1/n)

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ClimateDynamics @climatedynamics.bsky.social · 19d

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Donald Trump plans to raise cost of H-1B foreign worker visa to $100,000

Shares in IT consulting groups drop on news of changes to scheme popular with Silicon Valley

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ClimateDynamics @climatedynamics.bsky.social · 19d

A beautiful and useful piece. theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...

5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you

From rising global temperatures to the fast-warming Arctic, early climate models predicted the changes half a century ago.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19d

Failing to address climate change is very expensive.

Europe’s summer of extreme weather caused €43bn of short-term losses, analysis finds

Greatest damage from heat, drought and flooding done in Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Bulgaria

www.theguardian.com

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ClimateDynamics @climatedynamics.bsky.social · 19d

Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/c...

Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 21d

@nationalacademies.org providing a intro lecture on climate change and its impacts for EPA. Report here: doi.org/10.17226/29239

Effects of Human-Caused Greenhouse Gas Emissions on U.S. Climate, Health, and Welfare

YouTube video by National Academies - Earth and Life Studies

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 21d

Wrote a long story for @quantamagazine.bsky.social about our best understanding of climate change over the entire half-billion-year-plus age of animals www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...

Climate Extremes Are a Hallmark of the Age of Animals | Quanta Magazine

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, revealing how rare and vulnerable our temperate moment is.

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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 21d

The National Academies' response to the EPA's proposed removal of the endangerment finding is out today. It does not mince words about the effect of GHGs on the climate. Kudos to the authors.

Key paragraph below; you can read the whole thing here: nas.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?...

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 21d

A thread:
The US National Academy of Science just released its review of Trump's proposal to eliminate the 2009 EPA greenhouse gas endangerment finding that human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases threaten human health and welfare. The NAS concludes that finding "has stood the test of time...

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 21d

It may seem hard to focus in at a time when climate research and higher education are both under assault, but as I and my co-authors argue here: Higher education institutions can accelerate societal climate action

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Higher education's roles in addressing the climate challenge: Workforce Development, Research, and Community Engagement, supported on a platform of Operations

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Jonathan Overpeck @greatlakespecktwo.bsky.social · 22d

A good read: In the 60's and 70's climate scientists were simulating climate change futures for the first time: "In the decades since Manabe’s groundbreaking work, study after study has stacked evidence to confirm the startling accuracy of his prediction."
www.quantamagazine.org/the-climate-...

The Climate Change Paradox | Quanta Magazine

Earth’s climate is chaotic and volatile. Climate change is simple and predictable. How can both be true?

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Jonathan Overpeck @greatlakespecktwo.bsky.social · 23d

I bet just about everyone who played sports as a kid has memories like I do of practicing or playing on the really hot days. It could be miserable. And it's getting worse as it also becomes a more serious health risk to kids. Be careful.
time.com/7316742/extr...

The Rising Threat of Extreme Heat for Young Athletes

As climate change makes sports seasons more dangerous, we must teach a new generation how to navigate a warming world.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 24d

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 23d

Today, Australia released its first ever National Climate Risk Assessment. Whole thing is worth a read, but I dig into the (well done!) defense/national security section in my latest newsletter.

Noting a few highlights in this thread (1/x).

Climate Security Down Under

Australia's First National Climate Risk Assessment

open.substack.com

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