“It gives me comfort to know there are these silent beings underneath my feet who are just biding their time and waiting for a geological event.” — Karen Lloyd, microbial geochemist www.quantamagazine.org/the-pursuit-...

Hello #ottawa and #gatineau area people, this is a longshot but our very distinct looking ebike was stolen from the secure parking facility at 160 Elgin today.

We have a reward for its safe return.

project529.com/garage/bikes...

A new tent will cost US$300 (C$425). I’ve contributed C$50 towards their fundraiser; can we collect enough to help them have the money for a new tent and to start saving for a medical evacuation? tinyurl.com/FadiAfnan

It’s a very good piece and we should take heed www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

Seinfeld: The Congestion Pricing Episode

Students at Brown have used the Google Maps API to create a live tracker for traffic flows under congestion pricing in NYC. It includes a real-time diff-in-diff type comparison between NYC, Boston, and Chicago:

www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com

Phenomenal. “By insulating their films from failure, the streamers have destroyed the meaning of success.” Read the whole thing.

Hilarious to see Democrats live through Mitch McConnell in 2009-2010 (among many other examples) and then think their best strategy is trying to seem reasonable by deal-cutting with extremists and grifters like Musk, RFK, etc. Um.

It's remarkable how quiescent Democrats are - Trump is poised to inspire a major thermostatic backlash, midterms are now more favorable to D coalition, and Trump becoming a lame duck will soon inspire chaotic jockeying to replace him. The question is whether anyone is as savvy as McConnell in 2009.

Great thread on vehicle to grid from someone who really knows his stuff!

TL;DR it's a chicken-egg problem of regulators creating needless roadblocks and car companies and utilities ignoring it for that reason. But it WILL happen.

Thx @alphaconstant.bsky.social for driving this.

Give the people Paxton is suing some money

www.theactgroup.org/donate

Many were looking to access my recent Toronto Star piece - I've posted it here: www.climateandnature.com/media/opinio...

So this family from upstate New York called me about building a solar farm on their family property. They had concerns and wanted my advise. They started by saying, “we didn’t pull your name out of a hat.” They’d been reading my/our work for years apparently (!!).. so after a little phone tag…

My column on revelations from Ontario’s auditor general. This dumb, destructive deal will cost the public $2.2 billion (!) www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toron...

Saw one more "cyclists should just take the side street" take online and reached my breaking point, had to make this meme 😭😭