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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 6d

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

"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.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

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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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

You don't fucking say.

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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 6d

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

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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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EV Curve Futurist @evcurvefuturist.com · 10d

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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R.Spinazze @rspinazze.bsky.social · 11d

"Discrediting science and scientists is thus an essential first step for authoritarian regimes to then discredit any other types of learning and truth and destabilize their societies."

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 11d

"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 · 13d

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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Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 13d

Wow. Let’s not blow past this. The administrator of the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY says that climate change is a hoax/con job.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

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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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13d

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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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 15d

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 · 16d

"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 · 21d

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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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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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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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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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.

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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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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · Aug 31

Late is the hour in which both William Broad and the New York Times (www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...) express concern over the Trump administration's promotion of antiscience:
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Aug 28

it's starting
www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

The Practice and Assessment of Science: Five Foundational Flaws in the Department of Energy's 2025 Climate Report

Adopted by the Executive Committee of the AMS Council on 27 August 2025

www.ametsoc.org

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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · Aug 26

www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-the-...

Charted: The Shift in Global Energy Investment (2015-2025)

Over the past decade, renewable energy investment has doubled as lower costs and technological improvements drive growth.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Aug 25

As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout.

Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/

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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · Aug 23

Between 2009 and 2021, more than 87% of FOX News' climate segments contained misinformation or misleading narratives. www.mediamatters.org/bret-baier/f...

Fox’s flagship “straight news” show has a troubling record on the climate crisis

Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier is heralded as the network’s flagship “straight news” program that firmly embodies the show’s motto of “fair, balanced, and unafraid.” Under Fox chief...

www.mediamatters.org

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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · Aug 23

But they're not... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

MAGA World Is So Close to Getting It

Gavin Newsom’s parodies are riling people up—and they don’t quite seem to understand why.

www.theatlantic.com

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