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Lyssa Freese
@lfreese.bsky.social
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Climate, air quality, energy, equitable solutions Otherwise in the mountains, throwing pots, or making dad jokes Opinions my own, not my employer's.
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Lyssa Freese @lfreese.bsky.social · 7d
So now they're just prioritizing funding University research based on loyalty pledges?

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Trump aims to give preferential funding treatment to universities that meet demands
The Trump administration is urging a group of nine universities to sign a 10-point compact that would have sweeping implications on campus in exchange for a funding advantage in federal grants. &nb…
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9d
This is amazing: @ladwp.com, the Los Angeles utility, has launched a program that will install solar+battery systems on qualifying low-to-moderate-income households, *for free*.

Yes: free.

If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!
Self-Generation Incentive Program
The Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) helps qualified LADWP residential customers install solar and battery storage systems by providing financial incentives. This program supports clean energy...
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 22d
Their big conclusion. This is the exact opposite of the conclusion of the DOE CWG report.
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Lyssa Freese @lfreese.bsky.social · 28d
I'm hiring a postdoc to join the Climate, Pollution, and Solutions group at UC Irvine's Earth System Science Department! Flexible start date + research on one of three tracks in climate, pollution, and solutions.

More info on the position and how to apply in the ad here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09874
Postdoctoral Scholar: Climate, Pollution, and Solutions
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Sep 2
Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out.

Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.
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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. In response, over 85 scientists have come together to write a comprehensive review, which is
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NPR @npr.org · Sep 2
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
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Abigail Swann, PhD @ecoclimatelab.bsky.social · Sep 2
More coverage of the scathing review by more than 80 scientists of the report from the DOE's climate working group. It's biased, cherry picked, and written with a scientifically unsupported agenda. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump team’s contentious climate report ‘makes a mockery of science’, experts say
Over 85 top climate specialists lambasted administration’s review, calling it a ‘shoddy mess’ that downplays risks
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Aug 30
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions.

They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · Aug 30
The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry.
https://to.pbs.org/45HtATc
Trump administration cancels $679 million in funding for offshore wind projects
The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind ind...
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · Aug 28
“The Biden administration was totally feckless when it came to holding the Netanyahu government to the standard of American law and the standards that we claim to apply to every other country in the world when it comes to the duty to provide humanitarian assistance.” Senator Chris Van Hollen.
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NPR @npr.org · Aug 28
As famine plagues Gaza, NPR exclusive reporting looks at the U.S.'s role in the humanitarian crisis. Many former officials NPR interviewed share a common refrain: Did we do enough to prevent this? n.pr/3VnVTQm
The road to famine: How U.S. policy failed Palestinians in Gaza
As famine plagues Gaza, NPR exclusive reporting looks at the U.S.'s role in the humanitarian crisis. Many former officials NPR interviewed share a common refrain: Did we do enough to prevent this?
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Paul Higgins @phiggins.bsky.social · Aug 28
AMS released a statement on climate change today that points out five foundational flaws with the Department of Energy's 2025 climate report: 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
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Aug 25
"These cuts, which would hit basic science on the weather, oceans, and—especially—climate, represent a “down payment” on the White House’s proposal to eliminate NOAA’s research arm in the 2026 fiscal year that begins on 1 October, agency officials have told employees."
Trump administration pushes ahead with NOAA climate and weather cuts
Despite congressional resistance, agency aims to cut research spending now
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Aug 25
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Aug 14
The recent DOE climate science report misrepresents the work of many researchers. Carbon Brief asked those cited to review the parts of the report where their work was used, and we collectively found 100+ misleading or false statements: interactive.carbonbr...
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Yellow Dot Studios @weareyellowdot.bsky.social · Aug 13
Joe Rogan might call this a brutal KO, if it wasn't him getting knocked the F out.

A supremely delightful takedown by @climatetown.bsky.social of Rogan's confident, ignorant, and dangerous climate denial.
Joe Rogan Doesn't Understand Graphs
YouTube video by Climate Town
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · Aug 12
Just finished reading this fabulous series from my @latimes.com colleagues imagining a future Los Angeles that works better for everyone. Will share some highlights... www.latimes.com/california/s... 🧵
Let’s imagine a future that works for all of us
Los Angeles knows how to weather a crisis — or two or three. Angelenos are tapping into that resilience, striving to build a city for everyone.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Aug 11
Exactly right. At a time when demand is rising, the Administration is restricting and raising taxes on the main sources of capacity being added to the grid: clean energy. The result: hiring electric bills, greater risk of blackouts, and more pollution.
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Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · Aug 11
I want the American people to know that this is not an accident. This administration is choosing to take actions that are raising people's electric bills.
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · Aug 11
Commentary:

Without medication or steady income for rent, I lost the RV. My dog Rex and I then endured 15 traumatizing months in a shelter, where daily harassment by staff made life unbearable. cal.news/3JaWrX1

📝 Sean Geary
Ramping up RV enforcement only makes it harder to house California's homeless | Opinion
California leaders should choose compassion and reject a bill that would make it easier to tow RVs, often the last refuge for homeless people.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Aug 8
The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.
US to rewrite its past national climate reports
US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.
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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · Aug 7
Here's the portal for input (8/27 deadline) survey.alchemer.com/s3/8416653/R...
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION — Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases and US Climate: Evidence and Impacts
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Aug 7
interesting! I note that this is self funded, meaning that the NAS is paying for the report. I wonder how this will go over with the administration.
National Academies Launch Fast-Track Review of Latest Evidence for Whether Greenhouse Gas Emissions Endanger Public Health and Welfare WASHINGTON – A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study will review the latest scientific evidence on whether greenhouse gas emissions are reasonably anticipated to endanger public health and welfare in the U.S. The committee conducting the study will focus on evidence gathered by the scientific community since 2009 – when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency first declared greenhouse gas emissions a danger to public health. Any conclusions in the committee’s report will describe supporting evidence, the level of confidence in a conclusion, and areas of disagreement or unknowns. The EPA recently announced that it intends to rescind its “endangerment finding,” a statement issued by the agency in 2009 that found that greenhouse gas emissions do pose risks to public health and welfare. The National Academies study will be completed and publicly released in September, in time to inform EPA’s decision process. “It is critical that federal policymaking is informed by the best available scientific evidence,” said Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences. “Decades of climate research and data have yielded expanded understanding of how greenhouse gases affect the climate. We are undertaking this fresh examination of the latest climate science in order to provide the most up-to-date assessment to policymakers and the public.” The committee will be led by Shirley Tilghman, professor of molecular biology and public affairs, emeritus, and former president, Princeton University. The committee will also include experts in public health, extreme weather, climate modeling, agriculture, infrastructure, and other areas. The committee has issued a request for information to the public and scientific community. The study is being self-funded by the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academ…
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Matthew Mangam @matthewmangam.bsky.social · Aug 1
Matt Freese denies James Rodriguez from the spot. #NYCFC
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Jul 31
🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨

Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.

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DOE climate report response form
We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · Jul 30
“Humans are highly adaptable and Americans are particularly so, but the data and evidence indicate that climate change will cause many Americans to die earlier than they otherwise would,” write Solomon Hsiang and Marshall Burke, two climate scientists and Stanford professors.
Opinion | We Study Climate Change. It Endangers You and Your Children.
A Trump administration proposal runs counter to both basic logic and a growing mountain of science documenting direct harms from climate change.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Jul 30
Coming up at the top of the hour at 12PM ET: Michael and I will be on KQED with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social to talk about electricity prices and next steps on climate policy.
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Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · Jul 30
Hey! Me and @costasamaras.com will be on @kqedforum.bsky.social tomorrow morning to talk about electricity bills. Check it out at 9am:

www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
Why Your Energy Bill Has Gotten So Expensive (and What Can Be Done About It) | KQED
We explore the steps we can take to make California's electrical grid more sustainable.
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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Jul 29
The EPA cited my paper in their argument against the endangerment finding today. However, their point is completely backwards: my paper actually supports the EPA's 2009 range of 1.8C to 4C warming by 2100. www.nature.com/artic...
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