Peter Yolles (Echo River Capital)
@peteryolles.bsky.social
VC in Water & Climate Tech.
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Follow me for water, tech, policy and security.
I want to hear more about startups that decarbonize water management - responsible for 10% of global GHGs. Founders-> echorivercap.com/apply
Follow me for water, tech, policy and security.
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@science.org confirms that yesterday the Trump admin wiped out the technical staff of the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the Global Change Research Program. When USGCRP's acting director, who is on a time-limited contract, leaves, it will leave the congressionally mandated office empty.
Trump administration fires staff for flagship U.S. climate assessment
Move could open the door to using high-profile report to attack climate science
www.science.org
April 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
@science.org confirms that yesterday the Trump admin wiped out the technical staff of the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the Global Change Research Program. When USGCRP's acting director, who is on a time-limited contract, leaves, it will leave the congressionally mandated office empty.
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This is cool. The Guardian recreated a searchable climate future risk tool (wildfire, extreme heat, drought, hurricane, and coastal flood) for the US that was developed by FEMA but deleted by the Trump administration’s ‘climate’ purge.
Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted
www.theguardian.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This is cool. The Guardian recreated a searchable climate future risk tool (wildfire, extreme heat, drought, hurricane, and coastal flood) for the US that was developed by FEMA but deleted by the Trump administration’s ‘climate’ purge.
Follow @booker.senate.gov - Still going on the Senate floor at almost 24 hours.
www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
April 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Follow @booker.senate.gov - Still going on the Senate floor at almost 24 hours.
www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
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Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding.
inews.co.uk/news/world/m...
inews.co.uk/news/world/m...
Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia
Trump’s federal cost-cutting - led by Elon Musk's Doge – has now hit the unit helping rescue Ukrainian children taken by Russia
inews.co.uk
March 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding.
inews.co.uk/news/world/m...
inews.co.uk/news/world/m...
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AP Exclusive: Trump administration workforce cuts at the federal agencies that oversee the nation's dams are jeopardizing their ability to provide reliable electricity, provide water for irrigation and control flooding, workers and dam-safety experts warn. apnews.com/article/dams...
Critics warn staff cuts at federal agencies overseeing US dams could put public safety at risk
Experts are warning that Trump administration workforce cuts at federal agencies overseeing U.S. dams are threatening their ability to provide reliable electricity, supply water to farmers and protect...
apnews.com
March 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
AP Exclusive: Trump administration workforce cuts at the federal agencies that oversee the nation's dams are jeopardizing their ability to provide reliable electricity, provide water for irrigation and control flooding, workers and dam-safety experts warn. apnews.com/article/dams...
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Fascism places emotion over reason. Words become just tools to achieve the vision of the Leader. In our post-truth world, this takes the special form of the inversion of meaning: fascists call other people "fascists" and antisemites call other people "antisemites"
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
"Antisemitism" and Antisemitism
The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon
snyder.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Fascism places emotion over reason. Words become just tools to achieve the vision of the Leader. In our post-truth world, this takes the special form of the inversion of meaning: fascists call other people "fascists" and antisemites call other people "antisemites"
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
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"The abuse of the word 'antisemitism' is meant to generate a sense of plausibility, confuse opposition, and create more space for the actual phenomenon of antisemitism. And this misdirection is an integral part of the effort to replace a constitutional order with an authoritarian one."
Fascism places emotion over reason. Words become just tools to achieve the vision of the Leader. In our post-truth world, this takes the special form of the inversion of meaning: fascists call other people "fascists" and antisemites call other people "antisemites"
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
"Antisemitism" and Antisemitism
The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon
snyder.substack.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"The abuse of the word 'antisemitism' is meant to generate a sense of plausibility, confuse opposition, and create more space for the actual phenomenon of antisemitism. And this misdirection is an integral part of the effort to replace a constitutional order with an authoritarian one."
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📢ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to lowest since 1872
🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London
🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn
🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power
📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84%
www.carbonbrief.org/...
1/9
🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London
🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn
🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power
📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84%
www.carbonbrief.org/...
1/9
March 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
📢ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to lowest since 1872
🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London
🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn
🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power
📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84%
www.carbonbrief.org/...
1/9
🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London
🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn
🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power
📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84%
www.carbonbrief.org/...
1/9
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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
February 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
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California embraced electric vehicles early on, Tesla's Fremont factory employs thousands of people, and the Model Y and 3 were the best selling EVs in the state in Q4. I swung by the protest at the showroom in Berkeley today and had lots of long conversations with folks
February 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
California embraced electric vehicles early on, Tesla's Fremont factory employs thousands of people, and the Model Y and 3 were the best selling EVs in the state in Q4. I swung by the protest at the showroom in Berkeley today and had lots of long conversations with folks
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Their messaging strategy is to appropriate and twist the language of climate science, economics, and morality, and it seems that their market strategy is to appropriate and then suppress climate tech, too.
"Oil and gas companies are the most active acquirers of climate tech startups. According to research by Sightline Climate, Shell made the most acquisitions globally between 2020 and 2024, buying up 8 companies. That was followed by BP, which snapped up 7"
sifted.eu/articles/cli...
sifted.eu/articles/cli...
February 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Their messaging strategy is to appropriate and twist the language of climate science, economics, and morality, and it seems that their market strategy is to appropriate and then suppress climate tech, too.
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The world in 2025.
Hundreds of thousands of Germans oppose neo-fascism.
The top aide to the president of the United States supports it.
apnews.com/article/germ...
Hundreds of thousands of Germans oppose neo-fascism.
The top aide to the president of the United States supports it.
apnews.com/article/germ...
At least 200,000 protesters rally in Munich against far-right AfD ahead of German election
More than 200,000 protesters have demonstrated in Munich against far-right extremism ahead of the German general election.
apnews.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The world in 2025.
Hundreds of thousands of Germans oppose neo-fascism.
The top aide to the president of the United States supports it.
apnews.com/article/germ...
Hundreds of thousands of Germans oppose neo-fascism.
The top aide to the president of the United States supports it.
apnews.com/article/germ...
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Amidst the chaos and the law-breaking the most important thing to remember/focus on is that they are doing these things illegally because they know they don't have the votes to do it by passing laws, even in a GOP controlled Congress.
February 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Amidst the chaos and the law-breaking the most important thing to remember/focus on is that they are doing these things illegally because they know they don't have the votes to do it by passing laws, even in a GOP controlled Congress.
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The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
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The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.
February 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.
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Big national media outlet still failing.
Headlines suggest some dispute over data access at US AID.
*Not connecting the dots with other DOGE moves.
*Not conveying illegality.
*Not communicating constitutional crisis.
Headlines suggest some dispute over data access at US AID.
*Not connecting the dots with other DOGE moves.
*Not conveying illegality.
*Not communicating constitutional crisis.
February 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Big national media outlet still failing.
Headlines suggest some dispute over data access at US AID.
*Not connecting the dots with other DOGE moves.
*Not conveying illegality.
*Not communicating constitutional crisis.
Headlines suggest some dispute over data access at US AID.
*Not connecting the dots with other DOGE moves.
*Not conveying illegality.
*Not communicating constitutional crisis.
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This by Ezra Klein is really spot on: “You never want a power grab to look like a power grab.” It looks like a power grab. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
Opinion | Don’t Believe Him
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This by Ezra Klein is really spot on: “You never want a power grab to look like a power grab.” It looks like a power grab. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
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In other news: www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
Climate Change to Wipe Away $1.5 Trillion in U.S. Home Values, Study Says
Rising home-insurance costs and more homeowners spurning some risky neighborhoods will drive these declines, according to First Street.
www.wsj.com
February 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
In other news: www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
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Follow some of those organizations and others here!
January 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Follow some of those organizations and others here!
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Many congratulations to these grant winners! All are doing great and important work covering climate change: www.macfound.org/press/press-...
More than $6 Million in Support of Climate Journalism
www.macfound.org
January 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Many congratulations to these grant winners! All are doing great and important work covering climate change: www.macfound.org/press/press-...
“We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion,” John Adams wrote in 1798. “Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Galantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...
Opinion | How a German Thinker Explains MAGA Morality
Us and them is all the rage.
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
“We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion,” John Adams wrote in 1798. “Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Galantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...
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Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."
January 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."