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Learning and sharing information about climate change. Seeking wisdom and actionable ideas. 🌱🌎🌏🌍

[Crystal Heath DVM @drcrystalheath]

Please stop doing this to yourselves and don’t inflict this generational trauma on your children either.

Get out of the animal-based protein business while you still can.

We all have a duty to stop enabling these systems and support increased access to high protein whole foods animal free meals.

#onehealth #vetmed #vettwitter #veterinarian

[Jack Andreasen Cavanaugh @AndreasenJack]

I used to work for Bill Gates at Breakthrough Energy

I was on the policy time that was folded up earlier this year

I've consumed everyone's hot take on his new memo. This is my mild take on the Rorschach test, which ended up revealing personal vendettas and "vindications"🧵

[Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano]

Official data is in today, and America set a new record-high for solar power in July, with generation up 30% compared to last year!

[Citizens' Climate Lobby @citizensclimate]

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A virtual conference dedicated to strengthening communities, cultivating connections, and grounding our movements in care.

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[John Arnold @johnarnold]

The US produces power from 6 sources. There's essentially no new build of nuke, coal, or hydro. Thus gas, wind, and solar must collectively meet all load growth this decade. But with tight supply chains, limited pipe and power lines, and intermittency, we can't rely on any single one. All 3 must be part of the solution for affordable and reliable electricity. That requires the ability to permit and build each of them.

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

Congress today held a hearing on whether to force states to sell pork from crated pigs.

This is a wildly unpopular policy that Congress is likely about to enact via the Farm Bill.

Today's hearing showed how Big Ag lobbyists get DC politicians to do their bidding. A 🧵...

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Hard to believe this is happening with very little reaction.
The public have near to no idea what this means and very few journalists seem to be paying attention.
Politicians are as thick as the rest of the public.
I wish I could be in denial too. https://t.co/9gtFJcDFQ0

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

Great piece in today's NYTimes on the recent acceleration of global warming (and its impacts), featuring comments from Kate Marvel, Daniel Swain, Cecilia Bitz, and me: https://t.co/ovZbXTecss

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

The rate of global warming is accelerating.

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

This week China achieved an historic milestone when it became the first country to build 1 TW of solar capacity.

While Congress debates rolling back America's best energy policies, China continues to build.

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[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE agents caught on camera—brutally beating local gardener during arrest in Santa Ana.

Multiple reports of ICE raids "swarming" landscaping crews.

Even leaving lawnmowers running after grabbing men right off front lawns in the greater Los Angeles area.

Mayor Valerie Amezcua has faced significant calls to resign due to her response—or lack thereof—to ICE raids and protests in the city.

Santa Ana was supposedly the only self-designated sanctuary city in Orange County, California.

#DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE #DemsUnited

[1.5 @Climate74453259]

@cremieuxrecueil A detail: “Zimislecel […] requires chronic immunosuppressive therapy to protect the islet cells from immune rejection.” https://t.co/zAuYiqVgEF . Still great news though

[Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer]

What a scoop from the Post.

The One Big, Beautiful Bill Act would force the USPS to sell off its 7,200 EV delivery vehicles and *rip up post office facilities/lots* to uninstall their chargers.

The chargers have no real market value so it’s just incinerating public dollars.

[Prof. Ryan Katz-Rosene @ryankatzrosene]

Woah, rare to see this kind of language in a review article 👀
“We show that +1.5 °C is far too high and that current climate conditions…could trigger rapid ice sheet retreat and high rates of Sea Level Rise... that would stretch the limits of adaptation” and could have “catastrophic consequences for humanity”

[Our World in Data @OurWorldInData]

If you want to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet, less meat is nearly always better than sustainable meat.

[Prof. Ryan Katz-Rosene @ryankatzrosene]

Admittedly one of the hardest things to wrap one's head around in Climateland™️ is the relationship between CO2 emissions and concentrations over time. Here's an example of how CO2 EMISSIONS scenarios translate into CONCENTRATION and then GLOBAL TEMPERATURE outcomes:

[Citizens' Climate Lobby @citizensclimate]

The fate of the clean energy tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act face a pivotal point next month. In early May, the House Ways and Means committee is set to release a version of the federal budget - with or without the tax credits.
https://t.co/9uw8t9o1y9

[Prof. Ryan Katz-Rosene @ryankatzrosene]

This article from last year controversially claimed "the opportunity to limit global warming to no more than 1.5 °C by emission reductions alone HAS NOW PASSED and at current emission rates, the 2 °C threshold for GMSTs will be reached BY THE LATE 2020s"...
Quick thread...

[Johan Rockström @jrockstrom]

Another nail in the Nordhaus DICE coffin that for decades has erroneously downplayed economic impacts of global warming - New study shows average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, in line with recent Kotz et al paper (19% income loss 2050) https://t.co/dvh17f6aX1

[Hugh Riminton @hughriminton]

It’s official: 2024 was the warmest globally since records began 175 yrs ago, says UN agency. The last ten years have been the hottest ten on record. The first time a calendar year has exceeded 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial averages (+1.5•C) https://t.co/FVmMwFdgeI