Nate Thornton

Engineer at startup

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Please don’t look away. In only 2 hours, Donald Trump has attacked Nancy Pelosi & her husband, echoed Hitler, praised dictators, confused Biden with Obama, & went after Jack Smith & his wife. Be alarmed. If we elect Donald Trump again, our democracy will die. It’s that simple.

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

We do understand the #globalwarming caused by fossil fuels - for four decades it’s been going as predicted.
But we don’t understand the surprise upward leap that is happening now.
And that worries me.

[Nate Thornton @TweakySolution]

@KerriMPR Can the decline in affordable housing be attributed to the rise of Airbnb and VRBO?

[Emily Atkin @emorwee]

Why haven't we acted more quickly to slow climate change?

In a new presentation, @algore argues it’s not b/c the technology to reduce carbon isn’t ready.

It’s because the people who profit from carbon aren’t ready—and never will be, until we make them.
https://t.co/883GZD8jjA

[Mike (not a) Rothschild @rothschildmd]

I love the implication that the erratic management, mass layoffs, incoherent moderation, destruction of verification, decimated engineering staff, serial unbanning of racists, and crumbling infrastructure had nothing to do with twitter losing half its value. Nope, just Jews.

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Somebody please explain to me why the North Atlantic stabilizing at about 1.1°C above the 1991-2020 baseline is not as big a story as 70,000 people stuck in the mud in Nevada.

This is still totally f&%king nuts.

[Nate Thornton @TweakySolution]

@queenofpeat

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Folks, it's not a "teacher shortage." It's a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the dignity and pay they deserve.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Mike Pence is the most sanctimonious robot in all of West World

[Dr. Merritt Turetsky @queenofpeat]

Our world is increasingly flammable. Many ask me what should/can we do?
1. Decarbonize
2. Decarbonize
3. Decarbonize
4. Invest in proactive land management
5 Invest in cultural burning

[Nate Thornton @TweakySolution]

The news out of Montana is huge. @PattyAcomb @GovTimWalz Please please please start work on amending the MN state constitution to include a green bill of rights.

[Nate Thornton @TweakySolution]

But what he does with the money...

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

The worth of a good man is not measured in money.

[Nate Thornton @TweakySolution]

In building my new entertainment center, I unintentionally made an appropriate vent for an @Xbox

[Bill McKibben @billmckibben]

One of these years is not like the others...
The ocean is very very very hot.

[Nate Thornton @TweakySolution]

Cool. Now #LeadOnClimate

[Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan @LtGovFlanagan]

Minnesota's unemployment rates have hit historic lows, inflation is falling, and we've bumped Texas to be the fifth best state for business.

Now, we’re connecting high-demand careers with workers – and workers with family-sustaining jobs – to keep this momentum going.

[Peter Strachan @ProfStrachan]

Sir #DavidAttenborough

“Things are going to get worse."

"This is the new extinction & we are half way through it."

"We are in terrible, terrible trouble & the longer we wait to do something about it the worse it is going to get."

#ClimateCrisis

https://t.co/EfMrZh9RGB

[Professor Mark Maslin 👋 𝕏 @ProfMarkMaslin]

Heatwave in Europe

Mediterranean 5°C hotter than it should be

North Atlantic Ocean surface hotter than it has ever been.

Why are you not worried about this?

This is not weather.

This is shattering climate records

This is #ClimateChange

[Penn @Penn]

.@MichaelEMann of @PennSAS and collaborators found that the effects of climate change on the intensity, frequency, and duration of extreme weather events like wildfires could lead to massive increases in all three variables. https://t.co/29wWvNkWp7

[Glen Peters @Peters_Glen]

A very cool animation of atmospheric CO₂ for the year 2021:
* Fossil fuels, orange
* Burning biomass, red
* Land ecosystems, green
* Ocean, blue

For a well-mixed GHG, it takes some time for CO₂ to distribute globally from the sources in the North!

https://t.co/xTPHDNMSyw

[Russell Warfield @russellwarfield]

why would Just Stop Oil do this? don’t they see how much this inconveniences working people and just turns everyone off their cause?