Brian Von Herzen

Climate Foundation
Stanford
Caltech
Princeton
Exeter
Woods Hole

[Brian Von Herzen @brianvon]

Warming is exceeding the highest line presently because of the lack of recognition of the importance of tropospheric clout condensation nuclei, which can be nature based.

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

Nauwelijks afwijken?
"Maar als je kijkt hoe de temperatuur in de praktijk omhooggaat, dan zie je dat de opwarming sneller gaat dan zelfs het hoogste lijntje. Als het zo doorgaat komen we in 2050 uit op een temperatuur die hoger is dan het hoogste scenario van het @KNMI."
https://t.co/dW5UJGd5wA

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

Nauwelijks afwijken?
"Maar als je kijkt hoe de temperatuur in de praktijk omhooggaat, dan zie je dat de opwarming sneller gaat dan zelfs het hoogste lijntje. Als het zo doorgaat komen we in 2050 uit op een temperatuur die hoger is dan het hoogste scenario van het @KNMI."
https://t.co/dW5UJGd5wA

[Brian Von Herzen @brianvon]

Agri-voltaics are the future for growing plants

[Robin Boardman @RobinBoardmanUK]

French agrivoltaics trials show crops under solar panels had up to 18% higher yields, far fewer heat-stress days, cooler soils, and better animal welfare — while generating clean power. This is a win-win governments should scale now.

[Brian Von Herzen @brianvon]

@CopernicSpace @LadyRocketSpace @LadyRocketSpace thanks for the mention today. Interested in these next steps in the journey

[Brian Von Herzen @brianvon]

@CopernicSpace Thank you

[Brian Von Herzen @brianvon]

@LeonSimons8 prophetic words by the great oceanographer Wally Broeker nearly 40 years ago...

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

Today is Wally Broecker his birthday.
It's always humbling to read words written by great minds. This is from before I was even born.

He has been warning about the (temporarily decreased) temperature contrast caused by Northern Hemisphere aerosols too.

[Brian Von Herzen @brianvon]

@abcnews Cultivating seaweed with marine permaculture would draw down nutrient levels and at scale could actually attenuate the nutrients causing bloom...

[Brian Von Herzen @brianvon]

The dismantling of
@NOAA
&
@NWS
is criminal gross negligence.

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

The five former National Weather Service directors issued an open letter two months ago stating this:

'Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.'

Destroying the @NWS and @NOAA kills people.

[Brian Von Herzen @brianvon]

Putting to rest any uncertainty about the consequences of climate disruption...

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

Flash floods kill 🌊 🏠

See the Guadalupe River turn from a stream into a ranging monster, destroying homes and lives in Kerrville within 35 minutes.

More Flash Floods in my thread below.

[Brian Von Herzen @brianvon]

"A moral failure" is a Gross understatement!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The Catholic Church enrages MAGA world by coming out forcefully against the "big, beautiful bill" as twenty bishops sign an interfaith letter stating that its "passage would be a moral failure for American society as a whole."

There is nothing less Christ-like than cutting healthcare and food stamps or the poor....

"First, it provides tens of billions of dollars to the government to undertake a mass deportation campaign which will separate US families, harm US-citizen and immigrant children, and sow chaos in local communities," the letter reads. "It will spur immigration raids across the nation, harming hard-working immigrant families essential to our economy and causing widespread unrest like we recently witnessed in Los Angeles."

The legislation would funnel over $150 billion towards Trump's border policies and immigration crackdowns, with the ICE budget alone ballooning from $3.4 billion to $45 billion until the end of 2029. It amounts to a 365% increase which Professor Donald Moynihan of the University of Michigan has pointed out is more than the combined funding for all 50 federal prisons.

In addition to being a gross waste of taxpayer money, this funding will create a self-perpetrating deportation industrial machine just like our private prison system and military complex. Just like pouring money into military contractors incentivizes new wars, pouring money into this fledgling deportation industry will incentivize more crackdowns and family separations. The more you feed the monster, the bigger and hungrier it gets.

"This funding also will be used to target faith communities, as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has removed places of worship from its sensitive locations list, allowing ICE agents to enter them for enforcement purposes," the letter continues. "We have already witnessed a reduction in attendance at many of our religious services in our denominations, as the threat of enforcement has deterred many families from practicing their faith."

The signatories include numerous prominent bishops such as Cardinal Robert McElroy, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, Bishop John Dolan, Archbishop Paul Etienne, Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski, and Bishop Jaime Soto.

In addition to the Catholic leaders, the letter was signed by the leaders of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas as well as respected faith leaders of the Episcopalian, Jewish, Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Muslim communities.

"Moreover, the bill provides funding for a border wall along the US-Mexico border which we believe will drive migrants into the most remote regions of the border and lead to an increase in migrant deaths," the letter goes on. "It also would hurt the local environment along the border and force desperate asylum-seekers seeking safety to increasingly rely on human smugglers."

"As you should know, our faith organizations have long favored the creation of legal avenues for migration and a legalization program for immigrants who have lived in the US for years and contributed their hard work to our economy," the signatories wrote. "We believe the adoption of these policies, instead of the implementation of a mass deportation campaign, would not only benefit immigrant workers and their families, but be in the best interest of our nation."

"Second, the legislation makes severe cuts in health-care coverage and food assistance to millions of both low-income citizens and legal residents, including asylum-seekers and refugees, driving them deeper into poverty," the letter adds. "According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the bill transfers wealth from those in the bottom 10 percent of income to those in the top 10 percent of income in our nation, increasing the already large gap between the rich and the poor."

The bill will slash nearly $1 trillion in funding from Medicaid, a move that will directly result in the death and suffering of countless Americans. People will go blind, see their life expectancies cut in half, and end up bankrupt and homeless. Nursing homes and hospitals will shut down.

It also guts funding for crucial food programs like SNAP by roughly $186 billion by 2034. Americans are literally going to starve to death so that billionaires can afford a few new yachts.

"From our various faith perspectives, the moral test of a nation is how it treats those most in need of support. In our view, this legislation will harm the poor and vulnerable in our nation, to the detriment of the common good. Its passage would be a moral failure for American society as a whole," it concludes.

In a separate statement, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that the bill "takes from the poor to give to the wealthy."

"It provides tax breaks for some while undermining the social safety net for others through major cuts to nutrition assistance and Medicaid," he continued. "It fails to protect families and children by promoting an enforcement-only approach to immigration and eroding access to legal protections. It harms God’s creation and future generations through cuts to clean energy incentives and environmental programs."

"I underscore what my brother bishops said in their recent letter to find a better way forward and urge Senators to think and act with courage and creativity to protect human dignity for all, to uphold the common good, and to change provisions that undermine these fundamental values," he added.

Please retweet and ❤️ to thank these bishops for speaking out!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The Catholic Church enrages MAGA world by coming out forcefully against the "big, beautiful bill" as twenty bishops sign an interfaith letter stating that its "passage would be a moral failure for American society as a whole."

There is nothing less Christ-like than cutting healthcare and food stamps or the poor....

"First, it provides tens of billions of dollars to the government to undertake a mass deportation campaign which will separate US families, harm US-citizen and immigrant children, and sow chaos in local communities," the letter reads. "It will spur immigration raids across the nation, harming hard-working immigrant families essential to our economy and causing widespread unrest like we recently witnessed in Los Angeles."

The legislation would funnel over $150 billion towards Trump's border policies and immigration crackdowns, with the ICE budget alone ballooning from $3.4 billion to $45 billion until the end of 2029. It amounts to a 365% increase which Professor Donald Moynihan of the University of Michigan has pointed out is more than the combined funding for all 50 federal prisons.

In addition to being a gross waste of taxpayer money, this funding will create a self-perpetrating deportation industrial machine just like our private prison system and military complex. Just like pouring money into military contractors incentivizes new wars, pouring money into this fledgling deportation industry will incentivize more crackdowns and family separations. The more you feed the monster, the bigger and hungrier it gets.

"This funding also will be used to target faith communities, as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has removed places of worship from its sensitive locations list, allowing ICE agents to enter them for enforcement purposes," the letter continues. "We have already witnessed a reduction in attendance at many of our religious services in our denominations, as the threat of enforcement has deterred many families from practicing their faith."

The signatories include numerous prominent bishops such as Cardinal Robert McElroy, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, Bishop John Dolan, Archbishop Paul Etienne, Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski, and Bishop Jaime Soto.

In addition to the Catholic leaders, the letter was signed by the leaders of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas as well as respected faith leaders of the Episcopalian, Jewish, Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Muslim communities.

"Moreover, the bill provides funding for a border wall along the US-Mexico border which we believe will drive migrants into the most remote regions of the border and lead to an increase in migrant deaths," the letter goes on. "It also would hurt the local environment along the border and force desperate asylum-seekers seeking safety to increasingly rely on human smugglers."

"As you should know, our faith organizations have long favored the creation of legal avenues for migration and a legalization program for immigrants who have lived in the US for years and contributed their hard work to our economy," the signatories wrote. "We believe the adoption of these policies, instead of the implementation of a mass deportation campaign, would not only benefit immigrant workers and their families, but be in the best interest of our nation."

"Second, the legislation makes severe cuts in health-care coverage and food assistance to millions of both low-income citizens and legal residents, including asylum-seekers and refugees, driving them deeper into poverty," the letter adds. "According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the bill transfers wealth from those in the bottom 10 percent of income to those in the top 10 percent of income in our nation, increasing the already large gap between the rich and the poor."

The bill will slash nearly $1 trillion in funding from Medicaid, a move that will directly result in the death and suffering of countless Americans. People will go blind, see their life expectancies cut in half, and end up bankrupt and homeless. Nursing homes and hospitals will shut down.

It also guts funding for crucial food programs like SNAP by roughly $186 billion by 2034. Americans are literally going to starve to death so that billionaires can afford a few new yachts.

"From our various faith perspectives, the moral test of a nation is how it treats those most in need of support. In our view, this legislation will harm the poor and vulnerable in our nation, to the detriment of the common good. Its passage would be a moral failure for American society as a whole," it concludes.

In a separate statement, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that the bill "takes from the poor to give to the wealthy."

"It provides tax breaks for some while undermining the social safety net for others through major cuts to nutrition assistance and Medicaid," he continued. "It fails to protect families and children by promoting an enforcement-only approach to immigration and eroding access to legal protections. It harms God’s creation and future generations through cuts to clean energy incentives and environmental programs."

"I underscore what my brother bishops said in their recent letter to find a better way forward and urge Senators to think and act with courage and creativity to protect human dignity for all, to uphold the common good, and to change provisions that undermine these fundamental values," he added.

Please retweet and ❤️ to thank these bishops for speaking out!

[Brian Von Herzen @brianvon]

@_Mike_Warner @ilyasut Decentralize and open source Is the only way to ensure super intelligence is broadly distributed, which is the key to relative safety

[Brian Von Herzen @brianvon]

https://t.co/PaOAAelWdS

[Brian Von Herzen @brianvon]

Stellar! https://t.co/y1plgNt1OT

[Brian Von Herzen @brianvon]

Time to make a choice.. live or die? https://t.co/uraPZJ0e9x

[🇺🇸💙🌈D. Keith Padgett🇺🇸💙🌈 @DKPadgett0762]

@LakotaMan1

[Brian Von Herzen @brianvon]

@therealseedebgo @BrentToderian @drdagly @modacitylife Separated bikeways make excellent cross-country ski tracks as well!

[Brian Von Herzen @brianvon]

@JonesHowdareyou Just saw another fighter jet over woodford queensland at low altitude.

[Brian Von Herzen @brianvon]

@acnewsitics @elonmusk Better question!

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Holy cow!

Elon Musk’s Grok AI literally thinks Trump is a Russia asset.

“I estimate a 75-85% likelihood Trump is a Putin-compromised asset, leaning toward the higher end due to the consistency of his behavior and the depth of historical ties.” — Grok

https://t.co/zOgNslsuvo