Logan Mitchell PhD 🇺🇸

Bsky: @loganemitchell.bsky.social
Climate scientist & energy analyst @UtahCleanEnergy. #ElectrifyEverything. Tweets my own.

[Logan Mitchell PhD 🇺🇸 @loganemitchell]

🚨 New paper published: History of #AirQuality In Utah
👉 https://t.co/uYGr74nY9Z

Utah has a long fascinating air quality history that that you wouldn't believe. Understanding our history can inform where we are today & our future.

Follow along 🧵...

[Utility Dive @UtilityDive]

Each one-degree increase in temperature will drive a higher use of air conditioning, which in turn will put more heat into the area, creating “a feedback loop,” researchers concluded.
https://t.co/jksKDTp3I3

[Logan Mitchell PhD 🇺🇸 @loganemitchell]

@andyblarsen Super helpful quantification, thank you!

[Andy Larsen @andyblarsen]

Utah's in a water emergency — but our state leaders haven't treated it with as much mandatory action as other nearby states. It's time we do more than just recommend relatively low-impact water changes, and force cutbacks for high water users.

https://t.co/84yuNYbafG

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Yes - this is our constitutional crisis in a nutshell. Mullin says he will pick and choose which court orders to follow based on whether he likes them or not.

That's a reciple for the total destruction of our democracy. That's totalitarianism.

[Joshua Siegel @SiegelScribe]

NEW: Senate Republican lobbies Pentagon on stalled wind permits. Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker said today he's working to "get some resolution to the problem" that Dems say is a top barrier to reaching a permitting reform deal. w/@ameliadavidson_ https://t.co/UH9yn2oP8J

[Matt Royer @royermattw]

Every time the shadow docket has touched a contested map, the outcome favors Republicans.

Texas gerrymander: allowed.

New York Democratic flip: blocked.

Louisiana: VRA gutted.

Virginia Democratic map: refused to save it.

Alabama: a Black district erased.

Same direction every time.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

So, the slush fund was just a fringe benefit. What Trump really cares about is the “almost as good as a pardon” deal he gave himself via the IRS. Explained here: https://t.co/tTiMtlkCu7

[Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) @speechboy71]

Earlier this week, Will Smith and I released a new Stimson Center report on the war in Iran as part of the "Is War Worth It?" project.

We examined the stated US objectives, whether the US achieved them, and the costs (direct and indirect) of the conflict.

Our conclusion: the Iran War is worse than a failure. It's a strategic calamity with no notable achievements and potentially trillions in direct and indirect costs to the US and global economy.

Iran’s nuclear capacity is broadly unchanged, its missile force largely intact, its hard-liners empowered, its leverage over the Strait of Hormuz enhanced, and U.S. munitions stockpiles depleted.

How did we come to that conclusion?

We actually took into account how the Trump administration publicly tried to justify the war -- and then took a deep dive look at the costs of the war. https://t.co/yR28eZwbnT

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Trying to understand how it’s legal for a POTUS to tell voters he’ll ensure their state receives funding if they vote like he tells them to while promising they won’t receive the said funding if they disobey his orders on who to vote for

Thought we fought a revolution over this?

[Lauren @cabsav456]

Absurd. A housing finance exec with zero intelligence background, zero military experience, and zero government experience is now Acting Director of National Intelligence.

This is the same guy who's been digging through Letitia James & Adam Schiff’s mortgage docs for indictments. Guess Trump found a new role for him.

The DNI leads 18 spy agencies, oversees intel on foreign election interference (cyber threats, influence ops), integrates analysis on major national security risks, and handles long-term threat assessments on adversaries like China, Iran & Russia.

It'd be laughable if it weren't so alarming.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

We Are Living in the Dumbest Timeline

Donald Trump just posted a photo of a wind turbine next to birds and captioned it “Killing birds by the millions!”

He posted this without irony.

For every single bird killed by a wind turbine, nuclear and fossil fuel plants kill 2,118 birds. Coal alone kills roughly 7.9 million birds a year in the United States. Wind turbines? Between 140,000 and 328,000. That is not a defence of wind turbines.

We are living in genuinely, historically stupid times. Only rivalled, frankly, by the medieval peasants who blamed the Black Death on cats and promptly killed all the cats, which meant the rats multiplied, which meant more plague.

At least the peasants had the excuse of having no access to information whatsoever.

Trump has the internet. He chose this.

[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

The Trump Administration is prematurely dismantling an invaluable ocean monitoring system built at taxpayer expense that was supposed to last until 2041.

Because apparently climate change doesn't exist if you prevent scientists from measuring it.

[Utility Dive @UtilityDive]

Access to real-time electricity data should be a basic consumer right
The technology exists. What is missing is a requirement that customers have access to data on their electricity use, writes Joel Hicks at the University of Oregon.

https://t.co/CP518i8MBV

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

“As of Friday, the NIFC reported that some 2.4 million acres had burned in wildfires for which it had generated incident reports. That’s almost double the 10-year average for the time of year.” https://t.co/3cqbNGhNJ8

[Tara Blume @tcblume]

Science gasps for breath. They are removing all the ocean monitors to understand changes in currents and climate, and the excuse is a master class in obfuscation & double speak . (1/2) https://t.co/vs782YbcI3

[Solar and Storage Industry @SEIA]

Abundant, fast-to-build, AND affordable.

No other energy source comes close to beating solar.

[Amelia 🇺🇸 @amelia_tweetz]

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

It seems we are now entering a new phase of the rise of inequality in the US.

It's not just wealth and billionaires — it's a broader acceleration.

Here's who benefited from economic growth in 2025, according to the latest estimates available on https://t.co/arZRWrEZEv

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Remarkable story from @propublica of how the Pentagon got a call from the White House and rushed to lend $620 million to an obscure company -- with links to Donald Trump Jr. The company's valuation rose 10-fold to $2 billion. https://t.co/yIJ9bXb9Jb

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand—that our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas.

Americans are not a race, we're a people united not by ethnicity, but by our shared convictions, and that is what makes us exceptional