Mark Hertsgaard

Exec Dir @CoveringClimate, enviro correspondent @thenation, author (Big Red's Mercy, HOT, Earth Odyssey, On Bended Knee, The Beatles) and lucky dad.

[Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth]

I wrote about balcony solar, California's clean energy future and tomorrow's gubernatorial primary, which is swimming in oil and utility money.

One of the leading Democrats says balcony solar is amazing. The other one is staying quiet. https://t.co/P2LEOi9sBa

[Mark Hertsgaard @markhertsgaard]

D'accordo!

[Yesterdaypills 🍏 @yesterdaypills]

🎵 Paul McCartney, un capolavoro oltre l’età
di @mcalcan

Molti diranno che, considerato che Paul sta per compiere 84 anni, “The Boys of Dungeon Lane�� è un grande disco.
La realtà però è un’altra: il nuovo album dell’ex Beatle sarebbe un grandissimo disco anche se Paul McCartney avesse soltanto trent’anni.

È un album straordinario, pieno di canzoni leggere, intime, melodiche, alternate a brani rock e a splendide dichiarazioni d’amore. Un disco vivo, ispirato, sincero. Ma se volete ascoltare davvero qualche capolavoro, e ovviamente conoscete già “Days we left behind” e “Home to us”, andate ad ascoltare le ultime due canzoni del disco.

“Salesman Saint ” e “Momma gets by”, dedicate ai genitori, sono due canzoni di una profondità emotiva impressionante.
Brani che avrebbero trovato posto senza alcun problema nei grandi album dei Beatles come Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Abbey Road o Revolver, canzoni che hanno quella magia melodica, quell’equilibrio tra semplicità e poesia che solo i grandissimi riescono a raggiungere.

Bellissima anche “Down South”, nella quale Paul rievoca i suoi primi incontri con George Harrison con delicatezza e nostalgia, senza mai cadere nell’autoreferenzialità.

“The Boys of Dungeon Lane” è un grande disco. Veramente un grande disco. E lo è indipendentemente dall’età del suo autore.

Con questo album, Paul McCartney conferma ancora una volta di essere il più grande musicista degli ultimi cento anni.

#paulmccartney #beatles #thebeatles #theboysofdungeonlane #yesterdaypills

[Mark Hertsgaard @markhertsgaard]

Hear, hear to "Let's all read more books." It's especially important for journalists, so we can look beyond the froth of daily events to see the larger forces at work and tell more insightful, useful stories. That's why @CoveringClimate often reviews climate books. Join us!

[Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth]

Short version: Lots of useful ideas for dealing with climate change! Also lots of shortcomings. This book will not save the world. It's also way more nuanced than the "abundance bros" you often find on the internet.

Reading books is good. Let's all read more books.

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

This article says climate change is “believed to have played a role” in the UK's extreme heat this week.

As a climate scientist, let me fact-check that.

First, climate change is not a religion. No belief is required. It is about evidence.

And the evidence has been crystal clear for more than two decades: climate change is making heat waves hotter, longer, more frequent and more dangerous.

In fact, science has advanced far beyond saying climate change merely “played a role.” Today, we can quantify how much more likely and how much hotter climate change made a specific event.

Here's the bottom line:

Climate is changing. Humans are responsible. And we are experiencing the impacts now. That’s the bad news.

The good news is that solutions already exist, and the majority of people care - 89%, around the world!

But meaningful action depends on helping people understand not just what is happening: we need to know how it affects our lives (this heat wave being example A today) and what we can do about it.

That’s the opportunity this reporting missed.

https://t.co/vYfPDKcWWf

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

The summer is a time for young people to enjoy the city, have new experiences, get a job or simply rest. It’s not a time for violence.

I sat down with violence interrupters and young men directly impacted by gun violence to talk about what this administration is doing to keep New Yorkers safe.  

Real public safety means investing in people before tragedy strikes: summer jobs, mental health support, community programs, safe streets, and trusted messengers who grew up in our neighborhoods.

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

It is a norm. The problem is mainstream journalism likes to pretend that independent journalism doesn't count. This has to change.

[David Fenton @dfenton]

Solar is cheap energy. And fast. In 2004 it took a year to deploy 1 GW of solar. In 2026 half a day. And the sun shines all night in batteries and other storage. @ChairHochschild of @CalEnergy on https://t.co/rX9nzhAGey https://t.co/9TS97qqzjU #solar #climatechange

[Antonia Juhasz @AntoniaJuhasz]

Don’t Overlook This Surprising Climate Victory.
A critical mass of the world economy is now working together to phase out fossil fuels.
@markhertsgaard
https://t.co/IUb4wsgB9C via @RollingStone

[Antonia Juhasz @AntoniaJuhasz]

Sometimes, outrage over outrageous things works:
Top Treasury Lawyer Resigns After Creation of ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund.' General Counsel Brian Morrissey steps down hours after the Trump administration announced the $1.8 billion fund.
https://t.co/EPJmadS5wq

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

Audio up!
New article on Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica today claims that the ice shelf is deteriorating much faster now leading the team at the British Antarctic Survey to write an obituary for it. These quotes sound alarming, and they are. But deep in the article they mention that this is a “gradually developing crisis rather than an immediate emergency.”
Still with comments like this from scientists it’s a good reminder that a whole lot of ice and sea level is sitting behind very fragile ice shelves at the bottom of the World!
"Suddenly, large areas are just falling to pieces," says Christian Wild, from the University of Innsbruck in Austria. "It looks like a windscreen that's shattering."
“Massive cracks have emerged around the pinning point, where an underwater ridge once anchored the floating ice in position.”
"It's essentially in free fall now," says Mr Wild, noting the pace has quickened further over the past five months.
“Fresh rifts have appeared along the grounding line, where the glacier transitions from land to floating ice.”
Here’s a video I made explaining the ice shelf holds back the Glacier and how the grounding line is destabilizing. Audio up!
Article in thread… 1/

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Wow. Just wow.

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

In the biggest sign of progress since the Paris Agreement, a critical mass of the world economy is now working together to phase out fossil fuels.

Commentary: https://t.co/tHd2cxOBP1

[Mark Hertsgaard @markhertsgaard]

Most Americans won’t know it—because US media was absent—but the recent climate conference in Santa Marta, Colombia, yielded the best international climate news since the Paris Agreement ten years ago.  I explain why in Rolling Stone: https://t.co/1yFFK6vBhU

[Katrina vandenHeuvel @KatrinaNation]

Steyer is part of solution/The fact that the DSA and many progressives in California are coalescing around Steyer underscores the problem with casting billionaires, per se, as the enemy. This frame doesn’t fare well in the real world, where some billionaires are very much part of the problem, while others are part of the solution.

[The Nation @thenation]

Extreme heat and a powerful El Niño could intensify drought, wildfires, and food insecurity worldwide. https://t.co/earpTFmtdY

[The Nation @thenation]

The original Earth Day was a protest, but not protest may have put Greenpeace on the brink of extinction, writes @markhertsgaard with @CoveringClimate.
https://t.co/hwdQs5C7ex

[The Nation @thenation]

The US branch of Greenpeace may be on the brink of extinction because of a lawsuit arising from the Standing Rock pipeline protests in 2016 and 2017, writes @markhertsgaard with @CoveringClimate.
https://t.co/hwdQs5C7ex

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

"I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread."

—Langston Hughes

[Antonia Juhasz @AntoniaJuhasz]

Big Supreme Court win for Big Oil. Key case holding oil & gas companies accountable for their role in coastal erosion/Louisiana's disappearing coast line related to operations (not climate change) will now be heard in federal (rather than state) court.
https://t.co/6JwgLRvuaI

[David Fenton @dfenton]

The Fenton Forecast — what future will we choose in AI, climate, democracy, health? Now on all podcast platforms. The dissidents Ezra Klein won’t interview. Because the future is up to us.