Joe McCarthy

reporter + editor | climate, energy, information disorder | @EnvDefenseFund — formerly @discoveryID @weatherchannel | also do music | he/him

[Joe McCarthy @notjoemccarthy]

Car headlights have gotten way too bright and movies/TV show lighting has gotten way too dark - can we split the difference please

[Joe McCarthy @notjoemccarthy]

Make whatever problem you have an invasive bug and New Yorkers will get right on it

[John Bistline @JEBistline]

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

[Joe McCarthy @notjoemccarthy]

When I say I could go for a cone I mean three and I mean paper cups of water at the doctor’s office

[Joe McCarthy @notjoemccarthy]

Some strange energy on the apps today, I tell ya

[paris martineau @parismartineau]

everybody say happy 18th birthday to none pizza left beef

[Joe McCarthy @notjoemccarthy]

@ITDonohue This rules!!

[Ian @ITDonohue]

The $500 album is out today and you can stream/listen on bandcamp. Been very fun to play and work these songs out over the last year and I am excited for it to finally be out in the world, hope you enjoy https://t.co/F9gT1t1GLZ

[Joe McCarthy @notjoemccarthy]

The world-building chyron you'd see in a background shot if I made a devastating feature film

[Axios @axios]

Belief in the American dream hits record low https://t.co/o75NPWRddA

[EDF @EnvDefenseFund]

🧵Is Secretary Wright living on the same planet as the rest of us?

Temperatures are rising. Because of the burning of fossil fuels. Endangering our lives and health. 1/5 https://t.co/qt8ipNCsEG

[Allyn West @allynwest]

Interesting public health strategy for the Trump administration to stop using fake dyes in candy and then let more toxic chemicals into the air

[Joe McCarthy @notjoemccarthy]

Overnight oats are the ceviche of grains, the gravlax of oatmeal

[Fred Krupp @FredKrupp]

The fingerprint of human-caused climate change is all over this heat wave. A Climate Central analysis found Tuesday’s extreme heat on U.S. East Coast up to 5x likelier because of global warming. 1/2

[Andrew Freedman @afreedma]

The ongoing heat wave in the East is exposing vulnerabilities in US infrastructure plus public health risks. Once again needs to be said -- our roads, rails, bridges & more were built for a climate that no longer exists. (1/2)

[Joe McCarthy @notjoemccarthy]

@ITDonohue Been praying for this to be good. Where are you, God?

[EDF @EnvDefenseFund]

For more than 50 years, EDF has risen to the climate challenge. And with the Trump administration moving to erode the U.S.’ environmental protections, we’re not backing down. This is how we’re working to protect what matters: https://t.co/B1fSMTGTBZ

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

“It’s only really now that the penny is dropping that we didn’t prevent a global-scale climate crisis. We’re now in a global-scale climate crisis.” https://t.co/9Mqnkyn9mi

[Joe McCarthy @notjoemccarthy]

I replaced 2 exclamation points with other punctuation this morning please clap

[Joe McCarthy @notjoemccarthy]

Not a single egg in the warehouse

[Joe McCarthy @notjoemccarthy]

Actual Costco free sample I witnessed in TrumpV2 America: sugar in the raw

[Joe McCarthy @notjoemccarthy]

My barometer for how bad things are getting and what we’ll tolerate as a society is the degeneration of the “BK have it your way” jingle. It’s gone from off-key-but-quirky to an utterly chaotic, joker-level assault on the senses/reality