Russell Long

Former enviro org CEO; activist; entrepreneur; sailor.

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

If the world keeps using fossil fuels, one day the planet will keep heating up even if we stop using them.

Moreover, “the risk of crossing tipping points…increases with every tenth of a degree, starting with thresholds as low as 1.5 degrees of warming.”

End fossil fuels now.

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

@owenjonesjourno The science behind the weird Atlantic 'cold blob' explained (in under 15 minutes). It's the only part of the planet which hasn't warmed in the last hundred years, but cooled! And it's a bad sign. #AMOC
https://t.co/ddja5Jyi33

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Russell Long @russelllong]

@elonmusk @SMB_Attorney That’s a very kind tribute. It says a lot about you.

[Russell Long @russelllong]

@Mylovanov If she’s correct, does that imply that Putin could use a tactical nuke? Or attack the Balkans?

[Russell Long @russelllong]

@inondehfsusld I read somewhere that he didn’t feel bonded on a personal off-court level with the team. Steph went home to his family at night and others did too. KD didn’t have fam.

[Russell Long @russelllong]

@igorsushko Claude: The event and the Medvedev threats are real. But the post’s specific structure — that NATO leaders rushed to excuse Russia while Russia openly confirmed a deliberate attack — inverts the actual reactions. NATO condemned it sharply; Russia is muddying attribution.

[Russell Long @russelllong]

@briansbrown I can't find it on streaming platforms. Why not Netflix or Hulu or Amazon?

[Russell Long @russelllong]

@LiuInTheShadows PLEASE stop using AI to write for you. Phrases like:

"This is the moment nobody wants to talk about."

"Let that sink in."

It makes it hard to take your comments seriously.

[Russell Long @russelllong]

@theblackvault @CyberWeez @ProjectStarPath I always appreciate your skeptical takes. There’s so much BS out there. thank you.

[Russell Long @russelllong]

@BowesChay Claude says you are a Russian propaganda outlet.

[Russell Long @russelllong]

@Sheridanblog The only problem with your thesis is that Steph could easily have convinced Lacob that he wanted one of these guys as his coach instead of Steve. As we know winning is everything to him. He didn’t.

[Russell Long @russelllong]

@b0y1da_ He's still in G-League. Never stuck anywhere. Says it all.

[Russell Long @russelllong]

@rebel_authentic @deedydas You're not wrong, but it is an insulated monoculture without much diversity in any sense of the term. Bubble territory.

[Russell Long @russelllong]

@najam_ali Given that most of Trump's statements about negotiations have been wrong, what basis do you have to believe him? We must be careful not to fall into wishful thinking, or gullibility.

[Russell Long @russelllong]

@AlaliQasem “No historical precedent, no playbook” is false. 1973 embargo, 1979 Iranian Revolution, 1990 Gulf War all created acute supply shocks. Systems adapted through demand destruction, rationing, and SPR releases — not physical collapse

[Russell Long @russelllong]

@beaulieu_terry @SenWhitehouse There's a joker in every crowd :) Follow the science.

[Russell Long @russelllong]

@sentdefender Either poorly worded, or just fake for clicks....

[Ed Hawkins @ed_hawkins]

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026)

It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral

It instantly went viral.

People watched it over and over again.

It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

[Russell Long @russelllong]

@DavidGeorge83 This is an a16z piece. They have billions at stake in AI being good for the economy. That doesn’t make them wrong, but the framing — “doomers,” “failure of imagination,” “come on” — is advocacy dressed as analysis.