The assumption that CCS will work at a scale at which it has never worked underpins much of the world's climate policy. The great @katieworth.bsky.social (w/ me & @themadstone.bsky.social) explains how that happened, for @propublica.org & @drilledmedia.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/carb...

How a Secret Vote by U.N. Scientists Legitimized Carbon Capture and Skewed Decades of Climate Policy

A U.N. report concluded carbon capture could offset fossil fuels’ effect on climate change. Two decades later, the process has failed to meaningfully scale up, and it’s proving hard to take the promis...

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October 30, 2006 – Stern Review publshed allouryesterdays.info/2022/10/29/o...

October 30, 2006 - Stern Review publshed. - All Our Yesterdays

On this day, October 30 in 2006 the Stern Review was published. This had been commissioned by Gordon Brown, the United Kingdom “Chancellor of the Exchequer” (Treasurer) a year previously (see this blo...

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This loophole exists, and Trump has proven he's not afraid to use any opening he can find to make himself richer. We need to close it and stop him from using taxpayer money to pad his luxury golf course portfolio. abcnews.com/Politics/dem...

Democrat wants assurances Trump can't buy DC golf course after taxpayer-funded renovations

Rep. Huffman wants "guardrails" to keep the president from profiting from it.

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The real scandal in Alaska is Trump's weaponization of DOJ to try to control who can be certified the winner in Senate elections.

I have never seen these kinds of numbers for an ad, just on familiarity alone. - 86% respondents said they had seen, read or heard something about the ad. - By a 2-to-1 ratio, those who said they were familiar with it said it made them more likely to vote for Acton. www.axios.com/2026/10/28/g...

Of course the great Marisa Kabas found him, and of course he has a lot more fun stuff to say and this interview and clip will restore your faith in white guys in baseball caps with weird facial hair in mid-size southern towns.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW — I spoke to Tom, the guy at the South Carolina Trump rally who compared the president's supporters to the Jonestown Massacre. We talked about his loathing for Trump, his love of death metal, and where he learned his impeccable comedic timing. Read our full chat here:

NEW: China’s exports of clean energy technology have boomed in 2026, and will avoid as much CO2 as Brazil emits in a year. Measured in avoided emissions, exports grew by 26% year-on-year in the first three quarters of 2026, having already risen by 36% in 2025.

So the NYT used Pangram to determine that Paxton's online biography "was heavily written by A.I." while Talarico's is "100% human," and I would really like life to stop handing us so many too-obvious metaphors. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/u...

Websites For Midterm Candidates Are Filled With A.I.-Written Text, Analysis Shows

The use of A.I. chatbots to write candidate biographies and policy positions is another way the technology is entangled with elections.

nytimes.com

Worth a read… The science, economics and cost of delay was clear. What’s been missing is the political courage to challenge short-term profit and business as usual. The irony is that a liveable planet isn’t the enemy of a strong economy …it’s the foundation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The climate crisis will destroy our economies – we learned this 20 years ago. When will we act? | Fiona Harvey

The radical Stern report showed that a low-carbon future is also good economics. But it seems that capitalism needs a reminder, says Fiona Harvey, an environment editor at the Guardian

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This week marks 20 years since the Stern review of the economics of climate change. It marked a massive moment in reckoning with the climate crisis. But many economists still have not caught up. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The climate crisis will destroy our economies – we learned this 20 years ago. When will we act? | Fiona Harvey

The radical Stern report showed that a low-carbon future is also good economics. But it seems that capitalism needs a reminder, says Fiona Harvey, an environment editor at the Guardian

theguardian.com

Insurance industry scientist warns Congress about fossil-fueled sea level rise in 1966: "The problem is not one for this year or next year, but neither is it one that can be left unattended for 100 years. The situation could become serious by the end of the century."

Dr. Jeff Masters@drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 3d ago

Remarkable! For the 2nd-straight day, Miami has crossed the threshold for "Major" flooding without a hurricane. This had never happened before yesterday. Water levels the 2 days were 3rd- and 5th-highest since 1994. Yellow highlights: 60% of the top spots are from king tides during the past 2 years.

🔥 from @abbiedillen.bsky.social: "When democracies are at the cliff’s edge, among the most important guardrails are the law and the people’s ability to go to court and challenge the government that is turning against them. All of this to say, taking down the guardrails is a dangerously bad idea."

What Will BAAJA Do? Whatever the Trump Administration Wants

BAAJA would create more legal runway for this president to make corrupt deals and greenlight harmful projects of all kinds.

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somehow, the niche golf course case I became obsessed with last winter developed into a national news story! here's my opus on how that happened, for @lawfaremedia.org: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-...

How Judge Reyes Became the Lorax

A case about a golf course turns into a tale about the rule of law.

lawfaremedia.org

I like big butts and I love to lie

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: "So I'm studying him. And I made the mistake of saying that I started off by studying his ass. I just wantasink. And then I looked at his feet & they were massive. I made the mistake of studying his anatomy. Maybe I should do that with Ken Paxton, but I'm not sure your body is gonna qualify."

Earthjustice President Abbie Dillen warns: "BAAJA would create more legal runway for this president to make corrupt deals and greenlight harmful projects of all kinds."

Earthjustice@earthjustice.org · 2d ago

John Podesta just weighed in on BAAJA. Earthjustice President @abbiedillen.bsky.social's take here.

@agu.org launches a new initiative on scientific assessments

Reenvisioning How Research Moves to Practice — AGU Launches the Initiative for Science Assessments

Like many of you, I have dedicated myself to AGU because I want to ask a bigger question than, “How do we protect what we have?” I believe we should be asking, “If we were building the scientific…

fromtheprow.agu.org

Cassidy Hutchinson threw away her career to tell the truth. I’m familiar with what that takes. She had everything to lose and nothing to gain. I believed her then, I believe her now, and so do the Americans who just embarrassed the DOJ.

This is corruption, pure and simple. The biggest winner from this rule change is Texas oil billionaire Jeffery Hildebrand, whose company Hilcorp built its fortune buying up old, leaky wells and ranks as the nation's top methane emitter by one analysis of EPA data.

Writing this story, about efforts to protect whales from fishing-gear entanglement, was a huge journey. I would like also to point out that I literally got the name of the dog. (It's Steve, the boat dog.)

No Strings Attached | bioGraphic

A new fishery in California shows how ropeless crab traps can prevent whales from becoming entangled in fishing lines.

biographic.com

"That is a challenging outlook for an industry investing heavily in new export capacity on the assumption that tomorrow's power sector will burn substantially more ⁠gas than today's."

Dolores Huerta, who rose to national prominence as the co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, and was known for her advocacy for women farmworkers, has died. She was 96. Huerta coined the ¡Sí Se Puede! chant and came to define the farmworker movement.

Dolores Huerta, Chicana activist and prominent defender of farmworker rights, dies at 96

The labor activist spent over seven decades organizing for better treatment and pay for immigrant workers in California’s Central Valley.

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Meanwhile, global natgas demand is expected to decline in 2026. “Global gas demand is expected to fall by around 0.5% (or 20 bcm) in 2026, the third annual decline this decade following previous decreases in 2020 and 2022.”

The techno-dystopia I fear is not one where an LLM becomes sentient, developing both a desire and means to wipe out humanity, but one where people come to believe that truth is whatever Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, or Grok say, and the few very rich people who own them use that to manipulate the public.

Comfortably Boo@numb.comfortab.ly · 3d ago

FRIEND (IN CANADA): What's the Gulf called, what's the lake called, who won in the US in 2020? GOOGLE: Mexico, Ontario, Biden. ME (IN AMERICA): What's the Gulf called, what's the lake called, who won in the US in 2020? GOOGLE: America, America, I am not at liberty to disclose.

"BAAJA undermines bedrock environmental laws while granting the fossil fuel industry more power, more access to public lands, and less accountability. In return, the package includes tenuous renewable energy and transmission provisions, many of which could be achieved under current law."

The Senate Permitting Deal Could Lock in Fossil Fuel Dominance for Generations

To address the energy affordability crisis and climate crisis, what's needed most are critical improvements to the power grid that will accelerate deployment of clean energy across the country. Instea...

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This is an excellent question and one that IMO everyone should ask about all BAAJA modeling. The asymmetry Nat points out is real and the value judgments modelers make about whether/how to account for impacts from fossil fuel exports really matter.

Nat (Goth Cousteau)@gothshit.com · 3d ago

Curious if your modeling focused only on domestic demand. It occurred to me that there is an asymmetry where clean electricity growth is capped by domestic demand, but fossil fuel production is only limited by global demand. Regardless, I appreciate you making the point about the serious harms

A thread about another reason people are justified in skepticism about AI.

Comfortably Boo@numb.comfortab.ly · 3d ago

Google geolocking its AI to respond with bullshit. bsky.app/profile/rvbd...

Thanks to President Biden’s Infrastructure Bill (that Republicans voted against but tried to take credit for) remote locations on the Navajo Nation Reservation finally have access to electricity and broadband for the first time, ever.

70 years ago today…

All Our Yesterdays@allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 3d ago

October 28, 1956 – New York Times reports “Warmer Climate on the Earth May Be Due To More Carbon Dioxide in the Air” allouryesterdays.info/2022/10/27/o...

Since 🌡️was invented,there had never been anything comparable to what we are seeing now in West Asia. Still MINIMUMS >30C in Middle East and tropical nights in The Caucasus at 43N. This won't end anytime soon: Thousands of November records will be pulverized allover the area.

Developers are proposing gargantuan hyperscalers on public lands, anticipating #BAAJA's elimination of legal protections for the land, water, and wildlife.