Bora Chang, MPH
@climatechang.bsky.social
communications/climate/environment; views my own
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
The blood-soaked WAR-PROFITEERING is actually even MORE obscene Aramco, BP, Chevron, ENI, Equinor, ExxonMobil, Shell & TotalEnergies made nearly $93 billion🤯 in the Apr-June quarter Off the back of war & heatwaves, drought, fires, & floods caused by entrenched fossil fuel use
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 5d agoGuess who LOVES PROFIT-BOOSTING WAR & couldn't care less about deadly heatwaves, drought, fires, floods & landslides❓ "BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell & TotalEnergies will collectively earn $45 billion in net income during April-June 2026, up from $23 billion in the previous quarter"
Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico #Hegseth #USMilitary futurism.com/science-ener...
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.
futurism.com
RFK Jr. shows why there were more Covid deaths in red states. 🧪 www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/pol...
Political party affiliation linked to excess COVID deaths
cidrap.umn.edu
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 3d ago“The reason we’re having a measles outbreak is because of the Covid lockdowns, because people didn’t — children during that period did not get vaccinated.” It’s a day that ends in Y, so RFK Jr. is lying again. The antivax movement and his incompetence are why we have an ongoing measles outbreak.
Love to have a rando on here basically demanding to see my medical bloodwork results because they can’t believe that long covid is real. This is a proported leftist. There really is a problem and right wing people arent the only ones who are in denial. Have those conversations with people.
Add that to the salmonella risk, the flesh-eating parasite infesting cattle, and the explosive diarrhea outbreak. trib.al/nbqXg9H
RFK Jr. Now Responsible for 35-Year Record High in Measles
Add that to the salmonella risk, the flesh-eating parasite infesting cattle, and the explosive diarrhea outbreak.
trib.al
This is ridiculously scary. Yes, we are currently talking about ballrooms and reflecting pools and inflation and Iran and Venezuela and Epstein and crypto grift and the moral rot of the GOP. But all that is going to be forgotten soon. Shit is about to get real, as they say.
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d agoI'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
What is even happening anymore One of my first science communication projects (three full decades ago) was a brief about how we know what we know about Lyme disease origins and spread from long term ecological research
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d agoRFK told Dana Bash that Lyme disease “almost certainly” came from gain of function research. Which is utterly false. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
I’ve been a part of online wildfire conversations for decades at this point. There is a real shift around these fires happening now - lots more people, including those directly impacted, saying we must stop climate change. A lot of folks locally talking about data centers, some about class/housing.
Climate change is an “everything” problem. Wildfires, floods and heat waves of course. But also waves of human migration and financial crises for homeowners, insurers and banks. The human pain is real, but ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. thehill.com/opinion/ener...
The climate crisis is here, it’s accelerating, and it demands action
A California resident and an Illinois congressman are calling for urgent federal action, including a Climate Bill of Rights for Homebuyers and increased financial oversight, to protect Americans fr…
thehill.com
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
Yeah so NYT asked me ~2 yrs ago to write an op-ed about how the Colorado is running dry, & what we should do to keep this exact thing from happening. I said "There's only one real answer. Bill farmers by how much water they use. Duh." NYT editorial staff freaked tf out & cancelled the piece.
Elias Thorne@truebe.horse · 6d agosaw an article today about an az politician saying how great it was that we're now in emergency drought conditions because the farmers get automatic bailouts and I feel like way more Professional Rural Understanders just breeze by sentences like that. www.paysonroundup.com/news/arizona...
I genuinely don't know what to do about this. In our diseased information environment, one MAGA-adjacent "influencer" can do more to shape public opinion than mountains of studies or facts. Where are the pro-clean-energy influencers to counter this shit?
The influencer teaching millions to fear solar
Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. How much of her rhetoric is actually true?
heated.world
“The map showed Nigeria, where the U.S. has several hundred troops deployed, as landlocked in the Sahara Desert. Mozambique, which is in southeastern Africa, was relocated to the Horn of Africa, while Ivory Coast in West Africa was placed on the other side of the continent.”
Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 6d ago“They all look alike.” US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference - www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Police arrested a teacher for clapping during a city council meeting last week. They went to the meeting of Emporia, Kansas City Commission to speak out against a proposed hyperscale data center that would sit on 1,000 acres of rural land. @mjgault.bsky.social reports www.404media.co/person-oppos...
The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people,” he said.
‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone
The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to...
404media.co
A lot of what-the-hell moments in this story, but building a data center in a floodplain in Louisiana is inviting the wrath of Poseidon.
How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal (Gift Article)
A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.
nytimes.com
Update: Wildfires have raged across Europe over the past week. More than 330,000 people have been evacuated in France and Spain. Another heatwave may complicate efforts to tackle the expanding blaze, which is about 15km from Bordeaux, with a population of ~850,000. www.bbc.com/news/article...
France and Spain fires: Macron calls crisis meeting as wildfires threaten Bordeaux
Blazes are about 15km from Bordeaux, but the city's mayor says there are no plans to evacuate.
bbc.com
Dr. Prakash Kashwan@pkashwan.bsky.social · 2w ago"The number of people evacuated in France and Spain has now passed 250,000...Both countries are facing unprecedented blazes that are spreading unchecked despite the efforts of many hundreds of firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
🚨NEW from me: leading climate scientist @rahmstorf.bsky.social tells me of his anger after witnessing firsthand the devastating Gironde wildfires - which he ties directly to politicians' inaction on fossil fuels.
Climate Scientist Fleeing Wildfires: ‘We’re In A Race Against Time’
Professor Stefan Rahmstorf escapes out-of-control wildfires in France, and warns fossil fuel inaction is supercharging climate disasters.
forbes.com
Y’all I don’t know what to do with this information 😩 my heart can’t break any more again make it stop
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2w agoEven camels can’t deal with extreme heat. 🐪
Wildfires in Spain and France have driven more than 300,000 people to flee their homes
Spain wildfire burns 'out of extinguishing capacity' as fires engulf parts of Europe – video
theguardian.com
In Biscarrosse, southwestern France, horses were set free into the wild to escape fast-moving wildfires. Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated in Europe due to the fires.
In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.
A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain
In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.
bit.ly
I join you from the Blaenavon wildfire in Southeast Wales, brought to you by BP, Shell and Equinor. Though it does not look dramatic, the fire has been out of control for days - for a very particular reason. 🧵
BREAKING NYT: Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states "based solely" on whether they backed Trump in the 2024 election.
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
nytimes.com
