NEW @rooseveltinstitute.org: as wildfires & heatwaves rage, we are not powerless. As 19 authors argue in our 157-page "Building Up in 2029" report, we can adapt & expand Biden & Trump experiments to create lasting state capacity to tackle climate change. 🧵🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Building Up in 2029: How to Make Green Statecraft Durable

Explore 17 essays on durable US climate and industrial policy after Inflation Reduction Act rollbacks, covering governance, planning, finance, and production.

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Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d ago

I'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.

Late century party in the water belt: Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Toronto, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis.

Harvey J. Miller@mobileharv.bsky.social · 3d ago

Cincinnati has developed a Climate Migration Readiness Plan to absorb as many as 525,000 newcomers by 2050. It calls for building much denser housing, expanding public transit and decreasing the city’s reliance on fossil fuels.

This is not the exculpatory evidence he thinks it is.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

NEW: Americans can’t buy Chinese EVs. Waymo is Importing thousands The U.S. uses tariffs and security rules to keep Chinese cars off dealer lots. Alphabet’s robotaxi company appears to be buying them by the boatload www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

Americans Can’t Buy Chinese EVs. Waymo Is Importing Thousands

The U.S. has used tariffs and security rules to keep Chinese cars off dealer lots. Alphabet’s robotaxi company appears to be buying them by the boatload.

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In the class, we spend a good amount of time on data centers- emissions, energy, costs, water, noise, policy, etc, so send me new resources you think I should include. But we also spend a good amount of time on AI risks & opportunities for climate across broader sectors, & how to evaluate those.

Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · 4d ago

I'm teaching my course on AI, energy, and climate again this fall, and restructuring the class as the field keeps evolving. If you have new work or resources you think we should cover, send them my way. The class starts ⁱⁿ ᵗʰʳᵉᵉ ʷᵉᵉᵏˢ at ⁸﹕³⁰ ᵃᵐ

A couple of cmu students did this program this summer and it is great! Folks should apply for next year.

Serena Booth@reniebird.bsky.social · 2w ago

If this sounds interesting to you or someone you know, check out cntr.brown.edu/summer-school and be on the lookout for applications for v3 of the AI policy summer school.

This is a great program. We've had AAAS fellows on our staff for several years. Great opportunity for them and great for Congress to have their expertise.

Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · 4d ago

The application for the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, which places scientists & engineers into roles in Congress and in the Executive Branch, opened today. This program is essential for building technical policy capacity in the US. If interested, apply: fellowshipapp.aaas.org/app/main

The application for the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, which places scientists & engineers into roles in Congress and in the Executive Branch, opened today. This program is essential for building technical policy capacity in the US. If interested, apply: fellowshipapp.aaas.org/app/main

In addition to the potential unfolding WUI wildfire disaster in Spokane, WA, numerous other large & fast-moving fires (existing & new) are blowing up under extremely critical fire weather conditions & severe drought conditions from eastern slopes of Cascades eastward into ID/MT.

you know who else returned after a long absence and quote posted a bunch of suitors

Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 4d ago

can't believe i accidentally locked myself out of the posting factory for a month

Again, every war game and natsec briefer since the 1970s said: stove hot, no touch.

Rory Johnston@roryjohnston.bsky.social · 6d ago

10-day average Hormuz-exiting oil flow has fallen below 3 MMbpd. That's down ~80% from late June's peak of more than 15 MMbpd. Feels silly to say five months into this, but that's not enough oil.

I'm teaching my course on AI, energy, and climate again this fall, and restructuring the class as the field keeps evolving. If you have new work or resources you think we should cover, send them my way. The class starts ⁱⁿ ᵗʰʳᵉᵉ ʷᵉᵉᵏˢ at ⁸﹕³⁰ ᵃᵐ

post your worst transportation take: I actually love the mobile lounges at Dulles.

Something good. Congrats Prof. Azevedo! woods.stanford.edu/news/ines-az...

Inês Azevedo named new director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Azevedo aims to foster research that addresses environmental problems – ranging from local to global – and prepare the next generation of environmental leaders and professionals.

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The scientists then published a research paper demonstrating that the virus showed no signs of being engineered. This paper has not been debunked or retracted. No evidence of engineering has emerged. In the conclusion the paper says, “but it could still be a lab leak.”

The Roosevelt Institute asked a bunch of climate wonks to put our heads together to talk about what a national Democratic platform should look like. 2029 is really not that far away and there's a lot of work to do.

Roosevelt Institute@rooseveltinstitute.org · 6d ago

Climate policy isn't going away because Washington stopped talking about it. Americans are already paying the price through fires, floods, heat, and rising costs. Our new collection asks a different question: what should the next agenda for climate look like post-DOGE and the rollback of the IRA? 🧵

is one of the 9 things "post more"

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.

How you treat your body and brain in your midlife years, loosely defined as 40 to 60, can hugely influence how you age in the decades to come.

remember when this didn't happen all the time

CNN@cnn.com · last wk.

A Delta jet that aborted a landing at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport got so close to a plane taking off that anti-collision alarms sounded in both aircraft, according to air traffic control audio of the incident. https://cnn.it/45uXCZc

a quarter of a century, feels like yesterday

Angry Staff Officer@pptsapper.bsky.social · last wk.

So September will be 25 years since 9/11 25 years from Pearl Harbor was 1966 which had…Massive civil unrest over racial discrimination/violence and police brutality, and an escalating war with no clear end in sight.

Timely... "Canada’s 2023 wildfire smoke caused a 2.8 percent drop in solar power generation, costing two billion dollars" Follows the @costasamaras.com rule where you know exactly what you get from the title Haven't gotten to do this in a minute: Physical risk 🤝 Transition risk

RIP Danny Kahneman, you would've loved the opportunity to log on to bsky dot app for some downtime and make silly jokes with your friends only instead to find day 12 of never ending expected value and cognitive bias posts.

Just got done talking about space data centers on @newsnation.bsky.social. TLDR: constellations this large are probably too difficult to build for any company, and the amount of material that they’d introduce to the stratosphere would be pretty bad for the planet. That’s assuming they burn up.

Why is it considered normal to just issue death threats against Arab Americans?

worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · last wk.

we got self-described "Hardcore Democrats" out here making genocide jokes (This account in on here too)

I did my lecture on AI, climate, and policy this week in this @climatechangeai.bsky.social series. I talked about how energy decisions as a foundational input to AI, are one of the only ways the public feel they have a voice in an uncertain future. Highly recommend the rest of this lecture series:

Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · 3w ago

Join the Climate Change AI Virtual Summer School 2026, where I will be doing a lecture about AI and Climate Policy and Regulation. It’s run by a nonprofit founded by some of our brilliant alums. The fee for the whole sequence is $30. Learn more & register: www.climatechange.ai/events/summe...

Every NSC director, NatSec analyst, & person with a map has said “the strait of Hormuz is a critical choke point in global energy markets”. Was this not emphatically communicated to WH Principals? Or it was and ignored? Either way, a huge mess up. Also, no permanent NSC Director for 15 months. Why?

remember when we could eat strawberries

DOE National Lab funding, fast and free (laudatory)

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2w ago

What’s the funniest hyper-specific New Mexico issue that might be become more nationally prominent due to the primary change? Lotta physicists there who are the kind of people who donate and vote in primaries, maybe some esoteric Los Alamos specific thing becomes prominent

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can you name a big or profound insights has Bremmer offered? Its a career based on the (correct) assumption that superficiality gets attention, and attention gets money. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/a...