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David Doniger

@daviddoniger.bsky.social

Endangerment is my middle name. Senior Strategist and Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council's Climate & Energy Department. https://www.nrdc.org/bio/david-doniger Bluesky views my own.

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 11h ago

This week we breached +2.5°C sea surface temperature anomaly in the East-Central Tropical Pacific. That alone qualifies this as an elite event. But we still have 4 months of temperature rise to go. So we are headed into outer space… 2/

Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 11h ago

*2026 El Niño Ahead by a Mile* It’s remarkable for us scientists to witness El Niño’s evolution. If you had asked us if something like this was possible a year ago, it would have been a definitive no. But here we are… already more than 1C (& 3 months) ahead of the next strongest episode in 1997… 1/

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · yesterday

NASA: Warming Effects of Carbon Pollution since the 1800s. Wait for it. Since human’s industrialized the Earth has warmed 1.5°C/2.7°F due to heat-trapping greenhouse gases released from the burning of fossil fuels, changes in land use, and the feedbacks of both. This may not sound like much but 1/

David Doniger@daviddoniger.bsky.social · 3d ago

Imagine if a fraction of the money wasted bombing Iran went to global health and nutrition instead. With a Series of Big Donations, State Department Restores Some Global Health Aid www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/h...

U.S. Restores Some Vaccine and Health Aid to Unicef, Gavi and World Food Programme

The amount is still far below what the U.S. spent previously on humanitarian and health aid, but resumes the flow of money for key efforts to fight malnutrition and disease.

nytimes.com

David Doniger@daviddoniger.bsky.social · 7d ago

Senate GOP rails about a COVID lab leak theory that’s broadly debunked. Meanwhile, they’re silent about the actual lab leak that happened when Anthropic’s latest AI Frankenstein escaped its sandbox.

NRDC@nrdc.org · last wk.

From record heat to dangerous air pollution, every community is feeling the climate crisis this summer. But the Trump administration is doubling down on climate denial and giving polluters free rein to keep pumping out the fossil fuel pollution driving the crisis.

Where There’s Smoke, Heat, and Drought…

The Trump administration is failing the nation with a backward-looking energy policy that is driving up costs, shortchanging factory workers, and fueling climate catastrophe.

nrdc.org

David Doniger@daviddoniger.bsky.social · last wk.

We are not adequately measuring heat-driven deaths and illnesses. “When U.S. health officials look through medical records to assess mortality from a heat wave, they are missing a broad array of indirect deaths triggered by the high temperatures.” www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

The Post counted 70 deaths from July heat domes. The true toll may not be known.

Epidemiologists said the country’s slow, sometimes haphazard approach to assessing heat mortality makes that a dramatic undercount.

washingtonpost.com