Jason Dove Mark
@jasondovemark.bsky.social
Former EIC of Sierra; former editor of Earth Island Journal. Author of the forthcoming book, The Earth Said Remember Me (July '26; Norton). Author of Satellites in the High Country. Lily's Dad. Gardener + Hiker. Posts = ill-considered opinions.
"More than half of people globally said they were more worried about climate change now than last year, and four out of five want their countries to strengthen commitments to address climate change."
The world’s largest survey on climate change is out – here's what the results show | UNDP Climate Promise
We break down the results of Peoples’ Climate Vote 2024, representing 87 percent of the global population.
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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.
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.
Many belated thanks to @sweetal.bsky.social for having me on his great program, Sea Change Radio, to discuss The Earth Said Remember Me. It was a great discussion! www.cchange.net/2026/07/07/j...
Don't Call It A Comeback: Jason Mark on Shifting Baseline Syndrome — Sea Change Radio
Imagine you jumped in a time machine and went back 15 years. You might get a chuckle seeing the flip phones and watching masses of people on that thing we used to call a “work commute,” but you might ...
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Climate change ain't cheap: The costs associated with the health impacts of heat waves from 2015 to 2020 were estimated at between between $25 billion and $42 billion. Future heat waves could cost the country more than $230 billion over the next four years. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
Opinion | Over 100 Degrees in Paris, Flames Near Bordeaux. France Can’t Go On Like This.
The frightening heat and wildfires this summer should be an impetus to those in charge to reckon with how quickly the risks are changing.
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I truly don't get it. Is this really a "threat"? Seems more like an abject surrender ... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
Trump Threatens to Withdraw Blanche as Attorney General, Dealing Blow to Nomination
President Trump’s threat followed a day of fruitless negotiations with two Republican holdouts, Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis.
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"Carbon emissions from the US power sector rose by 4 percent last year — larger than the increase in the economy overall. [This is due] to a 13 percent increase in coal power generation, partially driven by the proliferation of large-scale data centers."🤦 grist.org/energy/data-...
It’s official: Data centers are slowing America’s shift away from coal
New federal data shows that AI demand helped push U.S. power sector emissions up last year.
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I myself am a night owl and I’ve been reading Aimee’s wise and beautiful poems before going to bed. Treat yourself and buy this book!
Aimee Nezhukumatathil@nezhukumatathil.bsky.social · 6d agoI guess after two books of essays, I felt some kind of way about returning to stanzas 😂😅! Here’s a sampling of what I’ve been up to in NIGHT OWL, my newest poetry collection:
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along, move along. Important read here—> www.thenation.com/article/envi...
As Europe Burns, a Climate Cover-Up Continues
The UK’s Labour Party seems afraid to talk about the climate emergency.
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I read Zuck’s op-ed in the WSJ today and, truly, the weirdest thing about it was the repeated switching from the first person singular to the Royal We and back again…
🚨 New today in Nature 🦟 After decades of debate, we show that climate change has probably made malaria worse in sub-Saharan Africa, causing about 1 extra case per 1,000 children. But: malaria eradication efforts have pulled the other direction 200 times harder. 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Individual action, collective action, and policy support all seem to come as a package deal, representing an expression of a person’s pre-existing values. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/07/do-s...
Do small climate habits help or hurt the bigger cause? What a 4-year study found.
Researchers tracked nearly 2,800 people's habits, protests, and policy views to test whether small green acts help or hurt the bigger fight. Neither, it turns out.
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“2026 is just the beginning,” Professor Rockström added. “It will inevitably get worse. It will get worse and worse and worse to the point where, I’m afraid, we’ll be passing the limits of adaptation.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/w...
Summer of Heat, Fires and Storms Is a Reckoning for Europe on Climate
The continent is experiencing some of its biggest fires and highest temperatures ever. Residents are fleeing, leaders are struggling to respond and “it will get worse,” one climate expert said.
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@jasondovemark.bsky.social on Why “Shifting Baseline Syndrome” Makes It Harder to Save the Planet. lithub.com/why-shifting...
Why “Shifting Baseline Syndrome” Makes It Harder to Save the Planet
When she was growing up, Mia Monroe remembers, monarch butterflies were a natural part of the rhythm of life. This was in the 1960s, and Mia and her family lived in San Carlos, California, at that …
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@jasondovemark.bsky.social's THE EARTH SAID REMEMBER ME is a wonderful testament to ecological observation and recordkeeping in a time of “shifting baselines.” Join him (and me) at 4 pm PT / 7 pm ET today for a chat and some giveaways! Register: us02web.zoom.us/.../register...
After they were nearly wiped out by a mysterious wasting disease, it feels like a miracle to spot a sea star
A fun thing about following multiple accounts from McClatchy newspapers is that at precisely 4:55 every day I get a synchronized flood of the same silly stories they are publishing
"I’m not ready to throw the practice of land acknowledgments out... An acknowledgment that opens a conversation, that involves the tribe, that leads somewhere, is different. But the test isn’t in the words. It’s in what action comes after the words have been spoken." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/o...
Opinion | I’m Native American. Land Acknowledgments Are Infuriating.
Conservatives who critique land acknowledgments aren’t acting in good faith, but they do have a point.
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Renewables are now the world's largest source of electricity – and the main source of new supplies
Climate change is leaving language in the dust: The Japan Meteorological Agency held a public poll to select a name for a day of temperatures of 104 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. The winner was kokushobi, meaning “cruel heat day.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/w...
It’s So Hot That Japan Needs a New Word for It
Japan this week recorded its first kokushobi, a term that means “cruel heat day,” as temperatures reached 104 degrees. It is not the only country that has scrambled for a new summer vocabulary.
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Daniel Pauly's "shifting baseline syndrome puts a name to something most of us have experienced: the ways in which forgetting allows the once-abnormal to blend into the background" (via @earthislandjournal.bsky.social @jasondovemark.bsky.social) www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...
Are We At Least as Smart as a Frog in Hot Water?
As the aberrant becomes the ordinary, we can’t let our instinct for adapting lead to climate change acceptance.
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The heatwaves and smoke storms have come to seem like "the new normal." But there's a real risk in letting the once abnormal and aberrant become the ordinary, as I write in my latest column for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social. #Shiftingbaseline www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...
Are We At Least as Smart as a Frog in Hot Water?
As the aberrant becomes the ordinary, we can’t let our instinct for adapting lead to climate change acceptance.
earthisland.org
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stol’n the scraps.
Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2w agowhat all this gibberish of yours is about, I don’t know, and I don’t much care
