Rev Dr Jim Antal
@jimantal.bsky.social
UCC national advisor on climate justice, activist, public theologian, vegetarian, cyclist, author: Climate Church Climate World; born @ 312ppmCO2
Did you know the most powerful force for climate action is LOVE—for our children, their future, and the world they’ll inherit? That's right! Research shows this message moves hearts 12x more than jobs and 2x more than extreme weather. Source: potentialenergycoalition.org/guides-and-r...
Need something to help hold you up right now? Maybe some stories/ideas in this week's newsletter will help. And there's a bonus beaver story, too. Thanks to @wildernesspriest.bsky.social and @jimantal.bsky.social for key contributions! refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-ne...
Refugia Newsletter #86
Strategic resistance and galvanizing words, discourse trauma, bison, oysters, and of course, beavers
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Gaslighting is the entire GOP playbook. From ‘biggest crowd ever’ to ‘normal tourist visit,’ they’re betting you’ll ignore reality. If we allow them to keep rewriting history, they’ll keep burning the truth to the ground.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Not by Gandhi but still very appropriate in these times.
The U.S. is trying to unravel a hacking plot that targeted climate activists
The U.S. claims the hacking was commissioned by a lobbying firm working on behalf of one of the world's biggest oil companies.
npr.org
NEW: Trump’s anti-wind order does *not* just apply to offshore wind. That’s because all wind projects need federal permits, even if they’re not on federal property. Lobbyists believe that Trump’s order could hit “more than half” of wind farms now under development. heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
Trump’s Wind Order Could Hit ‘More Than Half’ of New Projects
The American wind industry faces a potentially existential threat.
heatmap.news
From what a friend and federal employee just told me, it sounds like nobody really knows. If you have DEI/A in your job title or work for an office that does, you’re probably going on paid leave. Beyond that, it seems like the language was left intentionally vague in order to instill fear.
honor sachs@drhonor.bsky.social · 2y agoCan somebody explain to me what “purge DEI employees” actually means? Like, in practice? Because it sure sounds like what it sounds like…
Wonderful reflections from Rev. @jimantal.bsky.social of @thirdactorg.bsky.social's faith working group on how congregations can help each other through this stretch thirdact.org/faith/2025/0...
Congregational Guidance for a Time Without Precedent
by Jim Antal, TAF Coordinating Committee Member Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you...
thirdact.org
ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
Wildfire climate connection
Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ...
noaa.gov
Johnson is a religious extremist and a traitor. 'nough said. www.salon.com/2025/01/07/w...
Why Mike Johnson's fake "Jefferson prayer" matters
Replacing facts with phony history is a linchpin of the Christian nationalist movement
salon.com
When the song of the angels is stilled...the work of Christmas begins: To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To release the prisoner, To rebuild the nations, To bring peace among others, To make music in the heart. - Howard Thurman
Happy Birthday Dr.Fauci and thank you for saving us! 💙
Fox happiness, no need caption. #FoxOfTheDay #fox 📸 Credit: Unknown/Dm me
"Bad information is breaking the energy transition – and the fake news is only getting more powerful." Welcome to a special year-end edition of THE FIGHT newsletter. This week, @jael.bsky.social spotlights the biggest threat facing renewables: misinformation. Read more below.
How Bad Information Is Breaking the Energy Transition
Why an attorney for Dominion Voting Systems is now defending renewables companies.
heatmap.news
Good news: if you lab test lithium-ion batteries the way they are actually used in real-world vehicles (lots of stop & start), you find out ... they last about 40% longer than previously estimated! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dynamic cycling enhances battery lifetime - Nature Energy
Lithium-ion batteries degrade in complex ways. This study shows that cycling under realistic electric vehicle driving profiles enhances battery lifetime by up to 38% compared with constant current cyc...
nature.com
Experts fear the incoming Trump administration will try to delete #climate data that refute his policies. But scientists are ready and have backups: “Even if Trump tries to disappear all the data that undermines his policies, he can’t do it.” @sejorg www.sej.org/publications... #climatechange
Will Trump ‘Disappear’ Environment, Climate Data?
Might the incoming Trump administration attempt to blot out any data that undermines his environmental policies, especially around global warming? Many recall, for instance, the 2017 disappearing of t...
sej.org
What I like most about this platform: No need for a "universe please send me" offering to placate the all-powerful Threads algorithm deity, hardly any trolls, shorter posts than LinkedIn--and best of all the search function WORKS and it lets you find all the people, starter packs, & feeds you want!
Can't we ditch the drivers of all this hared and acrimony and take care of each other??
Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
theconversation.com
My fortnightly newsletter. I sum up the climate news with a faith angle so you can get the overview. I try to explain the good, bad, complicated--and then provide a gorgeous shot of Lake Michigan or a story about, say, gophers. refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-ne...
Refugia Newsletter #81
Clean energy transition persists, plus COP29, gophers, climate art, fake dead whales, and the enemy within
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is enlisting associates with close ties to anti-vaccine organizations to help vet and interview candidates for senior roles at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Kennedy's 'MAHA transition team' includes anti-vax activists
At least three informal advisers connected to the anti-vaccine movement are assisting Kennedy in filling out his staff as he prepares to lead HHS.
politico.com
🧪 re-upping this. Mark and I are lead signatories on this scientist letter to CA Gov Newsom calling on him to #ShutDownAlisoCanyon Fellow scientists, please join us!
Mark Z. Jacobson@mzjacobson.bsky.social · 2y agoThe Aliso Canyon fossil gas storage facility blowout was one of the largest in US history. With the growth of Wind-Water-Solar, this facility is no longer needed. US scientists, please urge California Gov. Gavin Newsom to close it now and ramp up renewables even faster. bit.ly/AlisoCanyonL...
