Eric Roston
@eroston.bsky.social
Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales. Literally wrote the book on carbon. Born 326.17. He/him. "Bleakly amusing." —A. Martine. "The dad jokes will continue until morale improves." —Charlie Jane Anders. Signal: eroston.87 Bloomberg Green
New: The US is enduring one of its worst wildfire seasons in years, with blazes scorching millions of acres. It’s part of a global pattern of hot, dry conditions that favor fires becoming more common with climate change. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Global Wildfire Surge Hits US, Propelled by Rising Temperatures
Blazes in the Western US and Europe point to a global shift: Climate change is making fire weather more extreme and more widespread.
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My original opinion remains unchanged; but it is only an opinion.
The world reached 1,000 GW of solar installed in 2022, Bloomberg Green's story headline was "Clean Power Isn’t Reaching Those Who Need It Most" Is that claim still true at 3,000 GW? The chart below hides an interesting story. Thread below 🧵 My story: 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
🥵The powerful El Niño -- on top of seemingly accelerating global heating -- is raising the odds (now ~35%-40%) that early in 2027 we get our first-ever month with a global mean temperature abvoe 2°C. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
El Niño May Push Global Warming to 2C or Higher in the Short Term
There’s a 35% chance that the average temperature will hit 2C above pre-industrial levels for one month next year, projections show.
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Rough month I expect for The Zombies and one of music history's best typos
www.ecoportal.net/uk/wind-turb... Opponents love the picture of the landfill filled with turbine blades, but that's not the primary outcome any more.
A wind turbine blade can run beyond 170 feet, and when it wears out a Tennessee company bakes the whole thing down to recover the clean glass fiber the industry once paid to bury
Picture a blade taller than a 15-storey building, curved and white, leaning against a sky it spent two decades slicing through.
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Has anyone successfully removed their phone number from "US Speaks" text surveys? I would watch a 3-season, 8-episode limited series about how you did this.
OTD, 2020. It will never get better than this: "How did that happen? This book shows us by dissecting his demagogic language with a particularly precise scalpel. In doing so, it deserves a place alongside George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” and Harry G. Frankfurt’s “On Bulls---.”
gift article 🎁 👏🎊🙌🍾🎉🥳 🍾🍻🎈🎆 U.S. to Withdraw Subpoenas Issued to New York Times Journalists www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/b...
U.S. to Withdraw Subpoenas Issued to New York Times Journalists (Gift Article)
A federal judge raised questions about the government’s handling of the subpoenas, which The Times said were an attempt to intimidate the free press.
nytimes.com
Latest on how not to get the parasite: 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
What You Can Do to Avoid Getting the Diarrhea-Causing Parasite
A widening outbreak of a parasite that’s sickened thousands of Americans with severe diarrhea has spurred one of the country’s largest produce companies to prepare for a recall. It’s also left America...
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www.wired.com/story/missis... this is very good reporting and also it bums me out so much that lots of kids aren't excited to read books these days, books saved my life as a kid
Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read
Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.
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Phenomenal investigation and storytelling into how T. Rex skeletons (sometimes of mysterious provenance) became sought-after toys by the super-rich costing them millions. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Billionaires’ T. Rex Obsession Has Turned Fossils Into Red-Hot Drama
As the battle for dinosaur bones heightens, paleontologists, collectors and auction houses navigate a Wild West market.
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1️⃣) For energy consumers: Reduce efficiency 🏡 2️⃣) For energy producers: Increase efficiency 🛢️
The global climate technology sector logged its busiest first half on record for public listings and acquisitions, with 153 transactions announced during the first six months of 2026. That marks a 70% increase from a year ago. More details👇 for @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Climate Tech Sees Record-High Deals as Power Demand Fuels Market Appetite
The recovery in IPOs and acquisitions may help unlock fresh venture capital for the sector, experts say.
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James Earl Jones baseball monologue > Tom Cruise "football" monologue #worldcup www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBwh...
James Earl Jones baseball speech - Field of Dreams
YouTube video by frstbse1
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~2006: "You can't link any weather event to fossil-fuel emissions." ~2026: There's "a direct and well-understood impact." 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Is it just me or does the idea of a third-place World Cup match feel very Spartacus-Antoninus?
What's tragic here is that The Onion is usually way ahead of the news, not way behind it.
The Onion@theonion.com · 3w agoLast-Ever Global Warming Report Released For Posterity
Reading the 1968 essay that got Andre Sakharov jailed. He warned about threats from carbon emissions! (not why he was jailed). FWIW, he also called out deforestation, waste dumping, pesticide overuse, wetlands destruction as threats to what he called "earth hygiene." Guy really was a genius!
We should recognize how much time and resources it takes to produce a story like this.
How Putin Turned Japan Into a Den of Spies (Gift Article)
Operating out of a Tokyo high-rise, a military intelligence unit finds the high-tech equipment that Russia needs to wage war.
nytimes.com
Scientists are shocked by “super-extremes” in climate impacts as the crisis accelerates. “We’re starting to see extremes on a spatial scale and a magnitude that’s really surprising,” said Tim Lenton of the University of Exeter. By @eroston.bsky.social and @hayleywarren.bsky.social:
Extreme Heat Stuns Even Climate Scientists Who Saw It Coming
Record-breaking heat waves are even stunning scientists monitoring the acceleration of climate change.
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The Deliteracy Crisis ➡️ a must-read on reading by @rosehorowitch.bsky.social of @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
theatlantic.com
WINNING ENTRY Category: How much 2026 can fit into one screen grab?
🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 4w agoWhat a hellish combination of a headline and an Extreme Heat Warning.
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Chris Nelder@chrisnelder.bsky.social · 4w agoHot off the press: In @transitiontimes.bsky.social #10, I review the data & commentary on the ongoing heatwave and what it means for climate action. www.transitiontimes.net/tt-10-the-he...
![An OpenAI “agent” discovered new vulnerabilities and hacked into start-up Hugging Face by itself, in one of the first public examples of [emphasis added:] a cyber attack by an AI system acting outside human control.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ik6dntilko5d3m4nhajdxj4w/bafkreie6lde4vau7ybwkepiuwugaz6bmbqjytesrie6d4quv4wgowrxgsq)
