Bob Cowan
@happybob22.bsky.social
Retired Env. Engineer (Ph.D.; ChemE B.S. , M.S.) Mostly Industrial Wastewater Treatment work. Worked on CO2 Capture Technologies from 2002 to 2012. CCS isn’t the solution. Efficiency, decreased energy use, and renewables are.
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.
July 12, 1953 – “The Weather is Really Changing” says New York Times allouryesterdays.info/2023/07/11/j...
July 12, 1953 - “The Weather is Really Changing” says New York Times - All Our Yesterdays
Seventy years ago, on this day, July 12, 1953, the New York Times carried an article about the changes in the world’s weather (warmer). It mentioned our friend carbon dioxide… (Engel, Leonard, 1953. “...
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Interviewed by CNN and Financial Times today, about the new record set for ocean temperatures.... concerning times! www.ft.com/content/857d... edition.cnn.com/2026/07/01/c... @bas.ac.uk @attractamooney.bsky.social @laurapaddison.bsky.social
Global oceans break June temperature record with fears they’re headed into ‘uncharted territory’ | CNN
The planet’s oceans are at unprecedented temperatures for this time of year, breaking the June temperature record, according to new data, with alarming implications for global weather and marine life.
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What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.
Today marks 100 days since Donald Trump launched his "skirmish" in Iran. As my friend Bernie Sanders warned a decade ago, history reminds us of the unintended consequences that could emerge from a war with Iran. We are dealing with those consequences today.
Bernie's History Lesson on U.S.-Iran Relations
10 years ago, Bernie Sanders warned America of the unintended consequences that could emerge from a regime change war wi
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We acknowledge that more than 90% of the heat from global warming has gone into the ocean but then act surprised when this happens.
The ocean off California keeps breaking heat records
The marine heat wave of 2026 is simmering the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, and experts are warning that it could lead to a warm, humid and stormy summer.
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🚨 My graphic showing cumulative change in the mass of reference glaciers around the world has now been updated with 2025's data. We are rapidly losing ice. Graphic available at: zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... More info: wgms.ch/global-glaci...
When we should be approaching the peak accumulation in snowpack across the West, conditions have instead further rapidly deteriorated. Another way to look at it: Colorado’s snow water equivalent has already reached a level that wasn’t seen until about a MONTH later in the previous worst record.
Why has Trump been pushed in this direction? Follow the money. UAE, Qatar, the Saudis and Israel paid him to.
Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 5mo ago
25 years ago today, scientists make alarming predictions about the amount of warming we can expect. It's front page news on the Sydney Morning Herald... allouryesterdays.info/2026/01/22/j...
January 23, 2001 - alarming predictions - All Our Yesterdays
Twenty five years ago, on this day, January 23rd, 2001, World temperatures may increase by as much as six degrees Celsius over the next century, leading climate change scientists say in an alarming ...
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Excellent commentary by #climate scientist Professor Kevin Anderson about an excellent (1979!) publication, the CO2 Newsletter. We are "“A species capable of extraordinary insight, yet seemingly incapable of acting in its own long-term interest” 1/n
The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
Psst: Stop burning stuff on Earth for energy. Let the burning fireball in the sky be your energy source.
T&E@transportenvironment.org · 10mo agoNEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows. The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets. 🧵⤵️
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Peter Brannen@peterbrannen.bsky.social · 10mo agoJust remembered this jaw-dropping graph by @oceansclimatecu.bsky.social showing the rate of change in CO2 during the previous two deglaciations of the Pleistocene (which, as a fun aside, featured ~400 feet of sea level rise) as compared with today
From things I've seen recently, I think many people would benefit from reading this. It's short, and it's free. 👉 rdcu.be/dbFbB
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2y agoIn recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically. rdcu.be/dbFbB
The woke radical leftist teachers in the electrical program at Dixie Technical College indoctrinated him. Time to move the goalposts again.
After his trial runs in LA and DC, Trump is now reportedly planning to permanently keep 600 National Guard troops on standby to deploy into any American city facing protests. This is the stuff fascism is made of.
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Philz Coffee Being Sold to Private Equity Firm for $145 Million, Employees Reportedly Getting Screwed Out of Their Stock
The once-trendy, San Francisco-born coffeeshop chain Philz Coffee has struck a deal to be sold off to a private equity firm for $145 million, but any employees who bought stock are getting the shaft, ...
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I checked the claim of the DOE report that sea level is rising at a lower rate than predicted by IPCC: it is false. For 2030, the IPCC AR6 predicts a best estimate 9-10 cm relative to 1995-2014 (Table 9.9). The satellite data show a rise of 74 mm until 2025. At this rate that will be 93 mm by 2030.
Earth’s energy imbalance has more than DOUBLED in 20 years. So, just a gentle reminder that most of our politics & media is a distraction, because most of our politics & media is owned by the fossil-fueled corporations profiting from boiling us alive.
Do not let up on this Epstein list not only because orange dude is on it, but because anyone on it is a predator and those victims still deserve justice.
Don’t buy the polished crap from the White House. Texas flood deaths weren’t a surprise...they were the price of gutting services. Cut first responders...ignore warnings...and act shocked when people die? That’s not weather. That’s political manslaughter.
