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Incredible. In normal circumstances this whole thing would be a massive embarrassment to the DOJ and the US Attorney in charge of the case.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”@ryanjreilly.com · 5d ago

BREAKING: The Trump administration has moved to drop its felony Reflecting Pool case against a former Olympic canoeist, admitting their allegations against David "Davey" Hearn don't hold water.

2026 El Niño models continue their inexorable march upwards. CanSIPS (which used to be among the cooler ones!) released their August runs today, and now show a Nov/Dec peak of 3.6C (CanESM5) and 4.2C (GEM-NEMO). For reference, the prior record El Niño peaked at 2.8C.

With Ryan O'Loughin from CUNY, we have a paper out today in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science where we ask: "When are small-scale field experiments in solar geoengineering worth pursuing?" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

When are small-scale field experiments in solar geoengineering worth pursuing? - European Journal for Philosophy of Science

We propose a set of heuristics—scientific rigor, safety, usefulness, engagement, and transparency—for assessing the pursuitworthiness of small-scale field experiments in solar geoengineering research....

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In other climate news, the new DOMi and JD BECK album is out: open.spotify.com/album/3nehlg...

WHO ASKED? - Album by DOMi & JD BECK | Spotify

DOMi & JD BECK · album · 2026 · 15 songs

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Mass hysteria happens every market cycle and has for hundreds of years, and somehow investors (and many tech journalists) never absorb the lesson. This was published in 1841!:

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: A Study of Financial Bubbles, Mass Hysteria, and Collective Irrationality

Amazon.com: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: A Study of Financial Bubbles, Mass Hysteria, and Collective Irrationality: 9798250205887: Mackay, Charles: Books

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Andrew Quemere@andrewqmr.bsky.social · 11mo ago

wow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something? www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...

This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.

Refusing to platform cranks is a core value that journalism must embrace. I've come across lots of, 'I'll just ask them tough questions folks in my career,' including a former boss. But by handing them your megaphone, you've already signaled that their's is a perspective worthy of consideration.

[Christopher M. Federico]@chrispps.bsky.social · last wk.

this sounds elitist but our recovery from the present moment will depend in part on being able to once again effectively malign, ostracize, and refuse a platform to cranks

Also thrilled to announce that Natalie Portman is developing my short story "Constellations" for film, thru her MountainA production company. I'm psyched at the prospect of her starring in it. "Constellations" appeared in the MIT Technology Review earlier this year (see today's pinned post for link)

I wrote about what's happening to the web now that everything is A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...

How Google’s A.I. Search Is Imperiling the Open Web (Gift Article)

As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.

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I'll bite: Leaving aside geoengineering, the arguments here that climate change won't be catastrophic because we can adapt our way out of the problem strikes me as somewhere between absurd and offensive if you — as you must — take into account the developing world.

Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun@eaterofsun.bsky.social · 2w ago

I should probably write a thread in response to my friend @tednordhaus.bsky.social's geoengineering piece but I am finding it hard to kick it up the to to list. 20 likes for this post will guarantee a thoughtful response within a few days, week tops. www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/why-i-oppo...

DOGE is the reason you’re shitting your pants right now. CC: @pppgrifter.bsky.social

Amy Maxmen, PhD@amymaxmen.bsky.social · 3w ago

DOGE axed the CDC team that tracks cyclospora. Now 1000s are sick, restaurants & hospitals scrambling. What's next? “Cyclospora is just one piece. It's making the news right now, but there are other, more dangerous pathogens.” By @emilymullin.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

Choosing not to exercise all the way down in Nevada this week, too, just, you know, out of an abundance of caution.

Heatmap News@heatmap.news · 3w ago

Should you go for a run after work today? Your mileage may vary, but if you’re in the Upper Midwest or Mid-Atlantic, the answer is: probably not. @jeva.bsky.social talks with an exercise scientist about how smoke affects our workouts: heatmap.news/climate/smok...

Should you go for a run after work today? Your mileage may vary, but if you’re in the Upper Midwest or Mid-Atlantic, the answer is: probably not. @jeva.bsky.social talks with an exercise scientist about how smoke affects our workouts: heatmap.news/climate/smok...

How Bad Is Exercising in Wildfire Smoke?

Your mileage may vary — but you’ll probably want to keep the outdoor runs to a minimum.

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Take that phone addiction! (Timed safe)

As a person whose name and likeness regularly gets used for AI slop, @kashhill.bsky.social's AI-written biography has unlocked an entirely new kind of nightmare fuel: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...

Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It. (Gift Article)

Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?

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🔥 Here in Boston, like elsewhere, we're seeing air pollution from Canadian wildfires — the odd-colored sun, the haze, and the real health risks that come with it. This has real costs. @kclausing.bsky.social, @knittelmit.bsky.social and I tallied ways that U.S. hhs have experienced climate change.

The Las Vegas skyline from Blade Runner 2049 vs the Toronto skyline from right now.

Last-Ever Global Warming Report Released For Posterity www.youtube.com/watch?v=PibU...

Last-Ever Global Warming Report Released For Posterity

YouTube video by The Onion

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green hydrogen costs $4–12/kg to produce. hunting for natural hydrogen has attracted $400 million+ with little to show for it. now, a new class of startups says it can engineer the subsurface to generate hydrogen for under $1/kg -- no electrolyzers, fossil fuels, or natural deposits required

The Next Big Thing in Hydrogen

“Geologic hydrogen” companies make up a hefty portion of the latest Activate Fellowship class, announced Tuesday morning — a reliable harbinger of investments to come.

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What climate tech should make this year's 10 Breakthrough Technologies list? (Quick, I'm on an editorial brain storming call and have no ideas of my own! 🙏)

Tomorrow is the deadline for submitting a comment to stop the administration from dismantling U.S. science. There are nearly 280,000 public comments filed so far! But! Do not assume they are all, or even most, against the proposal. This is a key pillar of Project 2029 - wind down federal R&D.

Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · 4w ago

Here’s a great resource to help write a comment this weekend before the deadline, by @colesci.bsky.social and @cdelawalla.bsky.social: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...

Psst…how about following some journalists who cover climate, energy, and the environment?

Are worms helping dairy farms tackle one of ag's biggest environmental challenges? 🪱 New MIT Technology Review article explores how vermifiltration can help improve manure management by reducing pollution, improving water quality & lowering emissions. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/07/1...

Today, @jtemple.bsky.social published an article in the MIT Technology Review about emerging manure management solutions in California! And I’m quoted in it! Check it out! www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/07/1...

Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution

At least in California, which has become a test bed for emerging means of cleaning up livestock emissions.

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More and more farms are testing out various means of cutting pollution from livestock manure, including an idea catching on in the biggest dairy state: worms.

Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution

At least in California, which has become a test bed for emerging means of cleaning up livestock emissions.

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Made a version of this point in my Reno datacenter development boom piece. Indirect (basically Scope 2) water use through additional electricity consumption can be the much larger share: www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Antonia Juhasz@antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · last mo.

AI Data Centers Use Far More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report. (gift link) www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-d...

Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Who’s Really Keeping Fossil Fuels Alive? Taxpayers

To judge by the way many people discuss the energy transition, we’re engaged in a fight between green idealogues in government and academia on the one hand, and a more realistic private sector that re...

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Climate change: a status report 🧵

Remember the global climate goal of no hotter than 1.5°C? Climate change plus a very powerful El Niño could lead to the first month with a global average temperature above 2°C early next year.