I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. And also the monkeys and tigers and bees. You’re wiping them out. You’re doing great harm. But your weapon ain’t data. Your weapon is farm. I know I’m off message. I’m sorry to nag. But if you want more forests you’ll have to shrink ag.

Jay Kuo@nycjayjay.bsky.social · yesterday

Take a moment.

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. And also the monkeys and tigers and bees. You’re wiping them out. You’re doing great harm. But your weapon ain’t data. Your weapon is farm. I know I’m off message. I’m sorry to nag. But if you want more forests you’ll have to shrink ag.

Jay Kuo@nycjayjay.bsky.social · yesterday

Take a moment.

Impeachable www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

It's 3 times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump

The president has approved just 23 percent of blue state requests for disaster aid, compared to 89 percent for red states.

politico.com

This is great news about monarch butterflies. It’s also funny news because the “serious” objection to my defense of Roundup was sure, it’s obviously not poisoning our food, but it’s wiping out monarch butterflies.

Jason Dove Mark@jasondovemark.bsky.social · 7d ago

A Glimmer of Hope ... www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

This study supports “my side” of the food/climate debates. It confirms that organic/cage-free eggs are worse for the climate than factory-farmed eggs. Because they eat more of the earth! But as usual the truth is more complicated than “my side is right.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens

Adopting organic free-range model in UK could lead to greenhouse emissions equivalent to 2,316,000 tonnes of CO2, study suggests

theguardian.com

Meta is gross. When a Democrat is back in the White House they'll start bloviating about climate goals again, but remember this. (General Motors behaves the same way.) techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/m...

Meta drops out of a major clean energy pact as its natural gas buildout accelerates | TechCrunch

Meta has made significant investments in natural gas over the past year. Now it's dropping out of an industry renewable energy group.

techcrunch.com

Not my area of expertise but this feels like the kind of story about which people should be freaking the fuck out. openai.com/index/huggin...

OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation

OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.

openai.com

Republicans are united: NO AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS! (Unless they're farm workers, there's a farm exception to everything.) www.newsmax.com/us/house-gop...

Official Washington has decided to ignore climate, and there are legitimate questions about the political wisdom of harping on climate...but it's 118 degrees in Iraq this week. My new blog, Emissions, will grapple with this stuff. Please subscribe! michaelgrunwald.substack.com/p/i-am-emitt...

I Am Emitting Because We Are Emitting

My first blog post is about how climate change is a threat to our children's future. It's become uncool to harp on that Captain Obvious truth, but it's still true.

michaelgrunwald.substack.com

James Dyke@jamesgdyke.info · 2w ago

Temperatures in Basra, Iraq hit 48°C today. Next 4 day period will see 48°C every day during which temps will not go below 32°C. This is a lethal heatwave driven by climate change.

I'm emitting! Please subscribe to Emissions, which is now a free blog, and share it with anyone you think might like it. My first post is about my unusual kid and the planet he'll inherit. michaelgrunwald.substack.com/p/i-am-emitt...

I Am Emitting Because We Are Emitting

My first blog post is about how climate change is a threat to our children's future. It's become uncool to harp on that Captain Obvious truth, but it's still true.

michaelgrunwald.substack.com

The left has claimed that pardoning that election-denying psycho Tina Peters makes Jared Polis bad, no matter what else he’s done…and gotta admit the left has a point on this one.

Farms are not nature! Farms are by far the greatest threat to nature. (And thanks for the kind plug for my book!)

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 3w ago

One of my hottest takes — it makes sense for public policy to preserve nature as a priority but farms aren’t nature! www.slowboring.com/p/farms-aren...

What Lindsey Graham had in common with his boss Donald Trump was utter shamelessness. It’s really unfortunate, but really important to recognize, that the ability to feel no shame is an extremely useful talent for a politician.

Hello from Lake Dillon, which has gone missing this year.

DEI bike lanes and climate change is when I decided to kick your ass.

Heat kills chickens. So you need more farmland to grow more feed for more chickens. So you cut down more trees and make more heat. Which makes it harder to grow feed so you need more farmland. So you cut down more trees which makes more heat and kills more chickens… www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/c...

The Chickens Were Doing Just Fine. Then the Heat Wave Killed Millions.

nytimes.com

I’m still genuinely grateful to live in America, the worst country except for all the others. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

We Are Eating Even More of the Earth. (Because we are eating even more meat and dairy.) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global boom in livestock farming since 2006 is piling pressure on nature, report finds

Wildlife at risk as demand for cropland and water grows to feed 50% rise in farmed animals, campaign alliance says

theguardian.com

YES. Every word of this @dwallacewells.bsky.social joint. I've been critical of some forms of climate alarmism but vicious heat waves are legitimately alarming and getting worse. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

Opinion | We Need to Retrofit the Planet. The Heat Wave Proves It.

nytimes.com

It’s an environmental disaster when a cow dies on its way to be slaughtered, a waste of all the land and water used to get it to slaughter weight. Those deaths doubled in the UK last year, and that was before this record heat wave. www.carbonbrief.org/livestock-he...

Livestock heat deaths in transit doubled in UK record-hot summer of 2025 - Carbon Brief

Twice as many animals died due to heat stress en route to slaughterhouses during the UK’s record-hot summer in 2025 compared to 2024, according to new Carbon Brief analysis.

carbonbrief.org

The right-wing Free Beacon wrote about my climate essay in @readliberties.bsky.social. They clearly preferred my mild critique of the climate left ("surprising and entertaining") to my harsh critique of Trump's climate denial ("predictable"). freebeacon.com/energy/clima...

Climate Activists ‘Exaggerating,’ Liberal Journalist Says, Denouncing ‘Shrill Eco-Catastrophism’

A liberal journalist who worked at the Washington Post and Time and who wrote a book urging people to fight climate change by eating less meat now says climate change activists are “exaggerating.”

freebeacon.com

The Trump Administration has zero interest in greenhouse gas reductions, except when it can steer extra subsidies to farmers who grow "regenerative" biofuels with ludicrous claims that they reduce greenhouse gases. www.agriculture.com/industry-rea...

Industry Reacts to New Guidance as Farmers Move Closer to Earning 45Z Premiums

This week, the USDA announced final guidance on how regenerative agriculture practices can contribute to carbon intensity (CI) reductions for biofuel feedstocks, getting farmers one step closer to bei...

agriculture.com

The index for REGIME CHANGE has only one mention of climate change but...wow, what a mention. We all know Big Oil gets what it wants from Trump but nobody's gotten receipts like Maggie Haberman and @jonathanswan.bsky.social recounting Trump's 3/19/25 meeting with Big Oil.

We watched LINCOLN last night, such an awesome reminder that better is better than worse, and that the goal of progressive politics should be progress.

This is a great time to read The Heat Will Kill You First by @jeffgoodell.bsky.social . Heat sneaks up on people in unexpected ways, and we don't take it seriously enough. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hea...

The Heat Will Kill You First - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I made a dumb mistake in this piece: When I said I calculated that drinking a cup of coffee every morning is the emissions equivalent of driving 100 miles in a gas car, I meant every morning FOR A YEAR. I think it's my first correction for @canarymedia.com. I'm sorry, I'm super-anal about accuracy.

Michael Grunwald@mikegrunwald.bsky.social · last mo.

We Are Drinking the Earth, Too. Sorry to ruin your morning but I wrote about how your coffee hurts the planet. Don't feel bad though - everything else you consume also hurts the planet! @canarymedia.com

I have questions

Lots of progressive pushback to my FL politics piece - no one wants Republican Lite, base would stay home, centrism is soulless, etc. OK! But tell me: How do progressive politics flip a red state where more Rs than Ds will vote? When has that happened? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/o...

Opinion | Is Florida Finally Tiring of Toxic Republican Politics?

nytimes.com

Huh, $55 billion seems like a lot for one year when I've been repeatedly assured that farmers don't want handouts. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Trump seeks additional $11 billion in farm aid

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked Congress to approve more than $11 billion in additional aid for farmers facing high fuel ​and fertilizer costs since the Iran war, according to a White ‌...

reuters.com

Another awesome doom loop: Raising livestock drives deforestation, deforestation heats the planet, heat kills livestock so we need to raise more which means more deforestation and more heat. www.carbonbrief.org/livestock-he...

Livestock heat deaths in transit doubled in UK record-hot summer of 2025 - Carbon Brief

Twice as many animals died due to heat stress en route to slaughterhouses during the UK’s record-hot summer in 2025 compared to 2024, according to new Carbon Brief analysis.

carbonbrief.org