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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide

@tkovach.bsky.social

Climate dad to E, J, and C. Working on decarbonization and environmental justice in Cleveland. Founded the Cleveland Refugee Bike Project. Supports Juventus & Eintracht. Opinions my own and probably wrong.

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Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 32m ago

Planting trees in cities saves lives. A new study in Chicago estimates that planting 14,000 trees per year to increase shade would save 104 lives annually Conversely, eliminating urban trees increases deaths from heat agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Increasing Urban Tree Canopy Associated With Reduced Mortality: A Longitudinal Analysis of Chicago Neighborhoods

Total canopy cover was not associated with mortality, but year-to-year increases were linked to lower all cause and cause specific mortality Year-to-year tree canopy loss is significantly associa...

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Lauri Myllyvirta@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 7h ago

OECD power generation from gas has seen a significant drop in the five months since LNG flows through the Strait of Hormuz were first disrupted. This has not resulted in an increase in coal-fired generation as solar and wind have covered demand growth and the fall in gas.

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide@tkovach.bsky.social · yesterday

"Abbott on Monday directed the state’s power regulators and main grid managers to audit data centers seeking to connect to the Texas grid, saying no more additional data centers can be approved or move forward until that process is over."

E&E News: Texas governor puts data center grid approvals on hold

Gov. Greg Abbott issued a new directive to state regulators and power grid operators Monday.

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide@tkovach.bsky.social · 2d ago

Finally got around to reading @climatecabineteducation.org's "Taming Data Center Turmoil" report that came out last month. This is one of, if not the, clearest and most practical guides to state and local policymaking around data center energy use.

Taming Data Center Turmoil - Climate Cabinet Education

A new data center decision making approach for policymakers to protect consumers, the economy, and the climate.

climatecabineteducation.org

PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide@tkovach.bsky.social · 2d ago

"The data centre developer that bid on Longview considered taking the plant off the grid in order to use it exclusively for its AI facility, in a move that would have eliminated power from the grid for an estimated 355,000 homes."

Coal back in favour as US plant bidding war highlights rising demand to power AI

Top utility fought ‘aggressively’ to outbid data centre developer for control of West Virginia facility

ft.com

PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide@tkovach.bsky.social · 3d ago

“The Luddites of today aren’t just opposing technology for technology’s sake, they are looking at what the technology is doing on the ground and opposing it when they see that it is what those of the industrial revolution would have called ‘hurtful to the commonality.'"

Anger Over Data Centers Is Fueling a New Political Movement

Justin Pearson, a Tennessee lawmaker, has become one of the loudest voices amid a growing national backlash against the pollution and politics of America's AI buildout.

politico.com

PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide@tkovach.bsky.social · 3d ago

I remember when right wing media regularly used to play the clip of Al Gore saying "the planet has a fever" during his Congressional testimony in 2007 to make fun of him. But the planet has a fever, and it keeps getting worse

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d ago

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.

PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide@tkovach.bsky.social · 3d ago

"That is what makes confronting how we refer to the Civil War a civic imperative. The danger of rhetorical abstraction lies not only in its distortion of the past, but also in its pre-emptive justification for future assaults on democratic life."

Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)

To face our own history, we must be honest about it.

nytimes.com

PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide@tkovach.bsky.social · 3d ago

'During the recent heatwaves, which saw several days where temperatures exceeded 30C, “the environment was so hostile that the plants are so stressed they want to die because they just can’t take it."'

‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers

Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable

theguardian.com

R.G. Schoenberg@rgschoenberg.bsky.social · 4d ago

Spokane 4:45 pm. I can see emergency vehicles near the homes nearest the flames on Indian Bluff. More black columns of smoke to the northeast. Sirens wail in the distance. Helicopter pilots pressing hard on aerodynamics. A pumper engine past behind me on Pettit dr. Into the face of it I would say.

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide@tkovach.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Bamy Hotel, on an island off the coast of central-west Africa, is now also holding a man with Ebola in quarantine one floor below the deportees, Soliman said. None of the deportees have received protective gear, he said."

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4d ago

Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...