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Emily AtkinHow many more summer days have to be stolen before we stop pretending this is natural? How many unprecedented disasters must be explained before the explanation is allowed to stick?
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I know a lot of things need a lot of attention right now, but cutting a climate desk in these times is the last thing we need
Evan GeorgeNPR is shrinking its newsroom through layoffs and buyouts and is reducing staff dedicated to covering both climate and science. "The climate desk no longer exists separately but has been folded into the National Desk," writes Neela Banerjee, who headed the climate desk but was just laid off.
Climate interventions are like AI: I'd rather we didn't use them, but they are inevitable. They should be rigorously researched, decoupled from profit, and not deployed until community + government structures are ready. Meanwhile, I'm stoked initiatives like ASI exist! heatmap.news/am/arctic-ge...
Living in a world with no consequences for actions is exhausting
Philip BumpIt’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.
Kate is the absolute best, and I'm heartbroken for her and the state of climate science in general because of this government. Selfishly, though, I'm thrilled she's staying in NYC
Kate MarvelI just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.
Geoengineering rightfully makes people uneasy, but at the rate we’re going, it would be foolish not to research our options–both to see what might be safe and to know what to avoid. Research ≠ deployment www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Support trans kids and get cookies?! Say less
Erin Reed1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
No one deserves recognition more than Kate! Read her book. It comes highly recommended by my dad, which might actually be more meaningful than this Scientific American review
Kate MarvelI think you’re supposed to say you’re humbled by things like this and you know what? absolutely not, this is amazing and my ego has swelled five sizes and I’m going to be insufferable for the foreseeable future www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
One of the things that frustrates me about the “things have been worse than they are now” discourse (other than the existential climate threat) is how it leaves out that capitalism and corporate greed have never been more unfettered
David Wallace-Wells“Starbucks holds nearly $2 billion of customers’ money in its rewards program. That’s more than the total deposits managed by 85 percent of chartered banks, making the coffee chain one of the biggest financial institutions in the country.” jacobin.com/2025/10/bank...
I'm super excited for this!
Laurie LaybournThe world missed its goal for tackling climate change What happens next? That's the question I'm asking in a new documentary series We uncover the fantasies that brought us here and meet the people with ideas to navigate what's next Listen to the trailer👇 open.spotify.com/episode/2ICK...
This is a fantastic piece! Kudos @emorwee.bsky.social "Our paychecks were dripping in oil.”
Emily AtkinNEW: A former Microsoft AI engineer says the company's "AI for sustainability" claims are BS, a distraction from their hyper-polluting AI contracts with oil companies. “From what I saw," he said, "I believe that finding and extracting more oil is one of the biggest use cases of AI today."