Drew Pendergrass
@drewpendergrass.bsky.social
Atmospheric scientist at Duke, also interested in ecological politics | drewpendergrass.com
🧵 New paper thread! 🧵 We use satellite data to assess global methane emissions trends and seasonality. A greenhouse gas second only to CO2 in impact, methane concentrations surged in 2020 and 2021 for unclear reasons. We investigate in our paper. acp.copernicus.org/articles/25/...
Trends and seasonality of 2019–2023 global methane emissions inferred from a localized ensemble transform Kalman filter (CHEEREIO v1.3.1) applied to TROPOMI satellite observations
Abstract. We use 2019–2023 TROPOMI satellite observations of atmospheric methane to quantify global methane emissions at monthly 2° × 2.5° resolution with a localized ensemble transform Kalman filter ...
acp.copernicus.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🧵 New paper thread! 🧵 We use satellite data to assess global methane emissions trends and seasonality. A greenhouse gas second only to CO2 in impact, methane concentrations surged in 2020 and 2021 for unclear reasons. We investigate in our paper. acp.copernicus.org/articles/25/...
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Half-Earth Socialism, by @drewpendergrass.bsky.social and Troy Vettese, is now out in Italian thanks to Mimesis.
Here one of the authors answered our questions about ecosocialism, planning, vegetarian and vegan diets, social and environmental justice. Thanks to @jacobinitalia.bsky.social!
Here one of the authors answered our questions about ecosocialism, planning, vegetarian and vegan diets, social and environmental justice. Thanks to @jacobinitalia.bsky.social!
Io e @virginiamagnaghi.bsky.social abbiamo intervistato Troy Vettese, co-autore di Il Socialismo di Metà-Terra (Mimesis 2025).
Per il recupero dell'utopia, per costruire un'alternativa democratica, per una natura più libera, perché socialismo e carnivorismo sono una contraddizione in termini.
Per il recupero dell'utopia, per costruire un'alternativa democratica, per una natura più libera, perché socialismo e carnivorismo sono una contraddizione in termini.
Troy Vettese ha un «piano per salvarci dall’estinzione, dal cambiamento climatico e dalle pandemie» che tiene insieme tradizione utopista, scienza e condizioni materiali
jacobinitalia.it/tra-utopia-e...
jacobinitalia.it/tra-utopia-e...
October 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Half-Earth Socialism, by @drewpendergrass.bsky.social and Troy Vettese, is now out in Italian thanks to Mimesis.
Here one of the authors answered our questions about ecosocialism, planning, vegetarian and vegan diets, social and environmental justice. Thanks to @jacobinitalia.bsky.social!
Here one of the authors answered our questions about ecosocialism, planning, vegetarian and vegan diets, social and environmental justice. Thanks to @jacobinitalia.bsky.social!
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🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.
Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:
“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:
“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.
Israel seems to be intercepting right now.
All eyes needed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
Israel seems to be intercepting right now.
All eyes needed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.
Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:
“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
1/3
Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:
“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
1/3
Nice paper, but disagree a bit on framing. “Our estimate of 96.9 Gt carbon sequestration potential…amounts to 17.6% of the 640 Gt of carbon emissions since 1750.” This may be smaller than other estimates but that’s still a lot of carbon!!! Much more than I’d expect from DAC this century!
"Our results suggest that ecosystem restoration has limited potential for climate change mitigation even if orchestrated with a pervasive shift towards sustainable, low-emissions economies globally"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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August 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Nice paper, but disagree a bit on framing. “Our estimate of 96.9 Gt carbon sequestration potential…amounts to 17.6% of the 640 Gt of carbon emissions since 1750.” This may be smaller than other estimates but that’s still a lot of carbon!!! Much more than I’d expect from DAC this century!
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La traduzione italiana mia e di @virginiamagnaghi.bsky.social di Half-Earth Socialism è uscita ieri! @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social
August 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
La traduzione italiana mia e di @virginiamagnaghi.bsky.social di Half-Earth Socialism è uscita ieri! @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social
Our candles post Boston heat wave lol; so dramatic
June 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Our candles post Boston heat wave lol; so dramatic
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VENICE: Exciting event happening on Monday and Tuesday 23-24th of June: www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
3rd HEPM workshop with a great line up of speakers including @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social @geoffmann.bsky.social @julianordblad.bsky.social
3rd HEPM workshop with a great line up of speakers including @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social @geoffmann.bsky.social @julianordblad.bsky.social
WORKSHOP | Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling III - Unive
seminario/lezione
www.unive.it
June 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
VENICE: Exciting event happening on Monday and Tuesday 23-24th of June: www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
3rd HEPM workshop with a great line up of speakers including @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social @geoffmann.bsky.social @julianordblad.bsky.social
3rd HEPM workshop with a great line up of speakers including @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social @geoffmann.bsky.social @julianordblad.bsky.social
Folks in Hamburg: I'll be giving a talk on the economist János Kornai at the New Institute on Tuesday 18 June at 12pm. All are welcome! thenew.institute/en/media/a-c...
"A Curious Natural Selection": János Kornai’s Evolutionary Theory of Socialist Institutions THE NEW INSTITUTE - THE NEW INSTITUTE
thenew.institute
June 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Folks in Hamburg: I'll be giving a talk on the economist János Kornai at the New Institute on Tuesday 18 June at 12pm. All are welcome! thenew.institute/en/media/a-c...
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Based on some quick math, this alone could fund the NSF Plant Genome Research Program for ~4 years; the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, which was totally axed in the NSF budget request, for ~9 years; and ~ half the total NSF GRFP budget
BREAKING: The Pentagon said the deployment of National Guard members and Marines to protests over immigration raids in LA will cost $134 million.
Hegseth faces sharp questions from Congress on deploying troops to Los Angles and Pentagon chaos
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been quickly met with sharp questions and criticism by lawmakers who pressed him about his early moves to fire key military leaders and and purge diversity programs.
bit.ly
June 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Based on some quick math, this alone could fund the NSF Plant Genome Research Program for ~4 years; the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, which was totally axed in the NSF budget request, for ~9 years; and ~ half the total NSF GRFP budget
I'll be doing a mini book tour for our Swedish translation, starting in Stockholm tomorrow with @holgersen.bsky.social! Will be in Umeå on 13 June (www.facebook.com/events/68492...) to do my northernmost event yet (sun rises at 2:20am). All are welcome to talk green left politics!
June 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I'll be doing a mini book tour for our Swedish translation, starting in Stockholm tomorrow with @holgersen.bsky.social! Will be in Umeå on 13 June (www.facebook.com/events/68492...) to do my northernmost event yet (sun rises at 2:20am). All are welcome to talk green left politics!
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Hur bygger vi en ekonomi som tillgodoser människors behov inom ekologiska gränser?
Missa inte samtalet imorgon med @holgersen.bsky.social och Drew Pendergrass.
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Missa inte samtalet imorgon med @holgersen.bsky.social och Drew Pendergrass.
facebook.com/events/s/sa-...
June 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Hur bygger vi en ekonomi som tillgodoser människors behov inom ekologiska gränser?
Missa inte samtalet imorgon med @holgersen.bsky.social och Drew Pendergrass.
facebook.com/events/s/sa-...
Missa inte samtalet imorgon med @holgersen.bsky.social och Drew Pendergrass.
facebook.com/events/s/sa-...
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Please share and amplify #FreedomFlotilla #ShipToGaza
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
June 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Please share and amplify #FreedomFlotilla #ShipToGaza
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I need to actually get to my gate in time, but am stuck processing this particular table:
May 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I need to actually get to my gate in time, but am stuck processing this particular table:
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A closer look to figure out what this means for atmos chemists:
-GEO is cut by 45%, but includes a 75.1% cut to research (buffered by smaller cuts to infrastructure)
-NCAR gets a 39.7% cut with focus moving to ‘weather & earth system models’ and research to better understand wildfire evolution
-GEO is cut by 45%, but includes a 75.1% cut to research (buffered by smaller cuts to infrastructure)
-NCAR gets a 39.7% cut with focus moving to ‘weather & earth system models’ and research to better understand wildfire evolution
Bottom Line Up Front: a warning shot to the future of R&D and America's innovation economy.
NSF FY 2024 & 2025 Budgets per year: ~$9B
Trump's proposed NSF FY 2026 budget: ~$4B
This is not 'efficiency', it's self-destruction.
nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
NSF FY 2024 & 2025 Budgets per year: ~$9B
Trump's proposed NSF FY 2026 budget: ~$4B
This is not 'efficiency', it's self-destruction.
nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
May 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
A closer look to figure out what this means for atmos chemists:
-GEO is cut by 45%, but includes a 75.1% cut to research (buffered by smaller cuts to infrastructure)
-NCAR gets a 39.7% cut with focus moving to ‘weather & earth system models’ and research to better understand wildfire evolution
-GEO is cut by 45%, but includes a 75.1% cut to research (buffered by smaller cuts to infrastructure)
-NCAR gets a 39.7% cut with focus moving to ‘weather & earth system models’ and research to better understand wildfire evolution
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Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed.
Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality.
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality.
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
May 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed.
Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality.
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality.
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
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Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
May 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
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We have NASA's proposed budget for FY26, and it is brutal to science. Earth science would be cut by more than half. Astrophysics (like JWST, Hubble) by nearly two-thirds. Full details at www.nasa.gov/fy-2026-budg...
May 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
We have NASA's proposed budget for FY26, and it is brutal to science. Earth science would be cut by more than half. Astrophysics (like JWST, Hubble) by nearly two-thirds. Full details at www.nasa.gov/fy-2026-budg...
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I'm having a conversation with @drewpendergrass.bsky.social on June 11 in Stockholm about the truly fascinating book Half-Earth Socialism – now available in Swedish!! The conversation will be in English. Join us!
@versobooks.bsky.social @verbalforlag.se
@versobooks.bsky.social @verbalforlag.se
I juni kommer Drew Pendergrass till Sverige för att prata om hans och Trots Vetteses vision för en ekonomi som håller sig inom ekologiska gränser. Samtal med @holgersen.bsky.social på Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus 11 juni!
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May 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I'm having a conversation with @drewpendergrass.bsky.social on June 11 in Stockholm about the truly fascinating book Half-Earth Socialism – now available in Swedish!! The conversation will be in English. Join us!
@versobooks.bsky.social @verbalforlag.se
@versobooks.bsky.social @verbalforlag.se
Did Deimos write this?? So rude
May 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Did Deimos write this?? So rude
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“Like other Palestinian fathers, I was separated from you by racist regimes and distant prisons. Babies are born every day without their fathers – not because their fathers chose to leave, but because they are taken by war, by bombs, by prison cells and by the cold machinery of occupation.”
To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“Like other Palestinian fathers, I was separated from you by racist regimes and distant prisons. Babies are born every day without their fathers – not because their fathers chose to leave, but because they are taken by war, by bombs, by prison cells and by the cold machinery of occupation.”
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Against the Crisis, alongside great titles from @zetkincollective.bsky.social, @drewpendergrass.bsky.social, @wimcarton.bsky.social, and @taddelay.bsky.social, is now 30% off!
Our Earth Day sale features 30% off books on climate crisis and the fight to maintain a livable planet.
"The heat is rapidly becoming too much to bear, and precisely for that reason, it is too late to give up this struggle." - Andreas Malm and Wim Carton
"The heat is rapidly becoming too much to bear, and precisely for that reason, it is too late to give up this struggle." - Andreas Malm and Wim Carton
April 22nd is Earth Day
"The heat is rapidly becoming too much to bear, and precisely for that reason, it is too late to give up this struggle. There is, henceforth, no path to a liveable planet that does not pass through th...
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April 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Against the Crisis, alongside great titles from @zetkincollective.bsky.social, @drewpendergrass.bsky.social, @wimcarton.bsky.social, and @taddelay.bsky.social, is now 30% off!
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🚨 Holgersen at Harvard!
For those nearby: Come see @holgersen.bsky.social talk about his new book with me and others interested in economic and ecological crises!
For those nearby: Come see @holgersen.bsky.social talk about his new book with me and others interested in economic and ecological crises!
April 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
🚨 Holgersen at Harvard!
For those nearby: Come see @holgersen.bsky.social talk about his new book with me and others interested in economic and ecological crises!
For those nearby: Come see @holgersen.bsky.social talk about his new book with me and others interested in economic and ecological crises!