Scott Wahlstrom
@scottwahlstrom.bsky.social
Massachusetts native, father, husband, grandfather. Public school science educator, mechanical engineer, sustainability/environmental management. Environmental protection advocate, hiking, backpacking, gardening, climate. WPI, FSU, Harvard.
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Disgusted to hear of the targeted shooting of National Guard members in DC today. All Americans should unite in condemning and rejecting this violence. Sending prayers to these victims and their families, and thankful to the responders who acted so quickly.
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Disgusted to hear of the targeted shooting of National Guard members in DC today. All Americans should unite in condemning and rejecting this violence. Sending prayers to these victims and their families, and thankful to the responders who acted so quickly.
Low energy…
November 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Low energy…
The US economy is headed for long-term structural damage, which becomes more evident each day.
This thread explains what’s going on in plain language .👇👇👇
This thread explains what’s going on in plain language .👇👇👇
10/15 This tariff inversion means Toyota pays less to ship a completed Prius from Japan than Ford pays for the inputs to build an F-150 in Michigan.
November 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The US economy is headed for long-term structural damage, which becomes more evident each day.
This thread explains what’s going on in plain language .👇👇👇
This thread explains what’s going on in plain language .👇👇👇
I still hear hand wringing over the danger of cars that are dangerously quiet.
A quiet EV upside the FT highlights: less noise.
Cities like Beijing and Shanghai are already seeing calmer, quieter streets—and better sleep—as EV adoption rises.
EVs are notably quieter at low speeds, though tyre noise dominates above ~50 km/h.
Cities like Beijing and Shanghai are already seeing calmer, quieter streets—and better sleep—as EV adoption rises.
EVs are notably quieter at low speeds, though tyre noise dominates above ~50 km/h.
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I still hear hand wringing over the danger of cars that are dangerously quiet.
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US Yes to Wind campaign announces successful conclusion of its first national Week of Action
www.renewableenergymagazine.com/wind/us-yes-...
www.renewableenergymagazine.com/wind/us-yes-...
US Yes to Wind campaign announces successful conclusion of its first national Week of Action
The newly formed Yes to Wind campaign has announced the successful completion of its first national Week of Action, held over 15th to 23rd November, which has united communities across...
www.renewableenergymagazine.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
US Yes to Wind campaign announces successful conclusion of its first national Week of Action
www.renewableenergymagazine.com/wind/us-yes-...
www.renewableenergymagazine.com/wind/us-yes-...
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DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
For those who are unclear on the matter, this is socialism.
$10 Billion and Counting: Trump Administration Snaps Up Stakes in Private Firms www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
$10 Billion and Counting: Trump Administration Snaps Up Stakes in Private Firms www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
$10 Billion and Counting: Trump Administration Snaps Up Stakes in Private Firms
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
For those who are unclear on the matter, this is socialism.
$10 Billion and Counting: Trump Administration Snaps Up Stakes in Private Firms www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
$10 Billion and Counting: Trump Administration Snaps Up Stakes in Private Firms www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Yet another example of why society needs to renegotiate its relationship with corporations. This is another negative externality of capitalism on citizens – driving up housing costs and forcing people into a spiraling rental market.
As corporate ownership of residential property across the country rises nationwide, researchers from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy warn this rising trend has complicated the housing market for first-time buyers ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/25/r...
Corporate investment in residential housing may be another hurdle for first-time buyers • Ohio Capital Journal
As corporate ownership of residential property across the country rises nationwide, researchers from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Center for Geospatial Solutions, which is housed at…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Yet another example of why society needs to renegotiate its relationship with corporations. This is another negative externality of capitalism on citizens – driving up housing costs and forcing people into a spiraling rental market.
Oh, have we lost our way in the United States.
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Oh, have we lost our way in the United States.
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
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Second part of this great, devastating, reporting.
"As the auto industry struggled through the subsequent financial crisis, other car companies and battery retailers also declined to sign on. Green Lead collapsed"
Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
"As the auto industry struggled through the subsequent financial crisis, other car companies and battery retailers also declined to sign on. Green Lead collapsed"
Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
The Auto Industry Was Warned: Battery Recycling Was Poisoning People
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Second part of this great, devastating, reporting.
"As the auto industry struggled through the subsequent financial crisis, other car companies and battery retailers also declined to sign on. Green Lead collapsed"
Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
"As the auto industry struggled through the subsequent financial crisis, other car companies and battery retailers also declined to sign on. Green Lead collapsed"
Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Most assuredly, we can make this the most listen to BBC program in modern history. Just let the missing line echo throughout…
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Most assuredly, we can make this the most listen to BBC program in modern history. Just let the missing line echo throughout…
Capitalism will fill space with satellites until it too is a junkyard hopelessly polluted by debris.
Amazon debuts Starlink competitor as Bezos takes on Musk’s space monopoly
Amazon debuts Starlink competitor as Bezos takes on Musk’s space monopoly
Amazon debuts Starlink competitor as Bezos takes on Musk’s space monopoly
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Capitalism will fill space with satellites until it too is a junkyard hopelessly polluted by debris.
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Maybe the first large scale, tangible impact on consumers that will break the dam.
A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much.
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Maybe the first large scale, tangible impact on consumers that will break the dam.
A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Maybe the first large scale, tangible impact on consumers that will break the dam.
A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much.
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Maybe the first large scale, tangible impact on consumers that will break the dam.
A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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"Import solar panels from China, stick it on the moped, carry it into the countryside, and just put it up...If your energy use/capita is low, & you don't have an entrenched fossil system, you build your electricity system right first time"
"You can build it for the new world, not the old world."
"You can build it for the new world, not the old world."
November 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
"Import solar panels from China, stick it on the moped, carry it into the countryside, and just put it up...If your energy use/capita is low, & you don't have an entrenched fossil system, you build your electricity system right first time"
"You can build it for the new world, not the old world."
"You can build it for the new world, not the old world."
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Might as well be Exxon Mobil research and climate change.
“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times
Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...
m.economictimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Might as well be Exxon Mobil research and climate change.
When you get the null hypothesis backwards, it’s not an “approach to science.” It is not science.
The CDC has put out a new statement saying that childhood vaccines do not necessarily not cause autism. Benjamin Mazer on the risks of this double-negative approach to science:
Do Childhood Vaccines Cause Tornadoes?
It hasn’t been ruled out.
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
When you get the null hypothesis backwards, it’s not an “approach to science.” It is not science.
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"SCOTUS continues to do harm by failing to protect the public against Trump's grossest overreaches. It reverses extensively researched lower court rulings without justification, emboldening an increasingly repressive and autocratic regime that threatens the essence of our republic."
The Supreme Court’s ‘shadow docket’ is empowering Trump’s agenda
OPINION: “This Supreme Court has already immunized Trump against almost anything he does while in office. … (It’s) not serving as the check and balance it was designed to be.”
www.sfchronicle.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"SCOTUS continues to do harm by failing to protect the public against Trump's grossest overreaches. It reverses extensively researched lower court rulings without justification, emboldening an increasingly repressive and autocratic regime that threatens the essence of our republic."
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Greetings from Kyiv.
I’ve just listened to Zelenskyy’s address to the Ukrainian people.
My opinion?
This man knows what is right.
Ukraine is under enormous pressure from the current US administration.
Zelenskyy made it clear: he wants a decent peace. We all do.
Decent peace is not capitulation.
I’ve just listened to Zelenskyy’s address to the Ukrainian people.
My opinion?
This man knows what is right.
Ukraine is under enormous pressure from the current US administration.
Zelenskyy made it clear: he wants a decent peace. We all do.
Decent peace is not capitulation.
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Greetings from Kyiv.
I’ve just listened to Zelenskyy’s address to the Ukrainian people.
My opinion?
This man knows what is right.
Ukraine is under enormous pressure from the current US administration.
Zelenskyy made it clear: he wants a decent peace. We all do.
Decent peace is not capitulation.
I’ve just listened to Zelenskyy’s address to the Ukrainian people.
My opinion?
This man knows what is right.
Ukraine is under enormous pressure from the current US administration.
Zelenskyy made it clear: he wants a decent peace. We all do.
Decent peace is not capitulation.
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Something this cursed post has revealed is that many liberals believe that cheap renewables have effectively solved climate change, and now it's just a waiting game.
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Something this cursed post has revealed is that many liberals believe that cheap renewables have effectively solved climate change, and now it's just a waiting game.
The fossil fuel industry worked for years to derail this project. 1/n
"This transmission line will deliver affordable, stable power from our partners in Canada to our residents and businesses," Healey said in a statement. "More energy means lower costs." 🔌💡
www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
New transmission line will lower electric bills in Massachusetts, Healey says. Here's how much you could save.
A new transmission line carrying power from Canada to New England will lower electricity bills in Massachusetts, Gov. Maura Healey says.
www.cbsnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The fossil fuel industry worked for years to derail this project. 1/n
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Nothing says affluence is the problem better than a Ritz Carlton “safari camp.“
Hope everyone is ok.
Is this story from the Kenya Maasai being spoken about at COP? Of course I doubt it.
We are losing community lands and wilderness areas:
the tonnes of carbon they store is like saying let’s preserve St Paul’s Cathedral for the stone.
Hope The Guardian can cover this soon.
Is this story from the Kenya Maasai being spoken about at COP? Of course I doubt it.
We are losing community lands and wilderness areas:
the tonnes of carbon they store is like saying let’s preserve St Paul’s Cathedral for the stone.
Hope The Guardian can cover this soon.
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Nothing says affluence is the problem better than a Ritz Carlton “safari camp.“
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I have yet to see a single use case where ChatGPT actually improves our lives or learning.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I have yet to see a single use case where ChatGPT actually improves our lives or learning.
Nothing says affluence is the problem better than a Ritz Carlton “safari camp.“
Hope everyone is ok.
Is this story from the Kenya Maasai being spoken about at COP? Of course I doubt it.
We are losing community lands and wilderness areas:
the tonnes of carbon they store is like saying let’s preserve St Paul’s Cathedral for the stone.
Hope The Guardian can cover this soon.
Is this story from the Kenya Maasai being spoken about at COP? Of course I doubt it.
We are losing community lands and wilderness areas:
the tonnes of carbon they store is like saying let’s preserve St Paul’s Cathedral for the stone.
Hope The Guardian can cover this soon.
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Nothing says affluence is the problem better than a Ritz Carlton “safari camp.“