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David Johnson
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Veteran embracing reason, rational thinking, education, facts, and objective truth; insatiably curious; exploring science, climate change, cosmology, and health. Longing for progress.

Economics 35%
Engineering 16%
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"The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world." - Dr. Paul Farmer

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As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org
There is No Scientific Justification to Revoke the Endangerment Finding
The U.S. EPA's decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding will limit the government's ability to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
www.nature.org
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu

Instilling fear is essentially all the U.S. government is capable of now.
Hassan: "What is happening here is unacceptable to the people in my state of New Hampshire and to people from every corner, and in fact people around the globe. I just got back from the country of Greenland. Their children are scared of the United States of America."

“Humanity now faces perhaps the biggest choice it will ever make: continue down the road to a future devastated by climate change, dwindling nature, degraded land, and polluted air, land and water, or change direction to secure a healthy planet, healthy people and prosperity for all.” (UN Sept 2025)

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The Trump administration is expected to rescind the 2009 “endangerment finding,” ending regulation of greenhouse gases from cars and trucks
The rule that anchored U.S. climate policy? EPA is about to throw it out.
The Trump administration is expected to rescind the 2009 “endangerment finding,” ending regulation of greenhouse gases from cars and trucks
www.scientificamerican.com
In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

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Hassan: "What is happening here is unacceptable to the people in my state of New Hampshire and to people from every corner, and in fact people around the globe. I just got back from the country of Greenland. Their children are scared of the United States of America."

If time travel someday was even remotely feasible, would Hitler or Trump have ever existed?

Note to GOP fools: Ignoring reality doesn't make it go away.
NEW: A newly updated reference manual for U.S. judges that provides answers to scientific and technical questions has eliminated some 90 pages about climate science.

It comes as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.
Under GOP Pressure, Federal Agency Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Official Manual for U.S. Judges
The “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence” — updated for the first time in 15 years — eliminates some 90 pages about climate science and comes just as numerous climate cases make their way through ...
www.propublica.org

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‘A good way of dealing with overpopulation’: Epstein files reveal how the rich fuel climate denialism | Article by @ktoussaint.bsky.social for @fastcompany.com: www.fastcompany.com/91490280/eps...
'A good way of dealing with overpopulation': Epstein files reveal how the rich fuel climate denialism
Jeffrey Epstein and his vast network of elite figures routinely traded in myths that undermine climate progress. Experts say it's not an accident.
www.fastcompany.com

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Last month's total #Arctic sea ice volume averaged the 2nd lowest on record for the month of January...

More at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

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Geoscientists will soon have two powerful new eyes on Earth, offering unprecedented views of the changes occurring within the planet’s upper atmosphere and on its surface. https://scim.ag/3Mg0Xpa
NASA greenlights two earth science missions, to researchers’ relief
Orbiting satellites will monitor changes in the stratosphere and on the planet’s surface
scim.ag
This article that was going around the other day wasn't claiming that AI tools don't make workers more "productive" in some sense (they do self-report that they are getting more done!) but does suggest people end up working more while being less engaged & more stressed. hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...
hbr.org

The changing climate is causing or exacerbating global average temperature increases, heat waves, sea level rise, storm surge, and ocean acidification, and causing extreme weather events such as hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and drought to occur with greater frequency, intensity, or both. #science
Trump’s EPA is moving to scrap a landmark emissions policy as part of its deregulatory agenda, a shift that would also gut a key legal foundation for combating global warming.
Trump’s EPA Is Set to Scrap a Landmark Emissions Policy in Deregulatory Push
Among other things, the move would undo the legal basis of the fight against global warming.
truthout.org

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Trump’s EPA is moving to scrap a landmark emissions policy as part of its deregulatory agenda, a shift that would also gut a key legal foundation for combating global warming.
Trump’s EPA Is Set to Scrap a Landmark Emissions Policy in Deregulatory Push
Among other things, the move would undo the legal basis of the fight against global warming.
truthout.org
NEW: A newly updated reference manual for U.S. judges that provides answers to scientific and technical questions has eliminated some 90 pages about climate science.

It comes as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.
Under GOP Pressure, Federal Agency Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Official Manual for U.S. Judges
The “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence” — updated for the first time in 15 years — eliminates some 90 pages about climate science and comes just as numerous climate cases make their way through ...
www.propublica.org

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It just becomes more screamingly obvious by the day that he is very deeply unwell

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DHS is spending $8 million to pay influencers to pump out pro‑ICE content. So we’re literally footing the bill for our own propaganda. This is what they think they can get away with—using our money to sell us a narrative we never asked for.

"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson

"Eunice Foote was an amateur scientist from the mid-1800s whose experiments foreshadowed the discovery of Earth's greenhouse effect.

Her experiments... revealed the ability of water vapor and carbonic acid gas (carbon dioxide) to raise temperature." #climatechange #science #history
Happy 200th birthday to Eunice Foote, hidden climate science pioneer
American Eunice Foote was an amateur scientist and women's rights pioneer from the mid-1800s whose experiments foreshadowed the discovery of Earth's greenhouse effect.
www.climate.gov
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com

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AOC & Sanders. That's how. They are the only ones on the federal stage who have the capacity to raise passion in the people. Nothing less than passion is what is needed now.
We can reverse America’s decline | Bernie Sanders
It is not good enough just to criticize Trump. We must offer a positive vision that will improve the lives of Americans
www.theguardian.com
Malignant Narcissism is a helluva drug

www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/p...

"Flawed economic models mean the accelerating impact of the #climatecrisis could lead to a global financial crash, experts warn.

Recovery would be far harder than after the 2008 financial crash, they said, as “we can’t bail out the Earth like we did the banks”."
Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn
States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points
www.theguardian.com

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We need to get this right. The economic benefits from eliminating carbon pollution are huge.
The energy transition is happening, faster than many realize. This week, I look at how clean energy is surging, where we can get it wrong, why silence on climate is spreading, and what we can do. Read the full edition for the data, the stories, and practical ways to keep the conversation going:
"Climate hushing"—the quiet trend undermining global climate action | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe
Get more from Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe on Patreon
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"Two out of every five species could be lost by the end of the century."

Kathleen Dean Moore

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ilT...
Kathleen Dean Moore: Clip from Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating Life in a Time of Extinction
YouTube video by NewSchoolCommonweal
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