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CruzClimate.com is a FREE, weekly, plain language, climate change newsletter for Santa Cruz County, Calif. Checking dozens of reliable sources for climate news that affects our County. By Rex Sanders, science writer. Also ClimateJargon.com
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• Reducing wildfire smoke could save thousands of lives every month
• Don’t store climate pollution deep under this wetland

And more in this week’s free, plain language newsletter with climate change news and analysis for Santa Cruz County, California, 9-minute read cruzclimate.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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I’d like to get this excellent short animated film on climate & societal tipping points by @leomurray.bsky.social to a million views + hundreds of thousands of 👍🏽 - as one commenter has said. Please, share it around and make it happen. Made in 2008 - now all coming true!

youtube.com/watch?v=VnyL...
Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip (HD)
YouTube video by Ligermorph
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February 8, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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It's the dead of winter, and California just supplied a peak of 117% of its demand with solar alone and 136% of its demand from WindWaterSolar and over 100% of demand for 6 hours.

Gas output down 58% and batteries output up 303% in 2025 v '2023

Solar+batteries replacing gas
February 8, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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• Solar power is replacing natural gas
• Expensive Marin County problem is coming to Santa Cruz County

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February 3, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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• How PG&E could lower our electric bills
• Autism linked to wildfire smoke during pregnancy
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January 27, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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the way things are is not permanent
"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary." URSULA K. LE GUIN "A WAR WITHOUT END"
January 19, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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• Plans for more oil drilling will lose again
• Winter storm tracks shifting north
• Tide charts were wrong during recent king tide floods

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January 20, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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Climate jargon means confusion for people who aren’t climate nerds. I’m already using “global overheating” for global warming and “climate pollution” for greenhouse gases, plus others. Readers thank me!

See climatejargon.com with frequent additions and better simplifications.
January 15, 2026 at 6:31 AM
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Now THIS is an infographic! Solar... not only does it use the sun as fuel wherever it's deployed, it also doesn't need continuous feeding and intensive maintenance via an ongoing global supply chain, for ever and ever. #EnergySky #ConservationAbundance
January 14, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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my 2026 resolution is to stop talking about climate in terms of global mean temperature (will rise a couple degrees, sounds manageable, nobody cares) and start talking in terms of H bomb equivalents (holy shit, seems bad, WTF)
drkatemarvel.bsky.social Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 26d
The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of:
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
hausfath.bsky.social Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 26d
Ocean heat content increased by 23 billion trillion joules, which was around 39 times greater than global primary energy use this year. This is the largest rise in OHC since 2017; overall OHC has increased by over 500 zettajoules since the 1940s.
January 14, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
January 14, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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• Making plug-in solar panels and home heat pumps easier and cheaper
• Oil from Venezuela is very bad for climate change

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January 13, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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• New rules for big utility batteries coming
• Why some men are less concerned about climate change
• Largest battery electric train engines

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January 6, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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• Clean energy paths for overlooked industries
• Hydrogen bus failures from misguided transit systems

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December 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
And everything is flawed, if you want to look at it that way. The analogy that has helped me most is this: in Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of boat-owners rescued people—single moms, toddlers, grandfathers—stranded in attics, on roofs, in flooded housing projects, hospitals, and school buildings. None of them said, I can’t rescue everyone, therefore it’s futile; therefore my efforts are flawed and worthless, though that’s often what people say about more abstract issues in which, nevertheless, lives, places, cultures, species, rights are at stake. They went out there in fishing boats and rowboats and pirogues and all kinds of small craft, some driving from as far as Texas and eluding the au- thorities to get in, others refugees themselves working within the city. There was bumper-to-bumper boat-trailer traffic—the celebrated Cajun Navy—going toward the city the day after the levees broke. None of those people said, I can’t rescue them all. All of them said, I can rescue someone, and that’s work so meaningful and important I will risk my life and defy the authorities to do it. And they did.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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• New fire rules should help, someday
• California’s big oil spill and climate problem
• Big Oil’s climate ads have lied for 25 years

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December 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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• Al Gore still optimistic about fixing our climate

• How scientists connect extreme weather to climate change

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December 9, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:

In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.

In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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• Fire station installs solar panels and batteries

• LA County Fire recommends wildfire shelter-in-place

• We need big clean energy projects fast

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December 2, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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• Improve climate fast by cutting methane

• Better state rules on landfill air pollution & methane leaks

• Calif. 120 volt induction ranges & heat pumps

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November 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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• Big climate actions that work

• Why improve our climate?

• Clean energy is cheaper, healthier, and safer

• Overbuild clean energy

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November 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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• Switch to clean energy for a healthy, cheaper life

• State and local politicians could lower electric bills

• Window heat pumps reduce PG&E bills

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November 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Special: Believe climate scientists or Bill Gates?

Mr. Gates posted a controversial memo about climate change.
Actual climate scientists are not happy.

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November 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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• Radical climate optimism
• California could regulate climate pollution on its own
• Ten years after the Paris Agreement on climate
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November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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September 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM