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erniec.bsky.social
@erniec.bsky.social
Learning about climate change, looking for solutions
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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This huge investment in a battery startup shows that investors are beginning to notice the powerful business case for scaling distributed energy resources. Hard to envision any politician standing in the way of homeowners that want to lower their bills and take greater control.
October 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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License to Kill: Trump’s Extrajudicial Executions

@akelalacy.bsky.social, @radleybalko.bsky.social and yours truly discuss the Trump administration’s rhetoric and rationale to justify extrajudicial killings abroad — and possibly at home.

theintercept.com/2025/10/10/b...
License to Kill: Trump’s Extrajudicial Executions
Akela Lacy, Radley Balko, and Nick Turse on the administration’s rhetoric and rationale to justify extrajudicial killings abroad — and possibly at home.
theintercept.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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New high of Americans saying immigration is good for the US
September 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Today in #PlanetarySapience: “Taxonomists imagine a world in which all species are known and can thus be tracked. Just as we monitor the weather for looming disasters, complete inventories of animal life could allow scientists to monitor biodiversity….” www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
The search for Earth’s most mysterious creatures is turning up extraordinary results
We still haven’t documented 90 percent of animals on Earth
www.vox.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Underestimating support for climate action limits political decision making, study says.

Research reveals huge disparity between perceived and actual willingness of public to contribute to fixing climate
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Underestimating support for climate action limits political decision making, study says
Research reveals huge disparity between perceived and actual willingness of public to contribute to fixing climate
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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The Revolution Wind farm was slated to start sending power to homes and businesses in Rhode Island and Connecticut starting next year.
Trump administration halts work on an almost-finished wind farm
The Revolution Wind farm was slated to start sending power to homes and businesses in Rhode Island and Connecticut starting next year.
n.pr
August 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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In the past 24 hours alone, more than 152 new fires have broken out across Greece

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Greece battles wildfires as heatwave rages across southern Europe
At least three people have died and dozens more have been inured in Spain, Turkey and Albania.
www.bbc.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Phoenix has always been hot, but not this hot. In early 1900s, highs typically reached 110 degrees fewer than 10 days a year. Last year, it happened 70 times; this year, 30+ already. Nine of the city’s 10 hottest years have come since 2010.

This affects everybody, but especially unhoused people.
Asphalt Burns and Heatstroke: Homeless in America’s Hottest City
www.nytimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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When Pope Francis died, it wasn't clear his successor would take up his environmentalist mantle. In just a few short months, Pope Leo is already well on his way to being the climate champion the world needs now

Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Pope Leo Is Becoming the Climate Champion We Need
He has introduced a “green” Mass and supports running Vatican City solely on solar power.
www.bloomberg.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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A new report shows how local climate activism leads to ‘remarkable’ gains.

Efforts to pass laws and advance clean energy projects can significantly reduce emissions, and at a low cost.

grist.org/solutions/ne...

#Activist #Climate #Environment #Local #Activism #Politics #Policy
A new report shows how local climate activism leads to 'remarkable' gains
Efforts to pass laws and advance clean energy projects can significantly reduce emissions, and at a low cost.
grist.org
August 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Researchers Are Resurrecting Billion-Dollar Disaster Tool Trump Killed
Nonprofit Climate Central has hired the scientist behind a key database of costly weather disasters to rebuild it.
www.bloomberg.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Burning wildfires as of 8/4/25 have massive greenhouse gas emissions as part of a feedback loop.
August 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨

Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.

forms.gle/BL9xUAfRxA...
DOE climate report response form
We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.
forms.gle
July 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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New York just became the first state in the nation to mandate all electric buildings

Goodbye gas. Hello heat pumps 😎

www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...
New York becomes first state to commit to all-electric new buildings
The state finalized rules ensuring most new edifices will install electric heat pumps and stoves instead of gas appliances, lowering costs and improving…
www.canarymedia.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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This is just a sampling of the vast armada of fossil-fuel front groups and captured lobbyists they have out defending the $700+ billion annual subsidy we provide these polluters, by tolerating their pollute-for-free business model. Epic corruption.
Who Are the Climate Deniers Fighting the Endangerment Finding?
DeSmog has been tracking the efforts of fossil fuel trade associations, policymakers, and industry backed-groups out to demolish U.S. climate policy for years.
www.desmog.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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"Our local star already provides us with warmth and light and photosynthesis, and now it would like to give us all the power we need, and then do the same tomorrow, ad infinitum." — @billmckibben.bsky.social 🌞
Solar Is Liberation
Solar is the only scalable way to slow down the climate crisis — and it will free us from the power of billionaires too.
www.rollingstone.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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“California, the fourth largest economy on planet Earth, is this summer using 40 percent less natural gas than it did two years ago to generate electricity.

If you wanna know why the fossil fuel industry is freaking out and sponsoring every bad politician on Earth, that's why.”
Where does the climate movement go from here?
In the face of Trump's climate assault, Bill McKibben proposes a sun-soaked path forward.
heated.world
July 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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"How can national sovereignty remain the bedrock of international relations when we are faced with colossal planetary challenges? What can be ‘foreign’ about ‘policy’ when on the most existential of issues the world is more deeply interconnected than ever?" aeon.co/essays/we-ne...
We need a planetary system of diplomacy for the 21st century | Aeon Essays
We need new forms of global diplomacy to transcend the current pathetic bargaining of national and commercial interests
aeon.co
July 31, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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EVs Surpass 60% of New Car Sales in Ethiopia in 2024. Africa is shifting away from oil faster than some countries in Western world.
birrmetrics.com/evs-surpass-...
EVs Surpass 60% of New Car Sales in Ethiopia: Outlook - Birr Metrics
More than 60 percent of newly registered personal cars in Ethiopia in 2024 were electric vehicles (EVs), marking a major shift in the country’s transport and
birrmetrics.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?

American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
July 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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New graphs showing fossil gas use down 42.5% since 2023 and 24.3% since 2024 on CAISO grid

WWS up 16%, solar up 47.4%, batteries up 213% since 2023

162nd of 207 days in 2025 with >100%, for an avg of 4.7 h/day (v 1 h/d in 2023)

WWS has met 57.5% of demand in '25 v 48.7% in '23
July 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution
July 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM