The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming.
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Don't Believe Him Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 02/02/2025 · 14m

This 14 min podcast from @ezraklein a great listen.

“Trump is trying to govern like a King because he is too weak to govern like a President.”

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Agriculture is estimated to be over 10% of US CO2e emissions

Following!

Ash below, blue sky above: Is the air safe? Deciding whether the air is safe in Southern California can feel like a dangerous riddle in the week since the Palisades, Eaton, and Hurst fires began.

This, from UCLA, is one of the better (& more reassuring) things I’ve read about #LAfires & current air quality www.ioes.ucla.edu/article/ash-...

Opinion | Oil and Gas Companies Should Pay for the Los Angeles Fires It’s time to require these companies to compensate communities, homeowners, businesses and even insurers for the losses.

Who should pick up the tab for the billions of dollars in damages from these deadly fires in LA? The fossil fuel industry who lied about climate change for decades, that's who.

Brilliant must read from @cadavejones.bsky.social.
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262 days since it has rained in LA, 🙏 ☔️

I live by some SoCal Gas Infrastructure close to LAX & had not realized until this week our entire neighborhood is in a higher wildfire risk zone due to that gas storage. Crazy we have a gas storage field close to LAX!

Jan 6 “was a day of love”

I assume most people know this, but seems important to point out basic truths at this moment in time. There is no energy emergency in the U.S. The U.S. is the world's top producer of oil and gas at the moment, and the top exporter of gas, and U.S. oil and gas producers are making record profits.

Heartless. Cruel.

I search ‘TikTok’ in the US Apple App store right now & get:
Instagram
Snapchat
Facebook
YouTube

Meta are poised to be big winners from the TikTok ban.

Such a hard one. When I talked to Alistair Hayden, a Cornell scientist who studies air pollution and wildfires, he said the one place he turns for real-time data is the wildfire AirNow map: fire.airnow.gov

It combines EPA data with calibrated data from the cheaper, more abundant PurpleAir sensors.

Chart showing rapidly rising temperatures with 2024 the worst

2024 daily temperatures compared to past years. A frightening graphic from the BBC. #ClimateEmergency

Record Heat Pushed 2024 Above Global Warming Threshold of 1.5C Scientists in the EU and UK find that last year was the hottest year on record, breaching the climate change limit sought by the Paris Agreement.

It's official: 2024 was the hottest year on record, and the first with an average temp 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, the limit set by the Paris Agreement.

The 1.5C goal isn't dead -- it won't be until/unless this happens over many years. But it's sure not looking good. via @eroston.bsky.social

I watched Australia burned after one of the driest years in our history.

Now I watch LA burn again after record setting dry.

Climate change changes rain patterns & drier land burns more.

Thanks for sharing these.

Also this line: “America didn’t swing rightward, but couchward” 🫠

Unbelievable oil companies are allowed to get away with this, especially while getting huge $ in govt subsidies

“China can move infrastructure projects — from power plants & transmission lines to data centers — from blueprint to reality in a small fraction of the time. As of Dec 23, China had built 34 ultra-high-voltage transmission lines — totaling tens of thousands of miles —, while the US had none.”

Free Copilot!!!

Any folks from Hilton on here? You might want to do some market research to see if ‘free bottled water’ is seen as a benefit or a turn off….

If we get gas out of our homes: “Fine airborne particulate matter and other air pollutants could decrease by 300,000 tons, the equivalent of taking 40 million cars off the road.”

Just wild that more cargo ships in the world are hauling fossil fuels than anything else

We're just innocent men

I’ve seen some ‘mirror’ accounts that just cross post tweets (ie @adamschefter-mirror.bluesky.bot for football news), not sure how they’re set up though

ChatGPT’s estimate: roughly same as 1 year of Reykjavik 💨

Wow… imagine the carbon footprint of this!

My two nationalities:
🇦🇺 32%
🇺🇸 11%