When I interviewed him years ago, Steve Jobs told me that one of his favorite Bob Dylan songs was "Only a Pawn in their Game."

Fact check: true

in case you were wondering how all those lawsuits against Big Oil for climate damages are going to go.

The same people who argue with climate scientists about who knows more about climate are naturally going to argue with the Pope about who knows more about Jesus.

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

Big Oil has built a new pipeline from your wallet to theirs.

"Every month, Rebecca Michalski takes a deep breath before opening her electric bill. She lives on a fixed income, and heating her small house this winter has been staggering: Her February charge was $940.08 — more than her check."

Chinese Electrotech is the Big Winner in the Iran War An energy-hungry world is being pushed away by America and into China’s arms

"it’s sad to watch this country sabotage itself and cede the most important industry of the future to China.... In the end, we aren’t just burning fossil fuels; we’re also burning our future." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

My daughter had a better grasp of Earth science in Third Grade.

A map of high "feels-like" temperatures across the US on Wednesday. New York will be 92. Washington will be 94. Charlotte will be 92. Atlanta will be 90. Jacksonville will be 90. All will be hotter than Miami (85), New Orleans (88) and Houston (85). Source: AccuWeather

A table of forecast highs on Wednesday, historical averages and the difference. Washington will be 94F, compared with 68 average, a +26F difference Philadelphia: 90 vs. 65, +25 New York: 88 vs 62, +26 Providence: 80 vs 59, +21 Raleigh: 95 vs 73, +22 Source: AccuWeather

What if July, but in April

How many people does climate change kill every summer? Great post by @andrewdessler.com on why the answer you get depends on how you ask the question.

The bizarre pretzel logic of MAGA world is brought to you by the fossil fuels industry. bsky.app/profile/atru...

👉 "...if there was a theme, it was that everything was so complicated and uncertain that no-one can know anything. This is a notable contrast to previous outings where everything was definitely due to the sun or ‘natural’ variability (anything but carbon remains the organizing principle)."

"In the end, the defeat of Viktor Orbán ... required not just an ordinary election campaign or new messaging but rather the construction of a broad, diverse, and patriotic grassroots social movement. And by building exactly that, Hungary’s opposition changed politics around the world."

Opinion | Gun Manufacturers Won the Ultimate Legal Shield. Big Oil Wants That, Too.

Big Oil is terrified they will be held accountable for decades of lying about what they knew about climate change and for the harms their Big Tobacco-like advocacy for fossil fuels has done to us all.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...

Could we do a Truman Show situation where we build a fake Oval Office where he watches AI created fake news about himself and let him believe he's still president and tweet the hours away and meanwhile we can impeach him and move on...I'm not sure he'd know the difference

The result is huge. Vast in its consequences. Orban was the inspiration to all those who came after him. He served as Putin's puppet, undermining Europe from within and Ukraine from without. He funded a vast network of fascists around the world. It's all vulnerable now, or falling apart entirely.

Make America read again (or at least California, anyway) @katieporterca.bsky.social

Cumulative area burnt by wildfire curves for the US showing 2026 starting off massively worse than any prior year

This seems suboptimal

GFS map of temperature anomalies over the contiguous USA for March 21, 2026.

We need to talk a bit about how utterly absurd the March heatwave was in the USA.

This heatwave would have been impossible without a boost from climate change, but even with climate change it remains a deeply unlikely event.

A thread looking at some of the numbers.

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Just to crib Jan's great chart here a little bit - here are just a few of the headlines that came out when growth somewhat slowed in 2024

Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this

Albertine, George Orwell’s favorite rose, in full bloom in Austin.

Climate Change Denial Sees a Resurgence in Trump’s Washington

All the grey hair in this audience, a hospice-leaning crowd of old white men who just don't give a fuck.

the thing about a publicly funded space program is that you get to be represented by these people as opposed to, say, Jeff Bezos's second wife

Chevron's CEO made $104 million while America bombed Iran America's oil executives have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, a new investigation shows.

@emorwee.bsky.social: “What really makes this story remarkable is not simply that oil executives got rich from a war. It’s how perfectly legal and normal it all is, and what that legality reveals about who wins and who loses when America goes to war.” open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...

One of the top headlines of the day.

Trump blares 'Phantom of the Opera' at White House with empty Friday schedule President Donald Trump's favorite tunes blared at the White House on Friday, as nothing was on his public schedule except a trip to Mar-a-Lago.Politico correspondent Jake Taylor noted on Friday aftern...

A propos of nothing, "So it is to be war between us. If these demands are not met, a disaster beyond all imagination will occur!" . . . . is from Phantom of the Opera, and I find myself recalling that Andrew Lloyd Webber used to live in Trump Tower, and also this:

www.rawstory.com/trump-white-...

Thinking about when Anthony Bourdain visited Iran, and he said, "It wasn’t supposed to be like this—of all the places, of all the countries, all the years of traveling, it’s here, in Iran, that I am greeted most warmly by total strangers."

Trump is not just a creation of Big Oil, he is the most vivid expression of its values and moral character.

I’ve been there. This is true

I asked Google about life in Tehran