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<p>Gee, what could be driving the &quot;record high temperatures and low rainfall&quot; that are threatening water supplies in Florida? It can&#x27;t be <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#climatechange</a>, since Florida is prohibiting officials from discussing that issue...</p><p><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/florida-city-water-supply-drinking-water-clear-lake-1909472" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.newsweek.com/florida-city-water-supply-drinking-water-clear-lake-1909472"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.newsweek.com/florida-city-</span><span class="invisible">water-supply-drinking-water-clear-lake-1909472</span></a></p>

<p>The Government and Australian coal mining company Bathurst Resources want to rip apart the beautiful Denniston Plateau on the West Coast to mine coal and make our climate even more deadly.</p><p>This video shows why that&#x27;s a terrible idea: <a href="https://youtu.be/g1FJFdlNj_k?si=DHE3kUEolKolVieu" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="youtu.be/g1FJFdlNj_k?si=DHE3kUEolKolVieu"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/g1FJFdlNj_k?si=DHE3kU</span><span class="invisible">EolKolVieu</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/nzpol/" rel="tag">#nzpol</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#climatechange</a> <a href="/tags/climatecrime/" rel="tag">#climatecrime</a></p>

<p>Excellent</p><p>Federal judge throws out <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> order blocking development of <a href="/tags/wind/" rel="tag">#wind</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a></p><p>A federal judge on Monday struck down Trump’s executive order blocking <a href="/tags/windenergy/" rel="tag">#WindEnergy</a> projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of <a href="/tags/windfarms/" rel="tag">#WindFarms</a> on federal <a href="/tags/lands/" rel="tag">#lands</a> &amp; <a href="/tags/waters/" rel="tag">#waters</a> was “arbitrary &amp; capricious” &amp; violates US <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a>.</p><p><a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a> <br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-wind-power-offshore-attorney-general-a8c2f1201ac6b0607e8c4a1c36e651ba?utm_source=onesignal&amp;utm_medium=push&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-08-Wind+energy" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="apnews.com/article/trump-wind-power-offshore-attorney-general-a8c2f1201ac6b0607e8c4a1c36e651ba?utm_source=onesignal&amp;utm_medium=push&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-08-Wind+energy"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/trump-wind-</span><span class="invisible">power-offshore-attorney-general-a8c2f1201ac6b0607e8c4a1c36e651ba?utm_source=onesignal&amp;utm_medium=push&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-08-Wind+energy</span></a></p>

<p>I attended the Supreme Court of <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> on Wednesday to help <a href="https://climatejustice.social/@deceleration" rel="nofollow">@deceleration</a> cover a unique case involving <a href="/tags/indigenous/" rel="tag">#Indigenous</a> religious freedom, pandemic restrictions on churches, and a cormorant rookery in a San Antonio park.</p><p><a href="https://deceleration.news/texas-supreme-court-scrutinizes-san-antonios-bird-tree-removals-in-religious-liberty-debate/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="deceleration.news/texas-supreme-court-scrutinizes-san-antonios-bird-tree-removals-in-religious-liberty-debate/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">deceleration.news/texas-suprem</span><span class="invisible">e-court-scrutinizes-san-antonios-bird-tree-removals-in-religious-liberty-debate/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/religion/" rel="tag">#religion</a> <a href="/tags/activism/" rel="tag">#activism</a> <a href="/tags/sanantonio/" rel="tag">#SanAntonio</a> <a href="/tags/southtexas/" rel="tag">#SouthTexas</a> <a href="/tags/trees/" rel="tag">#trees</a></p>

<p>Exclusive: <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> Dept of <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> forms $1B <a href="/tags/supercomputer/" rel="tag">#supercomputer</a> &amp; <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> partnership with <a href="/tags/amd/" rel="tag">#AMD</a></p><p>The US has formed a $1 billion partnership with Advanced Micro Devices to construct 2 supercomputers that will tackle large scientific problems ranging from <a href="/tags/nuclearpower/" rel="tag">#NuclearPower</a> to <a href="/tags/cancer/" rel="tag">#cancer</a> treatments to <a href="/tags/nationalsecurity/" rel="tag">#NationalSecurity</a>, Energy Secy Chris Wright &amp; AMD CEO Lisa Su told Reuters.</p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/environmentallaw/" rel="tag">#EnvironmentalLaw</a> <a href="/tags/electricity/" rel="tag">#electricity</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-department-energy-forms-1-billion-supercomputer-ai-partnership-with-amd-2025-10-27/?utm_source=braze&amp;utm_medium=notifications&amp;utm_campaign=2025_engagement" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-department-energy-forms-1-billion-supercomputer-ai-partnership-with-amd-2025-10-27/?utm_source=braze&amp;utm_medium=notifications&amp;utm_campaign=2025_engagement"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reuters.com/business/energ</span><span class="invisible">y/us-department-energy-forms-1-billion-supercomputer-ai-partnership-with-amd-2025-10-27/?utm_source=braze&amp;utm_medium=notifications&amp;utm_campaign=2025_engagement</span></a></p>

<p>“It will take time for scientists to determine exactly how much <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> supercharged <a href="/tags/melissa/" rel="tag">#Melissa</a>, but they can already say the storm has been feeding on warm ocean temps made up to 800 times more likely by global heating…The hotter the ocean gets, the more energy that can transfer into a storm.”<br><br><a href="https://grist.org/extreme-weather/how-hurricane-melissa-got-so-dangerous-so-fast/" rel="nofollow">How Hurricane Melissa got so d...</a></p>

<p>Oh look, another rich, white billionaire saying <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#climatechange</a> isn’t so bad </p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/business/bill-gates-climate-change" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/business/bill-gates-climate-change"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/bill-gates-climate-change</span></a></p><p>What does Microsoft need from the US Government, Bill? I know you’re not CEO any more, but this reeks of the same fucked up bullshittery we saw Tim Apple do at the White House.</p><p>OH, and congratulations on the shitty timing. You know, just as <a href="/tags/jamaica/" rel="tag">#Jamaica</a> faces the largest storm in its history…. </p><p>And look, the crux of what he’s saying is “ tackle hunger, and disease” but if you don’t tackle climate change as well, those other things will get WORSE. This isn&#x27;t an &#x27;either, or&#x27; situation. </p><p>We have to tackle anthropogenic climate change. We have to tackle hunger. And we have to tackle disease. We can&#x27;t do just one. We have to do all of them, and that means... changing how we deal with world wealth. </p><p>Tax the rich. Build a society where all have a chance to thrive… not just a few. </p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a></p>

<p>Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the sh*t out of me’.</p><p>Indiana Jones star calls US president out for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels. <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/31/harrison-ford-donald-trump-climate-crisis" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/31/harrison-ford-donald-trump-climate-crisis"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/environmen</span><span class="invisible">t/2025/oct/31/harrison-ford-donald-trump-climate-crisis</span></a></p>

<p>You haven’t noticed that the days are getting ever so slightly longer, but a new study shows that they are — and it points to climate change. <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@euronews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>euronews</span></a></span> explains what’s happening and why it can be a problem:</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/ZerBDD" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/ZerBDD</a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/globalwarming/" rel="tag">#GlobalWarming</a></p>

<p>Ridiculous </p><p><a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a> Orders <a href="/tags/cdc/" rel="tag">#CDC</a> to Study Alleged Harms of Offshore <a href="/tags/windfarms/" rel="tag">#WindFarms</a></p><p><a href="/tags/hhs/" rel="tag">#HHS</a> Secy RFKJr directed CDC staff to probe the potential harms of offshore wind farms, according to people familiar with the matter, as <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> marshals his admin to thwart the <a href="/tags/cleanenergy/" rel="tag">#CleanEnergy</a> source he loathes. </p><p><a href="/tags/conspiracytheories/" rel="tag">#ConspiracyTheories</a> <a href="/tags/fossilfuels/" rel="tag">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="/tags/bigoil/" rel="tag">#BigOil</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a> <br><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/rfk-jr-orders-cdc-to-study-alleged-harms-of-offshore-wind-farms" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/rfk-jr-orders-cdc-to-study-alleged-harms-of-offshore-wind-farms"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bloomberg.com/news/article</span><span class="invisible">s/2025-10-28/rfk-jr-orders-cdc-to-study-alleged-harms-of-offshore-wind-farms</span></a></p>

<p>Latest comic: JD Vance, friend to women</p><p><a href="/tags/vance/" rel="tag">#vance</a> <a href="/tags/gender/" rel="tag">#gender</a> <a href="/tags/women/" rel="tag">#women</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#climatechange</a></p>

<p>This week&#x27;s <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library:<br>- I adopted a damaged copy of David Farrier&#x27;s Nature&#x27;s Genius: Evolution&#x27;s Lessons for a Changing Planet, published by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://bookish.community/@canongatebooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>canongatebooks</span></a></span>.</p><p>The other two are cases of the more I read, the more I go down rabbit holes.<br>- After reviewing Mysteries of the Deep, I bought an ex-library copy of the classic 1995 Paleoclimate and Evolution, with Emphasis on Human Origins, published by Yale University Press, to read more on the work of Elisabeth Vrba and colleagues (this one came from the holdings of the University Library of Durham)</p><p>- After reviewing Every Living Thing, I wanted to know more about Cuvier and tracked down an ex-library copy of the classic 1987 The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French Biology in the Decades Before Darwin, published by Oxford University Press (this one came from the holdings of the University of Saint Katherine Library) </p><p><a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/evolution/" rel="tag">#Evolution</a> <a href="/tags/palaeoclimate/" rel="tag">#Palaeoclimate</a> <a href="/tags/humanevolution/" rel="tag">#HumanEvolution</a> <a href="/tags/historyofscience/" rel="tag">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="/tags/sciencehistory/" rel="tag">#ScienceHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histsci/" rel="tag">#HistSci</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

<p>I appreciate <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@MichaelEMann" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MichaelEMann</span></a></span>’s ability to call this trash thinking out.</p><p><a href="https://thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-cant-reboot-the-planet-if-you-crash-it/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-cant-reboot-the-planet-if-you-crash-it/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-ca</span><span class="invisible">nt-reboot-the-planet-if-you-crash-it/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a></p>

<p>Remember when the politicians kept telling us that Climate Change was too expensive to fight?</p><p>They said that Oil Executives buying mega yachts was more important than the rest of us having food, or viable living conditions.</p><p>This is the second &quot;once in a century&quot; flood in the Toronto area this summer</p><p><a href="/tags/fossilfuels/" rel="tag">#FossilFuels</a> <br><a href="/tags/degrowth/" rel="tag">#Degrowth</a> <br><a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> </p><p><a href="https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/08/18/weather-rainfall-warning-issued-for-toronto-mississauga-brampton-ontario/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="toronto.citynews.ca/2024/08/18/weather-rainfall-warning-issued-for-toronto-mississauga-brampton-ontario/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">toronto.citynews.ca/2024/08/18</span><span class="invisible">/weather-rainfall-warning-issued-for-toronto-mississauga-brampton-ontario/</span></a></p>

<p>@economics-that-works <br><a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#economics</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#climatechange</a> <br> <br>Jul 3</p><p>State Farm, California&#x27;s largest home insurance company (20% of the market) is in trouble. Extreme weather forces huge disaster payouts it cannot sustain, but this is true of insurance everywhere.</p><p>Insurance is central to property value, investment and lending. No insurance, no credit and no economy.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/GaxdTI8aciM" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>youtu.be/GaxdTI8aciM</a></p>

<p>The predictions scientists made decades are ago are coming true one by one and yet we are still getting told by the scientifically illiterate we need to keep burning oil for their yacht money. </p><p>We have a decision to make. Do we save humanity or do we save billionaires?</p><p>Not only do we need to end fossil fuel subsidies, we need to tax them out of business.</p><p><a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <br><a href="/tags/fossilfuels/" rel="tag">#FossilFuels</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/homes/why-are-homes-collapsing-in-north-carolina" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/homes/why-are-homes-collapsing-in-north-carolina"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/homes/w</span><span class="invisible">hy-are-homes-collapsing-in-north-carolina</span></a></p>

<p>THIS should be front-page news every day.</p><p>THIS should be the primary focus of every major world leader. </p><p>But it&#x27;s not. </p><p>Instead, all we get is month after month of more Business As Usual.</p><p>‼️ 🚨 ‼️ 🚨 ‼️ 🚨 ‼️ 🚨 ‼️ 🚨 ‼️</p><p>Dr. Robert Rohde (<span class="h-card"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@RARohde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>RARohde</span></a></span>) delivers the latest update on our global climate emergency:</p><p>&quot;The last 12 months were each at least 1.5°C (2.7°F) warmer than Berkeley Earth&#x27;s 1850-1900 baseline. This brings the 12-month moving average of Earth&#x27;s global temperature to a record high of +1.68°C (+3.02°F) above the 1850-1900 baseline, far surpassing previous short-term warming events.&quot;</p><p>See ➡️ <a href="https://fediscience.org/@RARohde/112824106977970378" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="fediscience.org/@RARohde/112824106977970378"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fediscience.org/@RARohde/11282</span><span class="invisible">4106977970378</span></a><br>Learn more ➡️ <a href="https://berkeleyearth.org/june-2024-temperature-update/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="berkeleyearth.org/june-2024-temperature-update/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">berkeleyearth.org/june-2024-te</span><span class="invisible">mperature-update/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="/tags/climateemergency/" rel="tag">#ClimateEmergency</a></p>

<p>1/</p><p>Lots of new connections. Hence, a re-introduction to a hopeful story, &quot;A New Faith,&quot; available to read online or download (EPUB and PDF) for free at: <a href="https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith</a></p><p><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#novel</a> <a href="/tags/story/" rel="tag">#story</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/hopepunk/" rel="tag">#hopepunk</a> <a href="/tags/solarpunk/" rel="tag">#solarpunk</a> <a href="/tags/climatefiction/" rel="tag">#climatefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/speculativefiction/" rel="tag">#speculativefiction</a> <a href="/tags/mystery/" rel="tag">#mystery</a> <a href="/tags/thriller/" rel="tag">#thriller</a> <a href="/tags/detective/" rel="tag">#detective</a> <a href="/tags/women/" rel="tag">#women</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#climatechange</a> <a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#climatecrisis</a> <a href="/tags/extinction/" rel="tag">#extinction</a> <a href="/tags/survival/" rel="tag">#survival</a> <a href="/tags/adaptation/" rel="tag">#adaptation</a> <a href="/tags/migration/" rel="tag">#migration</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/indie/" rel="tag">#indie</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a></p>

<p>Major tech companies are producing far more carbon emissions than they suggest in their sustainability reports.</p><p>They’re lobbying hard to rewrite the rules on how emissions are calculated to show net zero on paper, but not in practice.</p><p><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/2d6fc319-2165-42fb-8de1-0edf1d765be3" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.ft.com/content/2d6fc319-2165-42fb-8de1-0edf1d765be3"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.ft.com/content/2d6fc319-21</span><span class="invisible">65-42fb-8de1-0edf1d765be3</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a> <a href="/tags/emissions/" rel="tag">#emissions</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#climatechange</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> Officials Accused of Mob Tactics to Kill a <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> Measure</p><p>Nations were poised to approve the first fee on <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#pollution</a> from <a href="/tags/ships/" rel="tag">#ships</a>. That’s when the Trump admin began the <a href="/tags/threats/" rel="tag">#threats</a>.</p><p>Among other threats from US officials, Secretary of <a href="/tags/state/" rel="tag">#State</a> <a href="/tags/marcorubio/" rel="tag">#MarcoRubio</a> personally called officials in several countries to threaten financial penalties &amp; other punishments if they continued to support the ship pollution agreement.</p><p><a href="/tags/mafiastate/" rel="tag">#MafiaState</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/climate/trump-climate-international-bullying.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/climate/trump-climate-international-bullying.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/cli</span><span class="invisible">mate/trump-climate-international-bullying.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>

<p>NEW from my lab in Ecology Letters: Machine learning trained on &gt;10k iNaturalist records let us &quot;hindcast&quot; Joshua trees&#x27; flowering back over the 20th Century. The hindcast recovers flowering events recorded in field notes, herbarium records, and newspaper archives. Joshua trees now flower a bit more often than they once did— but that&#x27;s probably not good for the trees overall</p><p>OA paper: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14478" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>doi.org/10.1111/ele.14478</a></p><p>Explainer: <a href="https://lab.jbyoder.org/2024/08/05/new-publication-how-a-century-of-climate-change-affected-joshua-tree-flowering/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lab.jbyoder.org/2024/08/05/new-publication-how-a-century-of-climate-change-affected-joshua-tree-flowering/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lab.jbyoder.org/2024/08/05/new</span><span class="invisible">-publication-how-a-century-of-climate-change-affected-joshua-tree-flowering/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/ecology/" rel="tag">#ecology</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/joshuatrees/" rel="tag">#JoshuaTrees</a></p>

<p>Excellent LA Times article on <a href="/tags/project2025/" rel="tag">#Project2025</a>&#x27;s call to dismantle <a href="/tags/noaa/" rel="tag">#NOAA</a> and privatize the National Weather Service. This will destroy the nation’s ability to track weather, combat <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#climatechange</a> and protect the public from environmental hazards.</p><p>That part of Project 2025 was written by Thomas Gilman, a right-wing Trump appointee who comes from the auto, oil/gas/, mining industry -- threatened by climate change policies.</p><p><a href="https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-07-28/project-2025-targets-noaa-and-national-weather-service" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-07-28/project-2025-targets-noaa-and-national-weather-service"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.latimes.com/environment/st</span><span class="invisible">ory/2024-07-28/project-2025-targets-noaa-and-national-weather-service</span></a></p>

<p>This week&#x27;s <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library:<br>- a damaged copy of Positive Tipping Points: How to Fix the Climate Crisis<br>- a second-hand copy of the 1982 classic Lamarck the Mythical Precursor: A Study of the Relations Between Science and Ideology published by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.mit.edu/@themitpress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>themitpress</span></a></span> (there aren&#x27;t that many books on Lamarck)<br>- a former library copy of The Environmental Consequences of War: Legal, Economic and Scientific Perspectives. This one came from the holdings of the JSCSC (Joint Services Command and Staff College)&#x27;s Hobson Library, one of the UK&#x27;s largest military libraries (!), probably the most unusual provenance for any of the books I have.</p><p><a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/historyofscience/" rel="tag">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="/tags/sciencehistory/" rel="tag">#ScienceHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histsci/" rel="tag">#HistSci</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/environmentalhistory/" rel="tag">#EnvironmentalHistory</a> <a href="/tags/warfare/" rel="tag">#Warfare</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

<p>Greenpeace is being sued for $300 million. It&#x27;s an attempt by the capitalist establishment to permanently silence them.<br>______________________________</p><p>Energy Transfer, the Big Oil company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, claims that Greenpeace USA and Greenpeace International organized the 2016-2017 Standing Rock resistance. This is a false and racist attempt to erase Indigenous leadership from this historic protest.</p><p>The trial begins in February 2025. If we lose, Greenpeace USA could face financial ruin, ending over 50 years of environmental activism. But this is bigger than just us.</p><p>Energy Transfer’s lawsuit threatens our fundamental rights to organize and protest. A win for them sets a dangerous precedent – allowing more attacks on unions, activists, and journalists – and silencing our speech through intimidation.<br>______________________________</p><p>LEARN MORE -- <a href="https://greenpeaceontrial.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>greenpeaceontrial.org/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a></p>

<p>Bananas are at risk of extinction, but scientists have a plan. 🍌 </p><p>From <span class="h-card"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@popsci" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>popsci</span></a></span>: A fungus that can infect over 100 different plants is devastating the popular fruit.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/GPmKJH" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/GPmKJH</a></p><p><a href="/tags/bananas/" rel="tag">#Bananas</a> <a href="/tags/food/" rel="tag">#Food</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#Agriculture</a> <a href="/tags/botany/" rel="tag">#Botany</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a></p>